1-24 INDEXES
Laomedon (lâ-om' e-don), dishonest king of Troy and
father of Hesione and Priam, 442, 443, 527, 533
Lapiths (lap' ithz), civilized, Thessalian tribe that, under
Pirithous, defeated the centaurs, 603, 611
Lares (lar' êz), spirits of the household, the city, and the
dead and linked to the Penates; each household had its
own Lar familiaris (lar fa-mi-li-ar' is), 640-641
Latinus (la-tï' nus or la-të' nus), king in Italy, 647
Laurolavinium (law-ro-la-vi' ni-um). See Lavinium
Lavinia (la-vin' i-a), wife of Aeneas in Italy, 647
Lavinium (la-vi' ni-um), also called Laurolavinium, Latin
town, founded by Aeneas and named after Lavinia, 631,
646
Leander (lê-an' der), Hero's lover who swam the Helle-
spont each night to be with her and drowned, 618
Leda (le' da), Tyndareus' wife, whom Zeus visited in the
form of a swan; she bore Castor, Polydeuces,
Clytemnestra, and Helen, 406, 436-437
Lemnos (lem' nos): Lemnian (lem' ni-an) women,
576-577
Lémures (le' mur-ëz), Italian spirits harmful to the house-
hold, propitiated at the festival of the Lemuria (le-mur'
i-a), 640
Lerna (1er' na): Lernaean Hydra (ler-në' an hï' dra), ser-
pent or dragon with nine heads and poisoned blood,
the second Labor of Heracles, 523, 524, 530
Lesbos (les' bos), island in the Aegean and the home of
Sappho, 22, 617
Lethe (le' the), river of "Forgetfulness" in the Under-
world, 347, 349
Leto (le' tô), mother of Apollo and Artemis, called La-
tona by the Romans, 109, 226-228
Leucothoë (lù-ko-thô' ë), daughter of Orchamus and Eu-
rynome, loved by Helius, and turned into a frankin-
cense tree, 607-608
Liber (li' ber or le' ber), Roman god equated with Diony-
sus; Libera (lib' er-a), Roman goddess equated with
Persephone, 633
Libya (lib' i-a): country in north Africa, 517; daughter of
Epaphus, 508; Libyan snakes, 514
Lichas (lï' kas), herald in Sophocles' Trackiniae, 536-537
Linear B, Mycenaean script, an early form of Greek,
42^3
Linus (lï' nus), Apollo's son, music teacher, whom Her-
acles killed, 522
Liriope (lï-rï' ô-pë), nymph, mother of Narcissus, 300
Lotis (16' tis), Naiad, seduced by Priapus, 636-637
Lotus eaters, those who eat of the captivating fruit of the
lotus, encountered by Odysseus, 487
Lua (lu' a), Italian goddess, cult partner of Saturn, 633
Lucina (lû-sï' na or lù-kë' na), Italian goddess of child-
birth identified with Diana; also an epithet of Juno, 638
Lucius (lu' si-us), hero of Apuleius' Metamorphoses,
193-197
Lucretia (lû-krë' shi-a), Collatinus' wife who, because of
her rape by Sextus Tarquinius, committed suicide and
brought about the end of Roman monarchy, 660
Lupercalia (lû-per-kâ' li-a or lu-per-ka' li-a), festival of
Faunus, in which a sacrifice took place in a cave, the Lu-
percal (lu-per' kal), involving noblemen called Luperci,
635
Lycaon (li-kâ' on), tyrant in Arcadia turned into a wolf
by Zeus, 93-94
Lycurgus (iï-kur' gus), Thracian king, opponent of
Dionysus, 291
Lycus (lï' kus), king of Thebes killed by Amphion and
Zethus, 379-380; king of the Mariandyni, 578; son of
Pandion, 549
Lynceus (lin' se-us), husband of the Danai'd Hyper-
mnestra, 508,517; son of Aphareus, brother of Idas, and
keen-sighted Argonaut, 436
Macaria (ma-kar' i-a), daughter of Heracles and
Dei'anira, 520, 541
Maenad (më' nad), Maenads, female followers of Diony-
sus, usually possessed by their god, also called Bacchae,
288-289, 292, 293, 295, 361, 563
Maia (mï' a), one of the Pleiades, mother of Hermes, 109,
257, 260
Manes (man' nëz), Roman spirits synonymous with the
dead; all persons have their own Manes, 640
Marathon (mar' a-thon), site, in Attica, of the Athenian
victory against the Persians in 490 B.C., 557-558
Marduk (mar' duk), Babylonian god, 97, 99
Mares of Diomedes (di-ô-më' dëz), the eighth labor of
Heracles, 527, 530
Mariandyni (ma-ri-an-dï' nï), people who received the
Argonauts, 578
Maron (mar' on), Apollo's priest who gave Odysseus
wine, 487
Marpessa (mar-pes' sa), Evenus' daughter who pre-
ferred Idas to Apollo, 235-236
Mars (marz), Mavors (ma' vors), equated by the Romans
with Ares, who loved Rhea Silvia and became the fa-
ther of Romulus and Remus, 626-627, 630, 653, 654
Marsyas (mar' si-as), satyr who took Athena's flute and,
losing in a contest with Apollo, was skinned alive and
turned into a river, 242-243
Medea (me-dë' a), daughter of Aeëtes, wife and helper
of Jason, priestess, sorceress, and murderess, 375, 557,
565, 574, 578-580, 582-600, 587
Medon (më' don), herald, spared by Odysseus, 495
Medusa (me-dû' sa), Gorgon, loved by Poseidon and
mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus, and beheaded by
Perseus, 154, 508, 510, 511, 515
Medus (më' dus), son of Aegeus and Medea, he estab-
lished the kingdom of Media, 588
Megaera (me-jë' ra), a Fury, 350
Megalensia (me-ga-len' si-a), festival of Cybele at Rome,
643-644
Megara (meg' a-ra), city in the northern Peloponnesus,
558, 570; wife of Heracles whom Heracles killed, 332,
381, 520
Melampus (mel-am' pus), Amythaon's son and a seer
who got for his brother Bias the cattle of Phylacus and
Pero, 290, 518, 574, 606-607
Melanthius (mel-an' thi-us), goatherd of Odysseus,
killed for disloyalty, 495
Meleager (mel-ë-â' jer), Meleagrides (mel-ë-ag' ri-dëz),
women who mourned Meleager, transformed into
"guinea fowl,", 609; son of Oeneus and Althaea, brother
of Dei'anira, and hero of the Calydonian boar hunt, 529,
608-612, 610
Melicertes (mel-i-ser' tëz), son of Athamas and Ino, he
became the god Palaemon and the Isthmian Games
were instituted in his honor, 381, 612-613