Be´al, Druids’ god of life,358.Bear (Constellation of),3.Bed´i-vere, Arthur’s knight,517-525.Bed´ver, King Arthur’s butler, made governor of Normandy,406,407,408,410.Bed´wyr, knightly comrade of Geraint,570.Bel-i-sar´da, Rogero’s sword,730.Bel-ler´o-phon, demigod, conqueror of the Chimæra,125-126.Bel-lo´na, the Roman goddess of war, represented as the sister or wife of Mars,10.Bel´tane, Druidical fire-festival,359.Be´lus, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Libya or Eurynome, twin brother of Agenor,262.Ben´di-geid Vran, King of Britain,589-597.Be´o-wulf, hero and king of the Swedish Geats,635-637.Ber´o-e, nurse of Semele,160.Ber´tha, mother of Orlando,656.Bi´frost, rainbow bridge between the earth and Asgard (whichSee),330,349.Bla´dud, inventor, builder of the city of Bath,383.Bla´mor, a knight of Arthur,512,523,525.Ble-ob´er-is, a knight of Arthur,525.Bœ-o´ti-a, state in ancient Greece, capital city Thebes,213,297.Bo-hort´, King, a knight of Arthur,399,401,424,442,443,446-449,497-502,504-506,507,510,512,523,524,525.Bo´na De´a, a Roman divinity of fertility,10 n.Bo-o´tes, also called Arcas, son of Jupiter and Calisto, changed to constellation of Ursa Major,42.Bo´re-as, North wind, son of Æolus and Aurora,176,261.Bos´po-rus (Bosphorus), the Cow-ford, named for Io (whichSee), when as a heifer she crossed that strait,31.Brad-a-man´te, sister to Rinaldo; a female warrior,697,703,708,712-721,727,737,738,740,765-768,779,791,792,794,796-801.Brad-e-ma´gus, King, father of Sir Maleagans,436,439.Brag´i, Norse god of poetry,332.Brah´ma, the Creator, chief god of Hindu religion,320-325.Bran´wen, daughter of Llyr, King of Britain, wife of Matholch,591-597.Brazen Age,14.Bré-cil´i-ande, forest of, where Vivian enticed Merlin,391,392,475.Breng´wain, maid of Isoude the Fair,454,468-469.Bren´nus, son of Molmutius, went to Gaul, became King of the Allobroges,386.Breuse, the Pitiless, a caitiff knight,464,469.Bri-a´re-us, hundred-armed giant,52,123,267.Brice, Bishop, sustainer of Arthur when elected king,398.Brig-li-a-do´ro, Orlando’s horse,759,788.Bri-se´is, captive maid belonging to Achilles,216.Brit´to, reputed ancestor of British people,379.Bruh´ier, Sultan of Arabia,862-866.Bru-nel´lo, dwarf, thief, and king,694,718.Brun´hild, leader of the Valkyrie,352,354-357.Bru´tus, great-grandson of Æneas, and founder of city of New Troy (London),375,379-391.SeePandrasus.Bry´an, Sir, a knight of Arthur,430.Bud´dha, called The Enlightened, reformer of Brahmanism, deified teacher of self-abnegation, virtue, reincarnation,Karma(inevitable sequence of every act), andNirvana(beatific absorption into the Divine), lived about 562-482b.c.,321,325-326.Bull, constellation,40.Byb´los, in Egypt,294.Byr´sa, original site of Carthage,262.CCa´cus, gigantic son of Vulcan, slain by Hercules, whose captured cattle he stole,146,147.Cad´mus, son of Agenor, king of Phœnicia, and of Telephassa, and brother of Europa, who, seeking his sister, carried off by Jupiter, had strange adventures—sowing in the ground teeth of a dragon he had killed, which sprang up armed men who slew each other, all but five, who helped Cadmus to found the city of Thebes,34,91-94,131,174,182,301.Ca-du´ce-us, Mercury’s staff,8,49.Cad-wal´lo, King of Venedotia (North Wales),407.Caer-le´on, traditional seat of Arthur’s court,406,413,534,553.Cæ´sar, Julius, Roman lawyer, general, statesman and author, conquered and consolidated Roman territory, making possible the Empire,387,388.Ca-i´cus, a Greek river,44.Cairns, Druidical stone-piles,359,365.Cal´ais, French town facing England,133,176.Cal´chas, wisest soothsayer among the Greeks at Troy,214,217,230.Cal´i-burn, a sword of Arthur,400.Cal-li´o-pe, one of the nine Muses (whichSee),8,185.Cal-lis´to, an Arcadian nymph, mother of Arcas (SeeBoötes), changed by Jupiter to constellation Ursa Minor,31-34.Cal´pe, a mountain in the south of Spain, on the strait between the Atlantic and Mediterranean, now Rock of Gibraltar,145.Cal´y-don, home of Meleager,138,140.Ca-lyp´so, queen of Island of Ogyia, where Ulysses was wrecked and held seven years,245-247.Ca-lyp´so Island,245.Cam´ber, son of Brutus, governor of West Albion (Wales),381.Cam´bria,529.Cam´e-lot, legendary place in England where Arthur’s court and palace were located,441,453.Ca-me´næ, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient Italy,175.Ca-mil´la, Volscian maiden, huntress and Amazonian warrior, favorite of Diana,278,286,287.Cam´lan, battle of, where Arthur was mortally wounded,395.Can´ter-bury, English city,516.Cap´a-neus, husband of Evadne, slain by Jupiter for disobedience,183.Ca´pet, Hugh, King of France (987-996a.d.),870.Car´a-doc Brief´bras, Sir, great-nephew of King Arthur,418-423.Car´a-hue, King of Mauretania,853ff.,861.Car´thage, African city, home of Dido (whichSee),262.Cas-san´dra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and twin-sister of Helenus, a prophetess, who foretold the coming of the Greeks but was not believed,232.Cas-si-bel-laun´us, British chieftain, fought but not conquered by Cæsar,387.Cas-si-o-pe´ia, mother of Andromeda,118,120.Cas-ta´li-a, fountain of Parnassus, giving inspiration to Oracular priestess named Pythia,297.Cas-ta´lian Cave, oracle of Apollo,92.Castes (India),323-325.Cas´tor and Pol´lux—the Dioscuri, sons of Jupiter and Leda,—Castor a horseman, Pollux a boxer (SeeGemini),133,158-159,202,203.Cau´ca-sus, Mount,18,43,170.Ca-vall´, Arthur’s favorite dog,564.Ca-ys´ter, ancient river,44.Ce-bri´o-nes, Hector’s charioteer,220.Ce´crops, first king of Athens,107.Ce-les´tials, gods of classic mythology,3.Ce´le-us, shepherd who sheltered Ceres, seeking Proserpine, and whose infant son Triptolemus was in gratitude made great by Ceres,54,57.Cel-li´ni, Benvenuto, famous Italian sculptor and artificer in metals,316.Celt´ic nations, ancient Gauls and Britons, modern Bretons, Welsh, Irish and Gaelic Scotch,529.Cen´taurs, originally an ancient race, inhabiting Mount Pelion in Thessaly; in later accounts represented as half horses and half men, and said to have been the offspring of Ixion and a cloud,127-128,166.Ceph´a-lus, husband of beautiful but jealous Procris,26-28,95.Ce´phe-us, King of Ethiopians, father of Andromeda,118,120.Ceph´i-sus, a Grecian stream,92.Cer´be-rus, three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades; called a son of Typhaon and Echidna,88,147,196,268.Ce´res (SeeDemeter),8,53,54-57,86,169.Ces´tus, the girdle of Venus,6,218.Cey-lon´,326.Ce´yx, King of Thessaly (SeeHalcyone),69-75.Cha´os, original Confusion, personified by Greeks as most ancient of the gods,4,12,45.Char´le-magne, king of the Franks and emperor of the Romans,375,647,650-655,664-672,674,801-813ff.Charles Mar-tel´, king of the Franks, grandfather of Charlemagne, called Martel (the Hammer) from his defeat of the Saracens at Tours,648,649,650.Char´lot, son of Charlemagne,818-821,825,827,852,858.Cha´ron, son of Erebos, conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead across the rivers of the lower world,88,267.Cha-ryb´dis, whirlpool near the coast of Sicily,243-245,261,303,304,322.SeeScylla.Chi-mæ´ra, a fire-breathing monster, the fore part of whose body was that of a lion, the hind part that of a dragon, and the middle that of a goat, slain by Bellerophon,122,124-126,267.Chi´na,326;Lamas (priests) of,327.Chi´os, island in the Grecian archipelago,205.Chi´ron, wisest of all the Centaurs, son of Cronos (Saturn) and Philyra, lived on Mount Pelion, instructor of Grecian heroes,127,128,133,173.Chry-se´is, Trojan maid, taken by Agamemnon,216.Chry´ses, priest of Apollo, father of Chryseis,216.Ci-co´ni-ans, inhabitants of Ismarus, visited by Ulysses,236.Cim´bri, an ancient people of Central Europe,529.Cim-me´ri-a, a land of darkness,31,71,529.Ci´mon, Athenian general,154.Cir´ce, sorceress, sister of Æetes,60,61,117,241-243.Ci-thæ´ron, Mount, scene of Bacchic worship,164,192.Clar-i-mun´da, wife of Huon,845-848.Cli´o, one of the Muses (whichSee),8.Clor´i-dan, a Moor,747-751.Clo´tho, one of the Fates (whichSee),9.Clym´e-ne, an ocean nymph,38-39.Cly-tem-nes´tra, wife of Agamemnon, killed by Orestes,234.Cly´tie, a water-nymph, in love with Apollo,104-105.Cni´dos, ancient city of Asia Minor, seat of worship of Aphrodite (Venus),66.Cock´a-trice (or Basilisk), called King of Serpents, supposed to kill with its look,312-314.Co-cy´tus, a river of Hades,267.Col´chis, a kingdom east of the Black Sea,130,131,137.Col´o-phon, one of the seven cities claiming the birth of Homer,307.Co-lum´ba, St., an Irish Christian missionary to Druidical parts of Scotland,362-363.Co´nan, Welsh king,388.Con´stan-tine, Greek emperor,791,793.Cor-deil´la, daughter of the mythical King Leir,383-384.Co-ri-ne´us, a Trojan warrior in Albion,381.Cor´inth, city and isthmus of,136,151,155,195,197,199.Cor-nu-co´pi-a of Achelous,179.Corn´wall, southwest part of Britain,381,382.Cor-ta´na, Ogier’s sword,853,854,865.Cor-y-ban´tes, priests of Cybele, or Rhea, in Phrygia, who celebrated her worship with dances, to the sound of the drum and the cymbal,143.Crab, constellation,41.Cranes and their enemies, the Pygmies,128;of Ibycus,198-201.Cre´on, king of Thebes,183.Crete, one of the largest islands of the Mediterranean Sea, lying south of the Cyclades,95,100,109,152,259.Cre-u´sa, daughter of Priam, wife of Æneas,136.Croc´a-le, a nymph of Diana,34.Crom´lech, Druidical altar,359.Cro´nos,9,301.SeeSaturn.Cro-to´na, city of Italy,288,292.Cu-chu´lain, Irish hero, called the “Hound of Ireland,”637-640.Cul-dees´, followers of St. Columba,363-364.Cu-mæ´an Sibyl, seeress of Cumæ, consulted by Æneas, sold Sibylline books to Tarquin,275.Cu´pid, child of Venus and god of love,7,20,53,65,80-90,193.Cu-roi of Kerry, wise man,638-640.Cy´a-ne, river, opposed Pluto’s passage to Hades,53,54,55.Cyb´e-le (Rhea, whichSee),11,142.Cy-clo´pes, creatures with circular eyes, of whom Homer speaks as a gigantic and lawless race of shepherds in Sicily, who devoured human beings; they helped Vulcan to forge the thunderbolts of Zeus under Ætna,122,123,180,205,209,210,237-240,247,260.Cym´be-line, king of ancient Britain,388.Cy´no-sure (Dog’s tail), the Pole-star, at tail of Constellation Ursa Minor,33.Cyn´thi-an mountain top, birthplace of Artemis (Diana) and Apollo,112.Cy´prus, island off the coast of Syria, sacred to Aphrodite,6,63,66,78,142,233.Cy-re´ne, a nymph, mother of Aristæus,189-190.DDæ´da-lus, architect of the Cretan Labyrinth; inventor of sails,152,156-157.Dag´ue-net, King Arthur’s fool,469.Da´lai La´ma, chief pontiff of Thibet,327.Dan´a-e, mother of Perseus by Jupiter,202.Da-na´i-des, the fifty daughters of Danaüs, king of Argos, who were betrothed to the fifty sons of Ægyptus, but were commanded by their father to slay each her own husband on the marriage night,186.Dan´a-us (SeeDanaides),186.Daph´ne, maiden loved by Apollo, and changed into a laurel tree,20-23.Dar-da-nelles´, ancient Hellespont (whichSee),129.Dar´da-nus, progenitor of the Trojan kings,206,259.Dar´di-nel, prince of Zumara,745.Dawn,3,5,41.SeeAurora.Day, an attendant on Phœbus, the Sun,39.Day-star (Hesperus),41,69,71.Death,181,220,266.SeeHela.De-iph´o-bus, son of Priam and Hecuba, the bravest brother of Paris,213,224.De´ja-ni´ra, wife of Hercules,147,177,179.De´los, floating island, birthplace of Apollo and Diana,38,157,162,259.Del´phi, shrine of Apollo, famed for its oracles,1,123,155,234,235,297,298.Del´phos,21.De-me´ter, Greek goddess of marriage and human fertility; identified by Romans with Ceres (whichSee),8.De-me´ti-a, South Wales,407.De-mod´o-cus, bard of Alcinoüs, king of the Phæacians,202,252.Deu-ca´li-on, king of Thessaly, who with his wife Pyrrha were the only pair surviving a deluge sent by Zeus,16-17,301.Di´a, island of,162.Di-a´na (Artemis), goddess of the moon and of the chase, daughter of Jupiter and Latona,6,21,26,30,34-36,38,53,56,101,112,123,127,134 n.,138,139,141,154,204,206,214,235,259,278,286,380.Di-a´na of the Hind, antique sculpture in the Louvre, Paris,306.Di-a´na, temple of,314.Dic´tys, a sailor,162,202.Did´i-er, king of the Lombards,653.Di´do, queen of Tyre and Carthage, entertained the shipwrecked Æneas,262,263,268.Di-o-me´de, Greek hero during Trojan War,213,219,229,232.Di-o´ne, female Titan, mother of Zeus, of Aphrodite (Venus),6.Di-o-ny´sus.SeeBacchus.Di-os-cu´ri, the Twins (SeeCastorandPollux),158.Dir´ce, wife of Lycus, king of Thebes, who ordered Amphion and Zethus to tie Antiope to a wild bull, but they, learning Antiope to be their mother, so treated Dirce herself,192.Dis.SeePluto.Dis´cord, apple of,212.SeeEris.Dis-cor´di-a,266.SeeEris.Do-do´na, site of an oracle of Zeus (Jupiter),296.Dolphin,196.Dor´ce-us, a dog of Diana,35.Do´ris, wife of Nereus,44,173.Drag´on’s teeth sown by Cadmus,301.Dru´ids, ancient Celtic priests,358-362.Dry´-a-des (or Dryads),169.SeeWood-nymphs.Dry´o-pe, changed to a lotus plant, for plucking a lotus—enchanted form of the nymph Lotis,64-65.Du-bri´ci-us, bishop of Caerleon,407,408.
Be´al, Druids’ god of life,358.
Bear (Constellation of),3.
Bed´i-vere, Arthur’s knight,517-525.
Bed´ver, King Arthur’s butler, made governor of Normandy,406,407,408,410.
Bed´wyr, knightly comrade of Geraint,570.
Bel-i-sar´da, Rogero’s sword,730.
Bel-ler´o-phon, demigod, conqueror of the Chimæra,125-126.
Bel-lo´na, the Roman goddess of war, represented as the sister or wife of Mars,10.
Bel´tane, Druidical fire-festival,359.
Be´lus, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Libya or Eurynome, twin brother of Agenor,262.
Ben´di-geid Vran, King of Britain,589-597.
Be´o-wulf, hero and king of the Swedish Geats,635-637.
Ber´o-e, nurse of Semele,160.
Ber´tha, mother of Orlando,656.
Bi´frost, rainbow bridge between the earth and Asgard (whichSee),330,349.
Bla´dud, inventor, builder of the city of Bath,383.
Bla´mor, a knight of Arthur,512,523,525.
Ble-ob´er-is, a knight of Arthur,525.
Bœ-o´ti-a, state in ancient Greece, capital city Thebes,213,297.
Bo-hort´, King, a knight of Arthur,399,401,424,442,443,446-449,497-502,504-506,507,510,512,523,524,525.
Bo´na De´a, a Roman divinity of fertility,10 n.
Bo-o´tes, also called Arcas, son of Jupiter and Calisto, changed to constellation of Ursa Major,42.
Bo´re-as, North wind, son of Æolus and Aurora,176,261.
Bos´po-rus (Bosphorus), the Cow-ford, named for Io (whichSee), when as a heifer she crossed that strait,31.
Brad-a-man´te, sister to Rinaldo; a female warrior,697,703,708,712-721,727,737,738,740,765-768,779,791,792,794,796-801.
Brad-e-ma´gus, King, father of Sir Maleagans,436,439.
Brag´i, Norse god of poetry,332.
Brah´ma, the Creator, chief god of Hindu religion,320-325.
Bran´wen, daughter of Llyr, King of Britain, wife of Matholch,591-597.
Brazen Age,14.
Bré-cil´i-ande, forest of, where Vivian enticed Merlin,391,392,475.
Breng´wain, maid of Isoude the Fair,454,468-469.
Bren´nus, son of Molmutius, went to Gaul, became King of the Allobroges,386.
Breuse, the Pitiless, a caitiff knight,464,469.
Bri-a´re-us, hundred-armed giant,52,123,267.
Brice, Bishop, sustainer of Arthur when elected king,398.
Brig-li-a-do´ro, Orlando’s horse,759,788.
Bri-se´is, captive maid belonging to Achilles,216.
Brit´to, reputed ancestor of British people,379.
Bruh´ier, Sultan of Arabia,862-866.
Bru-nel´lo, dwarf, thief, and king,694,718.
Brun´hild, leader of the Valkyrie,352,354-357.
Bru´tus, great-grandson of Æneas, and founder of city of New Troy (London),375,379-391.
SeePandrasus.
Bry´an, Sir, a knight of Arthur,430.
Bud´dha, called The Enlightened, reformer of Brahmanism, deified teacher of self-abnegation, virtue, reincarnation,Karma(inevitable sequence of every act), andNirvana(beatific absorption into the Divine), lived about 562-482b.c.,321,325-326.
Bull, constellation,40.
Byb´los, in Egypt,294.
Byr´sa, original site of Carthage,262.
C
Ca´cus, gigantic son of Vulcan, slain by Hercules, whose captured cattle he stole,146,147.
Cad´mus, son of Agenor, king of Phœnicia, and of Telephassa, and brother of Europa, who, seeking his sister, carried off by Jupiter, had strange adventures—sowing in the ground teeth of a dragon he had killed, which sprang up armed men who slew each other, all but five, who helped Cadmus to found the city of Thebes,34,91-94,131,174,182,301.
Ca-du´ce-us, Mercury’s staff,8,49.
Cad-wal´lo, King of Venedotia (North Wales),407.
Caer-le´on, traditional seat of Arthur’s court,406,413,534,553.
Cæ´sar, Julius, Roman lawyer, general, statesman and author, conquered and consolidated Roman territory, making possible the Empire,387,388.
Ca-i´cus, a Greek river,44.
Cairns, Druidical stone-piles,359,365.
Cal´ais, French town facing England,133,176.
Cal´chas, wisest soothsayer among the Greeks at Troy,214,217,230.
Cal´i-burn, a sword of Arthur,400.
Cal-li´o-pe, one of the nine Muses (whichSee),8,185.
Cal-lis´to, an Arcadian nymph, mother of Arcas (SeeBoötes), changed by Jupiter to constellation Ursa Minor,31-34.
Cal´pe, a mountain in the south of Spain, on the strait between the Atlantic and Mediterranean, now Rock of Gibraltar,145.
Cal´y-don, home of Meleager,138,140.
Ca-lyp´so, queen of Island of Ogyia, where Ulysses was wrecked and held seven years,245-247.
Ca-lyp´so Island,245.
Cam´ber, son of Brutus, governor of West Albion (Wales),381.
Cam´bria,529.
Cam´e-lot, legendary place in England where Arthur’s court and palace were located,441,453.
Ca-me´næ, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient Italy,175.
Ca-mil´la, Volscian maiden, huntress and Amazonian warrior, favorite of Diana,278,286,287.
Cam´lan, battle of, where Arthur was mortally wounded,395.
Can´ter-bury, English city,516.
Cap´a-neus, husband of Evadne, slain by Jupiter for disobedience,183.
Ca´pet, Hugh, King of France (987-996a.d.),870.
Car´a-doc Brief´bras, Sir, great-nephew of King Arthur,418-423.
Car´a-hue, King of Mauretania,853ff.,861.
Car´thage, African city, home of Dido (whichSee),262.
Cas-san´dra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and twin-sister of Helenus, a prophetess, who foretold the coming of the Greeks but was not believed,232.
Cas-si-bel-laun´us, British chieftain, fought but not conquered by Cæsar,387.
Cas-si-o-pe´ia, mother of Andromeda,118,120.
Cas-ta´li-a, fountain of Parnassus, giving inspiration to Oracular priestess named Pythia,297.
Cas-ta´lian Cave, oracle of Apollo,92.
Castes (India),323-325.
Cas´tor and Pol´lux—the Dioscuri, sons of Jupiter and Leda,—Castor a horseman, Pollux a boxer (SeeGemini),133,158-159,202,203.
Cau´ca-sus, Mount,18,43,170.
Ca-vall´, Arthur’s favorite dog,564.
Ca-ys´ter, ancient river,44.
Ce-bri´o-nes, Hector’s charioteer,220.
Ce´crops, first king of Athens,107.
Ce-les´tials, gods of classic mythology,3.
Ce´le-us, shepherd who sheltered Ceres, seeking Proserpine, and whose infant son Triptolemus was in gratitude made great by Ceres,54,57.
Cel-li´ni, Benvenuto, famous Italian sculptor and artificer in metals,316.
Celt´ic nations, ancient Gauls and Britons, modern Bretons, Welsh, Irish and Gaelic Scotch,529.
Cen´taurs, originally an ancient race, inhabiting Mount Pelion in Thessaly; in later accounts represented as half horses and half men, and said to have been the offspring of Ixion and a cloud,127-128,166.
Ceph´a-lus, husband of beautiful but jealous Procris,26-28,95.
Ce´phe-us, King of Ethiopians, father of Andromeda,118,120.
Ceph´i-sus, a Grecian stream,92.
Cer´be-rus, three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades; called a son of Typhaon and Echidna,88,147,196,268.
Ce´res (SeeDemeter),8,53,54-57,86,169.
Ces´tus, the girdle of Venus,6,218.
Cey-lon´,326.
Ce´yx, King of Thessaly (SeeHalcyone),69-75.
Cha´os, original Confusion, personified by Greeks as most ancient of the gods,4,12,45.
Char´le-magne, king of the Franks and emperor of the Romans,375,647,650-655,664-672,674,801-813ff.
Charles Mar-tel´, king of the Franks, grandfather of Charlemagne, called Martel (the Hammer) from his defeat of the Saracens at Tours,648,649,650.
Char´lot, son of Charlemagne,818-821,825,827,852,858.
Cha´ron, son of Erebos, conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead across the rivers of the lower world,88,267.
Cha-ryb´dis, whirlpool near the coast of Sicily,243-245,261,303,304,322.
SeeScylla.
Chi-mæ´ra, a fire-breathing monster, the fore part of whose body was that of a lion, the hind part that of a dragon, and the middle that of a goat, slain by Bellerophon,122,124-126,267.
Chi´na,326;
Lamas (priests) of,327.
Chi´os, island in the Grecian archipelago,205.
Chi´ron, wisest of all the Centaurs, son of Cronos (Saturn) and Philyra, lived on Mount Pelion, instructor of Grecian heroes,127,128,133,173.
Chry-se´is, Trojan maid, taken by Agamemnon,216.
Chry´ses, priest of Apollo, father of Chryseis,216.
Ci-co´ni-ans, inhabitants of Ismarus, visited by Ulysses,236.
Cim´bri, an ancient people of Central Europe,529.
Cim-me´ri-a, a land of darkness,31,71,529.
Ci´mon, Athenian general,154.
Cir´ce, sorceress, sister of Æetes,60,61,117,241-243.
Ci-thæ´ron, Mount, scene of Bacchic worship,164,192.
Clar-i-mun´da, wife of Huon,845-848.
Cli´o, one of the Muses (whichSee),8.
Clor´i-dan, a Moor,747-751.
Clo´tho, one of the Fates (whichSee),9.
Clym´e-ne, an ocean nymph,38-39.
Cly-tem-nes´tra, wife of Agamemnon, killed by Orestes,234.
Cly´tie, a water-nymph, in love with Apollo,104-105.
Cni´dos, ancient city of Asia Minor, seat of worship of Aphrodite (Venus),66.
Cock´a-trice (or Basilisk), called King of Serpents, supposed to kill with its look,312-314.
Co-cy´tus, a river of Hades,267.
Col´chis, a kingdom east of the Black Sea,130,131,137.
Col´o-phon, one of the seven cities claiming the birth of Homer,307.
Co-lum´ba, St., an Irish Christian missionary to Druidical parts of Scotland,362-363.
Co´nan, Welsh king,388.
Con´stan-tine, Greek emperor,791,793.
Cor-deil´la, daughter of the mythical King Leir,383-384.
Co-ri-ne´us, a Trojan warrior in Albion,381.
Cor´inth, city and isthmus of,136,151,155,195,197,199.
Cor-nu-co´pi-a of Achelous,179.
Corn´wall, southwest part of Britain,381,382.
Cor-ta´na, Ogier’s sword,853,854,865.
Cor-y-ban´tes, priests of Cybele, or Rhea, in Phrygia, who celebrated her worship with dances, to the sound of the drum and the cymbal,143.
Crab, constellation,41.
Cranes and their enemies, the Pygmies,128;
of Ibycus,198-201.
Cre´on, king of Thebes,183.
Crete, one of the largest islands of the Mediterranean Sea, lying south of the Cyclades,95,100,109,152,259.
Cre-u´sa, daughter of Priam, wife of Æneas,136.
Croc´a-le, a nymph of Diana,34.
Crom´lech, Druidical altar,359.
Cro´nos,9,301.
SeeSaturn.
Cro-to´na, city of Italy,288,292.
Cu-chu´lain, Irish hero, called the “Hound of Ireland,”637-640.
Cul-dees´, followers of St. Columba,363-364.
Cu-mæ´an Sibyl, seeress of Cumæ, consulted by Æneas, sold Sibylline books to Tarquin,275.
Cu´pid, child of Venus and god of love,7,20,53,65,80-90,193.
Cu-roi of Kerry, wise man,638-640.
Cy´a-ne, river, opposed Pluto’s passage to Hades,53,54,55.
Cyb´e-le (Rhea, whichSee),11,142.
Cy-clo´pes, creatures with circular eyes, of whom Homer speaks as a gigantic and lawless race of shepherds in Sicily, who devoured human beings; they helped Vulcan to forge the thunderbolts of Zeus under Ætna,122,123,180,205,209,210,237-240,247,260.
Cym´be-line, king of ancient Britain,388.
Cy´no-sure (Dog’s tail), the Pole-star, at tail of Constellation Ursa Minor,33.
Cyn´thi-an mountain top, birthplace of Artemis (Diana) and Apollo,112.
Cy´prus, island off the coast of Syria, sacred to Aphrodite,6,63,66,78,142,233.
Cy-re´ne, a nymph, mother of Aristæus,189-190.
D
Dæ´da-lus, architect of the Cretan Labyrinth; inventor of sails,152,156-157.
Dag´ue-net, King Arthur’s fool,469.
Da´lai La´ma, chief pontiff of Thibet,327.
Dan´a-e, mother of Perseus by Jupiter,202.
Da-na´i-des, the fifty daughters of Danaüs, king of Argos, who were betrothed to the fifty sons of Ægyptus, but were commanded by their father to slay each her own husband on the marriage night,186.
Dan´a-us (SeeDanaides),186.
Daph´ne, maiden loved by Apollo, and changed into a laurel tree,20-23.
Dar-da-nelles´, ancient Hellespont (whichSee),129.
Dar´da-nus, progenitor of the Trojan kings,206,259.
Dar´di-nel, prince of Zumara,745.
Dawn,3,5,41.
SeeAurora.
Day, an attendant on Phœbus, the Sun,39.
Day-star (Hesperus),41,69,71.
Death,181,220,266.
SeeHela.
De-iph´o-bus, son of Priam and Hecuba, the bravest brother of Paris,213,224.
De´ja-ni´ra, wife of Hercules,147,177,179.
De´los, floating island, birthplace of Apollo and Diana,38,157,162,259.
Del´phi, shrine of Apollo, famed for its oracles,1,123,155,234,235,297,298.
Del´phos,21.
De-me´ter, Greek goddess of marriage and human fertility; identified by Romans with Ceres (whichSee),8.
De-me´ti-a, South Wales,407.
De-mod´o-cus, bard of Alcinoüs, king of the Phæacians,202,252.
Deu-ca´li-on, king of Thessaly, who with his wife Pyrrha were the only pair surviving a deluge sent by Zeus,16-17,301.
Di´a, island of,162.
Di-a´na (Artemis), goddess of the moon and of the chase, daughter of Jupiter and Latona,6,21,26,30,34-36,38,53,56,101,112,123,127,134 n.,138,139,141,154,204,206,214,235,259,278,286,380.
Di-a´na of the Hind, antique sculpture in the Louvre, Paris,306.
Di-a´na, temple of,314.
Dic´tys, a sailor,162,202.
Did´i-er, king of the Lombards,653.
Di´do, queen of Tyre and Carthage, entertained the shipwrecked Æneas,262,263,268.
Di-o-me´de, Greek hero during Trojan War,213,219,229,232.
Di-o´ne, female Titan, mother of Zeus, of Aphrodite (Venus),6.
Di-o-ny´sus.SeeBacchus.
Di-os-cu´ri, the Twins (SeeCastorandPollux),158.
Dir´ce, wife of Lycus, king of Thebes, who ordered Amphion and Zethus to tie Antiope to a wild bull, but they, learning Antiope to be their mother, so treated Dirce herself,192.
Dis.SeePluto.
Dis´cord, apple of,212.
SeeEris.
Dis-cor´di-a,266.
SeeEris.
Do-do´na, site of an oracle of Zeus (Jupiter),296.
Dolphin,196.
Dor´ce-us, a dog of Diana,35.
Do´ris, wife of Nereus,44,173.
Drag´on’s teeth sown by Cadmus,301.
Dru´ids, ancient Celtic priests,358-362.
Dry´-a-des (or Dryads),169.
SeeWood-nymphs.
Dry´o-pe, changed to a lotus plant, for plucking a lotus—enchanted form of the nymph Lotis,64-65.
Du-bri´ci-us, bishop of Caerleon,407,408.