The Greek Mythology with the characteristic to frequently insert personifications of ideas or feelings in the shape of divinities of which the face, the body, or the attributes correspond to the feeling in question. It is generally about divinities minors, and they appear only in the accounts mythological in which he is question of feelings marked (Joy, Amour, Colère, Haine).

Some allegorical divinities

Most known are without any doubt:

• Eros, the god of the Love which appears in many artistic representations where it is question of love.
• Nike, the Victoire with the combat, generally represented with wings. She is the auxiliary and the partner of Athéna which is often associated for him.
• Éris, the Discord, which is gloomily known to have sown the disorder between Athéna, Héra and Aphrodite, in their presenting a gold apple and while launching “To most beautiful! ”.
• It generated Até, the Error.
• Elpis, the Hope, which was only the evils not to be itself escaped Pandora's box when this one opened it by curiosity.

Other less important allegories make appearances in the topics mythological such as Bia, Violence and Cratos, the Force, both children of Styx, river of the Enfers. They assist Arès at the time of its battles. One can also note Zélos, the Heat, Fidès, the Confidence, often presented under the appearance of an old woman modestly vêtue and Sophia, Wisdom.

Certain allegorical divinities appeared with the bases of the Earth according to the Cosmogonie. Such are:

• Thanatos, Death;
• Hypnos, the Sleep;
• Moïra, the Destiny, that none the gods can defy;
• Némésis, the Revenge, very often called upon by Héra to punish the inaccuracies of its husband.

Other allegories, finally, determine elements or moments of the day like:

• Ether, the Light;
• Héméra, the Day;
• Érèbe, Darkness;
• Nyx, the Night;
• Ouranos, Sky;
• Gaïa, Earth.

Allegories will veront the day in the offspring of Ouranos and Gaïa, like:

• Célaéno, a harpie representing the Darkness;
• Mnémosyne, Memory;
• Ocean, the Abyss;
• the Cyclops S:
• Argès, the Lightning,
• Brontès, Thunder,
• Stéropès, Flashes;
• Handled, the Madness.