Asteria
was a daughter of Phoebe, a sister of Leto. She hurled herself into the Sea after being abducted by Zeus. She became the island of the same name.

Ceres
Daughter of Saturn and Ops. Goddess of the growth of food plants. She and her daughte Proserpina were the counterparts of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone. Her worship involved fertility rites and rites for the dead, and her chief festival was the Cerealia. (Our word cereal is derived from Ceres.)

Circe
A sorceress, the daughter of the sun god Helios and the sea nymph Perse. She lived on an island,
where with potions and incantations, she was able to turn people into beasts. Her victims retained their reason, however, and knew what had happened to them. In the course of his wanderings, the Greek hero Odysseus visited her island with his companions, whom she turned into swine. On his way to find help for his men, Odysseus met the god Hermes, from whom he received an herb
(Moly) that made him immune to Circe's enchantments. He forced her to restore his companions to
human form, and in amazement that anyone could resist her spell, Circe fell in love with Odysseus.
He and his friends stayed with her for a year. When they finally decided to leave, she told Odysseus
how to find the spirit of the Theban seer Tiresias in the underworld, in order to learn from him how
to safely return home.
Circe was the daughter of Hecate (see below) and Helios (the Sun-God). She was a union of opposites. Just look at her parents: one is the Dark Moon and the other is the Sun. No wonder she ended up a sorceress, how else would she have survived!
 

Hebe
Hebe was the Goddess of Youth as well as the Cupbearer to the Gods, her mother was Hera and her father, Zeus.According to one story, she resigned as cupbearer to the gods upon her marriage to the hero Hercules, who had just been deified.
 
 
 

AMAZONS    (for more information click on the flower)
 
 
 

Black Sea The shore of this inland sea north of the Asian portion of modern Turkey was just far enough from Greece that it was thought of as a land of strange and mysterious wonders.  Thus it was the mythological land of the Amazons, prodigious huntresses who shunned men except when it was time to produce offspring for their tribe. It was to Colchis on the Black Sea coast that Jason and the Argonauts journeyed in quest of the Golden Fleece.

 

Female warriors who live on the fringes of the Greek world, the Amazons play a part in the stories of several heroes, as well as in the Trojan War. One of Herakles' labors is to get the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte. According to Apollodoros, Hippolyte was killed in the ensuing battle. Theseus in some versions accompanies Herakles on this adventure, sometimes he mounts his own independent campaign, either way he ends up capturing an Amazon named Antiope or Hippolyte. The Amazons retaliate by invading Athens but are eventually repelled.

This Amazonomachy was depicted on several major monuments in fifth-century Athens: the shield of the Athena, Parthenos inside the Parthenon; on the exterior of the Parthenon; in mural paintings (now lost). The scene was also shown, along with a Centauromachy, on the temple of Apollo at Bassae in Arcadia. On Classical vase paintings, Amazons come to be represented wearing Eastern costumes, showing that they were identified with the Persians who invaded Greece in the first half of the fifth century.

The Amazons also fought on the Trojan side during the Trojan War. Their queen, Penthesilea was killed by Achilles who is said to have fallen in love with her as he killed her. Their brief encounter is shown on vase paintings and told by the fourth-century CE Greek poet Quintus Smyrnaeus in his continuation of Homer.