1-30 INDEXESTiresias (ti-re' si-as), Theban priest and prophet, 277-281,
300, 329, 397, 400-402, 490, 522
Tiryns (ti' rinz), a Mycenaean citadel in the Argolid, as-
sociated with Heracles and excavated by Schliemann,
607
Tisamenus (tis-am' en-us), son of Orestes and Hermione
and leader against the Heraclidae, 415, 416, 545
Tisiphone (ti-sif ' ô-në), a Fury, 350
Titan, Titans (tï' tanz), Titanomachy (tï-tan-o' ma-kê),
battle in which Zeus and the Olympians defeat Cronus
and the Titans, 76-78; twelve children of Uranus and
Ge, 54-55, 293
Tithonus (ti-thô' nus), brother of Priam, beloved of Eos,
and turned into a grasshopper, 20, 60-61, 184-185
Titus Tatius (tï' tus t" shi-us), Sabine leader who became
Romulus' colleague, 656, 657
Tityus (tit' i-us), killed by Apollo for his attempt to rape
Leto, and punished in the Underworld by vultures de-
vouring his liver forever, 331
Tlepolemus (tle-pol' e-mus), Heracles' son, who led the
Rhodian contingent in the Trojan War, 617
Trajan, Roman emperor, A.D., 98-117, 628
Trial of the Bow, in the Odyssey, 494
Triptolemus (trip-tol' e-mus), prince in Eleusis and
Demeter's messenger, 319, 320
Triton (trï' ton): son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, mer-
man, trumpeter of the sea, 95, 151, 559, 687
Troezen (troy' zen or trë' zen), city in the Argolid asso-
ciated with the saga of Theseus, 565
Tro'ilus (troy' lus), Priam's son, killed by Achilles, 442,
444, 611
Trojan Horse, 473-475, 474, 477
Trophonius (tro-fô' ni-us), "He who fosters growth,"
builder, brother of Agamedes, and chthonic hero or god
with an oracle, 608
Tros (trôs), son of Dardanus, king of Troy, and father of
Ganymede, 184-185, 442
Troy, situated near the Dardanelles and first excavated
by Schliemann; there were nine settlements on the site,
including that of Priam and the Trojan War, Trojan(s),
Trojan War, 43-46
Turnus (tur' nus), leader of the Rutuli in Italy and bitter
opponent of Aeneas, by whom he is killed, 647-648, 649
Tyche (tï' kë), Fortune or Chance, 125
Tydeus (tï' de-us), one of the Seven against Thebes and
father of Diomedes, 396
Tyndareus (tin-dar' e-us): king of Sparta, husband of Leda,
406
Typhaon (tï-fâ' on): Typhoeus (tï-fë' us), or Typhon (tï'
fon), name of monstrous dragons, one killed by Zeus,
another by Apollo, 69, 79-80, 154, 248
Tyro (ti' ro), daughter of Salmoneus, wife of Cretheus,
loved by Poseidon, and mother of Neleus and Pelias,
574, 606
Ulysses (ù-lis' sëz). See Odysseus
Underworld, 328-351, 639-640. See also Hades
Urania (ù-râ' ni-a), Muse of astronomy, 73, 125
Uranus (û' ra-nus), sky-god, husband of Ge, castrated
by his son Cronus; from his genitals, Aphrodite Ura-
nia, Celestial Aphrodite, was born, 53,54-55,61-63,103
Urizen (ur' iz-en), William Blake's creator of the world
and oppressor of the human spirit; his name means "to
set limits," 70
Ursa Major (ur' sa m" jor), the constellation of the Great
Bear, which Callisto became, 207
Uruk (ur' uk), Sumerian city, 102
Ut-napishtim (ût-nap-ish' tim), the wise man visited by
Gilgamesh and survivor of the flood, corresponding to
the Greek Deucalion and Hebrew Noah, 99, 102
Venus (vë' nus), Italian fertility goddess whom the Ro-
mans equated with Aphrodite, 175, 177-178, 178, 181,
628, 635-636; Venus the Beholder (Prospiciens), a statue
at Cypriot Salamis, 617
Vertumnus (ver-turn' nus), Etruscan god who won
Pomona's love, 634
Vesta (ves' ta), Roman goddess of the hearth, equated
with Hestia, 630-631; Vestal Virgin(s), 630-631, 638
Virgin Mary, 675
Vulcan (vul' kan), Vulcanus (vul-kâ' nus), chief Italian
fire-god, whom the Romans equated with Hephaestus,
631
Xuthus (zu' thus), son of Hellen, husband of Creusa, and
father of Achaeus, 78, 554
Zagreus (zag' re-us), another name for Dionysus as god
of the mysteries, 293
Zetes (zë' tëz), he and his brother Calais were winged
sons of Boreas and Orithyia, and Argonauts, 549, 554,
578
Zethus (zë' thus), herdsman, king of Thebes, son of Zeus
and Antiope, brother of Amphion, and husband of Thebe,
379, 380
Zeus (zùs), son of Cronus and Rhea and supreme god
of the Greeks, 6, 20, 54, 58, 64-65, 69, 76-80, 77, 83-87,
91-93, 103, 109, 110, 110-114, 128, 129, 157, 187-188,
263-264, 275, 275, 362-363, 377, 380, 381, 406, 463, 464,
469, 485, 492, 508, 519, 520, 521, 534, 575, 613
Ziusudra (Zius-u' dra), the Sumerian equivalent of Ut-
napishtim, survivor of the flood, 99