Charites

Charites, were 3 or more goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, goodwill, and fertility, in the Greek religion.

Quotes about Charites:
However, the world of Charites reveals its nature completely only when it is understood that grace, which is here a divine figure, is not limited to signifying what fascinates by its gracefulness, what spreads happiness, but also the joy and gratitude of being blessed by gift and happiness. As it is easy to understand thanks to the well-known linguistic locutions, it is the wonderful realm in which giving and thanksgiving are one, lovable to give and lovable to take, where right and justice, claim and reparation, have no access: the kingdom of full grace. A world in which subject and object are truly one, encompassed in the divine splendour of a superior being. (Walter Friedrich Otto)

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 * Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 58.
 * Homer, Iliad, 8.360-369
 * Homer, Iliad, 5.338
 * Hesiod, Works and Days, 69
 * Pindar, Olympian Ode 14, 1-20
 * Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo, 186
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 * Homer, Iliad, 265
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 * Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.34.10, 3.14.6, 6.24.6
 * Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.18.6
 * Strabo, Geography 9.2.40 (trans. Jones)
 * Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (C.E.1898), Charisia
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Bibliography:

 * Colluthus, The Rape of Helen in Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus, translated by A. W. Mair, Loeb Classical Library No. 219, in Cambridge, in Massachusetts, at Harvard University Press, C.E.1928. ISBN 978-0-674-99241-2. Online version at Harvard University Press.
 * Fisher, Nick, "Kharis, Kharites, festivals, and social peace in the classical Greek city," in Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter (Eds), Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity (Leiden, Brill, C.E.2010) (Mnemosyne Supplements, 323),
 * Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, C.E.1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. "Charites" p. 99
 * Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (C.E.1873). "Charis"