Abdalrahman, founder of the independent Ommiad (Saracenic) power in Spain, conquered at Tours by Charles Martel.
Aberfraw, scene of nuptials of Branwen and Matholch.
Absyrtus, younger brother of Medea.
Abydos, a town on the Hellespont, nearly opposite to Sestos.
Abyla, 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 (See Pillars of Hercules).
Acestes, 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.
Acetes, Bacchanal captured by Pentheus.
Achates, faithful friend and companion of Aeneas.
Achelous, river-god of the largest river in Greece--his Horn of Plenty.
Achilles, the hero of the Iliad, son of Peleus and of the Nereid Thetis, slain by Paris.
Acis, youth loved by Galatea and slain by Polyphemus.
Acontius, a beautiful youth, who fell in love with Cydippe, the daughter of a noble Athenian.
Acrisius, son of Abas, king of Argos, grandson of Lynceus, the great-grandson of Danaus.
Actaeon, a celebrated huntsman, son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, who, having seen Diana bathing, was changed by her to a stag and killed by his own dogs.
Admeta, daughter of Eurystheus, covets Hippolyta's girdle.
Admetus, king of Thessaly, saved from death by Alcestis.
Adonis, a youth beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), and Proserpine; killed by a boar.
Adrastus, a king of Argos.
Aeacus, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Aegina, renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety.
Aeaea, Circe's island, visited by Ulysses.
Aeetes, or Aeeta, son of Helios (the Sun) and Perseis, and father of Medea and Absyrtus.
Aegeus, king of Athens.
Aegina, a rocky island in the middle of the Saronic gulf.
Aegis, shield or breastplate of Jupiter and Minerva.
Aegisthus, murderer of Agamemnon, slain by Orestes.
Aeneas, Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite (Venus), and born on Mount Ida, reputed first settler of Rome.
Aeneid, poem by Virgil, relating the wanderings of Aeneas from Troy to Italy.
Ae'olus, son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, represented in Homer as the happy ruler of the Aeolian Islands, to whom Zeus had given dominion over the winds.
Aesculapius, god of the medical art.
Aeson, father of Jason, made young again by Medea.
Aethiopians, inhabitants of the country south of Egypt.
Aethra, mother of Theseus by Aegeus.
Aetna, volcano in Sicily.
Agamedes, brother of Trophonius, distinguished as an architect.
Agamemnon, son of Plisthenis and grandson of Atreus, king of Mycenae, although the chief commander of the Greeks, is not the hero of the Iliad, and in chivalrous spirit altogether inferior to Achilles.
Agave, daughter of Cadmus, wife of Echion, and mother of Pentheus.
Agenor, father of Europa, Cadmus, Cilix, and Phoenix.
Aglaia, one of the Graces.
Agni, Hindu god of fire.
Agramant, a king in Africa.
Agrican, fabled king of Tartary, pursuing Angelica, finally killed by Orlando.
Agrivain, one of Arthur's knights.
Ahriman, the Evil Spirit in the dual system of Zoroaster, See Ormuzd
Ajax, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, and grandson of Aeacus, represented in the Iliad as second only to Achilles in bravery.
Alba, the river where King Arthur fought the Romans.
Alba Longa, city in Italy founded by son of Aeneas.
Alberich, dwarf guardian of Rhine gold treasure of the Nibelungs
Albracca, siege of.
Alcestis, wife of Admetus, offered hersell as sacrifice to spare her husband, but rescued by Hercules.
Alcides (Hercules).
Alcina, enchantress.
Alcinous, Phaeacian king.
Alcippe, daughter of Mars, carried off by Halirrhothrus.
Alcmena, wife of Jupiter, and mother of Hercules.
Alcuin, English prelate and scholar.
Aldrovandus, dwarf guardian of treasure.
Alecto, one of the Furies.
Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, conqueror of Greece, Egypt, Persia, Babylonia, and India.
Alfadur, a name for Odin.
Alfheim, abode of the elves of light.
Alice, mother of Huon and Girard, sons of Duke Sevinus.
Alphenor, son of Niobe.
Alpheus, river god pursuing Arethusa, who escaped by being changed to a fountain.
Althaea, mother of Meleager, whom she slew because he had in a quarrel killed her brothers, thus disgracing "the house of Thestius," her father.
Amalthea, nurse of the infant Jupiter in Crete.
Amata, wife of Latinus, driven mad by Alecto.
Amaury of Hauteville, false hearted Knight of Charlemagne.
Amazons, mythical race of warlike women.
Ambrosia, celestial food used by the gods.
Ammon, Egyptian god of life identified by Romans with phases of Jupiter, the father of gods.
Amphiaraus, a great prophet and hero at Argos.
Amphion, a musician, son of Jupiter and Antiope (See Dirce).
Amphitrite, wife of Neptune.
Amphyrsos, a small river in Thessaly.
Ampyx, assailant of Perseus, turned to stone by seeing Gorgon's head.
Amrita, nectar giving immortality.
Amun, See Ammon
Amymone, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus, and mother by Poseidon (Neptune) of Nauplius, the father of Palamedes.
Anaxarete, a maiden of Cyprus, who treated her lover Iphis with such haughtiness that he hanged himself at her door.
Anbessa, Saracenic governor of Spain (725 AD).
Anceus, one of the Argonauts.
Anchises, beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), by whom he became the father of Aeneas.
Andraemon, husband of Dryope, saw her changed into a tree.
Andret, a cowardly knight, spy upon Tristram.
Andromache, wife of Hector
Andromeda, daughter of King Cephas, delivered from monster by Perseus
Aneurin, Welsh bard
Angelica, Princess of Cathay
Anemone, short lived wind flower, created by Venus from the blood of the slain Adonis
Angerbode, giant prophetess, mother of Fenris, Hela and the Midgard Serpent
Anglesey, a Northern British island, refuge of Druids fleeing from Romans
Antaeus, giant wrestler of Libya, killed by Hercules, who, finding him stronger when thrown to the earth, lifted him into the air and strangled him
Antea, wife of jealous Proetus
Antenor, descendants of, in Italy
Anteros, deity avenging unrequited love, brother of Eros (Cupid)
Anthor, a Greek
Antigone, daughter of Aedipus, Greek ideal of filial and sisterly fidelity
Antilochus, son of Nestor
Antiope, Amazonian queen. See Dirce
Anubis, Egyptian god, conductor of the dead to judgment
Apennines
Aphrodite See Venus, Dione, etc.
Apis, Egyptian bull god of Memphis
Apollo, god of music and song
Apollo Belvedere, famous antique statue in Vatican at Rome
Apples of the Hesperides, wedding gifts to Juno, guarded by daughters of Atlas and Hesperis, stolen by Atlas for Hercules.
Aquilo, or Boreas, the North Wind.
Aquitaine, ancient province of Southwestern France.
Arachne, a maiden skilled in weaving, changed to a spider by Minerva for daring to compete with her.
Arcadia, a country in the middle of Peloponnesus, surrounded on all sides by mountains.
Arcady, star of, the Pole star.
Arcas, son of Jupiter and Callisto.
Archer, constellation of the.
Areopagus, court of the, at Athens.
Ares, called Mars by the Romans, the Greek god of war, and one of the great Olympian gods.
Arethusa, nymph of Diana, changed to a fountain.
Argius king of Ireland, father of Isoude the Fair.
Argo, builder of the vessel of Jason for the Argonautic expedition.
Argolis, city of the Nemean games.
Argonauts, Jason's crew seeking the Golden Fleece.
Argos, a kingdom in Greece.
Argus, of the hundred eyes, guardian of Io.
Ariadne, daughter of King Minos, who helped Theseus slay the Minotaur.
Arimanes SEE Ahriman.
Arimaspians, one-eyed people of Syria.
Arion, 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.
Aristaeus, the bee keeper, in love with Eurydice.
Armorica, another name for Britain.
Arridano, a magical ruffian, slain by Orlando.
Artemis SEE Diana
Arthgallo, brother of Elidure, British king.
Arthur, king in Britain about the 6th century.
Aruns, an Etruscan who killed Camilla.
Asgard, home of the Northern gods.
Ashtaroth, a cruel spirit, called by enchantment to bring Rinaldo to death.
Aske, the first man, made from an ash tree.
Astolpho of England, one of Charlemagne's knights.
Astraea, goddess of justice, daughter of Astraeus and Eos.
Astyages, an assailant of Perseus.
Astyanax, son of Hector of Troy, established kingdom of Messina in Italy.
Asuias, opponents of the Braminical gods.
Atalanta, beautiful daughter of King of Icaria, loved and won in a foot race by Hippomenes.
Ate, the goddess of infatuation, mischief and guilt.
Athamas, son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Orchomenus, in Boeotia, SEE Ino
Athene, tutelary goddess of Athens, the same as Minerva.
Athens, the capital of Attica, about four miles from the sea, between the small rivers Cephissus and Ilissus.
Athor, Egyptian deity, progenitor of Isis and Osiris.
Athos, the mountainous peninsula, also called Acte, which projects from Chalcidice in Macedonia.
Atlantes, foster father of Rogero, a powerful magician.
Atlantis, according to an ancient tradition, a great island west of the Pillars of Hercules, in the ocean, opposite Mount Atlas.
Atlas, a Titan, who bore the heavens on his shoulders, as punishment for opposing the gods, one of the sons of Iapetus.
Atlas, Mount, general name for range in northern Africa.
Atropos, one of the Fates
Attica, a state in ancient Greece.
Audhumbla, the cow from which the giant Ymir was nursed. Her milk was frost melted into raindrops.
Augean stables, cleansed by Hercules.
Augeas, king of Elis.
Augustan age, reign of Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, famed for many great authors.
Augustus, the first imperial Caesar, who ruled the Roman Empire 31 BC--14 AD.
Aulis, port in Boeotia, meeting place of Greek expedition against Troy.
Aurora, identical with Eos, goddess of the dawn.
Aurora Borealis, splendid nocturnal luminosity in northern sky, called Northern Lights, probably electrical.
Autumn, attendant of Phoebus, the Sun.
Avalon, land of the Blessed, an earthly paradise in the Western Seas, burial place of King Arthur.
Avatar, name for any of the earthly incarnations of Vishnu, the Preserver (Hindu god).
Aventine, Mount, one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
Avernus, a miasmatic lake close to the promontory between Cumae and Puteoli, filling the crater of an extinct volcano, by the ancients thought to be the entrance to the infernal regions.
Avicenna, celebrated Arabian physician and philosopher.
Aya, mother of Rinaldo.
Aymon, Duke, father of Rinaldo and Bradamante.
Baal, king of Tyre.
Babylonian River, dried up when Phaeton drove the sun chariot.
Bacchanali a, a feast to Bacchus that was permitted to occur but once in three years, attended by most shameless orgies.
Bacchanals, devotees and festal dancers of Bacchus.
Bacchus (Dionysus), god of wine and revelry.
Badon, battle of, Arthur's final victory over the Saxons.
Bagdemagus, King, a knight of Arthur's time.
Baldur, son of Odin, and representing in Norse mythology the sun god.
Balisardo, Orlando's sword.
Ban, King of Brittany, ally of Arthur, father of Launcelot.
Bards, minstrels of Welsh Druids.
Basilisk SEE Cockatrice
Baucis, wife of Philemon, visited by Jupiter and Mercury.
Bayard, wild horse subdued by Rinaldo.
Beal, Druids' god of life.
Bedivere, Arthur's knight.
Bedver, King Arthur's butler, made governor of Normandy.
Bedwyr, knightly comrade of Geraint.
Belisarda, Rogero's sword.
Bellerophon, demigod, conqueror of the Chimaera.
Bellona, the Roman goddess of war, represented as the sister or wife of Mars.
Beltane, Druidical fire festival.
Belus, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Libya or Eurynome, twin brother of Agenor.
Bendigeid Vran, King of Britain.
Beowulf, hero and king of the Swedish Geats.
Beroe, nurse of Semele.
Bertha, mother of Orlando.
Bifrost, rainbow bridge between the earth and Asgard
Bladud, inventor, builder of the city of Bath.
Blamor, a knight of Arthur.
Bleoberis, a knight of Arthur.
Boeotia, state in ancient Greece, capital city Thebes.
Bohort, King, a knight of Arthur.
Bona Dea, a Roman divinity of fertility.
Bootes, also called Areas, son of Jupiter and Calisto, changed to constellation of Ursa Major.
Boreas, North wind, son of Aeolus and Aurora.
Bosporus (Bosphorus), the Cow-ford, named for Io, when as a heifer she crossed that strait.
Bradamante, sister to Rinaldo, a female warrior.
Brademagus, King, father of Sir Maleagans.
Bragi, Norse god of poetry.
Brahma, the Creator, chief god of Hindu religion.
Branwen, daughter of Llyr, King of Britain, wife of Mathclch.
Breciliande, forest of, where Vivian enticed Merlin.
Brengwain, maid of Isoude the Fair
Brennus, son of Molmutius, went to Gaul, became King of the Allobroges.
Breuse, the Pitiless, a caitiff knight.
Briareus, hundred armed giant.
Brice, Bishop, sustainer of Arthur when elected king.
Brigliadoro, Orlando's horse.
Briseis, captive maid belonging to Achilles.
Britto, reputed ancestor of British people.
Bruhier, Sultan of Arabia.
Brunello, dwarf, thief, and king
Brunhild, leader of the Valkyrie.
Brutus, great grandson of Aeneas, and founder of city of New Troy (London), SEE Pandrasus
Bryan, Sir, a knight of Arthur.
Buddha, called The Enlightened, reformer of Brahmanism, deified teacher of self abnegation, virtue, reincarnation, Karma (inevitable sequence of every act), and Nirvana (beatific absorption into the Divine), lived about
Byblos, in Egypt.
Byrsa, original site of Carthage.
Cacus, gigantic son of Vulcan, slain by Hercules, whose captured cattle he stole.
Cadmus, son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia, 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.
Caduceus, Mercury's staff.
Cadwallo, King of Venedotia (North Wales).
Caerleon, traditional seat of Arthur's court.
Caesar, Julius, Roman lawyer, general, statesman and author, conquered and consolidated Roman territory, making possible the Empire.
Caicus, a Greek river.
Cairns, Druidical store piles.
Calais, French town facing England.
Calchas, wisest soothsayer among the Greeks at Troy.
Caliburn, a sword of Arthur.
Calliope, one of the nine Muses
Callisto, an Arcadian nymph, mother of Arcas (SEE Bootes), changed by Jupiter to constellation Ursa Minor.
Calpe, a mountain in the south of Spain, on the strait between the Atlantic and Mediterranean, now Rock of Gibraltar.
Calydon, home of Meleager.
Calypso, queen of Island of Ogyia, where Ulysses was wrecked and held seven years.
Camber, son of Brutus, governor of West Albion (Wales).
Camelot, legendary place in England where Arthur's court and palace were located.
Camenae, prophetic nymphs, belonging to the religion of ancient Italy.
Camilla, Volscian maiden, huntress and Amazonian warrior, favorite of Diana.
Camlan, battle of, where Arthur was mortally wounded.
Canterbury, English city.
Capaneus, husband of Evadne, slain by Jupiter for disobedience.
Capet, Hugh, King of France (987-996 AD).
Caradoc Briefbras, Sir, great nephew of King Arthur.
Carahue, King of Mauretania.
Carthage, African city, home of Dido
Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and twin sister of Helenus, a prophetess, who foretold the coming of the Greeks but was not believed.
Cassibellaunus, British chieftain, fought but not conquered by Caesar.
Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda.
Castalia, fountain of Parnassus, giving inspiration to Oracular priestess named Pythia.
Castalian Cave, oracle of Apollo.
Castes (India).
Castor and Pollux--the Dioscuri, sons of Jupiter and Leda,--Castor a horseman, Pollux a boxer (SEE Gemini).
Caucasus, Mount
Cavall, Arthur's favorite dog.
Cayster, ancient river.
Cebriones, Hector's charioteer.
Cecrops, first king of Athens.
Celestials, gods of classic mythology.
Celeus, shepherd who sheltered Ceres, seeking Proserpine, and whose infant son Triptolemus was in gratitude made great by Ceres.
Cellini, Benvenuto, famous Italian sculptor and artificer in metals.
Celtic nations, ancient Gauls and Britons, modern Bretons, Welsh, Irish and Gaelic Scotch.
Centaurs, 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.
Cephalus, husband of beautiful but jealous Procris.
Cephe us, King of Ethiopians, father of Andromeda.
Cephisus, a Grecian stream.
Cerberus, three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades, called a son of Typhaon and Echidna
CERES (See Demeter)
CESTUS, the girdle of Venus
CEYX, King of Thessaly (See Halcyone)
CHAOS, original Confusion, personified by Greeks as most ancient of the gods
CHARLEMAGNE, king of the Franks and emperor of the Romans
CHARLES MARTEL', king of the Franks, grandfather of Charlemagne, called Martel (the Hammer) from his defeat of the Saracens at Tours
CHARLOT, son of Charlemagne
CHARON, son of Erebos, conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead across the rivers of the lower world
CHARYB'DIS, whirlpool near the coast of Sicily, See Scylla
CHIMAERA, 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
CHINA, Lamas (priests) of
CHOS, island in the Grecian archipelago
CHIRON, wisest of all the Centaurs, son of Cronos (Saturn) and Philyra, lived on Mount Pelion, instructor of Grecian heroes
CHRYSEIS, Trojan maid, taken by Agamemnon
CHRYSES, priest of Apollo, father of Chryseis
CICONIANS, inhabitants of Ismarus, visited by Ulysses
CIMBRI, an ancient people of Central Europe
Cimmeria, a land of darkness
Cimon, Athenian general
Circe, sorceress, sister of Aeetes
Cithaeron, Mount, scene of Bacchic worship
Clarimunda, wife of Huon
Clio, one of the Muses
Cloridan, a Moor
Clotho, one of the Fates
Clymene, an ocean nymph
Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, killed by Orestes
Clytie, a water nymph, in love with Apollo
Cnidos, ancient city of Asia Minor, seat of worship of Aphrodite (Venus)
Cockatrice (or Basilisk), called King of Serpents, supposed to kill with its look
Cocytus, a river of Hades
Colchis, a kingdom east of the Black Sea
Colophon, one of the seven cities claiming the birth of Homer
Columba, St, an Irish Christian missionary to Druidical parts of Scotland
Conan, Welsh king
Constantine, Greek emperor
Cordeilla, daughter of the mythical King Leir
Corineus, a Trojan warrior in Albion
Cornwall, southwest part of Britain
Cortana, Ogier's sword
Corybantes, 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
Cranes and their enemies, the Pygmies, of Ibycus
Creon, king of Thebes
Crete, one of the largest islands of the Mediterranean Sea, lying south of the Cyclades
Creusa, daughter of Priam, wife of Aeneas
Crocale, a nymph of Diana
Cromlech, Druidical altar
Cronos, See Saturn
Crotona, city of Italy
Cuchulain, Irish hero, called the "Hound of Ireland,"
Culdees', followers of St. Columba, Cumaean Sibyl, seeress of Cumae, consulted by Aeneas, sold Sibylline books to Tarquin
Cupid, child of Venus and god of love
Curoi of Kerry, wise man
Cyane, river, opposed Pluto's passage to Hades
Cybele (Rhea)
Cyclopes, 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 Aetna
Cymbeline, king of ancient Britain
Cynosure (Dog's tail), the Pole star, at tail of Constellation Ursa Minor
Cynthian mountain top, birthplace of Artemis (Diana) and Apollo
Cyprus, island off the coast of Syria, sacred to Aphrodite
Cyrene, a nymph, mother of Aristaeus
Daedalus, architect of the Cretan Labyrinth, inventor of sails
Daguenet, King Arthur's fool
Dalai Lama, chief pontiff of Thibet
Danae, mother of Perseus by Jupiter
Danaides, the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Argos, who were betrothed to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, but were commanded by their father to slay each her own husband on the marriage night
Danaus (See Danaides)
Daphne, maiden loved by Apollo, and changed into a laurel tree
Dardanelles, ancient Hellespont
Dardanus, progenitor of the Trojan kings
Dardinel, prince of Zumara
Dawn, See Aurora
Day, an attendant on Phoebus, the Sun
Day star (Hesperus)
Death, See Hela
Deiphobus, son of Priam and Hecuba, the bravest brother of Paris
Dejanira, wife of Hercules
Delos, floating island, birthplace of Apollo and Diana
Delphi, shrine of Apollo, famed for its oracles
Demeter, Greek goddess of marriage and human fertility, identified by Romans with Ceres
Demeha, South Wales
Demodocus, bard of Alomous, king of the Phaeaeians
Deucalion, king of Thessaly, who with his wife Pyrrha were the only pair surviving a deluge sent by Zeus
Dia, island of
Diana (Artemis), goddess of the moon and of the chase, daughter of Jupiter and Latona
Diana of the Hind, antique sculpture in the Louvre, Paris
Diana, temple of
Dictys, a sailor
Didier, king of the Lombards
Dido, queen of Tyre and Carthage, entertained the shipwrecked Aeneas
Diomede, Greek hero during Trojan War
Dione, female Titan, mother of Zeus, of Aphrodite (Venus)
Dionysus See Bacchus
Dioscuri, the Twins (See Castor and Pollux)
Dirce, 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
Dis See Pluto
Discord, apple of, See Eris.
Discordia, See Eris.
Dodona, site of an oracle of Zeus (Jupiter)
Dorceus, a dog of Diana
Doris, wife of Nereus
Dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus
Druids, ancient Celtic priests
Dryades (or Dryads), See Wood nymphs
Dryope, changed to a lotus plant, for plucking a lotus--enchanted form of the nymph Lotis
Dubricius, bishop of Caerleon.
Dudon, a knight, comrade of Astolpho.
Dunwallo Molmu'tius, British king and lawgiver
Durindana, sword of Orlando or Rinaldo
Dwarfs in Wagner's Nibelungen Ring
Earth (Gaea); goddess of the
Ebudians, the
Echo, nymph of Diana, shunned by Narcissus, faded to nothing but a voice
Ecklenlied, the
Eddas, Norse mythological records.
Ederyn, son of Nudd
Egena, nymph of the Fountain
Eisteddfod, session of Welsh bards and minstrels
Electra, the lost one of the Pleiades, also, sister of Orestes
Eleusian Mysteries, instituted by Ceres, and calculated to awaken feelings of piety and a cheerful hope of better life in the future
Eleusis, Grecian city
Elgin Marbles, Greek sculptures from the Parthenon of Athens, now in British Museum, London, placed there by Lord Elgin
Eliaures, enchanter
Elidure, a king of Britain
Elis, ancient Greek city
Elli, old age; the one successful wrestler against Thor
Elphin, son of Gwyddiro
Elves, spiritual beings, of many powers and dispositions--some evil, some good
Elvidnir, the ball of Hela
Elysian Fields, the land of the blest
Elysian Plain, whither the favored of the gods were taken without death
Elysium, a happy land, where there is neither snow, nor cold, nor ram. Hither favored heroes, like Menelaus, pass without dying, and live happy under the rule of Rhadamanthus. In the Latin poets Elysium is part of the lower world, and the residence of the shades of the blessed
Embla, the first woman
Enseladus, giant defeated by Jupiter
Endymion, a beautiful youth beloved by Diana
Enid, wife of Geraint
Enna, vale of home of Proserpine
Enoch, the patriarch
Epidaurus, a town in Argolis, on the Saronic gulf, chief seat of the worship of Aeculapius, whose temple was situated near the town
Epimetheus, son of Iapetus, husband of Pandora, with his brother Prometheus took part in creation of man
Epirus, country to the west of Thessaly, lying along the Adriatic Sea
Epopeus, a sailor
Erato, one of the Muses
Erbin of Cornwall, father of Geraint
Erebus, son of Chaos, region of darkness, entrance to Hades
Eridanus, river
Erinys, one of the Furies
Eriphyle, sister of Polynices, bribed to decide on war, in which her husband was slain
Eris (Discordia), goddess of discord. At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Eris being uninvited threw into the gathering an apple "For the Fairest," which was claimed by Hera (Juno), Aphrodite (Venus) and Athena (Minerva) Paris, being called upon for judgment, awarded it to Aphrodite
Erisichthon, an unbeliever, punished by famine
Eros See Cupid
Erytheia, island
Eryx, a mount, haunt of Venus
Esepus, river in Paphlagonia
Estrildis, wife of Locrine, supplanting divorced Guendolen
Eteocles, son of Oeipus and Jocasta
Etruscans, ancient people of Italy.
Etzel, king of the Huns
Euboic Sea, where Hercules threw Lichas, who brought him the poisoned shirt of Nessus
Eude, king of Aquitaine, ally of Charles Martel
Eumaeus, swineherd of Aeeas
Eumenides, also called Erinnyes, and by the Romans Furiae or Diraae, the Avenging Deities, See Furies
Euphorbus, a Trojan, killed by Menelaus
Euphros'yne, one of the Graces
Europa, daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, by Zeus the mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon
Eurus, the East wind
Euyalus, a gallant Trojan soldier, who with Nisus entered the Grecian camp, both being slain.
Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, who, fleeing from an admirer, was killed by a snake and borne to Tartarus, where Orpheus sought her and was permitted to bring her to earth if he would not look back at her following him, but he did, and she returned to the Shades.
Eurylochus, a companion of Ulysses.
Eurynome, female Titan, wife of Ophlon
Eurystheus, taskmaster of Hercules.
Eurytion, a Centaur (See Hippodamia).
Euterpe, Muse who presided over music.
Evadne, wife of Capaneus, who flung herself upon his funeral pile and perished with him
Evander, Arcadian chief, befriending Aeneas in Italy.
Evnissyen, quarrelsome brother of Branwen.
Excalibar, sword of King Arthur.