A compilation of prayers to the Theoi from various classical texts and fragments.

Kronos

The Titan not to be confused with Chronus the primordial god of time.

“O Kronos, you who restrain the thumos of all mortals (statement here)”

-Curse tablet: source

Apollo

Oh Phoibos helper through your oracles

Come joyous Leto’s son, who works afar

Averter hither come hither come hither

Foretell give propecies amid night’s hour”

– PGM II

“O sun-god, who cleavest thy way along the starry sky, mounted on golden-studded car, rolling on thy path of flame behind fleet coursers (statement here)”

-Euripides

“May Hunter Apollon speed my arrow straight!’”

-Aeschylus

Eirene

The minor Olympian goddess of peacae

“O sweet Eirana, wealth-giver to mortals (statement here)”

-Theogorus the Metochite, Miscellany

“Oh! Eirene, mighty queen, venerated goddess, thou, who presidest over Choruses and at nuptials (statement here)”

-Aristophanes

“O sweet Eirana , wealth-giver to mortals (statement here)”

-Aeschylus

Zeus

“Zeus, send me what trial Thou wilt; for I have endowments and resources, given me by Thee, to bring myself honor through what befalls.”

-Epictetus

All-powerful Zeus, king of gods and things

Begetter and birth-mother of the gods, the one and every god (statement here)

-Valerius Soranus

Discouri

“O Castor and Polydeuces that dwell beside the fair-flowing river of Eurotas in holy Lacedaemon (statement here)”

-Theognis

Tyche

“Daughter of Zeus Eleutherios, Tykhe our saviour goddess, I pray your guardian care for Himera, and prosper her city’s strength. For your hand steers the ships of ocean on their flying course, and rules on land the march of savage wars, and the assemblies of wise counsellors.”

-Pindar, Olympian Ode 12

Aphrodite

“We pray to you, child of Dione, Aphrodite (statement here)”

-Euripides

Hecate

“Lady Hekate of the heavens, Hekate of the Underworld, Hekate of the Crossroads, Hekate of the Triple-face, Hekate of the Single Face (statement here)”

-curse tablet

Source

Poseidon

“Be thou gracious unto me, thou who art king in the tract of the sea, wide-ruling son of Kronos, Girdler of the earth,

and be gracious thyself, O Thalassa, and ye gods who in the

sounding sea have your abode (statement here)”

-Oppian

Demeter and Persephone

“Demeter Olympia, in the garland-wearing season, and of you, Persephone, child of Zeus: greetings, both! Tend the city well.”

-Greek Lyric V Scolia

Themis

“O you Aether that revolves the common light of all (statement here)”

-Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“May Themis daughter of Zeus the Apportioner, Themis who protects the suppliant (statement here)”

-Aeschylus

Pan

“Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as a temperate man and he only can bear and carry”

-Socrates

Moirai

“Listen, Moirai, who sit nearest of the gods to the throne of Zeus and weave on adamantine shuttles countless and inescapable devices of counsels of all kinds. Aisa, Klotho and Lakhesis, fair-armed daughters of Nyx, hear our prayers, you all-terrible deities of heaven and the lower world: (statement here)”

-Stobaeus, Anthology

Naiades

“Nymphs of the fountain, daughters of Zeus (statement here)”

-Odyssey

Hesykhia

The daimon of peace and quiet, member of the Olympian pantheon.

“Hesykhia You whose disposition is kindly to philoi, you Daughter of Dikē, you ultimate greatness of every polis, you who possess the supreme keys to councils of state and to wars! (statement here)

-Pindar, Olympian ode 8

Chthonic gods

“Gods who hold sway over guilty souls and over Tartarus crowded with the damned, and thou O Styx, whom I behold, ghastly in thy shadowy depths, and thou Tisiphone, so oft the object of my prayer, be favourable now, and further my unnatural wish (statement here)”

-Statius, Thebaid

“O home of Hades and Persephone! O Hermes of the shades! potent Curse, and ye, dread daughters of the gods, Erinyes,- Ye who behold when a life is reft by violence, when a bed is dishonoured by stealth (statement here)”

-Sophocles

Misc

“But I pray to Mnamosyna, the fair-robed child of Ouranos, and to her daughters, to grant me ready resource; for the minds of men are blind, whosoever, without the maids of Helikon, seeketh the steep path of them that walked it by their wisdom.”

-Pindar