GLOSSARY/INDEX OF MYTHOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSONS,
PLACES, AND SUBJECTS
A simple guide to pronunciation follows most words in this index. The long vowels are to be pro-
nounced as follows: à (cape), ë (bee), ï (ice), ô (boat), and û (too). Syllabification is marked by a
prime mark (') and a hyphen (-). Syllables that precede the prime are stressed. Note: Pictorial rep-
resentations are in bold-face type.
Abas (a' bas), son of Lynceus and Hypermnestra and
grandfather of Perseus, 508
Acamas (ak' a-mas), son of Theseus and Phaedra, 549
Acca Larentia (ak' ka lar-en' shi-a), wife of Faustulus
who raised Romulus and Remus, 657
Acestes (a-ses' têz), Trojan, king of Egesta, 647
Achaemenides (ak-e-men' i-dëz), one of Odysseus' men,
encountered by Aeneas, 647
Achaeus (ak-ê' us), eponymous ancestor of the Achaeans,
78
Acheloùs (ak-e-lô' us), river in western Greece and its
god, with whom Heracles wrestled for De'ianira, 534
Acheron (ak' e-ron), river of "Woe" in the Underworld,
341, 349
Achilles (a-kil' lêz), son of Peleus and Thetis and the
greatest Greek hero in the Trojan war, 23, 46, 123-134,
129, 330-331, 450-451, 452, 454, 455^56, 459^68, 465,
467, 471^72, 490, 605, 611, 687-688, 689
Acis (â' sis), Galatea's beloved, changed into a river-god,
147-150
Acrisius (ak-ris' i-us), Danaë's father, accidently killed
by Perseus, 505, 506, 507, 508, 514-516
Acropolis (a-kro' po-lis), hill of Athens on which the
Parthenon and Erechtheum were built, 550
Actaeon (ak-tê' on), son of Aristaeus and Autonoë whom
Artemis turned into a stag because he saw her naked,
203-206, 205, 381, 680
Admetus (ad-më' tus), king of Pherae who accepts the of-
fer of his wife Alcestis to die in his place, 242, 527, 574,
606
Adonis (a-do' nis), son of Cinyras and Myrrha and
Aphrodite's beloved, fatally wounded by a boar's tusk,
and a resurrection god, from whose blood sprang the
anemone, 177-179, 178
Adrasteia (ad-ra-stë' a or ad-ra-stî' a), Necessity, a con-
cept or goddess, 362
Adrastus (a-dras' tus), the sole survivor of the Seven
against Thebes,. 398, 565; son of Gordias, accidental
murderer of Croesus' son, Atys, 138-140
Aea (ë' a), "Land," for Homer, the place to which the
Argonauts sailed, 573
Aeacus (ë' a-kus), a judge in the Underworld and father
of Peleus, 349
Aeaea (ê-ë' a), island, home of Circe, 489
Aeëtes (ê-ë' tëz), "Man of the Land," son of Helius, king
of Colchis, and father of Medea, 575, 584
Aegeus (ë' je-us), son of Pandion and Theseus' father (as
Poseidon) who gives his name to the Aegean sea, 549,
555, 561, 588, 594
Aegialia (ê-ji-a-lï' a), unfaithful wife of Diomedes, 482
Aegimius (ë-jim' i-us), king of the Dorians, helped by
Heracles, 533
Aegina (e-ji' na), Asopus' daughter, carried off by Zeus,
613
Aegis (ë' jis), "goatskin," shield, especially that of Zeus
and Athena, 111, 166
Aegisthus (ë-jis' thus or e-jis' thus), son of Thyestes and
lover of Clytemnestra, 406, 408, 408-411, 410
Aegyptus (ë-jip ' tus), king of Egypt, brother of Danaiis,
and father of fifty sons, 508, 517
Aeneas (ë-në' as or e-nê' as), Trojan warrior, son of
Aphrodite (Venus) and Anchises, husband of Creusa
and Lavinia, father of Ascanius (lulus), and the hero of
Virgil's Aeneid, 185-186, 339-345, 344, 442, 444, 475,
476, 477-480, 478, 479, 629, 636, 644-650, 651
Aeolus (ë' ô-lus), keeper of the winds, encountered by
Odysseus, 488-489; son of Hellen, father of Sisyphus, and
eponymous ancestor of the Aeolians (ë-ô' li-anz), 78, 574
Aër, the lower atmosphere, 53
Aërope (a-er' o-pë), Atreus's wife, seduced by Thyestes,
406, 407
Aesculapius (ës-ku-lâ' pi-us or es-ku-lâ' pi-us), Latin
name for Asclepius, 63
Aeson (ë' son), son of Cretheus and Tyro, and Jason's
father, rejuvenated by Medea, 574, 575, 583-584
Aether (ë' ther), upper atmosphere, offspring of Night
and Erebus, 52-53
Aethra (ë' thra), daughter of Pittheus and mother of The-
seus, 476, 549, 555, 564
Aetolia (ë-tô' li-a), Aetolian(s), region in central Greece,
608-612
Agamemnon (ag-a-mem' non), king of Mycenae, leader
of the Greeks against Troy, and murdered by his wife
Clytemnestra, 337, 406, 408-411, 410, 428, 447, 452,
455^56, 467, 475, 482, 501
Agathyrsus (ag-a-thir' sus), son of Geryon and Echidna, 528
Agave (a-gâ' vë), daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia
and mother of Pentheus, 275, 284, 288-289, 381
Ager Laurens (ag' er law' renz), territory in Italy, where
Aeneas founded Lavinium, 646
Ages of mortals, 81
Aglauros (a-glaw' ros), "Bright," daughter of Cecrops,
549, 551
Agyrtes (a-jir' tëz), trumpeter who tricked Achilles on
Scyros, 451
Aias (T as). See Ajax
Ajax (â' jax), Greek spelling, Aias: the Great or Greater,
Telamon's son (Telamonius) who committed suicide,
331, 337, 448^49, 460, 471-472, 491; the Less or Lesser,
Oïleus' son who raped Cassandra, 449, 475, 476, 482
Akkadian (ak-ka' di-an), pertaining to the area of Akkad
in Mesopotamia, 98, 103-104
Alba, Alba Longa (al' ba Ion' ga), Latin city, founded by
lulus, 644-646
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