Metamorphoses: Index

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Abantiades, a patronymic epithet of Perseus as the great-grandson of Abas, iv. 673

Abaris, a companion of Phineus slain by Perseus, v. 86

Abas: (1) king of Argos, father of Acrisius, great-grandfather of Perseus, iv. 673; (2) a companion of Diomede, changed by Venus into a bird, xiv. 505; (3) a centaur, participant in the battle of the centaurs and Lapithae, xii. 306

Absyrtus, a young brother of Medea, slain by her in order to retard the pursuit of her father, Aeetes, vii. 51

Acastus, king of Thessaly, son of Pelias; granted Peleus absolution from his blood-guiltiness, xi. 409

Acestes, a king in Sicily; entertained Aeneas and his followers, xiv. 83

Achaemenides, a companion of Ulysses, rescued from the Cyclopes by Aeneas, xiv. 161

Achaia, a country in the Northern Peloponnesus, by metonymy Greece, iv. 606; viii. 268; xiii. 325

Acheloïa, Callirhoë, daughter of Acheloüs, ix. 413

Acheloïdes, daughters of Acheloüs, the Sirens, xiv. 87

Acheloüs, a river and river-god whose stream separates Aetolia and Acarnania; the god entertains Theseus and his companions on their way home from the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 549 ff.; he has power to change his form, ix. 62 ff.; describes his great fight with Hercules, ix. 4 ff.; while in bull form his horn was torn off and given to Bona Copia, ix. 88

Acheron, a river of the underworld, v. 541; by metonymy, the underworld, xi. 504

Achilles, the most celebrated hero among the Greeks in the Trojan war, son of Peleus, king of Thessaly, and Thetis, a goddess of the sea; account of the wedding of his parents and of his birth, xi. 265; his mother, foreseeing his death if he went to the war, disguised him in girl’s clothing and hid him among the maidens at the court of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, where he was discovered by the craft of Ulysses, xiii. 162 ff.; his early conquests while on the way to Troy, among these, Telephus, whom he wounded and afterwards cured, xiii. 173 ff.; his fight with Cycnus, xii. 73 ff.; description of his shield wrought by Vulcan at Thetis’ request, xiii. 291 ff.; he was slain by an arrow of Paris directed by the hand of Apollo, who was instigated by Neptune out of revenge for Cycnus’ death, xii. 605 ff.; his dead body recovered from the battlefield by Ulysses, xiii. 280; his armour was claimed by Ajax and Ulysses, and awarded by the Greek chiefs to Ulysses, xii. 622 ff.; on the Thracian coast where he was buried his ghost appeared to the Greeks, and demanded that Polyxena be sacrificed upon his tomb, xiii. 443 ff.

Acis, son of Faunus and Symaethis, lover of Galatea, slain by the jealous Cyclops, Polyphemus, and changed to a river-god, xiii. 750, 884 ff.

Acmon, a companion of Diomede, changed by Venus into a bird, xiv. 484

Acoetes, a shipmaster who tells to Pentheus the story of his finding the boy Bacchus, and of the marvels which ensued, iii. 582 ff.; he was imprisoned by Pentheus, but miraculously delivered, iii. 692 ff.

Aconteus, a companion of Perseus, petrified by the sight of the Gorgon-head, v. 201

Acrisioniades, an epithet of Perseus as the grandson of Acrisius, v. 70

Acrisius, son of Abas, father of Danaë, grandfather of Perseus, a king of Argos, opposed the introduction of the worship of Bacchus into his city, iii. 559; iv. 604; was driven from his throne by his brother, but restored by his grandson, Perseus, v. 237

Acropolis, confused with Areopagus, vi. 70, note

Acrota, a mythical Alban king, xiv. 619

Actaeon, called Hyantius from an ancient name of Boeotia, iii. 147; grandson of Cadmus, son of Autonoë, iii. 198; chanced to see Diana in her bath, and fearfully punished therefor, iii. 198 ff.; Pentheus appeals to Autonoë in the name of her murdered son, iii. 720

Actaeus = Atticus, ii. 554, 720; vi. 711; vii. 681; viii. 170

Actium, a promontory in Epirus, made famous by the naval battle near that point between Augustus and Antony, xiii. 715

Actorides, a descendant of Actor, applied to Erytus, v. 79, and to Patroclus, xiii. 273; in plural, Actoridae, referring to Eurytus and Cleatus, viii. 308

Admetus, see Pheretiades

Adonis, son of Myrrha by her father, Cinyras, born after his mother had been transformed into a tree, x. 503 ff.; beloved by Venus because of his extraordinary beauty, x. 524 ff.; slain by a boar, x. 708 ff.; from his blood Venus caused the anemone flower to spring, x. 735

Aeacides, a descendant of Aeacus, applied to his son, Peleus, xi. 227; xii. 365; to his grandson, Achilles, xii. 82, 96, 365; in plural, to his two sons, Peleus and Telamon, viii. 4

Aeacus, son of Jupiter, xiii. 28, and Aegina, grandson of Asopus, born in and ruled over the island of Aegina, which took its name from his mother, vii. 474; refuses to aid Minos against Athens, vii. 484; tells the story of the Myrmidons, vii. 517 ff.; father of Telamon, xiii. 25; made a judge in the Lower World on account of his Justice on earth, xiii. 25; his father, Jupiter, cannot grant him immortality on earth, ix. 440

Aeas, a river in Epirus, i. 580

Aeetes, king of Colchis, son of Sol and Persa, father of Medea, received from Phrixus the Golden Fleece on the preservation of which his kingdom depended, vii. 7, 69, 170

Aeetias, an epithet of Medea as the daughter of Aeetes, vii. 9, 326

Aegaeon, a sea-god, ii. 10

Aegaeus, the Aegean Sea, ix. 448; xi. 663

Aegeus, son of Pandion, king of Athens, father of Theseus, xv. 856; receives Medea after her flight from Corinth and marries her, vii. 403; detects her in her attempt to poison Theseus and drives her out, vii. 420 ff.; being threatened with war by Minos, who sought to avenge the death of his son, Androgeos, he appeals to Aeacus for aid, vii. 454 ff.

Aegides, son of Aegeus, Theseus, viii. 174, 405, 560; xii. 237, 343

Aegina, daughter of the river-god, Asopus, hence called Asopis, vi. 113; vii. 616; she was loved by Jupiter, who carried her away to the island afterwards called by her name, vii. 474; their son was Aeacus, vii. 524, 615

Aegina, an island in the Saronic Gulf, vii. 474

Aegyptius, belonging to Egypt, v. 323; xv. 826

Ae:llo, a harpy on the island of the Strophades who made threats against Aeneas, xiii. 710; also the name of a swift-running dog, iii. 219

Aeneades, a descendant of Aeneas; applied to Caesar, xv. 804; in plural, to the Romans in general, xv. 682, 695

Aeneas, son of Anchises and Venus (see Cytherei:us heros), one of the bravest of the Trojans, xiii. 665; rescued by Venus from the sword of Diomede, xv. 806; leaves Troy with his father and son, xiii. 625; received by Anius at Delos, xiii. 631; meets Dido at Carthage, xiv. 78; his wanderings and sufferings described by Venus, xv. 770 ff.; received by Acestes in Sicily, xiv. 83; meets the Cumaean Sibyl and is conducted by her through the Lower World, xiv. 104 ff.; reaches his journey’s end and is kindly received by Latinus, is opposed by Turnus, seeks aid from Evander, xiv. 445 ff.; is drowned in the River Numicius, his mortal part there washed away, and his immortal part made a god and worshipped under the name of Indiges, xiv. 600 ff.

Aeolia virgo, daughter of Aeolus, applied to Canace, loved by Neptune, vi. 116

Aeolides, a descendant of Aeolus, applied to his son Athamus, iv. 512; to Sisyphus, xiii. 26; to his grandson Cephalus, vi. 681; vii. 672; to Misenus, the trumpeter of Aeneas (his father, however, was not the god of the winds, but a mortal of the same name), xiv. 103; in plural, to certain sons of Aeolus who committed incest with their sisters, ix. 507

Aeolis, a daughter of Aeolus, Alcyone, xi. 444, 573

Aeolius, belonging to Aeolis in Asia Minor, vii. 357

Aeolus, god of the winds, who kept these shut up in a cave in the Aeolian Isles between Sicily and Italy, i. 262; iv. 663; xiv. 224: xv. 707; son of Hippotas, iv, 663; xi. 431; xiv. 224; xv. 707; father of Canace, vi. 116; father of Alcyone, xi. 431, 748; father of Athamas, iv. 487; called Aeolius tyrannus, xiv. 232; calms the waves in the nestingtime of the Halcyons, xi. 748; gave Ulysses winds tied in a bag, xiv. 224. See Hippotades

Aesacus, half-brother of Hector, son of Alexiroe: and Priam; because of his hopeless love for Hesperie, he leaped from a cliff into the sea and was changed into a diving-bird, xi. 752 ff.; mourned by Priam and Hector and all his brothers except Paris, xii. 1 ff.

Aesar, a river in Lower Italy, xv. 23, 54

Aesculapius, son of Apollo and Coronis, rescued by Apollo from the body of his dying mother and given to Chiron to rear, ii. 629 ff.; called Coronides, xv. 624; Paeonius, xv. 535; his fate foretold by Ocyrhoe:, ii. 635 ff.; he restored the dead Hippolytus to life, xv. 533; was brought to Rome at a time of great pestilence in the form of a serpent and afterwards worshipped there as a god, xv. 626 ff.

Aeson, a Thessalian prince whose brother, Pelias, usurped his throne; father of Jason, vii. 84; in old age he was restored to youth by Medea’s magic arts, vii. 162 ff.

Aesonides, Jason, son of Aeson, vii. 60, 77, 164; viii. 411

Aesonius heros, Jason, vii. 156

Aethalion, a Tyrian sailor, companion of Acoetes, iii. 647

Aethion, an Ethiopian seer, v. 146

Aethiopia, reason for the black skins of its people, ii. 236

Aethiops, Ethiopian, i. 778; ii. 236; iv. 669; xv. 320

Aethon, one of the horses of the Sun, ii. 153

Aetna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily, xiii. 770; under it lies the giant Typhoeus, v. 352; xiv. 1; the home of Cyclops, xiv. 188

Aetola arma, the assistance of Diomede, xiv. 528

Aetolia, a country in Middle Greece, xiv. 461

Aetolius heros, Diomede, xiv. 461

Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, son of Atreus, brother of Menelau:s, husband of Clytaemnestra, father of Orestes, Iphigenia, and Electra; commander-in-chief of the Greek forces in the Trojan war, hence called rex, xiii. 217, 276; his quarrel with Achilles, xiii. 444; bidden by the oracle, while waiting to sail from Aulis, to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to Diana, whom he had offended, is persuaded by Ulysses to do so, xii. 30; xiii. 181; captured the daughters of Anius that with their miraculous power of turning what they touched to corn and wine they might feed his army, xiii. 655. See Atrides and Tantalides

Aganippe, a celebrated fountain of the Muses on Mount Helicon, v. 312

Agave, a daughter of Cadmus, mother of Pentheus; in a Bacchic frenzy she helped to tear her son to pieces, iii. 725 ff.

Agenor, son of Neptune, king of Phoenicia, father of Cadmus, iii. 51, 97; and of Europa, ii. 858

Agenorea domus, i.e. the home of Cadmus, iii. 308

Agenorides, a descendant of Agenor; Cadmus, iii. 8, 81, 90; iv. 563; Perseus (whose connexion with Agenor, however, was very remote), iv. 772

Aglauros, daughter of Cecrops, ii. 560; envies her sister Herse because of Mercury’s love, ii. 740 ff.; punished by Minerva for her treachery, ii. 752 ff.; changed by Mercury into a stone, ii. 820

Aiax: (1) son of Telamon, xii. 624; xiii. 22, 123, 194, 231; grandson of Aeacus, xiii. 25; great-grandson of Jupiter, xiii. 28; one of the stoutest of the Greek warriors, xiii. 386; lord of the sevenfold shield, xiii. 2, 347; he prevented Hector from burning the Greek ships, xiii. 7; chosen by lot to fight duel with Hector, xiii. 82 ff., 275 ff.; saves Ulysses on the field of battle, xiii. 71 ff.; supports his claim against Ulysses for the armour of Achilles, xiii. 2 ff.; defeated in this contest, he goes into a frenzy of rage and kills himself with his own sword, xiii. 384 ff.; from his blood a flower springs up whose petals are marked with his name, ΑΙΑΣ, x. 207; xiii. 395. See Telamonius and Telamoniades. (2) The son of Oïleus, xii. 622; styled Aiax moderatior, “the Less,” xiii. 356; violated Cassandra and slain by Minerva with a thunderbolt of Jupiter, xiv. 468. See Narycius heros

Alastor, a Lycian, slain by Ulysses, xiii. 257

Albula, an ancient name for the Tiber, xiv. 328

Alcander, a Lycian, slain by Ulysses, xiii. 258

Alcathoüs, son of Pelops, founder of the city of Megara; hence Megara is called urbs Alcathoï viii. 8; called also Alcathoë, vii 443

Alcidamas, father of Ctesylla, vii. 369

Alcidemon, a Tyrian sailor, companion of Acoetes, iii. 618

Alcides, a descendant of Alceus, father of Amphitryon, usually applied to Hercules, the reputed son of Amphitryon, ix. 13, 51, 110, 217; xi. 213; xii. 538. See Hercules

Alcinoüs, king of the Phaeacians, who entertained Ulysses, xiv. 565

Alcithoë, daughter of Minyas, who with her sisters opposed the worship of Bacchus, iv. 1, 32 ff.; they were changed by Bacchus into bats, iv. 389 ff.

Alcmaeon, son of Amphiaräus and Eriphyle; killed his mother as directed by his father, ix. 408; pursued by the Furies, ix. 410; his first wife was Alphesiboea, daughter of Phegeus; he left her and married Callirhoë and was slain by the brothers of Alphesiboea, ix. 412

Alcmena, daughter of Electryon, king of Tiryns, wife of Amphitryon, mother of Hercules by Jupiter, ix. 23; called Tirynthia from her birth-place at Tiryns in Argolis, vi. 112; called also Argolis from her native land, ix. 276, 313; the mother-in-law of Deianira, viii. 544; relates her hard experience in the birth of Hercules, ix. 285 ff.

Alcon, a Boeotian, a famous engraver, xiii. 683

Alcyone, daughter of Aeolus, wife of Ceyx, xi. 384; entreats her husband not to take a sea journey, bids him farewell, and after his wreck is informed by Juno of this through a phantom-shape of Ceyx, xi, 415 ff.; she and her husband were changed into Halcyons, xi. 741

Alemon, a Greek, father of Myscelos, the founder of Crotona in Lower Italy, xv. 19

Alemonides, son of Alemon, Myscelos, xv. 26, 48

Alexiroë, a nymph, daughter of the river-god Granicus, and mother by Priam of Aesacus, xi. 763

Almo, a small river flowing into the Tiber, xiv. 329

Aloïdae, putative sons of Aloeus, Otus and Ephialtes, but in reality the offspring of Neptune by Iphimedia, the wife of Aloeus, vi. 117

Alpes, the Alps mountains, ii. 226; xiv. 794

Alpheïas, an epithet of Arethusa as the beloved of the river-god Alpheus, v. 487

Alphenor, one of the seven sons of Niobe, vi. 248

Alpheus, a river and river-god of Elis who loved Arethusa, ii. 250; v. 576, 599

Althaea, wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, mother of Meleager; on hearing that her son has killed her two brothers, she halts between two feelings; decides against her son and burns the fatal billet on which his life depends, viii. 445 ff.

Amathus, a city in Cyprus sacred to Venus, x. 220, 227

Amazon, one of the Amazons, a race of warlike women who dwelt on the Thermodon River; in particular, Hippolyte, the mother by Theseus of Hippolytus, xv. 552

Ambracia, a city in Epirus, xiii. 714

Amenanus, a river in Sicily, xv. 279

Ammon: (1) an Egyptian and Libyan deity in the form of a ram, identified by the Greeks and Romans with Zeus and Jupiter, iv. 671; v. 17, 328; xv. 309; (2) a friend of Persens, slain by Phineus, v. 107

Amphiaraüs, a Greek seer, one of the heroes (Oeclides) at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 317; son of Oecleus, father of Alcmaeon, husband of Eriphyle, who betrayed him for a golden necklace; he enjoined on his son the duty of punishing Eriphyle, ix. 407

Amphimedon, a Libyan, follower of Phineus, v. 75

Amphion, son of Jupiter and Antiope, husband of Niobe; king of Thebes, whose walls he built by the magical music of his lyre, vi. 176 ff.; xv. 427; killed himself because of grief at the death of his sons, vi. 271, 402

Amphissos, son of Apollo and Dryope, ix. 356

Amphitrite, daughter of Nereus, wife of Neptune, a sea-goddess; used by metony my for the sea, i. 14

Amphitryon, son of Alceus, king of Thebes, husband of Alcmena and putative father of Hercules, vi. 112

Amphitryoniades, a name of Hercules as the supposed son of Amphitryon, ix. 140; xv. 49

Amphrisia saxa, unknown rocks in Lower Italy, xv. 703

Amphrysus, a small river in Thessaly, i. 580; vii. 229

Ampycides, son of Ampyx, Mopsus, viii. 316; xii. 456, 524

Ampycus, a priest of Ceres, v. 110

Ampyx: (1) a follower of Persens. v. 184; (2) one of the Lapithae, xii. 450

Amulius, younger son of the Alban king, Proca, usurped the kingdom from his elder brother, Numitor, but was dethroned by Numitor’s grandsons, Romulus and Remus, xiv. 722

Amyclae, a town in Laconia, viii. 314: x. 162

Amyclides, epithet of Hyacinthus as the descendaut of Amyclas, builder of Amyclae, x. 162

Amycus, a centaur, xii. 245

Amymone, a famous spring of Argos, ii. 240

Amyutor, a king of the Dolopians in Thessaly, xii. 364; father of Phoenix, viii. 307

Amythaon, father of Mclampus, xv. 325

Anaphe, an island of the Cyclades, vii. 462

Anapis, a river and river-god of Sicily, beloved of Cyane, v. 417

Anaxarete, a beautiful maiden of Cyprus, who disdained the love of Iphis and was turned to stone, xiv. 699

Ancaeus, an Arcadian at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 315, 391, 401

Anchises, son of Capys, father of Aeneas by Venus, ix. 425; carried from burning Troy by Aeneas, xiii. 624; visits Anius at Delos, xiii. 640; visited by Aeneas in Hades, xiv. 118; his grave in Sicily, xiv. 84

Andraemon: (1) the father of Amphissus and husband of Dryope, who was changed into a lotus-tree, ix. 333, 363; (2) an Aetolian king, father of Thoas and a combatant before Troy, xiii. 357

Androgeos, son of Minos, king of Crete, treacherously killed at Athens after having overcome all his competitors in wrestling, vii. 458; viii. 58

Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiope; chained to a rock and exposed to a sea-monster because of her mother’s sin, saved by Perseus, iv. 670 ff.; married to Perseus, iv. 757

Andros, a son of Anius, ruler of one of the islands of the Cyclades named for him, vii. 469; xiii. 649, 665

Anemone, the “wind-flower” which sprang up from the blood of Adonis, x. 735

Anguis, the constellation of the Serpent, lying high in the north, ii. 138, 173; iii. 45; viii. 182

Anigrus, a little river in Elis, xv. 282

Anio, a river in Latium, xiv. 329

Anius, king and priest of Apollo on Delos, entertains Anchises and Aeneas, xiii. 632 ff.; to his daughters Bacchus had granted the power of turning objects at a touch to corn and wine and olives, xiii. 650 ff. See Andros

Antaeus, a Libyan giaut slain by Hercules, ix. 184

Antandrus, a seaport in the Troad, xiii. 628

Antenor, one of the older Trojan chiefs who, with Priam, would have given Helen back at the demand of Ulysses, xiii. 201

Anthedon, a town in Boeotia, vii. 232; xiii. 905

Antigone, daughter of Laomedon, changed by Juno into a stork, vi. 93

Antimachus, a centaur, xii. 460

Antiope, called Nycteïs as daughter of king Nycteus; mother by Jupiter of Amphion and Zethus, vi. 111

Antiphates, king of the Laestrygonians, who sank Ulysses’ ships and devoured one of his men, xiv. 233 ff.

Antissa, a town on Lesbos, xv. 287

Antium, a town in Latium, xiv. 718

Antonius, the Roman leader who with Cleopatra fought the Romans under Octavius in the naval battle near Actium, xv. 826

Anubis, an Egyptian god represented with the head of a dog, ix. 690

Aonia, a district of Boeotia in which lies Mount Helicon, i. 313; iii. 339; v. 333; vi. 2; vii. 763; ix. 112; x. 589; xii. 24

Aouides, an epithet of the Muses because their favourite haunt, Mount Helicon, was in Aonia, an earlier name for Boeotia, v. 333; vi. 2

Aphareïa proles, the offspring of Aphareus, a king of the Messenians, referring to his sons, Lynceus and Idas, viii. 304

Aphareus, a centaur, xii. 341

Aphidas, a centaur, xii. 317

Apidanus, a river in Thessaly, i. 580; vii. 228

Apis, the sacred ox worshipped as a god by the Egyptians, ix. 691

Apollineus, an epithet of Orpheus as the son of Apollo, xi, 8

Apollo, son of Jupiter, i. 517, and Latona; twin brother of Diana, vi. 205 ff.; born in the island of Delos, vi. 191; represented most frequently as Phoebus, the sun-god, whose chariot is the shining disc of the sun, ii. 1 ff. et passim; the god of prophecy, i. 517; iii. 8, 130; ix. 332; xv. 632; god of the healing art, i. 521, 566; ii. 618; x. 189; god of music and especially of the lyre, i. 519; vi. 384; x. 108; xi. 155 ff.; god of the bow, x. 108; kills the Python and in honour of this feat establishes the Pythian games, i. 441 ff.; his various epithets are proles Letoïa, viii. 15; Latoüs, vi. 384; Latogena, vi. 160; Latoïus, xi. 196; Delius, i. 454; Delphicus, ii. 543, 677; Clarius, xi. 413; Paean, i. 566; xiv. 720; Smintheus, xii. 585; Phoebus, passim; deus arquitenens, i. 441; vi. 265; iuvenis deus, “god of eternal youth,” i. 531; intonsus, xii. 585; and see iii. 421; xi. 165; lands sacred to him are Delos, Delphi, Claros, Tenedos, Patara, i. 516; his sacred tree the laurel, i. 553; xv. 634; his loves were Daphne, i. 452 ff.; Clymene, i. 751; Coronis, ii. 543; Leucothoë, iv. 196 ff.; Isse, vi. 122; Dryope, ix. 331; Calliope, xi. 8; Chione, xi. 303 ff.; Cassandra, xiii. 410; Cumaean Sibyl, xiv. 133; his boy loves were Hyacinthus, x. 162 ff., and Cyparissus, x. 106 ff.; his sons were Phaëthon by Clymene, i. 751; Aesculapius by Coronis, ii. 629; xv. 624; Amphissos by Dryope, ix. 356; Orpheus by Calliope, xi. 8; Philammon by Chione, xi. 317; he promised Phaëthon any gift he might name as proof of his fatherhood, ii. 42 ff.; mourns Phaëthon’s death and refuses to light the world for a whole day, ii. 329, 381 ff.; served as a shepherd in Elis, ii. 677; and with Admetus in Thessaly, vi. 122; discloses to Vulcan the shame of Mars and Venus, iv. 171 ff.; takes refuge from pursuit of giants in the form of a crow, v. 329; with his sister Diana destroys the children of Niobe at request of Latona, his mother, vi. 204 ff.; flays Marsyas, who challenged him to a contest in music, vi. 382 ff.; is challenged by Pan to a contest in music and wins over him, xi. 155 ff.; helped Neptune build the walls of Troy, xii. 587, while in xi. 205 it is Neptune alone who built them; helped also with the walls of Megara, viii. 15; changed Daedalion into a hawk, xi. 339; at Neptune’s request directs the arrow of Paris against Achilles, xii. 598 ff.; xiii. 501; gave gift of augury to Andros, xiii. 650

Appenninus, a range of mountains in Italy, ii. 226; xv. 432

Aquilo, the north wind, i. 262, 328; in plural, ii. 132; v. 285; x. 77; as a god, Boreas, his two sons were Zetes and Calaïs, vii. 3

Ara, the Altar, a southern constellation, ii. 139

Arachne, daughter of Idmon, a Lydian maiden wonderfully gifted in weaving, vi. 5 ff.; challenged Pallas to a contest in weaving, is defeated and changed by the goddess to a spider, vi. 42, 140

Arcadia, a country in the centre of the Peloponnesus, i. 689; ii. 405; ix. 192; xv. 332

Arcas, son of Jupiter and Callisto, ii. 468; unwittingly hunts the bear into which his mother has been changed by Juno, ii. 497; is set by Jupiter in the sky as the constellation of the Little Bear, ii. 506

Arcesius, son of Jupiter, father of Laërtes, grandfather of Ulysses, xiii. 144

Arctos, the double constellation of the Great and Little Bears into which Juno changed Callisto and her son, and which Jupiter set in the heavens; by Juno’s request Neptune was not to allow them to bathe (set) in his waters, ii. 132; iii. 45, 595; iv. 625; xiii. 293, 726

Ardea, a city of the Rutulians, from whose ashes sprang the bird of the same name, the heron, xiv. 580

Areopagus, Mars’ Hill at Athens, confused with the Acropolis, vi. 70, note

Areos, a centaur, xii. 310

Arestorides, Argus, son of Arestor, i. 624

Arethusa, a nymph of Elis, attendant of Diana, loved by Alpheus, v. 409; tells her story to Ceres, v. 572 ff.

Argo, the ship of the Argonauts, xv. 337

Argolica paelex, Io, i. 726; Phoronis, ii. 524

Argonauts, a band of heroes under Jason who sailed from Greece to Colchis in quest of the Golden Fleece, vii. 1; xiii. 24

Argos, the capital city of Argolis in the Peloponnesus, i. 601; ii. 240; vi. 414; xv. 164

Argus, son of Arestor, a monster with eyes all over his body, set by Juno to guard the Io-heifer, i. 624; slain by Mercury at Jupiter’s order, i. 717; his eyes set by Juno in her peacock’s tail, i. 723; ii. 533

Ariadne, daughter of Minos; in love with Theseus, she helps him escape the labyrinth, elopes with him, is deserted on the island of Dia, loved by Bacchus, who set her crown in the sky, viii. 172 ff.

Aricia, a town in Latium, xv. 488

Arne, betrayed her fatherland, the island of Siphnos, and was changed into a daw, vii. 464

Asbolus, a centaur with power of augury, xii. 308

Ascalaphus, son of the Acheron and Orphne, tattled on Proserpina and was changed by her into a screech-owl, v. 539 ff.

Ascanius, son of Aeneas, xiii. 627; xiv. 583; he built and ruled over Alba Longa as its first king, xiv. 609

Asia, v. 648; ix. 448; xiii. 484

Asopiades, an epithet of Aeacus as the grandson of the river-god Asopus, vii. 484

Asopis, an epithet of Aegina as the daughter of Asopus, vi. 113

Assaracus, a king of Phrygia, son of Tros, father of Capys and grandfather of Anchises, xi. 756

Assyrius, an Assyrian, v. 60; xv. 393

Asterie, daughter of Coeus, sister of Latona, wooed by Jupiter, vi. 108

Astraea, the goddess of justice, last of the celestials to abandon the earth on account of man’s wickedness, i. 150

Astraeus, a Titan, husband of Aurora and father of the winds; hence these are called Astraean brothers, xiv. 545

Astyages, a companion of Phineus, v. 205

Astyanax, son of Hector and Andromache, who after the fall of Troy was hurled by the Greeks from a lofty tower, xiii. 415

Astypaleïus, belonging to the island of Astypalaea, one of the Sporades, vii. 462

Atalanta: (1) a daughter of Iasos or Iasion of Arcadia, a participant in the Calydonian boar-hunt; beloved by Meleager, was first to wound the boar, and was presented by Meleager with the spoils; she is called Tegeaea, viii. 380, and Nonacria, viii. 426; (2) a daughter of King Schoeneus of Boeotia, famous for her beauty and swiftness of foot; was conquered in running by Hippomenes and married by him; her story, x. 560 ff.; was changed by the angry Cybele into a lioness, x. 689 ff.

Athamantiades, an epithet of Palaemon as the former son of Athamas, xiii. 919

Athamas, son of Aeolus, iv. 487, 512; brother of Sisyphus, iv. 467; king of Boeotian Orchomenus, father of Phrixus and Helle, husband of Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, uncle of Pentheus, iii. 564; iv. 420; driven mad by the Furies at the instance of Juno, he pursued his wife and her little son, Melicerta, over a cliff, iv. 481 ff. See Aeolides

Athenae, the city of Athens, v. 652; vi. 421; vii. 507, 723; viii. 262; xv. 430

Athis, an Indian youth, companion of Perseus, v. 47, 63

Athos, a high mountain in Macedonia, ii. 217; xi. 554

Atlantiades, a descendant of Atlas, applied to Mercury, his grandson, i. 682; ii. 704, 834; viii. 627; and to Mercury’s son, Hermaphroditus, iv. 368

Atlantis, Maia, the daughter of Atlas, ii. 685

Atlas, a mountain in Northern Africa, personified as a giant, the son of Iapetos, iv. 632; holds the sphere of heaven on his shoulders, ii. 296; vi. 175; father of the Pleiades, one of whom was Dione, mother of Niobe, vi. 174,; another was Maia, mother of Mercury, i. 682; himself and his kingdom described, iv. 631 ff.; had been warned by Themis that a son of Jupiter would despoil him of his golden tree, iv. 643; refused hospitality to Perseus and was changed into a rocky mountain by a sight of the Gorgon-head, iv. 657 ff.; conceived merely as a mountain, iv. 772; xv. 149

Atracides, an epithet of Caeneus from his home town, Atrax, in Thessaly, xii. 209

Atreus, son of Pelops, king of Mycene, father of Agamemnon and Menelaüs, xv. 855

Atrides, the son of Atreus, applied to the older, Agamemnon, xii. 623; xiii. 189, 230, 359, 365, 439, 655; to the younger, Menelaüs, xii. 623; xv. 162, 805

Atticus, belonging to Attica, vii. 492

Attis, a beautiful young Phrygian shepherd, beloved by Cybele, who made him her priest; but, having broken his vow of chastity, he was driven insane by the goddess and in a fit of madness emasculated himself, x. 104

Augustus, a surname of Octavius Caesar after he became Emperor, pleased with the grief of his people at Julius Caesar’s death, i. 204; a laurel-tree stood before the door of his palace, i. 562; his great glory as successor to Caesar’s power is prophesied by Jupiter to Venus, xv. 807 ff.

Aulis, a Boeotian harbour where the Greek fleet assembled preparatory to sailing to Troy, xii. 10; xiii. 182

Aura, a breeze which Cephalus invoked to soothe his heat; Procris, his wife, hearing of his words and thinking that this was a woman’s name, was led to her unfortunate death, vii. 813 ff.

Aurora, daughter of the Titan, Pallas, hence called Pallantias, ix. 421; xv. 191; and Pallantis, xv. 700; goddess of the morning, ii. 113; v. 440; wife of Tithonus, ix. 422; laments the death of her son Memnon, iii. 576 ff.; is inflamed with love for Cephalus and tries to win him from his wife Procris, vii. 703

Ausonia, a country in Lower Italy, used poetically for Italy, v. 350; xiii. 708; xiv. 7, 320, 772, 786; xv. 647

Auster, the south wind, i. 66; ii. 853; v. 285; vii. 532; viii. 3, 121; xi. 192; xii. 510; xiii. 725

Autolycus, son of Mercury and Chione, father of Anticlea and grandfather of Ulysses, celebrated for his craftiness, xi. 313; he was the husband of Erysichthon’s daughter, viii. 738

Autonoë, daughter of Cadmus, mother of Actaeon, iii. 198; aunt of Pentheus, whom she helps to tear in pieces, iii. 720

Autonoeius heros, Actaeon, son of Autonoë, iii. 198

Aventinus, a mythical Alban king, xiv. 620

Avernus, a name for the Lower World, iv. 487; v. 540; x. 51; xiv. 114; in plural, Averna, the entrance to the Lower World, xiv. 105

Babylonius, belonging to the city of Babylon, ii. 248; iv. 44, 99

Bacchiadae, an ancient royal family of Corinth, descended from Bacchis, one of the Heraclidae, the founder of Syracuse, v. 407

Bacchus, son of Jupiter and Semele, daughter of Cadmus, iii. 520; v. 529; snatched from his mother’s dead body and sewed up in Jupiter’s thigh, iii. 312; given to Ino as foster-mother, iii. 313; reared in a cave by the nymphs of Nysa, iii. 314; his worship enthusiastically received at Thebes, iii. 528; opposed by Pentheus, iii. 531 ff.; the story of his capture by Tyrrhenian sailors and of their fate told by Acoetes, iii, 582 ff.; brings destruction on Pentheus, iii. 701 ff.; and on Lycurgus, iv. 22; changes the daughters of Minyas into bats, iv. 391 ff.; took refuge from pursuit of Giants in the form of a goat, v. 329; his amour with Erigone, vi. 125; gains from Medea renewed youth for his nurses, vii. 295; loved Ariadne and set her crown in the sky, viii. 176; is the foster-son of Silenus, xi. 99; rewards Midas for his kindness to Silenus, xi. 100 ff.; punishes the Thracian women for the murder of Orpheus, xi. 67; gave to the daughters of Anius the power to change objects by touch to corn and wine, xiii. 650; his conquest of India, iv. 20, 605; xv. 413; his various epithets, iv. 11 ff. See Thyoneus (2)

Bactrius, from the city of Bactra in Persia, v. 135

Baliaricus, from the Balearic Islands, between Spain and Africa, ii. 727; iv. 709

Battus, a rustic changed by Mercury into a touch-stone, ii. 688

Baucis, wife of Philemon, viii. 631 ff.

Belides, the fifty daughters of Danaüs, granddaughters of Belus, king of Egypt, more frequently called Danaïdes; forced to marry their cousins, the fifty sons of Aegyptus, they, with one exception, killed their husbands on their wedding-night, and for this suffered in Hades; their punishment was to fill a bottomless cistern with water carried in sieves, iv. 463; x. 44

Bellona, goddess of war, sister of Mars, v. 155

Belus, a primitive Asiatic king, founder of the Assyrian kingdom, iv. 213; not the ancestor of the Belides

Berecyntius heros, Midas, son of Cybele, so called from Berecyntus, a mountain in Phrygia, xi. 16, 106

Beroë, the old nurse of Semele, iii. 278

Bienor, a centaur, xii. 345

Bisaltis, Theophane, daughter of Bisaltes, loved by Neptune, vi. 117

Bistonius, belonging to the Bistones, a people of Thrace, xiii. 430

Boebe, a town in Thessaly, vii. 231

Boeotia, a country in Middle Greece, ii. 239; xii. 9; mythical origin of the name, iii. 13

Bona Copia, goddess of abundance, ix. 88

Boötes, a northern constellation near the Bears, called also Arctophylax, ii. 176; viii. 206; x. 447

Boreas, the north wind, i. 65; xii. 24; personified as a god, his rough wooing of Orithyia, vi. 682 ff.; father of Zetes and Calais, vi. 712. See Aquilo

Botres, son of Eumelus; while his father was sacrificing to Apollo he ate the brain of the sacrificial animal and for this his angry father smote him down with a firebrand; Apollo pitied the father’s lamentations and changed the boy into a bird, the bee-eater, vii. 390

Britanni, the inhabitants of the British Isles, xv. 752

Bromius, an epithet of Bacchus, iv. 11

Bromus, a centaur, xii. 459

Broteas, a twin brother of Ammon and with him slain by Phineus, v. 107; also the name of one of the Lapithae, xii. 262

Bubasis, from Bubasos, a town in Caria, ix. 644

Bubastis, a town in Egypt; also the goddess who was worshipped there, corresponding to Diana, ix. 691

Buris, a seaport town of Achaia, xv. 293

Busiris, a king of Egypt, who sacrificed strangers and was himself slain by Hercules, ix. 183

Butes, son of Pallas, companion of Cephalus on his embassy to Aegina, vii. 500

Buthrotos, a city in Epirus, xiii. 721

Byblis, daughter of Miletus, twin sister of Caunus, for whom she felt a hopeless passion, ix. 453 ff.; she was changed into a fountain, ix. 664

Cadmeïs, Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, iii. 287

Cadmus, son of the Phoenician king Agenor, iii. 3, 51, 81; ordered by his father to find his sister Europa on pain of exile, iii. 3; asks oracle of Phoebus as to a site for his new city, iii. 9; follows sacred heifer, iii. 17; kills serpent sacred to Mars, iii. 32 ff.; is warned by a voice that he, too, shall become a serpent, iii. 97; at Pallas’ bidding he sows the serpent’s teeth in the ground from which spring armed men, iii. 104; marries Harmonia, daughter of Mars and Venus, iii. 132; he and his wife are changed to serpents, iv. 563 ff.

Caeneus, a youth of Thessaly, called Atracides from Atrax, a city of that country, xii. 209; born a girl, changed to a youth and made invulnerable, viii. 305; xii. 172; participated in the battle against the centaurs, was killed by them and changed into a bird, xii. 459 ff.

Caenis, daughter of Elatus of Thessaly, ravished by Neptune, who in requital and at her request changed her into a youth, Caeneus, and made her invulnerable, xii. 189 ff.

Caesar, Julius, his assassination, i. 201; his great deeds, his death, his deification at the behest of Venus, xv. 746 ff.

Caïcus, a river in Mysia, ii. 243; xii. 111; xv. 278

Caïeta, the old nurse of Aeneas who died and was buried in the place in Italy called by her name, xiv. 157, 443 ff.; xv. 716

Calaïs, one of the winged sons of Boreas and Orithyia, was one of the Argonauts, vi. 716; with his brother drove the Harpies away from Phineus, vii. 3

Calaurea, an island on the coast of Argolis, xii. 384

Calchas, son of Thestor, a seer and priest who accompanied the Greeks to Troy; he interpreted the omen of the snake and birds at Aulis, xii. 19 ff.

Calliope, mother of Orpheus, x. 148; one of the Muses who sang the song of Ceres and her wanderings in search of the stolen Proserpina, v. 339 ff. See Musae

Callirhoë, daughter of Acheloüs, ix. 413; second wife of Alemaeon, ix. 411; gained from Jupiter immediate growth from infancy to manhood for her sons in order that they might avenge their father, ix. 432

Callisto, an Arcadian nymph, a favourite of Diana, ravished by Jupiter, ii. 409 ff.; driven by Diana from her train, ii. 464 ff.; changed by Juno into a bear, ii. 470 ff.; is hunted as a bear by her son, Arcas, ii. 497 ff.; is set by Jupiter in the sky as the constellation of the Great Bear, ii. 506; is forbidden by Oceanus at Juno’s request to dip beneath his waves, ii. 528

Calydon, an ancient city in Aetolia on the River Euenus, vi. 415; viii. 270, 324, 495, 525, 528, 727; ix. 2, 112, 147; xiv. 313; xv. 769

Calydonian Boar-Hunt, a famous hunt, at which assembled all the heroes of Greece; cause of the boar’s coming, viii. 271 ff.; the muster of the heroes, viii. 300 ff.; the place of the hunt described, viii. 329 ff.; the hunt, viii. 338 ff.; the boar is first wounded by Atalanta, viii. 382; is killed by Meleager, viii. 414

Calymne, an island in the Aegean Sea, viii. 222

Camenae, ancient Italian nymphs with the gift of prophecy, later identified with the Muses, xiv. 434; xv. 482

Canace. See Aeolia virgo

Canens, daughter of Janus and Venilia, and wife of Picus; grieving for his strange loss, she is changed to water, xiv. 333 ff.

Canopus, a city in Egypt, xv. 828

Capaneus, an Argive chief, one of the seven against Thebes, struck with lightning by Jupiter, ix. 404

Capetus, one of the Alban kings, xiv. 613

Caphereus, a rocky promontory on the coast of Euboea, xiv. 472, 481

Capitolium, a hill in Rome on which stood a temple of Jupiter, i. 561; ii. 538; xv. 589, 828, 866

Capreae, an island in the Bay of Naples, xv. 709

Capys, an Alban king, xiv. 613

Cares, the inhabitants of Caria in Asia Minor, iv. 297; ix. 645

Carpathius, from the island of Carpathos, in the Aegean Sea, xi. 249

Cartheïus, from Carthaea, a town on the island of Ceos, vii. 368; x. 109

Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, gifted with prophecy by Apollo, captured and insulted by Ajax, son of Oïleus, xiii. 410

Cassiope, wife of Cepheus, mother of Andromeda; by her foolish boasting of her beauty she offended the Nereids and brought punishment on the innocent Andromeda, iv. 670, 687, 738

Castalia, a famous spring on Mount Parnasus, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, iii. 14

Castalius, belonging to the Castalian spring on Mount Parnasus, iii. 14

Castor, the son of Tyndarus and Leda, twin brother of Pollux; one of the heroes at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 301, 372. See Tyndaridae

Castrum Inui, or Castrum, an ancient city of the Rutuli, xv. 727

Caucasus, a mountain range in Asia, ii. 224; v. 86; viii. 798.

Caulon, a city in Bruttium, v. 705

Caunus, son of Miletus and Cyanee, the daughter of the river-god Maeander, hence called Maeandrius, ix. 574; was the twin brother of Byblis, who conceived a hopeless love for him, ix. 453 ff.; founded the city of Caunus in Cania, ix. 634

Caÿstros, a river in Lydia famous for its many swans, ii. 253; v. 386

Cea, the same as Ceos, an island of the Cyclades, vii. 368; x. 120

Cebrenis, Hesperie, daughter of Cebren, a river-god of the Troad, xi. 769

Cecropides, an epithet of Theseus as a descendant of Cecrops, viii. 551; in plural, Cecropidae, the Athenians, vii. 486, 671

Cecropis, Aglauros, daughter of Cecrops, ii. 806; in plural, Cecropides, the daughters of Pandion, Procne and Philomela, as Athenians, vi. 667

Cecropius = Athenian, applied to the citadel, vi. 70; xv. 427; the harbour, vi. 446; to Eumolpus, xi. 93

Cecrops, the mythical founder of Athens, vi. 446; xv. 427; his three daughters were Herse, Pandrosos, and Aglauros, ii. 555

Celadon: (1) an adversary of Perseus, v. 144; (2) one of the Lapithae, xii. 250

Celmis, a priest of Cybele, changed by Jupiter into stone, iv. 282

Cenaeus, an epithet of Jupiter whom Hercules worshipped at Cenaeum, the north-western point of the island of Euboea, ix. 136, 164

Cenchreïs, the wife of Cinyras, mother of Myrrha, x. 435

Centaurs, fabulous creatures living in the mountains of Thessaly, half man and half horse, hence called biformes, ix. 121; duplex natura, xii. 504; semihomines, xii. 536; bimembres, xv. 283; they were sons of Ixion and of a cloud in the form of Juno, ix. 123; xii. 504; hence called Nubigenae, xii. 211, 541; at the marriage of Pirithoüs and Hippodamia many centaurs were invited, and on account of an insult offered to the bride by Eurytus, one of their number, there ensued the famous battle of the Centaurs and Lapithae, xii. 210 ff.; for famous individual centaurs, see Nessus and Chiron; two female centaurs are Hylonome, the beloved of Cyllarus, and Ocyrhoë, daughter of Chiron

Cephalus, an Athenian prince, grandson of Aeolus, hence Aeolides, vi. 681; married Procris, daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens; comes to ask aid of Aeacus for Athens against Minos, vii. 493; tells the tragic story of Procris and of his magic javelin, vii. 675 ff.; beloved by Aurora but scorns her love, vii. 704 ff.

Cephenes, a name for the Ethiopians from their king, Cepheus, v. 1, 97

Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, husband of Cassiope, brother of Phineus, father of Andromeda, iv. 669, 738; he vainly tries to repress his brother’s rash attack upon Perseus, v. 12 ff.

Cephisius, an epithet of Narcissus as the son of the river-god Cephisus, iii. 351

Cephisus, a river in Phocis, i. 369; iii. 19; a river-god of the stream, father, by the nymph Liriope, of Narcissus, iii. 343; his grandson was changed by Apollo into a sea-calf, vii. 388

Cerambus, a mythical character who in the time of Deucalion’s flood escaped drowning by being miraculously changed into a beetle, vii. 353

Cerastae, a horned people in Cyprus, changed by the angry Venus into bullocks, x. 222 ff.

Cerberus, the three-headed watchdog of Hades, iv. 450; his origin is either from Echidna, vii. 408; or from Medusa, x. 22; dragged forth from Hades by Hercules as his twelfth labour, vii. 409 ff.; ix. 185; flecks of foam falling from his mouth grew into the plant called aconite, vii. 418; sight of him turned a man into stone, x. 65

Cercopes, a people in Lydia changed by Jupiter into monkeys on account of their treacherous natures, xiv. 92

Cercyon, a king of Eleusin, who required all travellers to wrestle with him and slew them when overthrown; he was himself defeated and killed by Theseus, vii. 439

Ceres, the daughter of Saturn and Rhea, sister of Jupiter, v. 564; to whom she bore Proserpina, v. 515; goddess of agriculture, v. 341 ff.; sends Triptolemus in her dragon car to give grain-seed and teach agriculture to the world, v. 642 ff.; her long wanderings in search of her daughter, who had been stolen away by Pluto, v. 438 ff.; changes a boy who mocked at her into a lizard, v. 451; asks for and hears the story of Arethusa, v. 572 ff.; appeals to Jupiter for the restoration of her daughter to earth, v. 512 ff.; loved by Neptune in the form of a horse, vi. 118; sends Famine to torment Erysichthon because he cut down her sacred oak, viii. 741; desires immortality for her beloved Iasion, ix. 422; the festival of Ceres, x. 431

Ceyx, son of Lucifer, xi. 271, 346, 445; king of Trachis, on Oeta, xi. 383; husband of Alcyone, xi. 284; his death and change into a bird, xi. 411 ff.; grants asylum to Peleus, xi. 274

Chalciope, sister of Medea, whom Aeetes had given in marriage to Phrixus, vii. 51

Chaonian oaks, a sacred oak-grove of Chaonia in Epirus at Dodona, where was situated an ancient oracle of Jupiter, x. 90; xii. 717. See Dodona

Chaonis, Chaonius, of Chaonia: (1) a country in Epirus, v. 163; x. 90; xiii. 117; (2) a city in Syria, v. 163

Chaos, the formless mass out of which the orderly universe was made, i. 7; ii. 299; the shapeless underworld, x. 30; xiv. 404

Charaxus, a Lapith, xii. 272

Chariclo, a water-nymph, mother by Chiron of Ocyrhoë, ii. 636

Charon, the ferryman who carries souls across the river of death in the underworld, x. 73

Charops, a Lycian, xiii. 260

Charybdis, a dangerous whirlpool between Italyand Sicily, opposite Scylla, vii. 63; viii. 121; xiii. 730; xiv. 75

Chersidamas, a Lycian, xiii. 259

Chimaera, a fabulous monster in Lycia which had the head of a lion, the middle of a goat, and the tail of a snake; it breathed forth fire, vi. 339; ix. 647

Chione, daughter of Daedalion; loved by Apollo and Mercury together, she bore twin sons, Philammon to Apollo and Autolycus to Mercury; daring to slight Diana’s beauty, she was shot through the tongue by the goddess, xi. 301 ff.

Chiron, a celebrated centaur, son of Saturn and Philyra, ii. 676; vi. 126; Apollo entrusted to him the rearing of his son Aesculapius, ii. 630; his fate was foretold to him by his prophetic daughter, Ocyrhoë, ii. 649

Chius, of the island of Chios on the coast of Ionia, iii. 597

Chromis: (1) a companion of Phineus, v. 103; (2) a centaur, xii. 333

Chromius, a Lycian, xiii. 257

Chryse, a coast city of the Troad, xiii. 174

Chthonius, a centaur, xii. 441

Cicones, a people of Thrace, vi. 710; x. 2; xv. 513; the Ciconian women in a frenzy attack Orpheus and tear him in pieces, xi. 3 ff.; Bacchus in punishment changes them to trees, xi. 67

Cilix, of Cilicia in Asia Minor, ii. 217

Cilla, a city of the Troad, xiii. 174

Cimmerians, a fabulous people supposed to have dwelt in caves in perpetual darkness, xi. 592

Cimolus, an island of the Cyclades, vii. 463

Cinyphius, of the River Cinyps in Africa, v. 124; vii. 272; xv. 755

Cinyras, an Assyrian king, whose daughter, on account of her presumption, Juno changed to the steps of her temple, vi. 98; also a Cyprian king, son of Pygmalion, father of Myrrha and by her of Adonis, x. 299 ff.; Adonis is thence called Cinyreïus, x. 712, 730

Cipus, a fabled Roman praetor upon whose head horns sprang forth, xv. 565 ff.

Circe, daughter of Titan and Perse, a sea-nymph, famed for beauty and for magic arts, whose haunt was an island called Aeaea, in the region of the promontory of Circeii in Latium, iv. 205; xiii. 968; xiv. 10, 376, 382; she bewitched the followers of Ulysses, xiv. 247 ff.; offered her love to Glaucus, was repulsed, and in revenge brought horrible disfigurement upon his beloved Scylla, xiv. 10 ff.; loved Picus, but, being repulsed by him, changed him into a woodpecker, xiv. 346 ff.

Ciris, the name of the bird into which Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, was changed, viii. 151

Cithaeron, a mountain in Boeotia, ii. 223; iii. 702

Clanis: (1) a companion of Phineus, v. 140; (2) a centaur, xii. 379

Clarius, an epithet of Apollo from Claros, a city in Ionia, where was a temple and oracle to the god, i. 516

Claros, a city in Ionia, i. 516; xi. 413

Cleonae, a town in Argolis, vi. 417

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, mistress of Antonius, xv. 826

Clitorius, of the town of Clitor in Arcadia, xv. 322

Clymene, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, ii. 156; wife of the Ethiopian king Merops, i. 763; beloved by Phoebus, iv. 204; mother by him of Phaëthon, i. 756; mourns the death of Phaëthon, ii. 333

Clymeneïus, an epithet of Phaëthon from his mother Clymene, ii. 19

Clymenus, a companion of Phineus, v. 98

Clytaemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon; tricked into giving up her daughter Iphigenia for sacrifice at Aulis by a lie of Ulysses, who represented that she was to be married to Achilles, xiii. 193

Clytie, one of the daughters of Oceanus, enamoured of Phoebus, iv. 206: jealous of the god’s love for Leucothoë, she tells the story to the girl’s father, iv. 236; pines away and is changed into a heliotrope, iv. 268

Clytius, a companion of Phineus, v. 140

Clytus: (1) a companion of Phineus, v. 87; (2) a son of Pallas, an Athenian prince, vii. 500

Cnidos, a city in Caria, x. 531

Coae matres, the women of Cos, who were angry because Hercules drove the captured cattle of Geryon through their fields; they reviled Juno, and were changed by her into cows, vii. 363

Cocalus, a mythical king in Sicily who received Daedalus under his protection after his flight from Crete, viii. 261

Cocinthius, of the promontory of Cocinthus in Bruttium, xv. 704

Coeranus, a Lycian, xiii. 257

Coeus, a Titan, the father of Latona, vi. 185, 366

Colchis, Colchus, of Colchis, a country in Asia, east of the Black Sea, vii. 120, 296, 301, 394; xiii. 24; an epithet of Medea, a native of this land, vii. 296, 301

Colophonius, from Colophon, a city in Asia Minor, vi. 8

Combe, daughter of Ophius, mother of the Aetolian Curetes; in the midst of flight from the persecution of her sons was changed into a bird, vii. 383

Cometes, one of the Lapithae, xii. 284

Corinthus, a city on the Isthmus, v. 407; vi. 416; xv. 507

Coronae, two youths who sprang from the ashes of the daughters of Orion, xiii. 698

Coroneus, a king of Phocis, father of Corone, who was changed to a crow, ii. 569

Coronides, an epithet of Aesculapius as the son of Coronis and Apollo, xv. 624

Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas of Larissa, hence called Larissaea, ii. 542; beloved by Apollo, who, however, slew her because of jealousy, ii. 542, 599; he saved their child, the unborn Aesculapius, from his dead mother’s body, ii. 629

Corycides, nymphs who dwelt in the Corycian cave on Mount Parnasus, i. 320

Corythus: (1) a warrior from Marmarica, v. 125; (2) son of Paris and Oenone, vii. 361; (3) one of the Lapithae, xii. 290

Coüs, from the island of Cos, vii. 363

Cragos, a mountain in Lydia, ix. 646

Crantor, the armour-bearer of Peleus, slain by the centaur Demoleon, xii. 361

Crataeis, a nymph, the mother of Scylla, xiii. 749

Crenaeus, a centaur, xii. 313

Cressa, a Cretan woman, Telethusa, ix. 703

Crete, the island of Crete, vii. 434, 481; viii. 99, 118; ix. 666, 735; xiii. 706; xv. 540, 541

Crimese, a town in Lucania, xv. 52

Crocale, a nymph in the train of Diana, iii. 169

Crocus, a youth who pined away with hopeless love of the nymph Smilax, and changed into a crocus-flower; Smilax also changed into a flower, iv. 283

Cromyon, a village near Corinth, vii. 435

Croton, a mythical hero who had entertained Hercules at his home in Italy; Hercules promised that ages hence a city should be founded on that spot and be named from his host; the city was Crotona, xv. 15 ff.

Crow, once a beautiful princess, daughter of Coroneus; pursued by Neptune, she was changed to a bird by her goddess Minerva, but lost favour because of her unwelcome tattling, ii. 569 ff.

Ctesylla, daughter of Alcidamas, changed into a dove, vii. 369

Cumae, an ancient Euboean colony on the sea-coast of Campania, xiv. 104, 121, 135; xv. 712

Cumaea, an epithet of the Sibyl of Cumae, who guided Aeneas through the underworld: she tells to him the story of Apollo’s wooing, xiv. 121, 135; she had a temple at Cumae, xv. 712

Cupido, or Amor, the god of Love, son of Venus, i. 463; represented as a young boy armed with bow and arrows, i. 456, 468; iv. 321; v. 366; ix. 543; x. 311; he caused Apollo to be inflamed with love for Daphne, i. 453 ff.; and Pluto for Proserpina, v. 380 ff.

Cures, the chief city of the Sabines in ancient times, xiv. 778; xv. 7

Curetes, the mythical origin of, iv. 282

Curetis, of Crete, viii. 153

Cyane, a fountain-nymph of Sicily whose waters flow into the River Anapis near Syracuse, v. 409: she was changed into water by Pluto because she strove to stop his abduction of Proserpina, v. 425 ff.

Cyaneae, two small rocky islands at the entrance of the Euxine Sea, which according to fable clashed together whenever any object attempted to pass between them, vii. 62. See Symplegades

Cyanee, a nymph, daughter of Maeander, mother by Miletus of Caunus and Byblis, ix. 452

Cybele, mother of the gods, x. 104, 686; xiv. 536; turret-crowned, x. 696; her favourite seats were Mounts Ida and Berecyntus, xi. 16; xiv. 534; is drawn in a chariot with yoked lions, x. 704; xiv. 538; in wrath at the desecration of her temple, she changes Hippomenes and Atalanta into lions, x. 696 ff.; rescues from fire the ships of Aeneas which had been built of her sacred pines on Ida, and changes them into water-nymphs, xiv. 535 ff.

Cyclades, a circle of islands in the Aegean Sea, ii. 264

Cyclopes, a fabulous race of giants on the coast of Sicily, having one eye and that in the centre of the forehead; they forged the thunderbolts of Jupiter, i. 259: iii. 305; xiv. 2; xv. 93; one in particular, Polyphemus, called Cyclops, in love with Galatea, xiii. 744 ff.; his murderous attack on Ulysses and his crew, xiv. 174, 249. See Polyphemus

Cycnus: (1) son of Sthenelus, grieving for the death of his relative Phaëthon, changed to a swan, ii. 367 ff., 377; xii. 581; (2) son of Apollo and Hyrie, a great hunter, who in a fit of anger leaped off a cliff, but in mid-air was changed by Apollo into a swan; hence Tempe is called Cycneïa, vii. 371; (3) the invulnerable son of Neptuue, met Achilles and was finally strangled by him; changed by Neptune into a swan, xii. 72

Cydonaeus, from Cydonia, a town in Crete, viii. 22

Cyllarus, a centaur beloved by Hylonome, xii. 393 ff.

Cyllene, a mountain in Arcadia, the birthplace of Mercury, i. 217, 713; ii. 720, 818; v. 176, 331, 607; vii. 386; xi. 304; xiii. 146; xiv. 291

Cyllenius, an epithet of Mercury from Mount Cyllene, i. 713; ii. 720, 818; xiii. 146; xiv. 291

Cymelus, one of the Lapithae, xii. 454

Cynthia, an epithet of Diana from Cynthus, a mountain in Delos, her birthplace, ii. 465; vii. 755; xv. 537

Cynthus, a mountain on Delos, sacred to Apollo and Diana, ii. 221, 465; vi. 204; vii. 755; xv. 537

Cyparissus, a youth who was loved by Apollo, and at his death changed by the god into a cypress-tree, x. 106 ff.

Cyprus, an island on the coast of Asia Minor, sacred to Venus, x. 270, 645, 718; xiv. 696

Cytherea, Cythereïas, Cythereïs, Cythereïus, of or belonging to the island of Cythera in the Aegean Sea, an epithet of Venus, who is said to have sprung from the sea-foam near the island, iv. 190, 288; x. 529, 640, 717; xiii. 625; xiv. 487, 584; xv. 386, 803

Cythereïus heros, applied to Aeneas as the son of Venus, xiii. 625; xiv. 584

Cythnus, an island of the Cyclades, v. 252; vii. 464

Cytoriacus, from Cytorus, a mountain in Paphlagonia abounding in boxwood, iv. 311; vi. 132

Daedalion, a son of Lucifer, brother of Ceyx, father of Chione; crazed by his daughter’s death at the hands of Diana, he is changed by Apollo into a hawk, xi. 295 ff.

Daedalus, a mythical Athenian architect, built labyrinth for the confinement of the Minotaur at the command of Minos, viii. 155; himself confined in Crete, he makes wings for himself and his son and so escapes, viii. 183 ff.; envies his nephew, Perdix, and pushes him off a cliff, viii. 240; finds refuge after his flight with king Cocalus in Sicily, viii. 261; quoted as type of resourceful man in time of trouble, ix. 742

Damasichthon, one of the seven sons of Niobe, vi. 254

Danaë, daughter of Acrisius and mother of Perseus by Jupiter, who came to her in the form of a golden shower, iv. 611; vi. 113; xi. 117

Danaëius heros, Perseus, son of Danaë, v. 1

Daphne, daughter of the river-god Peneus, hence called Peneïs, i. 472, 504; the first love of Phoebus Apollo, i. 452 ff.; changed to a laurel-tree, which the god adopts as his sacred tree, i. 548 ff.

Daphnis, a shepherd boy of Ida, iv. 277

Dardanidae matres, Dardanian, i.e. Trojan women, xiii. 412

Dardanius, an epithet applied to the descendants of Dardanus, the son of Jupiter and Electra, who came from Italy to the Troad, and was one of the ancestors of the royal line of Troy; = Trojan; to Hellenus, xiii. 335; to lulus, xv. 767; to Rome as founded by one of the Trojan race, xv. 431

Daulis, a city in Phocis, v. 276

Daunus, an ancient king of Apulia, xiv. 458, 510

Deianira, daughter of Oeneus, king of Calydon, hence called Calydonis, ix. 112; sister of Meleager, ix. 149; wooed by Acheloüs and Hercules, won by Hercules, insulted by Nessus, who in turn is slain by Hercules, ix. 9 ff.; sends tunic anointed with the poisoned blood of Nessus to Hercules in order to win back his love from Iole, ix. 138 ff.; one of the sisters of Meleager not turned into a bird, viii. 544

Deionides, son of Deione, Miletus, ix. 443

Deïphobus, son of Priam, after Hector’s death one of the greatest heroes among the Trojans, xii. 547

Delia, an epithet of Diana from Delos, her birthplace, v. 639

Delius, an epithet of Apollo, i. 454; v. 329; vi. 250; xi. 174; xii. 598

Delos, an island of the Cyclades, sacred to Apollo and Diana as their birthplace, i. 454; v. 329, 639; vi. 191, 250, 333; viii. 221; xi. 174; xii. 598; xiii. 631; xv. 337

Delphi, a famous city in Phocis where was the oracle of Apollo, i. 379, 515; ii. 543, 677; ix. 332; x. 168; xi. 304, 414; xv. 144, 631

Delphicus, an epithet of Apollo from his oracle at Delphi, ii. 543, 677

Demoleon, a centaur, xii. 356, 368

Deoïs, a daughter of Deo, a name of Ceres, Proserpina, vi. 114

Deoïus, belonging to Ceres, her oaktrees, viii. 758

Dercetis, a Syrian goddess, mother of the Babylonian Semiramis, iv 45

Deucalion, son of Prometheus; he with his wife, Pyrrha, were the only human pair saved from the flood, i. 318 ff.; vii. 356; repeople the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, i. 395

Dia, an old name for Naxos, iii. 690; viii. 174

Diana, daughter of Jupiter and Latona, twin sister of Apollo, v. 330; xv. 550; born on Delos; represented on earth as goddess of the hunt, iii. 163; armed with darts, bow and quiver, iii. 252; v. 375; swift of foot, iv. 304; with robes girt high, i. 695; ii. 245; iii. 156; ix. 89; in heaven as the moon-goddess, xv. 196; see Luna and Phoebe; in the underworld identified with Hecate or Trivia, because worshipped where three roads meet, ii. 416; she is ever virgin, i. 487, 695; v. 375; xii. 28; expels Callisto from her train, ii. 441 ff.; changes Actaeon into a stag, ii. 185 ff.; took refuge in the form of a cat from the pursuit of the Giants, v. 330; with Apollo destroys the children of Niobe, vi. 204 ff.; enraged at the slight of Oeueus, king of Calydon, sends huge boar to ravage his country, viii. 272; angered by the presumption of Chione, shoots the girl with an arrow through the tongue, xi. 321; angered because Agamemnon had killed her favourite stag, or had boasted over her of his skill in hunting, she stays the Greek fleet at Aulis until they should sacrifice Iphigenia to her, xii. 27 ff., 185; at the last moment substitutes a hind on the altar for the girl, and bears her away to be her priestess at Tauris in Scythia, xii. 34; Orestes, rescued from death at Tauris by her aid, brings her image away to Aricia in Latium, hence she is called Orestea, xv. 489; changes Hippolytus’ appearance beyond recognition after his restoration to life and brings him to Italy, xv. 537 ff.; in pity of her woe for her husband’s death, changes Egeria into a spring of water, xv. 550; her epithets are Latonia, i. 696; Ortygia, i. 694; Cynthia, ii. 465; Titania, ii. 173; Delia, v. 639; Dictynna, ii. 441; Scythia, xiv. 331; Orestea, xv. 489

Dictaeus, from Mount Dicte in Crete, = Cretan, iii. 2, 223; ix. 717; an epithet of Minos, viii. 43

Dictynna, “goddess of the net,” an epithet of Britomartis in Crete, identified with Diana, ii. 441

Dictys: (1) a sailor with Acoetes, iii. 615; (2) a centaur, xii. 334

Dido, a Phoenician, queen of Carthage, who killed herself out of hopeless love for Aeneas, xiv. 80. See Sidonis

Didyme, two small islands near Syrus in the Aegean, vii. 469

Dindyma, a mountain in Mysia, sacred to Ceres, ii. 223

Diomedes: (1) son of Tydeus, king of Argos, one of the bravest of the Greek heroes at Troy, the frequent companion of the undertakings of Ulysses, xiii. 68, 100, 239, 242; wounded Venus while she was attempting to shield Aeneas, xiv. 477; xv. 769, 806; after the Trojan war he settled in Italy at Arpi and married the daughter of Daunus, king of Apulia, xiv. 510; received the messenger of Turnus who came to ask aid against Aeneas, and told the story of his adventures, xiv. 457 ff.; his epithets are Tydides, as son of Tydens, xii. 622; xiii. 68; Oenides, as grandson of Oeneus, king of Calydon in Aetolia, xiv. 512; Aetolius heros, xiv. 461; hence his territory in Italy is called Calydonia regna, xiv. 512; (2) a barbarous king of Thrace, killed by Hercules, ix. 194

Dirce, a famous spring near Thebes in Boeotia, ii. 239

Dis, a name for Pluto (which does not appear in the Metamorphoses), king of the underworld, iv. 438, 444, 511; v. 356, 508; x. 16; he gained his kingdom by lot, v. 368; the son of Saturn, v. 420; brother of Jupiter and Neptune, v. 528; through the craft of Venus he falls in love with Proserpina and carries her off to the lower world, v. 359 ff.; x. 28; his kingdom described, iv. 432 ff.; x. 15 ff.

Dodona, a city in Epirus where was an oracle of Jupiter, the oldest in Greece, whose responses were delivered by the rustling of the sacred oaks, vii. 623; xiii. 716. See Chaonian oaks

Dodonaeus, Dodonis, of Dodona, vii. 623; xiii. 716

Dolon, a Phrygian spy out on a night adventure, slain by Ulysses, xiii. 98, 244

Dolopes, a people in Thessaly, xii. 364

Doris, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, wife of Nereus, mother of the Nereids, ii. 11, 269; mother of Galatea, xii. 742

Dorylas: (1) a friend of Perseus, v. 129; (2) a centaur, xii. 380

Dryades, wood-nymphs, iii. 507; vi. 453; viii. 746, 777; xi. 49; xiv. 326

Dryas, son of Mars and brother of the Thracian Tereus, was present at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 307; and at the battle of the Lapithae against the centaurs, xii. 290, 296, 311

Dryope, daughter of Eurytus, king of Oechalia, mother by Apollo of Amphissus, married by Andraemon, changed into a tree, ix. 331 ff.

Dulichius, an epithet of Ulysses from Dulichium, a small island near Ithaca, xiii. 107, 425, 711; xiv. 226

Dymantis, Hecuba, the daughter of Dymas, xiii. 620

Dymas, father of Hecuba, xi. 761

Echeclus, a centaur, xii. 450

Echidna, a monster, half woman, half snake, mother of Cerberus, Chimacra, the Hydra, and the Sphinx, iv. 501; vii. 408

Echinades, a group of islands into which as many nymphs were changed through the wrath of Acheloüs, viii. 589

Echion: (1) one of the five surviving heroes sprung from the dragon’s teeth sowed by Cadmus, iii. 126; he married Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, and became by her the father of Pentheus, iii. 526; built a temple to Cybele, x. 686; (2) a son of Mercury, one of the heroes at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 311, 345

Echionides, an epithet of Pentheus as son of Echion, iii. 513, 701

Echo, a nymph deprived by Juno of the power of initiating speech, iii. 358; conceives a hopeless love for Narcissus, iii. 380, 493; is changed to a mere voice, iii. 399

Edonides, the women of the Edoni, a Thracian people who murdered Orpheus, and were changed by Bacchus into trees, xi. 69 ff.

Eetion, king of Thebes in Mycia, father of Andromache, xii. 110

Egeria, an Italian nymph, instructress and wife of Numa, xv. 482; at Numa’s death she refused to be comforted, xv. 487 ff.; and finally dissolved away into a spring of water, xv. 547

Elatus, a prince of the Lapithae, father of Caenis, xii. 189, 497

Eleleus, a name for Bacchus from the wild cry of the Bacchantes, iv. 15

Eleusin, a city in Attica, famous for the worship of Ceres, vii. 439

Elis, a country and city in the western part of the Peloponnesus, ii. 679; v. 487, 576, 608; ix. 187; xii. 550; xiv. 325

Elpenor, a comrade of Ulysses, xiv. 252

Elymus, a centaur, xii. 460

Elysium, the home of the blessed spirits in the underworld, xiv. 111

Elysius, of Elysium, the abode of the blessed in the underworld, xiv. 111

Emathides, the daughters of Pierus, king of Emathia in Macedonia, who insulted the Muses and were changed to magpies, v. 669

Emathion, an old man killed in the fight between Phineus and Perseus, v. 100

Emathius, from Emathia, a district of Macedonia, v. 313; xii. 462; xv. 824

Enaesimus, son of Hippocoön, killed at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 362

Enipeus, a river in Thessaly, i. 579; vi. 116; vii. 229; also the river-god who was the lover of Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus; in the form of Enipeus Neptune tricked Tyro; according to another story Neptune with Iphimedia, the wife of Aloeus, begot the giants Otus and Ephialtes, called Aloidae from Aloeus; Ovid has mixed these two stories in vi. 117

Ennomus, a Lycian, xiii. 260

Envy, her home described, ii. 760 ff.; sent to punish Aglauros, ii. 785

Epaphus, son of Jupiter and Io, grandson of Inachus, worshipped as a god in Egypt along with his mother, i. 748

Ephyre, an ancient name for Corinth, ii. 240; vii. 391

Epidaurius, from Epidaurus, a city of Argolis, sacred to Aesculapius, iii. 278; vii. 436; xv. 643, 723

Epimethis, Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus, i. 390

Epirus, a country in the north of Greece, viii. 283; xiii. 720

Epopeus, one of the sailors of Acoetes, iii. 619

Epytus, one of the Alban kings, xiv. 613

Erasinus, a river in Argolis, xv. 276

Erebus, a name for the underworld, v. 443; x. 76; xiv. 404

Erectheus, king of Athens, son of Pandion, father of Orithyia and Procris, vi. 677, 701; vii. 697

Erichthonius, a son of Vulcan, born without mother, ii. 553, 757; ix. 424

Eridanus, the mythical name of the River Po, ii. 324, 365

Erigdupus, a centaur, xii. 453

Erigone, daughter of Icarius, loved by Bacchus, vi. 125; she hanged herself through grief at her father’s tragic death, and was set in the heavens as the constellation Virgo, x. 451

Erinnys, a Fury, or goddess of vengeance; the Furies were three sisters, Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera, daughters of Uranus and Night, iv. 452; viii. 481; x. 314; called euphemistically Eumenides; with snaky hair and torches in hand they pursue the guilty, ix. 410; x. 314, 349; they are wild, horrible baleful, implacable, mad, i. 241, 725; iv. 452, 481, 490; xi. 14; at the request of Juno they drive Athamas mad, iv. 470 ff.; were present at the wedding of Tereus and Procne, vi. 429

Eriphyle, wife of Amphiaraus, whom she betrayed to Polynices, and was slain by her own son Alcmaeon, ix. 407

Erycina, an epithet of Venus from Eryx, a mountain in Sicily sacred to her, v. 363

Erymanthus: (1) a river in Arcadia, ii. 244; (2) a mountain in Arcadia, ii. 499; v. 608

Erysichthon, son of the Thessalian king Triopas, committed sacrilege against Ceres by cutting down her sacred tree, and was punished by unappeasable hunger, viii. 738 ff.

Erytus, son of Actor, companion of Phineus, v. 79

Eryx: (1) a mountain in Sicily sacred to Venus, ii. 221; v. 363; (2) a son of Venus, hence brother of Aeneas, xiv. 83; (3) an opponent of Perseus petrified by the Gorgon-head, v. 196

Eteocles, son of Oedipus and Iocasta, brother of Polynices; their death prophesied, ix. 405

Ethemon, an opponent of Perseus, v. 163

Etruscus, of Etruria, a country of Central Italy, xv. 558

Euagrus, one of the Lapithae, xii. 290

Euander, son of Carmentis, emigrated from Pallantium in Arcadia before the Trojan war and founded the city of Pallanteum in Latium; gave aid to Aeneas against Turnus, xiv. 456

Euboea, a large island east of Central Greece, ix. 218, 226; xiii. 182, 660, 905; xiv. 4, 155

Euenus, a river of Aetolia near Calydon, viii. 527; ix. 104

Euhan, a name of Bacchus from the cry of his worshippers, iv. 15

Euippe, wife of Pierus, mother of the Pierides, v. 303

Eumelus, father of Botres, vii. 390

Eumenides, “the kind goddesses,” a euphemistic name of the Furies, vi. 430; viii. 482; ix. 410; x. 46

Eumolpus, a mythical singer of Thrace, priest of Ceres, brought the Eleusinian mysteries to Attica, xi. 93

Eupalamus, one of the heroes at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 360

Euphorbus, son of Panthoüs, a brave Trojan killed by Menelaüs; Pythagoras claimed to be Euphorbus reincarnate, xv. 161

Euphrates, a river of Syria, ii. 248

Europa, daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, betrayed by Jupiter in the form of a bull, ii. 858; vi. 104; her son was Minos, viii. 23, 120

Eurotas, a river in Laconia, ii. 247; x. 169

Eurus, the east wind, i. 61; ii. 160; vii. 659; viii. 2; xi. 481; xv. 603

Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, x. 31, 48; xi. 63, 66

Eurylochus, a companion of Ulysses, xiv. 252, 287

Eurymides, Telemus, son of Eurymus, xiii. 770

Eurynome, mother of Leucothoë, iv. 210, 219

Eurynomus, a centaur, xii. 310

Eurypylus: (1) a king of Cos, slain by Hercules, vii. 363; (2) a Thessalian hero at Troy, one of the nine who offered themselves for a duel with Hector, xiii. 357

Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, son of Sthenelus, ix. 273; by a trick of Juno he was given mastery over Hercules, and imposed upon him the famous twelve labours, ix. 203, 274

Eurytides, Hippasus, son of Eurytus (3), one of the heroes at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 371

Eurytion, present at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 311

Eurytis, Iole, daughter of Eurytus (1), ix. 395

Eurytus: (1) king of Oechalia, father of Iole and Dryope, ix. 356; (2) the centaur who precipitated the strife between the centaurs and Lapithae at the wedding of Pirithoüs and Hippodamia, xii. 220; (3) the father of Hippasus, viii. 371

Exadius, one of the Lapithae, xii. 266

Fama, Rumour, personified, ix. 137; xii. 43 ff.

Fames, Famine, a hag, personification of hunger, sent by Ceres to torment Erysichthon, viii. 784 ff.

Farfarus, a small tributary of the Tiber, xiv. 330

Faunigena, Latinus, son of Faunus, xiv. 449

Faunus: (1) an ancient king of Latium, father of Acis, xiii. 750; of Latinus, xiv. 449; (2) a sylvan deity of flocks and fields, identified with the Greek Pan, vi. 329; (3) in plural, demi-gods generally ranked with satyrs, i. 193; vi. 392

Galanthis, a faithful handmaid of Alcmena, changed by Juno into a weasel, ix. 306

Galatea, a sea-nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris, tells story of her love for Acis, and the Cyclops’ wooing of her, xiii. 738 ff.

Gallicus, from Gaul, i. 533

Ganges, a river in India, ii. 249; iv. 21; vi. 636

Ganymedes, son of Tros, brother of Ilus and Assaracus; on account of his great beauty Ganymedes was loved by Jupiter, who sent his eagle to steal him away, x. 155; xi. 756

Gargraphie, a vale and spring in Boeotia, sacred to Diana, where she was surprised by Actacon, iii. 156

Geryon, a three-bodied monster killed by Hercules, ix. 184

Gigantes, monstrous sons of Earth and Tartarus, with numerous arms and serpent feet, fabled to have made war upon the gods, scaling heaven by piling mountains one on another; they were overthrown by Jupiter’s thunderbolts and buried under Sicily, i. 152, 157, 183; v. 319; x. 150; xiv. 1, 184

Glaucus, a fisherman of Anthedon in Boeotia, is changed into a sea-divinity by his chance eating of a magic herb, vii. 233; falls in love with Scylla, xiii. 906 ff.; appeals to Circe in aid of his suit to Scylla, and is himself loved by Circe, xiv. 9 ff.

Gnosiacus, Gnosius, from Gnosos, a city in Crete, = Cretan, iii. 208; vii. 474; viii. 40, 52, 144; ix. 669

Golden Age, described, i. 89 ff.

Gorge, daughter of Oeneus, king of Calydon, sister of Meleager, viii. 543

Gorgo, Medusa, best known of three Gorgons, daughters of Phorcys, iv. 743; she had snaky hair, iv. 615, 699, 771, 792; v. 241; a look at her face turned the observer to stone, iv. 655, 781; v. 180 ff., 249; Medusa’s head cut off by Perseus, iv. 615, 770; from her blood sprang Pegasus and Chryasor, iv. 786; vi. 120; drops of blood falling on the sands of Libya change them to snakes, iv. 618; Atlas changed into a mountain at sight of the Gorgon-head, iv. 655 ff; its touch changes seaweed to coral, iv. 744; why Medusa only of her sisters has snaky hair, iv. 791; Perseus uses the petrifying head as a last resort against Phineus and his band, v. 180 ff.; the head is finally set by Minerva in her aegis, iv. 803

Gortyniacus, from the city of Gortyn in Crete, = Cretan, vii. 778

Gradivus, an epithet of Mars, vi. 427; xiv. 820; xv. 863

Graecia, Greece, xiii. 199

Graïus, Grecian, iv. 16, 538; vii. 214; xii. 64, 609; xiii. 241, 281, 402, 414; xiv. 163, 220, 325; xv. 9

Granicus, a river and river-god of Asia Minor, father of Alexiroë, xi. 763

Gratiae, the Graces, young and beautiful sisters, daughters of Jupiter and Eurynome, attendants of Venus; used collectively, Gratia, vi. 429

Gryneus, a centaur, xii. 260, 628

Gyarus, an island of the Cyclades, v. 252; vii. 470

Hades, the underworld of spirits, kingdom of Dis, described, iv. 432 ff.

Haemonia, an old name for Thessaly, i. 568; ii. 81, 543, 599; v. 306; vii. 132, 159, 314; viii. 813; xi. 409, 652; xii. 81, 213

Haemonius, Thessalian, from Haemonia, an old name of Thessaly; an epithet of Jason, vii. 132; of Achilles, xii. 81

Haemus, a mountain in Thrace, ii. 219; x. 77

Haemus, once a man, changed into a mountain in punishment of his impious presumption, vi. 87

Halcyoneus, a companion of Phineus, v. 135

Halesus, one of the Lapithae, xii. 462

Hamadryas, a wood-nymph, i. 690; xiv. 624

Hammon, see Ammon

Harmonia, daughter of Mars and Venus, wife of Cadmus, iii. 132; she and her husband were changed into snakes, iv. 571 ff.

Harpocrates, the Egyptian god of silence, represented with his finger on his mouth, ix. 692

Hebe, daughter of Juno, born without father, ix. 400, 416; given to Hercules as wife after his translation to heaven, ix. 401; restored Iolaüs to youth, ix. 400; called stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of Jupiter, ix. 416

Hebrus, a river in Thrace, ii. 257

Hecate, daughter of Perses and Asterie, sister of Latona, vii. 74, 174, 241; xiv. 405; often identified with Diana and Luna, and hence pictured as having three forms or three heads, vii. 94, 194; goddess of enchantments, vi. 139; vii. 194; xiv. 44

Hector, son of Priam and Hecuba, xi. 758; xii. 3; bravest hero among the Trojans, kills Protesilaüs, the first to fall among the Greeks, xii. 68; attempts to burn the Greek ships, xiii. 7; demands a champion from among the Greeks to fight him, xiii. 82 ff.; fights duel with Ajax, xiii. 85, 275; fights with Achilles and is slain by him, xii. 77; xiii. 178; his dead body dragged around the walls of Troy, xii. 591; Priam ransoms his son’s body with gold, xiii. 473

Hecuba, daughter of Dymas, xi. 761; xiii. 620; wife of Priam, xiii. 404; mother of Hector, xiii. 486; in the division of the Trojan captives she fell to the lot of Ulysses, xiii. 485; her farewell to Troy, xiii. 423; her lament over the death of Polyxena, xiii. 494 ff.; finds Polydorus’ dead body on the shore in Thrace, xiii. 536; takes terrible vengeance on Polymestor, his murderer, xiii. 549 ff.; is changed to a dog, xiii. 406, 567 ff.

Helena, daughter of Leda and Jupiter (Tyndareus, the husband of Leda, was her putative father, xv. 233); wife of Menelaüs, stolen by Paris, and thus the cause of the Trojan war, xii. 5; xiii. 200; quoted as type of famous beauty, xiv. 669; while still a maiden she had been captured by Theseus, but recovered by her brothers and brought back to Sparta, xv. 233; in her old age mourns the loss of her beauty, xv. 232

Helenus, a son of Priam having the gift of augury, captured along with the Palladium by Ulysses and Diomede, xiii. 99, 335; after the fall of Troy is set by Pyrrhus over Epirus, where he entertains and advises Aeneas as to his future course, xiii. 723; xv. 438

Heliades, daughters of the Sun-god and Clymene, mourn the death of their brother Phaëthon; changed into poplars and their tears into amber, ii. 340 ff.; x. 91, 263

Helice, a name for the constellation of the Great Bear, viii. 207

Helices, a companion of Phincus, v. 87

Helicon, a mountain in Boeotia, celebrated as the favourite haunt of the Muses, ii. 219; v. 254, 663; by metonymy for the art of music and poetry, viii. 534

Helle, daughter of Athamas and Nephele, sister of Phrixus; fleeing with her brother on the gold-fleeced ram, she fell off and was drowned in the Hellespont, which bears her name, xi. 195

Hellespontus, the narrow strait which joins the Propontis with the Aegean Sea, xiii. 407

Helops, a centaur, xii. 334

Hennaeus, belonging to Henna, a town in Sicily, v. 385

Hercules, the most famous of the Greek heroes, son of Jupiter, ix. 104, 246 ff.; xv. 12; and of Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon, ix. 23; as reputed son of Amphitryon, he is frequently called Alcides, from Alceus, father of Amphitryon, see Alcides; and Amphitryoniades, ix. 140; called also Tirynthius from Tiryns, in Argolis, his home town, see Tirynthius; on the day when he was to be born Jupiter announced that a descendant of Perseus was about to be born who should hold sway over all other descendants of that hero: Juno induced him to confirm this with an oath; she then, as goddess of birth, withheld the birth of Hercules, who, through Alcmena, was great-grandson of Perseus, and hastened the birth of Eurystheus, grandson of Perseus, and by this trick the mighty Hercules was made subject to the weakling Eurystheus, ix. 281 ff. Eurystheus was born in Mycenae and Hercules in Thebes, hence the latter is called Aonius, ix. 112; at Juno’s instigation Eurystheus set Hercules twelve great labours, ix. 22, 199; xv. 39; these labours are rehearsed in ix. 182 ff.; they are, in order of performance: (1) the killing of the Nemean lion, ix. 197; (2) the destruction of the Lernean hydra, ix. 69, 192, 193: (3) the capture alive of the stag famous for its speed and golden horns, ix. 188; (4) the bringing alive to Eurystheus of the Erymanthian boar, ix. 192; (5) the cleansing of the stables of Augeas, king of Elis, ix. 187; (6) the killing of the carnivorous birds near the Stymphalian lake in Arcadia, ix. 187; (7) the capture alive of the wild Cretan bull, ix. 186; (8) the capture of the mares of Diomede which fed on human flesh, ix. 194; (9) the securing of the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons, ix. 189; (10) the killing of Geryon and the capture of his oxen, ix. 184; (11) the securing of the apples of the Hesperides, ix. 190; (12) the bringing to the upper world of the dog Cerberus from Hades, vii. 410; ix. 185; in addition to these set labours, Hercules killed Busiris, ix. 183; Antaeus, ix. 184; fought the centaurs, ix. 191; xii. 541; bore the heavens on his shoulders in Atlas’ place, ix. 198; visited Croton in Italy, and prophesied the founding of Crotona, xv. 12; rescued Hesione, daughter of Laomedon, from the sea-monster, and being cheated of his promised reward, with the aid of Telamon captured Troy and dethroned Laomedon, xi. 213 ff.; xiii. 23; came to Cos, where he killed Eurypylus, vii. 364; fought with Acheloüs for Deianira and overcame him, vii. 13 ff.; killed the centaur, Nessus, who insulted his bride, ix. 101 ff.; destroyed Messene and Elis and Pylos, and slew all the twelve sons of Neleus except Nestor, xii. 549 ff.; fought against Eurytus, king of Oechalia, laid waste his kingdom, and took his daughter Iole captive, ix. 136 ff.; received the poisoned tunic from Deianira, sent by her in the belief that this, soaked in the blood of Nessus, would restore her husband’s love to her; his great sufferings described, ix. 159 ff.; he built a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was burned alive thereon, ix. 299 ff.; his immortal part was deified by his father Jupiter, and set in the heavens as a constellation, ix. 271; after his translation to heaven he received Hebe as his wife, ix. 401; he gave his bow and arrows to Philoctetes as a reward for setting fire to his funeral-pyre, and in Philoctetes’ hands these weapons were destined once again to war against Troy, ix. 231 ff.; xiii. 52, 401

Hermaphroditus, the son of Mercury and Venus, story of, iv. 288

Herse, daughter of Cecrops, ii. 559; beloved by Mercury, ii. 724 ff.

Hersilla, the wife of Romulus; after his death she was reunited to her deified husband by Iris, and received the name of Hora, xiv. 830, 848

Hesione, a daughter of Laomedon, exposed to a sea-monster at the command of Neptune, rescued by Hercules and given by him to Telamon, to whom she bore Teucer, xi. 211 ff.

Hesperides, “the western maidens,” three nymphs who on an island beyond Mount Atlas watched a garden with golden apples, iv. 637; xi. 114; these apples, though guarded by a sleepless dragon, were secured by Hercules, ix. 190

Hesperie, a nymph, daughter of the river-god Cebren, beloved by Aesacus, killed by the bite of a serpent, xi. 769

Hesperus, the evening star, v. 441

Hiberus, Hiberian or Spanish, vii. 324; a geographical epithet applied to the three-formed Geryon, whom Hercules slew, and whose cattle that hero drove away, ix. 184; xv. 12

Hippasus: (1) son of Eurytus, one of the Calydonian hunters, viii. 313, 371; (2) a centaur, xii. 352

Hippocoön, king of Amyclae, sent a part of his many sons, one of whom was Enaesimus, to the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 314, 363

Hippocrene, a famous spring on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses; said to have burst forth under the stroke of the hoof of Pegasus, v. 256

Hippodamas, father of Perimele, viii. 593

Hippodame or Hippodamia, daughter of Adrastus, wife of Pirithoüs; at her wedding the centaur Eurytus attempted violence upon her, and so precipitated the great battle of the centaurs and Lapithae, xii. 210 ff.; quoted as a famous beauty, xiv. 670

Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons; Hercules conquered her and took from her her famous golden girdle, ix. 189; she was married by Theseus, to whom she bore Hippolytus, xv. 552

Hippolytus, son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyte, xv. 552; in his attempt to comfort Egeria he tells the story of his own sufferings and death, xv. 492 ff.; restored to life by Aesculapius, wholly changed in appearance, and placed in Italy by Diana, xv. 533 ff.; here he was known by the name of Virbius, xv. 544

Hippomenes, son of Megareus, a youth who conquered Atalanta in a race and married her, x. 575 ff.; changed by the angry Cybele into a lion, x. 689 ff.

Hippotades, a name of Aeolus as son of Hippotes, iv. 663; xi. 431; xiv. 86; xv. 707. See Aeolus

Hippothoüs, one of the Calydonian hunters, viii. 307

Hister, the Lower Danube, ii. 249

Hodites: (1) an Ethiopian in the court of Cepheus, v. 97; (2) a centaur, xii. 457

Hora: (1) the name given to Hersilia after her deification and reunion with Romulus, xiv. 851; (2) in plural, the Hours, attendants of the Sun-god, ii. 26, 118

Hyacinthia a festival celebrated at Amyclae, in honour of Hyaciuthus, x. 219

Hyacinthus, a beautiful Spartan youth, son of Amyclas, king of Amyclae, hence he is called Amyclides, x. 162; called also Oebalides, as a general name for Spartan, from Oebalus, king of Sparta, x. 196; and see xiii. 396; he was beloved by Apollo and accidentally killed by the god in a game of quoits, x. 162 ff.; from his blood a flower sprang up whose petals bore the marks of Apollo’s grief, AIAI, x. 217; xiii. 396

Hyades, daughters of Atlas, sisters of the Pleiades, a cluster of seven stars in the head of the Bull; their setting brings wet and stormy weather, iii. 595; xiii. 293; Dione, mother of Niobe, was one of the Hyades, vi. 174

Hyale, a nymph in the train of Diana, iii. 171

Hyanteüs, Boeotian, applied to Aganippe, v. 312; to Iolaüs, viii. 310

Hyantius, the same as the above, applied to Actaeon, iii. 147

Hyles, a centaur, xii. 378

Hyleus, one of the Calydonian hunters, viii. 312

Hyleüs, from Hyle, a little town in Boeotia, xiii. 684

Hyllus, son of Hercules and Deianira, who after his father’s death married Iole, ix. 279

Hylonome, a female centaur, beloved by Cyllarus, xii. 405

Hymen or Hymenaeus, the god of marriage, present at the marriage of Perseus and Andromeda, iv. 758; he did not bless the marriage of Tereus and Procne, vi. 429; at the marriage of Iphis and Ianthe, ix. 762 ff.; Orpheus and Eurydice, x. 2; the Hymenaeum, or nuptial song, at the marriage of Pirithoüs and Hippodamia, xii. 215

Hymettus, a mountain in Attica, vii. 702; x. 284

Hypaepa, a little town in Lydia, vi. 13; xi. 152

Hypanis, a river of Sarmatia, xv. 285

Hyperboreüs, Hyperborean, belonging to the extreme north, xv. 356

Hyperion: (1) a Titan, son of Coelus and Terra, father of the Sun-god, iv. 192; (2) the Sun-god himself; Heliopolis, in Egypt, the city of Hyperion, xv. 406, 407

Hypseus, a companion of Phineus, v. 99

Hypsipyle, daughter of Thoas, king of Lemnos; at the time of the Argonauts she saved her father alone when the women killed all the men of the island, xiii. 399

Hyrie, a lake and town near it in Boeotia; named from the mother of Cycnus (2) by Apollo; thinking that her son had perished, she melted away in tears and was changed to the pool that bears her name, vii. 371, 380

Iacchus, a name for Bacchus from the shouts of his worshippers, iv. 15

Ialysius, from Ialysos, a city in Rhodes, vii. 365

Ianthe, daughter of Cretan Telestes, a beautiful girl betrothed to Iphis, ix. 715 ff.

Iapetionides, Atlas, son of Iapetus, iv. 632

Iapetus, a Titan, father of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, i. 82; iv. 632

Iapygia, the country in the heel of Italy, xv. 703

Iapyx, a son of Daedalus, who ruled in Apulia, in Southern Italy, xv. 52; hence Daunus, an ancient king of Apulia, is called Iapygian, xiv. 458, 510

Iasion, a son of Jupiter and Electra, beloved by Ceres, ix. 423

Iason, son of Aeson, vii. 60, 77, 156, 164; viii. 411; Aeson’s brother, Pelias, usurped the throne of Iolchus in Thessaly, and sent Jason off on the adventure of the Golden Fleece; in the Argo, which he built by the aid of Minerva (called the first ship, vi. 721; viii. 302), he assembled the heroes of Greece and sailed in quest of the Fleece; the story of the adventure is told in vii. 1 ff.; Jason was also present at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 302, 349, 411. See Pagasaeus

Icarus: (1) son of Daedalus; attempting to fly on wings made by his father, he went too near the sun, lost his wings, and fell into the sea, called after him the Icarian Sea, viii. 195 ff.; (2) Icarus, or Icarius, the father of Erigone and Penelope, placed in the heavens as the constellation of Boötes, x. 450

Icclos, a dream-god, son of Somnus, xi. 640

Ida, a mountain near Troy, ii. 218; iv. 277, 289, 293; vii. 359; x. 71; xi. 762; xii. 521; xiii. 324; xiv. 535

Idalia, an epithet of Venus from her sacred mountain, Idalium, in Cyprus, xiv. 694

Idas: (1) son of Aphareus, king of Messene, took part in Calydonian boar-hunt, proles Aphareïa, viii. 304; (2) a courtier of Cepheus, slain by Phineus, v. 90; (3) a companion of Diomede, changed by Venus into a bird, xiv. 504

Idmon, of Colophon, father of Arachne, vi. 8

Idomeneus, a king of Crete, leader of the Cretans against Troy, xiii. 358

Iliades: (1) an epithet of Ganymedes,=Trojan, x. 160; (2) an epithet of Romulus, as the son of Ilia, xiv. 781, 824

Ilion, Ilium or Troy, vi. 95; xiii. 408, 505; xiv. 467

Ilioneus, one of the seven sons of Niobe, vi. 261

Ilithyia, the Greek goddess of child-birth, corresponding to the Roman Lucina, ix. 283. See Lucina

Illyricus, of Illyria, a country on the Adriatic Sea, north of Epirus, iv. 568

Ilus, son of Tros, builder of Ilium, xi. 756

Imbreus, a centaur, xii. 310

Inachides, a male descendant of Inachus: (1) Epaphus, his grandson, i. 753; (2) Perseus, merely as an offspring of an Argive royal line, iv. 720

Inachis, the daughter of Inachus, Io, i. 611; Isis, the Egyptian goddess, the divine manifestation of Jo, ix. 687

Inachus, a river and river-god in Argolis, i. 583, 611, 640, 687, 753

Inarime, an island off the coast of Campania, xiv. 89

Indiges, the name under which the deified Aeneas was worshipped, xiv. 608

Indigetes, deified heroes, worshipped as the patron deities of their country, xv. 862

Indus, of India, i. 778; v. 47; viii. 288; xi. 167

Ino, daughter of Cadmus, wife of Athamas, sister of Semele, foster-mother of Bacchus, iii. 313; helps to tear in pieces her nephew, Peutheus, iii. 722; makes unseemly boast of the power of her foster-son, Bacchus, iv. 417; is pursued by Athamas, who was driven mad by Juno, and leaps with her son, Melicerta, from a cliff into the sea, but is changed by Neptune into the sea-goddess Leucothoë, iv. 519 ff.

Io, daughter of Inachus, i. 611; called Argolica paelex, from her father’s country of Argolis, i. 726; loved and ravished by Jupiter, i. 588 ff.; changed by him into a heifer to avoid detection by Juno, i. 611; guarded by Argus, i. 624 ff.; driven over the world by a gadfly sent by Juno, i. 725 ff.; comes at last to the banks of the Nile and there regains her human form, i. 728 ff.; bears a son Epaphus, i. 748; is worshipped in Egypt as Isis, i. 747

Iolaüs, the son of Iphicles, nephew and companion of Hercules, restored to youth by Hebe, viii. 310; ix. 399, 430. See Hyanteus

Iolciacus, of Iolcos, a seaport town of Thessaly, whence the Argonauts sailed, vii. 158

Iole, daughter of Eurytus, king of Oechalia, captured by Hercules, ix. 140; after the death of Hercules, at his command she was given as wife to his son, Hyllus, ix. 279

Ionium (aequor, mare), the Ionian Sea, lying west of Greece, iv. 535; xv. 50, 700

Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, hence she is called Mycenis, xii. 34; sacrificed by her father to Diana at Aulis; but Diana is said to have substituted a hind at the last moment, and to have carried off the maiden to be her priestess at Tauris, xii. 28 ff.; xiii. 184

Iphinoüs, a centaur, xii. 379

Iphis: (1) born the daughter of one Ligdus, a Cretan, and afterwards by the grace of Isis changed into a young man, ix. 668 ff.; (2) a humble youth of Cyprus who indulged a hopeless love for Anaxarete, and hanged himself at her door, xiv. 699 ff.

Iphitides, son of Iphitus, Coeranus, xiii. 257

Iris, goddess of the rainbow, xi. 590, 632; daughter of Thaumas, hence Thaumantias, iv. 480; special messenger of Juno, i. 271; xiv. 85; sent by Juno to Somnus, xi. 585 ff.; sent to burn the ships of Aeneas in Sicily, xiv. 85; sent to unite Hersilia to her dead husband, Romulus, xiv. 839

Iron Age, described, i. 127 ff.

Isis, an Egyptian goddess, believed by Greek mythology to have been the deified Io, i. 747; hence called Inachis, ix. 687; promises aid to Telethusa, ix. 687; fulfils her promise by changing Iphis, born a girl, into a boy, ix. 773 ff.; her train described, ix. 687 ff.

Ismarius, from Ismarus, a mountain in Thrace, = Thracian, ii. 257; ix. 642; x. 305; xiii. 530

Ismenides, Theban women, so called from the neighbouring river, Ismenus, iii. 733; iv. 31; vi. 159; certain Theban women, changed by the wrath of Juno into birds, iv. 543 ff.

Ismenis, daughter of the Boeotian river-god Ismenus, the nymph Crocale, iii. 169

Ismenus, one of the seven sons of Niobe, vi. 224

Ismenus, a river in Boeotia near Thebes, ii. 244; iii. 169, 733 iv. 31, 562; vi. 159; xiii. 682

Isse, daughter of Macareus (1) vi. 124

Isthmus, the Isthmus of Corinth vi. 419; vii. 405

Italia, Italy, xiv. 17; xv. 9, 59, 291 701

Ithaca, an island in the Ionian Sea the home of Ulysses, xiii. 98 103, 512, 711

Ithacus, a name for Ulysses as king of Ithaca, xiii. 98, 103

Itys, son of Tereus and Procne, vi. 437; slain by his mother and her sister, and served up at a banquet to his father, vi. 620 ff.

Iuba, a king of Numidia, xv. 755

Iulus, Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, from whom the gens Iulia claimed its origin, xiv. 583; xv. 547, 767

Iuno, daughter of Saturn (see Saturnia) and Rhea; foster-daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, ii. 527; sister and wife of Jupiter and queen of the gods, i. 620; ii. 466, 512; iii. 263, 265, 284; vi. 94, 332; xiv. 829; goddess of marriage, vi. 428; ix. 762, 796; xi. 578; goddess of child-birth, see Lucina; her daughter was Hebe, ix. 400; her son, Vulcan, iv. 173; see also Mars; Iris is her messenger, see Iris; her bird is the peacock, in whose tail she set the eyes of the slain Argus, i. 722; xv. 385; her activities are most often employed in punishing her mortal rivals in the love of her husband; so she works her jealous rage on Io, i. 601 ff.; on Callisto, ii. 466 ff.; on Semele, iii. 261 ff.; punishes Ino through the madness of Athamas, iv. 421 ff.; changes the Theban women, friends of Ino, into stones, iv. 543 ff.; persecutes Latona, vi. 332 ff.; sends pestilence on Aegina, because named from her rival, vii. 523 ff.; stays the birth of Hercules, whom she hates for Alcmena’s sake, and by this trick makes him subject to Eurystheus, ix. 21, 176, 284, 295 ff.; punishes Echo for her treachery in shielding Jupiter, iii. 362 ff.; strikes Tiresias with blindness for siding with Jupiter against her, iii. 359; being tricked by Galanthis, she changes her into a weasel, ix. 306; changes the queen of the Pygmies into a crane and Antigone into a stork, both for daring to contend against her, vi. 90 ff.; takes refuge from the pursuit of the Giants in the form of a white cow, v. 330; incensed that Jupiter should take Ganymede to be his cup-bearer, x. 161; takes pity on Alcyone and reveals to her her husband’s death, xi. 583 ff.; is hostile to Aeneas and to the Trojans, but at last gives up her enmity, xiv. 582; sends Iris to reunite Hersilia to her dead husband, Romulus, xiv. 829; Proserpina is called Iuno Averna, “the Juno of the Lower World,” xiv. 114

Iunonigena, Vulcan, the son of Juno, iv. 173

Iuppiter, the son of Saturn and Rhea (see Saturnius); born in Crete and watched over in his infancy by the priests of Ida, iv. 282; viii. 99; with his two brothers, Neptune and Pluto, dethrones Saturn, and in the division of the kingdom by lot the dominion of the heavens falls to him, who thus became the highest of the gods, i. 114, 154, 197, 251, 328; ii. 60, 280, 292; xiv. 807; xv. 858; he is subject only to the decrees of fate, i. 256; v. 532; ix. 434; xv. 807; his emblems of power are the sceptre, i. 178; ii. 847; and the thunderbolt, i. 154, 170, 197; ii. 61, 848; xii. 51; his sacred bird is the eagle, which bears his thunderbolts in its talons, iv. 714; x. 158; xv. 386; his sacred tree is the oak, i. 106, and see Chaonia and Dodona; he is the god and guardian of hospitality, x. 224; his name is used by metonymy for the heavens and the upper air, ii. 377; iv. 260; xiii. 707; his wife, who is also his sister, is Juno, and his sons by her are Vulcan and Mars; his children by other deities are Minerva, born without mother from the head of Jupiter (see Minerva); Mercury, by Maia, i. 669; Proserpina, by Ceres, v. 515; vi. 114; the nine Muses, by Mnemosyne, vi. 114; Venus, by Dione, xiv. 585; his amours with nymphs or mortal women and his sons by these are: with Io, Epaphus, i. 588 ff.; Latona, Apollo and Diana, i. 517, 696; vi. 336; Callisto, Arcas, ii. 422 ff.; Europa, Minos, ii. 846 ff.; vi. 103; viii. 122; and Rhadamanthus, ix. 436; Semele, Bacchus, iii. 260 ff.; Danaë, Perseus, iv. 611, 697; Malia, the Palici, v. 406; Leda, Castor and Pollux, vi. 109; Antiope, Amphion and Zethus, vi. 111; Aegina, Aeacus, vi. 113; vii. 615; xiii. 28; Alcmena, Hercules, ix. 23; Euryodia, Arcesius, xiii. 145; his age was the Silver Age of the world, i. 113 ff.; leaves heaven to investigate the sins of men, i. 212 ff.; decides to destroy the human race by flood, i. 253 ff.; hurls thunderbolt at Phaëthon and stops universal conflagration, ii. 304; apologizes to Phoebus for this act, ii. 396; disputes with Juno and refers the dispute to Tireslas, iii. 320 ff.; changes Memnon on his funeral pyre into a bird, iii. 586; changes Celmis into a stone, iv. 282; flees to Egypt from the pursuit of the Giants, and hides in the form of a ram; is hence worshipped as the Libyan Ammon, with ram’s horns on his head, v. 327; is entertained by Philemon and Baucis, viii. 626 ff.; reveals the fates to Venus, how under Augustus Rome is to come to her highest glory, xv. 807 ff.; his temple on the Capitol at Rome, xv. 866

Ixion, king of the Lapithae, father of Pirithoüs, viii. 403, 613; xii. 210; for attempting violence upon Juno he was punished in the underworld, bound to a whirling wheel, iv. 461; ix. 124; x. 42; with a cloud-form which Jupiter made in the image of Juno he begot the centaurs, xii. 504; see Nubigenae

Lacedaemonius, of Lacedaemon, or Sparta, xv. 50

Lacinius, of Lacinium, a promontory in Italy near Crotona, xv. 13, 701

Laconis, Laconian, Lacedaemonian, iii. 223

Ladon, a river in Arcadia, i. 702

Laërtes, son of Arcesius, father of Ulysses, xii. 625; xiii. 144

Laërtiades, Ulysses, the son of Laërtes, xiii. 48

Laërtius heros, Ulysses, xiii. 124

Laestrygones, an ancient people of Italy in Campania, fabled to have been cannibals, xiv. 233

Laïades, Oedipus, the son of Laïus, solved the riddle of the sphinx, vii. 759

Lampetides, a musician in the court of Copheus, v. 111

Lampetie, one of the Heliades, ii. 349

Lamus, a mythical king of the Laestrygonians, the founder of Formiae, xiv. 233

Laomedon, king of Troy, father of Priam, Hersione, and Antigone, vi. 96; xi. 196, 757; cheats Apollo and Neptune out of their promised reward for building the walls of Troy, xi. 200 ff.

Lapithae, an ancient people in South-western Thessaly; their great fight with the centaurs, xii. 210 ff., 536; xiv. 670

Larissaeus, of Larissa, a city in Thessaly, ii. 542

Latialis, Latinus, of Latium, Latian, Latin, generally = Roman, ii. 366; xiv. 610, 623; xv. 481

Latinus: (1) son of Faunus, king of Laurentum in Latium, father of Lavinia, hospitably receives Aeneas, xiv. 449; (2) one of the Alban kings, xiv. 611

Latium, a country in Central Italy in which Rome was situated, xiv. 452, 832

Latius, Latian, Latin, generally = Roman, i. 560; xiv. 326, 390, 422, 832; xv. 486, 582, 626, 742

Latoïs, Diana, the daughter of Latona, viii. 278

Latoïus, Apollo, the son of Latona, xi. 196

Latona, daughter of Coeus, a Titan, vi. 185, 346, 366; mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana, vi. 160, 315, 336; refused by Juno a place on earth where she might bear her children, she gave them birth on the floating island of Delos, vi. 185 ff., 332; is isinsulted by Niobe and appeals to her two children for vengeance, vi. 204 ff.; story of her persecution by Lycian rustics, whom she changed into frogs, vi. 339 ff.; the sacred trees in Delos under which she bore her children, vi. 335; xiii. 635

Latonia, an epithet of Diana as daughter of Latona, i. 696; viii. 394, 542

Latonigenae, the twin children of Latona, vi. 160

Latoüs, belonging to Latona, her altar, vi. 274; her son Apollo, vi. 384

Latreus, a centaur, xii. 463

Laurens, of Laurentium, an ancient city of Latium, seat of King Latinus, xiv. 336, 342, 598

Lavinia, the daughter of Latinus, for whom Turnus fought against Aeneas, xiv. 570

Lavinium, a city of Latium, founded by Aeneas, xv. 728

Learchus, son of Athamas and Ino, slain by his father in a fit of madness, iv. 516

Lebinthus, one of the Sporadic Islands, viii. 222

Leda, daughter of Thestius, wife of the Spartan king, Tyndareus; Jupiter came to her in the form of a swan, and had by her two sons, Castor and Pollux, vi. 109

Leleges, a Pelasgic people scattered widely over parts of Greece and Asia Minor, vii. 443; viii. 6; ix. 645, 652

Lelex, one of the heroes at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 312; visits Acheloüs in the company of Theseus, viii. 567; tells the story of Philemon and Baucis, viii. 617

Lemnicola, Vulcan, whose favourite dwelling-place was Lemnos, ii. 757

Lemnius, Vulcan, iv. 185; Lemnos itself is called Vulcania, xiii. 313

Lemnos, an island in the Aegean Sea, the favourite seat of Vulcan, ii. 275; iv. 185; xiii. 46, 315

Lenaeus, an epithet of Bacchus as god of the wine-press, iv. 14; xi. 132

Lerna, a marsh in Argolis, where the Hydra lived, i. 597; ix. 69, 74, 130, 192

Lesbos, an island in the Aegean Sea, one of whose chief cities was Methymna, ii. 591; xi. 55; xiii. 173

Lethaea, the wife of Olenus, who on account of her pride was turned into a stone, x. 70

Lethe, a river in the Lower World, a draught of whose waters brought forgetfulness, vii. 152; xi. 603

Letoïs, belonging to Leto, the Greek form of Latona, applied to Calaurea, an island off the coast of Argolis, sacred to Leto, vii. 384

Letoïus, an epithet of Apollo as the son of Leto, viii. 15

Leucas, an island off the coast of Acarnania, xv. 289

Leucippus, one of the heroes at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 306

Leuconoë, one of the daughters of Minyas, iv. 168

Leucosia, a small island near Paestum, xv. 708

Leucothoë: (1) the name of the sea-goddess into whom Ino was changed, iv. 542; (2) daughter of Orchamus, king of Babylon, beloved by Phoebus, iv. 196; buried alive by her father, iv. 240; changed by her lover into a shrub of frankincense, iv. 255

Liber, an old Italian god who presided over planting and fructification; afterwards identified with the Greek Bacchus, iii. 520, 528; iv. 17; vi. 125; vii. 295; viii. 177; xi. 105; xiii. 650

Libya, Africa, ii. 237; iv. 617; v. 75, 328; xiv. 77

Libys: (1) African, applied to Ammon, v. 328; (2) one of the companions of Acoetes, iii. 617, 676

Lichas, a servant of Hercules who brought to him from Deianira the poisoned tunic, ix. 155; he was hurled by Hercules over the brink of a cliff, ix. 211; and was changed into a rock in mid-air, ix. 219

Ligdus, a Cretan, father of Iphis, ix. 670

Ligures, a people of Northern Italy, ii. 370

Lilybaeon, a promontory on the southern coast of Sicily, v. 351; xiii. 726

Limnaec, a nymph of the Ganges, daughter of the god of that river, mother of Athis, v. 48

Limyre, a city in Lycia, ix. 646

Liriope, a water-nymph, mother of Narcissus, iii. 342

Liternum, a city in Campania, xv. 714

Lotis, a nymph, daughter of Neptune; fleeing from Priapus, she was changed into a lotus-tree, ix. 347

Lucifer, the morning star, ii. 115, 723; iv. 629, 665; viii. 2; xv. 189, 789; the father of Ceyx, xi. 271, 319, 346

Lucina, “she who brings to the light,” the goddess of childbirth, a name applied both to Juno and Diana, v. 304; ix. 294, 315, 698; x. 507, 510

Luna, the moon goddess, sister of Phoebus Apollo, the heavenly manifestation of Diana on earth, ii. 208; vii. 207; xv. 790

Lyaeus, “the deliverer from care,” an epithet of Bacchus, iv. 11; viii. 274; xi. 67

Lycabas: (1) a companion of Acoetes, iii. 624, 673; (2) an Assyrian, companion of Phineus, v. 60; (3) a centaur, xii. 302

Lycaon, an early king of Arcadia, whose impious treatment of Jupiter precipitated the destruction of the world for its wickedness, i. 165, 198 ff.; changed into a wolf, i. 237; father of Callisto, ii. 495

Lycetus, a companion of Phineus, v. 86

Lyceum, a gymnasium at Athens, adorned with fountains and groves, the favourite resort of philosophers, ii. 710

Lycia, a country of Asia Minor, ii. 116; iv. 296; vi. 317, 339; ix. 645; xiii. 255

Lycidas, a centaur, xii. 310

Lycopes, a centaur, xii. 350

Lycormas, a river in Aetolia, ii. 245

Lyctius, of Lyctos, a city in Crete, = Cretan, vii. 490

Lycurgus, a king of Thrace who opposed Bacchus and was destroyed by him, iv. 22

Lycus: (1) a centaur, xii. 332; (2) a companion of Diomedes, xiv. 504

Lydia, a country in Asia Minor, vi. 11, 146; xi. 98

Lyncestius, of the Lyncestae, a people in Macedonia, Lyncestian, xv. 329

Lynceus, son of Aphareus, took part in the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 304

Lyncides, a descendant of Lynceus, father of Abas, whose great-grandson was Perseus, iv. 767; v. 99, 185

Lyncus, a king of Scythia, who attacked Triptolemus and was changed by Ceres into a lynx, v. 650 ff.

Lyrceus, of Lyrceum, a mountain between Arcadia and Argolis, i. 598

Lyrnesius, of Lyrnesus, a town in the Troad, xii. 108; xiii. 166

Macareïs, Isse, the daughter of Macareus (1), vi. 124

Macareus: (1) a Lesbian, vi. 124; (2) a centaur, xii. 452; (3) son of Neritos, companion of Ulysses, xiv. 159, 441; he tells the story of his adventures, xiv. 223 ff.

Macedonius, of Macedonia, xii. 466

Maeandrius, of the Maeandrus, ix. 574

Maeandrus, a river of Phrygia and Lydia, famous for its winding course, ii. 246; viii. 162; the god of the river, father of Cyanee, ix. 451

Maenades, priestesses of Bacchus, Bacchantes, xi. 22

Maenalos, and plural, Maenala, a range of mountains in Arcadia, i. 216; ii. 415; v. 608

Maeonia, an old name for Lydia, ii. 252; iii. 583; iv. 423; vi. 5, 103 149

Maeonis, an epithet of Arachne as a native of Maeonia, vi. 103

Maera, an unknown woman who was changed into a dog, vii. 362

Magnetes, the inhabitants of Magnesia in Thessaly, xi. 408

Manto, a Theban seeress, daughter of Tiresias, vi. 157

Marathon, a town and plain on the eastern coast of Attica, vii. 434

Mareoticus, belonging to Mareota, a lake and city of Lower Egypt, ix. 773

Marmarides, from Marmarica, in Egypt, v. 125

Mars (and see Mavors), son of Jupiter and Juno, the god of war, viii. 20; xii. 91; his sacred serpent slain by Cadmus, iii. 32 ff.; father by Venus of Harmonia, wife of Cadmus, iii. 132; his amour with Venus discovered by Phoebus and revealed to Vulcan, iv. 171 ff.; he was the father by Ilia of Romulus and Remus, xv. 863; he is called Gradivus, “he who marches out,” vi. 427; xiv. 820; xv. 863; his name is frequently used by metonymy for war or battle, iii. 123, 540; vii. 140; xii. 379, 610; xiii. 11, 208, 360; xiv. 246, 450; xv. 746

Marsyas, a satyr of Phrygia; he challenged Apollo to a contest in musical skill, was beaten, and as a punishment for his presumption was flayed alive by the god; the tears of his weeping friends were changed to the river of that name, vi. 382 ff.

Mavors, an old name for Mars, iii. 531; vi. 70; vii. 101; viii. 7, 61, 437; xiv. 806

Mavortius, belonging to or descended from Mars, applied to the Thebans as descended in part from the Echionides, sprung from the teeth of Mars’ sacred dragon, proles Mavortia, iii. 531; to Meleager as the great-grandson of Mars, viii. 437

Medea, daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis; she is called, from father and country, Aeetias, vii. 9; Colchis, vii. 296; Phasias, vii. 298; famous for her powers of magic, vii. 98, 116, 137, 148, 152 ff., 199 ff.; when Jason appeared at her father’s court she fell in love with him and helped him to perform the three dangerous tasks imposed upon him, and so to obtain the Golden Fleece, vii. 9 ff.; she restores Aeson to youth by her magic arts, vii. 162 ff.; she rejuvenates the nurse of Bacchus at the god’s request, vii. 294; plots against the life of the aged Pelias and, pretending that she is about to restore him to youth, works his death by the hands of his own daughters, vii. 297 ff.; by her magic causes the death of Creusa, for whom Jason had discarded Medea, and having killed her own two sons also, flees from Jason’s vengeance, vii. 394 ff.; takes refuge with Aegeus, who makes her his wife, vii. 402; detected in an attempt to poison Theseus, son of Aegeus, she fled away through the air by her magic powers, vii. 406 ff.

Medon: (1) one of Acoetes’ sailors, iii. 671; (2) a centaur, xii. 303

Medusa, one of the Gorgons, daughter of Phorcys, iv. 743; loved by Neptune, in the form of a bird, vi. 119. See Gorgon

Medusaeus, belonging to Medusa, referring to the petrifying Medusa-head, v. 249; Pegasus, v. 257; the spring of Hippocrene, v. 312; Cerberus, x. 22

Megareïus heros, Hippomenes, son of Megareus, x. 659

Megareus, grandson of Neptune, father of Hippomenes; lived in the Boeotian town of Onchestus, hence called Onchestius, x. 605

Melaneus: (1) a friend of Perseus, v. 128; (2) a centaur, xii. 306

Melantho, a daughter of Deucalion whom Neptune loved in the form of a dolphin, vi. 120

Melanthus, one of Acoetes’ sailors, iii. 617

Melas, a river in Thrace, ii. 247

Meleager, son of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and Althaea, daughter of Thestius; at his birth his life was to depend upon the preservation of a billet of wood then burning on the hearth; his mother saved this, but finally burned it in revenge for the slaying by her son of her two brothers, viii. 451 ff.; he organized a hunt for the boar sent by Diana to ravage the country, viii. 299; is smitten with love for Atalanta, one of the hunters, viii. 324; kills the boar and presents the spoils to Atalanta, viii. 414; is insulted by his mother’s two brothers and kills them, viii. 432; dies in agony as the result of the burning of the fatal billet by his mother, viii. 515 ff.; one of his sisters is Deianira, ix. 149

Meleagrides, sisters of Meleager, who grieve inordinately at his death, and are turned into guinea-hens by Diana, viii. 536 ff.

Melicertes, son of Athamas and Ino, changed into a sea-god, Palaemon, iv. 522 ff.

Memnon, son of Tithonus and Aurora; while fighting for the Trojans was slain by Achilles; on his funeral-pyre he was changed by Aurora into a bird, xiii. 579 ff.

Memnonides, birds sprung from Memnon’s ashes, which every year flew from Ethiopia to Troy and fought over his tomb in his honour, xiii. 608 ff.

Mendesius, of Mendes, a city in Egypt, v. 144

Menelaüs, younger son of Atreus, hence called minor Atrides, xii. 623; xv. 162; brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen, went with Ulysses to Troy to demand back his wife, who had been stolen away by Paris, xiii. 203; slew Euphorbus, xv. 162; fought with Paris, who escaped him in a cloud furnished by Venus, xv. 805

Menephron, an Arcadian who committed incest with his mother, vii. 386

Menoetes, a Lycian, slain by Achilles, xii. 116

Menthe, a nymph beloved by Proserpina, changed by the goddess into the mint plant, x. 729

Mercurius, the son of Jupiter and Maia, one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas, i. 670, 673; ii. 686, 697, 742; xi. 303; called Atlantiades, i. 682; ii. 704; viii. 627; Cyllenius, from his birthplace, Cyllene, a mountain in Arcadia, i. 713; ii. 720, 818; v. 331; xiii. 146; xiv. 291; he is the swift messenger of Jupiter and the other gods and flies through the air equipped with wings on his low-crowned hat and on his ankles, and with his wand, the caduceus, which soothes to sleep, i. 671, 716; ii. 708, 714, 735, 818; iv. 756; viii. 627; xi. 307, 312; xiv. 291; his wand can also open doors, ii. 819; he carries also a peculiar hooked sword, i. 717; as god of cunning and theft, he steals the cattle of Apollo, ii. 686; kills Argus at the request of Jupiter, i. 670 ff.; changes Battus into a touch-stone, ii. 706 ff.; helps Jupiter to trick Europa, ii. 836; takes refuge from the Giants in the form of an ibis bird, v. 331; changes Aglauros into a stone, ii. 818; in company with Jupiter is entertained by Philemon and Baucis, viii. 627 ff.; loves Herse, ii. 724 ff.; father by Venus of Hermaphroditus, iv. 288; father by Chione of Autolycus, xi. 303; through Autolycus he is the great-grandfather of Ulysses, xiii. 146

Meriones, a companion of Idomeneus from Crete, xiii. 359

Mermeros, a centaur, xii. 305

Merops, king of Ethiopia, husband of Clymene, the putative father of Phaëthon, i. 723; ii. 184

Messanius, of Messana, a city in Sicily, xiv. 17

Messapius, of the Messapians, a people of Lower Italy, =Calabrian, xiv. 514

Messene, a city of Messenia in the Peloponnesus, vi. 417; xii. 549

Methymnaeus, of Methymna, one of the chief cities of Lesbos, xi. 55

Metion, father of Phorbas of Syene, v. 74

Midas, king of Phrygia, son of Gordius and Cybele; called Berecyntius heros from Mount Berecyntus in Phrygia, sacred to Cybele, xi. 106; because of the king’s kindness to Silenus, Bacchus promised him the fulfilment of any wish he might express, and he wished that all he touched might turn to gold xi. 92 ff.; this baleful power is washed away in the River Pactolus, xi. 142 ff.; he again shows his stupidity by questioning Tmolus’ judgment in favour of Apollo versus Pan, and is given the ears of an ass, xi. 146 ff.

Miletis, Byblis, the daughter of Miletus, ix. 635

Miletus, son of Phoebus and Deioue, Deionides, ix. 443; father by Cyanee of Caunus and Byblis, founder of the city which bears his name, ix. 444

Milon, an athlete of Crotona, weeps in his old age at the loss of his strength, xv. 299

Mimas, a mountain range in Ionia, ii. 222

Minerva, daughter of Jupiter, sprung from his head, iv. 800; v. 297; goddess of wisdom and technical skill, iv. 38; vi. 6, 23; patroness of men of genius, viii. 252; inventor of the flute, vi. 384; protectress of heroes: Perseus, iv. 754; v. 46, 250; Cadmus, iii. 102; Theseus, xii. 360; Diomede, xiv. 475; the virgin goddess, ii. 765; iv. 754; v. 375; viii. 664; xiv. 468; her locks are golden, ii. 749; viii. 275; she is the warrior goddess, ii. 752, 756; iv. 754; vi. 46; viii. 264; she is armed with shield and spear, and on her aegis she wears the Gorgon-head, ii. 755; iv. 799, 803; vi. 78; xiv. 475; her earlier favourite bird was the crow, but later the owl, ii. 563; her favourite tree, the olive, vi. 335; viii. 275, 664; her favourite abode, Athens and Attica, ii. 709, 712; viii. 250; strove with Neptune for the right to name the land, vi. 70 ff.; her festival, the Panathenaca, ii. 711 ff.; entrusts Erichthonius to the daughters of Cecrops, ii. 553; sends the hag Envy to torment Aglauros, ii. 752; turns the hair of Medusa into snakes, iv. 798; accepts the challenge of Arachne to a contest in weaving, and after defeating her turns her into a spider to punish her presumption, vi. 26 ff.; changes Perdix to a plover, viii. 252; her sacred image, the Palladium, stolen from her temple at Troy by Ulysses and Diomede, xiii. 337, 381; the promontory of Minerva off the coast of Campania in Italy, xv. 709; Minerva used by metonymy for household tasks, iv. 33; for olive oil, xiii. 653. See Pallas, Tritonia, Tritonis

Minoïs, Ariadne, daughter of Minos, viii. 174

Minos, son of Jupiter and Europa, viii. 120, 122; ix. 437; dux Europaeus, viii. 23; king of Crete, where he rules over numerous (centum) cities, vii. 481; threatens war at Athens for the death of his son Androgeos, and seeks allies against her, vii. 456 ff.; seeks aid of Aeacus in vain, vii. 482 ff.; wars against King Nisus at Megara, where he is loved by Seylla, who betrays to him her father, Nisus, viii. 6 ff.; shuts up the Minotaur in a labyrinth which Daedalus made at his command, viii. 157; reduced to weakness in his old age, he fears Miletus, ix. 441; Jupiter is unable to grant him immortality, ix. 437

Minotaurus, a monster, half man and half bull, son of Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, and a bull, viii. 132; shut up by Minos in the labyrinth, viii. 155; here were brought to him each year seven boys and seven maidens as a tribute exacted of the Athenians by Minos to be devoured, until he was finally slain by Theseus, viii. 169 ff.

Minturnae, a city of Latium on the border of Campania, xv. 716

Minyae, an ancient race named from their king, Minyas, whose seat was Orchomenus in Boeotia; his power extended also to Iolchus in Thessaly; since from this point the Argonauts under Jason started on their expedition, they are called Minyae, vi. 720; vii. 1; viii. 115

Minyeïas, Alcithoë, daughter of Minyas, iv. 1

Minyeïas proles = Minyeïdes, iv. 389

Minyeïdes, the three daughters of Minyas, Leuconoë, Arsippe, and Alcithoë, who were changed into bats for slighting the festival of Bacchus, iv. 32, 425

Misenus (a mortal), a son of Aeolus, a trumpeter of Aeneas, who lost his life at the promontory in Italy which bears his name, xiv. 103

Mithridates, a king of Pontus; six kings of this name had ruled over Pontus, and the last, Mithridates the Great, was conquered by Lucullus and Pompey in 63 b.c., xv. 755

Mnemonides, the nine Muses as the daughters of Mnemosyne, v. 268, 280

Mnemosyne, the mother by Jupiter of the Muses, vi. 114

Molossus, belonging to the Molossi, gens Molossa, a people of Epirus, i. 226; rex Molossus, Munichus, who, with his wife and children, was once attacked by robbers; while they resisted the robbers the building in which they were was set on fire; to save them from burning to death, Jupiter changed them into birds, xiii. 717

Molpeus, of Chaonia, a friend of Phineus, v. 163, 168

Monychus, a centaur, xii. 499

Mopsopius, Athenian, from Mopsopus, an ancient king; Triptolemus, v. 661; the walls of Athens, vi. 423

Mopsus, son of Ampyx, see Ampycides; he was a soothsayer among the Lapithae, took part in the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 316, 350; was in the fight against the centaurs, xii. 456, 524

Morpheus, a son of Somnus, sent to Alcyone in the form of Ceyx, xi. 635, 647, 671

Mulciber, a name for Vulcan, in reference to him as a worker in metals, ii. 5; ix. 423; by metonymy for fire, ix. 263; xiv. 553

Munychius, of Munychia, the port of Athens, = Athenian, ii. 709

Musae, the nine Muses, daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, patronesses of the liberal arts; they were: Clio, Muse of history; Melpomene, of tragedy; Thalia, of comedy; Enterpe, of lyric poetry; Terpsichore, of dancing; Calliope, of epic poetry; Erato, of love poetry; Urania, of astronomy; Polyhymnia, of sacred song; Calliope and Urania are the only two of the sisters mentioned by name in the Metamorphoses; in v. 260 Urania takes the lead in entertaining Minerva, and in v. 339 ff. Calliope sings as the representative of her sisters in the contest with the Pierides, and in v. 662 she is called the eldest sister, e nobis maxima; their favourite haunts were Mount Helicon and Mount Parnassus, where their sacred springs were Aganippe and Hippocrene on the one, and Castalia on the other, v. 663; Helicon is hence called Virgineus, ii. 219; v. 254; they are doctae sorores, “the learned sisters,” v. 255; “the especial divinities of poets,” praesentia numina vatum, xv. 622; Calliope was the mother of Orpheus, x. 148; assaulted by King Pyreneus, the Muses fly away on wings, v. 274 ff.; contend with the Pierides in song, and afterwards change the presumptuous sisters into magpies, v. 294 ff., 676. See Aonides and Thespiades

Mutina, a city in Cisalpine Gaul, xv. 823

Mycale: (1) a promontory in Ionia, ii. 223; (2) a Thessalian witch, xii. 263

Mycenae, a city of Argolis, the home of Agamemnon, vi. 414; xii. 34; xv. 426, 428

Mycenis, a woman of Mycenae, Iphigenia, xii. 34

Mygdonis, Mygdonius, of the Mygdonians, a Thracian people, ii. 247, who emigrated to Phrygia, =Phrygian, vi. 45

Myrmidones, a race of men created out of ants by Jupiter in answer to the prayer of Aeacus, vii. 615 ff., 654

Myrrha, daughter of Cinyras, conceived for her father an incestuous passion, and became by him the mother of Adonis, x. 312 ff.; was changed to the myrrh-tree, x. 489 ff.

Myscelus, son of Alemon of Argos, founder of Crotona, xv. 19 ff.

Mysus, of Mysia, Mysian, a country in Asia Minor, xv. 277

Nabataeus, of Nabataea, a country in Arabia, = Arabian, i. 61; v. 163

Naïas, Naïs, plural Naïades and Naïdes, water nymphs, female deities of rivers and springs, i. 642, 691; ii. 325; iv. 49, 289, 304; vi. 329, 453; viii. 580; ix. 87, 657; x. 9, 514; xi. 49; xiii. 602; xiv. 328, 557, 786

Narcissus, son of the Naiad Liriope and the river-god Cephisus, iii. 342, 351; his fate foretold by Tiresias, iii. 346; vainly loved by Echo, iii. 370 ff.; falls hopelessly in love with his own image reflected from the water, iii. 407 ff.; his shade still gazes on its image in the Stygian pool, iii. 505; his body is changed into a flower that bears his name, iii. 510

Narycius, of Naryx, a city of the Locrians, viii. 312; xv. 705; an epithet of Ajax, son of Oïleus, xiv. 468

Nasamoniacus, of the Nasamones, a Libyan people south-west of Cyrenaïca, v. 129

Naupliades, Palamedes, son of Nauplius, xiii. 39, 310

Nauplius, a king of Euboea, father of Palamedes. See Caphareus

Naxos, the largest of the Cyclades, iii. 636, 640, 649

Nedymnus, a centaur, xii. 350

Neleïus, Nestor, the son of Neleus xii. 577

Neleus, son of Neptune and the nymph Tyro, xii. 558; king of Pylos, ii. 689; father of Nestor, he had twelve sons, all of whom except Nestor were killed by Hercules, xii. 550 ff.

Neleüs, belonging to Neleus, vi. 418; xii. 558

Nelides, the twelve sons of Neleus, xii. 553

Nemeaeus, belonging to Nemea, a town in Argolis, ix. 197, 235

Nemesis, a Greek goddess, personifying the righteous anger of the gods, who punishes mortal pride and presumption, iii. 406; xiv. 694. See Rhamnusia

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, called also Pyrrhus, xiii. 455

Nephele: (1) a nymph in Diana’s train, iii. 171; (2) the wife of Athamas, mother of Phrixus and Helle, xi. 195

Nepheleïs, Helle, the daughter of Nephele, xi. 195

Neptunius, an epithet used of Theseus as the supposed son of Neptune, ix. 1; of Hippomenes, the great-grandson, x. 639, 665; of Cycnus, the son, xii. 72

Neptunus, the son of Saturn, brother of Jupiter and Pluto; to him by lot in the division of the kingdom of the dethroned Saturn fell the realms of the sea and other waters, i. 275, 276, 331; ii. 270, 574; iv. 532, 533; viii. 595; x. 606; xi. 207; xii. 580; the symbol of his power is the trident, i. 283; viii. 596; xi. 202; xii. 580; father of Neleus by the nymph Tyro, xii. 558; grandfather of Megareus, x. 606; was said to have been the father of Theseus by Aethra, wife of Aegeus, ix. 1; father of Cycnus, xii. 72; his amours were: with Corone, ii. 574; Medusa, iv. 798; vi. 119; Canace, vi. 116; Iphimedia, daughter of Aloeus, vi. 117; Theophane, daughter of Bisaltes, vi. 117; with Ceres, vi. 118; with Melantho, vi. 120; Mestra, daughter of Erysichthon, viii. 850; he helps produce the flood, i. 275; changes Ino and Melicerta into sea-divinities, iv. 539 ff.; disputes with other gods his claim to Athens, vi. 75; with Apollo built the walls of Troy for Laomedon, xi. 202; xii. 26, 587; in punishment of Laomedon’s treachery in refusing to pay the promised reward, he flooded the country and required that Laomedon’s daughter, Hesione, be offered up as a sacrifice to a sea-monster, xi. 207 ff.; gave Periclymenus power to change to many forms, xii. 558; grieving over the death of Cycnus at the hands of Achilles, he plans with Apollo to compass Achilles’ death, xii. 580

Nereïs, a sea-nymph, daughter of Nereus; Thetis, xi. 259, xii. 93; Galatea, xiii. 742, 749, 858; Psamathe, the mother of Phocus, xi. 380; in plural, i. 302; v. 17; xiii. 899; xiv. 264

Nereïus, belonging to Nereus, used of Phocus as son of the Nereid Psamathe, vii. 685; of Thetis, genetrix Nereïa, xiii. 162

Neretum, a town in Calabria, xv. 51

Nereus, a sea-god, husband of Doris, father of fifty daughters, the Nereids, ii. 268; xi. 361; xii. 94; xiii. 742; by metonymy for the sea, i. 187

Neritius, of Neritos, a mountain in Ithaca, and a small island in its vicinity, = Ithacan, xiii. 712; xiv. 159, 563

Nessus, a centaur, son of Ixion, ix. 124; slain by Hercules for attempting violence on Deianira while he was carrying her across a stream; he gave a portion of his blood, poisoned by the arrow of Hercules, to Deianira as a charm warranted to regain waning love, ix. 101 ff.; this charm was used by Deianira with fatal effect, ix. 153 ff.; Nessus was safe in the great fight between the centaurs and the Lapithae because he was doomed to die by the hand of Hercules, xii. 308, 454

Nestor, son of Neleus, king of Pylos, one of twelve brothers, all of whom were killed by Hercules except himself, viii. 365; xii. 550 ff.; in his youth he participated in the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 313; he was famous among the Greeks at Troy for his wisdom and eloquence, xii. 178, 577; after the death of Cycnus, he tells the story of Caenis, a girl changed into the invulnerable youth Caeneus, xii. 169 ff.; he explains to Tlepolemus the cause of his hatred for Hercules, xii. 542 ff.; was deserted in his need by Ulysses on the battlefield, xiii. 63

Nileus, an opponent of Perseus, who boasted that he was descended from the Nilus river-god, v. 187

Nilus, the great river and river-god of Egypt, i. 423, 728; ii. 254; v. 187, 324; ix. 774; xv. 753

Ninus, an Assyrian king, husband of Semiramis, iv. 88

Niobe, daughter of the Phrygian king Tantalus and of Dione, one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas, vi. 172, 174, 211; wife of Amphion, king of Thebes, vi. 178, 271; mother of seven sons and seven daughters, on account of her boastful pride in whom she aroused the wrath of Latona (see Latona), vi. 165 ff.; at last, in her stony grief, she was changed to a stone and carried to her native Mount Siphylus, where the tears still flow down her stony face, vi. 305 ff.

Niseïa virgo, Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, viii. 35

Nisus, a king of Megara, besieged by Minos; he had a purple lock of hair upon the preservation of which his life and kingdom depended; this lock his daughter Scylla, secretly in love with Minos, cut off and gave to her father’s enemy, viii. 8 ff.

Nixi, three guardian deities of women in labour; their statues stood in the Capitol at Rome, representing the gods in a kneeling posture, ix. 294

Nixus genu, “the one bending his knee,” the constellation of the kneeling Hercules, viii. 182

Noëmon, a Lycian, xiii. 258

Nonacria, Nonacrinus, from Nonacris, a mountain and city in Arcadia, = Arcadian, i. 690; ii. 409; viii. 426

Noricus, of Noricum, a country lying between the Danube and the Alps, xiv. 712

Notus, the south wind, bringer of rain, i. 264

Nox, goddess of Night, daughter of Chaos, mother of the Furies, iv 452; xiv. 404

Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, goes to Crotona to study the philosophy of Pythagoras, xv. 4 ff.; marries the nymph Egeria, xv. 482; dies at a ripe old age, xv. 485

Numicius, a small river in Latium, xiv. 328, 599

Numidae, a people in Northern Africa, conquered by Caesar in 46 b.c. at the battle of Thapsus, xv. 754

Numitor, king of Alba, driven from his throne by his brother Amulius, but restored by his grandsons, Romulus and Remus, xiv. 773

Nycteïs, Antiope, daughter of the Boeotian king Nycteus; mother by Jupiter of Zethus and Amphion, vi. 111

Nyctelius, a name of Bacchus from the fact that his mysteries were performed at night, iv. 15

Nycteus (not the father of Antiope), a companion of Diomede, changed by Venus into a bird, xiv. 504

Nyctimene, daughter of Epopeus, king of Lesbos, who unknowingly had intercourse with her father; in despair she fled into the forest, where she was changed by Minerva into an owl, ii. 590 ff.

Nyseïdes, the nymphs of Mount Nysa in India, who cared for the infant Bacchus in their caves, iii. 314; Bacchus obtained their rejuvenation from Medea, vii. 295

Nyseus, an epithet of Bacchus from Mount Nysa, iv. 13

Oceanus, the great all-encircling sea, the ocean, vii. 267; ix. 594; xiii. 292; xv. 12; personified, a deity, son of Coelus and Terra, husband of his sister, Tethys, ii. 510; ix. 499; xiii. 951

Ocyrhoë, a daughter of Chiron endowed with the gift of prophecy; she foretells the fates of Aesculapius, ii. 635 ff.; is changed into a mare, ii. 657 ff.

Odrysius, an epithet from a tribe in Thrace, used for Thracian in general, referring to Tereus, vi. 490; Polymestor, xiii. 554

Oeagrius, an epithet from Oeagrus, an old king of Thrace; nondum Oeagrius = before the time of Oeagrus, ii. 219

Oebalides. See Hyacinthus

Oebalius. See Hyacinthus

Oechalia, a city in Euboea, ix. 136, 331

Oechalides, the women of Oechalia, ix. 331

Oeclides, Amphiaraüs as the son of Oecleus. See Amphiaraüs

Oedipodioniae, an epithet of Thebes as the city of Oedipus, xv. 429. See Laïades

Oeneus, king of Calydon, son of Parthaon, husband of Althaea, father of Meleager, Tydeus, and Deianira, viii. 486; ix. 12; incurred the wrath of Diana, who sent a huge boar to ravage his country, viii. 273 ff.

Oenides, a male descendant of Oeneus; Meleager, his son, viii. 414; Diomede, his grandson, xiv. 512

Oenopia, an older name for the island of Aegina, vii. 472, 490

Oetacus, an epithet of King Ceyx, because his city of Trachin lay near Mount Oeta, xi. 383

Oete (Oeta), a mountain range between Thessaly and Aetolia, i 313; ii. 217; ix. 165, 204, 230, 249; xi. 383

Oïleus, king of the Locrians, father of Ajax (2), xiii. 622

Olenides, Tectaphus, the son of Olenus, xii. 433

Olenius: see now Addenda on page 430

Olenus, the husband of Lethaea, changed with her into a stone, wishing thus, though innocent, to share her guilt and punishment, x. 69

Oliarus, an island of the Cyclades, vii. 469

Olympus: (1) a mountain in Northern Thessaly, supposed in the Homeric age to be the home of the gods, i. 154, 212; ii. 60, 225; vi. 476; vii. 225; ix. 499; xiii. 761; (2) a pupil and friend of Marsyas, vi. 393

Onchestius, from Onchestus, a city in Boeotia, x. 605

Onetor, a Phocian, herdsman of Peleus, xi. 348

Opheltes, a companion of Acoetes, iii. 605

Ophias, Combe, daughter of Ophius, vii. 383

Ophionides, Amycus, a centaur, son of Ophion, xii. 245

Ophiuchus, a constellation in the north-eastern heavens, the “Serpent-holder,” viii. 182

Ophiusius, of Ophiusa, an old name for Cyprus, x. 229

Ops, an old Italian deity, goddess of plenty, patroness of husbandry, the wife of Saturn, ix. 498

Orchamus, an ancient king of Babylonia, father of Leucothoë, iv. 212; buries his daughter alive on learning of her amour with the Sun-god, iv. 240

Orchomenus, a city in Arcadia, v. 607; in Boeotia, vi. 416

Orcus, the underworld, abode of the dead; also a name for Pluto, as god of the underworld, xiv. 116

Oreas, one of the mountain-nymphs, viii. 787

Orestea, from or belonging to Orestes, son of Agamemnon: applied to Diana, because Orestes with Pylades and Iphigenia, priestess of Diana in Tauris, carried away the image of Diana to Aricia in Italy, xv. 489

Orion, a celebrated giant, once a mighty hunter on earth, now set as a constellation in the heavens with his two hunting-dogs near him, and with a glittering sword girt about his waist, viii. 207; xiii. 294; the two daughters of Orion were Menippe and Metioche, who at a time of pestilence at Thebes slew themselves as a voluntary offering in the people’s stead, xiii. 692

Orios, one of the Lapithae, xii. 262

Orithyia, daughter of the Athenian king Erechtheus, sister of Procris, wooed and roughly carried off by Boreas, vi. 683, 707; vii. 695

Orucus, a centaur, xii. 302

Orontes, a river of Syria, ii. 248

Orpheus, a famous mythical musician of Thrace, son of Oeagrus (or of Apollo, xi. 8) and Calliope, husband of Eurydice; after her death he goes to the underworld to gain her back, x. 3 ff.; losing her a second time, he is inconsolable, and spends his time in playing on his lyre, x. 72 ff.; he is torn in pieces by the Ciconian women, xi. 1 ff.; his shade rejoins Eurydice in the underworld, xi. 61; he is called Rhodopeïus, x. 11; Threïcius, xi. 2; Apollineüs, xi. 8; Thracius, xi. 92

Orphne, a nymph of the underworld, mother of Ascalaphus by Acheron, v. 539

Ortygia: (1) one of the earlier names of the island of Delos, from ὄρτυξ, a quail, xv. 337; hence an epithet of Diana, who was born on Delos, i. 694: (2) a part of the city of Syracuse, lying on an island in the harbour, v. 499, 640

Osiris, an Egyptian deity, god of fertility, husband of Isis, ix. 693

Ossa, a mountain in Thessaly, i. 155; ii. 225; vii. 224; xii. 319

Othrys, a mountain in Thessaly, ii. 221; vii. 225, 353; xii. 173, 513

Pachynus, south-eastern promotory of Sicily, v. 351; xiii. 725

Pactolides, nymphs of the Pactolus, vi. 16

Pactolus, a river in Lydia, vi. 16; xi. 87

Padus, the Po, a river in Italy, ii. 258

Paean, a name of Apollo as the deity of healing, i. 566; a religious hymn in his honour, xiv. 720

Paeones, the Paeonians, a people of Northern Macedonia, v. 303, 313

Paeonius, an adjective from Paean as if from Paeon, belonging to Apollo as god of healing, and transferred to his son, Aesculaplus, xv. 535

Paestum, a city in Italy, in Lucania, xv. 708

Pagasaeus, from Pagasa, a maritime town of Thessaly, where the Argo was built, vii. 1; xii. 412; xiii. 24; an epithet of Jason from his native district, viii. 349

Palaemon, the sea-god into whom Melicerta was changed, iv. 542; called Athamantiades, since as a mortal he was the son of Athamas, xiii. 919

Palaestinus, of Palestine, and in general=Syrian, iv. 46; v. 145

Palamedes, the son of Nauplius, Naupliades, xiii. 39; he disclosed Ulysses’ trick of assumed madness before the Trojan war, xiii. 36 ff.; he himself suffered for this, for he was done to death through the treachery of Ulysses, who hid a store of gold in Palamedes’ tent and pretended that it was a bribe from Priam, xiii. 38, 56 ff., 308 ff.

Palatinus, of or belonging to the Palatine Hill, Palatine, xv. 560; = Latin, xiv. 622

Palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome, the Palatine Hill, xiv. 332, 882; since Augustus built his palace on this hill, the imperial palace came to be called Palatia, i. 176

Palici, sons of Jupiter and the nymph Thalia, worshipped in Sicily at Palica, where a temple and two lakes were sacred to them, v. 406

Palilia, the feast of Pales, the god of shepherds, celebrated on April 21, the day on which Rome was founded. xiv. 774

Palladium, an image of Pallas, said to have fallen from heaven at Troy; upon its preservation the safety of Troy was said by an oracle to depend; the image was captured by Ulysses and Diomede, xiii. 99, 337, 381

Palladius, belonging to Pallas, vii. 399, 723; viii. 275

Pallantias and Pallantis, Aurora as daughter of the Titan, Pallas, ix. 421; xv. 191, 700

Pallas (gen. Palladis), a surname of the Greek goddess Athene, corresponding to the Roman Minerva, used in Ovid interchangeably with Minerva; she hides the infant Erichthonius in a box and gives this to the daughters of Cecrops to guard, ii. 553 ff.; her festival at Athens, ii. 712; sends the hag Envy to punish Aglauros, ii. 752 ff.; Athens is named from her, ii. 834; bids Cadmus sow the teeth of the slain dragon in the ground, iii. 102; daughters of Minyas, scorning Bacchus, worship Pallas as representing household arts, iv. 38; she helps Perseus, who is here called her brother, v. 46; visits the Muses on Mount Helicon, who entertain her with various tales, v. 254 ff.; is a virgin goddess, v. 375; goddess of the arts, vi. 23; encounters Arachne, vi. 26 ff.; her armour described, vi. 78; gives olive-tree to Athens, vi. 81, 335; saves Perdix from death and changes him into a bird, viii. 252; used for her image, the Palladium, xiii. 99. See Minerva

Pallas (gen. Pallantis): (1) an Athenian prince, son of Pandion, vii. 500, 665; (2) a Titan, father of Aurora; see Pallantias and Pallantis

Pallene, a peninsula of Macedonia, xv. 356

Pan, the god of woods and shepherds, xi. 160; is himself half goat in form, xiv. 515; lives in mountain caves, xi. 147; xiv. 514; wears a wreath of pineneedles, i. 699; pursues the nymph Syrinx, who escapes him by being changed into marsh reeds, i. 701 ff.; makes the syrinx or “pipes of Pan” out of these reeds, i. 709 ff.; worshipped by Midas, xi. 147; challenges Apollo and is defeated in a contest with pipes and lyre, xi. 153 ff.; in plural, classed with Fauns and Satyrs, xiv. 638

Panchaeus, of Panchaia, an island east of Arabia, x. 309, 480

Pandion, a king of Athens, father of Procne and Philomela, vi. 426; gives Procne in marriage to the Thracian Tereus, vi. 428; entrusts Philomela to Tereus’ care, vi. 483; dies of woe for his daughters’ wrongs, vi. 676

Pandioniae, an epithet of Athens from its king, Pandion, xv. 430

Pandrosos, one of the daughters of Cecrops, ii. 559, 738

Panomphaeus, “author of all oracles,” an epithet of Jupiter, xi. 198

Panope, a city in Phocis, iii. 19

Panopeus, one of the Calydonian hunters, viii. 312

Panthoïdes, Euphorbus, son of Panthoüs, xv. 161

Paphius, belonging to Paphos, a city in the island of Cyprus sacred to Venus, Paphius heros, Pygmalion, x. 290

Paphos: (1) a city on the island of Cyprus, x. 290. 530; (2) son of Pygmalion and his ivory statue which was changed by Venus into a woman, x. 297

Paraetonium, a seaport town in Northern Africa, ix. 773

Parcae, three sisters, arbiters of human destiny, personification of fate; their decrees are unalterable, may be known and revealed by Jupiter, but he is powerless to change them, v. 532; viii. 452; xv. 781, 808; they were present at the birth of Meleager, viii. 452

Paris, the son of Priam and Hecuba, brother of Hector; stole away Helen, the wife of Menelails, and so brought war upon his country, xii. 4, 609; xiii. 200; by Apollo’s direction he shoots the fatal arrow at Achilles, xii. 601; saved by Venus in a cloud from death at the hands of Menelaüs, xv. 805

Parnasius, from or belonging to Parnasus, a mountain in Phocis, sacred to Apollo and the Muses; at its foot was the city of Delphi, where were Apollo’s temple and oracle, hence templa Parnasia, v. 278; Themis had held this oracle in ancient times before Apollo, i. 321; hence she also is called Parnasia, iv. 643

Parnasus, a mountain in Phocis, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, i. 317, 467; ii. 221; iv. 643; v. 278; xi. 165, 339

Paros, an island of the Cyclades, celebrated for its marble, iii. 419; vii. 465; viii. 221

Parrhasis, Parrhasius, of Parrhasia, a town in Arcadia, = Arcadian, ii. 460; viii. 315

Parthaon, king of Calydon, father of Oeneus, ix. 12; his house was exterminated by the wrath of Diana, viii. 542

Parthenius, a mountain in Arcadia, ix. 188

Parthenope, an old name for the city of Naples, xiv. 101; xv. 712

Pasiphaë, daughter of the Sun, ix. 736; wife of Minos, mother of Phaedra, xv. 500; through the spite of Venus she was inspired with a mad passion for a beautiful bull, viii. 136; ix. 736; which she gratified by means of a wooden cow framed for her by Daedalus, viii. 132; ix. 740; of this union the Minotaur was born, viii. 133, 169. See Minotaur and Theseus

Pasiphaëia, Phaedra, daughter of Pasiphaë, xv. 500

Patareüs, of Patara, a city in Lydia, i. 516

Patrae, an ancient city in Achaia, vi. 417

Patroclus, a friend of Achilles; clad in the armour of the latter, drives back the Trojans, xiii. 273. See Actorides

Peacock, the bird sacred to Juno; after the death of Argus Juno places his numerous eyes in the peacock’s tail, i. 723; ii. 533

Pegasus, a winged horse sprung from the blood of Medusa when her head was struck off by Perseus; at the same time there came forth Chrysaor, brother of Pegasus, iv. 786; v. 259; Neptune is said to have been the father of these, vi. 119; the spring Hippocrene, “horse’s fountain,” on Mount Helicon sprang forth from the stroke of his hoof, v. 257

Pelagon, one of the Calydonian hunters, viii. 360

Pelasgi, one of the most ancient peoples of Greece, = Grecians, vii. 49, 133; xii. 7, 19, 612; xiii. 128, 268; xiv. 562; xv. 452

Pelates: (1) a companion of Phineus, v. 124; (2) one of the Lapithae, xii. 255

Pelethronius, belonging to a region of Thessaly inhabited by the centaurs and the Lapithae, xii. 452

Peleus, son of Aeacus, Aeacides, xi. 227, 246; brother of Telamon and half-brother of Phocus, vii. 477; xiii. 151; husband of Thetis, story of his wooing, xi. 217 ff., 260; xii. 193; he is thus the son-in-law of Nereus as well as the grandson of Jupiter, xi. 219; the father of Achilles, xi. 265; xii. 605, 619; xiii. 155; and is surpassed by him, xv. 856; he took part in the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 309, 380; and in the battle of the centaurs and Lapithae, xii. 366, 388; accidentally killed his half-brother, Phocus, son of the Nereid Psamathe, fled from home and found asylum with Ceyx, king of Trachin, xi. 266 ff.; here his cattle, herded on the seashore, are attacked by a monstrous wolf sent by Psamathe, xi. 349 ff.; the hero finally gains absolution for his bloodguiltiness at the hands of Acastus, king of Thessaly, xi. 409

Pelias, half-brother of Aeson, whom he had driven from the throne of Iolchos in Thessaly; he sends Aeson’s son, Jason, on the dangerous quest of the Golden Fleece; Medea, brought back by Jason from Colchis, plots against the life of Pelias, and works his destruction by the hands of his own daughters, vii. 297ff.

Pelides, Achilles, son of Pelcus, xii. 605, 619

Pelion, a high mountain in Thessaly, i. 155; vii. 224, 352; xii. 74

Pellaeus, of Pella, a city in Macedonia, v. 302; xii. 254

Pelopeïas, Pelopeïus, belonging to Pelops, vi. 414; viii. 622

Pelops, son of Tantalus, brother of Niobe; in his childhood his father cut him in pieces and served him to the gods in order to test their divinity; the gods perceived the hoax at once, but Ceres abstractedly ate a piece of the boy’s shoulder; the boy was made whole again by the gods, and the lost shoulder replaced by a piece of ivory, vi. 404 ff.

Pelorus, a promontory on the north-east coast of Sicily, v. 350; xiii. 727; xv. 706

Penates, old Latin guardian deities of the household whose images were kept within the central part of the house, i. 231; iii. 539; viii. 91; xv. 864; used more commonly by metonymy for the house or home itself, i. 174, 773; v. 155, 496, 650; vii. 574; viii. 637; ix. 446, 639; xii. 551

Peneïs and Peneïa, belonging to the river-god Peneus; his daughter, the nymph Daphne, i. 452, 472, 525; ii. 504; Peneïdas undas, i. 544; Peneïa arva, xii. 209

Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, daughter-in-law of Laërtes, viii. 315; Hecuba bewails that she is to be a gift to Penelope, xiii. 511

Peneus, a river in Thessaly, rising on Pindus and flowing through the beautiful valley of Tempe, i. 569; vii. 230; xii. 209; the river-god, father of Daphne, i. 452; receives condolences of other rivers on loss of Daphne, i. 574 ff.; suffers from conflagration caused by Phaëthon, ii. 243

Pentheus, son of Echion and Agave, king of Thebes; flouts Tiresias and is warned by him not to oppose Bacchus, iii. 513 ff.; opposes introduction of Bacchic rites, iii. 531 ff.; goes to Cithacron to spy on the Bacchanals, and is torn in pieces by his crazed mother and the other women, iii. 701 ff.; iv. 429

Peparethus, an island north of Euboea, vii. 470

Perdix, son of the sister of Daedalus, very inventive; his uncle in envy pushed him off a cliff, but Minerva saved him from death by changing him into a bird, viii. 237 ff.

Pergamum, Pergama, the citadel of Troy, more frequently used for Troy itself, xii. 445, 591; xiii. 169, 219, 320, 374, 507, 520; xiv. 467; xv. 442

Pergus, a lake in Sicily near the city of Enna, v. 386

Periclymenus, son of Nelcus, brother of Nestor, grandson of Neptune, from whom he had the power of changing his shape; in the form of an eagle he was killed by an arrow of Hercules, xii. 556

Perimele, daughter of Hippodamas, loved by the river-god Achcloüs, and changed by Neptune at her lover’s prayer into an island, viii. 590 ff.

Periphas: (1) an ancient Attic king, held in so high honour by his people that he excited the enmity of Jupiter, who would have killed him, but at Apollo’s request he changed him into an eagle and his wife Phene into an osprey, vii. 400; (2) one of the Lapithae, xii. 449

Periphetes, a monstrous son of Vulcan who lived at Epidaurus and slew all travellers with an iron club until he was himself slain by Theseus, vii. 437

Perseïs, Hecate, daughter of the Titan Perses, vii. 74

Perseïus, belonging to Perseus, his camp or party, v. 128

Persephone, the Greek name for Proserpina, v. 470; x. 15, 730

Perseus, son of Danaë and Jupiter, who appeared to her in the form of a golden shower, iv. 610, 640; v. 250; vi, 113; grandson of Acrisius, iv. 613; relates how he gained the Gorgon-head, iv. 772 ff.; flies through the air bearing the Gorgon-head, which petrifies all who look upon it, iv. 615; he is equipped with the wings and sword of Mercury, iv. 665; and the bronze shield of Minerva, iv. 782; Minerva was his helper in all his adventures, v. 250; his adventure with Atlas, whom he changes into a rocky mountain, iv. 632 ff.; he finds Andromeda chained to a rock, fights and kills the sea-monster which had been sent to devour her, and claims the maiden as his wife, iv. 670 ff.; Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, father of Andromeda, joyfully receives him as son-in-law, iv. 738; he fights Phineus and his friends, who try to break the proposed marriage, and finally overcomes them by the aid of the Gorgon-head, v. 1 ff.; drives Proetus from the throne of Acrisius and slays him with sight of the Gorgon-head, v. 236 ff.; in like manner he slays Polydectes, v. 242 ff.; his epithets are: Abantiades, Acrisioniades, Agenorides, Danaëius, Inachides, Lyncides

Persis, Persian, i. 62

Petraeus, a centaur, xii. 327, 330

Pettalus, a companion of Phineus, v. 115 (correctly Pedasus)

Peucetius, of Peucetia, a region in Apulia, xiv. 514

Phaeaces, the Phaeacians, the fabled inhabitants of the island of Scheria, who lived in great luxury, xiii. 719

Phaedimus, one of the seven sons of Niobe, vi. 239

Phaedra, daughter of Pasiphaë and Minos, wife of Theseus; loved her stepson Hippolytus, and being repulsed accused him to his father and so brought him to death, xv. 500 ff.

Phaeocomcs, a centaur, xii. 431

Phaestias, Phaestius, of Phaestus, a city of Crete, ix. 669, 716

Phaëthon, grandson of Tethys, ii. 156; son of Phoebus and Clymene, the wife of the Ethiopian king Merops, i. 751, 763, 771; ii. 19, 43, 184; goes to Phoebus and asks for proofs of his sonship, ii. 35; granted anything he may desire, he asks for permission to drive the chariot of his father for one day, ii. 48 ff.; starts on his course through the sky, ii. 150 ff.; hurled from the chariot and killed by the thunderbolt of Jupiter, ii. 311 ff.; falls to earth on the bank of the Po, where the Naiads find and bury him, ii. 324 ff.

Phaëthonteüs, pertaining to Phaëthon, his fires, iv. 246

Phaëthontis, pertaining to Phaëthon; volucris, the bird of Phaëthon—that is, the swan, into which Cycnus, son of Sthenelus, grieving for the death of Phaëthon, was changed, xii. 581

Phaëthusa, one of the Heliades, sisters of Phaëthon, ii. 346

Phantasos, a son of Somnus, xi. 642

Pharos, a little island near Alexandria in Egypt, ix. 773; xv. 287

Pharsalia, the region about Pharsalus, a city in Thessaly, where Caesar defeated Pompey in 48 b.c., xv. 823

Phasias, an epithet of Medea from the Phasis, a river of her native Colchis, vii. 298

Phasis, a river in Colchis, ii. 249; vii. 6, 298

Phegeïus, belonging to Phegeus, king of Psophis in Arcadia; his daughter was Alphesiboea, the first wife of Alcmaeon, who left her to marry Callirhoë, and was slain by the brothers of Alphesiboea; hence the “sword of Phegeus,” in the hands of his sons, is said to have drained his kinsman’s (i.e. his son-in-law’s) blood, ix. 412

Phegiacus, from the city of Phegia in Arcadia, ii. 244

Phene, wife of Periphas, vii. 399

Pheretiades, Admetus, son of Pheres, king of Pherae in Thessaly, one of the Calydonian hunters, viii. 310

Phiale, a nymph in the train of Diana, iii. 172

Philammon, son of Apollo and Chione, celebrated for his gift of song, xi. 317

Philemon and Baucis, a pious old couple in Phrygia who entertained Jupiter and Mercury, viii. 618 ff.

Philippi, a city in Macedonia, where Octavianus and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42 b.c., xv. 824

Philoctetes, son of Poeas, ix. 233; xiii. 45, 313; a friend of Hercules, set fire to the hero’s pyre on Mount Oeta, and received the famous bow and arrows, ix. 233; xiii. 51; on the way to Troy he was bitten by a snake at Lemnos, and by the advice of Ulysses he was abandoned there by the Greeks, xiii. 46, 313 ff.; here he dragged out a wretched existence until in the tenth year of the war, in accordance with an oracle that Troy could not be taken without the arrows of Hercules, Ulysses went to Lemnos and persuaded Philoctetes to join the Greeks at Troy, xiii. 54, 313, 329, 402

Philomela, daughter of Pandion, sister of Procne, imprisoned and outraged by her sister’s husband Tereus while on the way from Athens in his company to visit her sister, vi. 440 ff.; manages to send news of her plight to Procne, vi. 572 ff.; rescued by her sister, she plans with her a terrible revenge on Tereus, vi. 601 ff.; pursued by Tereus, she is changed into a nightingale, vi. 668

Philyra, a nymph, daughter of Oceanus, whom Saturn loved, changing her into a mare and himself into a horse; their son was Chiron, the centaur, ii. 676; vi. 126

Philyreïus heros, Chiron, son of Philyra, ii. 676; Philyreïa tecta = the home of Chiron, vii. 353

Phineus: (1) brother of the Ethiopian king Cepheus, uncle of Andromeda, to whom he had been betrothed before the coming of Perseus; with a band of followers he attacks Perseus at the wedding feast, and with all hiscompanions is finally repulsed, petrified by the sight of the Gorgon-head, v. 1 ff.; (2) a king of Salmydessus in Thrace, a blind prophet who had received the gift of prophecy from Apollo; he was tormented by the Harpies, who were sent to punish him because of his cruelty towards his sons; when the Argonauts asked instruction from him on their way to Colchis, he promised this if they would deliver him from the Harpies; accordingly the winged sons of Boreas, Zetes and Calaïs, drove the pests far away to the island of the Strophades, vii. 3

Phlegethon, a river of the lower world, v. 544; xv. 532

Phlegraeus, a centaur, xii. 378

Phlegraeus, of Phlegra, a region of Macedonia, x. 151

Phlegyae, a robber people of Thessaly who destroyed the temple at Delphi, xi. 414

Phlegyas, a companion of Phineus, v. 87

Phobetor, a son of Somnus, xi. 640

Phocis, a country in Greece between Boeotia and Aetolia, i. 313; ii. 569; v. 276; xi. 348

Phocus, son of Aeacus and the Nereid Psamathe, half-brother of Telamon and Peleus, vii. 477, 668, 685, 690; he was accidentally killed by Peleus, xi. 267

Phoebe, a name for Diana, twin sister of Phoebus Apollo, vi. 216; xii. 36; the goddess of the moon, ii. 723; virgin huntress, i. 476; ii. 415; by metonymy for the moon, i. 11. See Diana

Phoebus, a familiar name of Apollo, i. 451, 463; v. 330; vi. 122, 215; xv. 550; especially as the Sun-god, i. 752; ii. 24, 36, 399; hence frequently by metonymy for the sun itself, i. 338; ii. 110; iii. 151; iv. 349, 715; xi. 595; xiv. 416; the oracular god, iii. 8, 10, 18; xiii. 677; xv. 631; Cassandra is called antistita Phoebi, “the high priestess of Phoebus,” because the god had given her the power of prophecy, xiii. 410; Anius is antistes or high priest at Delos, xiii. 632; as god of the harp he contests against the pipes of Pan, xi. 164; god of the bow, viii. 31, 350; xiii. 501; called domesticus, because Augustus in 12 b.c. erected a temple to the god on the Palatine and included him among his penates, xv. 865

Phoenissa, Phoenix, of Phoenicia, Phoenician, iii. 46; xv. 288

Phoenix, son of Amyntor of Thessaly, companion of Achilles, present at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 307

Phoenix bird, the story of its birth, life, and death, xv. 393 ff.

Pholus, a centaur, xii. 306

Phorbas: (1) a companion of Phineus, v. 74; (2) leader of the Phlegyae, who plundered the temple of Apollo at Delphi, xi. 414; (3) a centaur, xii. 322

Phorcides, the Graeae, daughters of Phorcys, who had but one eye among them, iv. 775

Phorcynis, Medusa as daughter of Phorcys, iv. 743; v. 230

Phoronis, an epithet of Io as sister of Phoroneus, son of Inachus, king of Argos, i. 668; ii. 524

Phrixea vellera, “the fleece of Phrixus”—that is, the golden fleece of the ram on which Phrixus, son of Athamas and Nephele, brother of Helle, escaped with his sister from his stepmother’s machinations and fled through the air to Colchis, where he sacrificed the ram to Jupiter and gave the wonderful fleece to King Aeetes, vii. 7

Phryges, the Phrygians, xi. 91; more frequently by metonymy = the Trojans, xii. 70, 612; xiii. 389, 435; xv. 452

Phrygia, a country in Asia Minor, vi. 146, 166, 177; viii. 162, 621; xi. 91; xv. 452; Phrygius = Trojan, x. 155; xi. 203; xii. 39, 70, 148, 612; xiii. 44, 337, 389, 432, 435, 579, 721; xiv. 79, 562; xv. 444

Phthia, a city in Thessaly, the birthplace of Achilles, xiii. 156

Phyleus, one of the Calydonian hunters, viii. 308

Phylleüs, an epithet of Caeneus from the Thessalian town of Phyllos, xii. 479

Phylius, friend of Cycnus (2), vii. 372

Picus, son of Saturn, ancient king of Latium, husband of Canens, repulsed the love of Circe and was changed by her into a woodpecker, xiv. 320 ff.

Pierus, a king of Emathia; he had nine daughters, called Emathides from the name of their country, v. 669; these daughters also called (though not in the Metamorphoses) by the patronymic epithet Pierides, a name borne by the Muses also from Pieria, the earliest seat of the worship of the Muses; the daughters of Pierus challenge the Muses to a contest in song, are defeated and changed into magpies, v. 300 ff.

Pindus, a mountain in Thessaly, i. 570; ii. 225; vii. 225; xi. 554

Piraeus, the harbour of Athens, vi. 446

Pirene, a famous spring near Corinth, ii. 240; vii. 391

Pirenis, belonging to Pirene, a fountain on the citadel of Corinth, sacred to the Muses, ii. 240; vii. 391

Pirithoüs, son of Ixion, viii. 403, 566, 613; xii. 210; king of the Lapithae in Thessaly, friend of Theseus, viii. 303, 404; xii. 229; was present with his friend at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 404; was in the group entertained by Acheloüs, viii. 567; his marriage with Hippodamia was the occasion of the great battle of the centaurs (who had been invited to the wedding, and one of whom attempted violence on the bride) and the Lapithae, followers of Pirithoüs, xii. 210 ff.

Pisa, a city in Elis, v. 409, 494

Pisces, a constellation, the Fish, the twelfth sign of the Zodiac, x. 78; used also collectively in the singular, Piscis, x. 165

Pisenor, a centaur, xii. 303

Pitane, a city on the Aeolic coast of Asia Minor, vii. 357

Pithecusae, an island not far from Cumae, xiv. 90

Pittheus, king of Troezen, son of Pelops, grandfather of Theseus, vi. 418; viii. 622; xv. 296, 506

Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and the ocean-nymph Pleione; they form a small constellation in the neck of Taurus, and are represented on the shield of Achilles, xiii. 293; their names were Maia, Electra, Taÿgeta, Haleyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope; of these reference is made in the Metamorphoses to two only, Maia (but not by name), the mother by Jupiter of Mercury, i. 670; and Taÿgeta, iii. 595; Niobe boasts that her mother (Dione) is a sister of the Pleiades, i.e. she is one of the Hyades, vi. 174

Pleione, daughter of Oceanus, wife of Atlas, mother of the Pleiades, ii. 743

Pleuron, a city in Aetolia, vii. 382; xiv. 494

Plexippus, son of Thestius, brother of Althaea, killed by his nephew, Meleager, for insulting Atalanta, viii. 440

Poeantiades, Philoctetes, son of Poeas, xiii. 313

Poeantia proles, the same as the preceding, xiii. 45

Poeas, the father of Philoctetes, ix. 233

Polites, a companion of Ulysses, xiv. 251

Polydaemon: a false reading in v. 85 for Polydegmon

Polydamas, a Trojan, son of Panthoüs and friend of Hector, xii. 547 (rather Puly-)

Polydectes, a ruler of Seriphus, petrified by a look at the Gorgon-head, v. 242

Polydegmon, a companion of Phineus, v. 85

Polydorus, son of Priam and Hecuba; when the Trojan war came on he was sent with a large treasure for safe keeping to Polymestor, but later was murdered by him and his dead body cast out upon the seashore, xiii. 432 ff.; Hecuba thinks of him as her only comfort left after the death of Polyxena, xiii. 530; and immediately thereafter finds his dead body on the shore, xiii. 536; Aeneas sails past the scene of his murder, xiii. 629

Polymestor, a king of Thrace, husband of Ilione, daughter of Priam; murders Polydorus to gain the treasure consigned with him, xiii. 430; Hecuba, finding out the crime, works terrible vengeance on the murderer, xiii. 549 ff.

Polypemon, father of Sciron, grand-father of Alcyone (neptem Polypemonis); Sciron pushed his daughter into the sea, charging her with unchastity, and she was changed into a halcyon, vii. 401

Polyphemus, one of the Cyclopes, sons of Neptune, a race of fabulous one-eyed giants living in Sicily; his wooing of Galatea, xiii. 744 ff.; warned by Telemus that he is destined to lose his eye at the hands of Ulysses, xiii. 771; his encounter with Ulysses’ band described by Achaemenides, xiv. 167 ff.

Polyxena, daughter of Priam and Hecuba; at the command of the shade of Achilles she was sacrificed upon his tomb, xiii. 448 ff.

Pomona, a beautiful wood-nymph of Latium, devoted to horticulture, wooed by many suitors and won by Vertumnus, xiv. 623 ff.

Pompeius Sextus, the second son of Pompey the Great, conquered in the year 36 b.c., in a sea-fight off Sicily between Mylae and Naulochus, by Agrippa, the admiral of Augustus, xv. 825

Pontus, the Black Sea, hence a kingdom in Asia Minor bordering on that sea, xv. 756

Priameïa coniunx, Hecuba, wife of Priam, xiii. 404

Priamides, Helenus, son of Priam, xiii. 99, 723; xv. 438; in plural, Priamidae, the sons of Priam, xiii. 482

Priamus, Priam, the son of Laomedon, last king of Troy, xi. 757; husband of Hecuba, by whom he had numerous sons and daughters, notably, as mentioned in the Metamorphoses, Hector, Paris, Helenus, Polydorus, Deïphobus, Cassandra and Polyxena; Aesacus was the son of Priam by Alexiroë; Priam, not aware that he has been changed into a bird, mourns his loss, xii. 1; he would have given Helen back at the demand of Ulysses, but was overborne by the younger party, xiii. 201; on the night of the fall of Troy he was killed by Pyrrhus at the altar of Jupiter in the court of his own palace, xiii. 404

Priapus, god of gardens and vineyards, in which his statues are set as a sort of scarecrow to frighten thieves, xiv. 640; Lotis, in terror of his pursuit, escapes by being changed into a tree, ix. 347

Proca, an Alban king, father of Numitor and Amulius, xiv. 622

Prochyte, an island off the coast of Campania, xiv. 89

Procne, daughter of Pandion, married Tereus under evil omens, vi. 428 ff.; mother of Itys, vi. 437; gets news of her sister’s wrongs and plans a terrible revenge on her husband, vi. 580 ff.; pursued by her husband, she is changed into a swallow, vi. 668

Procris, daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens, vii. 697; sister of Orithyia, vii. 695; wife of Cephalus, vi. 682; the story of the devoted love of Procris and Cephalus and its tragic end, vii. 694 ff.

Procrustes, a famous robber who compelled all passers-by to lie on a couch to which he fitted them either by cutting off or stretching out their bodies; he was slain by Theseus, vii. 438

Proetides, daughters of Proetus; being punished with madness by Juno for their pride, they imagined themselves to be cows; they were restored to sanity by the soothsayer, Melampus, the son of Amythaon, xv. 326

Proetus, the twin brother of Acrisius, drove the latter from his throne of Argos, but was petrified by a sight of the Gorgon-head in the hands of Perseus, v. 238

Prometheus, the son of Iapetus, represented as making man out of clay, i. 82; father of Deucalion, i. 390

Promethides, Deucalion, son of Prometheus, i. 390

Propoetides, girls of Amathus who denied the divinity of Venus and by her wrath were driven to prostitution and later changed to stones, x. 221, 238

Proreus, one of Acoetes’ sailors, iii. 634

Proserpina, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter, v. 376, 514; carried away by Pluto and made his queen in the lower world, v. 391 ff.; terms of her return to the upper world settled by Jupiter, v. 530; she is to spend her time equally on earth and in Hades, v. 564; she changes Ascalaphus into a screech-owl, v. 544; she is now queen of the lower world, v. 543; x. 46. See Persephone

Protesilaüs, a Thessalian chief, slain by Hector’s spear, the first of the Greeks to fall in the Trojan war, xii. 68

Proteus, a sea-god, capable of changing into many forms, ii. 9; viii. 731; xi. 221; xiii. 918; called the “Carpathian seer” because of his prophetic gift and his favourite haunt near the island of Carpathos in the Aegean Sea, xi. 249

Prothoënor, a courtier of Cepheus, v. 98

Prytanis, a Lycian, xiii. 258

Psamathe, a Nereid, mother by Aeacus of Phocus, whom his half-brother Peleus accidentally killed; she sends a monster wolf to harry the cattle of Peleus, xi. 380, 398

Psecas, a nymph in Diana’s train, iii. 172

Psophis, a city in Arcadia, v. 607

Pygmaeus, a Pigmy, one of a fabulous tribe of dwarfs who had constant strife against the cranes, vi. 90

Pygmalion, a Cyprian, who made a beautiful ivory maiden and fell in love with it; through the grace of Venus the statue was changed into a human maid, x. 243 ff.

Pylos, a city in Elis, the home of Nestor, ii. 684; vi. 418; viii. 365; xii. 537, 542, 550

Pyracmus, a centaur, xii. 460

Pyraethus, a centaur, xii. 449

Pyramus and Thisbe, story of, iv. 55 ff.

Pyreneus, king of Thrace, who assaulted the Muses, v. 274 ff.

Pyroïs, one of the horses of the Sun-god, ii. 153

Pyrrha, daughter of the Titan Epimetheus, called thence Titania, i. 395; Epimethis, i. 390; wife of Deucalion, i. 350

Pyrrhus, son of Achilles and Deïdamia, daughter of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, at whose court Achilles’ mother had hidden her son disguised as a girl, xiii. 155

Pythagoras, a famous Greek philosopher of Samos who took up his residence at Crotona in Italy, where Numa came to be his pupil; his philosophy recounted at length, xv. 60 ff.; he claimed to be the reincarnation of Euphorbus, xv. 161

Pythia, the Pythian games, celebrated at Delphi in honour of Apollo every four years in commemoration of his conquest of the Python, i. 447

Python, a huge serpent spontaneously generated from the fresh slime of the earth after the flood, killed by Apollo, i. 438 ff.; gave name to Pythian games, i. 447

Quirinus, the name under which the Romans worshipped the deified Romulus, xiv. 828, 834, 851; xv. 862; the son of Mars, xv. 863; turba and Populus Quirini = the Romans, xiv. 607; xv. 756; collis Quirini = the Quirinal Hill, xiv. 836

Quirites, and collectively Quires, the Cures or Sabines, used commonly = Romans, after the union of the Sabines with the people of Romulus, xiv. 823; xv. 600

Remulus, an Alban king, xiv. 616

Rhadamanthus, a son of Jupiter and Europa, brother of Minos; Jupiter grieves that he cannot grant him immortality on earth, ix. 436, 440

Rhamnusia, a name of Nemesis from her temple at Rhamnus in Attica, iii. 406

Rhamnusis = Rhamnusia, xiv. 694

Rhanis, a nymph in the train of Diana, iii. 171

Rhegion, a city in the southern part of Calabria on the Sicilian Strait, xiv. 5, 48

Rhesus, a Thracian king of whom the oracle had said that if his horses should have drunk of the water of the Xanthus Troy could not be taken; Ulysses and Diomede frustrated this oracle by killing Rhesus and capturing his horses, xiii. 98, 249

Rhexenor, a companion of Diomede changed by Venus into a bird, xiv. 504

Rhodanus, the Rhone, a river in Gaul, ii. 258

Rhodope, once a man, changed into a mountain in punishment of his impious presumption, vi. 87; mentioned elsewhere as a mountain in Thrace, ii. 222; vi. 589; x. 11, 50, 77

Rhodopeïus, an epithet of Orpheus, from Rhodope, a mountain of his native Thrace, x. 11, 50

Rhodos, an island off the southwestern coast of Asia Minor, vii. 365

Rhoeteüs, of Rhoeteum, a promontory in the Troad, xi. 197

Rhoetus: (1) a companion of Phineus, v. 38; (2) a centaur, xii. 271, 285

Ripheus, a centaur, xii. 352

Roma, Rome, i. 201; xiv. 800, 809, 840; xv. 431, 637, 654, 736

Romanus, the Roman people, xv. 637, 654; Rome’s greatness prophesied, xv. 444 ff.

Romethium, a place in Italy, xv. 705

Romuleüs, belonging to Romulus; colles, the Quirinal Hill, xiv. 845; urbs = Rome, xv. 625

Romulus, son of Mars, xv. 863; and of Ilia (Iliades), xiv. 781, 824; called genitor, father of the Roman people, xv. 862; he fights against the Sabines, xiv. 799; his spear-shaft, fixed in the ground, puts forth leaves and is changed to a tree, xv. 561 ff.; at the instance of Mars he is received into the company of the gods, xiv. 806 ff. See Quirinus

Rutuli, a people of Latium whose chief city was Ardea and whose hero was Turnus, xiv. 455, 528, 567

Sabaeus, of the Sabeans, a people in Arabia Felix, x. 480

Sabini, the Sabines, a people of Central Italy, connected with the early history of Rome, xiv. 775, 797, 800, 832; xv. 4

Salamis, a city on the island of Cyprus, founded by Teucer, who came from the island of Salamis, xiv. 760

Sallentinus, of the Sallentines, a people of Calabria, xv. 50

Salmacis, a pool in Caria whose waters were enfeebling, iv. 286; xv. 319; a nymph of the pool who was enamoured of Hermaphroditus, iv. 306 ff.

Samius, an epithet of Pythagoras, a celebrated philosopher of Samos, xv. 60. See Pythagoras

Samos: (1) an island off the coast of Asia Minor, famed as the birthplace of Pythagoras, sacred also to Juno, viii. 221; xv. 60, 61; (2) an island in the Ionian Sea under the dominion of Ulysses, xiii. 711

Sardes (Sardis), the ancient capital of Lydia, xi. 137, 152

Sarpedon, a Lycian chief, son of Jupiter and Europa, killed by Patroclus before Troy; Ulysses boasts that he harried his band, xiii. 255

Saturnia, an epithet of Juno as the daughter of Saturn, i. 612, 616, 722; ii. 435, 531; iii. 271, 293, 333, 365; iv. 448, 464; v. 330; ix. 176; xiv. 782

Saturnius, belonging to Saturn; applied (1) to Jupiter, i. 163; viii. 703; ix. 242; (2) to Pluto, v. 420; (3) to Picus as the son of Saturn, proles Saturnia, xiv. 320

Saturnus, son of Heaven and Earth, ruler of the universe during the Golden Age; he was dethroned by his three sons (Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, who shared his kingdom by lot among themselves) and sent to Tartara, i. 113; his wife was Ops, his sister, ix. 498; his children by her were the three sons mentioned above, also Juno, Ceres, and Vesta; Chiron, by Philyra, ii. 676; vi. 126; and Picus, xiv. 320

Schoeneïa, Atalanta, daughter of Schoeneus, king of Boeotia, x. 609, 660

Sciron, a famous robber on the rocky coast between Megaris and Attica, who threw his victims over high cliffs into the sea; Theseus treated him in the same way; his bones were changed to rocks which bore his name, vii. 444, 447

Scylla: (1) daughter of the nymph Crataeis, xiii. 749; remarkable for her beauty and sought by many suitors, xiii. 734 ff.; wooed by Glaucus, a sea-divinity, xiii. 900 ff.; repulses him, xiii. 967; Glaucus appeals to Circe for aid in his suit, xiv. 18 ff.; Circe offers her own love to Glaucus, but, being repulsed by him, takes revenge by changing Scylla into a frightful monster; she is fixed in place, a woman’s form begirt with baying heads of dogs, vii. 65; xiii. 732; xiv. 59 ff.; this monster takes toll of the men of Ulysses, thinking thus to harm Circe, xiv. 70; Scylla was subsequently changed to a dangerous rock in the same place, on the Italian side of the straits of Sicily, opposite Charybdis, xiv. 73; (2) daughter of Nisus of Megara, who for love of Minos, who was besieging her native city, cut off her father’s purple lock, on which his safety depended, and gave it to Minos; scorned by him, she was transformed into the bird Ciris, viii. 11 ff.

Scyros: (1) an island north-east of Euboea, xiii. 156; (2) a town in Asia Minor, xiii. 175

Scythia, the country of the Scythians, lying in Northern Europe and Asia beyond the Black Sea, i. 64; ii. 224; v. 649; vii. 407; viii. 788; x. 588; xiv. 331; xv. 285, 360

Semele, daughter of Cadmus, beloved by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus, destroyed by Juno’s wiles, iii. 261 ff.

Semeleïus, an epithet of Bacchus from his mother, Semele, iii. 520; v. 329; ix. 641

Semiramis, a mythical queen of Babylon, daughter of Dercetis; was changed at last into a white dove, iv. 47; surrounded Babylon with walls of brick, iv. 58; her husband was Ninus, iv. 88; she was the ancestress of Polydaemon, v. 85

Seriphos, an island of the Cyolades, v. 242, 251; vii. 464

Serpens, a northern constellation, ii. 173. See Anguis

Sibylla, the priestess of Apollo at his temple in Cumae; is visited by Aeneas, guides him through the lower world, and tells him the story of Apollo’s love and her foolish choice of a gift, xiv. 104 ff.; xv. 712

Sicania, a name for Sicily, v. 464, 495; xiii. 724; xv. 279

Sicelis, Siculus, Sicilian, v. 361, 412; vii. 65; viii. 283; xiii. 770; xiv. 7; xv. 706, 825

Sicyonius, of the city of Sicyon in the Peloponnesus, iii. 216

Sidon, a city in Phoenicia, ii. 840; iii. 129; iv. 543, 572; x. 267; xiv. 80

Sidonis, an epithet of Dido as one who came from the Phoenician city of Sidon, xiv. 80

Sidonius, an epithet applied to Cadmus, who came from Phoenicia, iii. 129; to the Theban companions of Ino, because they were derived from Phoenician stock of Cadmus and his companions, iv. 543

Sigeïus, Sigeüs, of Sigeum, a promontory in the Troad, xi. 197; xii. 71; xiii. 3

Silenus, a satyr, the foster-father of Bacchus, iv. 26; kindly entertained by Midas, xi. 90 ff.

Silver Age, described, i. 114 ff.

Silvius, son of Ascanius, king of Alba, xiv. 610

Simoïs, a river near Troy, xiii. 324

Sinis, an Isthmian robber who bound travellers to tree-tops, bent these down, and shot his victims into the air; he was killed by Theseus, vii. 440

Sinuessa, a town in Campania, xv. 715

Siphnos, an island of the Cyclades, vii. 466

Sipylus, one of the seven sons of Niobe, named after a mountain in his mother’s native Lydia, vi. 149, 231

Sirenes, daughters of Acheloüs (Acheloïdes, v. 552), companions of the maiden Proserpina; when she was lost, having searched the land over for her, at their own request they were changed to birds that they might search over the sea also, v. 552 ff.; they were exceedingly skilled in song, v. 555; the “rocks of the Sirens” were three small rocky islands off the coast of Campania, from which, by their sweet voices, the Sirens were said to lure passing sailors to their destruction, xiv. 88

Sirinus, of Siris, a town and river in Lucania, xv. 52

Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, xiii, 26; brother of Athamas, iv. 466; he was famous for his cunning and robberies, xiii. 32; for which he was punished in Hades by the endless task of rolling a stone up a hill, which always rolled back again, iv. 460 ff.; x. 44; xiii. 26; he was supposed to have seduced Anticlea, the mother of Ulysses, and to have been himself the father of Ulysses, xiii. 32

Sithon, an otherwise unknown creature, now woman and now man, iv. 280

Sithonius, of the Sithonians, a people of Thrace, =Thracian, vi. 588; xiii. 571

Smilax. See Crocus

Smintheus, an epithet of Apollo, “the mouse-killer,” xii. 585

Sol, the Sun-god, son of Hyperion, iv. 192, 241, 245, 257; xv. 30; father of Circe, xiv. 10, 33, 346, 375; of Pasiphaë, ix. 376; of Aeetes, vii. 96; this god is frequently confused with Phoebus Apollo, i. 751 ff.; ii. 1 ff., 394

Somnus, the god of Sleep, his house and retinue described, xi. 593 ff.

Sparta, the chief city of Laconia, called also Lacedaemon, iii. 208; vi. 414; x. 170, 217; xv. 426

Sperchios, a river in Thessaly, i. 579; ii. 250; v. 86; vii. 230

Stabiae, a city on the Bay of Naples, xv. 711

Strophades, two small islands in the Ionian Sea, where the Trojans encountered the Harpies, xiii. 709

Strymon, a river in Thrace, ii. 257

Stymphalis, of Stymphalus, a district in Arcadia with a town, mountain, and lake of the same name, the haunt of certain odious birds killed by Hercules, ix. 187

Styphelus, a centaur, xii. 459

Styx, a river of the world of the dead, used also by metonymy for the lower world and for death itself, i. 139, 189, 737; ii. 46, 101; iii. 76, 272, 290, 504, 695; iv. 434, 437; v. 504; vi. 662; x. 13, 313, 697; xi. 500; xii. 322; xiv. 155, 591; xv. 154, 791

Surrentinus, of Surrentum, a town on the Bay of Naples, xv. 710

Sybaris, a town and river in Italy near Tarentum, xv. 51, 315

Syenites, the inhabitants of Syene in Upper Egypt, v. 74

Symaethis, a daughter of the river-god Symaethus in Sicily, mother of Acis, xiii. 750

Symaethius, of Symaethus, a town in Sicily, xiii. 879

Symphlegades, two rocky islands in the Euxine Sea, which, according to fable, clashed together whenever any object passed between them, vii. 62; xv. 338

Syrinx, a nymph of Arcadia, beloved and pursued by Pan, i. 689 ff.; changed to a growth of reeds, i. 705; Pan constructs a musical instrument out of these reeds, called either the “pipes of Pan” or the Syrinx, i. 711

Syros, an island of the Cyclades, vii. 464 (v.l. Cythnos)

Syrtis, a dangerous sandbank on the northern coast of Africa, viii. 120

Taenarides, belonging to Taenarus, the southernmost point of Laconia; used by metonymy for Laconian, an epithet of Hyacinthus, x. 183

Tages, an Etrurian deity, grandson of Jupiter; he sprang from a clod into human form, and was the god who taught the Etruscans the art of divination, xv. 558

Tagus, a gold-bearing river in Spain, ii. 251

Tamasenus, of Tamasus, a city in Cyprus, x. 644

Tanaïs, the god of the river of that name in Scythia, ii. 242

Tantalides, Agamemnon as the great-grandson of Tantalus, xii. 626

Tantalis, Niobe as daughter of Tantalus, vi. 211

Tantalus: (1) king of Phrygia, son of Jupiter, father of Pelops and Niobe, vi. 172; he was admitted to the table of the gods, vi. 173; because of the trick he played upon them (see Pelops), he was punished in Hades with thirst, standing up to his chin in water which constantly eluded his efforts to drink, iv. 458; x. 41; (2) one of the seven sons of Niobe, vi. 240

Tarentum, a city in Lower Italy founded by a colony of Lacedaemonians, xv. 50

Tarpeïa, a Roman maid who treacherously opened the citadel to the Sabines and was killed beneath the weight of their arms which they threw upon her, xiv. 776; the Tarpeïae arces was the Capitoline Hill, on which stood a temple of Jupiter, xv. 866

Tartarus, and plural, Tartara, a name for the infernal regions, i. 113; ii. 260; v. 371, 423; vi. 676; vii. 276; x. 21; xi. 670; xii. 257, 523, 619

Tartessius, of Tartessus, an old Phoenician colony in Spain, xiv. 416

Tatius, a king of the Sabines who fought against Romulus, but afterwards made peace and reigned jointly with him, xiv. 775, 804, 805

Taurus, a mountain in Asia Minor, ii. 217

Taÿgete, a daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleiades, iii. 595

Tectaphus, one of the Lapithae, xii. 433

Tegeaea = Arcadian, from Tegea, an ancient town in Arcadia; an epithet of Atalanta (1), viii. 317, 380

Telamon, son of Aeacus, king of Aegina, xiii. 25; grandson of Jupiter, xiii. 28; brother of Peleus and Phocus, vii. 476, 669; xiii. 151; father of Ajax, xii. 624; xiii. 22, 346; was present at the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 309, 378; took part in the Argonautic expedition, xiii. 24; aided Hercules in taking Troy, xiii. 23; whereby he gained Hesione as his wife, xi. 216; he was banished with Peleus from his father’s house for the accidental killing of their half-brother Phocus, xiii. 145. See Peleus

Telamoniades and Telamonius, epithets of Ajax as the son of Telamon, xiii. 194, 231, 266, 321

Telchines, a fabled family of priests in Ialysus, an ancient city of Rhodes, who by the glance of their eyes could change things into ugly shapes; Jupiter plunged them into the sea, vii. 365

Teleboas, a centaur, xii. 441

Telemus, son of Eurymus, a seer, xiii. 770

Telephus, a king of Mysia, son of Hercules and the nymph Auge; he was wounded at Troy by the spear of Achilles and afterwards healed by that hero, who rubbed rust from the spear upon the wound, xiii. 171; xii. 112

Telestes, a Cretan, father of Ianthe, ix. 717

Telethusa, wife of Lygdus, mother of Iphis, ix. 682, 696, 766

Tellus, the personification of the earth, the Earth-goddess, ii. 272, 301; vii. 196. See Terra

Temese, a town in Bruttium, rich in copper mines, vii. 207; xv. 707

Tempe, the beautiful and famous valley of the Peneus in Thessaly, between Olympus and Ossa, i. 569; vii. 222, 371

Tenedos, a small island near Troy, i. 516; xii. 109; xiii. 174

Tenos, an island of the Cyclades, vii. 469

Tereus, king of Thrace, relieved Pandion, king of Athens, from siege and received his daughter, Procne, in marriage, vi. 424 ff.; at his wife’s request goes to Athens that he may bring Philomela back with him to visit her sister, vi. 440 ff.; is entrusted by Pandion with the care of Philomela, whom on the journey homeward he ravishes and shuts up in a house in the deep woods, vi. 520 ff.; the two wronged women take vengeance upon him by murdering his son, Itys, and serving him up as a feast to the unwitting father, vi. 647 ff.; he pursues them and both he and they are changed into birds, vi. 671 ff.

Terra, the Earth-goddess, mother of the Giants, i. 157. See Tellus

Tethys, a sea-goddess, sister and wife of Oceanus, ii. 69, 156, 509; ix. 499; xiii. 951; changes Aesacus into a diving-bird, xi. 784 ff.

Teucer: (1) one of the most ancient kings of Troy, who came originally from Crete; from him the people were called Teucrians, xiii. 705; (2) the son of Telamon and Hesione, half-brother of Ajax; though the cousin of Achilles, he does not claim that hero’s arms, xiii. 157; he is represented as the ancestor of Anaxarete of Cyprus, xiv. 698

Teucri, a name of the Trojans from Teucer, their ancient king, xiii. 705, 728; = Trojan, xiv. 72

Thaumantea, Thaumantias, and Thaumantis, epithets referring to Iris, the daughter of Thaumas, iv. 480; xi. 647; xiv. 485

Thaumas: (1) the father of Iris, see above; (2) a centaur, xii. 303

Thebae: (1) the capital city of Boeotia, founded by Cadmus, ruled over by Amphion, Oedipus, and Pentheus, the scene of numerous stories in myth and legend, iii. 131, 549, 553; iv. 416; v. 253; vi. 163; vii. 761; ix. 403; xiii. 685, 692; xv. 427, 429; (2) a city in Mysia, xii. 110; xiii. 173

Thebaïdes, the women of Thebes, vi. 163

Themis, the daughter of Heaven and Earth, goddess of Justice; has also oracular power; Deucalion consults her oracle after the flood has subsided, i. 321, 379; warns Atlas that a son of Jupiter will despoil him of his golden tree, iv. 643; checks the vow of Hebe that she would grant the gift of youth to no one after Iolaüs, ix. 403, 418

Thereus, a centaur, xii. 353

Thermodon, a river of Pontus on which lived the Amazons, ii. 249; ix. 189; xii. 611

Therses, a guest of Auius, xiii. 682

Thersites, a mean fellow among the Greeks before Troy who loved to abuse the Greek chiefs; he was chastised by Ulysses, xiii. 233

Thescelus, a companion of Phineus, v. 182

Theseïus heros, Hippolytus, son of Theseus, xv. 492

Theseus, son of Aegeus, king of Athens, xv. 856; called thence Aegides, viii. 174, 405; according to another story he was the son of Neptune, hence Neptunius heros, ix. 1; his mother, with whom he spent his boyhood, was Aethra, daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen; when grown to manhood he made his way to Athens to his father; on this journey he slew a number of murderous robber giants who infested the road, vii. 433 ff.; he came to Athens unknown to his father; Medea, whom Aegeus had lately married, sought to poison Theseus, but his father, recognizing him at the critical moment, drove Medea away, vii. 404 ff.; finding Aegeus paying by compulsion of Minos a tribute of youths and maidens to feed the Minotaur, he joined this band at the next levy, sailed to Crete, slew the Minotaur, and by the aid of Ariadne found his way out of the labyrinth, fled from Crete with her to Dia, where he deserted her, viii. 170 ff.; he now returns to Athens, where he is joyfully received, viii. 263; goes to the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 270 ff.; on his return to Athens he is entertained by the river-god, Acheloüs, viii. 547 ff.; as a fast friend of Pirithoüs, he takes a prominent part in the battle of the Lapithae against the centaurs, xii. 227; he had a son, Hippolytus, by Hippolyte, the Amazon; for this son, now grown to young manhood, Phaedra, a second wife of Theseus, conceived a passion; repulsed by the young man, she accused him to his father of attempting violence upon her; Theseus prayed to his father Neptune, who sent a monster from the sea to destroy Hippolytus, xv. 497 ff. See Cecropides

Thespiades, a name given to the Muses from Thespiae, a city near their favourite haunt on Helicon, v. 310

Thessalis, Thessalus, of Thessaly, a country in the north-eastern part of Greece, vii. 222; viii. 768; xii. 190

Thestiadae, the two sons of Thestius, Toxeus and Plexippus, brothers of Althaea, whom Meleager slew at the close of the Calydonian boar-hunt, viii. 304, 434 ff.

Thestias, Althaea, daughter of Thestius, mother of Meleager, viii. 452, 473

Thestorides, Calchas, the son of Thestor, xii. 19, 27

Thetis, a sea-nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris, xi. 221, 226; xii. 93; wife of Peleus, xi. 217, 400; story of Peleus’ wooing, xi. 221 ff.; she prays the nymph Psamathe to put away her wrath against Peleus, xi. 400; she is the mother of Achilles; foreseeing his death in the Trojan war, she disguises him as a girl and hides him at the court of King Lycomedes at Scyros, xiii. 162; obtains from Vulcan a wonderful suit of armour for her son, xiii. 288

Thisbaeus, of Thisbe, a town in Boeotia, in a region famous for its doves, xi. 300

Thisbe, a beautiful Babylonian maiden loved by Pyramus, iv. 55 ff.

Thoactes, armour-bearer of Cepheus, v. 147

Thoas, king of Lemnos, father of Hypsipyle, xiii. 399

Thoön, a Trojan, xiii. 259

Thracia, with the adjectives, Thracius, Thrax, Threïcius, a country north-east of Macedonia, v. 276; vi. 87, 424, 435, 661, 682; ix. 194; x. 83; xi. 2, 92; xiii. 436, 439, 537, 565, 628

Thurinus, of Thurii, a city on the Tarentine Gulf, xv. 52

Thybris, a Greek and poetic form of the name Tiber, xiv. 427, 448; xv. 432, 624

Thyesteae mensae, “Thyestean banquet,” such as that which Thyestes consumed; Atreus, his brother, served up Thyestes’ own sons to him as a horrid revenge for his own wrongs, xv. 462

Thyneïus, of the Thyni, a Thracian people who emigrated to Bithynia, = Bithynian, viii. 719

Thyoneus: (1) an epithet of Bacchus from Thyone, the name under which his mother, Semele, was worshipped, iv. 13; (2) a son of Bacchus; the god, in order to conceal his son’s theft of a bullock, changed the latter into a stag and his son into the form of a hunter, vii. 359

Tiberinus, an Alban king, xiv. 614; of the Tiber, xv. 728

Tiresias, a Theban who spent seven years in the form of a woman, iii. 324 ff.; he decides a dispute between Jupiter and Juno in favour of the former and is stricken with blindness by Juno, iii. 332; is given power of prophecy by Jupiter, iii. 336; foretells fate of her son, Narcissus, to Liriope, iii. 346; his fame increased by tragic fate of Narcissus, iii. 511; warns Pentheus of his impending doom, iii. 516

Tirynthius, from Tiryns, a city in Argolis, an epithet commonly applied to Hercules, vii. 410; ix. 66, 268; xii. 564; xiii. 401; Tirynthia, Alcmena, the mother of Hercules, vi. 112

Tisiphone, one of the Furies, iv. 474; at the request of Juno she drives Athamas mad, iv. 481

Titan, the Titans were the children of Uranos and Gaea (Heaven and Earth), among whom the following are mentioned in the Metamorphoses: Coeus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Oceanus, Saturnus, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Themis; the name Titan is most frequently applied to Sol, the Sungod, son of Hyperion, i. 10; vi. 438; x. 79, 174; xi. 257; also to Phoebus in his manifestation as the Sun-god, ii. 118

Titania and Titanis, a female descendant of a Titan, an epithet applied to Latona as the daughter of Coeus, vi. 185, 346; to Diana as granddaughter of Coeus, iii. 173; to Pyrrha as granddaughter of Iapetus, i. 395; to Circe as daughter of the Sun-god, xiii. 968; xiv. 14, 376, 382, 438

Tithonus, son of Laomedon, husband of Aurora, father of Memnon; his wife had gained eternal life for him, but not eternal youth, ix. 421

Tityos, a giant, suffering in Hades for attempted violence on Latona; a vulture feeds on his liver, which is ever renewed for his suffering, iv. 457; x. 43

Tlepolemus, a son of Hercules, leader of the Rhodians, chides Nestor for omitting Hercules’ part in the battle against the centaurs, xii. 537, 574

Tmolus, and Timolus, a mountain in Lydia, ii. 217; vi. 15; xi. 86, 152; the god of the mountain, made judge of a contest in music between Pan and Apollo, xi. 156 ff.

Tonaus, an epithet of Jupiter, “the Thunderer,” i. 170; ii. 466; xi. 198

Toxeus, son of Thestius, killed by his nephew, Meleager, viii. 441

Trachas, a town in Latium, xv. 717

Trachin, a city in Thessaly, xi. 269, 282, 502, 627

Trachinius, an epithet of Ceyx, king of Trachin, xi. 282

Tricce, a town in Thessaly, vii. 223

Tridentifer, an epithet of Neptune, viii. 596

Trinacria and Trinacris, an old Greek name for Sicily, v. 347, 476

Triones, the constellation of the Wain, the Great and Little Bears, which were compared to a wagon with oxen yoked to it; lying far to the north, hence “cold,” ii. 171; the Bears are forbidden by Oceanus, at Juno’s request, to dip beneath his waters, ii. 172, 528; x. 446. See Callisto

Triopeïs, Mestra, the daughter of Erysichthon, granddaughter of Triopas, king of Thessaly, viii. 872

Triopeïus, Erysichthon, son of Triopas, viii. 751

Triptolemus, son of Celeus, king of Eleusin in Attica, sent over the world by Ceres in her chariot to disseminate seeds and the knowledge of agriculture, v. 646; attacked by Lyncus, v. 653

Triton, a sea-god, half man, half fish, son of Neptune, at whose bidding he blows on his shell to calm or rouse the sea, i. 333; ii. 8; xiii. 919

Tritonia, an epithet of Minerva, from Lake Triton in Africa, near which she is said first to have revealed herself, ii. 783; v. 250, 270; vi. 1

Tritoniaca harundo, “Minerva’s reed”: she is said to have invented the flute, vi. 384

Tritonis = Tritonia, ii. 794; v. 645; viii. 548

Trivia, an epithet of Diana because she was worshipped where three roads meet, ii. 416. See Hecate

Troezen, a city in Argolis, vi. 418; viii. 566; xv. 296, 506

Troezenius heros, Lelex, an inhabitant of Troezen, viii. 567

Troia, Troy, the famous city of the Troad, xi. 199, 208, 215, 757; xiii. 169, 197, 226, 325, 420, 426, 429, 500, 577, 623, 655, 721; xv. 424, 440, 442; Troas, a Trojan woman, xiii. 421 566; Troës, the Trojans, xii. 67; xiii. 269, 274, 343, 375, 572; xiv. 245

Troianus, Trojan, viii. 365; xiii. 23, 54, 336, 702; xiv. 140; xv. 437

Troïcus, belonging to or from Troy, xii. 604; an epithet of the goddess Vesta as derived from Troy, xv. 730

Troïus, an epithet of Aesacus, son of Priam, xi. 773; of Aeneas, xiv. 156

Turnus, a king of the Rutuli in Italy, who opposes the peaceful entrance of Aeneas into Latium, for he himself has been promised the daughter of Latinus, who is now offered to the stranger, xiv. 451; sends ambassadors to Diomede asking for aid, xiv. 457 ff.; attempts to burn the ships of Aeneas, xiv. 530 ff.; he falls at last in a duel with Aeneas, and his city of Ardea is burnt to the ground, xiv. 573

Tuscus, Tuscan or Etrurian, belonging to Etruria, a country on the north-western coast of Italy, xiv. 223, 615; = Tyrrhenian, because Etruria was said to have been settled by that Pelasgian race, iii. 624

Tydides, Diomede, son of Tydeus, xii. 622; xiii. 68

Tyndaridae, Castor and Pollux, twin sons of Leda and of the Spartan king Tyndareus, present at the Calydonian boar - hunt, viii. 301, 372; later they were counted the sons of Jupiter, and given a place in the heavens, caelestia sidera, viii. 372

Tyndaris, an epithet of Helen as the daughter of Tyndareus, xv. 233

Typhoeus, one of the Giants, sons of Earth, who put the heavenly gods to flight, v. 321 ff.; struck with lightning by Jupiter and buried under Sicily, iii. 303; v. 348, 353

Tyria paelex, an epithet of Europa, iii. 258

Tyros, a city in Phoenicia, iii. 539; xv. 288; Tyrius = Tyrian or Phoenician, ii. 845; iii. 35, 258; v. 51, 390; vi. 61, 222; ix. 340; x. 211; xi. 166

Tyrrhenia, the country of the Tyrrhenians, Etruria, xiv. 452; Tyrrhenus, of or belonging to the Tyrrhenians, a Pelasgian people who migrated to Italy and formed the parent stock of the Etrurians, iii, 396, 576; iv. 23, 663; xiv. 8; xv. 553, 576

Ulixes, Ulysses, son of Laërtes, xii. 625; xiii. 48; by scandalous report, son of Sisyphus, xiii. 31; great-grandson of Mercury on the side of his mother, Anticlea, daughter of Autolycus, son of Mercury, xiii. 146; great-grandson also of Jupiter on the side of his father, Laërtes, the son of Arcesius, the son of Jupiter, xiii. 143; he is king of Ithaca and the neighbouring small islands, hence called Ithacus, xiii. 98, 103; he is distinguished among the Greeks for his craft, resourcefulness, eloquence, and boldness, xiii. 92, 712; xiv. 159, 671; in order to avoid going to the Trojan war, he feigned to be mad by plowing on the seashore, but Palamedes uncovered the trick by laying Ulysses’ little son, Telemachus, in front of the oxen, xiii. 36 ff.; Ulysses afterwards took vengeance on Palamedes for this act, xiii. 38. 56; he was saved on the battlefield by Ajax, xiii. 71 ff.; he defends his claim to the armour of Achilles, xiii. 124 ff.; it was he who discovered Achilles hiding on Scyros at the court of Lycomedes and brought him to the war, xiii. 162 ff.: and he is therefore entitled to credit for all that Achilles has done at Troy, xiii. 171 ff.: he persuaded Agamemnon to sacrifice Iphigenia at Aulis, xiii. 181; and tricked Clytaemnestra into giving her up, xiii. 193; in company with Menelaüs he went to Troy before war was declared to protest against the theft of Helen by Paris and to demand her return, xiii. 196; he was actively engaged in the aid of the Greeks in every way during the long siege. xiii. 211 ff.; he chastised Thersites, xiii. 233; he rescued the dead body of Achilles from the enemy, xiii. 280 ff.; defends himself against the charge of shrinking from the Trojan war: his wife, Penelope, restrained him, just as Achilles’ divine mother had kept him back. xiii. 296 ff.; it was not he alone who had decided the fate of Palamedes, xiii. 308; he alone was not to blame that Philoctetes was left on Lemnos, xiii. 313; he afterwards went to Lemnos and persuaded Philoctetes to bring the bow and arrows of Hercules to the Trojan war, xiii. 399; he receives the award of the armour of Achilles, xiii. 382; according to prophecy of Telemus, he was destined to put out the eye of Polyphemus, xiii. 772; his actual experience with the Cyclops, xiv. 159 ff.; he had received from Aeolus the winds tied in a bag, which his sailors, thinking it a treasure, had opened, xiv. 225 ff.; his adventures on the island of Circe, xiv. 248 ff.; a slight reference to the many suitors who beset Penelope during his long absence, xiv. 671

Urania, one of the nine Muses, afterwards called the Muse of Astronomy, v. 260

Venilia, wife of Janus, mother of Canens, xiv. 334

Venulus, a messenger sent by Turnus to Diomede, xiv. 457, 512

Venus, daughter of Jupiter and Dione, xiv. 585; xv. 807; according to another story she is Aphrodite, “sprung from the foam of the sea,” iv. 537; she is called Cytherea, since near the island of Cythera she rose from the sea, x. 640, 717; xiv. 487; xv. 803; see also iv. 190, 288; she is Erycina from Mount Eryx in Sicily, where she had a temple, v. 363; she is the goddess of love and charm, x. 230, 277; xiv. 478; xv. 762; and of marriage, ix. 796; x. 295; her husband is Vulcan, iv. 173; she is the mother of Cupid (according to one account, by Mars), i. 463; v. 364; ix. 482; of Harmonia by Mars, iii. 132; iv. 531; of Aeneas by Anchises, xiii. 625, 674; xiv. 572, 584, 588; she gains deification for Aeneas, xiv. 585 ff.; she saves him from Diomede in battle, xv. 806; as she also saved Paris from Menelaüs, xv. 805; for Aeneas’ sake she favours and watches over the Trojans, xiv. 572; and the Romans as their descendants, xiv. 783; and especially does she care for Julius Caesar as the descendant of Aeneas, xv. 762; and gains for him a place among the gods, xv. 779 ff.; she attempts to gain immortality for Anchises, ix. 424; she loves the beautiful boy Adonis, x. 524 ff.; mourns over his death, x. 717 ff.; changes him to the anemone flower, x. 735; her amour with Mars, disclosed by Phoebus and exposed by Vulcan, iv. 171 ff.; xiv. 27; took refuge from the pursuit of the Giants in the form of a fish, v. 331; appeals to Cupid to make Pluto love Proserpina, v. 363 ff.; changes Pygmalion’s ivory statue into a living maid, x. 270 ff.; aids Hippomenes in his race with Atalanta, x. 640 ff.; transforms the Propoetides and the Cerastae, x. 230, 238; wounded by Diomede in battle before Troy, xiv. 477; xv. 769; in memory of which she takes vengeance on Diomede and his companions, xiv. 478, 498; her chief seats of worship, x. 529 ff.; she is represented as drawn in a chariot by doves or swans, x. 718; xiii. 674; xiv. 597; xv. 386; Venus, used by metonymy for love, iii. 294, 323; iv. 258; vi. 460; ix. 141, 553, 639, 728, 739; x. 80, 324, 434; xi. 306; xii. 198; xiii. 875; xiv. 141, 380

Vertumnus, an old Italian deity. god of the changing seasons and their productions; the story of his wooing of Pomona, xiv. 642 ff.

Vesta, daughter of Saturn, goddess of the hearth and of the household in general, called Trojan because her worship and her sacred fire were brought from Troy to Rome, xv. 731; her fires in danger of extinguishment by Caesar’s blood, xv. 778; held as especially sacred among Caesar’s household gods, xv. 864, 865

Virbius, the name of Hippolytus in Italy after he had been changed into a deity, xv. 544

Volturnus, a river in Campania, xv. 715

Vulcan, son of Juno, Iunonigena, iv. 173; his favourite haunt is Lemnos, ii. 757; iv. 185; xiii. 313; he is the god of fire, the blacksmith god, very skilful in working in metals, ii. 5, 106; iv. 175; xii. 614; xiii. 289; he is the father of Erichthonius, ii. 757; ix. 424; and of Periphetes, Vulcani proles, vii. 437; he is the husband of Venus, and cleverly catches her and Mars in an amour, iv. 173 ff. See Mulciber

Xanthus, a river on the Trojan plain, ii. 245; ix. 646

Zancle, an older name for the city of Messana in Sicily, xiii. 729; xiv. 5, 47; xv. 290

Zephyrus, the west wind, i. 64, 108; xiii. 726; xv. 700

Zetes, one of the winged sons of Boreas and Orithyia; joined the Argonauts, vi. 716; with his brother Calaïs drove the Harpies away from the blind old Thracian king, Phineus, vii. 3