Editing List of Greek deities (section)

=== Lesser deities ===
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!scope="col" | Description
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!scope="row" | [[Eileithyia]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Εἰλείθυια}}</small>
| [[File:Amphora birth Athena Louvre F32.jpg|center|130px]]
| Goddess associated with birth.{{sfn|Burkert|1985|p=170}} In the ''[[Theogony]]'', she is the daughter of [[Zeus]] and [[Hera]].{{sfnm|Hansen||1p=160|Gantz||2p=81}} She is attested in the [[Bronze Age]],{{sfn|Larson|2007a|p=163}} and was worshipped at a cave in [[Amnisos]] on [[Crete]] as early as the [[Middle Minoan]] period.{{sfn|Rose|Parker|Dietrich|p=513}} She was venerated mostly by women,{{sfn|Burkert|1985|p=171}} and in the [[archaic Greece|archaic period]] her worship was found most prominently on Crete, in the [[Peloponnese]], and in the [[Cyclades]];{{sfn|Larson|2007a|p=164}} she is also worshipped in a number of locations as an aspect of [[Artemis]].{{sfn|Graf|2004a|loc=para. 2}}
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!scope="row" style="height: 120px;" | [[Enyalius]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Ἐνυάλιος}}</small>
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| A war god.{{sfnm|Tripp||1loc=s.v. Enyalius, p. 222|Larson|2007a|2p=157}} He is associated in particular with close-quarters fighting, though the degree to which he is a separate deity from [[Ares]] has been debated since antiquity.{{sfn|Gordon|2004|loc=para. 1}} He is mentioned as early as the [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean period]],{{sfn|Hard|p=168}} and his worship is most clearly attested in the [[Peloponnese]]; he possessed a significant cult at [[Sparta]], where there sat a statue of him bound in chains.{{sfn|Larson|2007a|p=157}} In literature, he is little more than an epithet or byname for Ares.{{sfn|Gordon|2004|loc=para. 3}}
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!scope="row" | [[Hecate]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Ἑκάτη}}</small>
| [[File:Pergamonaltarhekate.jpg|center|110px]]
| A goddess associated with ghosts and magic.{{sfn|Johnston|2005|loc=para. 1}} In the ''[[Theogony]]'', she is the daughter of [[Perses (mythology)|Perses]] and [[Asteria]].{{sfn|Grimal|loc=s.v. Hecate, p. 181}} She was likely originally from [[Caria]] in [[Asia Minor]], and her worship seems to have been taken up by the Greeks during the [[archaic Greece|archaic period]].{{sfn|Larson|2007a|p=165}} She is attested in Athens in the sixth century BC, and statues of her stood guard throughout the city by the [[Classical Greece|Classical period]].{{sfn|Larson|2007a|p=166}} She is absent from [[Homer|Homeric epic]], and [[Hesiod]] celebrates her in a section of his ''Theogony'', treating her as a mighty goddess who helps various members of society.{{sfn|Henrichs|2003c|p=671}} She was said to have been accompanied by the ghosts of maidens and women who died childless, and was linked with dogs and their sacrifice.{{sfn|Johnston|2005|loc=paras. 3, 5}} Beginning in the 5th century BC, she was assimilated with [[Artemis]].{{sfn|Burkert|1985|p=171}} In art, she is depicted with either one or three faces (and sometimes three bodies), and is frequently found wearing a ''[[polos]]'' and carrying torches.{{sfn|Henrichs|2003c|p=672}}
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!scope="row" | [[Pan (god)|Pan]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Πάν}}</small>
| [[File:Pan goat MAN Napoli Inv27709 n01.jpg|center|140px]]
| God of shepherds and goatherds.{{sfnm|Hard||1p=214|Holzhausen||2loc=para. 1}} He comes from the region of [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia]], and was conceived of as partly human and partly goat.{{sfn|Jost|2003c|p=1103}} During the 5th century BC, his worship spread to Athens from Arcadia, before being dispersed across the Greek world;{{sfn|Larson|2007a|p=151}} he was venerated in caves, sometimes in conjunction with [[Hermes]] and the [[nymph]]s.{{sfn|Jost|2003c|p=1103}} There were numerous conflicting versions of his parentage,{{sfnm|Hard||1p=215|Jost|2003c|2p=1103}} and in myth he is a figure who roams the mountains and plays the [[pan flute|syrinx]];{{sfn|Tripp|loc=s.v. Pan, p. 442}} he is a lecherous figure who lusts after both nymphs and young men,{{sfn|Grimal|loc=s.v. Pan, p. 340}} though he is typically met with little success in his lustful pursuits.{{sfn|Hard|p=216}} In art, he is portrayed as an [[phallus|ithyphallic]] figure.{{sfn|Holzhausen|loc=para. 3}}
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!scope="row" | [[Prometheus]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Προμηθεύς}}</small>
| [[File:Atlas Typhoeus Prometheus.png|center|140px]]
| Son of the [[Titans|Titan]] [[Iapetus]].{{sfn|Kiel|loc=B. Genealogy, para. 1}} He was credited with the creation of mankind, producing the first human from a lump of clay.{{sfn|Grimal|loc=s.v. Prometheus, p. 394}} He was said to have brought fire to humanity, having covertly stolen it from Olympus; this action earned him the punishment of [[Zeus]], who had him bound to a rock face in the [[Caucasus Mountains]], where an eagle would tear apart his liver each day, before it regenerated over the following night.{{sfn|Tripp|loc=s.v. Prometheus, p. 500}} He is later set free from his punishment by [[Heracles]].{{sfn|Dowden|2003b|p=1253}} The image of his punishment is found in art as early as the 7th century BC, and he is typically found as a bearded figure with an unclothed body and arms bound, while the eagle hovers overhead.{{sfn|Kiel|loc=F. Ancient Iconography, para. 1}}
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!scope="row" | [[Leto]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Λητώ}}</small>
| [[File:Leto, terracotta calyx-krater, c. 450–440 BC.jpg|center|130px]]
| Mother of [[Apollo]] and [[Artemis]] by [[Zeus]].{{sfn|Hard|p=78}} She is the daughter of the [[Titans]] [[Coeus]] and [[Phoebe (mythology)|Phoebe]].{{sfn|Grimal|loc=s.v. Leto, p. 257}} When pregnant with her children, she travels to find somewhere give birth, but is rebuffed in each location (in some accounts due to the efforts of a jealous [[Hera]]), before arriving at [[Delos]], where she eventually delivers both children (though in an early version Artemis is born instead on [[Ortygia]]).{{sfn|Hard|pp=188&ndash;189}} In cult, she was frequently linked with her children,{{sfn|Graf|2003h|p=846}} though in [[Asia Minor]] she was more important as an individual, and from the 6th century BC she was worshipped at the [[Letoon]] in [[Lycia]].{{sfn|Graf|2005c|loc=para. 3}}
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!scope="row" | [[Leucothea]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Λευκοθέα}}</small>
| [[File:Etruscan terra cotta head of either Catha or Leucothea.jpg|center|120px]]
| A sea goddess.{{sfn|Hard|p=497}} In myth, she was originally a mortal women named [[Ino (mythology)|Ino]], who fled from her frenzied husband with her young son, [[Melicertes]], in her arms; she jumped into the sea, taking her son with her, and the two were deified, becoming Leucothea and Palaemon, respectively.{{sfn|Hard|p=421}} Leucothea was venerated across the Mediterranean world,{{sfn|Burkert|1985|p=172}} and was linked with initiation rites, a connection which is likely responsible for her identification with Ino.{{sfn|Bremmer|2005|loc=para. 1}}
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!scope="row" | [[Thetis]]<br><small>{{lang|grc|Θέτις}}</small>
| [[File:Detail Pioneer Group Louvre G65.jpg|center|140px]]
| The mother of Achilles.{{sfnm|Vollkommer|1997|1p=6|Brown||2p=1512}} She is one of the [[Nereid]]s, the daughters of [[Nereus]] and [[Doris (mythology)|Doris]].{{sfn|Hansen|p=243}} She is courted by [[Poseidon]] and [[Zeus]] until they hear of a prophecy that any son she bears will overthrow his father, prompting Zeus to wed Thetis to the hero [[Peleus]].{{sfn|Waldner|2009b|loc=para. 1}} Prior to their marriage, her future husband pursues her, with her transforming into different shapes as she flees.{{sfn|Brown|p=1512}} After the birth of Achilles, she burns her son in an attempt to make him immortal, an action which led to the end of her marriage.{{sfn|Tripp|loc=s.v. Thetis, p. 574}} Her cult existed in [[Thessaly]] and [[Sparta]],{{sfn|Burkert|1985|p=172}} and she was a popular subject in vase paintings, particularly in the 6th and 5th centuries BC.{{sfn|Waldner|2009b|loc=para. 3}}
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