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In Greek mythology, Echion was one of the Theban Sown Men. He married Agave and was the father of Pentheus. In Greek mythology, Echion was one of the Argonauts. He was a son of Hermes and Antianira.
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In Greek mythology, Echo was a mountain nymph and a servant of Hecate. The daughter of Air and Earth. Because of her love of Narcissus, she pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
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In Roman mythology, Egeria was a goddess of healing springs, wisdom, human laws and death. She was the Oak- Queen and granter of easy deliveries.
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Eirene was the goddess of peace.
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In Greek mythology, Electra was daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and sister of Orestes and Iphigenia. Her hatred of her mother for murdering her father and her desire for revenge, fulfilled by the return of her brother Orestes, made her the subject of tragedies by the Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
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Electryon was a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
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The Elementals are creatures or spirits of the elements. They are the forces of nature.
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In Greek mythology, Elysium was originally another name for the Islands of the Blessed, to which favoured heroes were sent by the gods to enjoy a life after death. It was later a region in Hades.
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In Greek mythology, Endymion was a beautiful young man loved by Selene, the Moon goddess. He was granted eternal sleep in order to remain forever young.
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Enyo was the Greek goddess of war.
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Eos was the goddess of dawn. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Thia, and sister of Helios and Selene.
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In Greek mythology, Epaphus was a son of Zeus and Io who was born on the River Nile. He became King of Egypt and married Memphis, or by some accounts Cassiopeia. he had a daughter, Libya, who gave her name to the African country of Libya.
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The Epigoni were the descendants of the seven against Thebes who attacked the city ten years after their fathers had done so. They were organised by Adrastus.
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Epimetheus was the brother of Prometheus.
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Erato was the muse of love and marriage songs. When she was playing she carried a lyre in the one hand and a plectrum in the other, and was crowned with roses and myrtle.
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Erebus was the Greek god of darkness.
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In Greek mythology, Erechtheus (Erichthonius) was an Attic hero, said to have been the son of Hephaestus and Atthis. He was brought up by Athena.
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Eridanus was a Greek river god known as the king of rivers. He was a son of Oceanus and Tethys.
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In Greek mythology, Erigone was the goddess of death, trees and fertility and associated with wine and a pastoral economy.
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The Erinys or Furiae also called Dirae, Eumenides, or Semnae - that is, the ' revered' goddesses - were, in Greek mythology, daughters of Night, or, according to another myth, of the Earth and Darkness, while a third account calls them offspring of Cronos and Eurynome. They were attendants of Hades and Persephone, and lived at the entrance to the lower world. Their first duty was to see to the punishment of those of the departed who, having been guilty of some crime on earth, had come down to the shades without obtaining atonement from the gods. At the command of the higher gods, sometimes of Nemesis, they appeared on earth pursuing criminals. Nothing escaped their sharp eyes as they followed the evil-doer with speed and fury, permitting him no rest.
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Eris was the Greek goddess of strife, deceit, discord and disputation. The provoker of rivalry, contention, murder and wars.
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Eros was the Greek god of sexual love (traditionally of homosexual relationships between older men and youths). By some accounts Eros was born from Chaos, in other accounts that he was the son of Aphrodite and her lover Ares. Eros developed in form through time, being a god of fertility and later with the Romans, in the form of Cupid, of more gentle romantic love
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In Greek mythology, Eteocles was a son of the incestuous union of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Polynices. He denied his brother a share in the kingship of Thebes, thus provoking the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, in which he and his brother died by each other's hands.
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Europa was the daughter of Agenor. She was carried off by Zeus who had transformed himself into a great white bull.
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Eurotas was a son of Lelex. He was a king of Laconia and the father of Sparte who gave her name to the chief city of the southern Peloponnese (Sparta).
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In Greek mythology, Eurus was the blustery and wet east wind god, a son of Astraeus and Eos. The Romans called him Volturnus.
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Euryale was one of the gorgons.
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In Greek mythology, Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus. She was a dryad, or forest nymph, and died from a snake bite. Orpheus attempted unsuccessfully to fetch her back from the realm of the dead.
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Euterpe was the muse of music. She was looked upon as the inventor of the flute, and was represented as a virgin crowned with flowers and holding a flute in her hands. Sometimes the invention of tragedy was also ascribed to her.
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