ECECHERIA (Ekekheria) The female personification of truce.

ECHIDNA (1) (Ekhidna) A deadly she-dragon with the upper body of a beautiful nymph, and the tail of a serpent in place of legs. The immortal Echidna married the hundred-headed giant Typhon and spawned a brood of terrible monsters.

ECHIDNA (2) (Ekhidna) An Arcadian she-dragon slain by the hero Argos Panoptes.

ECHIDNADES (Ekhidnades) A giant ally of the Titanes slain by the god Ares. He had serpents for legs and spat deadly poison.

ECHO (Ekho) An oread of Mt Helicon and attendant of Hera. She distracted Hera with her endless chatter so that Zeus was free to pursue his affairs with women and nymphs. Hera caught on to the ruse took her voice away leaving her only to repeat the words of others. She loved and was spurned by Narcissus and faded away till only her voice was left.

EIDOTHEA (1) A sea-nymph daughter of the seal-god Proteus who helped Menelaus capture her prophetic father.

EIDOTHEA (2) A nymph of Mount Othrys in Malis who was loved by the god Poseidon.

GOLDEN HINDS

EIDYIA The Oceanid nymph wife of King Aeetes of Colchis.

EILEITHYIA The goddess of childbirth.

EIRENE The goddess of peace and spring.

ELAPHOI CHRYSOCEROI (Elaphoi Khrysokeroi) The five sacred golden-horned deer of Artemis, also known as the Golden Hinds. Four of these drew the chariot of the goddess and fifth which roamed free, Heracles was set to fetch as his third labour.

ELATREUS One of the one-eyed, metal-working giants known as Cyclopes.

ELECTRA (1) (Elektra) The Oceanid of amber-light. She was married to the wondrous sea-god Thaumas and bore him four daughters, Iris the rainbow, and the whirlwind Harpies.

ELECTRA (2) (Elektra) One of the Pleiad Nymphs who was loved by Zeus and bore him Dardanos, ancestor of the Kings of Troy.

ELEIONOMAE (Eleionomai) Naiad-nymphs of marshes.

ELETE The eighth of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of one of the hourso f afternoon.

ELEUS (Eleos) The female personification of mercy.

ELEUSIS The eponymous nymph of Eleusis, wife of the town's first king. She was an attendant of Demeter.

ELPIS The female personification of hope. She was the only spirit to remain within Pandora's box.

EMPUSA (Empousa) An underworld daemon with flaming hair and mismatched legs: one that of an ass, the other made of brass. She terrorized men at night.

ENCELADUS (Enkelados) One of the Gigantes who was crushed by Athena beneath the island of Sicily during the giant-war. His restless turnings caused Mount Etna to spit fire.

ENDEIS A nymph daughter of the centaur Chiron. She was the mother of the Phthian king Peleus.

ENDYMION A shepherd boy loved by the moon-goddess Selene. He was granted eternal youth and immortality but in a state of unbroken sleep.

EOS

ENYALIUS (Enyalios) A minor god of war and son of Ares.

ENYO (1) The goddess of war, a battlefield companion of Ares.

ENYO (2) One of the Graeae.

EOS The Titan goddess of the dawn. She was cursed by Aphrodite with an insatiable appetite for men, loving one after another - Cephalus, Tithonus, Phaethon, Orion.

EOSPHORUS (Eosphoros) The god of the morning star who heralded the arrival of dawn.

EPHIALTES (1) A Gigante slain by Apollo and Heracles in the giant war who shot him through the eyes with arrows.

EPHIALTES (2) A gigantic son of Poseidon, who with his brother Otus tried to storm the heavens by piling the mountains one upon the other. The pair were slain by Apollon and Artemis.

EPHYRA The eponymous Oceanid nymph of the town of Ephyra (Corinth).

EPIALES The underworld daemon of nightmares.

EPIDOTE The Daemon of ritual purification. She was an attendant of Apollo at Delphi who turned aside the wrath of the furies.

EPIMELIDES Rustic nymphs of sheep flocks and apple orchards.

EPIMETHEUS The Titan-god of afterthought. He foolishly accepted the first woman, Pandora, from the angry gods along with her box of evils, which were released to plague mankind.

EPIONE The goddess of soothing. She was the wife of the medicine-god Asclepius.

EPIPHRON The personification of shrewdness and care.

ERASINUS (Erasinos) A river of Argos and its god.

ERATO (1) The Muse of lyric love poetry.

ERATO (2) An Arcadian Dryad nymph. She was a prophetess of the god Pan and wife of King Arcas.

EREBUS (Erebos) The Protogenos (primeval god) of the darkness of night and the netherworld. He was the father of Light and Day by the goddess Night.

ERIDANUS (Eridanos) A river of northern Europe or Italy and its god.

ERINYES

ERINYES The three serpent-haired goddesses of vengeance and due punishment. They were born of the blood of the castrated sky-god Uranus.

ERIS The goddess of strife who haunted the battlefield. She indirectly caused the Trojan War by throwing the golden apple "to the fairest" amongst the goddesses.

ERITES The personifications of strife. The good Eris was personification of competitive rivalry and the bad Eris of discord.

EROS (1) The protogenos (primeval deity) of sexual desire and procreation. He was one of the first beings to emerge at the creation of the universe.

EROS (2) The winged child god of love who struck down men with his love-tipped arrows.

EROTES The winged, child-like gods of love.

ERSA (Herse) The goddess of the dew.

ERYMANTHIAN BOAR (Hus Erymanthios) The giant boar which Heracles was sent to fetch as one of his twelve labours.

EUBOEA (1) (Euboia) A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus carried off by Poseidon to the island of Euboea.

EUBOEA (2) (Euboia) A Naiad daughter of the river Asterion. With her sisters Acraea and Prosymna she was nurse to the child Hera.

EUBOLUS (Euboulos) The demi-god of ploughed earth, a deity of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

EUCLEIA (Eukleia) The goddess of good repute. She was a goddess of young brides.

EUDAEMONIA (Eudaimonia) The goddess of happiness, prosperity and opulence. She was one of the Charites and an attendant of Aphrodite.

EROS

EUDORA One of the starry Hyades.

EUNOMIA The goddess of good order and spring pastures. She was one of the three Horae (Seasons) and an attendant of the goddess Aphrodite.

EUNOSTOS (Eunostus) The goddess of flour mills.

EUPHEME (1) The goddess nymph of eloquence. She was the nurse of the nine Muses and love of the god Pan

EUPHEME (2) The personification of eloquence, one of the Charis daughters of Hephaestus.

EUPHRATES The god of the Assyrian River Euphrates.

EUPHROSYNE The goddess of mirth and merriment, one of the three Charites.

EUPORIA The goddess of agricultural abundance, she was one of the three Horai (Seasons).

EUROPA An Oceanid who gave her name to the continent of Europe.

EUROTAS A river in Laconia and its god. He was the first King of Sparta.

EURUS (Euros) The god of the East Wind (or more specifically the South-East Wind).

EURYALE One of the two immortal Gorgons.

EURYALUS (Euryalos) One of the one-eyed, metal-working Cyclopes.

EURYBIA The ancient goddess of power over the sea. She was the wife of the star Titan Krios.

EURYMEDON One of the Cabeiri gods.

EURYNOME (1) The Titan goddess of flowery pastures. She was the mother of the Charites (Graces) by Zeus.

EURYNOME (2) A Queen of the Titanes. She and her husband Ophion were deposed by Kronos and Rhea and cast from heaven into the ocean-stream.

EURYNOMUS (Eurynomos) A blue-black skinned demon of the underworld who ate away the flesh of the dead.

EURYTION (1) A Thessalian centaur who attempted to abduct the bride of the Lapith King Peirithous on her wedding day. Most of the centaurs were slain in the battle which ensued.

EURYTION (2) A Peloponnesian centaur who tried to marry Mnesimache, a princess of Olenus, through the threat of force. Heracles came to her aid and slew the man-horse.

EURYTUS (Eurytos) A Gigante who was slain by Dionysus in the giant-war.

EUSEBIA The female personification of piety and filial respect. Her husband was Nomus, the god of law.

GAEA

EUTERPE The Muse of lyric poetry.

EUTHEMIA A nymph of the island of Cos who was struck down by the arrows of Artemis, when she refused to honour the goddess.

EUTHENIA The goddess of prosperity. She was one of the Charis daughters of Hephaestus.

EUTYCHIA The goddess of good fortune.

EVADNE (Euadne) A naiad daughter of the river Strymon married to Argus king of Argos.

EVENUS (Euenos) A river of Aetolia and its god.

FATES (Moirai) The three goddesses of fate.

FURIES (Erinyes) The three serpent-haired goddesses of vengeance.

For other Greek names beginning with F look under Ph (eg Phaethon for Faethon, Phorcys for Forcus)

GAAEUS (Gaaeus) One of the fish-tailed sea gods, a herder of fish.

GAEA (Gaia) The Protogenos (primeval goddess) of the earth, mother of gods and men. She instigated the overthrow of her husband Uranus and son Cronus as king of the cosmos but later failed in her attempts to remove Zeus.

GALATEA (Galateia) One of the fifty sea-goddess Nereids. She was wooed by the Cyclops Polyphemus.

GALENE The Nereid goddess of calm seas.

GANYMEDES (A beautiful prince of Troy who was abducted to Olympus by Zeus and made the cup-bearer of the gods.

GEGENEES A tribe of six-armed Mysian giants encountered and slain by the Argonauts.

GANYMEDES

GELUS (Gelos) The god of laughter.

GERAS The male personifaction of old age.

GERYON A three-bodied man who dwelt at the western ends of the earth. He was slain by Heracles who was sent to fetch the giant's cattle as his tenth labour.

GIGANTES (1) The races of Giants included beings such as the Heca-Gigantes, the Aloedae, Typhon, Antaeus, Charybdis, Orion, Tityus, the Cyclopes, Hecatoncheires and many others.

GIGANTES (2), HECA- (Heka-Gigantes) A hundred Gigantes born of Tartaros and Gaea. Incited by their mother they made war on the Olympian gods but were slaughtered in the ensuing battle.

GLAUCIA (Glaukia) A Naiad daughter of the river Scamander. She was loved by a companion of Heracles.

GLAUCUS (Glaukos) A Greek fisherman who was transformed into a fish-tailed sea god after tasting a magical herb.

GORGO The primal Gorgon slain by Zeus. He made his aegis shield from her skin.

GORGONS (Gorgones) Three monstrous winged she-Daemones with snakes for hair, broad noses, wide eyes, protruding tusks and lolling tongues. They had claws of bronze and golden wings and a deadly gaze that could turn man or beast to stone.

GORGYRA A nymph of the underworld. She was the wife of the river-god Acheron.

GRACES (Kharites) Goddesses of beauty, joy and happiness.

GRAEAE (Graiai) The female Daemones of the white froth of the sea. They were born grey-haired and aged with only one tooth and eye to share between them. Perseus stole these in his quest to find the land of the Gorgones.

GRIFFIN

GRATION A Gigante who was slain by the goddess Artemis in the giant-war.

GRENICUS (Grenikos) A river of Troy and its god.

GRIFFINS (Grypes) Creatures with the foreparts of an eagle and the rear of a horse.

GYES One of the three hundred-handed, fifty-headed Hecatoncheires.

GYGE (Gygaie) A lake of Lydia and its god.

GYMNASTICA (Gymnastika) The fourth of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of the morning hour of gymnastics.