INDEXES 1-19
from the earth, who loved Attis and with him was as-
sociated with a mystery religion; called Magna Mater
(mag' na ma' ter), "Great Mother," by the Romans, 65,
179-180, 364-365, 643-644
Cycladic (sik-la' dik), pertaining to the islands in the
Aegean encircling Delos, the Cyclades (sik-la' dëz), 40
Cyclopes (sï-klô' pëz), "Orb-Eyed," Cyclops (si' klopz),
singular, three sons of Uranus and Ge, with one eye in
the middle of their forehead, assistants of Hephaestus
who forged the thunder and lightening bolts of Zeus,
54-55, 76; Polyphemus and the Cyclopes encountered by
Dolysseus, 487
Cycnus (sik' nus): a robber, son of Ares, encountered by
Heracles, 530-531; Trojan, Poseidon's son and
Phaëthon's cousin, turned into a swan, 454
Cyparissus (sï-pa-ris' sus), boy loved by Apollo and
turned into a cypress tree, the meaning of his name,
616
Cyprus (sî' prus): an island in the eastern Mediter-
ranean, associated with the birth of Aphrodite and a
center for her worship, 63, 617
Cyrene (sï-rë' ne), nymph, loved by Apollo, mother of
Aristaeus, and eponymous ancestor of the city Cyrene
in Libya, 236
Cyrus (sï' rus), the Great, king of the Persians, who de-
feated Croesus, 141-142
Cythera (si' the-ra), 63; Cytherea (si-thë' re-a), an epithet
of Aphrodite, 171, 181
Cyzicus (siz' i-kus), city (and its king) on the Asiatic
shore of the Propontis where the Argonauts stopped,
577
Daedalus (de' da-lus), artisan and inventor, Icarus' fa-
ther, who devised the Labyrinth, a hollow cow for
Pasiphaë to satisfy her passion, and wings for flying,
549, 567-569
Danaë (da' na-ë), Acrisius' daughter and Perseus'
mother, destined to bear a son who would kill her fa-
ther, 505, 507, 508, 514, 520
Danai'ds (dan' a-idz), Danaus' fifty daughters, who mar-
ried Aegyptus' fifty sons, 517
Danaùs (dan' a-us), Egyptian, Belus' son and Aegyptus'
brother who became king of Argos and had fifty daugh-
ters, 508, 517, 617
Daphne (daf ne), "Laurel," Peneus' daughter who re-
jected Apollo's advances and was turned into his sa-
cred laurel tree, 19-20, 236-238, 238, 239, 675
Dardanelles (dar' da-nelz), the straits between Europe
and Asia, 575
Dardanus (dar' da-nus), son of Zeus and king of Troy;
from him the land was called Dardania (dar-da' ni-a)
and its people Dardani (dar' da-nï), 442, 618, 646
Dawn. See Eos.
Day, offspring of Night and Erebus, 52-53
Dea Syria, "Syrian Goddess," (de' a sir' i-a), 365
Deïanira (dë-ya-nï' ra), daughter of Oeneus, wife of Her-
acles, and responsible for his death by means of Nes-
sus' blood, 520, 529, 534, 536-537
Dei'damia (dë-i-da-mï' a or dë-i-da-më' a), daughter of
Lycomedes, king of Scyros and mother of Achilles' son
Neoptolemus, 451; wife of Pirithous, 604
Deiphobe (dë-if ô-bë). See Cumaean Sibyl
Deiphobus (dë-if ô-bus), son of Priam and husband of
Helen, after Paris' death, 442, 444, 464
Delos (de' los), island in the Aegean, birthplace of Apollo
and Artemis, and a sanctuary of Apollo, Delian (de' li-
an), 227-228, 561, 616
Delphi (del' fi), Delphinius (del-fin' i-us), a title of
Apollo, 231; Panhellenic sanctuary sacred to Apollo,
center for games and contests and his oracle, Delphic
(del' fie), 140, 230-234, 232-234, 247-250
Demeter (de-më' ter), daughter of Cronus and Rhea, god-
dess of the ripe grain, vegetation, agriculture, and the
Eleusinian Mysteries, and Persephone's mother, equated
with Ceres by the Romans, 109, 307-327, 308, 318, 320,
516, 633
Demigods (de' mi-gods), children of a deity and a mor-
tal, 129
Demodocus (de-mo' do-kus), a bard in Homer's Odyssey,
473
Demophon (de' mo-fon), son of Theseus and Phaedra
and king of Athens, 476, 541, 549, 567. See also De-
mophoôn
Demophoôn (de-mof o-on) or Demophon (de' mo-fon),
son of Celeus and Metaneira and nursed by Demeter,
312-313, 319
Deucalion (dù-kà' li-on), son of Minos and Pasiphaë and
father of Idomeneus, 569; son of Prometheus and hus-
band of Pyrrha, the Greek Noah of the archetypal flood
story, 78, 95-97, 99
Dexamenus (deks-a' me-nus), "Receiver," a prince
whose daughter Heracles helped, 525
Diana (dï-an' a), goddess, equated by the Romans with
Artemis, 204, 206-207, 638-639
Dictys (dik' tis), "Net," fisherman, savior of Danaë and
Perseus and brother of Polydectes, 506, 514
Dido (dï' dô), also called Elissa, Phoenician queen of
Carthage who loved Aeneas and committed suicide
when he left her, 647, 650-652, 651
Dike (di' k' or dï' kë), "Justice," daughter of Zeus and
Themis, 126
Diomedes (dï-ô-më' dëz), son of Ares, and owner of
mares, who was encountered by Heracles, the Mares of
Diomedes, the eighth Labor of Heracles, 527, 610; son
of Tydeus, king of Argos and often teamed with
Odysseus at Troy and exchanged armor with Glaucus,
445-446, 448, 468^69, 482-483, 518, 530
Dione (dï-6' ne), mate of Zeus and mother of Aphrodite
Pandemos, Common Aphrodite, 109, 468-469
Dionysus (dï-ô-nï' sus), son of Semele and reborn from
Zeus' thigh, savior of Ariadne, god of the grape and
the vine, vegetation, wine, intoxication, sex, irrational-
ity, music, dancing, ecstacy, whom the Romans called
Bacchus, Dionysiac or Dionysian, 67,109,117-118,118,
245, 274, 275, 276, 295, 324, 381, 562, 563, 607, 633, 694
Dioscuri (dï-os-kù' ri), "Sons of Zeus" and Leda, Castor
and Polydeuces (Pollux), patron deities of ships and
sailors, 406, 434, 436-437, 564, 637, 642, 670
Diotima (dï-6-tï' ma), woman from Mantinea who
taught Socrates about love, 190-192
Dirce (dir' se), fountain in Thebes, wife of Lycus, perse-
cutor of Antiope, and killed by Amphion and Zethus,
379-380
Discord. See Eris
Dis or Dis Pater (dis pa' ter), Roman name for Pluto. See
Hades
Dithyramb (dith' i-ramb), choral song, especially one in
honor of Dionysus, 615