Of Abas, King of Argos. Argive.
Bk V:107-148. Bk V:200-249. An epithet of Perseus, as the great-grandson of Abas.
Bk V:74-106. A Caucasian. A companion of Phineus killed by Perseus.
Bk IV:604-662. BkXV:143-175. King of Argos, father of Acrisius, great grandfather of Perseus.
Bk XIV:483-511. A companion of Diomede. Venus transforms him into a bird.
Bk XII:290-326. A centaur.
Bk V:107-148. A warrior friend of Perseus.
Bk VII:1-74. Medea’s young brother.
Bk VIII:547-610. A coastal region of western central Greece,
bordering the Ionian Sea, bounded to the south-east by the River Acheloüs, and scene of the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
King of Iolchos in Thessaly, son of Pelias.
Bk VIII:260-328. He is present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk XI:346-409. He absolves Peleus of blood-guilt.
Bk XIV:75-100. A Trojan, a friend of Aeneas, living at Eryx on Sicily. Aeneas visits him, and sacrifices, and pays honour at his father, Anchises’s tomb, who had previously died there. (See Virgil, The Aeneid III 700, and V)
Bk XIV:154-222. A companion of Ulysses, wrongly believed lost near Aetna.
Bk III:511-527. Bk V:294-331. Bk VII:501-613. A name for the Greek mainland, derived from a region in the northern Peloponnese. Hence the Acheans, for the name of the people who fought against Troy in Homer’s Iliad.
Bk IV:604-662. Its peoples accept the worship of Bacchus.
Bk V:572-641. Arethusa’s country.
Bk VII:100-158. The Argonauts are Achaeans.
Bk VIII:260-328. It is threatened by Diana’s avenging wild boar.
Bk XII:64-145. The country of the Greeks, who attack Troy.
Bk XV:259-306. It contained the destroyed cities of Helice and Buris.
Bk IX:394-417. Callirhoë, daughter of Acheloüs.
Bk V:533-571. The Sirens, the daughters of Acheloüs.
Bk VIII:547-610. A river and river god, whose waters separated Acarnania and Aetolia. He offers hospitality to Theseus and his companions and tells the story of Perimele.
Bk VIII:611-678. Pirithoüs accuses him of too much credulity concerning the power of the gods to alter human forms.
Bk VIII:725-776. He tells of Proteus, and of Erysichthon.
Bk VIII:843-884. He tells of Mestra.
Bk IX:1-88. He tells the story of how he wrestled with Hercules and lost one of his horns.
Bk IX:89-158. He is fortunate compared to Nessus.
Bk XIV:75-100. The Sirens are his daughters.
A river of the underworld, the underworld itself.
Bk V:533-571. The god of the river, father of Ascalaphus by the nymph Orphne.
Bk XI:474-572. It is in the deepest pit of the infernal regions.
The Greek hero of the Trojan War. The son of Peleus, king of Thessaly, and the sea-goddess Thetis, (See Homer’s Iliad).
Bk VIII:260-328. His father is present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk XI:221-265. He is conceived when Peleus holds the shape-changing Thetis, and forces her to adopt her true form.
Bk XII:64-145. He is a Greek hero at Troy, and defeats the seemingly invulnerable Cycnus(3).
Bk XII:146-209. He sacrifices to Pallas, and asks Nestor to tell the story of Caeneus.
Bk XII:290-326. Nestor tells him of his father’s armour bearer.
Bk XII:579-628. Bk XIII:481-575. He is killed by Paris’s arrow, at Apollo’s instigation. The Greeks dispute over the ownership of his armour.
Bk XIII:123-381. Victim of an unequal fate. (He famously wished for a short and glorious life, rather than a long, inglorious one.) Dolon was promised his horses for spying on the Greeks.
Bk XIII:429-480. He appears as a ghost demanding the sacrifice of Polyxena.
Bk XIII:576-622. He had killed Memnon in battle.
Bk XV:843-870. His achievements surpass those of his father Peleus.
The lover of Galatea. The son of Faunus and Symaethis.
(See Claude Lorrain’s painting – Landscape with Acis and Galatea – Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)
Bk XIII:738-788. Galatea loves him.
Bk XIII:789-869. Polyphemus threatens him.
Bk XIII:870-897. Polyphemus kills him with a rock and he is changed by Galatea into his ancestral form of a river.
Bk XIV:483-511. A companion of Diomede. He insults Venus and is transformed into a bird.
Bk III:572-596. A Tyrrhenian from Maeonia, a ship’s captain and priest of Bacchus, captured by Pentheus. There is the suggestion later that Acoetes is a manifestation of Bacchus himself ( ‘nec enim praesentior illo est deus’). (See Euripides: The Bacchae)
Bk III:597-637. He tells of them finding Bacchus on Chios, and how he knew that the boy was a god, and tried to avoid sacrilege.
Bk III:638-691. He escapes the transformation of the ship and crew by Bacchus.
Bk III:692-733. He vanishes from Pentheus’s prison mysteriously.
Bk V:200-249. A companion of Perseus, inadvertently turned to stone.
Bk V:30-73. Perseus, as the grandson of Acrisius.
Bk III:528-571. King of Argos, the son of Abas, father of Danaë, and grandfather of Perseus. He opposed the worship of Bacchus-Dionysus.
Bk IV:604-662. He rejects the divine origin of Bacchus and Perseus, but will live to regret it. He is kin to Cadmus and to Bacchus son of Semele, Cadmus’s daughter, because Danaüs is his ancestor whose line runs back to Belus, brother of Agenor, who is father of Cadmus. Both Belus and Agenor are sons of Neptune.
Bk V:200-249. He is ousted by his brother Proetus, but has his kingdom restored to him, though little deserving it, by Perseus.
Confused with Areopagus.
Bk XIV:609-622. A mythical Alban king.
Bk III:138-164. Grandson of Cadmus, son of Autonoë, called Hyantius from an ancient name for Boeotia.
Bk III:165-205. He sees Diana bathing naked and is turned into a stag.
Bk III:206-231. He is pursued by his hounds. The dogs are named.
Bk III:232-252. He is torn to pieces by his own pack. (See the Metope of Temple E at Selinus – the Death of Actaeon – Palermo, National Museum: and Titian’s painting – the Death of Actaeon – National Gallery, London.)
Bk II:531-565. Atticus, belonging to Attica in Greece.
Bk II:708-736. The Actaean hill, referring to the Athenian Acropolis.
Book VI:675-721. Used of Orithyia of Athens.
Bk VIII:152-182. Minos demands a tribute of young men and girls selected by lot every nine years from Athens to feed the Minotaur.
The promontory in Epirus site of the famous naval battle in the bay between Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) and Antony in 31BC. (It lies opposite the modern port of Préveza on the Gulf of Amvrakia.)
Antony was defeated by Octavians’ admiral, Agrippa and the outcome led to Cleopatra’s downfall.
Bk XIII:705-737. Passed by Aeneas. Associated with Apollo.
A descendant of Actor.
Bk V:74-106. Of Eurytus.
Bk VIII:260-328. Eurytus and Cleatus present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk VIII:260-328. He is present at the
Calydonian Boar Hunt.
The son of Myrrha by her father Cinyras, born after her transformation into a myrrh-tree. (As such he is a vegetation god born from the heart of the wood.)
Bk X:503-559. Venus falls in love with him.
Bk X:560-637. She tells him the story of Atalanta and Hippomenes.
Bk X:681-707. She warns him to avoid savage creatures.
Bk X:708-739. He ignores her warning and is killed by a wild boar that gashes his thigh. His blood becomes the windflower, the anemone.
Bk VII:453-500. The descendants of Aeacus.
Bk VII:796-865. Phocus as a son of Aeacus.
Bk VIII:1-80. The troops mustered on Aegina to fight Minos.
Bk XI:221-265. Bk XI:266-345. Bk XI:346-409. Bk XII:290-326. Peleus son of Aeacus.
Bk XII:64-145. Bk XII:579-628. Bk XIII:481-575. Achilles as the son of Peleus.
Bk XIII:1-122. Ajax and Achilles whose fathers were the brothers Peleus and Telamon.
Bk VII:453-500. The son of Jupiter and Aegina, grandson of Asopus, the river-god of the north-eastern Peloponnese. He names his island, in the Saronic gulf, Aegina after his mother. Its ancient name was Oenopia. He refuses to ally himself with Minos against Athens.
Bk VII:501-613. He recounts the history of the plague at Aegina.
Bk VII:796-865. He provides Cephalus with men and weapons.
Bk IX:418-438. Bk IX:439-516. Jupiter recognising his piety wishes that he could remove the burden of old age from him.
Bk XI:194-220. The father of Telamon and Peleus.
Bk XI:221-265. The father of Peleus.
Bk XIII:1-122. The father of Telamon, and grandfather of Ajax. The acknowledged son of Jupiter by Aegina.
Bk I:568-587. A river in Epirus.
King of Colchis, son of Sol and the Oceanid Perse, brother of Circe, and father of Medea.
Bk VII:1-73. The Argonauts reach his court, and request the return of the Golden Fleece. This fleece was that of the divine ram on which Phrixus had fled from Orchemonos, to avoid being sacrificed. Iolcus could never prosper until it was brought back to Thessaly. King Aeetes is reluctant and sets Jason demanding tasks as a pre-condition for its return.
Bk VII:159-178. Medea regrets her betrayal of her father and country.
Medea, as the daughter of Aeetes.
Bk II:1-30. Briareus, one of the hundred-handed giants. A name also for the earliest Heracles. He is depicted on the palace of the Sun.
The Aegean Sea between Greece and Asia
Minor.
Bk IX:439-516. Miletus crosses it to found the city of that name in Asia Minor.
Bk XI:650-709. Ceyx is drowned there in a southerly gale.
Bk VII:350-403. The father of Theseus, a king of Athens, and son of Pandion. He gives refuge to Medea and marries her.
Bk VII:404-424. His son Theseus by Aethra, daughter of Pittheus of Troezen, is unknown to him, but comes to Athens. Aegeus recognises a sword he has left under a stone, as a trial, successfully attained by Theseus, in time to dash Medea’s poisoned cup from Theseus’s lips.
Bk VII:425-452. He gives thanks for Theseus’s escape.
Bk VII:453-500. He prepares for war with Minos of Crete.
Bk XV:843-870. He is surpassed by his son Theseus.
Bk VIII:152-182. Bk VIII:376-424. Bk XII:290-326. Theseus, son of Aegeus.
The daughter of the river god Asopus (of the north-eastern Peloponnese) , hence called Asopis.
Bk VI:103-128 . Arachne depicts her rape by Jupiter in the form of a flame.
Bk VII:453-500. Aeacus her son names the island of Aegina(2) after her.
Bk VII:614-660. Aeacus invokes her in his plea to Jupiter.
Bk XI:194-220. Her grandsons are Telamon and Peleus allowing them to claim Jupiter as their grandfather.
Bk VII:453-500. An island in the Saronic Sea between Attica and Argolis. Named by Aeacus after his mother. Once called Oenopia.
It refuses to aid Minos in his war on Attica. (The later conflict with Athens compelled the surrender of the island in 459BC and its destruction as an economic power.)
Of Egypt, the north African country.
Bk V:294-331. Pretended by the Emathides to have given refuge to the gods in their war with the giants.
Bk XV:745-842. Ruled by Cleopatra.
Bk XIII:705-737. A harpy on the islands of the Strophades encountered by Aeneas.
Bk XV:622-745. A descendant of Aeneas. The Romans.
Bk XV:745-842. A Trojan prince, the son of Venus and Anchises, and the hero of Virgil’s Aeneid.
(See Turner’s etching and painting, The Golden Bough- British Museum and Tate Gallery)
Bk XIII:623-639. He leaves ruined Troy carrying his father, and the sacred icons of Venus, and, with his son Ascanius also, sails to Delos where he sacrifices to the Delian gods.
Bk XIII:640-674. Bk XIII:675-704. He consults the oracle of Apollo and is told to seek out his ancient mother and ancestral shores. He receives the gift of a cup of Alcon’s design from King Anius of Delos.
Bk XIII:705-737. He reaches Crete, and then sails to Sicily. (See Virgil, The Aneid III)
Bk XIV:75-100. He reaches Carthage, deserts Dido, and reaches Cumae. (See Virgil, The Aeneid I, IV, and V)
Bk XIV:101-153. He visits the Sibyl, who conducts him to the Underworld, having plucked the golden bough. He sees his father’s shade in the fields of Elysium. ( See Virgil, The Aeneid VI)
Bk XIV:154-222. Bk XV:622-745. He returns from the Underworld, and sails from Cumae north, along the western Italian coast, to Caieta (modern Gaeta) where he marks the funeral of Caieta his old nurse, who gives her name to the place. (See Virgil’s Aeneid, the opening lines of book VII.)
Bk XIV:435-444. He sets up Caieta’s tomb and inscribes an epitaph.
Bk XIV:445-482. He wins the throne of Latinus, and marries his daughter, Lavinia. He wages war with the Rutulians under Turnus, and is supported by Evander.
Bk XIV:566-580. He is deified as Indiges.
Bk XV:418-452. Helenus prophesied that Aeneas carried the destiny of Troy and its descendant city, Rome.
Bk XV:745-842. Venus once saved him from Diomede, by veiling him in a cloud.
Bk XV:843-870. Ovid calls on the gods friendly to Aeneas.
Bk VI:103-128. Canace, the daughter of Aeolus. Her rape by Neptune in the form of a bull is depicted by Arachne.
A descendant of Aeolus.
Book IV:512-542. Applied to his son Athamas.
Book VI:675-721. Applied to his grandson Cephalus.
Bk IX:439-516. The six sons of Aeolus by his wife Enarete, who married their six sisters. Robert Graves suggests they were all Titans, and not bound by the rules of incest, and that the parents and six pairs of children represented the seven planetary deities.
Bk XIII:1-122. Applied to Sisyphus.
Bk XIV:101-153. Applied to Misenus.
Bk XI:573-649. Alcyone, the daughter of Aeolus.
Bk VII:350-403. Of Aeolis in Asia Minor.
Bk I:244-273. Bk XIV:75-100. The king of the winds. His cave is on the islands of Lipari (the Aeolian Islands) that include Stromboli, off Sicily.
Bk IV:464-511. Juno is angry at his son Athamas, and contemplates his other son, Sisyphus in Hades.
Bk IV:663-705. He imprisons the winds in the cave below Etna.
Bk VI:103-128. He is the father of Canace.
Bk VII:350-403. Bk XI:410-473. The father of Alcyone.
Bk XI:474-572. Ceyx calls to him, as his father-in-law, in extremis.
Bk XI:710-748. Aeolus calms the sea for seven days in winter, ‘the halcyon days’, while the transformed Alcyone rears his grandsons.
Bk XIV:223-319. He rules the Tuscan deep. He gives Ulysses the winds imprisoned in a bull’s hide bag.
Bk XI:749-795. The son of Priam and Alexirrhoë, a prince of Troy, and half-brother to Hector.
Bk XI:749-795. He chases Hesperie who is killed by a snake. In penance he tries to kill himself, but is turned by Tethys into a diving bird, probably the merganser, mergus serrator, from mergus, a diver.
Bk XII:1-38. His father Priam mourns for him thinking him dead.
Bk XV:1-59. A river in Lower Italy. The site of Crotona.
Bk II:612-632. The son of Coronis and Apollo. He is saved by Apollo from his mother’s body and given to Chiron the Centaur to rear. He is represented in the sky by the constellation Ophiucus near Scorpius, depicting a man entwined in the coils of a serpent, consisting of the split constellation, Serpens Cauda and Serpens Caput, which contains Barnard’s star, having the greatest proper motion of any star and being the second nearest to the sun.
Bk II:633-675. His fate is foretold by Ocyrhoë.
Bk XV:479-546. He restores Hippolytus to life.
Bk XV:622-745. He saves Rome from the plague, and becomes a resident god. His cult centre was Epidaurus where there was a statue of the god with a golden beard. Cicero mentions that Dionysius the Elder, Tyrant of Syracuse wrenched off the gold. (‘On the Nature of the Gods, Bk III 82)
A Thessalian prince of Iolchos, father of Iason. His half-brother Pelias usurped his throne.
Bk VII:74-99. Bk VII:100-158 . Jason is his son.
Bk VII:159-178. He is near death, so Jason asks Medea to renew his life.
Bk VII:234-293. Medea restores his youth.
Bk VII:1-73. Bk VII:74-99. Bk VII:159-178. Bk VII:234-293.
Bk VIII:376-424. Jason, the son of Aeson.
Bk III:638-691. A seaman, companion of Acoetes.
Bk V:107-148. An Ethiopian prophet, killed in the fight between Perseus and Phineus.
Bk II:227-271. The country Ethiopia in north-east Africa bordering the Red Sea, containing the Mountains of the Moon. During Phaethon’s fatal chariot ride the sun burnt the skins of its peoples black. Aethiops, means Ethiopian.
Bk V:107-148. Culmination of the fight at Cepheus’s court. He is an Ethiopian king.
Bk XV:307-360. The country has lakes with waters that cause delerium.
Bk II:150-177. One of the four horses of the Sun.
Bk II:201-226. A volcanic mountain in Sicily.
Bk IV:663-705. Aeolus imprisons the winds there.
Bk V:332-384. Bk XIV:1-74. It covers the head of the giant, Typhoeus.
Bk V:425-486. Ceres lights her torches at Etna’s fires in her search for Persephone in the night.
Bk VIII:260-328. It is a distinguishing feature of Sicily.
Bk XIII:738-788. Telemus the seer arrives there.
Bk XIII:789-869. Polyphemus compares the fire of love to having Aetna’s fires inside his breast.
Bk XIII:870-897. His voice shakes Aetna.
Bk XIV:1-74. Glaucus leaves it behind.
Bk XIV:154-222. Achaemenides was wrongly believed lost there.
Bk XV:307-360. Volcanic action.
Bk XIV:527-565. The assistance of Diomede.
Bk XIV:445-482. The region of eastern mid-Greece containing Calydon and Chalcis. Diomede is its hero.
Bk XIV:527-565. He refuses help to the Rutuli.
The king of Mycenae, son of Atreus, brother of Menelaüs, husband of Clytaemnestra, father of Orestes, Iphigenia, and Electra. The leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War. See Homer’s Iliad, and Aeschylus’s Oresteian tragedies.
Bk XII:579-628. He dares not compete for the arms of Achilles and passes the responsibility for choosing between Aiax and Ulysses to the assembled captains.
Bk XII:1-38. Bk XIII:123-381. He sacrificed Iphigenia at Aulis.
Bk XIII:123-381.Prompted by a dream he was prepared to abandon the war.
Bk XIII:429-480. He moors the fleet on a Thracian beach returning from Troy, and there Achilles’s ghost appears demanding the sacrifice of Polyxena.
Bk XIII:640-674. He snatches the daughters of Anius.
Bk XV:843-870. He surpasses his father Atreus.
Bk V:294-331. A famous fountain of the Muses on Mount Helicon. Pausanias says (Bk IX:xxix, Boeotia) that Aganippe was a daughter of Termessos, another stream on the mountain
A daughter of Cadmus, who married Echion and was the mother of Pentheus.
Bk III:692-733. A Maenad, she destroys her son Pentheus, not recognising him in the madness of the sacred mysteries.
Bk II:833-875. Europa’s father. King of Phoenicia, son of Neptune, father of Cadmus and brother of Belus. His capital cities are Sidon and Tyre in the Lebanon.
Bk III:1-49. His son is Cadmus whom he sends to find Europa.
Bk III:50-94. His son Cadmus kills the Serpent.
Bk III:95-114. Cadmus sows the Dragon’s
teeth.
A descendant of Agenor.
Bk II:531-565. One of the three daughters of King Cecrops.
Bk II:737-751. Mercury elicits her help.
BkII:812-832. She is turned to stone by Mercury.
Bk V:107-148. An Ethiopian killed in the fight between Perseus and Phineus.
A hero of the Trojan War, the son of Telamon and grandson of Aeacus.
Bk X:143-219. Bk XIII:382-398. He shares with Hyacinthus the flower (hyacinthos grapta – the blue larkspur) that bears the marks of woe, AI AI, and that spells his name, ΑΙΑΣ.
Bk XII:579-628. He competes for the arms of Achilles.
Bk XIII:1-122. He speaks in his own cause, attacking Ulysses. He fought in single combat with Hector and was undefeated, rescued Ulysses, and saved the ships.
Bk XIII:123-381. Ulysses responds with a speech extolling intelligence above mere brawn and courage, and arguing that a man should be judged on his abilities not his ancestry. He was deceived by Achilles’s female disguise. He was ready to turn tail when Agamemnon gave the order to abandon the war.
Bk XIII:382-398. Defeated in the contest for the arms, he kills himself in his rage. From his blood a flower grows, see above.
Bk XII:579-628. Bk XIII:1-122. Aiax moderatior ‘the lesser’. The son of Oileus. He dare not compete for the arms of Achilles.
Bk XIV:445-482. His rape of Cassandra brought the wrath of Minerva on the Greeks.
Bk XIII:123-381. A Lycian, killed by Ulysses.
Bk XIV:609-622. Bk XIV:623-697. Of the early Latin kingdom. Also the king who succeeded Latinus.
Bk XIV:320-396. The Tiber. An ancient name for the river of Rome.
Bk XIII:123-381. A Lycian, killed by Ulysses.
Bk VII:425-452. The son of Pelops, founder of the city of Megara, hence Megara is called urbs Alcathoï. Near Megara is the place where Theseus killed Sciron.
Bk VIII:1-80. A term for the city of Megara on the Isthmus.
Bk VII:350-403. The father of Ctesylla. An inhabitant of Carthaea. His daughter gave birth to a dove.
Bk III:597-637. A seaman, companion of Acoetes.
A descendant of Alceus, father of Amphitryon, usually applied to Hercules his reputed son.
Bk IX:1-88. Bk IX:89-158. Bk IX:211-272. Bk XI:194-220.
Bk XII:536-579. Of Hercules.
Bk XIV:527-565. The king of the Phaeacians (Phaeacia is probably Corcyra, =Corfu), on whose coast Ulysses was washed ashore. One of his ships was turned to stone. See Homer, The Odyssey XIII.
Bk IV:1-30. The daughter of Minyas, who opposed the worship of Bacchus.
Bk IV:274-316. She tells the story of Salmacis.
Bk IX:394-417. The son of Amphiaraüs and Eriphyle. He avenges his father’s death, and is in turn murdered in the chain of revenge following the war of the Seven against Thebes. Themis prophesies the events.
The daughter of Electryon king of Tiryns, wife of Amphitryon, and mother of Hercules by the god Jupiter.
Bk VI:103-128. Arachne depicts her rape by Jupiter disguised as Amphitryon.
Bk VIII:515-546. Deianira, wife of Hercules, sister of Meleager, is her daughter-in-law.
Bk IX:1-88. The mother of Hercules.
Bk IX:211-272. His funeral pyre attacks only the mortal part of him inherited from Alcmene.
Bk IX:273-323. She tells of Hercules’s birth and the transformation of her servant Galanthis.
Bk IX:394-417. She comforts Iole. Iolaüs, her grandson, appears to them, his youth renewed. (He is the grandson of Alcmene, since his father Iphicles is her son by Amphitryon, and Hercules mortal half-brother, the twin or tanist of the sun-god. Iolaüs’s renewal and appearance at the threshold may indicate his cult as a representative of the risen sun of the new year. His cult was celebrated in Sardinia where he was linked to Daedalus.)
Bk XIII:675-704. A Boeotian, and a famous engraver.
Bk VII:350-403. The daughter of Aeolus, granddaughter of Polypemon, and wife of Ceyx, changed into a kingfisher or halcyon. They foolishly compared themselves to Juno and Jupiter, for which the gods drowned Ceyx in a storm. Alcyone leapt into the sea to join him, and both were transformed into kingfishers. In antiquity it was believed that the hen-kingfisher layed her eggs in a floating nest in the Halcyon Days around the winter solstice, when the sea is made calm by Aeolus, Alcyone’s father. (The kingfisher actually lays its eggs in a hole, normally in a riverbank, by freshwater and not by seawater.)
Bk XI:346-409. She begs Ceyx not to fight the wolf from the marsh.
Bk XI:410-473. She reproaches him for leaving her in order to visit the oracle.
Bk XI:474-572. Ceyx calls to her as he is drowning.
Bk XI:573-649. She prays for his return at Juno’s shrine.
Bk XI:650-709. In a dream Morpheus reveals himself in the form of Ceyx and tells her of his death.
Bk XI:710-748. His body returns to her on the tide, and they are transformed into halcyons.
Bk XV:1-59.The father of Myscelos, and founder of Crotona in Italy.
Bk XV:1-59. Myscelos, son of Alemon.
Bk XI:749-795. A nymph, the daughter of the river god Granicus, and the mother of Aesacus by Priam.
Bk XIV:320-396. A tributary of the Tiber.
The sons of Aloeus, namely Otus and Ephialtes, who are actually the children of Neptune by Iphimeida wife of Aloeus.
Bk VI:103-128. Arachne depicts the rape by Neptune.
Bk II:201-226. Bk XIV:772-804. The Alps mountain chain in northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France etc.
Bk V:487-532. Arethusa, loved by Alpheus the river god.
Bk VI:204-266. One of Niobe’s seven sons killed by Apollo and Diana.
Bk II:227-271. A river and river-god of Elis in western Greece. Olympia is near the lower reaches of the river. (The idea for Coleridge’s ‘Alph, the sacred river’ in Kubla Khan?)
Bk V:487-532. He loves Arethusa.
Bk V:572-641. He merges with Arethusa after she has turned to water.
Bk VIII:425-450. The mother of Meleager, and wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon. The sister of the Thestiadae, Plexippus and Toxeus. She seeks revenge for their deaths at the hands of her own son, Meleager.
Bk VIII:451-514. She throws into the fire the piece of wood that is linked to Meleager’s life, and which she once rescued from the flames, at the time of the Fates prophecy to her.
Bk X:220-242. Bk X:503-559.A city of Cyprus, sacred to Venus. A place with rich mineral deposits, famous for its mines.
Bk XV:552-621. One of the Amazons, a race of warlike women living by the River Thermodon, probably based on the Scythian warrior princesses of the Black Sea area (See Herodotus). In particular Hippolyte the mother of Hippolytus by Theseus.
Bk XIII:705-737. A city of Epirus in north western Greece. The land there one fought over by the gods. The judge in the contest was turned to stone. Aeneas passes it.
Bk XV:259-306. A river of Sicily, subject to variable flow.
Bk IV:663-705. Bk V:1-29. An Egyptian and Libyan god, worshipped in the form of a Ram-headed deity, identified by the Romans and Greeks with Jupiter and Zeus.
Bk V:107-148. A famous boxer, friend of Perseus, brother of Broteas, killed by Phineus.
Bk I:473-503. God of love.
Bk I:601-621. Opposes Shame (Pudor) in Jupiter’s mind over the sacrifice of Io as a gift to Juno.
Bk IV:753-803. He waves the marriage torch with Hymen at Perseus’s marriage to Andromeda.
Bk V:332-384. His power is linked to that of Venus Aphrodite.
Bk X:1-85. He has power even in Hades.
Bk X:503-559. He is often portrayed naked with his quiver, and is compared to Adonis.
A Greek seer, one of the heroes, the Oeclides, at the Calydonian Boar Hunt. The son of Oecleus, father of Alcmaeon, and husband of Eriphyle.
Bk VIII:260-328. He is present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk IX:394-417. Fighting in the war of the Seven against Thebes he is swallowed up alive by the earth.
Bk V:74-106. A Libyan follower of Phineus, killed by Perseus.
Bk XV:418-452. The husband of Niobe, and son of Jupiter and Antiope. The King of Thebes.
Bk VI:146-203. His art is mentioned, that is his magical use of the lyre. His music enabled him to build the walls of Thebes.
Bk VI:204-266. The death of his seven sons.
Bk VI:267-312. He kills himself in grief.
Bk VI:401-438. He and his children are mourned, and Niobe blamed.
Bk IX:324-393. The son of Apollo and Dryope. He founded the city of Oeta and built a temple of Apollo there
Bk I:1-30. A sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus and wife of Neptune. The Nereid whom Poseidon married, here representing the sea. He had courted Thetis another of the Nereids but desisted when it was prophesied that any son born to her would be greater than his father. Thetis bore Achilles.
The son of Alceus, and king of Thebes, husband of Alcmena and supposed father of Hercules.
Bk VI:103-128. Arachne depicts how Jupiter disguised as Amphitryon raped Alcmene.
Bk IX:89-158. Bk XV:1-59. Hercules is his reputed son.
Bk XV:1-59. Hercules, as the supposed son of Amphitryon.
Bk XV:622-745. Unknown rocks in lower Italy, near to the cliffs of Cocinthus.
Bk I:568-587. A river in Thessaly.
Bk
VII:179-233. Medea gathers magic herbs
there.
Bk VIII:260-328. He is present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk VIII:329-375. He strikes the boar, but Diana has stolen his spear point in flight.
Bk XII:429-535. He is present at the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs.
Bk V:107-148. A priest of Ceres, killed by Phineus.
Bk V:149-199. A follower of Phineus, turned to stone by the Gorgon’s head.
Bk VIII:260-328. His son Mopsus is present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk XII:429-535. One of the Lapithae.
Bk XIV:772-804.The younger son of the Alban king Proca. He usurped his elder brother Numitor, but was dethroned by Romulus and Remus the grandsons of Numitor.
A town in Laconia.
Bk VIII:260-328. Home of Hippocoön, and of his sons who are present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk X:143-219. The home of Hyacinthus.
An epithet of Hyacinthus as the descendant of Amyclas, builder of Amyclae.
Bk XII:245-289. A centaur. He kills Celadon and is killed by Pelates at the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs.
Bk II:227-271. A famous spring at Argos.
Bk VIII:260-328. King of the Dolopians of Thessaly, father of Phoenix.
Bk XII:290-326. Gives Crantor to Peleus to be his armour-bearer, as a peace-pledge after defeat in battle.
Bk XV:307-360. The son of Cretheus, and father of Melampus, noted for wisdom.
An island in the Cyclades.
Bk VII:453-500. Allied to Crete.
Bk V:385-424. A river and river god of Sicily, who loves Cyane.
Bk XIV:698-771. A maiden of Cyprus. She rejects Iphis, and is turned to stone.
An Arcadian.
Bk VIII:260-328. He is present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Bk VIII:376-424. He is killed by the boar.
Bk VIII:515-546. Meleager envies him his honourable death.
The son of Capys and father of Aeneas by the goddess Venus.
Bk IX:418-438. Venus wishes to ward off old age from him.
Bk XIII:640-674. He asks after Anius’s children.
Bk XIII:675-704. Anius gives him the parting gift of a sceptre.
Bk XIV:75-100. Aeneas pays honour at his tomb, he having died at Drepanum (Trapani) in Sicily. (Note: Trapani was the site of the naval battle of 241BC when the Roman fleet defeated the Carthaginians ending the first Punic War)
Bk XIV:101-153. Aeneas meets his ghost in Avernus.
Bk IX:324-393. The father of Amphissus, and husband of Dryope.
Bk XIII:1-122. An Aetolian king, father of Thoas.
Bk VII:453-500. A son of Minos, King of Crete. Killed while visiting Attica, Minos sets out to avenge him.
The daughter of Cepheus, the Ethiopian King, and Cassiope, who was chained to a rock and exposed to a sea-monster Cetus because of her mother’s sin. She is represented by the constellation Andromeda which contains the Andromeda galaxy M31 a spiral like our own, the most distant object visible to the naked eye. Cetus is represented by the constellation of Cetus, the Whale, between Pisces and Eridanus which contains the variable star, Mira.
Bk IV:663-705. She is chained to a rock for her mother’s fault and Perseus offers to rescue her. (See Burne-Jones’s oil paintings and gouaches in the Perseus series, particularly The Rock of Doom)
Bk IV:753-803. He kills the sea serpent and claims her as his bride.
Son of Anius, ruler of one of the Cycladic islands named after him.
Bk VII:453-500. The island is not allied to Crete.
Bk XIII:640-674. He holds the kingship of the island in his father’s place, has the power of prophecy, and surrenders two of his sisters to Agamemnon.
Bk X:708-739. The flower that sprang from the blood of Adonis. The windflower.
Bk XV:259-306. A river of Elis in south-western Greece. Its waters were said to be poisoned by the centaur Pylenor, shot by Hercules with a poisoned arrow. Pausanias gives the background and confirms the chemical foulness of the water. (See Pausanias V 5)
Bk XIV:320-396. A river in Latium.
Bk XIII:623-639. The king, and high priest of Apollo, on Delos. He welcomes Aeneas.
Bk XIII:640-674. He tells of his son and daughters.
Bk IX:159-210. A Libyan giant killed by Hercules.
Bk XIII:623-639. A seaport in the Troad from which Aeneas leaves.
Bk XIII:123-381. One of the older Trojan leaders. He sided with