IACCHUS(Iakkhos) The torch-bearing god of the processions of the Eleusinian Mysteries and its ritual cry "iakkhe". He was a daemon attendant of the goddess Demeter.

IAPETUS (Iapetos) The Titan-god of mortality and wounding.

IASION A springtime consort of the goddess Demeter and patron-god of her Samothracian Mysteries.

IASO The goddess of recovery, one of the daughters of the medicine-god Asclepius.

ICELUS (Ikelos) A god of prophetic dreams who appeared in the sleep of kings as an animal shaped phantasm. His two brothers, Morpheus and Phantasus, assumed the forms respectively of men and inanimate objects.

ICHTHYES (Ikhthyes) A pair of giant fish which rescued the goddess Aphrodite and son Eros when they were fleeing the ravages of the monster Typhon.

ICHTHYOCENTAUR

ICHTHYOCENTAURS (Ikhthyokentauroi) Two fish-tailed centaurs, named Aphros and Bythos, who carried the new-born goddess Aphrodite to shore in a sea-shell. They had the upper body of a man, and the lower parts of a fish-tailed horse.

IDA A nymph of Mount Ida in Crete. She was one of the nurses of the god Zeus, who nursed him with milk from the goat Amaltheia.

IDAIA The goddess nymph of Mount Ida in the Troad. She was the wife of the River Scamander.

IDYIA (Eidyia) The youngest of the Oceanides and the wife of Aeetes king of Colchis.

ILISSUS (Ilissos) A river of Athens and its god.

IMBRASUS (Imbrasos) A river of the island of Samos and its god.

INACHUS (Inakhos) A river of Argos and its god. When Poseidon and Hera were contesting for dominion of Argos, he ruled in favour of Hera. Poseidon in anger caused his stream to run dry.

INO A woman transformed into a sea-goddess after she leapt into the sea to escape her crazed husband. She was a protectress of sailors.

IO A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Inachus. She was loved by Zeus who transformed her into a cow to hide her from the jealous gaze of Hera. The goddess was not fooled and sent a maddening gladfly to torment her. It drove her to wander all the way to Egypt, where she gave birth to Epaphus, ancestor of the Pharaohs.

IONIDES Four Naiad nymph daughters of the river Cytherus. Their springs possessed healing properties.

IRENE (Eirene) Goddess of the spring-season and of peace, She was one of the three Horae (Seasons).

IRIS

IRIS The goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the gods.

ISMENE A Naiad nymph daughter of the River Asopus, and the wife of King Argus.

ISMENIS A Naiad daughter of the River Ismenos loved by the god Faunus.

ISMENUS (Ismenos) A River of Boeotia and its god.

ISTRUS (Istros) A god of the river Danube in Scythia.

ITHAX The messenger of the Titans.

IYNX The goddess-nymph a magical love-charm known as the iynx - a spinning wheel to which a wryneck bird was attached.

JACCHUS (Iakkhos) The torch-bearing Daimon leader of the Eleusinian mysteries.

JAPETUS (Iapetos) One of the Titans imprisoned in Tartarus.

JASION (Iasion) The spring-time consort of Demeter.

JASON (Iason) The great Thessalian hero who led the Argonauts in the quest for the Golden Fleece.

JINX (Iynx) The nymph of the love-charm.

KERES The monstrous female personifications of violent death. They haunted the battlefield in the thousands ripping the souls of the dying from their bodies.

For other Greek names beginning with K look under C (eg Circe for Kirke, Cronus for Kronos)