eno, Euryale, and Medusa, daughters of Phorcys
Consters with serpent-hair, converting all who saw
one (see MEDUSA).

lling-place of departed souls, beneath the earth,

to.

untain range making the northern boundary of
ss of night and enchantments: the Diana of the

-

son of Priam, and champion of Troy, — slain by

er of Jupiter and Leda, wife of Menelaus, stolen by
o the cause of the siege of Troy.

hters of the Sun, sisters of Phaëthon, changed after
poplars (ii. 325-366).

untain of Boeotia, sacred to Apollo and the Muses.
er of Athamas and Nephele, who fled from Ino with
Ram, and was drowned in the Hellespont, to which

r name.

racles), son of Jupiter and Alcmene, received among
ter performing the twelve labors imposed by Eury-
134-272).

rmonia), daughter of Mars and Venus, and wife of
hanged to a serpent (iv. 576-603).

of Iapetus and Asia: the Evening Star.

beautiful youth of Laconia, loved by Apollo, acci-
illed by him, and converted to the flower hyacinth
1).

od of marriage.

an, son of Uranos and Gaia, father of Atlas and Pro-

Dædalus, who fled with him from Crete, on wings
ith wax, and was drowned in the Icarian Sea (viii.

king of Crete, who fought at the siege of Troy.
of Oceanus, king of Argos, father of Io.

Io, daughter of Inachus, changed to a heifer to avoid the jealousy of Juno; afterwards made the Egyptian goddess Isis (i. 584-747). IPHIGENIA, daughter of Agamemnon, offered in sacrifice to Diana (Artemis) at Aulis (xii. 27-35).

ITYS, son of Tereus, slain by his mother Progne and served at meat to his father (vi. 620-651).

IXION, father of the Centaurs, chained for his crimes to a fiery wheel in Tartarus.

JASON, Son of Æson, king of Thessaly, leader of the Argonauts (vii. I-122).

JUNO (Here), daughter of Saturn (Kronos), queen of the gods, sister and wife of Jupiter.

JUPITER (Zeus), son of Saturn (Kronos), king of the gods.

LAERTES, king of Ithaca, father of Ulysses.

LATONA (Leto), daughter of Cœus and Phœbe, mother of Apollo

and Diana.

LICHAS, the messenger who gave the poisoned shirt to Hercules (ix. 24-227).

LUCIFER (light-bearer), the Morning Star.

LYCÆUS, a mountain of Arcadia, sacred to Jupiter and to Pan.

LYCAON, King of Thrace, changed to a wolf by Jupiter (i. 163-243). LYNCUS, a Scythian king, changed to a lynx by Ceres (v. 620-660).

MENADES (frenzied), female worshippers of Bacchus.

MARS (Ares or Mavors), son of Jupiter and Juno, god of War. MARSYAS, a satyr, who defied Apollo in music, and was flayed by him (vi. 383-400).

MEDEA, daughter of Æetes, king of Colchis, an enchantress, who delivered Jason from his perils and fled with him (vii. 1-424). MEDUSA, the Gorgon, slain by Perseus, and her head set in the ægis of Minerva (iv. 793-803).

MELEAGER, Son of Eneus and Althæa, hero of the Calydonian Hunt, who perished by burning of the fatal brand (viii. 260-525). MEROPS, husband of Clymene, mother of Phaëthon.

MIDAS, king of Phrygia, whose touch, by gift of Bacchus, turned all things into gold (xi. 85-193).

MINOS, son of Jupiter and Europa, king of Crete: makes war on Athens, and builds the Labyrinth (viii. 1–151).

MINOTAURUS, a monster, half-man and half-bull, born of Pasiphaë, in Crete.

sea depths, son of Pontus and Gaia.

ylus, eldest and wisest of the Greek chiefs at
t the fight of the Centaurs and Lapithæ (xii.

king of Nineveh, husband of Semiramis.
Tantalus, wife of Amphion, all of whose chil-
by Apollo and Diana in punishment of her
12).

gara, betrayed to Minos by his daughter Scylla

second king of Rome, taught by Pythagoras

Etolia, father of Meleager.

n of Neptune, loved by Diana, and unwittingly

Apollo and Calliope, a bard of Thrace, who
casts and trees by his music (x. 1 — xi. 84).
on the coast of Sicily, the site of Syracuse.

of Nauplius, one of the chiefs against Troy, put
e wiles of Ulysses (xiii. 35-60).

ddess of cattle and pastures.

er), a name of Minerva.

or Destinies, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.
iam, who abducts Helen, and so brings on the

'; slayer of Achilles (xii. 580-628).

ter of the Sun, wife of Minos.

Eacus, king of Thessaly, father of Achilles.

hter of Icarius and wife of Ulysses (Her. i. 1).

eek name of Proserpina.

Jupiter and Danaë, who slays Medusa and delivers
(iv. 615-803).

of Clymene and Phœbus, who drives his father's
day (ii. 1-400).

›us rustic of Phrygia (viii. 620-724).

ne of the Grecian chiefs at Trov who held the

taken, and lay at Lesbos, wounded by them (xiii. 45-55, 313-339).

PHILOMELA, sister of Progne, wife of Tereus; changed to a night

ingale.

PHOBE, name of Diana, or the Moon.

PHOEBUS, name of Apollo, or the Sun.

PHRIXUS, Son of Athamas, borne from Thessaly by the ram with golden fleece (see HELLE).

PIRITHOUS, Son of Ixion, friend of Theseus, at whose marriage with Hippodamia befell the fight of the Centaurs and Lapithæ. PLEIADES, daughters of Atlas, pursued by Orion, and changed to a group of stars.

POLYPHEMUS, a Cyclops, son of Neptune, enamoured of Galatea (viii. 750-869).

PRIAMUS, Son of Laomedon, king of Troy.

PROCRIS, wife of Cephalus, shot by him unwittingly with an arrow. PROGNE, daughter of Pandion, wife of Tereus, who avenged her

self on him by killing his child Itys, and was changed to a swallow (see ITYS). PROMETHEUS, son of Iapetos, who fashioned men from clay, and

bestowed on them fire stolen from heaven: chained by Jupiter to a rock of Caucasus, where his liver was torn by vultures. PROSERPINA (Persephone), daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, who being stolen by Pluto, became queen of the Lower World. PROTESILAUS, the first of the Greeks slain at the landing at Troy. PROTEUS, a sea-divinity, son of Oceanus, having the power of converting himself into any form.

PYLUS, a city in the west of the Peloponnesus, the kingdom of Nestor.

PYRRHA, daughter of Epimetheus, wife of Deucalion.

PYTHAGORAS, a sage of Samos, about B. C. 550.

ROMULUS, first king of Rome, made a deity under the name Quiri

anus.

SATURNUS (name of the old Italian god of husbandry): in mythology the same with Kronos, son of Uranus and Gaia, youngest of the Titans, father of Jupiter, by whom he is dethroned and banished.

SCYLLA: 1. daughter of Nisus of Megara, who betrayed her father to Minos, and was changed to a sea-mew (ciris); 2. a nymph, daughter of Phorcus, changed by Circe to a sea-monster in the waters of Sicily (xiv. 1-74).

tendant of Bacchus (vi. 90-99).

untain of Lydia, home of Tantalus and Niobe.
aidens, who by their song enchanted mariners to

of Æolus, famous for craft, condemned in Tartarus
one for ever to a hill-top, from which it immediately

ng of Mycenæ, son of Perseus, father of Eurystheus.
of Hades, by which the gods swore their most
oath.

ng of Lydia, son of Jupiter, father of Pelops and
382-411; see note to vi. 172).

place of torment in the Lower World.

1 of Æacus, king of Salamis, father of Ajax and
hero of the Calydonian Hunt and of the Argonautic

1.

son of Ulysses and Penelope.

of Thrace, husband of Progne, changed to a hoopoe
6).

of Oceanus, mother of the ocean-nymphs.

Tuse of Comedy.

ess of justice, whose oracle was at Delphi (i. 379).
deformed and malignant Greek at the siege of Troy

of Egeus, king of Athens, who slays the Minotaur,
es from Crete by aid of Ariadne: a hero of the Caly-
Hunt and Argonautic Expedition, who delivered the
n many monsters.

=-nymph, mother of Achilles.

rother of Atreus, by whom his two sons were killed
ed to him in a banquet.

e of the eldest progeny of Heaven and Earth, and
y of the Sun.

ountain of Phrygia (xi. 151-171).

s, prince of Eleusis, instructed in agriculture by Ceres
61).

and attendant of Neptune: his form part human and
of a fish.

appellation of Minerva.

of Tudens) a name of Diomed