Terminology
Classical mythology
Greek mythology
Gaia
the primordial goddess, the mother goddess.
Eros
is the Greek god of love and sex. His Roman counterpart was Cupid (“desire”). In the earliest account, he is a primordial god, while in later accounts he is described as one of the children of Aphrodite and Ares and, with some of his siblings, was one of the Erotes, a group of winged love gods.
Uranus
Cronus
Cronus was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. According to Plato, however, the deities Phorcys, Cronus, and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys.
Cronus was usually depicted with a harpe, scythe or a sickle, which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father.
Rhea
She is the older sister of Cronus, who was also her consort, and the mother of the five eldest Olympian gods Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon and Zeus, and the king of the Underworld, Hades.
Hades
Hercules
赫拉克勒斯杀死了自己的朋友伊菲托斯，因此被罚给女王翁法勒做三年奴隶。在服役中，他成了女王的情人，他被要求穿上女人的衣服和做女人的工作，同翁法勒的侍女们纺著羊毛线，而女王则披着他的狮皮，手持他的橄榄木棒。
Pegasus
Silenus
米達斯（Midas）國王在樹林中追捕西雷奈斯（Silenus）， 在幾次徒勞無功之後，米達斯終於抓到了這位神祇，於是米達斯問道：「人類最大的幸福是什麼？」西雷奈斯本來不欲回答，但在米達斯數次的逼問之下，一陣尖銳 刺耳的笑聲從這半人半神的嘴裡傳出：「可憐的人啊，無常與苦難之子，好吧！這是你問我的，告訴你。人類最好的事就是不要出生，次好的事就是趕快去死。」
http://nirvanakai.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post_22.html
Dionysus
Odysseus & Penelope
Roman mythology
Venus
Cupid was the son of Venus and Mars
Vulcan
Minerva (弥涅耳瓦)
goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.
Books
- THE GREEK MYTHS The Complete and Definitive Edition