Moirae (Fates) - Mythopedia Overview The Moirae, also known as the “Fates,” were the goddesses who personified the Greek concept of μοῖρα (moîra, “fate” or “allotment”)
Graeae - Mythopedia The Graeae were three sisters who lived in a remote corner of the world, sharing a single eye and a single tooth among them They were best known for (reluctantly) helping Perseus in his quest to slay Medusa
Thetis – Mythopedia Thetis was a nymph and goddess of the sea, one of the fifty Nereids born to Nereus and Doris, and the wife of the mortal hero Peleus When her son Achilles went to fight in the Trojan War, she did everything in her power to prevent his death
Alcestis (Play) - Mythopedia The Alcestis is the earliest of Euripides’ surviving plays, staged in 438 BCE It tells the story of Alcestis, a brave queen of Thessaly who volunteered to die in order to save her husband Admetus
Horae – Mythopedia The Horae, daughters of Zeus and Themis, were goddesses associated with the seasons and with ordered cycles of time According to the poet Hesiod, there were three Horae: Dike (“Justice”), Eunomia (“Good Order”), and Eirene (“Peace”)
Admetus – Mythopedia Admetus, son of Pheres, was the king of Pherae in Thessaly He had a reputation as a just and hospitable ruler and was a favorite of the god Apollo When it came time for Admetus to die, his wife Alcestis was permitted to die in his place—though in the end she too was restored to life
Doris - Mythopedia Doris was a nymph, one of the three thousand Oceanids born to the Titans Oceanus and Tethys She married Nereus, the “Old Man of the Sea,” and gave birth to the fifty sea nymphs known as the Nereids
Oceanids – Mythopedia Etymology Etymologically, the term “Oceanid” (Greek Ὠκεανίς, translit Ōkeanís; pl Oceanids, Greek Ὠκεανίδες, translit Ōkeanídes) is
Charites (Graces) - Mythopedia Greek In Greek literature, the Charites appear first in the epics of Homer (eighth century BCE), where their number is ambiguous; the two individual Charites named by Homer, Pasithea and Charis, do not appear in the better known account given by Hesiod (eighth seventh century BCE), who gives the names of the three Charites as Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia in his Theogony (907–9)