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Indra as Proioxis

In Greek mythology, Proioxis was the personification of onrush in battle, and the pursuit of battle. She is mentioned together with other personifications having to do with war.

Lexa as Nemesis

Nemesis was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris. Another name was Adrasteia, meaning “the inescapable.” The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge.

Cage Wallace as Moros

Moros is the personification of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate. He is one of the offspring of Nyx. It was proclaimed that not even Zeus could question Moros, who like his mother, Nyx, was invisible and dark. To break with destiny was to reintroduce Chaos into the world. Even if Zeus issued a decree or made a promise he later regretted, he could not then change his decree because it was destiny. In which case, he was the only force that Zeus truly dreaded.

Dr. Tsing as Ker

In Greek mythology, the Keres, singular Ker, were female death-spirits. The Keres were daughters of Nyx, Goddess of darkness. Ker was the bringer of violent death and killing sickness, and sibling of Moros.

Nathan Miller as Hermes

Hermes is a god of thieves, communication, trade, transitions, and boundaries. He is quick and cunning, and moves freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine, as emissary and messenger of the gods. In some myths he is a trickster, and outwits other gods for his own satisfaction or the sake of humankind.

Monty Green as Demeter

Goddess of grain, agriculture and the harvest, growth and nourishment. She was one of the main deities of the Eleusinian Mysteries, in which her power over the life cycle of plants symbolized the passage of the human soul through its life course and into the afterlife.

Lincoln as Apollo

Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, healing, plague, and the arts. Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, yet he was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague.

Octavia Blake as Hippolyta

In Greek mythology, Hippolyta was the Amazonian queen who possessed a magical girdle she was given by her father Ares, the god of war. The girdle was a waist belt that signified her authority as queen of the Amazons. Hippolyta, in particular, is strong, coming as she does from a tribe of fierce, empowered women of which she was the queen.

Maya as Ariadne

Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, and his queen Pasiphaë. She is mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths, due to her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and Theseus. Her father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made as part of reparations; however, she would later help Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur and saving the would-be sacrificial victims. In other stories, she became the bride of the god Dionysus.

Jasper Jordan as Dionysus

God of wine, parties and festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, drugs, and ecstasy. The consort of Dionysus was Ariadne.

Finn Collins as Ekecheiria

Ekecheiria was the spirit and personification of truce, armistice, and cessation of hostilities, and is also used to refer to the Olympic truce.

Raven Reyes as Hephaestus

As a crippled smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece.

Bellamy Blake as Ares

God of war, bloodshed, and violence. Homer portrays him as moody and unreliable, and he generally represents the chaos of war in contrast to Athena’s wisdom and strategy.

Clarke Griffin as Athena

Goddess of intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, handicrafts, and wisdom. According to most traditions, she was born from Zeus’s head fully formed and armored.

Abigail Griffin as Hera

Queen of the gods and goddess of marriage, women, mothers, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires.