1-28 INDEXESProetus (prô-ë' tus), son of Abas, husband of Sthenboea,
and king of Tiryns; his daughters resisted Dionysus and
were driven mad, 290, 506, 508, 614
Prometheus (prô-më' the-us), son of the Titan Iapetus,
creator of mankind, and its benefactor against Zeus, 76,
78, 83-85, 84, 87-93, 89, 91-93, 528
Protesilaùs (prô-te-si-lâ' us), Laodamia's husband, first
Greek to land at Troy, 454
Proteus (pro' te-us), wise old man of the sea who can
change his shape, 150
Protogonus (pro-to' gô-nus), "First Born," epithet of
Eros, 53
Psyche (sï' kë), "Soul," the wife of Cupid (Eros), 193-197,
194
Psychopompos (sï-ko-pom' pos), or psychopompus,
"Leader of the Soul," epithet of Hermes as the god who
brings the souls of the dead to Hades, 349, 357
Pygmalion (pig-mâ' li-on), brother of Dido and Anna,
who killed Sychaeus, husband of Dido, 650, 652; sculp-
tor who created and fell in love with his statue of
Galatea, which Aphrodite brought to life, 175-177
Pylades (pi' la-dêz or pï' la-dëz), son of Strophius, com-
panion of Orestes, and husband of Electra, 415, 416,
417-^18, 420, 428, 434
Pylos (pï' los), kingdom of Neleus and Nestor on the
west coast of the Peloponnesus; excavated by Blegen,
42
Pyramus (pir' a-mus), Thisbe's lover who committed sui-
cide when he mistakenly thought Thisbe was dead, 619,
620
Pyriphlegethon or Phlegethon (pï-ri-fleg' -e-thon), river
of "Fire" in the Underworld, 349
Pyrrha (pir' ra), daughter of Epimetheus and wife of
Deucalion, 78, 95-97
Pythia (pith' i-a), prophetess (sibyl) of Apollo at Delphi,
Pythian, 232-233, 413; Pythian Games, 232
Pytho (pï' thô) or Python (pï' thon), another name for
Delphi, 249
Remus (rë' mus or râ' mus), son of Mars and Rhea Sil-
via and twin brother of Romulus, 635, 653-655, 655
Rhadamanthys (rad-a-man' this) or Rhadamanthus, Cre-
tan judge in the Underworld, 349, 545
Rhea (rë' a), mother-goddess of the earth and fertility,
wife of Cronus, 54, 64-65, 109, 317, 632
Rhea Silvia (rë' a sil' vi-a) or Ilia, Numitor's daughter
loved by Mars and mother of Romulus and Remus, 653,
654
Rhesus (rë' sus), Thracian ally of Troy, killed by
Diomedes and Odysseus, 446-447
Rhodes (rô' dz), Aegean island, sacred to Helius, 616-617
Robigo (rô' bï' gô), Italian goddess of blight; her festival
was the Robigalia (rô-bi-gâ' lia), 636
Romulus (rom' ù-lus), twin brother of Remus and
founder of Rome, 635, 641, 644-650, 648, 653-657, 655
Sabine, Sabines (sa' bïnz), Sabine women, people living
near Rome, 626, 655-657
Sacred or holy marriage. See hieros gamos
Salmacis (sal' ma-sis), nymph of a fountain at Halicar-
nassus who loved Hermaphroditus and become one
with him, 20, 270-272
Salmoneus (sal-mô' ne-us), son of Aeolus and sinner in
Tartarus; also founder of Salmone (sal-mo' ne) in Elis,
574, 605
Salmydessus (sal-mi-des' sus), King Phineus' city on the
Euxine shore of Thrace, 577-578
Samothrace (sam' o-thr'se), island in the Aegean, 577
Santorini (san-to-rë' ni). See Thera
Sarpedon (sar-pë' don), Lycian ally of Troy, son of Zeus
and Laodamia, and killed by Patroclus, 445, 445^46
Saturn (sat' urn), Saturnus (sat-ur' nus), Roman agri-
cultural god (equated with Cronus), whose festival was
the Saturnalia (sa-tur-na' li-a), 62, 632-633
Satyr (sa' ter), satyrs, male spirits of nature, part man,
part goat, who follow Dionysus, 293, 295
Scamander (ska-man' der), river-god and river of Troy,
464
Sciron (skï' ron), "Limestone," brigand who kicked people
over the Cliffs of Sciron; killed by Theseus, 555-556, 556
Scylla (sil' la): daughter of Nisus who fell in love with
Minos, betrayed her father, and was changed into a sea
bird, 570; monstrous daughter of Phorcys and Hecate
and a deadly terror, with Charybdis, in the straits of
Messina, 152-153, 492
Scythes (sï' thëz), son of Heracles and Echidna and
eponymous ancestor of the Scythians, 528
Seasons. See Horae
Selene (se-lë' ne), moon goddess, daughter of Hyperion
and Theia, 57, 58-59. See also Artemis
Semele (sem' e-lë), daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia,
loved by Zeus and destroyed by his lightning and fire;
Zeus saved their unborn child, Dionysus, 109, 275, 275,
293, 381, 680
Semo Sancus (se' mô or san' kus), Latin god, identified
with Dius Fidius and Jupiter, 629
Serapis (se-râ' pis), Egyptian god linked to Isis, 366
Seriphos (se' rif-os), island in the Aegean, 506
Servius Tullius (ser' vi-us tul' li-us), king of Rome,
658-659
Sibylline (sib' il-lïn), oracles and books, collections of
Sibyls' prophecies, 642-643
Sibyl (sib' il), Sibylla (sib-il' la): a prophetess, 340, 344
Sicyon (sik' i-on), city in the northern Peloponnesus, 408
Silenus (si-lë' nus), Sileni (sï-lë' nï or sï-lë' ne): another
name for satyrs, particularly old ones, 293
Silvanus (sil-vâ' nus), "Forester," Roman god of forests,
626, 634-635
Silver Age, second of the legendary four Ages, 81
Sinis (sï' nis), 555, 557
Sinon (sï' non), treacherous Greek who convinced the
Trojans to accept the wooden horse, 475
Siren (sï' ren), Sirens, cosmic figures, in Plato, 335-336;
mythological women who, by their song, enticed
sailors to their deaths, 491, 491
Sisyphus (sis' i-fus), Aeolus' son who outwitted Death
and, for telling Zeus' secret, was punished in the Un-
derworld by rolling a huge stone up a hill forever; he,
not Laertes, was reputed by some to be father of
Odysseus, 332, 333, 574, 612-613
Socrates (sok' ra-tëz), Athenian philosopher of the fifth
century B.c. and speaker in Plato, Symposium, 186-191
Solon (sô' Ion), Athenian statesman and poet of the sixth
century, 136-138
Spartoi (spar' toy), five men sprung from the serpent's
teeth sown by Cadmus, 378, 397