Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Deities
Gods
Anemoi - attested through *Anemohiereia or *Anemon Hiereia, "Priestess of the Winds" (Linear B: , a-ne-mo-i-je-re-ja, , a-ne-mo,i-je-re-ja) Apollo(?) - perhaps attested through the lacunose perio (Linear B: , pe-rjo-, reconstructed a-pe-rjo-ne) Ares (Linear B: , a-re) Despotas(?) - unclear, perhaps house deity (Linear B: , do-po-ta) Dionysus (Linear B: , di-wo-nu-so) Dipsioi - perhaps "the Thirsty and hence the Dead Ones"; perhaps related to Thessalian month Dipsos, meaning obscure (Linear B: , di-pi-si-jo-i) Drimios - unknown, in later times, son of Zeus, perhaps a predecessor of Apollo (Linear B: , di-ri-mi-jo) Enesidaon - possibly a theonym; possibly an epithet of Poseidon, assumed to mean "Earthshaker" or something similar (Linear B: , e-ne-si-da-o-ne) Enyalius - a later epithet of Ares (Linear B: , e-nu-wa-ri-jo) Hephaestus - regarded as indirectly attested by the name *Haphaistios or *Haphaistion, presumed to be a theophoric name (Linear B: , a-pa-i-ti-jo) Hermes (Linear B: , e-ma-*25 or e-ma-ha) Areias - epithet (Linear B: , a-re-ja) Hyperion(?) - perhaps attested through the lacunose perio (Linear B: , pe-rjo-, reconstructed u-pe-rjo-ne) Marineus(?) - unknown deity, perhaps "God of the Woolens", meaning obscure (Linear B: , ma-ri-ne(-u?), , ma-ri-ne-we, , ma-ri-ne-wo) Pade(?) - possibly unknown god, thought to be Cretan, Minoan in origin (Linear B: pa-de, pa-de-i) Paean - a precursor of Apollo (Linear B: , pa-ja-wo-ne) Poseidon - chief deity (Linear B: , po-se-da-o, , po-se-da-wo-ne) Trisheros - theonym, "Thrice-Hero"; thought to attest, and pertain to, the veneration of the dead (Linear B: , ti-ri-se-ro-e) Wanax - "the King"; in this case, it is considered to be a theonym in the dative case, perhaps as an epithet of Poseidon (Linear B: , wa-na-ka-te) Zeus - God of the sky (Linear B: , di-we, , di-wo) Diktaios - local epithet of Zeus on Crete (Linear B: , di-ka-ta-jo di-we)