Nike

“Far-famed daughter of Pallas, lady Nike, may you always look with

favour on (request here)”

-Bacchylides, Epigrams 2

“Greatly revered Nike, may you occupy my life, and never cease to crown me!”

-Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris

Hephaestus

“Hephaistos, come forth. I need you (request here)”

-Iliad

“Hephaestus Aetnean king (request here)”

-Odyssey

Alternate translation: “Hephaestus, thou that feedest Etna’s fires

(request here)”

“None of the gods Hephaestus hath the power

To vie with thee myself would not contend

With thee thus flaming (request here)”

-Iliad

“Thee first, O Hephaestus, and thy peace, holy dweller in this place, do we entreat: grant final aid to our wearied fortunes, and, if no guilt is here deserving penalty so great, pity these many lives and suffer them, holy one, to (request here)”

-Cynegeticon, Grattius

“Hephaestus, from Ida speeding forth his brilliant blaze. Beacon

passed beacon on to us by courier-flame: Ida”

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Poseidon

“O thou that encirclest the earth, vouchsafe to grant the prayers of

thy servants that call upon thee (your request here)”

-Homer, Odyssey

Hecate

“Kourotrophe (Nurse of the Young) [Hekate], give your ear to my prayer, and grant (request here)”

-Homerica, epigrams

“Thou Hekatewho doest show thy bright face as witness of the silent mysteries, O three-formed (triformis) Hecate (request here)”

-Seneca, Medea

“Daughter of Demeter, goddess of the cross-ways, you who rule over assaults by night (request here)”

-Euripides, Ion

“Torch-bearing Hekate holy daughter of great-bosomed Nyx (request here)”

-Bacchylides

Hecate, Artemis and Selene

“Thou Hekate-Selene who doest show thy bright face as witness of the silent mysteries, O three-formed (triformis) Hecate (request here)”

-Seneca, Medea

“O daughter of Helios , Mene of many turnings, nurse of all! O Selene (Moon), driver of the silver car! If thou art Hekate of many names, if in the night thou doest shake thy mystic torch in brandcarrying hand, come nightwanderer, nurse of puppies because the nightly sound of the hurrying dogs is thy delight with their mournful whimpering (request here)”

-Nonnus, Dionysiaca

Nyx

“Oh! thou divine Nyx how slowly thy chariot threads its way through

the starry vault, across the sacred realms of the Aether and mighty Olympos (request here)”

-Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae

Athena

“Pallas, guardian of Athens, you, who reign over the most pious city,

the most powerful, the richest in warriors and in poets, hasten to my

call (request here)”

-Aristophanes, Knights

Apollo

“Tell, tender maidens, of Diana;

Tell, boys, of unshorn Cynthius

And of Latona, loved so deeply by highest Jove;

Women, tell of her who rejoices in rivers

And in the foliage of groves

That stands out on chilly Algidus, in the black woods of Erymanthus

or green Gragus;

Men, lift up Tempe with an equal number of praises,

Likewise Delos, Apollo’s birthplace,

And his shoulders, distinguished by his quiver and his brother’s lyre.

Moved by your prayer, he will drive away

Tear-filled war, wretched famine and pestilence,

(your request here)”

-Horace, Odes

“Lord Phoebus, you yourself fortified this city’s heights

As a favor to Alcathoos, Pelops’ son;

Now you yourself keep the Medes’ rampaging army

Away from this city, so that when spring comes around

Its people, full of joy, may bring you glorious hecatombs

As they delight in the lyre, in lovely feasting,

In dances and shouts of “Paian!” around your altar.

For truly I’m afraid when I look at the foolishness

And people-destroying infighting of the Greeks. But may you, Phoebus,

Be gracious and (request here)”

-Theognis, Elegies I.772-781

“Phoebus, you who hold the steep hill of Leucas

Visible far off to sailors and washed by the Ionian Sea,

Receive these gifts: a feast of barley meal

That we seamen kneaded with our very own hands,

A libation mixed in a measly little cup,

And the light of a feeble lamp, drinking its oil

With a mouth whose thirst is still unquenched

From a stingy oil-flask. In return I ask (your request here)”

-Anthologia Palatina

“O Lord Thou Son of Leto, Offspring of Zeus, neither beginning will I

forget Thee ever nor ending, but sing Thee alway both first and last

and in between; and Thou give ear unto me and grant me good.”

-Theognis of Megara

“Great Phoebus, when Our Lady Leto with her slender arms about the

palm-tree brought Thee forth beside the Round Water to be fairest of

the Immortals, round Delos was all filled with odour ambrosial, the

huge Earth laughed, and the deep waters of the hoary brine rejoiced.”

-Theognis of Megara

“Hear me, god of the silver bow, who stands over Chryse and holy

Cilla, and rules mightily over Tenedos. As before you heard me when I

prayed even so now fulfill me this my desire (request here)”

-Iliad

“All-seeing monarch! whether Lycia’s coast,

Or sacred Ilion, thy bright presence boast,

Powerful alike to ease the wretch’s smart;

O hear me! god of every healing art!

Lo! stiff with clotted blood, and pierced with pain,

That thrills my arm, and shoots through every vein,

I stand unable to sustain the spear,

And sigh, at distance from the glorious war.

Low in the dust is great Sarpedon laid,

Nor Zeus vouchsafed his hapless offspring aid;

But thou, O god of health! thy succour lend,

(request here).”

-Iliad

Artemis

“O maiden guardian of mountains and of forests,

You who heed young women laboring in childbirth

When they call upon you thrice by name

And rescue them from death, o three-formed goddess

(your request here)”

-Horace, Odes

“O Artemis, thou maid divine, Diktynna (Dictynna), huntress, fair to see, O bring that keen-nosed pack of thine, and hunt through all the house with me. O Hekate, with flameful brands (request here).”

-Aristophanes, Frogs

“Artemis, slayer of beasts and daughter of Zeus,

You whose statue Agamemnon set up

When he sailed to Troy with his fleet of swift ships,

Hear me as I pray, and ward off from me

The evil spirits of death. For you, goddess,

This is a small thing- but for me, a great one.”

-Theognis, Elegies 11-14

Aphrodite

“Hail, Paphian goddess! For all mortals,

Whose lives are but a day, pay honor always

To your power, your immortal beauty,

And your majesty which breeds desire,

In all their beauteous words and beauteous works.

For you make known the honor you possess

To everyone, and everywhere on Earth (request here)”

-Anthologia Palatina 13.1

Hera

“O Hera, you who rule the island of Samos

And have received Imbrasos too as your lot,

(request here)”

-Anthologia Palatina