GLOSSARY AND INDEX.

Cowper,131,156,308.

Croxall,177,178.

Darwin,123,187,218,219,228,230.

Dryden,35,37,44,70,161,168,169,208.

Elton,12,15,21,29,33,45,52,108,110,136,138,154,171,220,241,255,267,269,271,307,308,310,312,339.

Emerson,297.

Euripides,166,229,311,315,316.

Eusden,118.

Flaccus,52,220,269,271.

Fletcher,38.

Francklin,169,232,234,236,280,281,282,283,285,286,287,288,290,331.

Frere,15.

Goldsmith,134.

Gray,179.

Hemans,60,98.

H. H. (Helen Hunt Jackson),73.

Hesiod,15,21,29,33,154,229,339.

Holmes,330.

Homer,23,39,41,43,58,94,145,147,149,153,156,161,167,168,172,211,292,297,305,315,318,319,320,321,323,324,325,326,328,329,336,338,344,345,346,349,352,354,355,357,358,359.

Homeric Hymn,190,195.

Horace,27,75,278.

Hunt,114,216,341.

Ingelow,187,194.

Iriarte, Tomas de,372.

Keats,67,90,98,105,119,120,134,149,176,179,192,301,303,304.

Landon,113.

Longfellow,27,88,99,107,206.

Lowell,23,64,79,131.

Lucan,214.

Macaulay,130,279.

Martinez de la Rosa,177.

Melanippides,73.

Meleager,94,265.

Meredith, Owen,72.

Milton,79,144,163,238.

Moore,16,71,72,193,278.

Morris,97,100,101,110,123,127,128,151,183,194,235,248,252,335.

Moschus,45,137.

Nonnus,171.

Onomacritus,267,269,271.

Orphic Argonautics,266.

Orphic Hymn,188.

Ovid,12,35,37,44,70,118,172,173,177,178,208,255,298,299.

Pike,61.

Pindar,17,168.

Pitt,163,196,205.

Pope,23,39,57,77,147,156,167,168,239,292,298,299.

Potter,166,229,246,311,315,316.

Prior,68,143,148,174,243,283.

Quintus Smyrnæus,307.

St. John,242,244.

Saxe,62,63,77,84,119,160,253,255.

Schiller,121,238.

Scott,165.

S. G. B.,238.

Shakespeare,44,76,139.

Shelley,55,103,241.

Simonides,241.

Somerville,90.

Sophocles,169,232,234,236,280,281,282,283,285,286,287,288,290,331.

Southey,91.

Spenser,59,82,105.

Statius,136,138.

Swift,75.

Tennyson,59,80,105,306,307,331,339,359.

Theocritus,216,310,341.

Timocreon of Rhodes,159.

Virgil,41,51,64,131,142,160,161,163,168,169,182,193,196,202,205,213,224,333,360,361,362,363,364,365,366,367,369,370,373,374,376,377.

Warton,182.

Wordsworth,33,65,88,223,273,295,316,317.

Worsley,87.

Young,202.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVZ

Ab-syr´tus.Son of King Æetes of Colchis;slain by Medea,271.

A-by´dus.A city of Asia Minor;the home of Leander,111-116.

A-chæ´us.Grandson of Hellen, and ancestor of the Achaians,38.

A-cha´i-ans.Inhabitants of the province of Achaia,38.

A-cha´tes.Friend and inseparable companion of Æneas,366,367.

Ach-e-lo´us.River in Greece, bearing the name of its god,232.

Ach-e-men´i-des.Ulysses’ sailor, rescued from Polyphemus by Æneas,365.

Ach´e-ron.1. River in Hades,161;Ulysses visits,350;Æneas crosses,372.2. Father of Furies,163.

A-chil´les.Son of Peleus and Thetis,314-316;surrenders Briseis,318,319;the Greeks appeal to,323-325;slays Hector,326-329;death,330;in Happy Isles,359;father of Pyrrhus,361;significance,394,395.

A´cis.Youth loved by Galatea, and slain by Polyphemus,341.

A-cris´i-us.King of Argos, and father of Danae,240,241,249;significance,390,391.

A-crop´o-lis.Hill in Athens, the site of the Parthenon and Theseus’ temple,262.

Ac-tæ´on.Hunter changed to a stag by Diana,100,101.

Ad-me´te.Daughter of Eurystheus, covets Hippolyte’s girdle,223.

Ad-me´tus.King of Thessaly, served by Apollo, and saved from death by Alcestis,64,65;Hercules restores Alcestis to,230;one of the Argonauts,266;in Calydonian Hunt,275;significance,386.

A-do´nis.Hunter loved by Venus and slain by a boar,108-110;significance,195,389.

A-dras´tus.King of Argos;his horse Arion,153;father of Hippodamia,260;sends expedition against Thebes,287.

Æ´a-cus.One of the three judges of the dead in Hades,163.

Æ-æ´a.Island inhabited by Circe and visited by Ulysses,347-350.

Æ-e´tes.King of Colchis, father of Medea and Absyrtus,268,271;brother of Circe,347;significance,392.

Æ-ge´an Sea.Delos chained in,62;Arion borne by dolphins in,82,83;named after Ægeus,259.

Æ-ge´us.King of Athens;father of Theseus,250,252,253;drowns himself,259;significance,391.

Æ´gis.Shield or breastplate of Minerva and Jupiter,58;loaned to Perseus,243;bears Medusa’s head,249.

Æ-gis´thus.Murderer of Agamemnon;slain by Orestes,336.

Æg´le.One of the Heliades;changed to a poplar tree,87.

Æ-gyp´tus.Brother of Danaus,166.

Æ-ne´a-dæ.City which Æneas proposed to found in Thrace,363.

Æ-ne´as.Son of Venus and Anchises,111;Æneas’ descendants,140;worship introduced into Italy by,198;hero of Virgil’s Æneid,360-377.

Æ-ne´as Sil´vi-a.Son of Æneas;founder of Alba Longa,377.

Æ-ne´id.Virgil’s epic poem on the adventures of Æneas,374.

Æ-o´li-a.1. Same as Æolian Islands.2. In Asia Minor, near Ægean Sea,214.

Æ-o´li-an Islands.The home of Æolus, god of the winds,213,346;supposed to be Lipari Islands,213.

Æ-o´li-an Race.Descendants of Æolus, son of Hellen,38.

Æ´o-lus.1. God of the winds,213-215;Juno’s bargain with,266;gift to Ulysses,346;destruction of Æneas’ fleet,365;significance,400.2. Son of Hellen, founder of the Æolian race,38.

Æs-cu-la´pi-us.Son of Apollo and Coronis,63,64;Machaon, son of,331;significance,387.

Æ´son.Father of Jason,263;rejuvenated by Medea,273.

Æ´ther.God of light,13;dethroned,17.

Æ´thra.Princess of Trœzene,250;mother of Theseus,253;Helen intrusted to,260;significance,391.

Æt´na.Volcano in Sicily,183;the tomb of Enceladus,24;forge of Vulcan,145,148,326;Ceres’ visit to,187.

Æ-to´li-a.Country between Epirus and Locris,275.

Af´ri-ca.Hercules’ visit to,226,227.

Afterthought.Name given to Epimetheus,25.

Ag-a-mem´non.Chief of the expedition against Troy,314-319;return of,336;troops of,361;significance,394.

A-ga´ve.Mother of Pentheus;infuriated by Bacchus, slays her son,182.

A-ge´nor.Father of Europa, Cadmus, Cilix, Phœnix,44-47.

Ag-la´ia.One of the Graces;an attendant of Venus,105.

A-ï´des.Same as Pluto;significance,401.

A-ï-do´neus.Same as Pluto, god of the Infernal Regions,159.

A´jax.Greek hero in Trojan war,314;Patroclus’ corpse recovered by,328;insanity of,330.

Al´ba Lon´ga.City in Italy founded by Æneas Silvia,377.

Al-ces´tis.Wife of Admetus;dies to save his life,65;restored by Hercules,230.

Al-ci´des.Same as Hercules,216;lion skin of,220;Deianeira accompanies,234;Deianeira’s charm for,236;pose of,239.

Al-cim´e-de.Queen of Iolcus;mother of Jason,263.

Al-cin´o-us.Phæacian king, enables Ulysses to reach Ithaca,355.

Al-cip´pe.Daughter of Mars;carried off by Halirrhothius,139.

Alc-me´ne.Wife of Jupiter, and mother of Hercules,28,216;significance,389.

A-lec´to.One of the Furies,163;sent by Juno to kindle war between Æneas and the Latins,373.

A-lec´try-on.Servant of Mars;changed to a cock,106,107.

Al-phe´us.1. River of Peloponnesus;dammed to clean Augean stable,221.2. The river god who pursued Arethusa,190-193.

Al-thæ´a.Mother of Meleager,275,276.

Am-al-the´a.Goat which nursed Jupiter,21.

Am-a-se´nus.River over which Metabus flung Camilla,373.

A-ma´ta.Wife of Latinus,372;driven mad by Alecto,373;suicide of,376.

Am´a-zons.Nation of warlike women;Hercules visits,224;Theseus visits,259;Bellerophon visits,295;Queen of the,329.

Am-bro´si-a.Celestial food used by the gods,41;gods deprived of,84.

Am´mon.Temple of Jupiter in Libya,48.

A´mor.Same as Eros, Cupid, etc.;god of love,13;son of Venus and Mars,107.

Am-phi´on.Son of Jupiter and Antiope;musician;King of Thebes,80-82.

Am-phi-tri´te.Same as Salacia, queen of the sea;wife of Neptune,154,158;train of,155;significance,397.

An-chi´ses.Husband of Venus,111;father of Æneas,360-362;prophecy recalled by,364;death of,365;death anniversary of,369;Æneas’ visit to,370-372.

An-ci´le.Shield of Mars, guarded by the Salii in Rome,143.

An-dræ´mon.Husband of Dryope;saw her changed to a tree,298.


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