AAb-dal-rah´man, founder of the independent Ommiad (Saracenic) power in Spain, conquered at Tours by Charles Martel,648,649.Ab´er-fraw, scene of nuptials of Branwen and Matholch,590.Ab-syr´tus, younger brother of Medea,137.A-by´dos, a town on the Hellespont, nearly opposite to Sestos,105.Ab´y-la, Mount, or Columna, a mountain in Morocco, near Ceuta, now called Jebel Musa or Ape’s Hill, forming the Northwestern extremity of the African coast opposite Gibraltar (SeePillars of Hercules),145.A-ces´tes, 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,162,164,264;city of,283.A-ce´tes, Bacchanal captured by Pentheus,164.A-cha´tes, faithful friend and companion of Æneas,281.Ach-e-lo´us, river-god of the largest river in Greece—his Horn of Plenty,177-179,380.A-chil´les, the hero of the Iliad, son of Peleus and of the Nereid Thetis, slain by Paris,95,138,173,174,208,212,213,214,216-228,232,233.A´cis, youth loved by Galatea and slain by Polyphemus,209-211.A-con´ti-us, a beautiful youth, who fell in love with Cydippe, the daughter of a noble Athenian,121.A-cris´i-us, son of Abas, king of Argos, grandson of Lynceus, the great-grandson of Danaüs,116,202.Ac-tæ´on, a celebrated huntsman, son of Aristæus and Autonoë, who, having seen Diana bathing, was changed by her to a stag and killed by his own dogs,34,36,94.Ad-me´ta, daughter of Eurystheus, covets Hippolyta’s girdle,144.Ad-me´tus, king of Thessaly, saved from death by Alcestis,180,181.A-do´nis, a youth beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), and Proserpine; killed by a boar,65-67.A-dras´tus, a king of Argos,182.Æ´a-cus, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Ægina, renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety,95.Æ-æ´a, Circe’s island, visited by Ulysses,241.Æ-e´tes, or Æeta, son of Helios (the Sun) and Perseis, and father of Medea and Absyrtus,130,131,132,137.Æ-ge´an Sea,38,73,133.Æ-ge´us, king of Athens,136,150,151.Æ-gi´na, a rocky island in the middle of the Saronic gulf,95.Æ´gis, shield or breastplate of Jupiter and Minerva,5,109,116.Æ-gis´thus, murderer of Agamemnon, slain by Orestes,234.Æ-ne´as, Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite (Venus), and born on Mount Ida, reputed first settler of Rome,61,213,221,222,223,258-287,379.Æ-ne´id, poem by Virgil, relating the wanderings of Æneas from Troy to Italy,307.Æ´o-lus, son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, represented in Homer as the happy ruler of the Æolian Islands, to whom Zeus had given dominion over the winds,69,75,240,261,301.Æs´cu-la´pi-us, god of the medical art,127,154,174,179,180,218,298.Æ´son, father of Jason, made young again by Medea,130,134-136.Æ-thi-o´pi-ans, inhabitants of the country south of Egypt,2,118,207,208.Æ´thra, mother of Theseus by Ægeus,150,151.Æt´na, volcano in Sicily,43,52,122,180,210.Ag´a-me´des, brother of Trophonius, distinguished as an architect,297,298.Ag´a-mem´non, son of Plisthenis and grandson of Atreus, king of Mycenæ; although the chief commander of the Greeks, is not the hero of the Iliad, and in chivalrous spirit altogether inferior to Achilles,213,216,217,219,222,233.A-ga´ve, daughter of Cadmus, wife of Echion, and mother of Pentheus,164.A-ge´nor, father of Europa, Cadmus, Cilix, and Phœnix,91,223.Ag-la´i-a, one of the Graces,8.Ag´ni, Hindu god of fire,321.Ag´ra-mant, a king in Africa,693,784,785,786.Ag´ri-can, fabled king of Tartary, pursuing Angelica, finally killed by Orlando,676-678,679-683.Ag´ri-vain, one of Arthur’s knights,404,414,435,507.Ah´ri-man, the Evil Spirit in the dual system of Zoroaster,318.SeeOrmuzd.A´jax, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, and grandson of Æacus; represented in the Iliad as second only to Achilles in bravery,138,213,217,219,221,228.Al´ba, the river where King Arthur fought the Romans,409.Al´ba Lon´ga, city in Italy founded by son of Æneas,287.Al´ber-ich, dwarf guardian of Rhinegold treasure of the Nibelungs,354,355,356.Al-brac´ca, siege of,672-683.Al-ces´tis, wife of Admetus, offered herself as sacrifice to spare her husband, but rescued by Hercules,180,181.Al-ci´des (Hercules),148,149.Al-ci´na, enchantress,723,726,731.Al-cin´o-us, Phæacian king,248,250,252.Al-cip´pe, daughter of Mars; carried off by Halirrhothius,139.Alc-me´na, wife of Jupiter, and mother of Hercules,143.Al´cu-in, English prelate and scholar,654-655.Al-dro-van´dus, dwarf guardian of treasure,354,355,356.A-lec´to, one of the Furies,9,277.Al-ex-an´der the Great, king of Macedonia, conqueror of Greece, Egypt, Persia, Babylonia, and India,48.Al-fa´dur, a name for Odin,331,349.Alf´heim, abode of the elves of light,348.Al´ice, mother of Huon and Girard, sons of Duke Sevinus,826-827.Al-phe´nor, son of Niobe,113.Al-phe´us, river-god pursuing Arethusa, who escaped by being changed to a fountain,56,57,144.Al-thæ´a, mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a quarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing “the house of Thestius,” her father,138-140.Am-al-the´a, nurse of the infant Jupiter in Crete,179.A-ma´ta, wife of Latinus, driven mad by Alecto,277.Am´au-ry of Hauteville, false-hearted Knight of Charlemagne,825-830.Am´a-zons, mythical race of warlike women,144-145,153.Am-bro´si-a, celestial food used by the gods,3.Am´mon, Egyptian god of life, identified by Romans with phases of Jupiter, the father of gods,123.Am-phi-a-ra´us, a great prophet and hero at Argos,182.Am-phi´on, a musician, son of Jupiter and Antiope (SeeDirce),113,192-193.Am-phi-tri´te, wife of Neptune,172,173.Am-phyr´sos, a small river in Thessaly,180.Am´pyx, assailant of Perseus, turned to stone by seeing Gorgon’s head,121.Am-ri´ta, nectar giving immortality,321.A´mun,292.SeeAmmon.Am´y-mo´ne, one of the fifty daughters of Danaüs, and mother by Poseidon (Neptune) of Nauplius, the father of Palamedes,144.An´ax-ar´e-te, a maiden of Cyprus, who treated her lover Iphis with such haughtiness that he hanged himself at her door,78,79.An-bess´a, Saracenic governor of Spain (725a.d.),648.An-ce´us, one of the Argonauts,137.An-chi´ses, beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), by whom he became the father of Æneas,258,259,265,271,272.An-dræ´mon, husband of Dryope; saw her changed into a tree,64,65.An´dret, a cowardly knight, spy upon Tristram,456.An-drom´a-che, wife of Hector,213,225,260.An-drom´e-da, daughter of King Cephas, delivered from monster by Perseus,118-120.An´eur-in, Welsh bard,531.An-gel´i-ca, Princess of Cathay,665-672,678-686,693,704-710,732,751.A-nem´o-ne, short-lived wind-flower, created by Venus from the blood of the slain Adonis,67.An-ger´bo-de, giant prophetess, mother of Fenris, Hela, and the Midgard Serpent,344.An´gle-sey, a Northern British island, refuge of Druids fleeing from Romans,362.An-tæ´us, giant wrestler of Libya, killed by Hercules, who, finding him stronger when thrown to the earth, lifted him into the air and strangled him,122,146.An-te´a, wife of jealous Prœtus,125.An-te´nor, descendants of, in Italy,381.An´te-ros, deity avenging unrequited love, brother of Eros (Cupid),7.An´thor, a Greek,285.An-tig´o-ne, daughter of Ædipus, Greek ideal of filial and sisterly fidelity,181-184.An-til´o-chus, son of Nestor,207,221.An-ti´o-pe, Amazonian queen,153,192,194.SeeDirce.A-nu´bis, Egyptian god, conductor of the dead to judgment,293,294.Ap´en-nines,43.Aph-ro-di´te.SeeVenus,Dione, etc.A´pis, Egyptian bull-god of Memphis,295,299.A-pol´lo, god of music and song,3,5,8,13,19,20-23,38,47,67-68,104,112,113,123,127,173,174,179,180,185,196,199,206,216,218,220,222,223,224,225,228,232,252,259,274,301.A-pol´lo Bel-ve-dere´, famous antique statue in Vatican at Rome,306.A-pol´lo, Oracle of,69,81,92,259,297.A-pol´lo, temple to,157,228,314.Apples of the Hesperides, wedding gifts to Juno, guarded by daughters of Atlas and Hesperis, stolen by Atlas for Hercules,145.Aq´ui-lo, or Boreas, the North Wind,176.Aq´ui-taine, ancient province of Southwestern France,406.A-rach´ne, a maiden skilled in weaving, changed to a spider by Minerva for daring to compete with her,108-111.Ar-ca´di-a, a country in the middle of Peloponnesus, surrounded on all sides by mountains,9,34,138,280.Ar´ca-dy, star of, the Pole-star,33.Ar´cas, son of Jupiter and Callisto,34.Archer, constellation of the,40.Ar´den, forest of,661,667,668,703.A-re-op´a-gus, court of the, at Athens,235.A´res, called Mars by the Romans, the Greek god of war, and one of the great Olympian gods,7.Ar-e-thu´sa, nymph of Diana, changed to a fountain,55-56,58.Ar´gius, king of Ireland, father of Isoude the Fair,453.Ar´go, builder of the vessel of Jason for the Argonautic expedition,130,132,133.Ar´go-lis, city of the Nemean games,155.Ar´go-nauts, Jason’s crew seeking the Golden Fleece,130,131,137,144,158,176.Ar´gos, a kingdom in Greece,182,234,285,289,307.Ar´gus, of the hundred eyes, guardian of Io,29-31,130,133,255,302.A-ri-ad´ne, daughter of King Minos, who helped Theseus slay the Minotaur,152,156,165.A-rim´a-nes.SeeAhriman.Ar´i-mas´pi-ans, one-eyed people of Syria,129.A-ri´on, famous musician, whom sailors cast into the sea to rob him, but whose lyric song charmed the dolphins, one of which bore him safely to land,195-198.Ar-is-tæ´us, the bee-keeper, in love with Eurydice,185,189-191.Ar-mor´i-ca, another name for Britain,375,388,400.Ar-ri-da´no, a magical ruffian, slain by Orlando,687,689,690.Ar´te-mis.SeeDiana.Arth-gal´lo, brother of Elidure, British king,386.Ar´thur, king in Britain about the 6th century,375,390,392,394-417,441,442,444,461,466,484,487,508-514,515-521,534,539,546-549,554,564-569,611-614,622.A´runs, an Etruscan who killed Camilla,286.As´gard, home of the Northern gods,330,345.Ash´ta-roth, a cruel spirit, called by enchantment to bring Rinaldo to death,804-805.A´sia,152,161.As´ke, the first man, made from an ash tree,329.As-tol´pho of England, one of Charlemagne’s knights,653,656,667,673,675,722,731,739-740,769-779,783-784,791.As-træ´a, goddess of justice, daughter of Astræus and Eos,15.As-ty´a-ges, an assailant of Perseus,121.As-ty´a-nax, son of Hector of Troy, established kingdom of Messina in Italy,697.A-su´ras, opponents of the Braminical gods,321.At-a-lan´ta, beautiful daughter of King of Icaria, loved and won in a foot-race by Hippomenes,138-140,141-142.A´te, the goddess of infatuation, mischief and guilt,222.Ath´a-mas, son of Æolus and Enarete, and king of Orchomenus, in Bœotia,129,130,174.SeeIno.A-the´ne, tutelary goddess of Athens; the same as Minerva,152.Ath´ens, the capital of Attica, about four miles from the sea, between the small rivers Cephissus and Ilissus,95,107,136,137,150,151,153,154,235,307.A´thor, Egyptian deity, progenitor of Isis and Osiris,292.A´thos, the mountainous peninsula, also called Acte, which projects from Chalcidice in Macedonia,43.At-lan´tes, foster-father of Rogero, a powerful magician,693,703,720,737,739.At-lan´tis, according to an ancient tradition, a great island west of the Pillars of Hercules, in the ocean, opposite Mount Atlas,273.At´las, a Titan, who bore the heavens on his shoulders, as punishment for opposing the gods; one of the sons of Iapetus,5,44,117-118,146,149,206.At´las, Mount, general name for range in northern Africa,145.At´ro-pos, one of the Fates (whichSee),9.At´ti-ca, a state in ancient Greece,153,154,158.Aud-hum´bla, the cow from which the giant Ymir was nursed. Her milk was frost melted into raindrops,329.Au-ge´an stables, cleansed by Hercules,144.Au-ge´as, king of Elis,144.Au-gus´tan age, reign of Roman Emperor Augustus Cæsar, famed for many great authors,308.Au-gus´tus, the first imperial Cæsar, who ruled the Roman Empire 31b.c.-14a.d.,11,308.Au´lis, port in Bœotia, meeting-place of Greek expedition against Troy,213.Au-ro´ra, identical with Eos, goddess of the dawn,23,26,53,72,207-208.Au-ro´ra Bo-re-a´lis, splendid nocturnal luminosity in northern sky, called Northern Lights, probably electrical,331.Au´tumn, attendant of Phœbus, the Sun,39.Av´a-lon, land of the Blessed, an earthly paradise in the Western Seas, burial-place of King Arthur,395,400,520.Av´a-tar, name for any of the earthly incarnations of Vishnu, the Preserver (Hindu god),321.Av´en-tine, Mount, one of the Seven Hills of Rome,146.A-ver´nus, a miasmatic lake close to the promontory between Cumæ and Puteoli, filling the crater of an extinct volcano, by the ancients thought to be the entrance to the infernal regions,265,266.Av-i-cen´na, celebrated Arabian physician and philosopher,313.A´ya, mother of Rinaldo,820.Ay´mon, Duke, father of Rinaldo and Bradamante,791-792,794.BBa´al, king of Tyre,358.Bab-y-lo´ni-an River, dried up when Phaëton drove the sun-chariot,44.Bac´cha-na´li-a, a feast to Bacchus that was permitted to occur but once in three years; attended by most shameless orgies,161.Bac´cha-nals, devotees and festal dancers of Bacchus,161,164.Bac´chus (Dionysus), god of wine and revelry,8,10,46-47,123,160-165,179,187.Ba´don, battle of, Arthur’s final victory over the Saxons,394,400.Bag-de-ma´gus, King, a knight of Arthur’s time,427-428,489.Bal´dur, son of Odin, and representing in Norse mythology the sun-god,343-347.Bal-i-sar´do, Orlando’s sword,786.Ban, King of Brittany, ally of Arthur, father of Launcelot,391,401,424.Bards, minstrels of Welsh Druids,361,531.Bas´i-lisk.SeeCockatrice.Bau´cis, wife of Philemon, visited by Jupiter and Mercury,49-51.Bay´ard, wild horse subdued by Rinaldo,661-663,672,696,704,708,768-769,784-788,814,826.
A
Ab-dal-rah´man, founder of the independent Ommiad (Saracenic) power in Spain, conquered at Tours by Charles Martel,648,649.
Ab´er-fraw, scene of nuptials of Branwen and Matholch,590.
Ab-syr´tus, younger brother of Medea,137.
A-by´dos, a town on the Hellespont, nearly opposite to Sestos,105.
Ab´y-la, Mount, or Columna, a mountain in Morocco, near Ceuta, now called Jebel Musa or Ape’s Hill, forming the Northwestern extremity of the African coast opposite Gibraltar (SeePillars of Hercules),145.
A-ces´tes, 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,162,164,264;
city of,283.
A-ce´tes, Bacchanal captured by Pentheus,164.
A-cha´tes, faithful friend and companion of Æneas,281.
Ach-e-lo´us, river-god of the largest river in Greece—his Horn of Plenty,177-179,380.
A-chil´les, the hero of the Iliad, son of Peleus and of the Nereid Thetis, slain by Paris,95,138,173,174,208,212,213,214,216-228,232,233.
A´cis, youth loved by Galatea and slain by Polyphemus,209-211.
A-con´ti-us, a beautiful youth, who fell in love with Cydippe, the daughter of a noble Athenian,121.
A-cris´i-us, son of Abas, king of Argos, grandson of Lynceus, the great-grandson of Danaüs,116,202.
Ac-tæ´on, a celebrated huntsman, son of Aristæus and Autonoë, who, having seen Diana bathing, was changed by her to a stag and killed by his own dogs,34,36,94.
Ad-me´ta, daughter of Eurystheus, covets Hippolyta’s girdle,144.
Ad-me´tus, king of Thessaly, saved from death by Alcestis,180,181.
A-do´nis, a youth beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), and Proserpine; killed by a boar,65-67.
A-dras´tus, a king of Argos,182.
Æ´a-cus, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Ægina, renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety,95.
Æ-æ´a, Circe’s island, visited by Ulysses,241.
Æ-e´tes, or Æeta, son of Helios (the Sun) and Perseis, and father of Medea and Absyrtus,130,131,132,137.
Æ-ge´an Sea,38,73,133.
Æ-ge´us, king of Athens,136,150,151.
Æ-gi´na, a rocky island in the middle of the Saronic gulf,95.
Æ´gis, shield or breastplate of Jupiter and Minerva,5,109,116.
Æ-gis´thus, murderer of Agamemnon, slain by Orestes,234.
Æ-ne´as, Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite (Venus), and born on Mount Ida, reputed first settler of Rome,61,213,221,222,223,258-287,379.
Æ-ne´id, poem by Virgil, relating the wanderings of Æneas from Troy to Italy,307.
Æ´o-lus, son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, represented in Homer as the happy ruler of the Æolian Islands, to whom Zeus had given dominion over the winds,69,75,240,261,301.
Æs´cu-la´pi-us, god of the medical art,127,154,174,179,180,218,298.
Æ´son, father of Jason, made young again by Medea,130,134-136.
Æ-thi-o´pi-ans, inhabitants of the country south of Egypt,2,118,207,208.
Æ´thra, mother of Theseus by Ægeus,150,151.
Æt´na, volcano in Sicily,43,52,122,180,210.
Ag´a-me´des, brother of Trophonius, distinguished as an architect,297,298.
Ag´a-mem´non, son of Plisthenis and grandson of Atreus, king of Mycenæ; although the chief commander of the Greeks, is not the hero of the Iliad, and in chivalrous spirit altogether inferior to Achilles,213,216,217,219,222,233.
A-ga´ve, daughter of Cadmus, wife of Echion, and mother of Pentheus,164.
A-ge´nor, father of Europa, Cadmus, Cilix, and Phœnix,91,223.
Ag-la´i-a, one of the Graces,8.
Ag´ni, Hindu god of fire,321.
Ag´ra-mant, a king in Africa,693,784,785,786.
Ag´ri-can, fabled king of Tartary, pursuing Angelica, finally killed by Orlando,676-678,679-683.
Ag´ri-vain, one of Arthur’s knights,404,414,435,507.
Ah´ri-man, the Evil Spirit in the dual system of Zoroaster,318.
SeeOrmuzd.
A´jax, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, and grandson of Æacus; represented in the Iliad as second only to Achilles in bravery,138,213,217,219,221,228.
Al´ba, the river where King Arthur fought the Romans,409.
Al´ba Lon´ga, city in Italy founded by son of Æneas,287.
Al´ber-ich, dwarf guardian of Rhinegold treasure of the Nibelungs,354,355,356.
Al-brac´ca, siege of,672-683.
Al-ces´tis, wife of Admetus, offered herself as sacrifice to spare her husband, but rescued by Hercules,180,181.
Al-ci´des (Hercules),148,149.
Al-ci´na, enchantress,723,726,731.
Al-cin´o-us, Phæacian king,248,250,252.
Al-cip´pe, daughter of Mars; carried off by Halirrhothius,139.
Alc-me´na, wife of Jupiter, and mother of Hercules,143.
Al´cu-in, English prelate and scholar,654-655.
Al-dro-van´dus, dwarf guardian of treasure,354,355,356.
A-lec´to, one of the Furies,9,277.
Al-ex-an´der the Great, king of Macedonia, conqueror of Greece, Egypt, Persia, Babylonia, and India,48.
Al-fa´dur, a name for Odin,331,349.
Alf´heim, abode of the elves of light,348.
Al´ice, mother of Huon and Girard, sons of Duke Sevinus,826-827.
Al-phe´nor, son of Niobe,113.
Al-phe´us, river-god pursuing Arethusa, who escaped by being changed to a fountain,56,57,144.
Al-thæ´a, mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a quarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing “the house of Thestius,” her father,138-140.
Am-al-the´a, nurse of the infant Jupiter in Crete,179.
A-ma´ta, wife of Latinus, driven mad by Alecto,277.
Am´au-ry of Hauteville, false-hearted Knight of Charlemagne,825-830.
Am´a-zons, mythical race of warlike women,144-145,153.
Am-bro´si-a, celestial food used by the gods,3.
Am´mon, Egyptian god of life, identified by Romans with phases of Jupiter, the father of gods,123.
Am-phi-a-ra´us, a great prophet and hero at Argos,182.
Am-phi´on, a musician, son of Jupiter and Antiope (SeeDirce),113,192-193.
Am-phi-tri´te, wife of Neptune,172,173.
Am-phyr´sos, a small river in Thessaly,180.
Am´pyx, assailant of Perseus, turned to stone by seeing Gorgon’s head,121.
Am-ri´ta, nectar giving immortality,321.
A´mun,292.
SeeAmmon.
Am´y-mo´ne, one of the fifty daughters of Danaüs, and mother by Poseidon (Neptune) of Nauplius, the father of Palamedes,144.
An´ax-ar´e-te, a maiden of Cyprus, who treated her lover Iphis with such haughtiness that he hanged himself at her door,78,79.
An-bess´a, Saracenic governor of Spain (725a.d.),648.
An-ce´us, one of the Argonauts,137.
An-chi´ses, beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), by whom he became the father of Æneas,258,259,265,271,272.
An-dræ´mon, husband of Dryope; saw her changed into a tree,64,65.
An´dret, a cowardly knight, spy upon Tristram,456.
An-drom´a-che, wife of Hector,213,225,260.
An-drom´e-da, daughter of King Cephas, delivered from monster by Perseus,118-120.
An´eur-in, Welsh bard,531.
An-gel´i-ca, Princess of Cathay,665-672,678-686,693,704-710,732,751.
A-nem´o-ne, short-lived wind-flower, created by Venus from the blood of the slain Adonis,67.
An-ger´bo-de, giant prophetess, mother of Fenris, Hela, and the Midgard Serpent,344.
An´gle-sey, a Northern British island, refuge of Druids fleeing from Romans,362.
An-tæ´us, giant wrestler of Libya, killed by Hercules, who, finding him stronger when thrown to the earth, lifted him into the air and strangled him,122,146.
An-te´a, wife of jealous Prœtus,125.
An-te´nor, descendants of, in Italy,381.
An´te-ros, deity avenging unrequited love, brother of Eros (Cupid),7.
An´thor, a Greek,285.
An-tig´o-ne, daughter of Ædipus, Greek ideal of filial and sisterly fidelity,181-184.
An-til´o-chus, son of Nestor,207,221.
An-ti´o-pe, Amazonian queen,153,192,194.
SeeDirce.
A-nu´bis, Egyptian god, conductor of the dead to judgment,293,294.
Ap´en-nines,43.
Aph-ro-di´te.SeeVenus,Dione, etc.
A´pis, Egyptian bull-god of Memphis,295,299.
A-pol´lo, god of music and song,3,5,8,13,19,20-23,38,47,67-68,104,112,113,123,127,173,174,179,180,185,196,199,206,216,218,220,222,223,224,225,228,232,252,259,274,301.
A-pol´lo Bel-ve-dere´, famous antique statue in Vatican at Rome,306.
A-pol´lo, Oracle of,69,81,92,259,297.
A-pol´lo, temple to,157,228,314.
Apples of the Hesperides, wedding gifts to Juno, guarded by daughters of Atlas and Hesperis, stolen by Atlas for Hercules,145.
Aq´ui-lo, or Boreas, the North Wind,176.
Aq´ui-taine, ancient province of Southwestern France,406.
A-rach´ne, a maiden skilled in weaving, changed to a spider by Minerva for daring to compete with her,108-111.
Ar-ca´di-a, a country in the middle of Peloponnesus, surrounded on all sides by mountains,9,34,138,280.
Ar´ca-dy, star of, the Pole-star,33.
Ar´cas, son of Jupiter and Callisto,34.
Archer, constellation of the,40.
Ar´den, forest of,661,667,668,703.
A-re-op´a-gus, court of the, at Athens,235.
A´res, called Mars by the Romans, the Greek god of war, and one of the great Olympian gods,7.
Ar-e-thu´sa, nymph of Diana, changed to a fountain,55-56,58.
Ar´gius, king of Ireland, father of Isoude the Fair,453.
Ar´go, builder of the vessel of Jason for the Argonautic expedition,130,132,133.
Ar´go-lis, city of the Nemean games,155.
Ar´go-nauts, Jason’s crew seeking the Golden Fleece,130,131,137,144,158,176.
Ar´gos, a kingdom in Greece,182,234,285,289,307.
Ar´gus, of the hundred eyes, guardian of Io,29-31,130,133,255,302.
A-ri-ad´ne, daughter of King Minos, who helped Theseus slay the Minotaur,152,156,165.
A-rim´a-nes.SeeAhriman.
Ar´i-mas´pi-ans, one-eyed people of Syria,129.
A-ri´on, famous musician, whom sailors cast into the sea to rob him, but whose lyric song charmed the dolphins, one of which bore him safely to land,195-198.
Ar-is-tæ´us, the bee-keeper, in love with Eurydice,185,189-191.
Ar-mor´i-ca, another name for Britain,375,388,400.
Ar-ri-da´no, a magical ruffian, slain by Orlando,687,689,690.
Ar´te-mis.SeeDiana.
Arth-gal´lo, brother of Elidure, British king,386.
Ar´thur, king in Britain about the 6th century,375,390,392,394-417,441,442,444,461,466,484,487,508-514,515-521,534,539,546-549,554,564-569,611-614,622.
A´runs, an Etruscan who killed Camilla,286.
As´gard, home of the Northern gods,330,345.
Ash´ta-roth, a cruel spirit, called by enchantment to bring Rinaldo to death,804-805.
A´sia,152,161.
As´ke, the first man, made from an ash tree,329.
As-tol´pho of England, one of Charlemagne’s knights,653,656,667,673,675,722,731,739-740,769-779,783-784,791.
As-træ´a, goddess of justice, daughter of Astræus and Eos,15.
As-ty´a-ges, an assailant of Perseus,121.
As-ty´a-nax, son of Hector of Troy, established kingdom of Messina in Italy,697.
A-su´ras, opponents of the Braminical gods,321.
At-a-lan´ta, beautiful daughter of King of Icaria, loved and won in a foot-race by Hippomenes,138-140,141-142.
A´te, the goddess of infatuation, mischief and guilt,222.
Ath´a-mas, son of Æolus and Enarete, and king of Orchomenus, in Bœotia,129,130,174.
SeeIno.
A-the´ne, tutelary goddess of Athens; the same as Minerva,152.
Ath´ens, the capital of Attica, about four miles from the sea, between the small rivers Cephissus and Ilissus,95,107,136,137,150,151,153,154,235,307.
A´thor, Egyptian deity, progenitor of Isis and Osiris,292.
A´thos, the mountainous peninsula, also called Acte, which projects from Chalcidice in Macedonia,43.
At-lan´tes, foster-father of Rogero, a powerful magician,693,703,720,737,739.
At-lan´tis, according to an ancient tradition, a great island west of the Pillars of Hercules, in the ocean, opposite Mount Atlas,273.
At´las, a Titan, who bore the heavens on his shoulders, as punishment for opposing the gods; one of the sons of Iapetus,5,44,117-118,146,149,206.
At´las, Mount, general name for range in northern Africa,145.
At´ro-pos, one of the Fates (whichSee),9.
At´ti-ca, a state in ancient Greece,153,154,158.
Aud-hum´bla, the cow from which the giant Ymir was nursed. Her milk was frost melted into raindrops,329.
Au-ge´an stables, cleansed by Hercules,144.
Au-ge´as, king of Elis,144.
Au-gus´tan age, reign of Roman Emperor Augustus Cæsar, famed for many great authors,308.
Au-gus´tus, the first imperial Cæsar, who ruled the Roman Empire 31b.c.-14a.d.,11,308.
Au´lis, port in Bœotia, meeting-place of Greek expedition against Troy,213.
Au-ro´ra, identical with Eos, goddess of the dawn,23,26,53,72,207-208.
Au-ro´ra Bo-re-a´lis, splendid nocturnal luminosity in northern sky, called Northern Lights, probably electrical,331.
Au´tumn, attendant of Phœbus, the Sun,39.
Av´a-lon, land of the Blessed, an earthly paradise in the Western Seas, burial-place of King Arthur,395,400,520.
Av´a-tar, name for any of the earthly incarnations of Vishnu, the Preserver (Hindu god),321.
Av´en-tine, Mount, one of the Seven Hills of Rome,146.
A-ver´nus, a miasmatic lake close to the promontory between Cumæ and Puteoli, filling the crater of an extinct volcano, by the ancients thought to be the entrance to the infernal regions,265,266.
Av-i-cen´na, celebrated Arabian physician and philosopher,313.
A´ya, mother of Rinaldo,820.
Ay´mon, Duke, father of Rinaldo and Bradamante,791-792,794.
B
Ba´al, king of Tyre,358.
Bab-y-lo´ni-an River, dried up when Phaëton drove the sun-chariot,44.
Bac´cha-na´li-a, a feast to Bacchus that was permitted to occur but once in three years; attended by most shameless orgies,161.
Bac´cha-nals, devotees and festal dancers of Bacchus,161,164.
Bac´chus (Dionysus), god of wine and revelry,8,10,46-47,123,160-165,179,187.
Ba´don, battle of, Arthur’s final victory over the Saxons,394,400.
Bag-de-ma´gus, King, a knight of Arthur’s time,427-428,489.
Bal´dur, son of Odin, and representing in Norse mythology the sun-god,343-347.
Bal-i-sar´do, Orlando’s sword,786.
Ban, King of Brittany, ally of Arthur, father of Launcelot,391,401,424.
Bards, minstrels of Welsh Druids,361,531.
Bas´i-lisk.SeeCockatrice.
Bau´cis, wife of Philemon, visited by Jupiter and Mercury,49-51.
Bay´ard, wild horse subdued by Rinaldo,661-663,672,696,704,708,768-769,784-788,814,826.