The Mythology Book

99 prophecy, advised him to seek the land of his ancestors. Aeneas therefore sailed to Crete, home of the Trojan ancestor Teucru ...

100 bough to give to Proserpina, queen of the Underworld and wife of Dis; the bough ensured them safe passage with the ferryman ...

ANCIENT ROME 101 Faunus. Once again, however, the enmity of Juno worked against him. The goddess persuaded Lavinia’s mother, Que ...

102 A DESIRE SEIZED ROMULUS AND REMUS TO BUILD A CITY THE FOUNDING OF ROME T he myth of the brothers Romulus and Remus was not t ...

103 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ Aeneas, founder of Rome 96–101 ■ Vesta and Priapus 108-09 The exposure of Roman children ...

104 sources, the story of the she-wolf came about because Larentia had been a lupa, a Latin slang word for prostitute that also ...

105 The Forum was the center of everyday life in ancient Rome. Among other shrines, it contained the Temple of Vesta—one of its ...

106 THE FATHER OF GODS SPURTS RED FLAMES THROUGH THE CLOUDS NUMA OUTWITS JUPITER W hen angry Jupiter sent lightning flaming from ...

ANCIENT ROME 107 Numa consults Egeria in her sacred grove, while an unknown figure sits hunched in the background, in Pompilius ...

108 CONCEIVE OF VESTA AS NAUGHT BUT THE LIVING FLAME VESTA AND PRIAPUS T he daughters of Saturn and Ops were Juno, Ceres, and Ve ...

ANCIENT ROME 109 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ The mad cult of Dionysus 52 ■ Cybele and Attis 116–17 designated her as a p ...

110 THE FATES WILL LEAVE ME MY VOICE, AND BY MY VOICE I SHALL BE KNOWN THE SIBYL OF CUMAE I n Greek and Roman lore, the Trojan h ...

111 See also: Hades and the Underworld 48–49 ■ Apollo and the Oracle of Delphi 58–59 ■ Aeneas 96–101 ■ The founding of Rome 102– ...

112 I LOVE YOU AS I LOVE MY OWN SOUL CUPID AND PSYCHE T he mortal princess Psyche was said to be so beautiful that people began ...

113 See also: Hades and the Underworld 48–49 ■ The abduction of Persephone 50–51 ■ Apollo and Daphne 60–61 ■ Venus and Adonis 88 ...

114 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ Icarus 78–81 ■ King Midas 90 A fter the nymph Liriope was raped by the river god Cephisu ...

115 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ The many affairs of Zeus 42–47 ■ The founding of Athens 56–57 O v id’s Metamorphoses tel ...

116 I PAY THE DUE PENALTY IN BLOOD CYBELE AND ATTIS T he ancient Greeks saw the goddess Cybele as the mother of the gods and of ...

117 See also: The cult of Dionysus 52 ■ Aphrodite and Adonis 88–89 ■ Vesta and Priapus 108–09 ■ Mithras and the bull 118–19 ANCI ...

118 A powerful deity called Mithras was at the center of a secretive and exclusively male religion practiced throughout the Roma ...