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the African coast opposite Gibraltar (See Pillars of Hercules)\n\nAcestes, son of a Trojan woman who was sent by her father to Sicily, that she might not be devoured by the monsters which infested the territory of Troy\n\nAcetes, Bacchanal captured by Pentheus\n\nAchates, faithful friend and companion of Aeneas\n\nAchelous, river-god of the largest river in Greece\u2014his Horn of\nPlenty\n\nAchilles, the hero of the Iliad, son of Peleus and of the Nereid\nThetis, slain by Paris\n\nAcis, youth loved by Galatea and slain by Polyphemus\n\nAcontius, a beautiful youth, who fell in love with Cydippe, the\ndaughter of a noble Athenian.\n\nAcrisius, son of Abas, king of Argos, grandson of Lynceus, the\ngreat-grandson of Danaus.\n\nActaeon, a celebrated huntsman, son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, who,\nhaving seen Diana bathing, was changed by her to a stag and killed\nby his own dogs.\n\nAdmeta, daughter of Eurystheus, covets Hippolyta's girdle.\n\nAdmetus, king of Thessaly, saved from death by Alcestis\n\nAdonis, a youth beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), and Proserpine;\nkilled by a boar.\n\nAdrastus, a king of Argos.\n\n\u00c6acus, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Aegina, renowned in all Greece\nfor his justice and piety.\n\n\u00c6aea, Circe's island, visited by Ulysses.\n\n\u00c6etes, or Aeeta, son of Helios (the Sun) and Perseis, and father\nof Medea and Absyrtus.\n\n\u00c6geus, king of Athens.\n\n\u00c6gina, a rocky island in the middle of the Saronic gulf.\n\n\u00c6gis, shield or breastplate of Jupiter and Minerva.\n\n\u00c6gisthus, murderer of Agamemnon, slain by Orestes.\n\n\u00c6neas, Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite (Venus), and\nborn on Mount Ida, reputed first settler of Rome,\n\nAeneid, poem by Virgil, relating the wanderings of Aeneas from\nTroy to Italy,\n\n\u00c6olus, son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, represented in Homer\nas the happy ruler of the Aeolian Islands, to whom Zeus had given\ndominion over the winds,\n\n\u00c6sculapius, god of the medical art,\n\n\u00c6son, father of Jason, made young again by Medea,\n\n\u00c6thiopians, inhabitants of the country south of Egypt,\n\n\u00c6thra, mother of Theseus by Aegeus,\n\n\u00c6tna, volcano in Sicily,\n\nAgamedes, brother of Trophonius, distinguished as an architect,\n\nAgamemnon, son of Plisthenis and grandson of Atreus, king of\nMycenae, although the chief commander of the Greeks, is not the\nhero of the Iliad, and in chivalrous spirit altogether inferior to\nAchilles,\n\nAgave, daughter of Cadmus, wife of Echion, and mother of Pentheus,\n\nAgenor, father of Europa, Cadmus, Cilix, and Phoenix,\n\nAglaia, one of the Graces,\n\nAgni, Hindu god of fire,\n\nAgramant, a king in Africa,\n\nAgrican, fabled king of Tartary, pursuing Angelica, finally killed\nby Orlando,\n\nAgrivain, one of Arthur's knights,\n\nAhriman, the Evil Spirit in the dual system of Zoroaster, See\nOrmuzd\n\nAjax, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, and grandson of Aeacus,\nrepresented in the Iliad as second only to Achilles in bravery,\n\nAlba, the river where King Arthur fought the Romans,\n\nAlba Longa, city in Italy founded by son of Aeneas,\n\nAlberich, dwarf guardian of Rhine gold treasure of the Nibelungs\n\nAlbracca, siege of,\n\nAlcestis, wife of Admetus, offered hersell as sacrifice to spare\nher husband, but rescued by Hercules,\n\nAlcides (Hercules),\n\nAlcina, enchantress,\n\nAlcinous, Phaeacian king,\n\nAlcippe, daughter of Mars, carried off by Halirrhothrus,\n\nAlcmena, wife of Jupiter, and mother of Hercules,\n\nAlcuin, English prelate and scholar,\n\nAldrovandus, dwarf guardian of treasure,\n\nAlecto, one of the Furies,\n\nAlexander the Great, king of Macedonia, conqueror of Greece,\nEgypt, Persia, Babylonia, and India,\n\nAlfadur, a name for Odin,\n\nAlfheim, abode of the elves of light,\n\nAlice, mother of Huon and Girard, sons of Duke Sevinus,\n\nAlphenor, son of Niobe,\n\nAlpheus, river god pursuing Arethusa, who escaped by being changed\nto a fountain,\n\nAlth\u00e6a, mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a\nquarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing \"the house of\nThestius,\" her father,\n\nAmalthea, nurse of the infant Jupiter in Crete,\n\nAmata, wife of Latinus, driven mad by Alecto,\n\nAmaury of Hauteville, false hearted Knight of Charlemagne,\n\nAmazons, mythical race of warlike women,\n\nAmbrosia, celestial food used by the gods,\n\nAmmon, Egyptian god of life identified by Romans with phases of\nJupiter, the father of gods,\n\nAmphiaraus, a great prophet and hero at Argos,\n\nAmphion, a musician, son of Jupiter and Antiope (See Dirce),\n\nAmphitrite, wife of Neptune,\n\nAmphyrsos, a small river in Thessaly,\n\nAmpyx, assailant of Perseus, turned to stone by seeing Gorgon's\nhead,\n\nAmrita, nectar giving immortality,\n\nAmun, See Ammon\n\nAmymone, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus, and mother by\nPoseidon (Neptune) of Nauplius, the father of Palamedes,\n\nAnaxarete, a maiden of Cyprus, who treated her lover Iphis with\nsuch haughtiness that he hanged himself at her door,\n\nAnbessa, Saracenic governor of Spain (725 AD),\n\nAnceus, one of the Argonauts,\n\nAnchises, beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), by whom he became the\nfather of Aeneas,\n\nAndraemon, husband of Dryope, saw her changed into a tree,\n\nAndret, a cowardly knight, spy upon Tristram,\n\nAndromache, wife of Hector\n\nAndromeda, daughter of King Cephas, delivered from monster by\nPerseus\n\nAneurin, Welsh bard\n\nAngelica, Princess of Cathay\n\nAnemone, short lived wind flower, created by Venus from the blood\nof the slain Adonis\n\nAngerbode, giant prophetess, mother of Fenris, Hela and the\nMidgard Serpent\n\nAnglesey, a Northern British island, refuge of Druids fleeing from\nRomans\n\nAnt\u00e6us, giant wrestler of Libya, killed by Hercules, who, finding\nhim stronger when thrown to the earth, lifted him into the air and\nstrangled him\n\nAntea, wife of jealous Proetus\n\nAntenor, descendants of, in Italy\n\nAnteros, deity avenging unrequited love, brother of Eros (Cupid)\n\nAnthor, a Greek\n\nAntigone, daughter of \u00c6dipus, Greek ideal of filial and sisterly fidelity\n\nAntilochus, son of Nestor\n\nAntiope, Amazonian queen. See Dirce\n\nAnubis, Egyptian god, conductor of the dead to judgment\n\nApennines\n\nAphrodite See Venus, Dione, etc.\n\nApis, Egyptian bull god of Memphis\n\nApollo, god of music and song\n\nApollo Belvedere, famous antique statue in Vatican at Rome\n\nApples of the Hesperides, wedding gifts to Juno, guarded by\ndaughters of Atlas and Hesperis, stolen by Atlas for Hercules,\n\nAquilo, or Boreas, the North Wind,\n\nAquitaine, ancient province of Southwestern France,\n\nArachne, a maiden skilled in weaving, changed to a spider by\nMinerva for daring to compete with her,\n\nArcadia, a country in the middle of Peloponnesus, surrounded on\nall sides by mountains,\n\nArcady, star of, the Pole star,\n\nArcas, son of Jupiter and Callisto,\n\nArcher, constellation of the,\n\nAreopagus, court of the, at Athens,\n\nAres, called Mars by the Romans, the Greek god of war, and one of\nthe great Olympian gods,\n\nArethusa, nymph of Diana, changed to a fountain,\n\nArgius king of Ireland, father of Isoude the Fair,\n\nArgo, builder of the vessel of Jason for the Argonautic expedition,\n\nArgolis, city of the Nemean games,\n\nArgonauts, Jason's crew seeking the Golden Fleece,\n\nArgos, a kingdom in Greece,\n\nArgus, of the hundred eyes, guardian of Io,\n\nAriadne, daughter of King Minos, who helped Theseus slay the\nMinotaur,\n\nArimanes See Ahriman.\n\nArimaspians, one-eyed people of Syria,\n\nArion, famous musician, whom sailors cast into the sea to rob him,\nbut whose lyric song charmed the dolphins, one of which bore him\nsafely to land,\n\nAristaeus, the bee keeper, in love with Eurydice,\n\nArmorica, another name for Britain,\n\nArridano, a magical ruffian, slain by Orlando,\n\nArtemis See Diana\n\nArthgallo, brother of Elidure, British king,\n\nArthur, king in Britain about the 6th century,\n\nAruns, an Etruscan who killed Camilla,\n\nAsgard, home of the Northern gods,\n\nAshtaroth, a cruel spirit, called by enchantment to bring Rinaldo\nto death,\n\nAske, the first man, made from an ash tree,\n\nAstolpho of England, one of Charlemagne's knights,\n\nAstraea, goddess of justice, daughter of Astraeus and Eos,\n\nAstyages, an assailant of Perseus,\n\nAstyanax, son of Hector of Troy, established kingdom of Messina in\nItaly,\n\nAsuias, opponents of the Braminical gods,\n\nAtalanta, beautiful daughter of King of Icaria, loved and won in a\nfoot race by Hippomenes,\n\nAte, the goddess of infatuation, mischief and guilt,\n\nAthamas, son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Orchomenus, in\nBoeotia, See Ino\n\nAthene, tutelary goddess of Athens, the same as Minerva,\n\nAthens, the capital of Attica, about four miles from the sea,\nbetween the small rivers Cephissus and Ilissus,\n\nAthor, Egyptian deity, progenitor of Isis and Osiris,\n\nAthos, the mountainous peninsula, also called Acte, which projects\nfrom Chalcidice in Macedonia,\n\nAtlantes, foster father of Rogero, a powerful magician,\n\nAtlantis, according to an ancient tradition, a great island west\nof the Pillars of Hercules, in the ocean, opposite Mount Atlas,\n\nAtlas, a Titan, who bore the heavens on his shoulders, as\npunishment for opposing the gods, one of the sons of Iapetus,\n\nAtlas, Mount, general name for range in northern Africa,\n\nAtropos, one of the Fates\n\nAttica, a state in ancient Greece,\n\nAudhumbla, the cow from which the giant Ymir was nursed. Her milk\nwas frost melted into raindrops,\n\nAugean stables, cleansed by Hercules,\n\nAugeas, king of Elis,\n\nAugustan age, reign of Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, famed for\nmany great authors,\n\nAugustus, the first imperial Caesar, who ruled the Roman Empire 31\nBC\u201414 AD,\n\nAulis, port in Boeotia, meeting place of Greek expedition against\nTroy,\n\nAurora, identical with Eos, goddess of the dawn,\n\nAurora Borealis, splendid nocturnal luminosity in northern sky,\ncalled Northern Lights, probably electrical,\n\nAutumn, attendant of Phoebus, the Sun,\n\nAvalon, land of the Blessed, an earthly paradise in the Western\nSeas, burial place of King Arthur,\n\nAvatar, name for any of the earthly incarnations of Vishnu, the\nPreserver (Hindu god),\n\nAventine, Mount, one of the Seven Hills of Rome,\n\nAvernus, a miasmatic lake close to the promontory between Cumae\nand Puteoli, filling the crater of an extinct volcano, by the\nancients thought to be the entrance to the infernal regions,\n\nAvicenna, celebrated Arabian physician and philosopher,\n\nAya, mother of Rinaldo,\n\nAymon, Duke, father of Rinaldo and Bradamante,\n\nB\n\nBaal, king of Tyre,\n\nBabylonian River, dried up when Phaeton drove the sun chariot,\n\nBacchanali a, a feast to Bacchus that was permitted to occur but\nonce in three years, attended by most shameless orgies,\n\nBacchanals, devotees and festal dancers of Bacchus,\n\nBacchus (Dionysus), god of wine and revelry,\n\nBadon, battle of, Arthur's final victory over the Saxons,\n\nBagdemagus, King, a knight of Arthur's time,\n\nBaldur, son of Odin, and representing in Norse mythology the sun\ngod,\n\nBalisardo, Orlando's sword,\n\nBan, King of Brittany, ally of Arthur, father of Launcelot,\n\nBards, minstrels of Welsh Druids,\n\nBasilisk See Cockatrice\n\nBaucis, wife of Philemon, visited by Jupiter and Mercury,\n\nBayard, wild horse subdued by Rinaldo,\n\nBeal, Druids' god of life,\n\nBedivere, Arthur's knight,\n\nBedver, King Arthur's butler, made governor of Normandy,\n\nBedwyr, knightly comrade of Geraint,\n\nBelisarda, Rogero's sword,\n\nBellerophon, demigod, conqueror of the Chim\u00e6ra,\n\nBellona, the Roman goddess of war, represented as the sister or\nwife of Mars,\n\nBeltane, Druidical fire festival,\n\nBelus, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Libya or Eurynome, twin\nbrother of Agenor,\n\nBendigeid Vran, King of Britain,\n\nBeowulf, hero and king of the Swedish Geats,\n\nBeroe, nurse of Semele,\n\nBertha, mother of Orlando,\n\nBifrost, rainbow bridge between the earth and Asgard\n\nBladud, inventor, builder of the city of Bath,\n\nBlamor, a knight of Arthur,\n\nBleoberis, a knight of Arthur,\n\nBoeotia, state in ancient Greece, capital city Thebes,\n\nBohort, King, a knight of Arthur,\n\nBona Dea, a Roman divinity of fertility,\n\nBootes, also called Areas, son of Jupiter and Calisto, changed to\nconstellation of Ursa Major,\n\nBoreas, North wind, son of Aeolus and Aurora,\n\nBosporus (Bosphorus), the Cow-ford, named for Io, when as a heifer\nshe crossed that strait,\n\nBradamante, sister to Rinaldo, a female warrior,\n\nBrademagus, King, father of Sir Maleagans,\n\nBragi, Norse god of poetry,\n\nBrahma, the Creator, chief god of Hindu religion,\n\nBranwen, daughter of Llyr, King of Britain, wife of Mathclch,\n\nBreciliande, forest of, where Vivian enticed Merlin,\n\nBrengwain, maid of Isoude the Fair\n\nBrennus, son of Molmutius, went to Gaul, became King of the\nAllobroges,\n\nBreuse, the Pitiless, a caitiff knight,\n\nBriareus, hundred armed giant,\n\nBrice, Bishop, sustainer of Arthur when elected king,\n\nBrigliadoro, Orlando's horse,\n\nBriseis, captive maid belonging to Achilles,\n\nBritto, reputed ancestor of British people,\n\nBruhier, Sultan of Arabia,\n\nBrunello, dwarf, thief, and king\n\nBrunhild, leader of the Valkyrie,\n\nBrutus, great grandson of Aeneas, and founder of city of New Troy\n(London), See Pandrasus\n\nBryan, Sir, a knight of Arthur,\n\nBuddha, called The Enlightened, reformer of Brahmanism, deified\nteacher of self abnegation, virtue, reincarnation, Karma\n(inevitable sequence of every act), and Nirvana (beatific\nabsorption into the Divine), lived about\n\nByblos, in Egypt,\n\nByrsa, original site of Carthage,\n\nC\n\nCacus, gigantic son of Vulcan, slain by Hercules, whose captured\ncattle he stole,\n\nCadmus, son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia, and of Telephassa, and\nbrother of Europa, who, seeking his sister, carried off by\nJupiter, had strange adventures\u2014sowing in the ground teeth of a\ndragon he had killed, which sprang up armed men who slew each\nother, all but five, who helped Cadmus to found the city of\nThebes,\n\nCaduceus, Mercury's staff,\n\nCadwallo, King of Venedotia (North Wales),\n\nCaerleon, traditional seat of Arthur's court,\n\nCaesar, Julius, Roman lawyer, general, statesman and author,\nconquered and consolidated Roman territory, making possible the\nEmpire,\n\nCaicus, a Greek river,\n\nCairns, Druidical store piles,\n\nCalais, French town facing England,\n\nCalchas, wisest soothsayer among the Greeks at Troy,\n\nCaliburn, a sword of Arthur,\n\nCalliope, one of the nine Muses\n\nCallisto, an Arcadian nymph, mother of Arcas (See Bootes), changed\nby Jupiter to constellation Ursa Minor,\n\nCalpe, a mountain in the south of Spain, on the strait between the\nAtlantic and Mediterranean, now Rock of Gibraltar,\n\nCalydon, home of Meleager,\n\nCalypso, queen of Island of Ogyia, where Ulysses was wrecked and\nheld seven years,\n\nCamber, son of Brutus, governor of West Albion (Wales),\n\nCamelot, legendary place in England where Arthur's court and\npalace were located,\n\nCamenae, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient\nItaly,\n\nCamilla, Volscian maiden, huntress and Amazonian warrior, favorite\nof Diana,\n\nCamlan, battle of, where Arthur was mortally wounded,\n\nCanterbury, English city,\n\nCapaneus, husband of Evadne, slain by Jupiter for disobedience,\n\nCapet, Hugh, King of France (987-996 AD),\n\nCaradoc Briefbras, Sir, great nephew of King Arthur,\n\nCarahue, King of Mauretania,\n\nCarthage, African city, home of Dido\n\nCassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and twin sister of\nHelenus, a prophetess, who foretold the coming of the Greeks but\nwas not believed,\n\nCassibellaunus, British chieftain, fought but not conquered by\nCaesar,\n\nCassiopeia, mother of Andromeda,\n\nCastalia, fountain of Parnassus, giving inspiration to Oracular\npriestess named Pythia,\n\nCastalian Cave, oracle of Apollo,\n\nCastes (India),\n\nCastor and Pollux\u2014the Dioscuri, sons of Jupiter and Leda,\u2014\nCastor a horseman, Pollux a boxer (SEE Gemini),\n\nCaucasus, Mount\n\nCavall, Arthur's favorite dog,\n\nCayster, ancient river,\n\nCebriones, Hector's charioteer,\n\nCecrops, first king of Athens,\n\nCelestials, gods of classic mythology,\n\nCeleus, shepherd who sheltered Ceres, seeking Proserpine, and\nwhose infant son Triptolemus was in gratitude made great by Ceres,\n\nCellini, Benvenuto, famous Italian sculptor and artificer in\nmetals,\n\nCeltic nations, ancient Gauls and Britons, modern Bretons, Welsh,\nIrish and Gaelic Scotch,\n\nCentaurs, originally an ancient race, inhabiting Mount Pelion in\nThessaly, in later accounts represented as half horses and half\nmen, and said to have been the offspring of Ixion and a cloud,\n\nCephalus, husband of beautiful but jealous Procris,\n\nCephe us, King of Ethiopians, father of Andromeda,\n\nCephisus, a Grecian stream,\n\nCerberus, three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades,\ncalled a son of Typhaon and Echidna\n\nCeres (See Demeter)\n\nCestus, the girdle of Venus\n\nCeyx, King of Thessaly (See Halcyone)\n\nChaos, original Confusion, personified by Greeks as most ancient\nof the gods\n\nCharlemagne, king of the Franks and emperor of the Romans\n\nCharles Martel, king of the Franks, grandfather of Charlemagne,\ncalled Martel (the Hammer) from his defeat of the Saracens at\nTours\n\nCharlot, son of Charlemagne\n\nCharon, son of Erebos, conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead\nacross the rivers of the lower world\n\nCharybdis, whirlpool near the coast of Sicily, See Scylla\n\nChim\u00e6ra, a fire breathing monster, the fore part of whose body\nwas that of a lion, the hind part that of a dragon, and the middle\nthat of a goat, slain by Bellerophon\n\nChina, Lamas (priests) of\n\nChos, island in the Grecian archipelago\n\nChiron, wisest of all the Centaurs, son of Cronos (Saturn) and\nPhilyra, lived on Mount Pelion, instructor of Grecian heroes\n\nChryseis, Trojan maid, taken by Agamemnon\n\nChryses, priest of Apollo, father of Chryseis\n\nCiconians, inhabitants of Ismarus, visited by Ulysses\n\nCimbri, an ancient people of Central Europe\n\nCimmeria, a land of darkness\n\nCimon, Athenian general\n\nCirce, sorceress, sister of Aeetes\n\nCithaeron, Mount, scene of Bacchic worship\n\nClarimunda, wife of Huon\n\nClio, one of the Muses\n\nCloridan, a Moor\n\nClotho, one of the Fates\n\nClymene, an ocean nymph\n\nClytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, killed by Orestes\n\nClytie, a water nymph, in love with Apollo\n\nCnidos, ancient city of Asia Minor, seat of worship of Aphrodite\n(Venus)\n\nCockatrice (or Basilisk), called King of Serpents, supposed to\nkill with its look\n\nCocytus, a river of Hades\n\nColchis, a kingdom east of the Black Sea\n\nColophon, one of the seven cities claiming the birth of Homer\n\nColumba, St, an Irish Christian missionary to Druidical parts of\nScotland\n\nConan, Welsh king\n\nConstantine, Greek emperor\n\nCordeilla, daughter of the mythical King Leir\n\nCorineus, a Trojan warrior in Albion\n\nCornwall, southwest part of Britain\n\nCortana, Ogier's sword\n\nCorybantes, priests of Cybele, or Rhea, in Phrygia, who\ncelebrated her worship with dances, to the sound of the drum and\nthe cymbal, 143\n\nCrab, constellation\n\nCranes and their enemies, the Pygmies, of Ibycus\n\nCreon, king of Thebes\n\nCrete, one of the largest islands of the Mediterranean Sea, lying\nsouth of the Cyclades\n\nCreusa, daughter of Priam, wife of Aeneas\n\nCrocale, a nymph of Diana\n\nCromlech, Druidical altar\n\nCronos, See Saturn\n\nCrotona, city of Italy\n\nCuchulain, Irish hero, called the \"Hound of Ireland,\"\n\nCuldees', followers of St. Columba, Cumaean Sibyl, seeress\nof Cumae, consulted by Aeneas, sold Sibylline books to Tarquin\n\nCupid, child of Venus and god of love\n\nCuroi of Kerry, wise man\n\nCyane, river, opposed Pluto's passage to Hades\n\nCybele (Rhea)\n\nCyclopes, creatures with circular eyes, of whom Homer speaks as a\ngigantic and lawless race of shepherds in Sicily, who devoured\nhuman beings, they helped Vulcan to forge the thunderbolts of Zeus\nunder Aetna\n\nCymbeline, king of ancient Britain\n\nCynosure (Dog's tail), the Pole star, at tail of Constellation\nUrsa Minor\n\nCynthian mountain top, birthplace of Artemis (Diana) and Apollo\n\nCyprus, island off the coast of Syria, sacred to Aphrodite\n\nCyrene, a nymph, mother of Aristaeus\n\nD\n\nD\u00e6dalus, architect of the Cretan Labyrinth, inventor of sails\n\nDaguenet, King Arthur's fool\n\nDalai Lama, chief pontiff of Thibet\n\nDanae, mother of Perseus by Jupiter\n\nDanaides, the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Argos, who were\nbetrothed to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, but were commanded by\ntheir father to slay each her own husband on the marriage night\n\nDanaus (See Danaides)\n\nDaphne, maiden loved by Apollo, and changed into a laurel tree\n\nDardanelles, ancient Hellespont\n\nDardanus, progenitor of the Trojan kings\n\nDardinel, prince of Zumara\n\nDawn, See Aurora\n\nDay, an attendant on Phoebus, the Sun\n\nDay star (Hesperus)\n\nDeath, See Hela\n\nDeiphobus, son of Priam and Hecuba, the bravest brother of Paris\n\nDejanira, wife of Hercules\n\nDelos, floating island, birthplace of Apollo and Diana\n\nDelphi, shrine of Apollo, famed for its oracles\n\nDemeter, Greek goddess of marriage and human fertility, identified\nby Romans with Ceres\n\nDemeha, South Wales\n\nDemodocus, bard of Alomous, king of the Ph\u00e6\u00e6ians\n\nDeucalion, king of Thessaly, who with his wife Pyrrha were the\nonly pair surviving a deluge sent by Zeus\n\nDia, island of\n\nDiana (Artemis), goddess of the moon and of the chase, daughter of\nJupiter and Latona\n\nDiana of the Hind, antique sculpture in the Louvre, Paris\n\nDiana, temple of\n\nDictys, a sailor\n\nDidier, king of the Lombards\n\nDido, queen of Tyre and Carthage, entertained the shipwrecked\nAeneas\n\nDiomede, Greek hero during Trojan War\n\nDione, female Titan, mother of Zeus, of Aphrodite (Venus)\n\nDionysus See Bacchus\n\nDioscuri, the Twins (See Castor and Pollux)\n\nDirce, wife of Lycus, king of Thebes, who ordered Amphion and\nZethus to tie Antiope to a wild bull, but they, learning Antiope\nto be their mother, so treated Dirce herself\n\nDis See Pluto\n\nDiscord, apple of, See Eris.\n\nDiscordia, See Eris.\n\nDodona, site of an oracle of Zeus (Jupiter)\n\nDorceus, a dog of Diana\n\nDoris, wife of Nereus\n\nDragon's teeth sown by Cadmus\n\nDruids, ancient Celtic priests\n\nDryades (or Dryads), See Wood nymphs\n\nDryope, changed to a lotus plant, for plucking a lotus\u2014enchanted\nform of the nymph Lotis\n\nDubricius, bishop of Caerleon,\n\nDudon, a knight, comrade of Astolpho,\n\nDunwallo Molmutius, British king and lawgiver\n\nDurindana, sword of Orlando or Rinaldo\n\nDwarfs in Wagner's Nibelungen Ring\n\nE\n\nEarth (Gaea); goddess of the\n\nEbudians, the\n\nEcho, nymph of Diana, shunned by Narcissus, faded to nothing but a\nvoice\n\nEcklenlied, the\n\nEddas, Norse mythological records,\n\nEderyn, son of Nudd\n\nEgena, nymph of the Fountain\n\nEisteddfod, session of Welsh bards and minstrels\n\nElectra, the lost one of the Pleiades, also, sister of Orestes\n\nEleusian Mysteries, instituted by Ceres, and calculated to awaken\nfeelings of piety and a cheerful hope of better life in the future\n\nEleusis, Grecian city\n\nElgin Marbles, Greek sculptures from the Parthenon of Athens, now\nin British Museum, London, placed there by Lord Elgin\n\nEliaures, enchanter\n\nElidure, a king of Britain\n\nElis, ancient Greek city\n\nElli, old age; the one successful wrestler against Thor\n\nElphin, son of Gwyddiro\n\nElves, spiritual beings, of many powers and dispositions\u2014some\nevil, some good\n\nElvidnir, the ball of Hela\n\nElysian Fields, the land of the blest\n\nElysian Plain, whither the favored of the gods were taken without\ndeath\n\nElysium, a happy land, where there is neither snow, nor cold, nor\nram. Hither favored heroes, like Menelaus, pass without dying, and\nlive happy under the rule of Rhadamanthus. In the Latin poets\nElysium is part of the lower world, and the residence of the\nshades of the blessed\n\nEmbla, the first woman\n\nEnseladus, giant defeated by Jupiter\n\nEndymion, a beautiful youth beloved by Diana\n\nEnid, wife of Geraint\n\nEnna, vale of home of Proserpine\n\nEnoch, the patriarch\n\nEpidaurus, a town in Argolis, on the Saronic gulf, chief seat of\nthe worship of Aeculapius, whose temple was situated near the town\n\nEpimetheus, son of Iapetus, husband of Pandora, with his brother\nPrometheus took part in creation of man\n\nEpirus, country to the west of Thessaly, lying along the Adriatic\nSea\n\nEpopeus, a sailor\n\nErato, one of the Muses\n\nErbin of Cornwall, father of Geraint\n\nErebus, son of Chaos, region of darkness, entrance to Hades\n\nEridanus, river\n\nErinys, one of the Furies\n\nEriphyle, sister of Polynices, bribed to decide on war, in which\nher husband was slain\n\nEris (Discordia), goddess of discord. At the wedding of Peleus and\nThetis, Eris being uninvited threw into the gathering an apple\n\"For the Fairest,\" which was claimed by Hera (Juno), Aphrodite\n(Venus) and Athena (Minerva) Paris, being called upon for\njudgment, awarded it to Aphrodite\n\nErisichthon, an unbeliever, punished by famine\n\nEros See Cupid\n\nErytheia, island\n\nEryx, a mount, haunt of Venus\n\nEsepus, river in Paphlagonia\n\nEstrildis, wife of Locrine, supplanting divorced Guendolen\n\nEteocles, son of Oeipus and Jocasta\n\nEtruscans, ancient people of Italy,\n\nEtzel, king of the Huns\n\nEuboic Sea, where Hercules threw Lichas, who brought him the\npoisoned shirt of Nessus\n\nEude, king of Aquitaine, ally of Charles Martel\n\nEum\u00e6us, swineherd of Aeeas\n\nEumenides, also called Erinnyes, and by the Romans Furiae or\nDiraae, the Avenging Deities, See Furies\n\nEuphorbus, a Trojan, killed by Menelaus\n\nEuphrosyne, one of the Graces\n\nEuropa, daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, by Zeus the mother\nof Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon\n\nEurus, the East wind\n\nEuyalus, a gallant Trojan soldier, who with Nisus entered the\nGrecian camp, both being slain,\n\nEurydice, wife of Orpheus, who, fleeing from an admirer, was\nkilled by a snake and borne to Tartarus, where Orpheus sought her\nand was permitted to bring her to earth if he would not look back\nat her following him, but he did, and she returned to the Shades,\n\nEurylochus, a companion of Ulysses,\n\nEurynome, female Titan, wife of Ophlon\n\nEurystheus, taskmaster of Hercules,\n\nEurytion, a Centaur (See Hippodamia),\n\nEuterpe, Muse who presided over music,\n\nEvadne, wife of Capaneus, who flung herself upon his funeral pile\nand perished with him\n\nEvander, Arcadian chief, befriending \u00c6neas in Italy,\n\nEvnissyen, quarrelsome brother of Branwen,\n\nExcalibar, sword of King Arthur,\n\nF\n\nFafner, a giant turned dragon, treasure stealer, by the Solar\nTheory simply the Darkness who steals the day,\n\nFalerina, an enchantress,\n\nFasolt, a giant, brother of Fafner, and killed by him,\n\n\"Fasti,\" Ovid's, a mythological poetic calendar,\n\nFata Morgana, a mirage\n\nFates, the three, described as daughters of Night\u2014to indicate the\ndarkness and obscurity of human destiny\u2014or of Zeus and Themis,\nthat is, \"daughters of the just heavens\" they were Clo'tho, who\nspun the thread of life, Lach'esis, who held the thread and fixed\nits length and At'ropos, who cut it off\n\nFauns, cheerful sylvan deities, represented in human form, with\nsmall horns, pointed ears, and sometimes goat's tail\n\nFaunus, son of Picus, grandson of Saturnus, and father of Latinus,\nworshipped as the protecting deity of agriculture and of\nshepherds, and also as a giver of oracles\n\nFavonius, the West wind\n\nFear\n\nFenris, a wolf, the son of Loki the Evil Principle of Scandinavia,\nsupposed to have personated the element of fire, destructive\nexcept when chained\n\nFensalir, Freya's palace, called the Hall of the Sea, where were\nbrought together lovers, husbands, and wives who had been\nseparated by death\n\nFerragus, a giant, opponent of Orlando\n\nFerrau, one of Charlemagne's knights\n\nFerrex. brother of Porrex, the two sons of Leir\n\nFire Worshippers, of ancient Persia, See Parsees FLOLLO, Roman\ntribune in Gaul\n\nFlora, Roman goddess of flowers and spring\n\nFlordelis, fair maiden beloved by Florismart\n\nFlorismart, Sir, a brave knight,\n\nFlosshilda, one of the Rhine daughters\n\nFortunate Fields\n\nFortunate Islands (See Elysian Plain)\n\nForum, market place and open square for public meetings in Rome,\nsurrounded by court houses, palaces, temples, etc\n\nFrancus, son of Histion, grandson of Japhet, great grandson of\nNoah, legendary ancestor of the Franks, or French\n\nFreki, one of Odin's two wolves\n\nFrey, or Freyr, god of the sun\n\nFreya, Norse goddess of music, spring, and flowers\n\nFricka, goddess of marriage\n\nFrigga, goddess who presided over smiling nature, sending\nsunshine, rain, and harvest\n\nFroh, one of the Norse gods\n\nFrontino, Rogero's horse\n\nFuries (Erinnyes), the three retributive spirits who punished\ncrime, represented as snaky haired old woman, named Alecto,\nMegaeira, and Tisiphone\n\nFusberta, Rinaldo's sword\n\nG\n\nG\u00e6a, or Ge, called Tellus by the Romans, the personification of\nthe earth, described as the first being that sprang fiom Chaos,\nand gave birth to Uranus (Heaven) and Pontus (Sea)\n\nGahariet, knight of Arthur's court\n\nGaheris, knight\n\nGalafron, King of Cathay, father of Angelica\n\nGalahad, Sir, the pure knight of Arthur's Round Table, who safely\ntook the Siege Perilous (which See)\n\nGalatea, a Nereid or sea nymph\n\nGalatea, statue carved and beloved by Pygmalion\n\nGalen, Greek physician and philosophical writer\n\nGallehant, King of the Marches\n\nGames, national athletic contests in Greece\u2014Olympian, at Olympia,\nPythian, near Delphi, seat of Apollo's oracle, Isthmian, on the\nCorinthian Isthmus, Nemean, at Nemea in Argolis\n\nGan, treacherous Duke of Maganza\n\nGanelon of Mayence, one of Charlemagne's knights\n\nGanges, river in India\n\nGano, a peer of Charlemagne\n\nGanymede, the most beautiful of all mortals, carried off to\nOlympus that he might fill the cup of Zeus and live among the\nimmortal gods\n\nGareth, Arthur's knight\n\nGaudisso, Sultan\n\nGaul, ancient France\n\nGautama, Prince, the Buddha\n\nGawain, Arthur's knight\n\nGawl, son of Clud, suitor for Rhiannon\n\nGemini (See Castor), constellation created by Jupiter from the\ntwin brothers after death, 158\n\nGenghis Khan, Tartar conqueror\n\nGenius, in Roman belief, the protective Spirit of each individual\nman, See Juno\n\nGeoffrey Of Monmouth, translator into Latin of the Welsh History\nof the Kings of Britain (1150)\n\nGeraint, a knight of King Arthur\n\nGerda, wife of Frey\n\nGeri, one of Odin's two wolves\n\nGeryon, a three bodied monster\n\nGesnes, navigator sent for Isoude the Fair\n\nGiallar Horn, the trumpet that Heimdal will blow at the judgment\nday\n\nGiants, beings of monstrous size and of fearful countenances,\nrepresented as in constant opposition to the gods, in Wagner's\nNibelungen Ring\n\nGibichung Race, ancestors of Alberich\n\nGibraltar, great rock and town at southwest corner of Spain (See\nPillars of Hercules)\n\nGildas, a scholar of Arthur's court\n\nGirard, son of Duke Sevinus\n\nGlastonbury, where Arthur died\n\nGlaucus, a fisherman, loving Scylla\n\nGleipnir, magical chain on the wolf Fenris\n\nGlewlwyd, Arthur's porter\n\nGolden Fleece, of ram used for escape of children of Athamas,\nnamed Helle and Phryxus (which See), after sacrifice of ram to\nJupiter, fleece was guarded by sleepless dragon and gained by\nJason and Argonauts (which See, also Helle)\n\nGoneril, daughter of Leir\n\nGordian Knot, tying up in temple the wagon of Gordius, he who\ncould untie it being destined to be lord of Asia, it was cut by\nAlexander the Great, 48\n\nGordius, a countryman who, arriving in Phrygia in a wagon, was\nmade king by the people, thus interpreting an oracle, 48\n\nGorgons, three monstrous females, with huge teeth, brazen claws\nand snakes for hair, sight of whom turned beholders to stone,\nMedusa, the most famous, slain by Perseus\n\nGorlois, Duke of Tintadel\n\nGouvernail, squire of Isabella, queen of Lionesse, protector of\nher son Tristram while young, and his squire in knighthood\n\nGraal, the Holy, cup from which the Saviour drank at Last Supper,\ntaken by Joseph of Arimathea to Europe, and lost, its recovery\nbecoming a sacred quest for Arthur's knights\n\nGraces, three goddesses who enhanced the enjoyments of life by\nrefinement and gentleness; they were Aglaia (brilliance),\nEuphrosyne (joy), and Thalia (bloom)\n\nGradas'so, king of Sericane\n\nGraeae, three gray haired female watchers for the Gorgons, with\none movable eye and one tooth between the three\n\nGrand Lama, Buddhist pontiff in Thibet\n\nGrendel, monster slain by Beowulf\n\nGryphon (griffin), a fabulous animal, with the body of a lion and\nthe head and wings of an eagle, dwelling in the Rhipaean\nmountains, between the Hyperboreans and the one eyed Arimaspians,\nand guarding the gold of the North,\n\nGuebers, Persian fire worshippers,\n\nGuendolen, wife of Locrine,\n\nGuenevere, wife of King Arthur, beloved by Launcelot,\n\nGuerin, lord of Vienne, father of Oliver,\n\nGuiderius, son of Cymbeline,\n\nGuillamurius, king in Ireland,\n\nGuimier, betrothed of Caradoc,\n\nGullinbursti, the boar drawing Frey's car,\n\nGulltopp, Heimdell's horse,\n\nGunfasius, King of the Orkneys,\n\nGanther, Burgundian king, brother of Kriemhild,\n\nGutrune, half sister to Hagen,\n\nGwern son of Matholch and Branwen,\n\nGwernach the Giant,\n\nGwiffert Petit, ally of Geraint,\n\nGwyddno, Garanhir, King of Gwaelod,\n\nGwyr, judge in the court of Arthur,\n\nGyoll, river,\n\nH\n\nHades, originally the god of the nether world\u2014the name later\nused to designate the gloomy subterranean land of the dead,\n\nH\u00e6on, son of Creon of Thebes, and lover of Antigone,\n\nH\u00e6monian city,\n\nHaemus, Mount, northern boundary of Thrace,\n\nHagan, a principal character in the Nibelungen Lied, slayer of\nSiegfried,\n\nHalcyone, daughter of Aeneas, and the beloved wife of Ceyx, who,\nwhen he was drowned, flew to his floating body, and the pitying\ngods changed them both to birds (kingfishers), who nest at sea\nduring a certain calm week in winter (\"halcyon weather\")\n\nHamadryads, tree-nymphs or wood-nymphs, See Nymphs\n\nHarmonia, daughter of Mars and Venus, wife of Cadmus\n\nHaroun Al Raschid, Caliph of Arabia, contemporary of Charlemagne\n\nHarpies, monsters, with head and bust of woman, but wings, legs\nand tail of birds, seizing souls of the wicked, or punishing\nevildoers by greedily snatching or defiling their food\n\nHarpocrates, Egyptian god, Horus\n\nHebe, daughter of Juno, cupbearer to the gods\n\nHebrus, ancient name of river Maritzka\n\nHecate, a mighty and formidable divinity, supposed to send at\nnight all kinds of demons and terrible phantoms from the lower\nworld\n\nHector, son of Priam and champion of Troy\n\nHector, one of Arthur's knights\n\nHector De Marys, a knight\n\nHecuba, wife of Priam, king of Troy, to whom she bore Hector,\nParis, and many other children\n\nHegira, flight of Mahomet from Mecca to Medina (622 AD), era from\nwhich Mahometans reckon time, as we do from the birth of Christ\n\nHeidrun, she goat, furnishing mead for slain heroes in Valhalla\n\nHeimdall, watchman of the gods\n\nHel, the lower world of Scandinavia, to which were consigned those\nwho had not died in battle\n\nHela (Death), the daughter of Loki and the mistress of the\nScandinavian Hel\n\nHelen, daughter of Jupiter and Leda, wife of Menelaus, carried\noff by Paris and cause of the Trojan War\n\nHelenus, son of Priam and Hecuba, celebrated for his prophetic\npowers\n\nHeliades, sisters of Phaeton\n\nHelicon, Mount, in Greece, residence of Apollo and the Muses,\nwith fountains of poetic inspiration, Aganippe and Hippocrene\n\nHelioopolis, city of the Sun, in Egypt\n\nHellas, Gieece\n\nHelle, daughter of Thessalian King Athamas, who, escaping from\ncruel father with her brother Phryxus, on ram with golden fleece,\nfell into the sea strait since named for her (See Golden Fleece)\n\nHellespont, narrow strait between Europe and Asia Minor, named for\nHelle\n\nHengist, Saxon invader of Britain, 449 AD\n\nHeph\u00e6stos, See Vulcan\n\nHera, called Juno by the Romans, a daughter of Cronos (Saturn)\nand Rhea, and sister and wife of Jupiter, See JUNO\n\nHercules, athletic hero, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, achieved\ntwelve vast labors and many famous deeds\n\nHereward the Wake, hero of the Saxons\n\nHermes (Mercury), messenger of the gods, deity of commerce,\nscience, eloquence, trickery, theft, and skill generally\n\nHermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen\n\nHermod, the nimble, son of Odin\n\nHero, a priestess of Venus, beloved of Leander\n\nHerodotus, Greek historian\n\nHesiod, Greek poet\n\nHesperia, ancient name for Italy\n\nHesperides (See Apples of the Hesperides)\n\nHesperus, the evening star (also called Day Star)\n\nHestia, cilled Vesta by the Romans, the goddess of the hearth\n\nHildebrand, German magician and champion\n\nHindu Triad, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva\n\nHippocrene (See Helicon)\n\nHippodamia, wife of Pirithous, at whose wedding the Centaurs\noffered violence to the bride, causing a great battle\n\nHippogriff, winged horse, with eagle's head and claws\n\nHippolyta, Queen of the Amazons\n\nHippolytus, son of Thesus\n\nHippomenes, who won Atalanta in foot race, beguiling her with\ngolden apples thrown for her to\n\nHistion, son of Japhet\n\nHodur, blind man, who, fooled by\n\nLoki, threw a mistletoe twig at Baldur, killing him\n\nHoel, king of Brittany\n\nHomer, the blind poet of Greece, about 850 B C\n\nHope (See Pandora)\n\nHor\u00e6 See Hours\n\nHorsa, with Hengist, invader of Britain\n\nHorus, Egyptian god of the sun\n\nHoudain, Tristram's dog\n\nHringham, Baldur's ship\n\nHrothgar, king of Denmark\n\nHugi, who beat Thialfi in foot races\n\nHugin, one of Odin's two ravens\n\nHunding, husband of Sieglinda\n\nHuon, son of Duke Sevinus\n\nHyacinthus, a youth beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by\nhim, changed in death to the flower, hyacinth\n\nHyades, Nysaean nymphs, nurses of infant Bacchus, rewarded by\nbeing placed as cluster of stars in the heavens\n\nHyale, a nymph of Diana\n\nHydra, nine headed monster slain by Hercules\n\nHygeia, goddess of health, daughter of Aesculapius\n\nHylas, a youth detained by nymphs of spring where he sought water\n\nHymen, the god of marriage, imagined as a handsome youth and\ninvoked in bridal songs\n\nHymettus, mountain in Attica, near Athens, celebrated for its\nmarble and its honey\n\nHyperboreans, people of the far North\n\nHyperion, a Titan, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Helios,\nSelene, and Eos, cattle of,\n\nHyrcania, Prince of, betrothed to Clarimunda\n\nHyrieus, king in Greece,\n\nI\n\nIapetus, a Titan, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Atlas,\nPrometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius,\n\nIasius, father of Atalanta\n\nIbycus, a poet, story of, and the cranes\n\nIcaria, island of the Aegean Sea, one of the Sporades\n\nIcarius, Spartan prince, father of Penelope\n\nIcarus, son of Daedalus, he flew too near the sun with artificial\nwings, and, the wax melting, he fell into the sea\n\nIcelos, attendant of Morpheus\n\nIcolumkill See Iona\n\nIda, Mount, a Trojan hill\n\nIdaeus, a Trojan herald\n\nIdas, son of Aphareus and Arene, and brother of Lynceus Idu'na,\nwife of Bragi\n\nIgerne, wife of Gorlois, and mother, by Uther, of Arthur\n\nIliad, epic poem of the Trojan War, by Homer\n\nIlioheus, a son of Niobe\n\nIlium See Troy\n\nIllyria, Adriatic countries north of Greece\n\nImogen, daughter of Pandrasus, wife of Trojan Brutus\n\nInachus, son of Oceanus and Tethys, and father of Phoroneus and\nIo, also first king of Argos, and said to have given his name to\nthe river Inachus\n\nIncubus, an evil spirit, supposed to lie upon persons in their\nsleep\n\nIndra, Hindu god of heaven, thunder, lightning, storm and rain\n\nIno, wife of Athamas, fleeing from whom with infant son she sprang\ninto the sea and was changed to Leucothea\n\nIo, changed to a heifer by Jupiter\n\nIobates, King of Lycia\n\nIolaus, servant of Hercules\n\nIole, sister of Dryope\n\nIona, or Icolmkill, a small northern island near Scotland, where\nSt Columba founded a missionary monastery (563 AD)\n\nIonia, coast of Asia Minor\n\nIphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, offered as a sacrifice but\ncarried away by Diana\n\nIphis, died for love of Anaxarete, 78\n\nIphitas, friend of Hercules, killed by him\n\nIris, goddess of the rainbow, messenger of Juno and Zeus\n\nIronside, Arthur's knight\n\nIsabella, daughter of king of Galicia\n\nISIS, wife of Osiris, described as the giver of death\n\nIsles of the Blessed\n\nIsmarus, first stop of Ulysses, returning from Trojan War\n\nIsmenos, a son of Niobe, slain by Apollo\n\nIsolier, friend of Rinaldo\n\nIsoude The Fair, beloved of Tristram\n\nIsoude Of The White Hands, married to Tristram\n\nIsthmian Games, See Games\n\nIthaca, home of Ulysses and Penelope\n\nIulus, son of Aeneas\n\nIvo, Saracen king, befriending Rinaldo\n\nIxion, once a sovereign of Thessaly, sentenced in Tartarus to be\nlashed with serpents to a wheel which a strong wind drove\ncontinually around\n\nJ\n\nJaniculum, Roman fortress on the Janiculus, a hill on the other\nside of the Tiber\n\nJanus, a deity from the earliest times held in high estimation by\nthe Romans, temple of\n\nJaphet (Iapetus)\n\nJason, leader of the Argonauts, seeking the Golden Fleece\n\nJoseph Of Arimath\u00e6, who bore the Holy Graal to Europe\n\nJotunheim, home of the giants in Northern mythology\n\nJove (Zeus), chief god of Roman and Grecian mythology, See JUPITER\n\nJoyous Garde, residence of Sir Launcelot of the Lake\n\nJuggernaut, Hindu deity\n\nJuno, the particular guardian spirit of each woman (See Genius)\n\nJuno, wife of Jupiter, queen of the gods\n\nJupiter, Jovis Pater, Father Jove, Jupiter and Jove used\ninterchangeably, at Dodona, statue of the Olympian\n\nJupiter Ammon (See Ammon)\n\nJupiter Capitolinus, temple of, preserving the Sibylline books\n\nJustice, See Themis\n\nK\n\nKadyriath, advises King Arthur\n\nKai, son of Kyner\n\nKalki, tenth avatar of Vishnu\n\nKay, Arthur's steward and a knight\n\nKedalion, guide of Orion\n\nKerman, desert of\n\nKicva, daughter of Gwynn Gloy\n\nKilwich, son of Kilydd\n\nKilydd, son of Prince Kelyddon, of Wales\n\nKneph, spirit or breath\n\nKnights, training and life of\n\nKriemhild, wife of Siegfried\n\nKrishna, eighth avatar of Vishnu, Hindu deity of fertility in\nnature and mankind\n\nKyner, father of Kav\n\nKynon, son of Clydno\n\nL\n\nLabyrinth, the enclosed maze of passageways where roamed the\nMinotaur of Crete, killed by Theseus with aid of Ariadne\n\nLachesis, one of the Fates (which See)\n\nLady of the Fountain, tale told by Kynon\n\nL\u00e6tes, father of Ulysses\n\nLaestrygonians, savages attacking Ulysses\n\nLaius, King of Thebes\n\nLama, holy man of Thibet\n\nLampetia, daughter of Hyperion LAOC'OON, a priest of Neptune, in\nTroy, who warned the Trojans against the Wooden Horse (which See),\nbut when two serpents came out of the sea and strangled him and\nhis two sons, the people listened to the Greek spy Sinon, and\nbrought the fatal Horse into the town\n\nLaodamia, daughter of Acastus and wife of Protesilaus\n\nLaodegan, King of Carmalide, helped by Arthur and Merlin\n\nLaomedon, King of Troy\n\nLapith\u00e6, Thessalonians, whose king had invited the Centaurs to\nhis daughter's wedding but who attacked them for offering violence\nto the bride\n\nLares, household deities\n\nLarkspur, flower from the blood of Ajax\n\nLatinus, ruler of Latium, where Aeneas landed in Italy\n\nLatmos, Mount, where Diana fell in love with Endymion\n\nLatona, mother of Apollo\n\nLauncelot, the most famous knight of the Round Table\n\nLausus, son of Mezentius, killed by Aeneas\n\nLavinia, daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas\n\nLavinium, Italian city named for Lavinia\n\nLaw, See Themis\n\nLeander, a youth of Abydos, who, swimming the Hellespont to see\nHero, his love, was drowned\n\nLebadea, site of the oracle of Trophomus\n\nLebynthos, Aegean island\n\nLeda, Queen of Sparta, wooed by Jupiter in the form of a swan\n\nLeir, mythical King of Britain, original of Shakespeare's Lear\n\nLelaps, dog of Cephalus\n\nLemnos, large island in the Aegean Sea, sacred to Vulcan\n\nLemures, the spectres or spirits of the dead\n\nLeo, Roman emperor, Greek prince\n\nLethe, river of Hades, drinking whose water caused forgetfulness\n\nLeucadia, a promontory, whence Sappho, disappointed in love, was\nsaid to have thrown herself into the sea\n\nLeucothea, a sea goddess, invoked by sailors for protection (See\nIno)\n\nLewis, son of Charlemagne\n\nLiber, ancient god of fruitfulness\n\nLibethra, burial place of Orpheus\n\nLibya, Greek name for continent of Africa in general\n\nLibyan Desert, in Africa\n\nLibyan Oasis\n\nLichas, who brought the shirt of Nessus to Hercules\n\nLimours, Earl of\n\nLinus, musical instructor of Hercules\n\nLionel, knight of the Round Table\n\nLlyr, King of Britain\n\nLocrine, son of Brutus in Albion, king of Central England\n\nLoegria, kingdom of (England)\n\nLogestilla, a wise lady, who entertained Rogero and his friends\n\nLogi, who vanquished Loki in an eating contest\n\nLoki, the Satan of Norse mythology, son of the giant Farbanti\n\nLot, King, a rebel chief, subdued by King Arthur, then a loyal\nknight\n\nLotis, a nymph, changed to a lotus-plant and in that form plucked\nby Dryope\n\nLotus Eaters, soothed to indolence, companions of Ulysses landing\namong them lost all memory of home and had to be dragged away\nbefore they would continue their voyage\n\nLove (Eros) issued from egg of Night, and with arrows and torch\nproduced life and joy\n\nLucan, one of Arthur's knights\n\nLucius Tiberius, Roman procurator in Britain demanding tribute\nfrom Arthur\n\nLud, British king, whose capital was called Lud's Town (London)\n\nLudgate, city gate where Lud was buried, 387\n\nLuned, maiden who guided Owain to the Lady of the Fountain\n\nLycahas, a turbulent sailor\n\nLycaon, son of Priam\n\nLycia, a district in Southern Asia Minor\n\nLycomodes, king of the Dolopians, who treacherously slew Theseus\n\nLycus, usurping King of Thebes\n\nLynceus, one of the sons of \u00c6gyptus\n\nM\n\nMabinogeon, plural of Mabinogi, fairy tales and romances of the\nWelsh\n\nMabon, son of Modron\n\nMachaon, son of Aesculapius\n\nMadan, son of Guendolen\n\nMadoc, a forester of King Arthur\n\nMador, Scottish knight\n\nM\u00e6lgan, king who imprisoned Elphin\n\nM\u00e6onia, ancient Lydia\n\nMagi, Persian priests\n\nMahadeva, same as Siva\n\nMahomet, great prophet of Arabia, born in Mecca, 571 AD,\nproclaimed worship of God instead of idols, spread his religion\nthrough disciples and then by force till it prevailed, with\nArabian dominion, over vast regions in Asia, Africa, and Spain in\nEurope\n\nMaia, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, eldest and most beautiful of\nthe Pleiades\n\nMalagigi the Enchanter, one of Charlemagne's knights\n\nMaleagans, false knight\n\nMalvasius, King of Iceland\n\nMambrino, with invisible helmet\n\nManawyd Dan, brother of King Vran, of London\n\nMandricardo, son of Agrican\n\nMantua, in Italy, birthplace of Virgil\n\nManu, ancestor of mankind\n\nMarathon, where Theseus and Pirithous met\n\nMark, King of Cornwall, husband of Isoude the Fair\n\nMaro See Virgil\n\nMarphisa, sister of Rogero\n\nMarsilius, Spanish king, treacherous foe of Charlemagne\n\nMarsyas, inventor of the flute, who challenged Apollo to musical\ncompetition, and, defeated, was flayed alive\n\nMatsya, the Fish, first avatar of Vishnu\n\nMeander, Grecian river\n\nMede, A, princess and sorceress who aided Jason\n\nMedoro, a young Moor, who wins Angelica\n\nMedusa, one of the Gorgons\n\nMeg\u00e6ra, one of the Furies\n\nMelampus, a Spartan dog, the first mortal endowed with prophetic\npowers\n\nMelanthus, steersman for Bacchus\n\nMeleager, one of the Argonauts (See Althaea)\n\nMeliadus, King of Lionesse, near Cornwall\n\nMelicertes, infant son of Ino. changed to Palaemon (See Ino,\nLeucothea, and Palasmon)\n\nMelissa, priestess at Merlin's tomb\n\nMelisseus, a Cretan king\n\nMelpomene, one of the Muses\n\nMemnon, the beautiful son of Tithonus and Eos (Aurora), and king\nof the Ethiopians, slain in Trojan War\n\nMemphis, Egyptian city\n\nMenelaus, son of King of Sparta, husband of Helen\n\nMenoeceus, son of Creon, voluntary victim in war to gain success\nfor his father\n\nMentor, son of Alcimus and a faithful friend of Ulysses\n\nMercury (See Hermes)\n\nMerlin, enchanter\n\nMerope, daughter of King of Chios, beloved by Orion\n\nMesmerism, likened to curative oracle of \u00c6sculapius at Epidaurus\n\nMetabus, father of Camilla\n\nMetamorphoses, Ovid's poetical legends of mythical\ntransformations, a large source of our knowledge of classic\nmythology\n\nMetanira, a mother, kind to Ceres seeking Proserpine\n\nMetempsychosis, transmigration of souls\u2014rebirth of dying men\nand women in forms of animals or human beings\n\nMetis, Prudence, a spouse of Jupiter\n\nMezentius, a brave but cruel soldier, opposing Aeneas in Italy\n\nMidas\n\nMidgard, the middle world of the Norsemen\n\nMidgard Serpent, a sea monster, child of Loki\n\nMilky Way, starred path across the sky, believed to be road to\npalace of the gods\n\nMilo, a great athlete\n\nMilon, father of Orlando\n\nMilton, John, great English poet, whose History of England is here\nlargely used\n\nMime, one of the chief dwarfs of ancient German mythology\n\nMinerva (Athene), daughter of Jupiter, patroness of health,\nlearning, and wisdom\n\nMinos, King of Crete\n\nMinotaur, monster killed by Theseus\n\nMistletoe, fatal to Baldur\n\nMnemosyne, one of the Muses\n\nModesty, statue to\n\nModred, nephew of King Arthur\n\nMoly, plant, powerful against sorcery\n\nMomus, a deity whose delight was to jeer bitterly at gods and men\n\nMonad, the \"unit\" of Pythagoras\n\nMonsters, unnatural beings, evilly disposed to men\n\nMontalban, Rinaldo's castle\n\nMonth, the, attendant upon the Sun\n\nMoon, goddess of, see Diana\n\nMORAUNT, knight, an Irish champion\n\nMorgana, enchantress, the Lady of the Lake in \"Orlando Furioso,\"\nsame as Morgane Le Fay in tales of Arthur\n\nMorgane Le Fay, Queen of Norway, King Arthur's sister, an\nenchantress\n\nMorgan Tud, Arthur's chief physician\n\nMorpheus, son of Sleep and god of dreams\n\nMorte d'Arthur, romance, by Sir Thomas Mallory\n\nMulciber, Latin name of Vulcan\n\nMull, Island of\n\nMunin, one of Odin's two ravens\n\nMusaeus, sacred poet, son of Orpheus\n\nMuses, The, nine goddesses presiding over poetry, etc\u2014Calliope,\nepic poetry, Clio, history, Erato, love poetry, Euterpe, lyric\npoetry; Melpomene, tragedy, Polyhymnia, oratory and sacred song\nTerpsichore, choral song and dance, Thalia, comedy and idyls,\nUrania, astronomy\n\nMuspelheim, the fire world of the Norsemen\n\nMycenas, ancient Grecian city, of which Agamemnon was king\n\nMYRDDIN (Merlin)\n\nMyrmidons, bold soldiers of Achilles\n\nMysia, Greek district on northwest coast of Asia Minor\n\nMythology, origin of, collected myths, describing gods of early\npeoples\n\nN\n\nNaiads, water nymphs\n\nNamo, Duke of Bavaria, one of Charlemagne's knights\n\nNanna, wife of Baldur\n\nNanters, British king\n\nNantes, site of Caradoc's castle\n\nNape, a dog of Diana\n\nNarcissus, who died of unsatisfied love for his own image in the\nwater\n\nNausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous, who befriended Ulysses\n\nNausithous, king of Phaeacians\n\nNaxos, Island of\n\nNegus, King of Abyssinia\n\nNEMEA, forest devastated by a lion killed by Hercules\n\nNemean Games, held in honor of Jupiter and Hercules\n\nNemean Lion, killed by Hercules\n\nNemesis, goddess of vengeance\n\nNennius, British combatant of Caesar\n\nNeoptolemus, son of Achilles\n\nNepenthe, ancient drug to cause forgetfulness of pain or distress\n\nNephele, mother of Phryxus and Helle\n\nNephthys, Egyptian goddess\n\nNeptune, identical with Poseidon, god of the sea\n\nNereids, sea nymphs, daughters of Nereus and Doris\n\nNereus, a sea god\n\nNessus, a centaur killed by Hercules, whose jealous wife sent him\na robe or shirt steeped in the blood of Nessus, which poisoned him\n\nNestor, king of Pylos, renowned for his wisdom, justice, and\nknowledge of war\n\nNibelungen Hoard, treasure seized by Siegfried from the\nNibelungs, buried in the Rhine by Hagan after killing Siegfried,\nand lost when Hagan was killed by Kriemhild, theme of Wagner's\nfour music dramas, \"The Ring of the Nibelungen,\"\n\nNibelungen Lied, German epic, giving the same nature myth as the\nNorse Volsunga Saga, concerning the Hoard\n\nNibelungen Ring, Wagner's music dramas\n\nNibelungs, the, a race of Northern dwarfs\n\nNidhogge, a serpent in the lower world that lives on the dead\n\nNiffleheim, mist world of the Norsemen, the Hades of absent\nspirits\n\nNile, Egyptian river\n\nNiobe, daughter of Tantalus, proud Queen of Thebes, whose seven\nsons and seven daughters were killed by Apollo and Diana, at which\nAmphion, her husband, killed himself, and Niobe wept until she was\nturned to stone\n\nNisus, King of Megara\n\nNoah, as legendary ancestor of French, Roman, German, and British\npeoples\n\nNoman, name assumed by Ulysses\n\nNorns, the three Scandinavian Fates, Urdur (the past), Verdandi\n(the present), and Skuld (the future)\n\nNothung, magic sword\n\nNotus, southwest wind\n\nNox, daughter of Chaos and sister of Erebus, personification of\nnight\n\nNuma, second king of Rome\n\nNymphs, beautiful maidens, lesser divinities of nature Dryads and\nHamadryads, tree nymphs, Naiads, spring, brook, and river nymphs,\nNereids, sea nymphs Oreads, mountain nymphs or hill nymphs\n\nO\n\nOceanus, a Titan, ruling watery elements\n\nOcyroe, a prophetess, daughter of Chiron\n\nOderic\n\nOdin, chief of the Norse gods\n\nOdyar, famous Biscayan hero\n\nOdysseus See Ulysses\n\nOdyssey, Homer's poem, relating the wanderings of Odysseus\n(Ulysses) on returning from Trojan War\n\n\u0152dipus, Theban hero, who guessed the riddle of the Sphinx (which\nSee), becoming King of Thebes\n\n\u0152neus, King of Calydon\n\n\u0152none, nymph, married by Paris in his youth, and abandoned for\nHelen\n\n\u0152nopion, King of Chios\n\n\u0152ta, Mount, scene of Hercules' death\n\nOgier, the Dane, one of the paladins of Charlemagne\n\nOliver, companion of Orlando\n\nOlwen, wife of Kilwich\n\nOlympia, a small plain in Elis, where the Olympic games were\ncelebrated\n\nOlympiads, periods between Olympic games (four years)\n\nOlympian Games, See Games\n\nOlympus, dwelling place of the dynasty of gods of which Zeus was\nthe head\n\nOmphale, queen of Lydia, daughter of Iardanus and wife of Tmolus\n\nOphion, king of the Titans, who ruled Olympus till dethroned by\nthe gods Saturn and Rhea\n\nOps See Rhea\n\nOracles, answers from the gods to questions from seekers for\nknowledge or advice for the future, usually in equivocal form, so\nas to fit any event, also places where such answers were given\nforth usually by a priest or priestess\n\nOrc, a sea monster, foiled by Rogero when about to devour Angelica\n\nOreads, nymphs of mountains and hills\n\nOrestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, because of his crime\nin killing his mother, he was pursued by the Furies until purified\nby Minerva\n\nOrion, youthful giant, loved by Diana, Constellation\n\nOrithyia, a nymph, seized by Boreas\n\nOrlando, a famous knight and nephew of Charlemagne\n\nOrmuzd (Greek, Oromasdes), son of Supreme Being, source of good\nas his brother Ahriman (Arimanes) was of evil, in Persian or\nZoroastrian religion\n\nOrpheus, musician, son of Apollo and Calliope, See EURYDICE\n\nOsiris, the most beneficent of the Egyptian gods\n\nOssa, mountain of Thessaly\n\nOssian, Celtic poet of the second or third century\n\nOvid, Latin poet (See Metamorphoses)\n\nOwain, knight at King Arthur's court\n\nOzanna, a knight of Arthur\n\nP\n\nPactolus, river whose sands were changed to gold by Midas\n\nP\u00e6on, a name for both Apollo and Aesculapius, gods of medicine,\n\nPagans, heathen\n\nPaladins or peers, knights errant\n\nPal\u00e6mon, son of Athamas and Ino\n\nPalamedes, messenger sent to call Ulysses to the Trojan War\n\nPalamedes, Saracen prince at Arthur's court\n\nPalatine, one of Rome's Seven Hills\n\nPales, goddess presiding over cattle and pastures\n\nPalinurus, faithful steersman of Aeeas\n\nPalladium, properly any image of Pallas Athene, but specially\napplied to an image at Troy, which was stolen by Ulysses and\nDiomedes\n\nPallas, son of Evander\n\nPallas Athene (Minerva)\n\nPampha Gus, a dog of Diana\n\nPan, god of nature and the universe\n\nPanathen\u00e6a, festival in honor of Pallas Athene (Minerva)\n\nPandean Pipes, musical instrument of reeds, made by Pan in\nmemory of Syrinx\n\nPandora (all gifted), first woman, dowered with gifts by every\ngod, yet entrusted with a box she was cautioned not to open, but,\ncurious, she opened it, and out flew all the ills of humanity,\nleaving behind only Hope, which remained\n\nPandrasus, a king in Greece, who persecuted Trojan exiles under\nBrutus, great grandson of Aeneas, until they fought, captured him,\nand, with his daughter Imogen as Brutus' wife, emigrated to Albion\n(later called Britain)\n\nPanope, plain of\n\nPanthus, alleged earlier incarnation of Pythagoras\n\nPaphlagnia, ancient country in Asia Minor, south of Black Sea\n\nPaphos, daughter of Pygmalion and Galatea (both of which, See)\n\nParc\u00e6 See Fates\n\nPariahs, lowest caste of Hindus\n\nParis, son of Priam and Hecuba, who eloped with Helen (which.\nSee)\n\nParnassian Laurel, wreath from Parnassus, crown awarded to\nsuccessful poets\n\nParnassus, mountain near Delphi, sacred to Apollo and the Muses\n\nParsees, Persian fire worshippers (Zoroastrians), of whom there\nare still thousands in Persia and India\n\nParthenon, the temple of Athene Parthenos (\"the Virgin\") on the\nAcropolis of Athens\n\nPassebreul, Tristram's horse\n\nPatroclus, friend of Achilles, killed by Hector\n\nPecheur, King, uncle of Perceval\n\nPeers, the\n\nPegasus, winged horse, born from the sea foam and the blood of\nMedusa\n\nPeleus, king of the Myrmidons, father of Achilles by Thetis\n\nPelias, usurping uncle of Jason\n\nPelion, mountain\n\nPelleas, knight of Arthur\n\nPenates, protective household deities of the Romans\n\nPendragon, King of Britain, elder brother of Uther Pendragon,\nwho succeeded him\n\nPenelope, wife of Ulysses, who, waiting twenty years for his\nreturn from the Trojan War, put off the suitors for her hand by\npromising to choose one when her weaving was done, but unravelled\nat night what she had woven by day\n\nPeneus, river god, river\n\nPenthesilea, queen of Amazons\n\nPentheus, king of Thebes, having resisted the introduction of\nthe worship of Bacchus into his kingdom, was driven mad by the god\n\nPenus, Roman house pantry, giving name to the Penates\n\nPepin, father of Charlemagne\n\nPeplus, sacred robe of Minerva\n\nPerceval, a great knight of Arthur\n\nPerdix, inventor of saw and compasses\n\nPeriander, King of Corinuh, friend of Arion\n\nPeriphetes, son of Vulcan, killed by Theseus\n\nPersephone, goddess of vegetation, 8 See Pioserpine\n\nPerseus, son of Jupiter and Danae, slayer of the Gorgon Medusa,\ndeliverer of Andromeda from a sea monster, 116 122, 124, 202\n\nPh\u00e6acians, people who entertained Ulysses\n\nPh\u00e6dra, faithless and cruel wife of Theseus\n\nPh\u00e6thusa, sister of Phaeton, 244\n\nPh\u00e6ton, son of Phoebus, who dared attempt to drive his father's\nsun chariot\n\nPhantasos, a son of Somnus, bringing strange images to sleeping\nmen\n\nPhaon, beloved by Sappho\n\nPhelot, knight of Wales\n\nPheredin, friend of Tristram, unhappy lover of Isoude\n\nPhidias, famous Greek sculptor\n\nPhilemon, husband of Baucis\n\nPhiloctetes, warrior who lighted the fatal pyre of Hercules\n\nPhiloe, burial place of Osiris\n\nPhineus, betrothed to Andromeda\n\nPhlegethon, fiery river of Hades\n\nPhocis\n\nPh\u0153be, one of the sisters of Phaeton\n\nPh\u0153bus (Apollo), god of music, prophecy, and archery, the sun\ngod\n\nPh\u0153nix, a messenger to Achilles, also, a miraculous bird dying\nin fire by its own act and springing up alive from its own ashes\n\nPhorbas, a companion of Aeneas, whose form was assumed by Neptune\nin luring Palinuras the helmsman from his roost\n\nPhryxus, brother of Helle\n\nPinabel, knight\n\nPillars of Hercules, two mountains\u2014Calpe, now the Rock of\nGibraltar, southwest corner of Spain in Europe, and Abyla, facing\nit in Africa across the strait\n\nPindar, famous Greek poet\n\nPindus, Grecian mountain\n\nPirene, celebrated fountain at Corinth\n\nPirithous, king of the Lapithae in Thessaly, and friend of\nTheseus, husband of Hippodamia\n\nPleasure, daughter of Cupid and Psyche\n\nPleiades, seven of Diana's nymphs, changed into stars, one being\nlost\n\nPlenty, the Horn of\n\nPlexippus, brother of Althea\n\nPliny, Roman naturalist\n\nPluto, the same as Hades, Dis, etc. god of the Infernal Regions\n\nPlutus, god of wealth\n\nPO, Italian river\n\nPole Star\n\nPolites, youngest son of Priam of Troy\n\nPollux, Castor and (Dioscuri, the Twins) (See Castor)\n\nPolydectes, king of Seriphus\n\nPolydore, slain kinsman of Aeneas, whose blood nourished a bush\nthat bled when broken\n\nPolyhymnia, Muse of oratory and sacred song\n\nPolyidus, soothsayer\n\nPolynices, King of Thebes\n\nPolyphemus, giant son of Neptune\n\nPolyxena, daughter of King Priam of Troy\n\nPomona, goddess of fruit trees (See VERTUMNUS)\n\nPorrex and Ferrex, sons of Leir, King of Britain\n\nPortunus, Roman name for Palaemon\n\nPoseidon (Neptune), ruler of the ocean\n\nPrecipice, threshold of Helas hall\n\nPrester John, a rumored priest or presbyter, a Christian pontiff\nin Upper Asia, believed in but never found\n\nPriam, king of Troy\n\nPriwen, Arthur's shield\n\nProcris, beloved but jealous wife of Cephalus\n\nProcrustes, who seized travellers and bound them on his iron bed,\nstretching the short ones and cutting short the tall, thus also\nhimself served by Theseus\n\nPr\u0153tus, jealous of Bellerophon\n\nPrometheus, creator of man, who stole fire from heaven for man's\nuse\n\nProserpine, the same as Persephone, goddess of all growing\nthings, daughter of Ceres, carried off by Pluto\n\nProtesilaus, slain by Hector the Trojan, allowed by the gods to\nreturn for three hours' talk with his widow Laodomia\n\nProteus, the old man of the sea\n\nPrudence (Metis), spouse of Jupiter\n\nPryderi, son of Pwyll\n\nPsyche, a beautiful maiden, personification of the human soul,\nsought by Cupid (Love), to whom she responded, lost him by\ncuriosity to see him (as he came to her only by night), but\nfinally through his prayers was made immortal and restored to him,\na symbol of immortality\n\nPuranas, Hindu Scriptures\n\nPwyll, Prince of Dyved\n\nPygmalion, sculptor in love with a statue he had made, brought to\nlife by Venus, brother of Queen Dido\n\nPygmies, nation of dwarfs, at war with the Cranes\n\nPylades, son of Straphius, friend of Orestes\n\nPyramus, who loved Thisbe, next door neighbor, and, their parents\nopposing, they talked through cracks in the house wall, agreeing\nto meet in the near by woods, where Pyramus, finding a bloody veil\nand thinking Thisbe slain, killed himself, and she, seeing his\nbody, killed herself (Burlesqued in Shakespeare's \"Midsummer\nNight's Dream\")\n\nPyrrha, wife of Deucalion\n\nPyrrhus (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles\n\nPythagoras, Greek philosopher (540 BC), who thought numbers to be\nthe essence and principle of all things, and taught transmigration\nof souls of the dead into new life as human or animal beings\n\nPythia, priestess of Apollo at Delphi\n\nPythian Games\n\nPythian Oracle\n\nPython, serpent springing from Deluge slum, destroyed by Apollo\n\nQ\n\nQuirinus (from quiris, a lance or spear), a war god, said to be\nRomulus, founder of Rome\n\nR\n\nRabican, noted horse\n\nRagnarok, the twilight (or ending) of the gods\n\nRajputs, minor Hindu caste\n\nRegan, daughter of Leir\n\nRegillus, lake in Latium, noted for battle fought near by\nbetween the Romans and the Latins\n\nReggio, family from which Rogero sprang\n\nRemus, brother of Romulus, founder of Rome\n\nRhadamanthus, son of Jupiter and Europa after his death one of\nthe judges in the lower world\n\nRhapsodist, professional reciter of poems among the Greeks\n\nRhea, female Titan, wife of Saturn (Cronos), mother of the chief\ngods, worshipped in Greece and Rome\n\nRhine, river\n\nRhine Maidens, or Daughters, three water nymphs, Flosshilda,\nWoglinda, and Wellgunda, set to guard the Nibelungen Hoard, buried\nin the Rhine\n\nRhodes, one of the seven cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace\n\nRhodope, mountain in Thrace\n\nRhongomyant, Arthur's lance\n\nRh\u0153cus, a youth, beloved by a Dryad, but who brushed away a bee\nsent by her to call him to her, and she punished him with\nblindness\n\nRhiannon, wife of Pwyll\n\nRinaldo, one of the bravest knights of Charlemagne\n\nRiver Ocean, flowing around the earth\n\nRobert De Beauvais, Norman poet (1257)\n\nRobin Hood, famous outlaw in English legend, about time of Richard\nC\u0153ur de Lion\n\nRockingham, forest of\n\nRodomont, king of Algiers\n\nRogero, noted Saracen knight\n\nRoland (Orlando), See Orlando\n\nRomances\n\nRomanus, legendary great grandson of Noah\n\nRome\n\nRomulus, founder of Rome\n\nRON, Arthur's lance\n\nRonces Valles, battle of\n\nRound Table King Arthur's instituted by Merlin the Sage for\nPendragon, Arthur's father, as a knightly order, continued and\nmade famous by Arthur and his knights\n\nRunic Characters, or runes, alphabetic signs used by early\nTeutonic peoples, written or graved on metal or stone\n\nRutulians, an ancient people in Italy, subdued at an early period\nby the Romans\n\nRyence, king in Ireland\n\nS\n\nSabra, maiden for whom Severn River was named, daughter of Locrine\nand Estrildis thrown into river Severn by Locrine's wife,\ntransformed to a river nymph, poetically named Sabrina\n\nSacripant, king of Circassia\n\nSaffire, Sir, knight of Arthur\n\nSagas, Norse tales of heroism, composed by the Skalds\n\nSagramour, knight of Arthur\n\nSt. Michael's Mount, precipitous pointed rock hill on the coast of\nBrittany, opposite Cornwall\n\nSakyasinha, the Lion, epithet applied to Buddha\n\nSalamander, a lizard like animal, fabled to be able to live in\nfire\n\nSalamis, Grecian city\n\nSalmoneus, son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother of Sisyphus\n\nSalomon, king of Brittany, at Charlemagne's court\n\nSamhin, or \"fire of peace,\" a Druidical festival\n\nSamian Sage (Pythagoras)\n\nSamos, island in the Aegean Sea\n\nSamothracian Gods, a group of agricultural divinities, worshipped\nin Samothrace\n\nSamson, Hebrew hero, thought by some to be original of Hercules\n\nSan Greal (See Graal, the Holy)\n\nSappho, Greek poetess, who leaped into the sea from promontory of\nLeucadia in disappointed love for Phaon\n\nSaracens, followers of Mahomet\n\nSarpedon, son of Jupiter and Europa, killed by Patroclus\n\nSaturn (Cronos)\n\nSaturnalia, a annual festival held by Romans in honor of Saturn\n\nSaturnia, an ancient name of Italy\n\nSatyrs, male divinities of the forest, half man, half goat\n\nScaliger, famous German scholar of 16th century\n\nScandinavia, mythology of, giving account of Northern gods,\nheroes, etc\n\nScheria, mythical island, abode of the Phaeacians\n\nSchrimnir, the boar, cooked nightly for the heroes of Valhalla\nbecoming whole every morning\n\nScio, one of the island cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace\n\nScopas, King of Thessaly\n\nScorpion, constellation\n\nScylla, sea nymph beloved by Glaucus, but changed by jealous Circe\nto a monster and finally to a dangerous rock on the Sicilian\ncoast, facing the whirlpool Charybdis, many mariners being wrecked\nbetween the two, also, daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who loved\nMinos, besieging her father's city, but he disliked her disloyalty\nand drowned her, also, a fair virgin of Sicily, friend of sea\nnymph Galatea\n\nScyros, where Theseus was slain\n\nScythia, country lying north of Euxine Sea\n\nSemele, daughter of Cadmus and, by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus\n\nSemiramis, with Ninus the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire\nof Nineveh\n\nSenapus, King of Abyssinia, who entertained Astolpho\n\nSerapis, or Hermes, Egyptian divinity of Tartarus and of\nmedicine\n\nSerfs, slaves of the land\n\nSeriphus, island in the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades\n\nSerpent (Northern constellation)\n\nSestos, dwelling of Hero (which See also Leander)\n\n\"Seven against Thebes,\" famous Greek expedition\n\nSevern River, in England\n\nSevinus, Duke of Guienne\n\nShalott, The Lady of\n\nShatriya, Hindu warrior caste\n\nSherasmin, French chevalier\n\nSibyl, prophetess of Cumae\n\nSich\u00e6us, husband of Dido\n\nSeige Perilous, the chair of purity at Arthur's Round Table, fatal\nto any but him who was destined to achieve the quest of the\nSangreal (See Galahad)\n\nSiegfried, young King of the Netherlands, husband of Kriemhild,\nshe boasted to Brunhild that Siegfried had aided Gunther to beat\nher in athletic contests, thus winning her as wife, and Brunhild,\nin anger, employed Hagan to murder Siegfried. As hero of Wagner's\n\"Valkyrie,\" he wins the Nibelungen treasure ring, loves and\ndeserts Brunhild, and is slain by Hagan\n\nSieglinda, wife of Hunding, mother of Siegfried by Siegmund\n\nSiegmund, father of Siegfried\n\nSigtryg, Prince, betrothed of King Alef's daughter, aided by\nHereward\n\nSiguna, wife of Loki\n\nSilenus, a Satyr, school master of Bacchus\n\nSilures (South Wales)\n\nSilvia, daughter of Latin shepherd\n\nSilvius, grandson of Aeneas, accidentally killed in the chase by\nhis son Brutus\n\nSimonides, an early poet of Greece\n\nSinon, a Greek spy, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Wooden\nHorse into their city\n\nSirens, sea nymphs, whose singing charmed mariners to leap into\nthe sea, passing their island, Ulysses stopped the ears of his\nsailors with wax, and had himself bound to the mast so that he\ncould hear but not yield to their music\n\nSirius, the dog of Orion, changed to the Dog star\n\nSisyphus, condemned in Tartarus to perpetually roll up hill a big\nrock which, when the top was reached, rolled down again\n\nSiva, the Destroyer, third person of the Hindu triad of gods\n\nSkalds, Norse bards and poets\n\nSkidbladnir, Freyr's ship\n\nSkirnir, Frey's messenger, who won the god's magic sword by\ngetting him Gerda for his wife\n\nSkrymir, a giant, Utgard Loki in disguise, who fooled Thor in\nathletic feats\n\nSkuld, the Norn of the Future\n\nSleep, twin brother of Death\n\nSleipnir, Odin's horse\n\nSobrino, councillor to Agramant\n\nSomnus, child of Nox, twin brother of Mors, god of sleep\n\nSophocles, Greek tragic dramatist\n\nSouth Wind See Notus\n\nSparta, capital of Lacedaemon\n\nSphinx, a monster, waylaying the road to Thebes and propounding\nriddles to all passers, on pain of death, for wrong guessing, who\nkilled herself in rage when Aedipus guessed aright\n\nSpring\n\nStonehenge, circle of huge upright stones, fabled to be sepulchre\nof Pendragon\n\nStrophius, father of Pylades\n\nStygian Realm, Hades\n\nStygian SleeP, escaped from the beauty box sent from Hades to\nVenus by hand of Psyche, who curiously opened the box and was\nplunged into unconsciousness\n\nStyx, river, bordering Hades, to be crossed by all the dead\n\nSudras, Hindu laboring caste\n\nSurtur, leader of giants against the gods in the day of their\ndestruction (Norse mythology)\n\nSurya, Hindu god of the sun, corresponding to the Greek Helios\n\nSutri, Orlando's birthplace\n\nSvadilfari, giant's horse\n\nSwan, Leda and\n\nSybaris, Greek city in Southern Italy, famed for luxury\n\nSylvanus, Latin divinity identified with Pan\n\nSymplegades, floating rocks passed by the Argonauts\n\nSyrinx, nymph, pursued by Pan, but escaping by being changed to a\nbunch of reeds (See Pandean pipes)\n\nT\n\nTacitus, Roman historian\n\nT\u00e6narus, Greek entrance to lower regions\n\nTagus, river in Spain and Portugal\n\nTaliesin, Welsh bard\n\nTanais, ancient name of river Don\n\nTantalus, wicked king, punished in Hades by standing in water\nthat retired when he would drink, under fruit trees that withdrew\nwhen he would eat\n\nTarchon, Etruscan chief\n\nTarentum, Italian city\n\nTarpeian Rock, in Rome, from which condemned criminals were\nhurled\n\nTarquins, a ruling family in early Roman legend\n\nTauris, Grecian city, site of temple of Diana (See Iphigenia)\n\nTaurus, a mountain\n\nTartarus, place of confinement of Titans, etc, originally a black\nabyss below Hades later, represented as place where the wicked\nwere punished, and sometimes the name used as synonymous with\nHades\n\nTeirtu, the harp of\n\nTelamon, Greek hero and adventurer, father of Ajax\n\nTelemachus, son of Ulysses and Penelope\n\nTellus, another name for Rhea\n\nTenedos, an island in Aegean Sea\n\nTerminus, Roman divinity presiding over boundaries and frontiers\n\nTerpsichore, Muse of dancing\n\nTerra, goddess of the earth\n\nTethys, goddess of the sea\n\nTeucer, ancient king of the Trojans\n\nThalia, one of the three Graces\n\nThamyris, Thracian bard, who challenged the Muses to competition\nin singing, and, defeated, was blinded\n\nThaukt, Loki disguised as a hag\n\nThebes, city founded by Cadmus and capital of Boeotia\n\nThemis, female Titan, law counsellor of Jove\n\nTheodora, sister of Prince Leo\n\nTheron, one of Diana's dogs\n\nThersites, a brawler, killed by Achilles\n\nThescelus, foe of Perseus, turned to stone by sight of Gorgon's\nhead\n\nTheseum, Athenian temple in honor of Theseus\n\nTheseus, son of Aegeus and Aethra, King of Athens, a great hero of\nmany adventures\n\nThessaly\n\nThestius, father of Althea\n\nThetis, mother of Achilles\n\nThialfi, Thor's servant\n\nThisbe, Babylonian maiden beloved by Pyramus\n\nThor, the thunderer, of Norse mythology, most popular of the gods\n\nThrace\n\nThrinakia, island pasturing Hyperion's cattle, where Ulysses\nlanded, but, his men killing some cattle for food, their ship was\nwrecked by lightning\n\nThrym, giant, who buried Thor's hammer\n\nThucydides, Greek historian\n\nTiber, river flowing through Rome\n\nTiber, Father, god of the river\n\nTigris, river\n\nTintadel, castle of, residence of King Mark of Cornwall\n\nTiresias, a Greek soothsayer\n\nTisiphone, one of the Furies\n\nTitans, the sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea\n(Earth), enemies of the gods and overcome by them\n\nTithonus, Trojan prince\n\nTityus, giant in Tartarus\n\nTmolus, a mountain god\n\nTortoise, second avatar of Vishnu\n\nTours, battle of (See Abdalrahman and Charles Martel)\n\nToxeus, brother of Melauger's mother, who snatched from Atalanta\nher hunting trophy, and was slain by Melauger, who had awarded it\nto her\n\nTriad, the Hindu\n\nTriads, Welsh poems\n\nTrimurti, Hindu Triad\n\nTriptolemus, son of Celeus , and who, made great by\nCeres, founded her worship in Eleusis\n\nTristram, one of Arthur's knights, husband of Isoude of the White\nHands, lover of Isoude the Fair,\n\nTriton, a demi god of the sea, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and\nAmphitrite\n\nTr\u0153zen, Greek city of Argolis\n\nTrojan War\n\nTrojanova, New Troy, City founded in Britain (See Brutus, and\nLud)\n\nTrophonius, oracle of, in Boeotia\n\nTroubadours, poets and minstrels of Provence, in Southern France\n\nTrouvers, poets and minstrels of Northern France\n\nTroy, city in Asia Minor, ruled by King Priam, whose son, Paris,\nstole away Helen, wife of Menelaus the Greek, resulting in the\nTrojan War and the destruction of Troy\n\nTroy, fall of\n\nTurnus, chief of the Rutulianes in Italy, unsuccessful rival of\n\u00c6neas for Lavinia\n\nTurpin, Archbishop of Rheims\n\nTurquine, Sir, a great knight, foe of Arthur, slain by Sir\nLauncelot\n\nTyphon, one of the giants who attacked the gods, were defeated,\nand imprisoned under Mt. Aetna\n\nTyr, Norse god of battles\n\nTyre, Phoenician city governed by Dido\n\nTyrians\n\nTyrrheus, herdsman of King Turnus in Italy, the slaying of whose\ndaughter's stag aroused war upon Aeneas and his companions\n\nU\n\nUberto, son of Galafron\n\nUlysses (Greek, Odysseus), hero of the Odyssey\n\nUnicorn, fabled animal with a single horn\n\nUrania, one of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne\n\nUrdur, one of the Norns or Fates of Scandinavia, representing the\nPast\n\nUsk, British river\n\nUtgard, abode of the giant Utgard Loki\n\nUtgard Loki, King of the Giants (See Skrymir)\n\nUther (Uther Pendragon), king of Britain and father of Arthur,\n\nUwaine, knight of Arthur's court\n\nV\n\nVaissyas, Hindu caste of agriculturists and traders\n\nValhalla, hall of Odin, heavenly residence of slain heroes\n\nValkyrie, armed and mounted warlike virgins, daughters of the gods\n(Norse), Odin's messengers, who select slain heroes for Valhalla\nand serve them at their feasts\n\nVe, brother of Odin\n\nVedas, Hindu sacred Scriptures\n\nVenedotia, ancient name for North Wales\n\nVenus (Aphrodite), goddess of beauty\n\nVenus De Medici, famous antique statue in Uffizi Gallery,\nFlorence, Italy\n\nVerdandi, the Present, one of the Norns\n\nVertumnus, god of the changing seasons, whose varied appearances\nwon the love of Pomona\n\nVesta, daughter of Cronos and Rhea, goddess of the homefire, or\nhearth\n\nVestals, virgin priestesses in temple of Vesta\n\nVesuvius, Mount, volcano near Naples\n\nVillains, peasants in the feudal scheme\n\nVigrid, final battle-field, with destruction of the gods ind\ntheir enemies, the sun, the earth, and time itself\n\nVili, brother of Odin and Ve\n\nVirgil, celebrated Latin poet (See Aeneid)\n\nVirgo, constellation of the Virgin, representing Astraea, goddess\nof innocence and purity\n\nVishnu, the Preserver, second of the three chief Hindu gods\n\nViviane, lady of magical powers, who allured the sage Merlin and\nimprisoned him in an enchanted wood\n\nVolscens, Rutulian troop leader who killed Nisus and Euryalus\n\nVolsung, A Saga, an Icelandic poem, giving about the same legends\nas the Nibelungen Lied\n\nVortigern, usurping King of Britain, defeated by Pendragon 390,\n397\n\nVulcan (Greek, Haephestus), god of fire and metal working, with\nforges under Aetna, husband of Venus\n\nVyasa, Hindu sage\n\nW\n\nWain, the, constellation\n\nWellgunda, one of the Rhine-daughters\n\nWelsh Language\n\nWestern Ocean\n\nWinds, The\n\nWinter\n\nWoden, chief god in the Norse mythology, Anglo Saxon for Odin\n\nWoglinda, one of the Rhine-daughters\n\nWoman, creation of\n\nWooden Horse, the, filled with armed men, but left outside of Troy\nas a pretended offering to Minerva when the Greeks feigned to sail\naway, accepted by the Trojans (See Sinon, and Laocoon), brought\ninto the city, and at night emptied of the hidden Greek soldiers,\nwho destroyed the town\n\nWood Nymphs\n\nWotan, Old High German form of Odin\n\nX\n\nXanthus, river of Asia Minor\n\nY\n\nYama, Hindu god of the Infernal Regions\n\nYear, The\n\nYgdrasil, great ash-tree, supposed by Norse mythology to support\nthe universe\n\nYmir, giant, slain by Odin\n\nYnywl, Earl, host of Geraint, father of Enid\n\nYork, Britain\n\nYserone, niece of Arthur, mother of Caradoc\n\nYspadaden Penkawr, father of Olwen\n\nZ\n\nZendavesta, Persian sacred Scriptures\n\nZephyrus, god of the South wind,\n\nZerbino, a knight, son of the king of Scotland\n\nZetes, winged warrior, companion of Theseus\n\nZethus, son of Jupiter and Antiope, brother of Amphion. See Dirce\n\nZeus, See Jupiter\n\nZoroaster, founder of the Persian religion, which was dominant in\nWestern Asia from about 550 BC to about 650 AD, and is still held\nby many thousands in Persia and in India","title":"The Age of Fable/GLOSSARY","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":12171}