This is just the beginning. We'll be adding more soon.
To Zeus:
Zeus, give me good health (Homer Iliad 7.179 f; Aesch. Ag. 973;
Pl. Phdr. 278 ff.)
O chariot of the earth, with your throne on the earth too, whoever
you are, hard to guess at, to know, Zeus, whether you are necessity
of nature or mind of men, I have prayed to you. (Eur. Troj. Women 884
ff.)
Zeus All-powerful and Greatest, and the rest of the immortal gods
(Iliad 3.298, 6.475, 8.526 and numerous placed in the Odyssey)
Zeus most glorious, greatest, ye of the dark clouds, who dwell in
the sky. (Homer Iliad 2.412)
Zeus father, ruler from Ida, most glorius and greatest. (Homer
Iliad 7.202)
Come, Zeus, grant this wish for me. (Homer Iliad 2.242)
To Apollon:
Now be my savior and my healer, lord Apollon. (Aesch. Ag. 512 ff.)
Hear me, you of the silver bow, who protects Chryse and holy Cilla
and rule with might over Tenedos, if ever I have roofed over for you
a pleasing temple or burnt up for you fat thighs of bulls or goats,
fulfill for me this wish: may the Danaans pay for my tears by your
arrows. (Homer Iliad 1.37 ff.)
Guard them, Phoebus, and give them pre-eminence and fortune. (Ded.
To Apollon, 6th cent. Boeotia)
Hear me, god of the silver bow. (Homer Iliad 1.37)
To Paean
(some consider him to be Apollon):
O lord Paean, avert my pains. (Eur. Hercules Furens 820 f.)
Ie Paian, Ie Paian, Ie Paian, let us rejoice. (Arist. Thesm. 371)
To Athene:
Queen Athene, savior of the city, shining goddess. (Homer Iliad
6.305)
To Demeter and Kore:
Come, come, we entreat you, most reverened Thesmophorian deities,
if ever before you heard us and came, come no, come to us here, we beg
you. (Arist. Thesm. 1155 ff.)
To Haides:
O Haides down below, I call upon you too as an ally; who received
on account of this woman here many corpses who fell by my sword, and
you have your reward. (Eur. Helen 969 ff.)
To Dionysos:
Show yourself as a bull. (Eur. Bacchae 1017)
General:
Now we must pray to the gods. (Soph. Electra 764)
I pray to all the gods and goddesses (Homer Iliad 1.116)
Let the good prevail. (Aesch. Ag. 349)
Hail lady, give us good. (Eur. Alcestis 1004)
May I have much to sacrifice to you often. (Arist. Thesm. 287 f.)
