1-20 INDEXES
Dius Fidius (di' us fi' di-us), Sabine god of Good Faith
(Fides), identified with Jupiter, 629 t
Dodona (do-dô' na), sanctuary and oracle of Zeus, in
northern Greece, 114-115
Dorus (dôr' us), son of Hellen and eponymous ancestor
of the Dorians, 78
Ea (ë' a), Babylonian god, 103
Earth, Gaia, Gaea, and Ge, sprung from Chaos, great
mother-goddess of earth and fertility and wife of
Uranus, 52-55, 61-63, 153, 528
Echidna (e-kid' na), half nymph and half snake, mate of
Typhon and her son Orthus, and mother of monsters,
154; Snake Woman who bore Heracles' three sons, 527
Echo, nymph who became only a voice; she was pur-
sued by Pan and rejected by Narcissus, 298, 300
Egeria (e-jë' ri-a), water-nymph helpful to pregnant
women and counselor to King Numa, 638
Eileithyia (ï-lï-thï' ya or ë-lë-thï'-ya), goddess of child-
birth and daughter of Zeus and Hera, 109,115,158,228,
521
Eïoneus (e-i-ô' ne-us), father of Dia, murdered by her
husband Ixion, 603
Eirene, "Peace," daughter of Zeus and Themis, 126
Electra (e-lek' tra), an Oceanid, wife of Thaumas and
mother of Iris and the Harpies, 153; Clytemnestra's
daughter, who hated her mother for the murder of her
father Agamemnon and waited for the return of her
brother Orestes to seek vengeance, 406, 412-434, 713;
Electra complex, 8
Electryon (e-lek' tri-on), king of Mycenae, uncle of Am-
phitryon, who married his daughter Alcmena, 519, 520
Eleusis (e-lù' sis), a town west of Athens, center for the
Mysteries of Demeter, Eleusinians, 310-313, 565;
Eleusinian (el-ù-sin' i-an) Mysteries, 313, 317-324
Elis (ë' lis), region of Olympia in the western Pelopon-
nesus, 404-405, 525
Elissa (e-lis' sa), another name of Dido, 650
Elpenor (el-pë' nor), Odysseus' comrade who fell off
Circe's roof, died, and in the Underworld asks
Odysseus for burial, 329
Elysium (e-liz' i-um), the Elysian Fields, paradise in the
realm of Hades, the Elysian Fields, 343-348
Enceladus (en-sel' a-dus), defeated giant under Mt.
Aetna, 79
Endymion (en-dim' i-on), the beloved of Selene, Artemis
(Diana), 58-59, 59
Enipeus (e-nip' e-us), river and its god in Thessaly, in
whose disguise Poseidon loved Tyro, 606
Enki (en' ki), Sumerian God of fresh water and wisdom,
99-102, 104
Enkidu (en' kid-u), primitive hunter and friend of Gil-
gamesh, 102, 103
Enlil (en' lil), chief of the younger Sumerian gods, 102
Enyo (en'-yo), Greek personification of war, 626
Eos (ë' os), daughter of Hyperion and Theia and
amorous goddess of the "Dawn," 20, 57, 60-61. See also
Aurora
Epaphus (ep' a-fus), "He of the Touch," the son of Zeus
and Io, 20, 92, 93, 508, 516
Epeus (e-pë' us), builder of the Trojan horse, 337
Ephialtes (ef-i-al' tëz), a giant who stormed heaven, 80,
- See also Aloadae
Epigoni (e-pig' o-ni), sons of the Seven against Thebes led
by Alcmaeon, who made a second and successful attack,
399-401
Epimetheus (ep-i-më' the-us), "Afterthinker,"
Prometheus' brother, who accepted Pandora from
Zeus, 78, 83, 87
Epops (ep' ops), Hoopoe, the bird into which Tereus was
transformed, 553
Er, son of Armenius who died and came back to life to
present the vision of the Afterlife recorded by Plato,
334-339
Erato (er' a-tô), Muse of love poetry or hymns to the gods
and lyre playing, 73
Erebus (er' e-bus), the darkness of Tartarus or Tartarus
itself, 52-53
Erechtheum (e-rek-thë' um), Ionic temple on the Acrop-
olis of Athens, dedicated to Poseidon-Erechtheus and
Athena Polias, 548-550
Erechtheus (e-rek' the-us), early king of Athens, associ-
ated with Poseidon and father of Procris, Orithyia, and
Creusa, 548-550, 549, 554
Ereshkigal (er-esh' kee-gal), "Mistress of Earth," Sumer-
ian goddess, spouse of underworld god, Nergal, 102,
104
Erichthonius (er-ik-thon' i-us), early Athenian king, con-
fused with Erectheus, sprung from the earth, and raised
by Athena, 548, 549
Erigone (e-rig' ô-në), daughter of Icarius who hanged
herself upon finding her father dead, 294
Erinyes (e-rin' i-ëz), the Furies or Eumenides, dread
daughters of Earth or Night, avengers of blood guilt,
and punishers of sinners in the Underworld, 63
Eriphyle (e-ri-fï' le), Amphiaraùs' wife, bribed by Polyn-
ices to persuade her husband to go to his death, and
murdered by her son Alcmaeon, 399^400
Eris (er' is), goddess of "Discord," 438, 605
Eros (er' os), god of love, sprung from Chaos or the son
of Ares and Aphrodite; his Roman name is Cupid or
Amor, 52, 186-193
Erymanthus (er-i-man' thus), mountain in Arcadia, 525;
Erymanthian (er-i-man' thi-an) Boar, fourth Labor of
Heracles, 525
Eryx (er' iks), king of Mt. Eryx in western Sicily whom
Heracles wrestled and killed, 527; the site of a temple
to Astarte, who was linked to Aphrodite and Venus;
Erycina (er-i-sï' na), an epithet of Venus, 635
Eteocles (e-të' ô-klëz), son of Oedipus who killed his
brother Polyneices in the attack of the Seven against
Thebes, 23, 381, 395-398
Eumaeus (ù-më' us), faithful swineherd of Odysseus,
493, 494, 497
Eumenides (ù-men' i-dëz), "Kindly Ones," another
name for the Erinyes or Furies, 388-389, 412
Eumolpus (ù-mol' pus), son of Poseidon and Chione,
prince in Eleusis, 549, 551, 554
Euneos (û-në' os), son of Jason and Hypsipyle, 577
Eunomia (û-nô-mi' a), "Good Order," daughter of Zeus
and Themis, 126
Europa (ù-rô' pa), daughter of Agenor and sister of Cad-
mus, taken by Zeus in the form of a bull from Tyre to
Crete where she bore Minos, 375-378, 376, 377, 508
Euryalus (ù-rï' a-lus), ally of Aeneas who with his lover
Nisus dies in a night patrol, 652