1-16 INDEXESApsyrtus (ap-sir' tus), brother of Medea whom Medea
(or Jason) murdered, 582-600
Arachne (a-rak' ne), "Spider," the woman who chal-
lenged Athena in spinning and weaving and was
turned into a spider, 164-166, 678
Areas (ar' kas), the son of Zeus and Callisto who was
turned into the constellation Bear Warden or Little
Bear, 206-208, 207
Arcesilas (ar-ke' si-las), king of Cyrene to whom a Pin-
daric Ode is addressed, 582
Archemorus (ar-kem' or-us). See Opheltes
Archon basileus (ar' kon bas' i-lùs), Athenian official in
charge of religion, 352
Arctophylax (ark-to-fî' lax) or Arcturus (ark-tù' rus), star
in the constellation Bootes, into which Areas was
changed, 207
Arctus (ark' tus), the constellation Great Bear, into which
Callisto was changed, 207
Ardiaeus (ar-di-ë' us), a tyrant hurled down into Tar-
tarus forever (in Plato's Myth of Er), 335
Areopagus (ar-ë-op' a-gus), the Athenian court, origi-
nally constituted by Athena for the trying of Orestes,
351, 412
Ares (ar' ëz), son of Zeus and Hera, god of war, equated
by the Romans with Mars, 109, 110, 120-124,123, 128,
158, 469; island of Ares, 578
Arestor (a-res' tor), father of Argus who built the Argo,
575
Arete (a' re-të), Phaeacian queen, wife of Alcinous, 583
Arethusa (ar-e-thù' sa), nymph pursued by Alpheus and
turned into a fountain in Syracuse, 615
Argei (ar-jë' ï), straw dummies offered to propitiate the
god of the Tiber, 637
Argeiphontes (ar-jë-i-fon' tëz or ar-jë-fon' tëz), "Slayer
of Argus," epithet of Hermes, 92. See also Argus
Panoptes
Arges (ar' jëz), "Bright," one of the three Cyclopes, 54
Argo (ar' go), "Swift," the ship of Jason and the Arg-
onauts, built by Argus, 532, 573-583
Argonaut, Argonauts (ar' go-notz), Argonautic, "the
sailors of the Argo," 575-589
Argos (ar' gos), a city and its region (Argolid, ar' go-lid
) in the northern Péloponnèse, Argive(s), 113, 505, 545
Argus (ar' gus). see also Argeiphontes: Arestor's son,
builder of the Argo, 575; Argus Panoptes (pan-op' tëz),
the "all-seeing" guardian of Io killed by Hermes, 92;
Odysseus' dog, 493; son of Phrixus and Chalciope, 575
Ariadne (ar-i-ad' ne), Ariadne Aphrodite, 561; daughter
of Minos and Pasiphaë, abandoned by Theseus on
Naxos and saved by Dionysus, 293, 558-561, 562, 563,
694
Arion (a-rï' on), Adrastus' horse, offspring of Poseidon
and Demeter, 398; of Lesbos, a famous musician, saved
by a dolphin, 143, 615
Aristaeus (ar-is-t-ë' us), keeper of bees, son of Apollo
and Cyrene, husband of Autonoë, and father of Ac-
taeon, 236, 381
Aristophanes (a-ris-to' fa-nëz), Greek comic playwright,
speaker in Plato's Symposium, 186-191
Artemis (ar' te-mis), daughter of Zeus and Leto, virgin
goddess of chastity, the hunt, childbirth, and the moon,
and equated by the Romans with Diana, 59-60, 60, 67,
109, 200-224, 201, 202, 205, 209, 220-223, 309, 408, 413,
469, 523, 552, 608, 638. See also Hecate
Ascanius (as-ka' ni-us), Aeneas' son, also called lulus (or
Julus), 442, 475, 476, 478, 479, 644, 649
Asclepius (as-klë' pi-us), son of Apollo and Coronis and
Greek god of medicine (Aesculapius for the Romans),
241-242
Asopus (a-sô' pus), river and its god in Boeotia and fa-
ther of Aegina, 613
Astarte (as-tar' të), Phoenician goddess, resembling
Aphrodite, 517, 635
Astyanax (as-tï' a-naks), infant son of Hector and An-
dromache, thrown to his death from the walls of Troy,
442, 444, 458-459, 475, 476
Astydamia (as-ti-da-mï' a or as-ti-da-më' a), wife of
Acastus, king of Iolcus; she fell in love with Peleus, 605
Atalanta (at-a-lan' ta), daughter of Boeotian Schoeneus
or Arcadian Iasus, virgin huntress, participant in the
Calydonian boar hunt and Argonautic quest, and great
runner, defeated in a footrace by Milanion (or Hip-
pomenes), 337, 608-612, 610
Atargatis, (a-tar' ga-tis), Syrian mother-goddess of mys-
teries, 365
Athamas (ath' a-mas), husband of Nephele and Ino and
father of Phrixus and Helle, 381, 573-574, 574
Athena (a-thë' na), born from Zeus' head after he had
swallowed Metis; virgin goddess of wisdom, war, 109,
110, 128, 157-169, 309, 400, 438, 439, 440, 464, 465,
468^69, 472, 482, 493, 495, 501-502, 506, 510, 526, 535,
548, 550, 559, 579, 611, 614; Athena Parthenos (par' the-
nos), Pheidias' statue of Athena in the Parthenon, 158,
162, 163, 165, 168; Athena Polias, Athena as Guardian
of the City, 548; Tritogeneia, 162-164
Athloi (ath' loy), the Greek word for labors, 523
Atlantis (at-lan' tis), mythical island, 41
Atlas (at' las), son of lapetus and Clymene, punished by
Zeus with the task of holding up the sky, and turned
into a mountain range by Perseus' Gorgon's head, 76,
78, 83, 84, 514, 528, 530
Atrahasis (atra' has-is), "extra wise," epithet of Ut-
Napishtim; survivor of the flood sent by Enlil, 99-102
Atreus (a' tre-us), king of Mycenae, son of Pelops,
brother of Thyestes, and father of Agamemnon and
Menelaus, 41, 406, 407; treasury of Atreus, 41
Atropos (at' ro-pos), "Inflexible," the one of the three
Fates who cuts off the thread of a person's life, 125, 338
Attis (at' tis), Cybele's beloved, who was driven mad,
castrated himself, died, and became a resurrection-god
of a mystery religion, 179-180
Atys (a' tis), son of Croesus, accidentally murdered by
Adrastus, 138-140
Augeas (aw-jë' as), son of Helius and king of Elis, 533;
Augean (aw-jë' an) Stables, fifth Labor of Heracles, 114,
525
Auge (aw' je), mother of Odysseus' son Telephus, 533
Aulis (aw' lis), port on the coast of Boeotia, from which
the Greeks sailed against Troy, 452^453
Aurora (aw-ror' a), the Roman name of Eos, goddess of
the dawn, 60
Autolycus (aw-tol' i-kus), Hermes' son, a master-thief,
father of Anticlea and grandfather of Odysseus, 499,
522, 613
Automedon, (aw-to' me-don), charioteer of Achilles, 467
Autonoë (aw-ton' ô-ë), daughter of Cadmus and Har-
monia, wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon, 275,
381