Dionysus the god of wine and revelry.
Great Goddesses here, a term to refer to Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, and her daughter Persephone, the goddess of the underworld and the spring. They are the deities of the Eleusian Mysteries, which granted initiates the hope of life after death.
Cephisus a river of Attica.
Muses the nine goddesses who preside over literature and the arts and sciences: Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania, and Thalia.
Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty.
Pelops’ broad Dorian island here, a reference to the Peloponnesus, a peninsula forming the southern part of the mainland in Greece.
