INDEXES 1-29
Sphinx (sfinks), "Strangler," offspring of Echidna and
Orthus, with a woman's face, a lion's body, and bird's
wings; Oedipus answered her riddle, 154, 382, 383, 384
St. Elmo's fire, the form in which Castor and Pollydeuces
appear to sailors, 436
Steropes (ster' o-pëz), "Lightning," one of the three Cy-
clopes, 54
Stheneboea (sthen-e-bê' a), daughter of Iobates and
Proetus' wife who fell in love with Bellerophon, 614
Sthenelus (sthen' e-lus), grandson of Zeus and father of
Erystheus, 519, 520, 521
Strophius (strô' fi-us), king of Phocis and father of Py-
lades; he took in the exiled Orestes, 412
Stymphalus (stim-fâ' lus), Stymphalian (stim'-fâ' li-an)
Birds, sixth Labor of Heracles, 525, 578
Styx (stiks), river of "Hate" in the Underworld, 349
Sychaeus (si-kë' us), husband of Dido killed by Dido's
brother, Pygmalion, 650, 652
Syleus (si' le-us), robber killed by Heracles, 531
Symplegades (sim-pleg' a-dëz), Clashing Rocks at the
western end of the Black Sea; a hazard for the Arg-
onauts, 578
Syncretism, "growing together," harmonizing of differ-
ent myths, cults, and deities, 364
Syrinx (sir' inks), "Pan-pipe(s)," nymph who rejected
Pan and was turned into marsh reeds, out of which he
fashioned his pipe(s), 297
Talus (ta' lus), bronze giant on Crete, killed by the Arg-
onauts, 549, 583
Tammuz (tarn' muz), consort of Astarte and Atargatis, 365
Tantalus (tan' ta-lus), punished in the Underworld by
being tantalized by water and fruit just beyond his
reach, 331, 332, 404-107, 406
Tarpeia (tar-pë' a): Roman woman, traitor in the Sabine
war, 656; Tarpeian Rock, 657
Tarquinius (tar-kwin' i-us), Tarquin, Tarquins, Priscus
(pris' kus), Sextus (seks' tus), Superbus (su-per' bus),
last Roman king, 658-659
Tartarus (tar' tar-us), gloomy region in the Underworld,
which becomes a place of punishment, 52-53, 344,
344-345
Taurobolium (taw-ro-bo' li-um), baptism by bull's
blood; tauroctony (taw-rok' to-në), sacrificial killing of
a bull, 364
Taygete (ta-ij ' e-të), daughter of Atlas, 525
Telamon (tel' a-mon), father of the Greater Ajax and
Teucer, 442
Telchines (tel-kï' nëz), skilled metal-workers with an evil
eye, 617
Telegonus (te-leg' o-nus), son of Odysseus and Circe
who unknowingly killed his father, 490, 502
Telemachus (te-lem' a-kus), son of Odysseus and Pene-
lope, 493-494, 494, 495-496, 496
Telephus (tel' e-fus), son of Heracles and Auge,
wounded and healed by Achilles, 454, 533
Tellus (tel' lus), Athenian whom Solon judged the hap-
piest of mortals, 136
Telphusa (tel-fû' sa), a spring, Telphusian (tel-fû' si-an),
epithet of Apollo, 247-248, 250
Tereus (ter' e-us), husband of Procne, father of Itys, se-
ducer of Philomela, and turned into a hoopoe, 549,
552-553
Terpsichore (terp-sik' ô-rë), Muse of choral dancing or
flute playing, 73, 125
Teshub (tesh' ub), Hittite storm god, opponent of Ku-
marbi, 103
Tethys (te' this), a Titan, wife of Oceanus and mother of
the Oceanids, 54, 56
Teucer (tù' ser), son of Telamon and Hesione, 442
Thalia (tha-lï' a or th" li-a), Muse of comedy, 73, 125
Thamyras (tham' i-ras) or Thamyris, bard punished by
the Muses for boasting he was better than them, and
mentioned in Plato, 337
Thanatos (than' a-tos), "Death," 445
Thaumas (thaw' mas), son of Pontus and Ge, husband of
the Oceanid, Electra, and father of Iris and the Harpies,
153
Thebes (thëbz), city on Boeotia, Theban(s), 277, 375-379,
680
Thebe (thë' bë), Zethus' wife, for whom Cadmeia was
renamed Thebes, 54, 380
Theia (thë' a or thï' a), a Titan, wife of Hyperion and
mother of Helius, Selene, and Eos, 54, 56-57
Themis (the' mis), consort of Zeus with oracular pow-
ers, 54, 67, 76, 96
Theoclymenus (the-o-klï' men us), a seer in the Odyssey,
494
Theoi megaloi (the' oy meg' a-loy). See Cabiri
Thera (the' ra), Aegean island, center of Minoan civi-
lization, also called Santorini, 41
Thersites (ther-sï' tëz), Greek warrior at Troy, hostile to
the kings and princes, 337, 471
Theseus (the' se-us), Athenian king, son of Poseidon
(Aegeus) and Aethra, father of Hippolytus, and slayer
of the Minotaur, 40,210-212,217-223,391,399,526,529,
549, 555-567, 556, 559, 611, 678
Thespius (thes' pi-us), king of Thespiae (thés' pi-ë) in
Boeotia, who had fifty daughters, with whom Heracles
slept, 522
Thessaly (thes' sa-lê), Thessalian(s), region in northern
Greece, 602-607
Thetis (the' tis), Nereid, wife of Peleus, and mother of
Achilles, 119, 147, 450-451, 456, 461-462, 471, 605, 611
Thisbe (thiz' bë), lover of Pyramus who killed herself,
as he was dying, 619, 620
Thoas (thô' as), son of Dionysus and king of Lemnos
who was saved by his daughter Hypsipyle; he became
a priest of Artemis and king among the Taurians,
576-577; son of Jason and Hypsipyle, also called Ne-
brophonus, 577
Thrace (thràse), Thracian(s), region north of Greece,
446-447
Thyestes (thï-es' tëz), Aegisthus' father and brother of
Atreus, whom he cursed, 406, 407, 408
Thyrsus (thir' sus), pole, wreathed with ivy or vine
leaves with a pine cone atop its sharpened tip, and used
in Bacchic rituals for miracles and murder, 222
Tiamat (ti' a-mat), a sea monster defeated by Marduk;
spouse of Apsu, 99
Tiber (tî' ber), Tiberinus (ti-be-rï' nus), god of the Tiber,
637
Tigillum sororium (ti-jil' um so-rô' rium), yoke associ-
ated with Horatius, involving a ritual passing under
the yoke, 658
Tiphys (tî' fis), helmsman of the Argonauts, 578