Such is the composition of the Olympian Court, or smaller Assembly.
Classification of the Supernatural Order.
The Deities who, in virtue of belonging to that Court, may be most properly called Olympian, may be divided into the following classes:
I. Deities having their basis, and the general outline of their attributes and character, from tradition.
- 1. Pallas Athene, or Minerva.
- 2. Phœbus Apollo.
- 3. Latona.
- 4. Iris.
II. Deities of traditional basis, but with development principally mythological or inventive.
- 1. Jupiter.
- 2. Neptune.
- 3. Aidoneus, or Pluto.
- 4. Diana.
- 5. Persephone.*
III. Deities of invention, or mythology proper.
- 1. Juno.
- 2. Mars.
- 3. Mercury.
- 4. Vulcan.
- 5. Venus.
- 6. Demeter.
- 7. Themis.
- 8. Ἠέλιος.
- 9. Paieon.
- 10. Dione.
- 11. Hebe.
- 12. Eris, or Enuo.*
- 13. Dionysus.*
Those three names, which are marked with an asterisk, appear to have only a more or less disputable title to a seat in Olympus.