1-26 INDEXESOcean, Oceanus (ô-së' a-nus), a Titan, god of the stream
of water encircling the earth, husband of Tethys, 54, 56
Oceanid(s) (ô-së' a-nid), children of Oceanus and Tethys,
56
Odysseus (6-dis' se-us), called by the Romans Ulysses,
son of Laertes (or Sisyphus) and Anticlea, husband of
Penelope, father of Telemachus, and a hero in the Tro-
jan War; his journey home to regain his kingdom in
Ithaca is the theme of Homer's Odyssey, 328-334, 338,
448^50, 459, 472^73, 483-503, 485, 486, 488, 491, 494,
497
Oedipus (ê' di-pus or e' di-pus), "Swellfoot," son of
Laius and Jocasta, who murdered his father, married
his mother, and found redemption at Colonus, 23, 24,
379, 380-395, 381, 382, 384, 393,401-402; Oedipus com-
plex, 7-8, 392-395
Oeneus (ë' ne-us), king of Calydon and father of Me-
leager and Dei'anira, 608
Oenone (ë-nô' ne), nymph with the gift of healing who
loved Paris, 443
Ogygia (o-ji' ji-a), the island of Calypso, 484, 492
Olympia (ô-lim' pi-a), Olympiads, 113, 525; the Panhel-
lenic sanctuary of Zeus, in the western Peloponnesus,
site of the Olympic Games, 113-115, 114-115, 115
Olympus (6-lim' pus), mountain in Mysia, 138; moun-
tain in northern Greece, home of the Olympian deities,
the Olympians, 76
Omphale (om' fa-lë), Lydian queen, whom Heracles
served as a slave, 535, 635
Omphalos (om' fa-los), "navel," egg-shaped stone mark-
ing Delphi as the center of the earth, 231
Opheltes (ô-fel' tëz), "Snake Child," whose name was
changed to Archemorus, "Beginner of Death," 396, 577
Ops, Roman fertility goddess, linked with Saturn,
equated with Rhea, and cult partner of Consus, 632
Oracle, at Delphi, 247-250
Orchomenus (or-ko' men-us), city of Boeotia, 607
Orestes (o-res' tëz), son of Agamemnon and Clytemnes-
tra; he murdered his mother and was tried and ac-
quitted by the Areopagus, 406, 412-434, 413, 713
Orion (ô-rï' on), a hunter and lover who was turned into
a constellation with his dog Sirius; also seen by
Odysseus in the Underworld, 207
Orithyia (or-ï-thï' ya), wife of Boreas and mother of
Zetes, Calais, Cleopatra, and Chione, 554
Orpheus (or' fe-us), son of Apollo or Oeagrus and an ar-
chetypal poet, musician, and religious teacher who won
his wife Eurydice back from Hades, only to lose her
again because he looked back too soon, 332, 337, 355,
357, 359,359-362; Orphism (orf ' ism), mystery religion,
founded by Orpheus, 362-363
Orthus (or' thus), or Orthrus, the two-headed hound of
Geryon, offspring of Echidna and Typhon, 154, 527
Othrys (ôtiY ris), the mountain from which Cronus and
the Titans fought against Zeus and his allies on Olym-
pus, 76
Otus (ô' tus), a giant who stormed heaven, 80, 345. See
Aloadae
Pactolus (pac' to-lus), a river near Sardis, into which Mi-
das washed the power of his golden touch, 210-212
Pales (pâ' lëz), Roman deities of livestock, with a festi-
val called Parilia or Palilia, 634
Palladium (pal-là' di-um), statue of Pallas that was
linked to Troy's destiny, 448, 631
Pallas Athena. See Athena
Pallas (pal' las), girlfriend and epithet of Athena,
163-164; son of Evander and Aeneas' friend, killed by
Turnus, 647,649; son of Pandion and brother of Aegeus,
549, 557
Pan, "All," goatlike god of the forests who invented the
pan-pipe(s) and lost in a contest with Apollo, 243-244,
297-299, 298, 408, 562
Pandia (pan-dî' a), daughter of Zeus and Selene, 58
Pandion (pan-dï' on), king of Attica and father of Procne,
Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus, 549, 554
Pandora (pan-dôr' a), woman or the first woman, she
brought to mankind a jar of evils, 85-88
Paradise. See Elysium; Islands of the Blessed
Parentalia (par-en-tâ' li-a), Italian festival propitiating
the spirits of dead ancestors, 640
Parergon (par-er' gon), pi. parerga, incidental adven-
tures of Heracles, 525, 527
Paris (par' is), also called Alexander, son of Priam and
Hecuba who won Helen from Menelaus, 20, 438—143,
439, 442, 443, 456-157, 471, 473
Parnassus (par-nas' sus), mountain near Delphi, 95
Parthenon (par' the-non), the temple of Athena
Parthenos on the Acropolis of Athens, 158-161,159,160
Parthenopaeus (par-then-ô-pë' us), Atalanta's son, one
of the Seven agaist Thebes, 397
Pasiphaë (pa-sif' a-ë), "All Shining," daughter of Helius
and Minos' wife who mated with a bull and bore the
Minotaur, 567
Patroclus (pa-tro' klus), Achilles' companion, killed by
Hector, 23, 446, 452, 461, 467, 610
Pegasus (peg' a-sus), winged horse, offspring of Posei-
don and Medusa, 154, 508, 510, 614
Peleus (pë' le-us), Aeacus' son, husband of Thetis, and
father of Achilles, 147, 450, 603-605, 610, 611
Pelias (pë' li-as), son of Poseidon and Tyro, he usurped
the throne of Iolcus from Aeson and Jason and was
killed by Medea, 574, 575, 584, 606
Pelopia (pe-lô-pï' a), daughter of Thyestes by whom
Thyestes had a son Aegisthus, 406, 408
Pelops (pë' lops), king of Elis who won Hippodamia in a
chariot race, and father of Chrysippus, 113-114,404-407,
406
Penates (pe-nâ' tëz), Roman household spirits of the
store cupboard (penus), family and the state, 631
Penelope (pe-nel' ô-pë), faithful wife of Odysseus, 373,
484, 493^95, 494, 496, 496-501
Peneus (pe-në' us), river in the Peloponnesus and its
god, father of Daphne, 236-237, 245; river in Thessaly,
525, 530
Penia (pen' i-a), "Poverty," mother of Eros in the Sym-
posium, 191
Penthesilea (pen-thes-i-lë' a), queen of the Amazons,
killed by Achilles, 471
Pentheus (pen' the-us), "Sorrow," king of Thebes who
opposes Dionysus and is killed by his mother Agave,
275, 278-288, 361, 379, 381
Perdix (per' diks), "Partridge," nephew and assistant of
Daedalus, who killed him; he was turned into a par-
tridge, 549, 567
Periander (per-i-an' der), tyrant of Corinth, 615