INDEX.

Abstraction, explanation of the operation of the mind so
termed, 6.

Absyrtus, torn to pieces by his sister Medea, 239.

Acheron, one of the infernal rivers, 123.

Achilles, disguised in female attire is discovered by Ulysses, 273.
-drags the body of Hector three times round the walls of
Troy, ib.-is slain by Paris, ib.-contention of Ajax and Ulysses
for the arms of, ib.

Acteon, story of, 185-is changed into a stag, and devoured by
his own dogs, ib.

Admetus, king of Pheræ, receives Apollo, 247.

Adonis, beloved by Venus, 207-slain by a wild boar, and
changed into the flower anemone, 208-festivals in honour of
the memory of, ib.

acus, one of the judges of Hell, 129.

Ægeon, one of the Giants, 71.

Alecto, one of the Furies, 145.

Allegory explained, 9.

Alpheus and Arethusa, the story of, 92.

Amalthæa, one of the nurses of Jupiter, 36.
Amazons, vanquished by Hercules, 222.

Amphictyonic council, account of the, 49.

Amphion, raises the walls of Thebes by the music of his lute, 243.
Amphitrite, the wife of Neptune, 114.

Amphitryon, the husband of Alcmena, slays Electryon, and is
banished Thebes, 217.

Androgeus, son of Minos, king of Crete, killed at Athens, 188.
Andromeda, delivered by Perseus from a sea-monster, 197.
Antæus, the giant, overcome by Hercules, 224.
Antigone, the daughter of Edipus, 262.

Apollo, one of the twelve superior Gods, 45-his birth, ib.-
destroys the serpent Python, which had tormented his mother,
46-his figure, ib.-God of the sun, ib.-of music and poetry,
ib.-the author of plagues and contagious diseases, 47-God of
medicine and prophecy, ib.-his oracle at Delphi, account of,
ib.-contends with Pan, 181-punishes Midas with ass's ears, ib.
-slays the children of Niobe, 203-enamoured of Daphne,
206-keeps the flocks of Admetus king of Thessaly, 247.
Apollo Belvedere, celebrated statue, 2.

Arachne, turned into a spider by Minerva, 204.

Arethusa, courted by Alpheus, and changed into a fountain, 92.
Arges, one of the Cyclops, 72.

Argonautic expedition, account of the, 232.

Argus, the story of his hundred eyes, 163-is slain by Mercury,
and changed into a peacock by Juno, ib.

Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, instructs Theseus how to de-
stroy the Minotaur, 255-deserted by Theseus, 256-becomes
the wife of Bacchus, and after death is changed into a constel-
lation, ib.

Arion, an admirable musician, cast into the sea, and carried safe
to land by a dolphin, 245.

Asterope, one of the daughters of Atlas, 75.

Astræa, one of the daughters of Jupiter, the Goddess of justice,
142 is taken up into Heaven, and made the sign Virgo, 144.
Atalanta, conquered in`a foot-race by Hippomenes, 248.
Athamas, destroys his son, and is changed into a marine deity,

185.

Athens, temple of Minerva at, 18.

Athenians, their priests, 19—their religious worship, 20-festi-
vals of the, 23.

Atlas, one of the Titans, 74-condemned to support the heavens
on his shoulders, ib.-explanation of the fable of, ib.-his pro-
geny, 75-changed into a mountain by Perseus, 197.
Atreus, story of his cruelty, 201.

Atropos, one of the Fates, 141.
Atys, beloved by Cybele, 35.

Augeas, king of Elis, his stable containing three thousand oxen
cleansed by Hercules in one day, 221.

Aurora, the Goddess of the morning, 117-enamoured of Titho-
nus, 268-changes him into a grasshopper, 269.

Auster, the God of the south wind, 116.

Autolycus, one of the preceptors of Hercules, 218.

B

Bacchus, the God of wine, his birth and education, 176 solem-
nity of his worship, ib.-his figure and appearance, 177-
adventure with pirates, ib.-his conquests in Ethiopia, India,
and other countries, 179-is the same with the Egyptian
Osiris, ib.-confers on Midas the power of turning every thing
he touched into gold, 181-punishes Lycurgus king of Thrace
with madness, 183-causes his cousin Pentheus to be torn in
pieces, by his mother and aunts, 184.

Baucis and Philemon, story of, 210-entertain Jupiter and Mer-
cury, 211-their cottage converted into a temple, 212.
Bellerophon, his continency, story of, 192-catches the winged
horse Pegasus, and destroys the Chimæra, 194.
Bellona, the Goddess of war, 107.

Berecynthia, one of the names of Cybele, 33.

Boar, the Erymanthian, tamed by Hercules, 220.

Bona Dea, one of the names of Cybele,

Boreas, God of the north wind, 116.

33.

Briareus, one of the Giants, who had a hundred hands, 71, 124.
Brontes, one of the Cyclops, 72.

Brutus, the evil genius of, 104.

Busiris, the tyrant of Egypt that offered human sacrifices, slain by
Hercules, 225.

C

Cacus, the robber, slain by Hercules, 225.

Cadmus, one of the most eminent personages in the early Grecian
history, 172-lays the foundation of Thebes, 174-sows the
teeth of a serpent in the ground, from which armed men spring
up, ib.-his progeny, 175.

Caduceus, the wand of Mercury, described, 57-its virtues, ib.
Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, 136.

Callirhoe, the wife of Chrysaor, 108.

Calumny, one of the deities of the Greeks, 155.

Calypso, detains Ulysses on his return from Troy 75.

Castalian stream, account of the, 48.`

Castor and Pollux, history of, 248-are made the constellation

Gemini, 249.

Cecrops, the founder of Athens, 166.

Celano, one of the daughters of Atlas, 75.

Celestial, or superior Gods, 40-nymphs, 97.

Centaurs, half men and half horses, 130-and Lapithæ, battle of,
257.

Cephalus, the son of Mercury and Herse, beloved by Aurora,
167-taken up by her into Heaven, ib.

Cephalus, king of Thessaly, and Procris, the loves of, 169.
Cerberus, a dog with three heads, placed as a guard at the en-
trance of the infernal regions, 126-chained and brought up
from Hell, by Hercules, 223.

Ceres, the Goddess of corn and harvests, 66-her daughter Pro-
serpine, carried off by Pluto, ib.-searches through the world for
her, 67-agreement between her and Pluto, 68-explanation
of the fable, ib.-festival of, commonly called the Eleusinian
mysteries, 24.

Ceryces, one of the sacred families of Athens, 20.

Ceto, the mother of the Gorgons, 105.

Chaos, the most ancient of the Grecian deities, 32.

Charon, his descent, 125– the ferryman of Hell, ib.—his figure
and manners described, ib.-receives a small brass coin for the
fare of each ghost, ib.

Caurus, one of the winds, 116.
Charites, the three Graces, 137.
Charity, the Roman, story of, 154.

Charybdis, account of, 110.

Chimæra, description of the monster, 109-killed by Bellerophop,

194.

Chiron, the Centaur, one of the preceptors of Hercules, 218-
of Jason, 233-and of Achilles, 273.

Chorus of the Greeks, account of the, 22.

Chrysaor, the rider of the horse Pegasus, 108.

Circe, the sorceress, story of, 110, 240.

Cimmeria, represented by Homer as the country in which Hell is
situated, 121.

Clio, the Muse of history, 136.

Clotho, one of the Fates, 141.

Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, murders her husband, 275
-is killed by her own son Orestes, ib.

Cocytus, one of the rivers of Hell, 123.

Cœlus, one of the most ancient deities of the Greeks, 32-de-

Contumely, one of the deities of the Greeks, 155.

Cumaan Sybil, story of the, 28.

Cupid, the God of fove, 55-his figure and attributes, ib.—and
Psyche, story of, 208.

Cybele the wife of Saturn, 32-her figure and appearance, 34-
modes of worshipping, 35-her love for Atys, ib.

Cyclops, the servants of Vulcan, 110-forge the thunderbolts of
Jupiter, ib.

D

Dædalus, a celebrated artificer, 187-his inventions, ib.-builds
the famous labyrinth of Crete, 188-confined in it with his son
Icarus, 191-escapes from thence with artificial wings, ib.—his
son Icarus is drowned, ib.

Danae, daughter of Acrisius, visited by Jupiter in a golden
shower, 194-thrown with her son Perseus, in a chest, into
the sea, 195-arrives in the dominions of Polydectes, who falls
in love with her, ib.-delivered by her son from the violence of
Polysectes, 198.

Danaides, the fifty daughters of Danaus, who killed their hus-
bands on the wedding night, their punishment in Hell, 131.
Daphne, the nymph, beloved by Apollo, 206—is changed into a
laurel, ib.

Dardanus, king of Troy, 266.

Darkness, one of the more ancient Gods of the Greeks, 32.
Death, an allegorical Deity, 145.

Dejanira, the wife of Hercules, 227-sends him the poisoned
shirt of Nessus the Centaur, 228.

Delphi, account of the oracle of, 48.
Demigods, account of the, 159.

Destinies, or Fates, description of the, 139.

Deucalion, king of Thessaly, his descent, 171-restores the race
of mankind destroyed by a deluge, ib.

Diana, the Goddess of the moon, and of hunting, 51-her names,
figure and appearance, 52—the Goddess of Chastity, ib.-some-
times called Hecate, ib.-her magnificent temple at Ephesus, 53
-human sacrifices offered to her at Sparta, ib.-tranforms
Acteon into a stag, 185-enamoured of Endymion, 207—
explanation of the fable of, ib.

Dice, or Judgment, one of the daughters of Jupiter, 139.
Dindymene, one of the names of Cybele, 33.

Diræ, a name of the Furies, 145.

Diomedes, king of Thrace, vanquished by Hercules, and given for
food to his horses, 221.

Dionysia, festivals of Bacchus, 23, 177.

Discord, au allegorical Deity, 147.

Doris, a nymph of the sea, 114.

Dreams, mythological beings, 147.

Dryads, the Goddesses of trees, 94.