Ro-ge´ro, noted Saracen knight,693-698,702,721-727,728-731,733,740,764,765,779-781,788-801.Ro´land (Orlando),651-652,653.SeeOrlando.Romances,374-378.Ro-ma´nus, legendary great-grandson of Noah,379.Rome,262,287,298.Rom´u-lus, founder of Rome,10,287.Ron, Arthur’s lance,400.Ronces-valles´, battle of,651-652,801-803.Round Table, King Arthur’s, instituted by Merlin the Sage for Pendragon, Arthur’s father, as a knightly order, continued and made famous by Arthur and his knights,396,397,410,467.Ru´nic characters, or runes, alphabetic signs used by early Teutonic peoples, written or graved on metal or stone,330,350.Ru-tu´li-ans, an ancient people in Italy, subdued at an early period by the Romans,276,279,281,282.Ry´ence, king in Ireland,401.S.Sa´bra, maiden for whom Severn River was named, daughter of Locrine and Estrildis, thrown into river Severn by Locrine’s wife, transformed to a river-nymph, poetically named Sabrina,174,381.Sac´ri-pant, king of Circassia,674-676,706-710.Saf´fire, Sir, knight of Arthur,510.Sa´gas, Norse tales of heroism, composed by the Skalds (whichSee),351-357.Sa-git-ta´ri-us,128.Sag´ra-mour, knight of Arthur,432.St. John,772-777.St. Michael’s Mount, precipitous pointed rock-hill on the coast of Brittany, opposite Cornwall,410.Sak-ya-sin´ha, the Lion, epithet applied to Buddha,325.Sal´a-man´der, a lizard-like animal, fabled to be able to live in fire,316-317.Sal´a-mis, Grecian city,79,307.Sal-mo´neus, son of Æolus and Enarete, and brother of Sisyphus,269.Sal´o-mon, king of Brittany, at Charlemagne’s court,656.Samh´in, or “fire of peace,” a Druidical festival,359.Sa´mi-an sage (Pythagoras),288.Sa´mos, island in the Ægean Sea,157,288.Sam-o-thra´cian gods, a group of agricultural divinities, worshipped in Samothrace,158.Sam´son, Hebrew hero, thought by some to be original of Hercules,301.San-greal (SeeGraal, the Holy),486.Sapph´o, Greek poetess, who leaped into the sea from promontory of Leucadia, in disappointed love for Phaon,38,203.Sa´ra-cens, followers of Mahomet,648.Sar-pe´don, son of Jupiter and Europa, killed by Patroclus,213,220.Sat´urn (Cronos),4,5,8,9,10,276,280,281,301.Sat´ur-na´li-a, annual festival held by Romans in honor of Saturn,9.Sa-tur´ni-a, an ancient name of Italy,281.Sa´tyrs, male divinities of the forest, half man, half goat,9,10,76.Scal´i-ger, famous German scholar of 16th century,313.Scan-di-na´vi-a, mythology of, giving account of Northern gods, heroes, etc.,328-351.Sche´ri-a, mythical island, abode of the Phæacians,243.Schrim´nir, the boar, cooked nightly for the heroes of Valhalla, becoming whole every morning,331.Sci´o, one of the island cities claiming to be Homer’s birthplace,307.Sco´pas, King of Thessaly,202,203.Scor´pion, constellation,41,43.Scyl´la, sea-nymph beloved by Glaucus, but changed by jealous Circe to a monster and finally to a dangerous rock on the Sicilian coast, facing the whirlpool Charybdis, many mariners being wrecked between the two,59-61,243-245,261;also, daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who loved Minos, besieging her father’s city, but he disliked her disloyalty and drowned her,98-101;also, a fair virgin of Sicily, friend of sea-nymph Galatea,209-210.Scy´ros, where Theseus was slain,154.Scyth´i-a, country lying north of Euxine Sea,31,43,129,170.Sea, the,1.Sea-nymphs,120,209.Sea´sons,3,6.Sem´e-le, daughter of Cadmus and, by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus,8,94,160.Se-mir´a-mis, with Ninus the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire of Nineveh,23.Sen´a-pus, King of Abyssinia, who entertained Astolpho,770.Se-ra´pis, or Hermes, Egyptian divinity of Tartarus and of medicine,293,295.Serfs, slaves of the land,371.Se-ri´phus, island in the Ægean Sea; one of the Cyclades,116,202.Serpent (Northern constellation),42.Ses´tos, dwelling of Hero (whichSee, alsoLeander),105.“Seven against Thebes,” famous Greek expedition,182.Sev´ern river, in England,382.Sev´i-nus, Duke of Guienne,825.Sha-lott´, the Lady of,441ff.Sha-tri´ya, Hindu warrior caste,323,324.Sher´as-min, French chevalier,833-846.Sib´yl, prophetess of Cumæ,265,266-275.Si-chæ´us, husband of Dido (whichSee),262.Sic´i-ly,55,56,58,61,195,209,260,261,264.Siege Per´i-lous, the chair of purity at Arthur’s Round Table, fatal to any but him who was destined to achieve the quest of the Sangreal (SeeGalahad),488.Sieg´fried, young King of the Netherlands, husband of Kriemhild; she boasted to Brunhild that Siegfried had aided Günther to beat her in athletic contests, thus winning her as wife, and Brunhild, in anger, employed Hagan to murder Siegfried. As hero of Wagner’s “Valkyrie,” he wins the Nibelungen treasure-ring, loves and deserts Brunhild, and is slain by Hagan,352,353,355,356-357.Sieg-lin´da, wife of Hunding, mother of Siegfried by Siegmund,355,356-357.Sieg´mund, father of Siegfried,355.Sig´tryg, Prince, betrothed of King Alef’s daughter, aided by Hereward,642.Si-gu´na, wife of Loki,347.Si-le´nus, a Satyr, school-master of Bacchus,46.Si-lu´res (South Wales),375,394.Silver Age,14.Sil´vi-a, daughter of Latin shepherd,277.Sil´vi-us, grandson of Æneas, accidentally killed in the chase by his son Brutus,379.Si-mon´i-des, an early poet of Greece,201-203.Si´non, a Greek spy, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Wooden Horse (whichSee) into their city,230,231.Si´rens, sea-nymphs, whose singing charmed mariners to leap into the sea; passing their island, Ulysses stopped the ears of his sailors with wax, and had himself bound to the mast so that he could hear but not yield to their music,242.Sir´i-us, the dog of Orion, changed to the Dog-star,206.Sis´y-phus, condemned in Tartarus to perpetually roll up hill a big rock which, when the top was reached, rolled down again,186,270.Si´va, the Destroyer, third person of the Hindu triad of gods,320,322.Skalds, Norse bards and poets,350.Skid-blad´nir, Freyr’s ship,348.Skir´nir, Frey’s messenger, who won the god’s magic sword by getting him Gerda for his wife,336.Skry´mir, a giant, Utgard Loki (whichSee) in disguise, who fooled Thor in athletic feats,337.Skuld, the Norn of the Future,330.Sleep, twin brother of Death,220.Sleip´nir, Odin’s horse,345.So-bri´no, councillor to Agramant,693,784-785,789.Som´nus, child of Nox, twin brother of Mors, god of sleep,71-72,264.Soph´o-cles, Greek tragic dramatist,235.South wind.SeeNotus.Spar´ta, capital of Lacedæmon,158,212,233.Sphinx, a monster, waylaying the road to Thebes and propounding riddles to all passers, on pain of death for wrong guessing, who killed herself in rage when Ædipus guessed aright,122,123-124.Spring,39,56.Stone´henge, circle of huge upright stones, fabled to be sepulchre of Pendragon,397.Stro´phi-us, father of Pylades,234.Styg´i-an realm, Hades,186.Styg´i-an sleep, escaped from the beauty-box sent from Hades to Venus by hand of Psyche, who curiously opened the box and was plunged into unconsciousness,89.Styx, river, bordering Hades, to be crossed by all the dead,160,228.Su´dras, Hindu laboring caste,323,324.Summer,39.Sun,3,5,39,311.Sur´tur, leader of giants against the gods in the day of their destruction (Norse mythology),349.Sur´ya, Hindu god of the sun, corresponding to the Greek Helios,321.Su´tri, Orlando’s birthplace,656.Sva-dil-fa´ri, giant’s horse,334,335.Swan, Leda and,158.Syb´a-ris, Greek city in Southern Italy, famed for luxury,292.Syl-va´nus, Latin divinity identified with Pan,76,166.Sym-pleg´a-des, floating rocks passed by the Argonauts,131.Sy´rinx, nymph, pursued by Pan, but escaping by being changed to a bunch of reeds (SeePandean pipes),30.TTac´i-tus, Roman historian,311.Tæn´a-rus, Greek entrance to lower regions,186.Ta´gus, river in Spain and Portugal,44.Tal´ie-sin, Welsh bard,531,627-633.Tan´a-is, ancient name of river Don,44.Tan´ta-lus, wicked king, punished in Hades by standing in water that retired when he would drink, under fruit-trees that withdrew when he would eat,112,186,270.Tar´chon, Etruscan chief,282.Ta-ren´tum, Italian city,197.Tar-pe´ian rock, in Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled,280.Tar´quins, a ruling family in early Roman legend,275.Tau´ris, Grecian city, site of temple of Diana (SeeIphigenia),214,234.Tau´rus, a mountain,43.Tar´ta-rus, place of confinement of Titans, etc., originally a black abyss below Hades; later, represented as place where the wicked were punished, and sometimes the name used as synonymous with Hades,5,44,52,53,73,186,187,269,293.Teir´tu, the harp of,618.Tel´a-mon, Greek hero and adventurer, father of Ajax,98,138,139.Te-lem´a-chus, son of Ulysses and Penelope,212,233,246,254,255,256,257.Tel´lus, another name for Rhea,134.Ten´e-dos, an island in Ægean Sea,21.Ter´mi-nus, Roman divinity presiding over boundaries and frontiers,10.Terp-sich´o-re, Muse of dancing,8.Ter´ra, goddess of the earth,146.Te´thys, goddess of the sea,32,40,59,172,174.Teu´cer, ancient king of the Trojans,78.Tha-li´a, one of the three Graces (whichSee),8.Tham´y-ris, Thracian bard, who challenged the Muses to competition in singing, and, defeated, was blinded,193.Thaukt, Loki disguised as a hag,346.Thebes, city founded by Cadmus, and capital of Bœotia,11,92,94,111,112,123,124,161,182,183,192,296.The´mis, female Titan, law-counsellor of Jove,4,7,9,15 n.,297.The-o-do´ra, sister of Prince Leo,794,800.The´ron, one of Diana’s dogs,35.Ther-si´tes, a brawler, killed by Achilles,228.Thes´ce-lus, foe of Perseus, turned to stone by sight of Gorgon’s head,121.The-se´um, Athenian temple in honor of Theseus,154.The´se-us, son of Ægeus and Æthra, King of Athens, a great hero of many adventures,130,136,138,139,147,150-157,158,165,177.Thes´saly,3,69,129,130,132,170,202.Thes´ti-us, father of Althea (whichSee),140.The´tis, mother of Achilles,173,174,211,212,216,221,222,225,228.Thi´al-fi, Thor’s servant,337,340.This´be, Babylonian maiden beloved by Pyramus (whichSee),23-26.Thor, the thunderer, of Norse mythology, most popular of the gods,331,332,334,335,337-343,349,352.Thrace,31,130,258.Thri-na´ki-a, island pasturing Hyperion’s cattle, where Ulysses landed, but, his men killing some cattle for food, their ship was wrecked by lightning,244.Thrym, giant, who buried Thor’s hammer,335.Thu-cyd´i-des, Greek historian,98.Ti´ber, river flowing through Rome,276,299.Tiber, Father, god of the river,279.Ti´gris, river,35.Tin-ta´del, castle of, residence of King Mark of Cornwall,450.Ti-re´si-as, a Greek soothsayer,183.Ti-siph´o-ne, one of the Furies (whichSee),9,269.Ti´tans, the sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gæa (Earth), enemies of the gods and overcome by them,4,5,13,18,52,172,269.Ti-tho´nus, Trojan prince,207.Tit´y-us, giant in Tartarus,122,269.Tmo´lus, a mountain god,43,47.Tortoise, second avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu,321.Tournaments,371-372,665.Tours, battle of (SeeAbdalrahmanandCharles Martel),649-650.Tox´e-us, brother of Melauger’s mother, who snatched from Atalanta her hunting trophy, and was slain by Melauger, who had awarded it to her,139.Triad, the Hindu,320-321.Triads, Welsh poems,532,533.Tri-mur´ti, Hindu Triad,320.Trip-tol´e-mus, son of Celeus (whichSee), and who, made great by Ceres, founded her worship in Eleusis,57.Tris´tram, one of Arthur’s knights, husband of Isoude of the White Hands, lover of Isoude the Fair,449-466,468-478.Tri´ton, a demi-god of the sea, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Amphitrite,16,60,173,174,262.Trœ´zen, Greek city of Argolis,150.Tro´jans,216,259-264,269,277.Tro´jan War,138,174,184,211-227.Tro-ja-no´va, New Troy, city founded in Britain (SeeBrutus, andLud),381.Tro-pho´ni-us, oracle of, in Bœotia,297-298.Trou´ba-dours, poets and minstrels of Provence, in Southern France,374.Trou-veurs´, poets and minstrels of Northern France,375.Troy, city in Asia Minor, ruled by King Priam, whose son, Paris, stole away Helen, wife of Menelaus the Greek, resulting in the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy,206,207,212,213,214,218,224,227,229,236.Troy, fall of,227-232.Tur´nus, chief of the Rutulianes in Italy, unsuccessful rival of Æneas for Lavinia,276,277,278,279,281,282,286-287.Tur´pin, Archbishop of Rheims,652-653,656,806-813.Tur´quine, Sir, a great knight, foe of Arthur, slain by Sir Launcelot,428.Ty´phon, one of the giants who attacked the gods, were defeated, and imprisoned under Mt. Ætna,52,123,261,293,294.Tyr, Norse god of battles,333.Tyre, Phœnician city governed by Dido (whichSee),262.Tyr´ians,92,262.Tyr´rhe-us, herdsman of King Turnus in Italy, the slaying of whose daughter’s stag aroused war upon Æneas and his companions,277.UU-ber´to, son of Galafron,665.U-lys´ses (Greek, Odysseus), hero of the Odyssey,60,61,76,184,212,213,217,219,228,229,230,232,233,236-257,261.U´ni-corn, fabled animal with a single horn,315.U-ra´ni-a, one of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne,8,126.Ur´dur, one of the Norns or Fates of Scandinavia, representing the Past,330.Usk, British river,406.Ut´gard, abode of the giant Utgard-Loki,338.Ut´gard-Lo´ki, King of the Giants (SeeSkrymir),339-343.U´ther (Uther Pendragon), king of Britain and father of Arthur,389-390,394,396,397,398.U-waine´, knight of Arthur’s court,432-434.VVa-is´sy-as, Hindu caste of agriculturists and traders,323.Val-hal´la, hall of Odin, heavenly residence of slain heroes,330,331,344,348,354,355,356.
Ro-ge´ro, noted Saracen knight,693-698,702,721-727,728-731,733,740,764,765,779-781,788-801.
Ro´land (Orlando),651-652,653.SeeOrlando.
Romances,374-378.
Ro-ma´nus, legendary great-grandson of Noah,379.
Rome,262,287,298.
Rom´u-lus, founder of Rome,10,287.
Ron, Arthur’s lance,400.
Ronces-valles´, battle of,651-652,801-803.
Round Table, King Arthur’s, instituted by Merlin the Sage for Pendragon, Arthur’s father, as a knightly order, continued and made famous by Arthur and his knights,396,397,410,467.
Ru´nic characters, or runes, alphabetic signs used by early Teutonic peoples, written or graved on metal or stone,330,350.
Ru-tu´li-ans, an ancient people in Italy, subdued at an early period by the Romans,276,279,281,282.
Ry´ence, king in Ireland,401.
S.
Sa´bra, maiden for whom Severn River was named, daughter of Locrine and Estrildis, thrown into river Severn by Locrine’s wife, transformed to a river-nymph, poetically named Sabrina,174,381.
Sac´ri-pant, king of Circassia,674-676,706-710.
Saf´fire, Sir, knight of Arthur,510.
Sa´gas, Norse tales of heroism, composed by the Skalds (whichSee),351-357.
Sa-git-ta´ri-us,128.
Sag´ra-mour, knight of Arthur,432.
St. John,772-777.
St. Michael’s Mount, precipitous pointed rock-hill on the coast of Brittany, opposite Cornwall,410.
Sak-ya-sin´ha, the Lion, epithet applied to Buddha,325.
Sal´a-man´der, a lizard-like animal, fabled to be able to live in fire,316-317.
Sal´a-mis, Grecian city,79,307.
Sal-mo´neus, son of Æolus and Enarete, and brother of Sisyphus,269.
Sal´o-mon, king of Brittany, at Charlemagne’s court,656.
Samh´in, or “fire of peace,” a Druidical festival,359.
Sa´mi-an sage (Pythagoras),288.
Sa´mos, island in the Ægean Sea,157,288.
Sam-o-thra´cian gods, a group of agricultural divinities, worshipped in Samothrace,158.
Sam´son, Hebrew hero, thought by some to be original of Hercules,301.
San-greal (SeeGraal, the Holy),486.
Sapph´o, Greek poetess, who leaped into the sea from promontory of Leucadia, in disappointed love for Phaon,38,203.
Sa´ra-cens, followers of Mahomet,648.
Sar-pe´don, son of Jupiter and Europa, killed by Patroclus,213,220.
Sat´urn (Cronos),4,5,8,9,10,276,280,281,301.
Sat´ur-na´li-a, annual festival held by Romans in honor of Saturn,9.
Sa-tur´ni-a, an ancient name of Italy,281.
Sa´tyrs, male divinities of the forest, half man, half goat,9,10,76.
Scal´i-ger, famous German scholar of 16th century,313.
Scan-di-na´vi-a, mythology of, giving account of Northern gods, heroes, etc.,328-351.
Sche´ri-a, mythical island, abode of the Phæacians,243.
Schrim´nir, the boar, cooked nightly for the heroes of Valhalla, becoming whole every morning,331.
Sci´o, one of the island cities claiming to be Homer’s birthplace,307.
Sco´pas, King of Thessaly,202,203.
Scor´pion, constellation,41,43.
Scyl´la, sea-nymph beloved by Glaucus, but changed by jealous Circe to a monster and finally to a dangerous rock on the Sicilian coast, facing the whirlpool Charybdis, many mariners being wrecked between the two,59-61,243-245,261;
also, daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who loved Minos, besieging her father’s city, but he disliked her disloyalty and drowned her,98-101;
also, a fair virgin of Sicily, friend of sea-nymph Galatea,209-210.
Scy´ros, where Theseus was slain,154.
Scyth´i-a, country lying north of Euxine Sea,31,43,129,170.
Sea, the,1.
Sea-nymphs,120,209.
Sea´sons,3,6.
Sem´e-le, daughter of Cadmus and, by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus,8,94,160.
Se-mir´a-mis, with Ninus the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire of Nineveh,23.
Sen´a-pus, King of Abyssinia, who entertained Astolpho,770.
Se-ra´pis, or Hermes, Egyptian divinity of Tartarus and of medicine,293,295.
Serfs, slaves of the land,371.
Se-ri´phus, island in the Ægean Sea; one of the Cyclades,116,202.
Serpent (Northern constellation),42.
Ses´tos, dwelling of Hero (whichSee, alsoLeander),105.
“Seven against Thebes,” famous Greek expedition,182.
Sev´ern river, in England,382.
Sev´i-nus, Duke of Guienne,825.
Sha-lott´, the Lady of,441ff.
Sha-tri´ya, Hindu warrior caste,323,324.
Sher´as-min, French chevalier,833-846.
Sib´yl, prophetess of Cumæ,265,266-275.
Si-chæ´us, husband of Dido (whichSee),262.
Sic´i-ly,55,56,58,61,195,209,260,261,264.
Siege Per´i-lous, the chair of purity at Arthur’s Round Table, fatal to any but him who was destined to achieve the quest of the Sangreal (SeeGalahad),488.
Sieg´fried, young King of the Netherlands, husband of Kriemhild; she boasted to Brunhild that Siegfried had aided Günther to beat her in athletic contests, thus winning her as wife, and Brunhild, in anger, employed Hagan to murder Siegfried. As hero of Wagner’s “Valkyrie,” he wins the Nibelungen treasure-ring, loves and deserts Brunhild, and is slain by Hagan,352,353,355,356-357.
Sieg-lin´da, wife of Hunding, mother of Siegfried by Siegmund,355,356-357.
Sieg´mund, father of Siegfried,355.
Sig´tryg, Prince, betrothed of King Alef’s daughter, aided by Hereward,642.
Si-gu´na, wife of Loki,347.
Si-le´nus, a Satyr, school-master of Bacchus,46.
Si-lu´res (South Wales),375,394.
Silver Age,14.
Sil´vi-a, daughter of Latin shepherd,277.
Sil´vi-us, grandson of Æneas, accidentally killed in the chase by his son Brutus,379.
Si-mon´i-des, an early poet of Greece,201-203.
Si´non, a Greek spy, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Wooden Horse (whichSee) into their city,230,231.
Si´rens, sea-nymphs, whose singing charmed mariners to leap into the sea; passing their island, Ulysses stopped the ears of his sailors with wax, and had himself bound to the mast so that he could hear but not yield to their music,242.
Sir´i-us, the dog of Orion, changed to the Dog-star,206.
Sis´y-phus, condemned in Tartarus to perpetually roll up hill a big rock which, when the top was reached, rolled down again,186,270.
Si´va, the Destroyer, third person of the Hindu triad of gods,320,322.
Skalds, Norse bards and poets,350.
Skid-blad´nir, Freyr’s ship,348.
Skir´nir, Frey’s messenger, who won the god’s magic sword by getting him Gerda for his wife,336.
Skry´mir, a giant, Utgard Loki (whichSee) in disguise, who fooled Thor in athletic feats,337.
Skuld, the Norn of the Future,330.
Sleep, twin brother of Death,220.
Sleip´nir, Odin’s horse,345.
So-bri´no, councillor to Agramant,693,784-785,789.
Som´nus, child of Nox, twin brother of Mors, god of sleep,71-72,264.
Soph´o-cles, Greek tragic dramatist,235.
South wind.SeeNotus.
Spar´ta, capital of Lacedæmon,158,212,233.
Sphinx, a monster, waylaying the road to Thebes and propounding riddles to all passers, on pain of death for wrong guessing, who killed herself in rage when Ædipus guessed aright,122,123-124.
Spring,39,56.
Stone´henge, circle of huge upright stones, fabled to be sepulchre of Pendragon,397.
Stro´phi-us, father of Pylades,234.
Styg´i-an realm, Hades,186.
Styg´i-an sleep, escaped from the beauty-box sent from Hades to Venus by hand of Psyche, who curiously opened the box and was plunged into unconsciousness,89.
Styx, river, bordering Hades, to be crossed by all the dead,160,228.
Su´dras, Hindu laboring caste,323,324.
Summer,39.
Sun,3,5,39,311.
Sur´tur, leader of giants against the gods in the day of their destruction (Norse mythology),349.
Sur´ya, Hindu god of the sun, corresponding to the Greek Helios,321.
Su´tri, Orlando’s birthplace,656.
Sva-dil-fa´ri, giant’s horse,334,335.
Swan, Leda and,158.
Syb´a-ris, Greek city in Southern Italy, famed for luxury,292.
Syl-va´nus, Latin divinity identified with Pan,76,166.
Sym-pleg´a-des, floating rocks passed by the Argonauts,131.
Sy´rinx, nymph, pursued by Pan, but escaping by being changed to a bunch of reeds (SeePandean pipes),30.
T
Tac´i-tus, Roman historian,311.
Tæn´a-rus, Greek entrance to lower regions,186.
Ta´gus, river in Spain and Portugal,44.
Tal´ie-sin, Welsh bard,531,627-633.
Tan´a-is, ancient name of river Don,44.
Tan´ta-lus, wicked king, punished in Hades by standing in water that retired when he would drink, under fruit-trees that withdrew when he would eat,112,186,270.
Tar´chon, Etruscan chief,282.
Ta-ren´tum, Italian city,197.
Tar-pe´ian rock, in Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled,280.
Tar´quins, a ruling family in early Roman legend,275.
Tau´ris, Grecian city, site of temple of Diana (SeeIphigenia),214,234.
Tau´rus, a mountain,43.
Tar´ta-rus, place of confinement of Titans, etc., originally a black abyss below Hades; later, represented as place where the wicked were punished, and sometimes the name used as synonymous with Hades,5,44,52,53,73,186,187,269,293.
Teir´tu, the harp of,618.
Tel´a-mon, Greek hero and adventurer, father of Ajax,98,138,139.
Te-lem´a-chus, son of Ulysses and Penelope,212,233,246,254,255,256,257.
Tel´lus, another name for Rhea,134.
Ten´e-dos, an island in Ægean Sea,21.
Ter´mi-nus, Roman divinity presiding over boundaries and frontiers,10.
Terp-sich´o-re, Muse of dancing,8.
Ter´ra, goddess of the earth,146.
Te´thys, goddess of the sea,32,40,59,172,174.
Teu´cer, ancient king of the Trojans,78.
Tha-li´a, one of the three Graces (whichSee),8.
Tham´y-ris, Thracian bard, who challenged the Muses to competition in singing, and, defeated, was blinded,193.
Thaukt, Loki disguised as a hag,346.
Thebes, city founded by Cadmus, and capital of Bœotia,11,92,94,111,112,123,124,161,182,183,192,296.
The´mis, female Titan, law-counsellor of Jove,4,7,9,15 n.,297.
The-o-do´ra, sister of Prince Leo,794,800.
The´ron, one of Diana’s dogs,35.
Ther-si´tes, a brawler, killed by Achilles,228.
Thes´ce-lus, foe of Perseus, turned to stone by sight of Gorgon’s head,121.
The-se´um, Athenian temple in honor of Theseus,154.
The´se-us, son of Ægeus and Æthra, King of Athens, a great hero of many adventures,130,136,138,139,147,150-157,158,165,177.
Thes´saly,3,69,129,130,132,170,202.
Thes´ti-us, father of Althea (whichSee),140.
The´tis, mother of Achilles,173,174,211,212,216,221,222,225,228.
Thi´al-fi, Thor’s servant,337,340.
This´be, Babylonian maiden beloved by Pyramus (whichSee),23-26.
Thor, the thunderer, of Norse mythology, most popular of the gods,331,332,334,335,337-343,349,352.
Thrace,31,130,258.
Thri-na´ki-a, island pasturing Hyperion’s cattle, where Ulysses landed, but, his men killing some cattle for food, their ship was wrecked by lightning,244.
Thrym, giant, who buried Thor’s hammer,335.
Thu-cyd´i-des, Greek historian,98.
Ti´ber, river flowing through Rome,276,299.
Tiber, Father, god of the river,279.
Ti´gris, river,35.
Tin-ta´del, castle of, residence of King Mark of Cornwall,450.
Ti-re´si-as, a Greek soothsayer,183.
Ti-siph´o-ne, one of the Furies (whichSee),9,269.
Ti´tans, the sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gæa (Earth), enemies of the gods and overcome by them,4,5,13,18,52,172,269.
Ti-tho´nus, Trojan prince,207.
Tit´y-us, giant in Tartarus,122,269.
Tmo´lus, a mountain god,43,47.
Tortoise, second avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu,321.
Tournaments,371-372,665.
Tours, battle of (SeeAbdalrahmanandCharles Martel),649-650.
Tox´e-us, brother of Melauger’s mother, who snatched from Atalanta her hunting trophy, and was slain by Melauger, who had awarded it to her,139.
Triad, the Hindu,320-321.
Triads, Welsh poems,532,533.
Tri-mur´ti, Hindu Triad,320.
Trip-tol´e-mus, son of Celeus (whichSee), and who, made great by Ceres, founded her worship in Eleusis,57.
Tris´tram, one of Arthur’s knights, husband of Isoude of the White Hands, lover of Isoude the Fair,449-466,468-478.
Tri´ton, a demi-god of the sea, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Amphitrite,16,60,173,174,262.
Trϫzen, Greek city of Argolis,150.
Tro´jans,216,259-264,269,277.
Tro´jan War,138,174,184,211-227.
Tro-ja-no´va, New Troy, city founded in Britain (SeeBrutus, andLud),381.
Tro-pho´ni-us, oracle of, in Bœotia,297-298.
Trou´ba-dours, poets and minstrels of Provence, in Southern France,374.
Trou-veurs´, poets and minstrels of Northern France,375.
Troy, city in Asia Minor, ruled by King Priam, whose son, Paris, stole away Helen, wife of Menelaus the Greek, resulting in the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy,206,207,212,213,214,218,224,227,229,236.
Troy, fall of,227-232.
Tur´nus, chief of the Rutulianes in Italy, unsuccessful rival of Æneas for Lavinia,276,277,278,279,281,282,286-287.
Tur´pin, Archbishop of Rheims,652-653,656,806-813.
Tur´quine, Sir, a great knight, foe of Arthur, slain by Sir Launcelot,428.
Ty´phon, one of the giants who attacked the gods, were defeated, and imprisoned under Mt. Ætna,52,123,261,293,294.
Tyr, Norse god of battles,333.
Tyre, Phœnician city governed by Dido (whichSee),262.
Tyr´ians,92,262.
Tyr´rhe-us, herdsman of King Turnus in Italy, the slaying of whose daughter’s stag aroused war upon Æneas and his companions,277.
U
U-ber´to, son of Galafron,665.
U-lys´ses (Greek, Odysseus), hero of the Odyssey,60,61,76,184,212,213,217,219,228,229,230,232,233,236-257,261.
U´ni-corn, fabled animal with a single horn,315.
U-ra´ni-a, one of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne,8,126.
Ur´dur, one of the Norns or Fates of Scandinavia, representing the Past,330.
Usk, British river,406.
Ut´gard, abode of the giant Utgard-Loki,338.
Ut´gard-Lo´ki, King of the Giants (SeeSkrymir),339-343.
U´ther (Uther Pendragon), king of Britain and father of Arthur,389-390,394,396,397,398.
U-waine´, knight of Arthur’s court,432-434.
V
Va-is´sy-as, Hindu caste of agriculturists and traders,323.
Val-hal´la, hall of Odin, heavenly residence of slain heroes,330,331,344,348,354,355,356.