A powerful Titan who was a huge benefactor of humankind. He stole fire from the gods, racing it away from Mount Olympus in a fennel stalk. As punishment for bestowing such a powerful gift to mere mortals, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where each day large birds pecked out his liver. This was made worse because his liver would then regrow each night and his torture would repeat for the rest of his immortal life.
A brilliant sculptor who made a beautiful ivory statue of a woman and named her Galatea, whom he fell in love with. He wished to Aphrodite to have a bride that would resemble his ivory girl and upon going home and kissing his statue, she became human and his wish was granted.
Called the “Old Man of the Sea” by Homer, and was one of the early sea-god or god of the rivers. He can foretell the future and constantly changes, representing the everchanging personality of the sea.
A King of Thebes who banned the worship of Dionysus in his kingdom. Pentheus was ironically the nephew to the mother of Dionysus, Semele herself. Needless to say, she did not take this lightly. The women of the city, including Pentheus' aunt and mother went into into a Bacchic frenzy, basically losing themselves to madness and violence. Dionysus himself was caught and attempted to be jailed, being mistaken for a simple mortal follower, but he was unable to be chained and was released. He learns of the banishment of his own worship and plots his revenge. He then lured Pentheus to go spy on the Bacchic rituals, where he was spotted hiding in a tree. Myth says the women pulled him from the tree and his own mother ripped off one of his arms and then beheaded him.
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