Name Of Greek Goddess Starting With A Vowel. Included are the names of gods, goddesses, heroes and other figures, and their past and present meanings where available. We will delve into the stories behind the most famous and powerful gods and goddesses, such as zeus, apollo, athena, and aphrodite.

If two vowels came together, they preferred either to pronounce the two vowels together as one sound (called a diphthong, greek for “double sound”), or to contract the two vowels to form either a single long vowel or diphthong (cf. Area of origin doesn’t matter as long as it sounds not too far out there in english.