INDEXES 1-15Alcaeus (al-së' us), father of Amphitryon and grandfa-
ther of Heracles, 520
Alcestis (al-ses' tis), wife of Admetus who offered to die
in his place, 242, 574
Alcibiades (al-si-bï' a-dëz), Athenian statesman accused
of mutilation of the herms and desecration of the mys-
teries, 269
Alcides (al-sî' dëz), name of Heracles as grandson of Al-
caeus, 522
Alcinous (al-sin' o-us), king of the Phaeacians and father
of Nausicaà, 493, 583
Alcmaeon (alk-më' on), Amphiaraùs' son who led the
Epigoni against Thebes and murdered his mother,
399-100
Alcmena (alk-më' na) or Alcmene (alk-më' ne), seduced
by Zeus to become the mother of Heracles, 519-521,
520, 522, 541, 544
Alcyone (al-si' ô-në), wife of Ceyx, turned into a sea-bird
(alcyone, "halcyon"), 574, 605-606
Alcyoneus (al-si-ôn' e-us or al-si-ôn' ùs), brigand killed
by Heracles, 527; giant killed by Heracles in the Gi-
gantomachy, 533
Alexander. See Paris
Alexander the Great, 356-323 B.C., king of Macedonia,
who conquered Greece and then the Persian empire, in
campaigns that extended as far as India, 668-669
Allecto (a-lek' tô), a Fury, 350, 647
Aloeus (a-lô' e-us or a-lô' us), father of Otus and
Ephialtes, the Aloadae (al-6' a-dë), 345; brother of
Aeëtes, 584
Althaea (al-thë' a), mother of Meleager, 608-612
Amalthea (am-al-thë' a), the goat whose milk nurtured
the infant Zeus, 534
Amazon(s) (a' ma-zon), warlike women from the north-
ern limits of the world, 373, 471, 527, 530, 564
Ambrosia (am-brô' si-a), ambrosial, divine, fragrant; the
food of the gods, 128
Amor (a' mor), "Love," another name for Cupid, 52
Amphanaea (am-fa-në' a), town in Thessaly, 530
Amphiaraùs (am-fi-a-râ' us), one of the Seven against
Thebes and a prophet, swallowed up in the earth,
397-398, 607; Amphiaraiim, shrine to Amphiaraùs at
Oropus, 398
Amphimedon (am-fi' me-don), one of Penelope's suit-
ors, 501
Amphion (am-fT on), musician, king of Thebes, son of
Zeus and Antiope, 379, 380
Amphitrite (am-fi-trï' te), Nereid, wife of Poseidon, 150,
150, 559, 560
Amphitryon (am-fi' tri-on), the husband of Alcmena,
519-522
Amulius (a-mu' li-us), king of Alba Longa who usurped
power from his brother Numitor and opposed Rhea Sil-
via and her twins, 653
Amycus (am' i-kus), Poseidon's son and a boxer, killed
by Polydeuces, 577
Amymone (a-mi' mô-në), Danaïd changed into a spring
near Argos, 517
Amythaon (am-i-thâ' on), son of Cretheus and Tyro, and
father of Bias and Melampus, 574, 606
Ananke (a-nan' kë), Necessity, a concept or goddess, 125,
335-336
Anaxarete (a-nax-ar' e-të), scorned her lover Iphis and
was turned into stone, 617
Ancaeus (an-se' us), helmsman of the Argo, replacing
Tiphys, 578
Anchises (an-kï' sëz), a Trojan prince, seduced by
Aphrodite, and father of Aeneas, 20,180-186, 346-348,
442, 475, 476, 478, 479, 647, 649
Ancile (an' si-le), "shield," (pi. ancilia, an-si' li-a), sent
by Jupiter to be a talisman of Roman power, 628-629
Androgeos (an-droj' e-os), son of Minos and Pasiphaë
killed in Attica, 558, 570
Andromache (an-dro' ma-kë), wife of Hector, mother of
Astyanax, and captive of Neoptolemus, 442, 444, 457,
470, 475, 605
Andromeda (an-dro' me-da), daughter of Cepheus and
Cassiepea, and the wife of Perseus, 508, 512-514, 513,
515, 520
Anemone (a-nem' ô-në), flower that Aphrodite made
grow from Adonis' blood, 178
Anius (an' i-us), son of Apollo and king of Delos whose
three daughters were turned into doves, sacrosanct at
Delos, 616
Anna Perenna (per-en' na), Italian goddess of the New
Year, identified with Anna, Dido's sister, 626, 651,
652-653
Antaeus (an-të' us), son of Poseidon and Ge and an op-
ponent of Heracles, 528
Antea (an-të' a), Homer's name for Stheneboea, the wife
of Proetus, 614
Antenor (an-të' nor), brother of Hecuba and father of
Laocoôn, 445, 450, 475, 611
Anticlea (an-ti-klë' a), daughter of Autolycus and
mother of Odysseus whom Odysseus meets in the Un-
derworld, 329-330, 613
Antigone (an-tig' o-në), Oedipus' faithful daughter who
buries Polynices in defiance of Creon, 23, 373, 381,
391-392, 398-399
Antilochus (an-ti' lo-kus), son of Nestor, 461
Antinous (an-ti' no-us), one of Penelope's suitors, 494
Antiope (an-tï' o-pë), Amazon won by Theseus and the
mother of Hippolytus, 549, 564; the mother of Aeëtes
and Aloeus, 584; Nycteus' daughter, seduced by Zeus,
and mother of Amphion and Zethus, 379-380
Anu (a' nu), Babylonian-Hittite sky-god, 97, 99, 103
Apemosyne (ap-e-mos' i-në), daughter of Catreus and
sister of Althaemenes, who killed her, 569
Aphrodite (af-rô-dî' të), daughter of Uranus alone
(Aphrodite Urania) or daughter of Zeus and Dione
(Aphrodite Pandemos), goddess of love and beauty,
equated by the Romans with Venus, 20,22,63,109,110,
120-122, 128, 171-186, 172, 197-198, 210-224, 309, 438,
439, 440^43, 442, 456, 468^69, 482, 485, 617; Pan-
demos, 171; Urania, 171
Apis (a' pis), Egyptian bull-god, 508, 516
Apollo (a-pol' 16), son of Zeus and Leto (Latona), the
Greek and Roman god of reason and intelligence, mu-
sic (the lyre), prophecy, medicine, and the sun, Apol-
lonian, 19-20, 59, 67, 109, 158, 187-188, 201-203, 202,
226-254, 228, 238, 239, 246, 250, 260-267, 408, 413, 455,
469, 471, 534, 535, 604, 628, 643; Delphinius (del-fin' i-
us), a title of Apollo, 231
Appaliunas (ap-pa-li-ûn's), name for Apollo found in
Hittite inscription, 45
Apples of the Hesperides (hes-per' i-dëz), the eleventh
Labor of Heracles, 528
Apsu (ap' su), fresh water; husband of Tiamat, 99