List of deified people in Greek mythology

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	God/Goddess of	Parents	Notes	Sources
Dionysus	Wine, Festivity, Madness	Zeus and Semele	Also an Olympian
Ariadne	Mazes	Minos and Pasiphaë
Heracles	Gatekeeper of Olympus	Zeus and Alcmene	Also the Protector of Mankind and the Patron of Gymnasiums
Aeolus	Keeper of the Winds	Hippotes
Leucothea	Protector of Sailors	Cadmus and Harmonia
Palaemon	Protector of Sailors	Athamas & Leucothea	Palaemon's sacred animal was the dolphin
Ganymede	God of homosexual love and Cupbearer of the gods	Tros and Callirhoe
Asclepius	Medicine, Doctors	Apollo and Coronis
Aristaeus	Shepherds, cheese making, beekeeping, honey, olive growing	Apollo and Cyrene	Also the patron of oil milling, medicinal herbs, hunting, and the Etesian winds
Attis	Eunuchs, Vegetation	Galaos
Autonoe		Cadmus and Harmonia	A maenad and the nurse of Dionysus
Bolina	Bolina		Transformed into a nymph by Apollo
Britomartis	Hunting, Fishing, fowling-nets	Zeus and Carme
Endymion		Aethlius and Calyce	Granted immortality in eternal sleep
Glaucus	Fishermen	Poseidon	Became immortal after eating a herb which was sowed by Kronos.
Helle	Hellespont	Athamas and Nephele
Hemithea	Castabus	Staphylus or Apollo and Khrysothemis
Hyacinthus		Amyclas and Diomede
Leucippides (Phoebe and Hilaeira)	Horses	Leucippus or Apollo
Iasion	Agriculture	Zeus and Electra	Granted immortality by Persephone
Orithyia	Mountain gales	Erechtheus and Praxithea
Parthenos	Bubastus	Staphylus or Apollo and Khrysothemis	Hunter of Artemis
Phaethon	Jupiter	Cephalus and Eos
Phylonoe		Tyndareus and Leda	Hunter of Artemis
Tenes	Tenedos	Cycnus and Proclia	Elevated to godhood after his death
Semele (or Thyone)	The Bacchic frenzy	Cadmus and Harmonia	Made immortal by her son Dionysus after she died.
Triptolemos	Sowing, milling	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 )	Childbirth	Agamemnon and Clytemnestra	Priestess of Artemis
Acis	River Acis	Pan and Symaethis	One of the Potamoi
Alcyone and Ceyx	Halcyon days, Kingfishers	Aeolus and Enarete (Alcyone), Eosphorus (Ceyx)
Cleitus		Mantius
Memnon		Eos and Tithonus	Fought in the Trojan War
Lampsace	Lampsacus	Mandron

References

1. "Immortals - Greek Mythology Link". www.maicar.com.