Greek Heroines and Lesser Goddesses Coloring Pages
Not every hero in Greek mythology carried a sword. Here you'll find clever heroines like Penelope and Ariadne, a weaver who picked a fight with a goddess, and the lesser godesses of the dawn, the rainbow, the moon and the night.
Lots of them have their own pages, so follow the buttons if you'd like to learn more.
Amazon coloring pages
The Amazons were a legendary nation of women warriors in ancient Greek mythology.
Arachne coloring pages
Arachne was the best weaver in all of Greece, and she wasn't shy about saying so. She even bragged that she could beat Athena, the goddess of crafts. That turned out to be a very big mistake...
Ariadne coloring pages
Ariadne was a princess of Crete, where her father kept a monster called the Minotaur locked in a maze. When the hero Theseus arrived to fight it, Ariadne came up with a clever plan using nothing but a ball of thread. But helping him would cost her more than she expected...
Calypso coloring pages
Calypso was a sea nymph who lived all alone on a hidden island far out at sea. When Odysseus washed up on her beach with nothing left, she took him in, fell in love with him and kept him there for seven years. She even offered to make him immortal if he'd stay forever, but all he wanted was to go home.
In the end, Zeus sent Hermes to tell her she had to let him go. Calypso wasn't happy about it, but she gave Odysseus food and tools and helped him build the raft that carried him away.
Circe coloring pages
Circe was the daughter of Helios, the sun god, and Perse, a sea nymph, so she came from a family that was half sunshine and half seawater. Her father spent his days driving the sun across the sky, which probably made family dinners tricky. Circe lived on the island of Aeaea, in a marble palace tucked into a green valley. Visitors who wandered up to her door were always surprised, because the animals on her island were a little bit strange....
Demeter coloring pages
Demeter was the goddess of the harvest, and when she was happy, the crops grew tall and golden. But when her daughter Persephone suddenly disappeared, Demeter was so heartbroken that the whole world stopped growing...
Eos coloring page
Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Every morning she flung open the gates of heaven so her brother Helios could drive the sun across the sky. Homer called her "rosy-fingered," because she painted the early morning sky pink. Try coloring her with soft pinks, peaches and golds, like a sunrise.
Eris coloring pages
Eris was the goddess of arguments and trouble, so naturally nobody invited her to the big wedding on Mount Olympus. She came anyway and rolled a golden apple into the party marked "For the fairest." Three goddesses grabbed for it at once, and that one little apple ended up starting the Trojan War...
Gaia coloring page
In the Greek creation story, Gaia was one of the very first beings, appearing right after Chaos at the beginning of everything. She was the Earth itself. She became the mother of the sky, the mountains and the sea, and later of the Titans, the giant gods who ruled before Zeus and the Olympians.
Hebe coloring page
Hebe was the goddess of youth and the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Her job on Olympus was serving nectar and ambrosia, the food and drink that kept the gods young forever. When the hero Herakles finally became a god himself, Hebe became his wife.
Hecate coloring pages
Hecate was the goddess of magic, crossroads and the night. She carried two blazing torches and could travel between the world of the living and the underworld. When Persephone vanished, it was Hecate who lit the way for Demeter's search...
The Horae (the Seasons) coloring pages
The Greeks had their own idea of the seasons, and it wasn't spring, summer, autumn and winter. They pictured the growing year as three sister goddesses, each one looking after her own part of it...
Iris coloring page
Iris was a messenger for the gods, especially for Hera, and the rainbow was her road. Whenever a rainbow stretched from the sky down to the earth, the Greeks said Iris was racing along it with a message. She was the sister of the Harpies, though she was much nicer company. She's the perfect excuse to use every crayon in the box.
Nike coloring page
Nike was the winged goddess of victory. The Greeks pictured her flying over battles and sporting contests, ready to hand a victory wreath to the winner. Sound familiar? The Nike sports brand is named after her, and its swoosh logo is said to have been inspired by her wing.
Nyx coloring pages
Nyx was the goddess of the night, and she was so old and so powerful that even Zeus was afraid of her. Her children included Sleep and Dreams, along with some much spookier characters...
Oracle of Delphi (Bees in Greek Mythology) coloring pages
High on a mountainside at Delphi, a priestess called the Pythia answered people's questions with messages from the god Apollo. She was sometimes called the "Delphic Bee," and bees turn up in all sorts of surprising places in Greek myths...
Bees in mythology coloring pages
Penelope coloring pages
Penelope was the queen of Ithaca and the wife of Odysseus. While he was gone for twenty years, a palace full of pushy suitors demanded she give up on him and marry one of them. Luckily, Penelope was every bit as clever as her husband...
Persephone coloring pages
Persephone was the goddess of spring, and flowers bloomed wherever she walked. One day while she was out picking flowers, the ground split open and Hades, king of the underworld, carried her away in his chariot. What happened next would change the world forever...
Psyche coloring pages
Psyche was a mortal girl so beautiful that people stopped visiting Aphrodite's temples to come and admire her instead. Aphrodite was not pleased. She sent her son Eros to make Psyche fall in love with something terrible, but Eros had other ideas...
Selene coloring pages
Selene was the goddess of the moon, and every night she drove her silver chariot across the dark sky. One night she spotted a handsome shepherd named Endymion asleep on a hillside, and she fell head over heels...
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