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{Note that these are Greek names, not English ones. You might think you can sound them out, but the phonetics are not identical, and you'll be wrong more often than not. A common mistake is getting 'C's / 'K's and 'Ch's / 'Kh's mixed up, as they're both very close within Greek}
Zeus = Z-You-Se {Not Zoose}
Hera = He(h)-Ra {Not Heee-ra}
Poseidon = Pos-Eye-Don {You should know this}
Hades
= Hay-Deez
{more like hey deez nuts lmfao}
{You should know this}
Persephone = Per-Seph-Oh-Knee {Straightforward}
Ares = Air-eez {You should know this}
Athena
= A-th-(a)E(e)n-A
{muffled lorefag screaming}
{Not A-Theee-Na, the inflected (a) is completely silent, to the point I shouldn't really even include it if it weren't for the fact it wouldn't be correct without it.... which kinda makes sense. Because it's fucking annoying to explain}
{fuck it, lets' just do this longform}
{Aθῆνά = A-θ-ῆ-ν-ά = Ah-th-'e'-n-aa, with the ῆ character / circumflexed Eta being the headache, because there isn't even a word in any modern language I can use to compare for you, the closest phonetic being between the slight 'e' sound you hear in the middle of the word 'mace' after the 'a', or something close to the 'ee' in 'Greece' - being neither and both, at the same time... if that makes sense (which I understand it doesn't, because it doesn't). Try to say it how I've put it above and.... you.... 'should' (?) get it right. i hate eta ηiggers so fucking much bros, and it's so, so much worse with the diacritic / liῆe above it}
{tl;dr A-Thaena}
{More accurately given as Ath-(a)E(e)n-ne / Athene, but less colloquially used nowadays}
Apollo
= Ap-Oll-Own
{'Apollo' is the Latin / Roman spelling for the Greek God Apollon / Apollōn (whose name is otherwise identical across both Pantheons)}
{Since we're in the Greek Pantheon, we'll be (correctly) using the Greek version, which includes an -n at the end. Otherwise, the Roman / Latin version is pronounced Ap-Oll-Owe as you'd expect. Not A-Polo as I've heard one retard say}
{While seemingly minor, it's still ultimately like placing Vulcan in the Greek Pantheon or Hera in the Roman Pantheon under their alternate names. Pretty amateur desu, they really ought to at least get the names right}
{Also, to note on his... 'odd' initial design, Apollo was intended to be to switch between various stims, the two shown being Poison / Plague arrows and Slowing / Frost arrows; as was his iconic mythologocal brand of vengeance, by causing disease outbreaks by shooting plague-tipped arrows / causing ill-health and colds by shooting weakening arrows at mortal populations that pissed him off in [various ways]. The idea was dropped, and later became the basis of Cernunnos's design}
Artemis = Ar-Tem-Iss {Straightforward}
Aphrodite = A-Ph-Roh-Dite-Ee {Please, the p is silent. I've heard enough ESL's / GSL's call her Ap-hro-dite-ee, I thought 'ph = discount f' was well known enough, but for this one name, apparently not. Afro, not A-Pro}
Chronos = Khro-Noss {Not Khro-Nosse, it hardstops at the 'oss'. Make sure to pronounce the semi-silent H, or you'll get a different Greek deity altogether} {Same phonetic as Chronological, unsurprisingly, if that reminder helps}
Nemesis = Nem-eh-sis {Straightforward}
Thanatos = Than-A-Toss {Not Thanatose}
Charon = Kh-air-On {Not Char-Grilled Char-on. Not Car-Driving Kaa-Ron. It's Air-breathing Charon} {The lack of a syllable (air) is this time the English language's fault, in it's refusal to use accentation. The 'ideal' way to spell it would be Kháron, his name in of itself an etymological reference to his (accurately depicted) piercing, glowing blue-grey eyes}
Atlas = At-Las {At las!}
Nike = Nn-Eye-Key {Not 'Nn-Eye-Kuh' a la 'Mike', there's emphasis on the 'e'}
Cerberus = Ker-ber-uss {Not Sir-Bur-Russ; it's a Greek Guard-Dog, not a Gentleman}
Medusa = Meh-Dew-Sa {Not Me-Jew-Sa, pronounce the damn D}
Scylla
= Sill-Ah
{The C can be treated as functionally silent}
{Seemingly commonly given as Uu-ohhhhhhhhhh}
Charybdis
= Khar-Ib-Diss
{Not Carry-Bidd-is}
{Seemingly commonly given as Uu-ohhhhhhhhhh}
Chiron = Khi-Ron {Not Ch-Eye-Ron}
Arachne = Ar-Ak(h)-Nee {Stem of the word 'Arachnid'}
Martichoras = Mar-Ti-K(h)ore-Ass {"Ti" as in Tick. Breathe into the K to inflect the silent h} {Not Mar-Teee-K(h)or-Ass}
{Contrary to retards on leddit uninformed outsiders, this one is indeed a singular mythological (named and attested) entity, who is more 'confused' rather than 'obscure'. Much like Lamia, Martichoras / the Manticore was never originally given as a 'species' type of monster, simply a powerful Man-Eater (literal translation) far within Inner Asia (anywhere further-East than Afghanistan) that was relayed to the Greeks by trading Persians}
{The Marticoras is not a Persian monster however. Rather, the word Martichoras is a loan-word from the Persians - because instead of translating it into the Greek term for the same meaning (Androphagi / Man-Eater), it was thought to be a different creature entirely. This was due to the fact Androphagi already had an understood depiction (a barely-humanoid tribe of cannibal-creatures that lived to the North-East, just North of modern-day Crimea in Ukraine), which clashed greatly with the animalistic description of the Martichoras. From there, by simple grammatical standards, it was assumed to be one creature by the Greeks and later Europeans (a single, colossal, ferocious Manticore that prowled Inner Asia and terrorized the populace, much like how the Sphinx once did the same to Thebes or the Calydonian Boar did to Aetolia), and was hybridised with various other creatures unique to South Asia (that was thought to be different aspects of the same beast); resulting in the Persian Martiya and the Greek Martichoras / European Manticore becoming distinctly separate creatures}
{Overall, probably the Greek understanding of a Tiger}
Achilles = Ah-Kill-Eez {You should know this.}
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