List of deified people in Greek mythology
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The Greek pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis.[1] Some of these received the privilege as a reward for their helpfulness to mankind example: Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example: Glaucus.
List
| Name | Parents | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dionysus | Zeus and Semele | Also an Olympian | |
| Ariadne | Minos and Pasiphaë | ||
| Heracles | Zeus and Alcmene | Also the Protector of Mankind and the Patron of Gymnasiums | |
| Leucothea | Cadmus and Harmonia | ||
| Palaemon | Athamas & Leucothea | Palaemon's sacred animal was the dolphin | |
| Ganymede | Tros and Callirhoe | ||
| Asclepius | Apollo and Coronis | ||
| Aristaeus | Apollo and Cyrene | Also the patron of oil milling, medicinal herbs, hunting, and the Etesian winds |
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| Attis | Galaos | ||
| Bolina | Transformed into a nymph by Apollo | ||
| Britomartis | Zeus and Carme | ||
| Endymion | Aethlius and Calyce | Granted immortality in eternal sleep | |
| Glaucus | Poseidon | Became immortal after eating a herb which was sowed by Kronos. | |
| Hemithea | Staphylus or Apollo and Khrysothemis | ||
| Hyacinthus | Amyclas and Diomede | ||
| Leucippides (Phoebe and Hilaeira) | Leucippus or Apollo | ||
| Orithyia | Erechtheus and Praxithea | ||
| Parthenos | Staphylus or Apollo and Khrysothemis | Hunter of Artemis | |
| Phylonoe | Tyndareus and Leda | Hunter of Artemis | |
| Semele (or Thyone) | Cadmus and Harmonia | Made immortal by her son Dionysus after she died. | |
| Triptolemos | Celeus and Metanira | One of the gods involved in the Eleusinian Mysteries | |
| Trophonius | Apollo | A seer transformed into an immortal Daimon | |
| Iphigenia (also known as Orsilokhia ) | Agamemnon and Clytemnestra | Priestess of Artemis | |
| Acis | Pan and Symaethis | One of the river gods | |
| Alcyone and Ceyx | Aeolus and Enarete (Alcyone), Eosphorus (Ceyx) | ||
| Cleitus | Mantius | ||
| Memnon | Eos and Tithonus | Fought in the Trojan War | |
| Lampsace | Mandron |