ges which I have not made myself directly from the originals. It will also be found to contain the results of the inquiries

se however I claim no share ; it all belongs to the printers, to whom also belongs the praise or blame of the peculiarities

term of those copyrights which they have purchased should go to them also , and not to the author. Theirs indeed is but too

f the latter. Admetos, apparently another form of Hades (p. 122), was also famous for his herds. We find the herds of Hades

Wisdom, and the God and Goddess κατ՚ἐξοχὴν ; in the latter there was also adored a Triad, — Ceres, Liber, Libera. May we no

be regarded as the depository of the early religion of the people. It also stands at the head of their history, for the earl

he lover of the fair Shîrîn16. Many changes in the natural world have also been effected by the Saints, according to the pop

pe. 4. The desire to account for the phænomena of the moral world has also led to the invention of legends. Thus the laws of

ad been lost, were usually explained by some legend. Of this practice also we shall meet with instances as we proceed ; for

iter from whom we have taken this legend justly observes, Neem-rôz is also mid-day ; a term which, in several languages, den

es were, as we shall presently see, familiar to the ancients. We must also observe, that all are true to a certain extent. S

oic ; and the Celtic tribes of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands had also a small heroic cycle, of which Cuchullin, Fingal,

nt writers, and many are altogether fallen into oblivion. These poems also bear evident testimony to the long preceding exis

of fiction and forgery so as to suit their purposes. About this time, also , the system of theocrasy (θεοκραία), or mixing up

ns. The most distinguished of their daughters were Basileia and Rhea, also named Pandora. The former, who was the eldest, ai

e incorporated with the pure religion of the Gospel, and Christianity also had soon a mythology of its own to display. On th

Works and Days, the Theogony, and the Shield of Hercules. Hesiod was also said to be the author of a poem in four books nam

the heroines or distinguished women of the mythic ages ; but of this also only a few fragments have been preserved. The sam

s of the Chiefs, the Telegonia, or Death of Odysseus, etc. There were also Heracleiæ, or poems on the subject of Hercules, b

e writers were Pherecydes, Acusilaüs, and Hellanicus ; of their works also only fragments remain. The historians, Herodotus,

the Greek originals can,with few exceptions, be pointed out85. It was also in this period that Hyginus wrote the mythologica

s, Antoninus Liberalis and others contain numerous mythic legends, as also do the Scholia, or notes on the classic writers o

commentary of Eustathius on Homer. The notes of Servius on Virgil are also very valuable in this respect, as likewise is the

ya and Egypt. The Sidonians, and a people named the Erembians104, are also mentioned by Homer, and the Greeks appear to have

erpetual darkness, the abode of a people whom he names Kimmerians. He also places there Erebos, the realm of Aïdes and Perse

flowers, and contained minerals in its bowels like earth ; like which also it had the vicissitudes of night and day135. Chao

es, Theia, Rheia (or Rhea), Themis, Mnemosyne, Phœbe, and Tethys. She also bore the three Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes, and A

evolution and hostility between the two classes of gods. Imitation is also everywhere to be traced. Zeus is made to mutilate

s mentioned, in which Briareôs again comes to his aid163. There would also appear to have been some other ancient system of

here expressed by making Night the parent of Day and Æther. Night is also naturally regarded as the parent of Death, Sleep,

, Dreams, and their kindred ideas. Philotes, or the union of love, is also for a similar reason the child of Night170. Decei

den chamber lie, By Ocean’s marge, whither bold Iasôn went203. It is also in the East that ‘the stables’ of Helios are plac

orses their evening meal (δόρπον) of it to recruit their vigour. Ovid also , the faithful follower of the Greeks, places the

by Lucifer and Aurora, we may presume that it was in the East. It is also in the East that Ovid places the splendid palace

fifty in each flock and herd : they neither bred nor died. At Tænaron also this god had a flock of ‘long-wooled’ sheep219. H

t Tænaron also this god had a flock of ‘long-wooled’ sheep219. He had also herds of oxen at Gortyna in Crete220, and sacred

o were the first inhabitants of the isle of Rhodes227. The Graces are also said to have been daughters of Helios by Ægle (Sp

ropped into the stream. Cycnos, the friend of the ill-fated Phaëthôn, also abandoned himself to mourning, and at length was

ant, and the neglected Clytia pining away became a sunflower235. Here also we have one of the legendary origins of natural p

nt, and ascending a chariot drawn by glittering steeds. Theocritus244 also gives Selene horses ; but we do not meet any othe

e summit of Mount Latmos, the place of his repose255. The god Pan was also said to have gained her love under the form of a

m256. She bore to Zeus a daughter named Pandia257; and Ersa (Dew) was also the offspring of the king of heaven and the godde

eauty snatched away by her, ‘that he might be among the gods275.’ She also carried off Cephalos, and had by him a son named

ost terrific description of her appearance. In this character she was also sometimes called Empusa309. These were evidently

it is said, first appeared in the poem of the Gigantomachia321. It is also noticed by Pindar322. Probably the praise of Chei

emselves visible and invisible at their pleasure340. Their bodies are also of a finer nature than those of men. It is not bl

d share in their wars and battles348. With the form, the Homeric gods also partake of the passions of men. They are capricio

o the sea and became the isle afterwards named Delos396. Mortal women also bore a numerous progeny to this amorous monarch o

came a god. By Io he had a son named Epaphos. Many other heroes could also boast of being the sons of Zeus by different moth

h it. Io, for example, underwent a dreadful persecution from Hera, as also did Leto. Semele perished in the flames which inv

fourth year the Olympian games were celebrated in his honour : he had also a splendid fane in the isle of Ægina. But, though

r of strangers, Horkios, the guardian of oaths, were numerous. He was also named like the other gods from the places where h

olyphemos424. The invulnerable Cycnos, who was slain by Achilles, was also the offspring of this deity425: so also were Thes

ho was slain by Achilles, was also the offspring of this deity425: so also were Theseus, Eumolpos, and other heroes. Poseidô

a foal, which she gave him to devour428. The origin of the horse was also ascribed to this god. According to a Thessalian l

first presented the horse to mankind430. The winged steed Pegasos is also the offspring of Poseidôn431. In the Ilias, when

not a seafaring people) the agents must have been the Phœnicians, who also , we are assured, brought the first horses into Gr

inking and speaking which thence arose, led to the notion of the soul also being placed in a region within the earth. The ca

ives down (κατάγει) the dead along the hollow way to Erebos491. It is also not unworthy of notice, that Macrobius492, when s

of the persecution which Leto underwent from the enmity of Hera, who also , as shall hereafter be related, made Io, Semele,

Graces507. Hephæstos was the progeny of Hera without a sire ; she was also said to have given origin to the monster Typhaôn5

f seats of the worship of Hera were Argos, Samos, and Platæa. She was also honoured at Sparta, Corinth, Corcyra, and other p

before it, and it was brought back to the temple524. In this ceremony also may be discerned a reference to the marriage of H

oddess. The making her an Argive, and daughter of Eurystheus, appears also to intimate that the worship of Hera came to Samo

ra ; wine and perfumes, and other victims, were cast on the altar, as also were the images, and the whole was set on fire, a

o form an astronomical cycle, and to serve as a calendar of time, and also to operate as a bond of union among the Bœotian s

ies. There was another legend of Zeus and Hera, of which Cithærôn was also the scene. The maiden Hera, it said, was reared i

s Lucretius536 and Virgile537. The consecration of the cow to Hera is also to be considered as a proof of her being regarded

38, so too were the cars in the procession of the Dædala, where a cow also was the victim. It has likewise been supposed, no

reputation being gained by deeds of valour554. To the above tale has also been appended by later writers a legendary origin

, arises the order or harmony of the universe557. Terror and Fear are also said by Hesiod558 to have been the offspring of A

of Thrace, Cycnos, Phlegyas, Dryas, Parthenopæos, and Tereus. He was also said to be the sire of Meleagros and other hero-p

n Olympos were made by Hephæstos, and were all composed of metal ; as also were their chariots and arms. He made armour for

nd his horses and chariot are carried round the earth every night was also the work of this god575. The only instances we me

7‘ and the mildness of character usually ascribed to this goddess608, also accord with Night ; and if it should appear that

darts ; sometimes as a reward, at other times as a punishment. He was also by his shafts the sender of pestilence, and he re

they should worship him as Apollo Delphinios, whence the place should also derive its name617. They now disembark : the god

l suited to an oracle, gave occasion to the legend above related, and also to one of a huge serpent named Pythôn, which, it

ich name, as we may perceive, Delphi probably gave its aid, as it did also for that of the change of the god into the porpoi

ed in his sentiments and actions. The purity of his character appears also in this, that no amours with either goddesses or

derive their lineage from the residents of Olympos, Phœbos-Apollo was also provided with his love-adventures by the poets ;

is to account for the bay-tree being sacred to Apollo. Apollo, it is also said by the same poet, thought himself happy in t

e son of Eilatos, with Coronis, the daughter of Phlegyas. The tale is also told by Pindar626, but he says nothing of the rav

to her mortal lover627. Cassandra, daughter of Priamos king of Troy, also attracted the love of this god : the price she se

he returned to Delphi at the head of a theoria 638. This mimic flight also represented the servitude of the god, which the l

the parts of the Hias of which the antiquity is most dubious. It may also be doubted if the temple-legend of Delphi could b

united, or perhaps we might say re-united. Apollo at the same period also took the place of Pæeôn, and became the god of th

llo-religion to Crete, whence it was spread to the coast of Asia, and also conveyed to Delos and Delphi. We cannot assent to

ce to the Hellenes. He ascended the car, and desired the swans to fly also to the Hyperboreans660. The Delphians, when they

when the time was come which he had appointed for the Delphic tripods also to resound, he directed his swans to fly back fro

to him, as the birds should sing in Aleæus ; the swallows and cicadas also sing, not narrating their own fate when among men

ble, as it is esteemed, of the melody of these birds661. The wolf was also assigned to this god, on account of his bright co

which animal a legend said he had been the destroyer in Troas. He was also styled662, 1. Crooked, probably from the position

erivation from λύκιος, wolf, had become the prevalent one. Apollo was also named Agyieus (Ἀγυιϵὺς), as the guardian of the s

Leto, and sister to Apollo. She was the goddess of the chase669 ; she also presided over health. The sudden deaths of women

holds, Easy to know, though beautiful are all. The Homerids have also sung the huntress-goddess : one of them in his hy

one of them principal, and the others companions or attendants ; and also to form nymphs and other subordinate beings attac

med Britomartis, which in their dialect signified Sweet Maid. She was also called Dictynna, a goddess of that name, and of a

goddess under the name of Dictynna from the above circumstance, which also was assigned as the reason of the cliff from whic

which fell into the Alpheios rose in Arethusa, whose pellucid waters also became turbid with the blood of the victims slain

Hecaerge695, while a third named only Opis and Hecaerge696. There was also a legend of a nymph Arge, who when pursuing a buc

e in the sky, as Artemis on earth, as Persephone in Erebos. This will also give a very simple reason for her being like Eile

identifications become somewhat difficult of solution700. Artemis was also confounded with the goddess worshiped on the Taur

Leucophryne was therefore no more than an epithet of Artemis, who had also a temple at Leucophrys on the coast704 ; and it b

two great luminaries (Mithras and Mitra in the Persian system)723. We also meet this view in Plato724 and Euripides725 ; and

s732 Dione is a wife of Zeus, and mother of Aphrodite. The name Dione also occurs among the Ocean-nymphs733, the Nereïdes734

eady narrated ; and Hermes, Dionysos, and Poseidôn, it is said, could also boast of her favours. Among mortals, Anchises and

brief period of the life of the beautiful son of Myrrha748. The rose also derived its present hue from this fatal event ; f

ynx or Fritillus, of which so much use was made in amatory magic, was also sacred to this goddess758 ; as was likewise the s

her favourite places were Paphôs, Golgoi, Idalion, and Amathûs ; and also at Cnidos, Miletos, Côs, Corinth, Athens, Sparta,

Olympians, and endowed with some of the attributes of Hera, (who was also identified with Astarte), and thus becoming the p

e. Her antique wooden statue (ξόανον) in this temple was armed, as it also was at Sparta and Corinth763. In this last city s

d, as it also was at Sparta and Corinth763. In this last city she was also styled Urania764, and her worship there was emine

nown fact, that the spring, the season in which they most prevail, is also that of love772. In the bucolic and some of the L

rwards made for them one of Pcntelican marble of rare beauty774. Erôs also had altars at Athens and elsewhere. The poetic ep

, whom she relieved from all his perils, and whose son Telemachos she also took under her protection, assuming a human form

frame the wooden horse, by means of which Troy was taken793 ; and she also superintended the building of the ship Argo794. A

o a spider (ἀράχνη)801. The invention of the flute or pipe (αὐλὸς) is also ascribed to this goddess. When Perseus ; says Pin

id festivals of the Panathenæa were celebrated in her honour. She had also temples at Thebes, Argos, Sparta, and elsewhere.

hæstos812, in whose temple stood a statue of the goddess813 ; she was also said to have given fire to the Athenians814 ; per

the epithet Glaucopis, which is as it were appropriated to Athena, is also given to Selene816. To these proofs respecting th

d herds, saying that the herdsmen prayed to him and Hecate. This poet also ascribes to him the only act injurious to man wit

god gives him the lyre, and receives the cattle. The divine herdsman also bestows on him his whip, and instructs him in the

ck, ‘which the cold or the heat never leaves.’ The following prank is also laid to the charge of this sly deity. Watching on

las-Athene incensed at her unhallowed cupidity, and provoked with her also for other causes, sent Envy to fill her bosom wit

he roads and footpaths, and in the fields and gardens. The Hermæ were also pillars of stone, and the head of some other deit

ty, their tutelar god easily became the president of the palæstra. So also , trade having of old consisted chiefly in the exc

signed him of agent and messenger of the king of the gods, to whom we also find him officiating as cup-bearer863. As a being

character of Herse and Aglauros will be shown in the sequel. We shall also find that it was Hermes who gave to Nephele the g

is a name akin to ἐρυίβη, mildew ; and Hellanicus892 said that he was also called Æthôn (Αἴθων, burning), from his insatiate

of the goddess at being thus abused she was named Erinnys899. It was also a part of the tradition that beside Areiôn she bo

the god, who, the Phigalians said, was the Despœna (Persephone). They also showed a cavern on Mount Elæon, to which Demeter

her day of unveiling (ἀνακαλυπρια), that is, at her marriage906 ; as also was Thebes according to the poet Euphoriôn907. Th

; all epithets well suited to the goddess of agriculture. Demeter was also named, 11. Law-giver, as agriculture was regarded

ives her one of the usual epithets of beauty, 4. White-armed. She was also named, 5. Sable-vested ; 6. White-horsed, etc. Th

d a comic mask in one hand, and in the other a crooked staff. She was also regarded as the patroness of husbandry and planti

agros a son named Linos941, who was killed by his pupil Heracles. She also had by the same sire Orpheus, whose skill on the

g of a connexion between that element and music. The Latins, it would also appear, connected their Camenæ with the fountains

guage and religion bear so great an affinity to those of Greece) seem also to have connected music with the water in their a

rd in the distance, makes melody to the attentive ear. The rivulet is also the favourite haunt of the poet ; its quiet murmu

steeds, fasten them in their stalls, and lay up the chariot. They are also mentioned by Poseidôn958 as bringing round the pe

arly divided965, they came to be regarded as presiding over its parts also  ; and when it was further subdivided into hours,

In the Odyssey988 and in Hesiod989 their number is reduced to one. We also meet with but one Eileithyia in Pindar990, and th

idence, that the Noms, the Destinies of Scandinavian theology, should also be spinsters, and three in number1007. Κῆρες.

are named ‘the swift dogs of Hades,’ a character under which they are also represented by Sophocles1013. In the Theogony the

oddesses are the daughters of Night and sisters of the Moiræ1014, who also appear on the shield of Heracles, and with whom t

of Heracles, and with whom they are sometimes confounded1015, as they also are with the Erinnyes1016. They bear a strong res

power which exercises such arbitrary dominion over human affairs, was also deified, and had her temples and altars in Greece

ony of Hesiod contains a number of these personified qualities ; they also occur in the subsequent poets. Thus Æschylus intr

d the Athenians erected an altar to this personification1076, as they also did to Shame and Impetuosity, and above all to Me

temples to Fear, to Death, and to Laughter1078. Wealth (Πλοȗτος) was also deified. The Theogony makes him very appropriatel

et noisy (ἐρίβρομς), testify, as we shall see, their late age. Pindar also calls Dionysos Ivy-bearing (κισσοϕόρος) and noisy

s on the sides of Mount Meros and on the banks of the Hydaspes ; they also met processions, accompanied by the sound of drum

his aunts. The daughters of Minyas, Leucippe, Aristippe and Alcathoe, also despised his rites, and continued plying their lo

as loosing from care ; Lenœos, from the wine-press. Dionysos was also called1121, 1. Muse-leader ; 2. Bull-headed ; 3.

sos to the celestial heat is expressed in the story of his birth, and also in the dog Mæra (Μɑȋρɑ), another name for Sirius

ame for Sirius the dog-star1127 ; the name of his companion Marôn1128 also seems to refer to heat ; and perhaps the true ori

ysa in the form of a kid, and his being worshiped under that name. He also wore the goatskin dress of the goatherds ; and in

piating by certain secret rites not only blood and man-slaughter, but also prodigies, sacrileges, and whatever piacular offe

which laws Dracôn is said to have been the author ? This religion was also confirmed by Solôn ; who, in cases of manslaughte

religion was that of Κυβέλη. Κυβήβη. Rhea. Ops. Cybele, called also the Great Mother, was regarded by the Phrygians a

nd Hecate1146, and she was probably the same with Cybele. Her worship also was adopted at Athens ; her temple named the Bend

g a hill near his temple Delos, and two springs Palm and Olive ; they also took to themselves the Delphian legends of Tityos

, others again said he was a child of Heaven and Earth1168. There was also a Pan said to be the son of Zeus and the nymph Th

pastoral pipe1181. Another of his loves was the nymph Pitys, who was also loved by Boreas. The nymph favoured more the god

er of Phoroneus. The Laconian term for a Satyr was Tityros1191, which also signified the buck-goat or the ram1192 that led t

second is, for those who are born to die as soon as possible1207.” He also , it is said1208, gave the king a long account of

om love ; and by Virgil1215 bees are placed under his care. Fishermen also made offerings to him as the deity presiding over

ngs ; 5. the Lake-nymphs (Limniades), the lakes and pools. There were also , 6. the Tree-nymphs (Hamadryades), who were born

stance, the nurses of Dionysos, Pan, and even Zeus himself ; and they also brought up Aristæos and Æneias. They were moreove

ph. Of the female attendants of Circe, the potent daughter of Helios, also designated as a goddess and a nymph, it is said,

nymph Echo had been, as we have seen, beloved by the god Pan. She was also , we are assured, of a most accommodating disposit

yre and the shepherd’s pipe, and they often danced to his melody. Pan also loved him, and one time warned him to drive his f

and justice, whence he was termed an elder : the gift of prophecy was also assigned him. When Heracles was in quest of the a

instruct him how to proceed before the hero would release him1249. He also foretold to Paris, when he was carrying away Hele

contributed so much to degrade the other gods, robbed the sea-nymphs also of their charms, by bestowing on them green hair,

a golden house.’ Later poets made him his father’s trumpeter. He was also multiplied, and we read of Tritons in the plural

ch painters had been pleased to bestow on the marine deities : he has also a chariot drawn by the biped sea-horses. Homer do

and then to jump into the sea, his curiosity excited him to taste it also  ; immediately on his doing so he followed their e

doing so he followed their example, and thus became a sea-god. It was also said1272 that he obtained his immortality by tast

to man, whom no one can look on and retain his breath1301.’ They were also represented as winged on the ancient coffer of Ky

Oreithyia, and built a temple to him after that event1320. Boreas is also said by Homer1321 to have turned himself into a h

d to speak a language different from Greek1328, and this circumstance also would accord well with Italy. But on the other ha

i ; and further, Tempsa lies on the west side of Italy, and there was also a place named Taminos in the isle, which bestowed

nd Sicily, are spoken of in the Odyssey1331 ; this people however are also said to have inhabited Epeiros1332, in which case

ch case nothing definite results from the mention of them. Sicania is also spoken of1333, but it is in the part of the poem

inary Cyclôps-race, being the son of Poseidôn and a sea-nymph : he is also said1337 to have been the strongest of the Cyclop

island, he would, as usual, have noticed the circumstance : he would also have told us with what wind they sailed to it, if

d the current and the breeze of its surface bring them back. It would also appear that, as soon as the ship left the Ocean a

and Euripides terms them the children of Earth1384. Their number was also increased to three, and their names are given wit

by his flocks and herds, and his two daughters their keepers. He must also have conceived it to lie much more to the west th

were known to make commercial voyages in that direction ; and we may also collect from it that it was chiefly ornamental ar

strate the three years’ voyages of the fleets of king Solomon1436. It also appears that the Greeks made voyages to both the

natural to transfer these ideas to the race of man ; to suppose them also to have commenced in blissful infancy, amid the a

ely the divine race of heroes, in former times called Semigods. These also were carried off by war and combat. They fought a

t good will still be mixed with the evil. Zeus will destroy this race also , when they become ‘hoary-templed.’ Fathers will n

wed ; so the four ages of the world compose a mundane year which will also be renewed, and the iron race be succeeded by a n

framed with a regard to the Homeric and other contemporary poems. He also thinks that the lines in which Hesiod describes t

re him seven daughters, named Pleiades after their mother1457. He was also said to be the father of the nymphs named Hyades1

was fixed on as the place of Prometheus’ punishment. The pragmatisers also explained the mythe after their own fashion. Prom

the artist-skill of Athena and Hephæstos, and gave it to man. He was also regarded as the creator of the human race. Anothe

had rigidly obeyed this direction, and had hitherto kept his brother also from transgressing it. But the case was now alter

Æschylus they are placed among that ante-Kronid race. Prometheus was also speedily raised to the rank of creator of mankind

ed, when the species of vessel was so expressly stated by Hesiod, who also mentions its great lid (μέγa πῶμa), a phrase that

s formed men of clay, Zeus directed Hephæstos to make a woman of clay also , whom Athena animated and the other gods adorned

theus, and became the mother of Pyrrha, the first mortal woman. It is also deserving of notice, that Hesiod and all the othe

weather if it flew away.” The sacrifice and the appearance of Hermes also strongly remind us of Noah. The Latin writers1498

aic account of the Deluge. Another Grecian tradition1504 made Ogyges ( also a personification of water1505 ) to be the person

ponnese and elsewhere, and which are alluded to in the Homeric poems, also seem to them to indicate a state of society resem

milar to their original ones were assigned them. The original meaning also of many mythes may have gone out of use ; what ha

names of rivers, mountains, and other natural objects, made persons, also largely contribute to swell the amount of our myt

e woven through one another in a most marvellous manner, and the gods also bear a conspicuous part in the history as progeni

, and this Admetos effected by the aid of his divine herdsman. Apollo also obtained from the Fates that, when the day appoin

im to resign his victim, whom he then restored to her husband. It was also said that Heracles fetched Alcestis back out of E

the Hyades, the nurses of Dionysos, and their husbands1547. There is also a difference in the accounts of the manner in whi

er, — an obscure hint perhaps of the love of Iasôn and Medeia. Medeia also always acts a friendly part ; and it seems highly

tic dramatists1553. The bringing of Iasôn and Medeia to Corinth seems also to indicate a connexion between the latter and He

acle the expiatory rite above mentioned was instituted1554. There was also a tradition that Medeia resided at Corinth, and t

1556, whose priestess, like Io, she probably was in this mythe. It is also remarkable that the only place, besides Corinth,

he name of Wild-men (Φῆρϵς), and once under their proper name1583. We also find the name Centaurs in the Odyssey1584. They s

his own tribe, the Lapiths, were all invited to the wedding, as were also the Centaurs, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of P

een pines,’ and the earth finally opened and swallowed him1593. It is also said that Cæneus, filled with confidence in his s

, and the subject of a poem ascribed to Hesiod1607. The splendid robe also , which when poisoned by Deïaneira caused the deat

of Elis having in ancient times received a colony from Thessaly, and also of Eleians, or Epeians as they were named, having

Althæa, by which he became the father of Deïaneira1611. Œneus, it is also said, killed with his own hand his son Toxeus for

a ; Cadmos and his mother went to Thrace, where Thasos founded a town also named from himself1623. After the death of his mo

objects of trade which might tempt a people of that character. It is also strange that the descendents of these colonists s

ct of worship in this last place, and that the Cabeiræan deities were also worshiped at Thebes. Hence it is inferred that Ca

was the circumstance of Cadmos (the personified Cadmeians) happening also to signify the Regulator, that gave rise to all t

idea of giving him Harmonia for his bride. The influence of names is also we think perceptible in the oracle given to the E

d of the art of managing bees was ascribed to Aristæos1644. Tradition also said that one time when the isle of Ceos was affl

intrusion, flung some water upon him and turned him into a stag. She also inspired with madness the fifty dogs that were wi

we find him united to one of the daughters of Cadmos1652. Apollo was also an object of especial veneration to the settlers

a place of safety. The ram, it was added, died at Colchis1661. It was also said that the flight of Phrixos was caused by his

the world, and she was changed into a nightingale (ύηδών). Zethos is also said to have fallen by the arrows of Apollo. This

l find another form of it among the mythes of Attica. In this history also there are great variations, caused chiefly, it is

round, and whose eye searches out all things1675. The mythe of Niobe also is capable of a physical sense. This goddess 1676

of the ancient houses, as Nycteus is called the son of Chthonios. He also discovers that the Antiopids favoured the religio

by his herald Polyphontes, met in a narrow road in Phocis a young man also driving in a chariot. On his refusal to leave the

the seven-gated Thebes on account of the sheep of Œdipodes. It would also seem that, according to the above passage of the

e current tradition, made Œdipûs die at Colonos ; his blindness seems also a tragic fiction. Euripides makes Iocasta survive

ed the dominion after Eteocles, and named the country Phlegyantis. He also built a city called Phlegya, into which he collec

eroes from all parts of Greece was the addition of later times, which also assigned the wrong origin of the name Minyans giv

axos ; by their own hands, according to a later tradition1722. It was also a tradition that they dwelt at Ascra (of which th

nd her younger sister to Iphicles1733. Alcmena the mother of the hero also married Rhadamanthys the son of Zeus, who was the

ose, for when one was crushed two sprang up in its stead. A huge crab also aided the hydra, and bit the feet of Heracles. He

urth task imposed by Eurystheus was to bring him the Erymanthian boar also alive. This animal frequented Mount Erymanthos, a

he was coming for his bride. Eurystheus however refused to count this also among the twelve tasks, saying that he had done i

the city, slew Augeas and his sons, and set Phyleus on the throne. He also established the Olympic games, raised an altar to

his sons, except Nestôr, who was living with the Gereneans1774. He is also said to have wounded. Hades and Hera as they were

t of choice, and he must be tempted and resist the temptation. It was also necessary for the perfection of virtue that it sh

l. 33.) another very celebrated one ; Stesichorus of Himera (Ol. 48.) also composed a lyric poem named the Geryoneïs, on the

of Socrates, composed a long Heracleia in prose. The Attic tragedians also introduced Heracles into their dramas ; and as th

ollodorus and Diodorus relate the adventures of this hero ; they were also the subjects of the verses of the Alexandrian and

aid, he named the country Atthis. Cranaos was expelled by Amphictyôn, also an autochthon, or as others said the son of Deuca

a Nightingale (ἀηδὼν), and Philomela a Swallow (χϵλιδὼν) ; Tereus was also changed, and became a Hoopoo (ἔποψ)1805. Like so

name in its favour1808, was not however the prevalent opinion. It was also said that Tereus was changed into a hawk1809, and

nishment and confusion threw his dart and killed her1817. This legend also is told with great variations. It was said that C

ulum), which is taken away by the Dawn1823. The name of Procris seems also to refer to the early day (πρωΐ). Ὠρϵιθυῐα. O

d put him to sleep with his own daughter Æthra ; and Poseidôn, it was also said, took advantage of the same night. Ægeus whe

thens ; and when Medeia came thither from Corinth, he married her. He also celebrated Panathenæan games ; in which Androgeôs

course to arms, but Theseus defeated and slew them1841. Medeia, it is also said, who was married to Ægeus, fearing the loss

l, to the temple of the god, a ship with gifts and sacrifices1845. He also consecrated in that island to Aphrodite a statue

, they met with a signal defeat from the Athenian prince. Theseus was also a sharer in the dangers of the Calydonian hunt ;

on which last sacrifices were made to Erechtheus1849. In this temple also was the well of salt water which Poseidôn was sai

Tarpeia1858. Ægeus is plainly only another name for Poseidôn, who was also named Ægæos1859 and Ægæôn1860. In fact it was als

Poseidôn, who was also named Ægæos1859 and Ægæôn1860. In fact it was also said that Poseidôn was the father of Theseus, who

Isthmus (which was sacred to that god) of monsters and evil-doers. We also find that Theseus was worshiped on the eighth day

k himself to Minôs king of Crete, for whom he built the Labyrinth. He also devised an ingenious species of dance for Ariadne

econd name. He was purified of the bloodshed by Prœtos, whose wife is also called Sthenobœa, and the king of Lycia is named

f Poseidôn, namely as Hippios. This god is his father1884 ; and he is also the sire of Pegasos1885 ; and in the two combined

o whom the principal legends of the north and west of the Peloponnese also refer. The Argive mythic history commences with t

tants into society and give them fire and social institutions1891. He also decided a dispute for the land between Hera and P

rth, who seized all passers-by,) asleep, he deprived her of life : he also took vengeance on the murderers for the death of

Argeiphontes is to be regarded as intimating a knowledge of Io. It is also doubtful if she was one of the heroines of the Eo

ard over Io. Æschylus introduces Io in his ‘Prometheus Bound,’ and he also relates her story in his ‘Suppliants.’ The genera

. In Homer and Hesiod Danaans is a common name of the Greeks, who are also called Argeians and Achæans. The names of nations

d her temple, saying that their father's house was much finer. It was also said that they were the priestesses of the goddes

, where he was hospitably entertained by that happy people1942. He is also said to have turned Atlas into a mountain on his

by which they have ever been infested1944. The origin of the coral is also deduced from the sea-weed which Perseus placed un

een instructed by Cheirôn. His sons Podaleirios and Machaôn, who were also renowned for their skill in treating wounds, led

hat Apollo Lycios was elsewhere ; and that the true root in this case also was ATKH, lux, light ; and similarity of sound ga

it is said, took the unborn infant and gave it to Maia to rear. It is also said that Areas, having been separated from his m

cadia, and instructed its inhabitants in the mode of making bread. He also showed them how to manufacture wool, — an art whi

ad been substituted1991. The resemblance between Arcas and ἄρκτος may also have had some effect on the formation of this leg

ed by birth with Polydeukes rather than with Castôr. The brothers may also be regarded as sun and moon, to which their names

(Ἂνακϵς), as they were named, had their temples and statues2015 ; as also had the Leucippides2016, who, in perhaps the more

empests2020 ; and the St. Elmo's fire was ascribed to them. They were also said to be the constellation of the Twins. C

om of Nestôr, and his brother's power of changing his form, remind us also of the sea-deities. Pero may be connected with th

country there derived from him its name, Pæonia2034. Endymiôn, it is also said, gained the love of the goddess Selene, and

the ancient Epeians are said to have been Lelegians, and this people also dwelt in the neighbourhood of Latmos, it has been

, who married Sthenelos and Mestôr the sons of Perseus. In this mythe also there is much obscurity. We will commence our exa

es him to win the prize. The connexion between this god and Pelops is also intimated in the tradition that the first temple

eing related of the same object, Pelops, i. e. the Pelopians2077, may also have been regarded as a physical being, and the m

search of Thyestes. They went to Delphi, where they met him, who was also come to consult the god on the nature of the veng

filled by a beautiful virgin named Comætho. A youth named Melanippos, also distinguished for his beauty, conceived a violent

hæstos, as was said, and given to Dardanos by Zeus. Cassandra, it was also said, had thrown this coffer in the way of the Gr

complishment of the oracle given to him ; the Achæans saw that theirs also was fulfilled, the human sacrifices ceased, the s

legend very appropriately made Agenôr the sire of Cadmos, Europa was also said to be his daughter, while her mother Telepha

om Hera cast into Erebos for contending with her in beauty2124. It is also said that Oriôn was earth-born2125. Hyria, a town

t it was for presuming to challenge the goddess at the discus. It was also said, that when he came to Crete, he boasted to L

d his chase of them lasted for five years2133. The Hyades are by some also called daughters of Atlas, but according to the b

told of them will accord. Their clustering together (whence they were also named the ‘Bunch’2143) might easily have suggeste

Polydeukes, sons of Zeus. Peleus and Telamôn, grandsons of that god, also came with Theseus, Erginos and Ancæos, sons of Po

others. Idmôn the seer, the son of Apollo, came from Argos ; Mopsos, also a prophet, from Thessaly, and Orpheus, the son of

Here died Idmôn the seer, wounded by the tusks of a wild boar. Tiphys also dying here, Ancæos undertook the steerage of the

dwell at Lilybæon. The Argonauts now passed Scylla and Charybdis, and also the Wandering Rocks ; over these they beheld flam

oets and by the vanity of those whose patron-heroes they were. It may also have been that the commercial voyages of the Miny

the fleece. This however is no essential part of the mythe, as it is also said to be white or purple 2166. There can be lit

om it ; it is narrated in detail by Apollodorus and by Diodorus. Ovid also relates a a good part of it, and there is an unfi

oet Valerius Flaccus, which displays genius and originality. There is also the Argonautics of the pseudo-Orpheus, a poem to

g : before the door he met another stranger, Tydeus the son of Œneus, also a fugitive : a quarrel arose between them : at th

ces Strife-full, Antigone Contrary-birth 2189, and so forth. There is also a moral intended to be conveyed in the failure of

the topography of western Greece. The cyclic poems have perished, as also has the Thebaïs of Antimachus ; but the Thebaïs o

in games given by the king, fifty youths and as many maids. The king also in obedience to an oracle, gave him a spotted cow

erse the events before, in, and after the Ilias. To these later times also belong the tasteless pragmatised narratives in pr

he Hecuba, Troades, Andromache, Helena, Electra and Orestes ; we have also the Rhesus of another poet. The Cassandra of Lyco

re personification of the moon. Other names indicate ideal personages also  : those of Agamemnôn and Menelaos appear to denot

e, chiefly derived from the Grecian colonies in Italy ; from whom she also obtained those oracles called the Sibylline Books

s worshiped at the Tuscan cities of Sutri and Vulsinii2256. Vertumnus also was one of the principal deities of Etruria2257.

robable belonged originally to the Etruscan system. The Etruscans had also deities answering to the Neptunus, Mars, Saturnus

y of the Latin and Greek languages can be accounted for ; and it will also in a great measure, taken however in combination

s, or Sabinus, as the origins of their nation2260. Mamers or Mars was also one of their deities ; an erect lance was the sym

heaven ; and of the Select Gods2269, like the Select Judges ; and we also meet with a Plebs among the divinities2270. It ca

emy's general if slain by a Roman commander were borne to him. He was also called Victor and Stator, as the giver of victory

d Victor and Stator, as the giver of victory and stayer of flight. We also meet with Jupiter Pistor, whose altar was on the

millstones were wreathed with garlands of flowers, and the mill-asses also crowned with violets went about with cakes strung

ata Mater is generally supposed to have been Vesta. We find this last also called Mater. 2308 Ceres. Ceres was the

y from the Palilia. The offering was made to Jupiter, but the day was also sacred to Venus2323. Ovid directs the meretrices

Jap. 253, 254. 6. Hom. II. i. 55. with Wolf's note. Od. v. 427. See also II. ix. 459. 7. Aristotle, Pol. i. 3. 8. See th

Agam. 505. 28. Athen. iii. 78. 29. II. ii. 865. (Heyne in loc.) See also II. xvi. 174. 30. «Hic Messapus per mare ad Ital

âh-nâmeh, and one of its most interesting narratives. The reader will also meet in the same place with some remarks on Ossia

Myth. der Jap. p. 5. seq. Böttiger, Ideen zur Kunst-Myth. ii. 50. See also Müller, Proleg. 219. 57. Mythologus, i. 24. Welc

xcellent works of Völcker on the Homeric and Mythic Geographies ; and also that of Ukert on the Geography of the Greeks and

revails at the present day among the Chinese and the Hindoos ; it was also a principle in the cosmogony of the ancient Persi

iii. 1 ; xix. 433 ; xxiii. 242. 347. Hes. W. and D. 566. Thus Milton also , P. L. v. 139. ……………………the sun, who scarce upris

anos treated thus. Völcker (Myth. der Jap. 283.) says the Titans were also shut up. 142. See v. 239. 143. It was shown in

n Creuzer, and Ueber das Wesen und die Behandlung der Mythologie. See also Müller, Proleg. pp. 371-379. 145. Κύκλωψ, render

mposition gave origin to the one-eyed giants of the Odyssey, who were also known to the author of the Theogony : see v. 143.

orus followed him in his theogony. 158. The Titanesses are evidently also to be excepted. 159. See Il. xv. 187. seq. 160

recollect that s and h are commutable (ἑπτα, septem, ὑλη, silva), as also the semivowels l, n, r (Panormus, Palermo, etc.),

i. 163. 245. Rem. Amor. 258. Fasti, iv. 374. 246. Theb. i. 336. See also viii. 271. 247. Paus. v. 11. 8. 248. «Mulus veh

). Claudian, R. P. iii. 403. Eidyl, i. 60. Anthol. Lat. i. 1. 56. See also the epigram in the fragments of Ovid. 251. Mosc

ἡμιτόμον κϵραῆѕ űτϵ κύκλα σϵλήνηѕ. It may be that a similar view was also the origin of the epithet τανροπόλοѕ given to Art

83. 266. Od. xxiii. 245. 267. Ut supra. 268. Idyl. xiii. 11. See also Quint. Smyrn. i. 49. 269. Troad. 843. For χρύσϵο

… delectari enim deum honore servorum contemplatu laboris.» Macrobius also gives the following lines from the Annals of the

‘like a star.’ This was probably the more ancient version, but it was also said that she took the form of a quail, ὄρτυξ, (s

289. 414. See Fairy Mythology, i. 35. 415. Hes. Th. 243. 936. See also Od. v. 422 ; xii. 60. 97. Apollodorus (i. 4. 4.)

les and Popular Fictions’, 79. seq. will be found some instances. See also Fairy Mythology, passim. 442. Paus. i. 30. 4.

. iii. 336. b. Voss, Anti-Symb. i. 203, 204. The ancient Hebrews seem also to have had gloomy ideas of Sheôl, their under-wo

Hesiod (Th. 311.) names him Cerberos, and gives him fifty heads. See also Th. 769-773. Others gave him one hundred heads. H

n Pindar, Ol. ii. 123. Fr. Thren. 4. 480. De R. P. ii. 282. seq. See also Sil. Ital. xiii. 524. seq. and Tibul. i. 3. 59. s

beautiful passage, Geor. ii. 325. seq. 538. Herod. i. 31. Cows were also sacred to the Egyptian Isis (Id. ii. 41.), whom h

6. πολύμητις, πολύϕρων. 587. II. xx. 73 ; xxi. 330. seq. His name is also synonymous with fire, ix. 468 ; xvii. 88 ; xxiii.

ἀγλαόγυιος. 600. See above, p. 64. 601. II. xxi. 499. 602. Hesiod also could have known nothing of this enmity, as (Th.

. 603. Met. vi. 313. seq. from Nicander ; see Anton. Lib. 35. Virgil also seems to allude to it, Geor. i. 378. This is sure

f figures this has been long since recognised from the medals, but it also frequently appears in the mythic form, and in thi

this hymn was composed before the destruction of Cirrha (01. 47.). He also thinks (Dor. i. 241.) that the worship of Apollo

r, Dorians, i. 309. 731. Müller, Dorians, ut supra. Proleg. 262. See also Hermann ut sup. 110. seq. 732. Il. v. 370. 733

s, in the Faerie Quene, a peculiar view of the gardens of Adonis. See also Milton, Comus, 992. seq. The Italian poct Marini

16. 792. Il. xiii. 277. Od. xiv. 217. 793. Od. viii. 493. 794. See also Il. v. 61 ; xv. 412. 795. Il. v. 735 ; xiv. 178.

4. ἀγελεία : 5. ἀτρτώυη : 6. λαοσσόος. 805. Müller, Proleg. 244. See also Eudocia, 4. Schwenk, 230. Welcker, Tril. 282. Пαλ

’s at Rome on his mind, in Schiller’s Marie Stuart, act i. sc. 6. Sec also Shakspcare's Winter's Tale, act iii. sc. 1. 923.

ese of course were the names of the nine maids in Nicander. Ovid, who also relates the legend (Met. v. 300. seq.), says they

and character of the poems and institutions ascribed to Orpheus. See also Müller, Proleg. 379. seq. The name Orpheus is per

8. 974. Il. xvii. 51. 975. Od. xviii. 194. 976. Od. viii. 364. See also the beautiful fragment of the Cypria. Athen. xv.

96. “Crescente luna frumenta grandescunt.” Plin. H. N. xviii. 30. See also ii. 99, x. 54, and elsewhere. Plut. de Is. et Os.

on reading. 1004. See Nitzsch on Od. iii. 236. 1005. Prom. 515. See also Herod. i. 91. 1006. I. ἀπλανέες : 2. βαρύϕρονες.

r (Tril. 39.) says that Themis is merely an epithet of Earth. Hermann also makes Themis a physical being, rendering her name

54. 1149. See Müller, Dor. i. 403. 1150. Tacitus, Ann. iii. 61. See also Strabo, xiv. 1. 1151. Plut. Pelop. 16. 1152. He

ere he says (i. 11.) that Osiris and Isis were Sun and Moon. Isis was also as the goddess of Saïs identified with Athena. Pl

. ii. 46. 1172. Macrob. Sat. i. 22. 1173. On Virg. Buc. ii. 31. Sec also Sch. Theocr. i. 3. Eudocia, 323. 1174. Idyll. vi

Alcmaôn, Alcman ; Amythaôn, Amythan. 1189. Kret. Kol. 45. note. See also Schwenk. 213. 1190. Ap. Strabo. x. 3. 1191. Sc

196. Hymn iv. 262. 1197. Fr. Incert. 73. 1198. Xen. Symp. v. 7. See also Ælian, V. H. iii. 18. 1199. Serv. Buc. vi. 13. N

in, as 1289. Apollod. ut sup. 1290. Hesiod, Th. 270. seq. In Ovid also (Met. iv. 773.) their number is only two. 1291.

tz. Lyc. 166. 1313. Below, Part II. chap. the last. Argonautics. See also Æschyl. Eum. 50. Virgil, ut supra, 216. 1314. Il

. 1316. Theog. 378. 1317. Id. 869. 1318. Il. xv. 171 ; xix. 358 ; also αἰθρηγενέτης, Od. v. 296. See Appendix (E.). 131

417. 1357. Od. x. 81. 1358. See Circe and Ortygia in this chapter : also Völcker, Hom. Geog. p. 116. 1359. Thuc. vi. 2. S

hus suspected the first six lines. 1426. Od. iv. 564. 1427. This is also the opinion of Nitzsch. Erklär. Anmerk. zur Odyss

 713. 1441. Phænomena, 100. seq. 1442. Met. i. 89. seq. 1443. So also Virgil (Buc. iv. 9. Geor. ii. 537.) and Claudian

p. 365.), is of the same family with aqua, and relates to agriculture also . Müller (Proleg. 291.) says it signifies good, an

. v. 710 ; xiii. 687 ; which last however is considered spurious. See also Il. xiv. 476 ; xvii. 597. 1518. Hesiod (Works, 5

obably no original fiction of the poet, but a current story. Æschylus also alludes to it, Choëph. 600. seq. 1623. Apollod

somewhat differently by Pherecydes (Sch. Apoll. Rh. iii. 1179.). Sec also Sch. Eurip. Phœn. 5. 1624. The oracle said to Ea

yllene the scene of Teiresias’ adventure. There are other differences also in the narrative. 1700. Οἲην μὲν μοίραν δéкα μ

y Orchomenos in Bœotia to distinguish it from that in Arcadia, and he also (Il. xi. 722.) applies it to a stream in the Pelo

37, 3. 1712. Hom. Hymn to Pyth. Apoll. 118. 1713. The same trick is also said to have been played on Augeas, king of Elis,

s the Arcadian architect (Charax ap. Sch. Aristoph. Clouds, 509.). It also formed an episode of the Telegonia. The reader wi

story of Cleobis and Bitôn from Herod. i. 31. 1716. Paus. ix. 40. He also relates (ib. 39.) the mode of consulting the orac

l. xx. 145.) mentions the combat of Heracles with the sea-monster. He also tells (v. 640.) of the taking of Troy by Heracles

s) at Gades which gave occasion to this localization of Erytheia, and also to the legend of the pillars. 1752. See above, p

on his way to the Hesperides (Strab. iv. 1.). Hyginus (P. A. ii. 6.), also quoting Æschylus, says it was on his return from

h. 258.) of the Athenian autochthony in the same manner as Plato. See also Euripides Fr. Erechtheus, i. 7. seq. 1796. See

-haired, is the same as ξανθὀѕ 1855. Paus. i. 19, 3. 1856. We are also told of a giant Pallas, from whom the goddess der

4. Eumelos ap. Paus. ii. 1, 1. 1865. Paus. ii. 1, 6. As Briareôs was also called Ægæôn (Il. i. 403.), he is here probably P

is said, Τῳ μὲν ἐπώνυμον ἦν ὅτ᾿ ἄῤ Ὠкϵανοȗ πϵρὶ πηγὰς Γϵνθ᾿. It may also be derived from ΠΗΓΩ, πηγνȗμι, to construct or bu

. zur Tril. 309. 1916. Apollod. ut sup. Hygin. 169. This last writer also says that Amymone fell asleep, and while she was

Actæôn gave origin to springs on Cithærôn (Philostr. Im. i. 14.). See also Paus. ix. 33, 4, and the legend of St. Winifred’s

at Joppa, where the marks of the chains were to be seen on a rock, as also the bones of the monster which M. Scaurus brought

n to Demeter, 9. 1957. Paus. ii. 18, 1. 1958. Proleg. 307. seq. See also Völcker, Myth. der Jap. 200. seq. 1959. The cha

Met. ii. 401. seq. Fasti, ii. 155. seq. Hyginus, 177. P. A. i. It was also fabled that, at the request of Hera, Tethys forba

rete, i. 95. 2092. Hesiod and Bacchylides ap. Sch. Il. xii. 292. See also Apollod. iii. 1. Moschus, Idyll. ii. Ovid, Met. i

d, Fasti, v. 495. seq. Hygin. 195. P. A. ii. 34. Eudocia, 441. Pindar also would seem to have related it (Strab. ix. 1.). Th

perhaps the original signification of the name Adrastos ; but it may also be rendered Do-nought (a and δράω) adapted to thi

185. Pindar (Pyth. viii. 68. seq.) makes Adrastos command in this war also . 2186. Paus. viii. 24, 8. 2187. The Echinades.

mpires of Agamemnôn and Priamos, and thence their mutual jealousy. He also supposes the Pelopids to have meditated the recov

enerem igitur almum adorans, sive femina sive mas est.” — Lævinus. He also quotes “Descendo ac ducente deo,” Virg. Æn. ii. 6

ty of the Christian religion, and for the sanctity of its morals. “It also enables us to understand the works of various aut

fering death, to enjoy an immortality of bliss. This happy region was also called the “Fortunate Fields,” and the “Isles of

and to drive through the air, giving light to gods and men. The stars also , except those forming Charles’s Wain, or Bear, ro

as themselves, but of far greater beauty, strength, and dignity. They also regarded them as being of much larger size than m

lings; but all, when summoned, repaired to the palace of Zeus, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth, th

ose usual abode was the earth, the waters, or the under-world. It was also in the great hall of the palace of the Olympian k

h Gæa, the earth; and reflection will show what a truly poetical, and also what a logical idea this was; for, taken in a fig

Tellus or Terra; Hindu, Prithivi; Samothrace*, Great Goddess. She was also called Titania*. Uranus, fearing that his turbule

opped into the stream. Cycnus*, the friend of the ill-fated Phaethon, also abandoned himself to mourning, and at length was

of intimating the fact that the wind generally rises at dawn. She was also mother of Eosphorus* (dawn-bearer) and of the Sta

-god. Hence she is a personification not merely of the rosy morn, but also of twilight. She is described by the poets as a b

s the Great Mother, and unceasing producer of all plant-life. She was also believed to exercise unbounded sway over the anim

identified with Ops, the wife of Saturn. She was called Magna Mater, also Dindymene*. This latter title she acquired from t

r May of each alternate year. The games consisted of athletic sports, also contests in music and poetry. The prizes were gar

es offered were black bulls, rams, and boars. The gall of victims was also offered. The bodies were thrown into the sea. The

s sending nourishment to plants from the deep bosom of the earth, but also as offering unbounded riches to mankind in the sh

bus* was a general term comprehending the palace and domain of Pluto, also Tartarus*, a place of imprisonment. The souls of

d chanting war-songs. Sacrifices were horses, rams, wolves, and dogs, also grass, because it grows in towns laid desolate by

mmotion both on sea and land announced the event to the world. She is also the goddess of wisdom, and as such is the protect

ll those engaged in intellectual pursuits and artists. As Minerva was also the patroness of schools, the school-boys took pa

modern life. It served not only for the preparation of meals, but was also esteemed the sacred altar of the house. There the

ere offerings of food. The young of animals were sacrificed to Vesta, also tender shoots of plants, fruits, and libations of

rful chariots, and shod with brass the horses of celestial origin. He also made the tripods which moved automatically, and f

hich moved automatically, and formed for Zeus the far-famed Ægis*. He also made various wonderful things for his favorites,

aking himself red-hot in the fire, and then embracing them. Hephæstus also made the armor of Achilles*, that of Æneas*, the

e sceptre of Agamemnon. Hephæstus was held in great esteem at Athens, also by the Greeks in Campania and Sicily. Aphrodite w

They honored in him the blessings and beneficial action of fire. They also sought his protection against conflagrations. Und

unproductive portion of the year which we call winter. The Horæ were also the deities of the fast-fleeting hours. In this c

ated not only as the god that kindles love between the sexes, but was also regarded as the author of love and friendship bet

d by the genial warmth of spring over the dark gloom of winter. He is also represented as a terrible god of death, sending v

s she is known as the Arcadian, Ephesian, and Brauronian Artemis, and also as Selene-Artemis. The Arcadian Artemis was the d

Zeus and Leto, and twin-sister of Apollo. She was a moon-goddess, and also presided over hunting. Artemis is the feminine co

she deals out destruction and sudden death to men and animals, she is also able to alleviate suffering and cure diseases. Sh

to the underworld; as the latter he was called Psychopompos*. He was also god of the fertilizing rain. Later poets make him

s full dominion over flocks and herds. The offer was accepted. Apollo also gave Hermes the Caduceus*, or golden wand. This w

ed those that refused assistance o the lost or weary wayfarer. He was also guardian of streets and roads, and his statues, c

the blessings of autumn. It is he that causes the fruits to ripen; he also dispenses to mankind the blessings of civilizatio

om the odes of that name, or from a story of his double birth; he was also called Muse-leader, bull-headed, fire-born, dance

diadem, and bearing in her hand a rudder, balance, and cubit. She is also sometimes seen with a wheel, to symbolize the rap

d to begin every new day, and was called Matutinus Pater*. He appears also as the door-keeper of heaven, whose gates he open

he opened in the morning and closed in the evening. He was regarded, also , as the presiding deity over ah gates, entrances,

sual offerings to Pan were milk and honey. Cows, lambs, and rams were also offered to him. When Pan was wooing the nymph Pit

e, and were distinguished not only by their sacerdotal vestments, but also by their piety, wisdom, and blameless lives. They

d offered prayers and sacrifices in the name of the people, whom they also instructed as to what vows, gifts, and offerings

erings were brought to appease the anger of the gods. Sacrifices were also made with a view of obtaining success in an enter

he command of an oracle. Every sacrifice was accompanied by salt, and also by a libation, usually of wine. The cup was alway

r, sprinkled it with a mixture of meal and holy water, after which he also sprinkled the worshipers, and exhorted them to jo

manifestation of the will of the gods by means of oracles, the Greeks also believed that certain men, called soothsayers, we

vals were instituted as seasons of rest, rejoicing, and thanksgiving, also as anniversaries to commemorate events of nationa

winter had disappeared, and so they naturally concluded that man must also have issued from the earth in a similar manner. A

d of the darkness (Laius), and he is doomed to slay his father. He is also the child of the dawn (Jocasta), whose soft, viol

equest, and not only overwhelmed the land with disastrous floods, but also sent a terrible sea-monster, which devoured men a

d Theseus. The brothers of Althea, wife of Œneus, joined the hunters, also the fleet-footed huntress Atalanta*. After Œneus

he notched a piece of iron on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He also invented a pair of compasses. Dædalus, envious of

rson anointed with it invulnerable for one day. She instructed him to also anoint his spear and shield, and gave him a stone

among the warriors that would spring up from the dragon’s teeth, and also a potion for lulling to sleep the dragon that gua

erils that would assail him, not only during his homeward voyage, but also on his return to Ithaca, and instructed him how t

es*, was wearing his life away in anxious longings for his return. He also conversed with Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Achilles

ined to return to earth and become the future heroes of Rome. He told also of the events to be accomplished before the compl

their food on biscuits, and when all else was consumed, they ate them also . Iulus cried out in sport, “See; we are eating ou

e surface of the earth during winter, and its reappearance in summer; also the immortality of the soul. Poseidon, or Neptune

rsonified the light of the sun in its illuminating, energizing power; also intellectual light. Artemis, or Diana, personifie

inciple of attraction. Hermes, or Mercury, personified air in motion; also the rain, also practical wisdom. Dionysus, or Bac

action. Hermes, or Mercury, personified air in motion; also the rain, also practical wisdom. Dionysus, or Bacchus, personifi

tical wisdom. Dionysus, or Bacchus, personified wine and its efiects; also the blessings of autumn. Charites, or Graces, per

ver the moon. Hecate presided over the darkness and terrors of night; also over magic. Zeus, or Jupiter, presided over all p

e change of the seasons. Hera, or Juno, presided over the atmosphere; also over marriage. Aides, or Pluto, presided over the

fierce war. Phœbus Apollo presided over archery, prophecy, and music; also over light from the sun and intellectual light. A

as represented as having the head of a ram; the hieroglyphic of a ram also signifying concealment. In Memphis, Pthah, “Fathe

evis*, at Heliopolis, and the white cow of Athor*, at Athribis*, were also reverenced as incarnations of Deity. Other animal

s. The sun was chiefly worshiped as Baal, in Babylon. His worship was also introduced by Ahab* into Israel*. The Phœnicians

of Deity, but he was too dimly comprehended to be popular. Bel* was also a favorite god, but Nin* and Nergal*, the winged

s said by his followers to have been a mortal sage named Guatama, and also Buddha, the Wise. It is probable he lived about a

the sun, in whose light they were always sporting. The Night Elves, also called Gnomes*, and sometimes Brownies*, were at

reasure which lay within his mighty folds, and by eating his heart he also gained a wisdom beyond that of mortal men. Going

d to consult more directly the secret will of the divinity. They were also the teachers of youth. Their teaching was oral. T

al historians of all past transactions, public and private. They were also accomplished genealogists.” The same author gives

tianity. The Druids were in the habit of observing the full moon, and also the sixth day of the moon. On the latter they sou

he had not reached bottom. Then the hare sent down the otter, but he also returned nearly dead, and without success. Great

, at others, of the winds; and as these are the rain-bringers, he was also at times spoken of as the god of waters. He was s

d Roman usage. In the transliteration of Greek names I have followed, also , the prevalent practice of our poets, which is, g

due reference is made in the footnotes and Commentary. The student is also referred to F. B. Jevons’ edition of Plutarch’s R

d for illustration by photographs) to be published by that company. I also acknowledge the kindness of Mr. W. K. ickery (Pub

d the English dictionaries. Mythological and classical geography must also be carefully studied. The maps accompanying this

invention concerning local wonders and beauties of nature. Pupils may also be encouraged to consider, and to comment upon, t

have been mentioned in §§ 10-12 of the Commentary. Instructors should also read to the classes illustrative English poems, o

is the seed-time of observation, we seem to have forgotten that it is also the harvest-time of memory. It is easy for childr

f natural powers would be more easy for us to appreciate. “If for us also , as for the Greek,” says Mr. Ruskin, 4 “the sunri

by the baptism of its dew; — if the sun itself is an influence, to us also , of spiritual good, — and becomes thus in reality

ritual good, — and becomes thus in reality, not in imagination, to us also , a spiritual power, — we may then soon over-pass

storical assumption. (2) The Philological Interpretatio ‌ n 5 assumes also a disease of the memory by reason of which men mi

the process of generations not only persons, but male and female. As, also , the phrases expressing the existence or the acti

s Daphne, the maiden of the glowing dawn. But the word, Daphne, meant also a laurel that burned easily, hence might readily

l images, and never for one instant separated from them, he conceives also two omnipresent spiritual influences, of which on

happened.” 14 But that is not the full statement of the case. Myth is also actual history of early and imperfect stages of t

rn nationalities of Europe, of Africa, and of India itself. It leaves also unexplained the existence of certain myths in Egy

ll be recounted in their proper places. The Comedies of Aristophanes, also , are replete with matters of mythological import.

ent faith and fable. § 12. Roman Poets of Mythology. — Vergil, called also by his surname, Maro, from whose poem of the Ænei

of Nero, is best known for his philosophical treatises; but he wrote, also , tragedies, the materials of which are well known

lly been connected with the Icelandic for great-grandmother;35 it has also been regarded as a corruption of the High German

e stanzaic form of the Nibelungenlied, the epic must be his.48 It has also been urged that the poem, having been written dow

ho lived and wrote between 1120 and 1200 a.d. The metrical structure, also , would indicate derivation from the German folk-s

enough for each. The hundred-handed monsters, or Hecatonchires, were also three in number. In them, probably, the Greeks im

ed as appropriating the characteristics of other gods, was sometimes, also , accredited with their wives. Beside the children

head of Medusa, the Gorgon, that turns to stone all beholders. She is also the goddess of war, rejoicing in martial music, a

xen and cows. The olive-tree, created by her, was sacred to her, and, also , the owl, the cock, the serpent, and the crow.

the fray his sons attend him — Terror, Trembling, Panic, and Fear, — also his sister Eris, or Discord (the mother of Strife

f the human race, and in the special creation of Pandora. He assisted also at the birth of Minerva, to facilitate which he s

beech-leaves. Apollo brought not only the warm spring and summer, but also the blessings of the harvest. He warded off the d

of his sunlight. As in the days of his youth he slew the Python, so, also , he slew the froward Tityus, and so the children

d with laurel in memory of Daphne, whom he loved. To him were sacred, also , many creatures, — the wolf, the roe, the mouse,

eness of eloquence. But his skill was not confined to speech: he was, also , the first of inventors — to him are ascribed the

love, and sometimes as the symbol of reciprocal affection. Venus was also attended at times by Hymen, a beautiful youth of

nd to drive through the air, giving light to gods and men. The stars, also , except those forming the Wain or Bear, and other

Mother Earth, wife of Uranus, belongs to the older order of gods; so also , another goddess of the earth, Rhea, the wife of

d. The people of this world — of ghosts and clouds and darkness — are also sometimes named the Cimmerians, and are then loca

ir faces, sacrificed black sheep to him and to his queen. He is known also as Dis, Orcus, and Tartarus. Fig. 28. Pluto (H

by their sweet singing enticed seafarers to destruction. (d) Scylla, also destructive to mariners, a six-headed monster, wh

to, Hades); Tellus, the Earth (Gæa). § 56. Italian Gods. — There were also divinities always peculiar to Roman mythology. Of

on of Saturn. He was worshipped as a god of fields and shepherds, and also of prophecy. His name in the plural, Fauni, expre

a class of gamesome deities, like the Satyrs of the Greeks. There was also a goddess called Fauna, or Bona Dea (good goddess

the priest to the Penates of his own house. The Lares, or Lars, were also tutelary deities, but they differed from the Pena

rly divinities presiding over the household or family; but there were also public Lares, or guardian spirits of the city, La

and after his death a judge in the lower world; Rhadamanthus, who was also regarded as king and judge in the world of ghosts

ground. Nor could the physicians help, for the disease attacked them also . At last men learned to look upon death as the on

aid, if thou art indeed my father, give me back my people, or take me also away!’ At these words a clap of thunder was heard

on — and those of women — spinning, weaving, and needle-work. She was also a warlike divinity, but favored only defensive wa

s awarded to her as the prize of a peaceful contest with Neptune, who also aspired to it. In the reign of Cecrops, the first

n her work. It was not only beautiful when it was done, but beautiful also in the doing. To watch her one would have said th

had ventured to insult the mother of the twin deities. They overthrew also the Aloadæ, Otus and Ephialtes, sons of Iphimedia

her 16, 17: 2765.] It was said that Zephyrus (the west wind), who was also fond of Hyacinthus and jealous of his preference

ou keep thy course, while the sphere revolved beneath thee? The road, also , is through the midst of frightful monsters. Thou

stars withdrew, marshalled by the Daystar, which last of all retired also . The father, when he saw the earth beginning to g

another illustration of the swift and awful vengeance of Apollo, and also of his sister Diana. This Niobe was the daughter

Say no more,” said he; “speech only delays punishment.” So said Diana also . Darting through the air, veiled in clouds, they

ven into wreaths for their brows. And, as eternal youth is mine, thou also shalt be always green, and thy leaf know no decay

take her across the black river and bring her back again. The voice, also , especially cautioned her against prying into the

en that it opened only unwillingly to the might of Pluto; and she had also , in her flight from Alpheus through the lower reg

his arrangement, restored the earth to her favor. Now she remembered, also , Celeus and his family, and her promise to his in

strains. The very trees and rocks were sensible to the charm. And so also was Eurydice, — whom he loved and won. Pl. 10.

s it came within the sound of his lyre, fell harmless at his feet: so also the stones that they threw at him. But the women,

spring that still bears the Danaïd’s name. He loved the goddess Ceres also , through whose pastures his rivers strayed; and A

eady cited, beginning, “The world is too much with us.” 227 Schiller, also , by his poem, The Gods of Greece, has immortalize

the water-nymphs; and when they smote their breasts, Echo smote hers also . They prepared a funeral pile, and would have bur

a Hamadryad, guardian especially of the apple-orchards, but presiding also over other fruits. “Bear me, Pomona,” sings one o

its just reward. § 125. The Cranes of Ibycus.239 — The Furies, called also Diræ (the terrible ones), Erinyes (the persecutor

In his madness he slew his children, and would have slain Amphitryon, also , had not Minerva knocked him over with a stone, a

fterward restored him to the lower regions. While in Hades, Hercules, also , obtained the liberty of Theseus, his admirer and

the sphere celestial.302 Theseus, Meleager, Peleus, and Nestor were also among these Argonauts, or sailors of the Argo. Th

age. But the daughters of Pelias wished Medea to restore their father also to youth. Medea simulated consent, but prepared h

r,315 — these and many more joined in the enterprise. With them came, also , Atalanta, the daughter of Iasius, — Arcadian At

d for thy sake praiseworthiest from all men: Thee therefore we praise also , thee as these, Pure and a light lit at the hands

no time then for love: on to the hunt they pushed. To the hunt went, also , Plexippus and Toxeus, brothers of Queen Althæa,

e of a fish, and imitating it in iron, invented the saw. He invented, also , a pair of compasses. But Dædalus, envious of his

The curse seemed to have spared Polydorus himself. His son Labdacus, also , lived a quiet life as king of Thebes, and left a

i, accompanied only by one attendant. In a narrow road he met Œdipus, also in a chariot. On the refusal of the youthful stra

ns, comforted and sustained him to the last. Both his daughters were, also , with him: — And then he called his girls, and b

the Trojans; Venus for the opposite cause favored them; she enlisted, also , her admirer Mars on the same side. Neptune favor

im, to tell him the extent of the Grecian calamities. He reminded him also how, at the time of the departure for Troy, Achil

r. Hector leaped from the chariot to rescue his friend, and Patroclus also descended to complete his victory. Thus the two h

s, begging him to retire nor tempt the encounter. His mother, Hecuba, also besought him, but all in vain. “How can I,” said

eauteous nymph, Too beauteous Helen; no uncourtly gift.”368 Milton also alludes to a famous recipe for an invigorating dr

s. — It was the intention of the conspirators to slay his son Orestes also , a lad not yet old enough to be an object of appr

e palace and mingle with the suitors as formerly; that Ulysses should also go as a beggar, a character which in the rude old

alls of chieftains, and often treated like a guest; though sometimes, also , no doubt, with contumely. Ulysses charged his so

Discord, whose hair was of vipers tied up with a bloody fillet. Here also were the monsters, Briareus, with his hundred arm

he Titan race, who warred against the gods, lie prostrate; Salmoneus, also , who presumed to vie with Jupiter, and built a br

nd taught him the difference between mortal weapons and divine. Here, also , is Tityus, the giant, whose form is so immense,

gave no share to others; the last being the most numerous class. Here also were those who had violated the marriage vow, or

se who fell by wounds received in their country’s cause, holy priests also , and poets who have uttered thoughts worthy of Ap

rains in my hand.’ Unluckily I forgot to ask for enduring youth. This also he would have granted, could I have accepted his

broke loose and ran after the mare into the forest, obliging the man also to run after his horse, thus, therefore, between

asion to ask any one else in the hall to wrestle with him, and it was also getting late; so he showed Thor and his companion

to enclose it between his head and tail. Thy wrestling with Elli was also a most astonishing feat, for there was never yet

ng around him but a verdant plain. § 181. The Sword of Freyr. — Freyr also possessed a wonderful weapon, a sword which would

count of his blindness, and going up to him, said, “Why dost thou not also throw something at Balder?” “Because I am blind

se Gulltopp, and Freya drove in her chariot drawn by cats. There were also a great many Frost giants and giants of the mount

s fall, direct their course to the battle-field called Vigrid Thither also repair the wolf Fenris, the Midgard serpent, Lok

ty king of the Huns whom Odin loved and prospered exceedingly. Rerir, also , the son of Sigi, was a man of valor and one who

ng, doing battle against Lyngi, the son of Hunding, — a chieftain who also had loved the fair Hiordis, — he got his death-wo

learned the language of the birds; and at their advice he slew Regin also , who plotted against him. So, setting the ring of

cloak that rendered him invisible, had fulfilled for Gunther. He had also succored poor Gunther after his marriage with Bru

— consult Index and the references as there indicated. § 11. Homer is also called Melesigenes, son of Meles — the stream on

2. On Homer, Hesiod, Theocritus, the tragic poets, Pindar, etc., see, also , Collins’ excellent series of Ancient Classics fo

ngton, Lond.: 1872; Odes and Epodes, by Lord Lytton, N.Y.: 1870. See, also , under Pope , and Wilkinson , p. 540. § 13. For

name given to the runic A B C.” Morley’s English Writers, 1: 267. See also Vigfusson and Powell’s Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 2

schichte der deutschen National-Litteratur, 42-101, Leipz.: 1886. See also , in general, Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie, Gotting

ch, as it brings all things to an end, devours its own offspring; and also with the Latin Saturn, who, as a god of agricultu

s the round-eyed. The Hecatonchires were Briareus, the strong, called also Ægæon (see 21 C); Cottus, the striker; Gyes (or G

t’s Nativity, “Nor Typhon huge ending in snaky twine.” The monster is also called Typhöeus ( Hesiod, Theog. 1137). The name

n time, Jupiter and his dynasty should be overthrown. Prometheus knew also that he would be released from chains by one of h

ets prophesied a return of these goddesses and of the Golden Age. See also Pope’s Messiah, — " All crimes shall cease, and

5: 48; Windsor Forest, 33, 234; E. C. Stedman, News from Olympia. See also E. W. Gosse, Greece and England (On Viol and Flut

Leto, Artemis, Themis, Aphrodite, Dione, Pæeon (or Pæon), and Hebe, — also usually present among the assembled immortals; (3

to certain limitations of energy and knowledge; (5) they were subject also to corporeal wants and to human affections. The O

light. — Max Müller, Sci. Relig. 171, 172. Oracle: the word signifies also the answers given at the shrine. Illustrative. —

eastern frieze of the Parthenon; the Jupiter Otricoli in the Vatican; also the Jupiter and Juno (painting) by Annibale Carra

marriage of Zeus and Hera (given by Baumeister, Denkmäler 1. 649; see also Roscher 13: 2127), and the Juno of Lanuvium. § 35

ek Daphne, the Dawn (?). Hence Athene is the Dawn-goddess; but she is also the goddess of wisdom, because “the goddess who c

nt the iris and pupil. The Parthenon, in which this statue stood, was also constructed under the direction and superintenden

ng Mars. § 36. While the Latin god Mars corresponds with Ares, he has also not a few points of similarity with the Greek Phœ

nd that, therefore, the spirit of man was composed of fire. Vulcan is also called by the Romans Mulciber, from mulceo, to so

delphis, the dolphin.” — Lang, Myth, Ritual, etc., 2: 197. Apollo is also called Lycius, which means, not the wolf-slayer,

us and Pausanias.) — Lang, Myth, Ritual, etc., 2: 194, 195. Apollo is also called the Sminthian, or Mouse-god, because he wa

the faculty of clairvoyance really called into action. Scholars have also sought to determine when the pagan oracles ceased

The attitude much resembles that of Apollo, the sizes correspond and also the styles of execution. The Diana of the Hind is

es Lefebvre’s Diana and her Nymphs; Domenichino’s Diana’s Chase. Note also the allegorical Luna (Monday) of Raphael in the V

Aphrodite of ideal love), Anadyomene (rising from the water); she is, also , the sweetly smiling, laughter-loving, bright, go

ucer’s Knight’s Tale, for frequent references to the goddess of love; also the Court of Love; Spenser’s Prothalamion and Epi

“Hastener”, the swift wind. The invention of the Syrinx is attributed also to Pan. Illustrative. — To Mercury’s constructio

ve! has she done this to thee? What shall (alas) become of mee?” See also Lang’s translation of Moschus, Idyl I. In Art. —

rpening his Arrow; Guido Reni’s Cupid; Van Dyck’s Sleeping Cupid. See also under Psyche, § 94 C. Hymen. — See Sir Theodore

referred to in poetry. Note the painting by J. B. Regnault (Louvre), also the sculpture by Canova. (4) The Muses. — Spenser

there with humid bow waters the odorous banks,” etc., Comus 992. See also Milton’s P. L. 4: 698; 11: 244. In Art: painting

April on. Plays were acted during this festival. The Great Mother was also called Cybele, Berecyntia, and Dindymene. The Cy

ar names are Iacchus, Bromius, Evius (from the cry evoe). The god was also called Lyæus, the loosener of care, Liber, the li

Lyæus, the loosener of care, Liber, the liberator. His followers are also known as Edonides (from Mount Edon, in Thrace, wh

reau’s Youth of Bacchus, and C. Gleyre’s Dance of the Bacchantes. See also under Ariadne. § 47. The invention of the Syrinx

e also under Ariadne. § 47. The invention of the Syrinx is attributed also to Mercury. For poetical illustrations see §§ 52-

to Mercury. For poetical illustrations see §§ 52-54, 116, 117, C. So also for Nymphs and Satyrs. In Art. — The exquisite a

id.” Milton, P. L. 3: 568, “Like those Hesperian gardens,” etc. See also P. L. 2, passage beginning “Abhorred Styx, the fl

gure, — a personification of wealth and nothing more. Hades is called also the Illustrious, the Many-named, the Benignant, P

d astray, Through the heaven’s wide pathless way” (Il Penseroso). See also for Io, Shelley’s Prometheus Bound. Argus: Pope,

very remote times, traced their descent from a she-bear, and if they also , like other races, recognized a bear in a certain

Artemis herself. That Artemis was protectress of she-bears is known; also that, in Attica, she was served by girls who imit

rhaps some beauty lies The Cynosure of neighb’ring eyes” (L’Allegro); also his “And thou shalt be our star of Arcady, Or Tyr

he fold Of the North-star hath shrunk into his den” (Prometheus). See also the song beginning “Hear ye, ladies, that despise

Rape of Europa; E Dowden, Europa; W. W. Story, Europa, a sonnet. See also a graceful picture in Tennyson’s Palace of Art.

hat Antiope is a personification of some such natural phenomena would also appear from the significance of the names associa

e thought, in like fashion, to represent manifestations of light: see also Castor and Pollux. Perhaps the method employed by

and after the Sun (Apollo) is born, in Delos (the land of Dawn). See also §§ 37, 57, and Commentary thereon. Illustrative.

species of iris, or of larkspur, or pansy. The meaning of the name is also uncertain, but the best authorities favor youthfu

ea; the other in Phrygia, near Troy. Mount Helicon: in Bœotia, sacred also to Apollo. Mount Hæmus: in Thrace. Ætna: in Sicil

e way. Illustrative. — Milman in his Samor alludes to the story. See also Chaucer, H. of F. 435; Spenser, F. Q. 1,4: 9; Sha

of Chryses. § 77. The Dynasty of Tantalus and its Connections. — See also § 132 (5) C. Pelops. — It is said that the go

mmunicate To none but to his wife his ears of state.” § 83ª. Marsyas also was unfortunate enough to underrate Apollo’s musi

r disappearance in the lap of her mother, the earth.” The word Daphne also means, in Greek, a laurel; hence the legend that

Cupid and Psyche, in the Capitol at Rome, is of surpassing beauty; so also is Canova’s Cupid and Psyche. Among Paintings. —

syche of E. Neide is a sentimental, simpering conception. A. Zick has also a Psyche. § 95. According to another tradition, A

Frederick Tennyson, Kleïs or the Return (in the Isles of Greece). See also Lyly’s amusing prose drama, Sappho and Phao. § 10

lton, P. L. 4: 348; Vacation 90. Pactolus: Pope, Spring 61; allusions also to the sisters of Phaëton. Silenus, by W. S. Land

fore Winter closes in. The fable has, however, its moral significance also , being connected with that great mystery of Joy a

Song of the Stygian Naiades; A. C. Swinburne, Song to Proserpine. See also notes under Persephone, § 50, Demeter and Pluto.

ys of the sun. The “head of the day,” or the rising sun, Cephalus, is also wooed by Aurora, the Dawn, but flies from her. Th

verley; J. S. Blackie, Galatea; B. W. Procter, The Death of Acis. See also on Cyclops, Shakespeare, Titus Andron. 4: 3; Haml

the possessor might wish. Illustrative. — The name Amalthea is given also to the mother of Bacchus. It is thus used by Milt

nd her florid son, Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea’s eye.” See also Milton, P. R. 2: 356. § 132. For the general gene

dusa. § 138. Textual. — The descent of Bellerophon is as follows. See also § 132 (5) C: — Lycia. — In Asia Minor. The fo

ven, on Pegasus must ride, And with sweet Poet’s verse be glorified”; also F. Q. 1. 9: 21; Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

e Cretan bull are probably varied forms of the powers of darkness; so also the Stamphalian (Stymphalian) birds and the giant

(sculpture) in the Vatican. § 149. The Descendants of Minos I. (See, also , § 59, C.) Interpretative. — Discrimination b

rt. — Sculpture: Canova’s Dædalus and Icarus; painting by J. M. Vien; also by A. Pisano (Campanile, Florence). § 151. The de

or “Taurians.” (See Index.) Iphigenia and Agamemnon by W. S. Landor; also his Shades of Agamemnon and Iphigenia; Dryden, Cy

in Tauris, and of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis and Among the Tauri; also of Æschylus’ Agamemnon: — such as those by Milman

lus LXIV.; Translation by C. M. Gayley as quoted in text, § 165ª. See also Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressida; 2 Hen. VI. 5: 1

Homer; C. T. Brooks, Schiller’s Parting of Hector and Andromache. See also Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressida; Love’s L. L. 5:

rythos (son of Œnone); the Death of Paris and Œnone; Tennyson, Œnone; also the Death of Œnone, which is not so good. The sto

discussion of the Laocoön group and of principles of æsthetics). See also Swift’s Description of a City Shower. In Art.— T

an, Bryant, Pope. Ulysses: Tennyson; Landor, The Last of Ulysses. See also Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressida; 3 Hen. VI. 3: 2

lustrative. — Young, in the Night Thoughts, alludes to the Sibyl. See also Shakespeare, 1 Hen. VI. 1: 2; Othello 3: 4. In A

f Venice, Act V. (Lorenzo and Jessica), for the Music of the Spheres; also Milton, Hymn to the Nativity. See Longfellow’s Ve

n. Many of the cantos of the Saga throw light on Norse mythology. See also the Hon. Roden Noel’s Ragnarok (in the Modern Fau

er. Freyr means lord; patron of the Swedes, harvest-god. Balder means also lord or king. On the one hand, his attributes rec

ong of Jarl Egill Skallagrim, and the Sword Chant of Thorstein Raudi; also Dora Greenwell’s Battle-Flag of Sigurd; and Charl

ettsom, The Fall of the Nibelungers (Lond.: 1874), both in verse. See also T. Carlyle, Nibelungenlied (Crit. Miscell.) Essay

es illustrative of the Nibelungenlied, in the royal palace at Munich; also the illustrations of the four operas by J. Hoffma

lustrations of the four operas by J. Hoffmann, and by Th. Pixis. See, also , under Baldw in , p. 540. §§ 185, 186. Historica

lm of death. The earth, that gathers to her bosom the dead, cherishes also in her bosom the hoard of gold. Naturally, theref

s an obscure sound when it ends an unaccented syllable: A-chæ′-a; so, also , the vowel i or y, not final, after an accented s

one. Cha′os, 37; Com. § 16. Cha′ris: youngest of the Charites; called also Aglaia (Aglaïa), wife of Vulcan. Char′i-tes; see

worship, 76; or the Roman Magna Mater, 88, 164; Com. §§ 26, 45a; see also Rhea. Cyc′lic Poets, The, 25. Cy-clo′pes, Cy′clop

incident, Com. § 94. Dau′lis, 258. Dawn, goddess of, Com. § 41. See, also , Aurora. Day, 38. Death (Than′atos) 84; Hercules’

74-180; of E. and underworld, 181-189; of lesser gods of, 200-214;see also under Gæa. East of the Sun, and West of the Moon:

he myth may refer to the daily struggle of the sun with darkness, and also to the unending strife of good with evil, the cou

epresented as a woman crowned with sun’s disk or cow’s horns, bearing also upon her head her emblem, the throne. Ho′rus or

, into which the life of Osiris was supposed to have passed. The name also indicates the Nile. The bull Apis must have certa

sented with the head of a ram. Khem, Chem (cf Milton’s Cham), called also Min: the energizing principle of physical life. A

rs. Eny′o, mother, daughter, sister, or wife of Mars; the horror, 58; also one of the three Grææ. E′os, 73; see Aurora. Epe

vo′nius, 72. Fenris, 370, 380, 388, 389. Fensalir, 380. Fero′nia, 90; also worshipped in the mart as a goddess of commerce;

lish Translations from Ancient and Modern Poems, 3 v. Lond. 1810; see also Com. §§ 11, 18. Hesi′o-ne, 189, 240, 287; Com. §

er Matu′ta, the goddess of the Dawn, Aurora; among the Romans applied also to Ino (Leucothea), 90. Ma′ter Tur′rita; Cybele,

ians. Otter, 395. O′tus, 120. Ov′id (O-vid′ius), transl., Com. § 12; also the Metam. in 15 books by various authors, publis

the Roman Magna Mater, 88, 175; Com. §§ 17, 45 a, 102, 103, 131; see also under Cybele. Rhine, 399, 400-404. Rhod′o-pe, a m

f Paros, first half of 4th century b.c.; he made the Niobe group; see also Com. § 43. Scyl′la, described, 86; and Glaucus, 2

idyls, 207, 215, 217, 239; see Andrew Lang, Index of Modern Authors; also Com. § 11. Thersan′der, 276. Thersi′tes, 303. The

n, in Argolis, 259. Tro′ïlus, a son of Priam, killed by Achilles; see also Com. §§ 165 (5), 167. Trojan War, mentioned, 24,

ngest son of Gæa; later identified with Typhon. Ty′phon, 41, 341; but also called the son of Typhōeus and a hurricane; Com.

Norse Underworld, see under Hel. Ura′nia, the muse of astronomy, 72; also the Aphrodite of ideal love, Com. § 40; cf. M. Ar

en). Poynter, E. J., 1836 (paint.). Com. § 95, Atalanta’s Race. Note also his Andromeda, Perseus, and Andromeda and Helen.

erature. Regnault, J. B., 1754-1829 (paint.). § 43, The Graces. Note also his Education of Achilles, Pygmalion and Venus, D

1840 (paint.). Com. § 171, Circe and the Companions of Ulysses. Note also his Argus and Actæon. Robinson, A. Mary F., 1857

Com. § 85, Daphne; § 92, Endymion; § 107, Orpheus and Eurydice. Note also his Ariadne, and The Wife of Pygmalion. Weber, A

” 14. E. B. Tylor, Anthropology, p. 387. New York, 1881. 15. See also L. Preller, Griechische Mythologie, I. 19. Max Mü

19. Max Müller, Comparative Mythology, Oxford Essays, 1856, p. 1-87; also Science of Religion, 1873, p. 335-403; Philosophy

100. 18. The Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Mythology of Aryan Nations, I. 99; also , same theory, Max Müller’s Chips from a German Wo

rean. 33. Cleasby and Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary. See also Commentary. 34. F. W. Horn’s Geschichte d. Lit

790-910. 60. See Commentary, § 25. 61. From Byron’s Prometheus. See also his translation from the Prometheus Vinctus of Æs

ommentary § 33. 72. Iliad 1: 622-625, Earl Derby’s translation. See also the passage in Chapman’s translation. 73. On the

inerva, see Commentary. 75. See Commentary. 76. Illiad, 5: 590. See also 21: 395. 77. Illiad, 18: 395. 78. Illiad, 1:

therea, and the Paphian refer to Venus. See Commentary, This elegy is also translated by Mrs. Browning and by Sir Edwin Arno

Ovid, Heroides 14; Horace, Odes 3: 11, 23. 269. Simonides of Ceos, also Apollodorus, Pausanias, and Hyginus (Fables). 2

lation by W. N. Lettsom, London, 1890. Werner Hahn’s Uebersetzung has also been used. 397. From Carlyle’s translation of fr

t judicious to present the classic fables in their simplest, which is also their most poetic form, giving the allegorical me

ous truth, or illustrate some operation of nature. Mythology includes also the historical myths, or the narratives of gods,

offerings: flowers, first fruits, libations of milk, honey, and wine; also sacrifices of animals, which were either partaken

Romans received the arts and sciences from the Greeks, they adopted, also , their divinities and their entire system of reli

od a fluid called ichor filled their veins. The deities resembled men also in form, but they were, with some exceptions, of

ies, Saturn, Janus, Vesta and others were sometimes added. There were also Terrestrial divinities, Gods of the Sea, Infernal

his blood, which is called the hyacinth. Cyparissus [Cyparis′sus] was also beloved by the god. The boy grieved so deeply at

his helmet and his sandals, and carrying a rod in his hand, which is also winged, and entwined with serpents. Ques. How ar

of Jupiter. Mercury is commonly called the messenger of the gods. He also swept the room where the gods supped, and made th

d him as the patron of orators, under the name of Hermes. Mercury was also the inventor of weights and measures, and the pat

Vulcan, the girdle of Venus, and the sceptre of Jupiter. He intended also to steal Jove’s thunderbolts, but was fearful the

epresented? Ans. With wings, because of her swiftness, and sometimes also as riding on a rainbow. Ques. How did Iris diffe

ield to which is affixed the head of Medusa. The cock and the owl are also represented on the shield. Ques. Why was Minerva

of peace, and war should only be made that a secure peace may follow; also because she bestowed the olive on men. Ques. On

which have ever since infested that region. From the blood of Medusa, also , when her head was cut off, sprang the famous win

ed in another place. The sufferings of the giant Tityus in hell, were also the penalty of an insult offered to this goddess.

alled Latium, from a Latin word which meant to hide; it was sometimes also called Saturnia. Saturn’s government was so wise

, say what they pleased to their masters, who could not take offence; also , in memory of the freedom and equality enjoyed in

s by throwing them into the fire to be burned to death. The Athenians also kept feasts of Vulcan, and there was in Sicily, u

have been a Titaness. Ques. Who was Astræa [Astræ′a]? Ans. She was also goddess of justice; according to some, she was th

a by order of Justinian. Two pillars of the great church of Pisa were also taken from this temple, which has been so complet

ul young women who attended on Diana and the greater goddesses. Some, also , had charge of certain fountains and rivers, and

it. This belief lingered for a long time amid the German forests, as also the superstition about water spirits. Ques. What

ey. Ques. What other sea-monsters were celebrated? Ans. The Sirens, also Scylla, and Charybdis. Ques. Who were the Sirens

cluded from the table of the gods for a year and nine days. Lethe was also a river of Hell; the name means oblivion; it is s

ell? Ans. Yes, many; the Centaurs, who were half man and half horse; also Geryon, who was king of the three Balearic Island

e as a monster. He was probably a wicked and cruel prince. There were also the Harpies, which had the faces of women and the

funeral pile of odorous wood, on which it was consumed. A new Phœnix also immediately arose from the flames. The first care

from the representations on our own coins. Ques. Were not the Vices also honored by the ancients? Ans. It is certain that

ed on account of his expedition in search of the Golden Fleece. He is also known as the husband of the famous sorceress Mede

e it was guarded by bulls who breathed flame from their nostrils, and also by a sleepless dragon. When Jason demanded his fa

kly, and prevented Hope, which was lying at the bottom, from escaping also . This signifies that in the midst of all human mi

hich he requested that prince to put the bearer to death. Jobates was also unwilling to imbrue his hands openly in the blood

ues in natural and lifelike attitudes, and with open eyes. Dædalus is also mentioned as the inventor of the axe, plumb-line

d at Brundusium, in the year 19, B. C. The Eclogues, sometimes called also Bucolica or Bucolics, are ten short pastoral poem

perished had he not been aided by a compassionate sea nymph; Minerva, also , smoothed the billows before him, and he swam saf

palace, and mingle with the suitors, as formerly; that Ulysses should also go, but in the disguise of a beggar. Such persons

l laid, that they not only succeeded in escaping unobserved, but were also enabled to carry off the statue of Diana, which t

ed to return to earth, and become the future heroes of Rome. Anchises also recounted to Æneas the glorious deeds which they

ble that the Christians should have added anything to them. There are also passages in the fourth Eclogue of Virgil which pr

from the appearance of the entrails of animals offered in sacrifice, also from the meeting with quadrupeds in any unaccusto

o answer those who consulted them, were called oracles. This word was also applied to the responses given. Ques. Name some

declare that the invaders possessed themselves of great booty. Sylla also plundered Delphi, and Nero took from it, at one t

he principal festivals held in honor of the gods. These remarks apply also to the Greek drama. Ques. What games were solemn

mple of Apollo at Delphi; in this votive offering, the charioteer was also represented; which proves that she had not driven

y other exercises admitted at the Olympic games? Ans. Yes; there was also an intellectual competition, which was perhaps mo

appropriately enough in the portico or court of a palace. There were also contrivances by which a portion of the interior m

on the stage, and performed their allotted part in the drama. Heroes also ascended to Olympus, and were hidden at length fr

nd was composed of the same materials as the Olympian Jupiter; it was also the work of Phidias. The Parthenon was one of the

ess represented? Ans. As a woman with the horns of a cow, sometimes, also , as crowned with lotus. Heads of Isis are common

sacred animal; if he ate, it was considered a favorable omen. It was also a good augury if he entered, of his own accord, a

to his worship, although the highest apartment of the edifice served also as an observatory, and was the repository of the

Moloch? Ans. He was a divinity of the Ammonites. The Phœnicians were also particularly devoted to his worship. Young childr

human sacrifices were offered to him in the valley of Hinnom, called also Tophet, which lay to the east of Jerusalem. Ques

e absorbed into Brahma, as drops of water are lost in the ocean. They also believe in metempsychosis. Ques. What is metemps

ey say? Ans. They say that he was a mortal sage, called Guatama, and also Buddha, or the Wise. Ques. When did Buddha live?

ief Pontiff of his sect, and a perpetual incarnation of Buddha. He is also a temporal sovereign, although he is controlled b

and formed clouds, from which sprung the Frost Giant and his progeny; also the cow Audhumbla, by whose milk the giant was no

. Were all the fairies equally beneficent? Ans. No; the Night Elves, also called Gnomes, and sometimes Brownies, were at ti

hed for their knowledge of the mysterious powers of nature. They were also skillful workers in wood and metal, and were acqu

entrails and the blood of victims, or from the flight of birds. They also cured maladies with certain mysterious charms. Th

d to consult more directly the secret will of the divinity. They were also the teachers of youth. The Druids must have posse

nce they counted the year by lunations; astronomical instruments have also been found among the druidical remains in Ireland

with their observations of the celestial bodies. The healing art was also practised by the Druids. The effect of their reme

ns, and offerings of bread and wine. The vervain and other plants had also their distinct ceremonial. Amber was valued for c

ne; and in Irish, Beal-Tinne, or the Fire of Baal. The solstices were also celebrated as the chief points in the sun’s annua

British islands. It would seem that the spirits of the departed were also propitiated at this season, and many curious trad

built temples, and introduced the worship of their own gods, adopting also those of the conquered race. Druidism retired, st

ined to facilitate as it were the flowing of blood. Dolmens are found also in straight lines, forming a sort of covered gall

e Sun, whom he attends in his rising and setting. The Sun was honored also as the father of the royal Inca race; and, connec

elebrated gardens, sparkling with flowers of gold and silver. Animals also were represented in precious ore, and the classic

ments, which they were taught to embroider with exquisite skill. They also wove, of the fine hair of the vicuña, the hanging

o give rules to the dialogue, and define the duties of the chorus; he also planned the dress of the actors, the scenery and

minent a part in public affairs, that an account of his life would be also a history of his times. Cicero wrote on the art o

ooks. It treats, not only of natural history, properly so called, but also of astronomy, biography, history, physiology, med

leave us in doubt as to the particular animal he would designate. He also mingles facts, really observed, with fables of wi

ying it from the deck of his ship. Wishing to take a nearer view, and also to succor some of his friends whose villas lay ne

that while all nations have come from one parent-stock, as is claimed also by the philologists, yet the various peoples, in

defeated by Ulysses, and killed himself. Another Ajax, son of Oileus, also took a prominent part in the Trojan War. Alces′t

stæ′us [Aristæus], son of Apollo and Cyrene, was the god of trees; he also taught mankind the use of honey, and how to get o

ybele, for profaning her temple. A′te [Ate]. The goddess of revenge, also called the goddess of discord and all evil. She w

thens. Atlas, was King of Mauritania, now Morocco, in Africa. He was also a great astronomer. He is depicted with the globe

us [Cœculus], a violent robber, was a son of Vulcan. Cœ′lus [Cœlus], also called Uranus [or Heaven], was the most ancient o

e, the level, and the gimlet, and was the first to use sails. Dædalus also constructed the famous labyrinth for Minos, King

See Hypermnestra. Dancing, see Terpsichore. Dangers, see Charybdis, also Scylla. Daph′ne [Daphne]. The goddess of the ear

n having a serpent’s tail. She was the reputed mother of Chimæra, and also of the many-headed dog Orthos, of the three-hundr

n Hydra, of the vulture that gnawed away the liver of Prometheus, and also of the Nemean lion; in fact, the mother of all ad

s. But when he languished and died she pined away from grief and died also , preserving nothing but her voice, which repeats

Hero saw the fate of her lover she threw herself into the sea and was also drowned. Heroes, see Valhalla. Hesper′ides [Hes

the king had put in his way. He took away the Golden Fleece and Medea also . The king sent his son Absyrtus to overtake the f

n’s body. Krish′na [Krishna]. An Indian god, the revenger of wrongs; also called the Indian Apollo. Kro′do [Krodo]. The Sa

he Scandinavian Satan, the god of strife, the spirit of evil. Written also Lok, and Loki. Lo′tis [Lotis]. A daughter of Nep

the lyre, which he exchanged with Apollo for the Caduceus. There was also an Egyptian Mercury under the name of Thoth, or T

gold. The request was granted, and as soon as he touched his food it also was turned to gold, and for fear of being starved

he fine arts. She was the tutelar deity of the city of Athens. She is also known by the names of Pallas, Parthenos, Tritonia

y in one hand, and raising a mask from his face with the other. He is also described as the god of mirth or laughter. Mone′

hter of Oceanus and Tethys, by whom he had a son named Triton. He was also father of Polyphemus (one of the Cyclopes), Phorc

of the animal being a horse, and the hind-half a dolphin. Ships were also under his protection, and whenever he appeared on

of Doris. He had the gift of prophecy, and foretold fates; but he had also the power of assuming various shapes, which enabl

ius [Nomius]. A law-giver; one of the names of Apollo. This title was also given to Mercury for the part he took in inventin

r Naiads, and sea-nymphs or Nereids, though the former are associated also with fountains and rivers. The Dryads were forest

bly invoked his aid when they were about to start on a voyage. He was also thought to personify the immense stream which it

re goddesses who presided over the destiny of human beings. They were also called the Fates, and were three in number, Atrop

rebuilt by Pericles. Par′thenos [Parthenos] was a name of Juno, and also of Minerva. See Pallas. Pasiph′ae [Pasiphae] was

Picumnus]. A rural divinity, who presided over the manuring of lands, also called Sterentius. Pi′cus [Picus]. A son of Satu

ellation Gemini. His Greek name was Polydeuces. Castor and Pollux are also known under the name of Dioscuri, the presiding d

sentative of Vishnu. Ram’s Hide, see Golden Fleece. Reeds, see Pan, also Syrinx. Rem′bha [Rembha]. The Hindoo goddess of

and Gæa, and was called Mother of the gods. Rhetoric, see Calliope, also Polyhymnia. Riches, see Plutus. Riddle, see Sph

ok a cup of wine, tasted it, and handed it to the bystanders to taste also ; some of it was then poured between the horns of

terentius]. The Roman god who invented the art of manuring lands. See also Picumnus. Ster′opes [Steropes]. One of the Cyclo

” T Tac′ita [Tacita]. The goddess of Silence. See Harpocrates, also Horus. Tan′talus [Tantalus]. Father of Niobe and

e of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his

ve our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offsp

n deity of blacksmiths, and as the smelter or softener of metal bears also the name of Mulciber. “Men call him Mulciber; an

is the gatherer of the clouds which dispense fertilizing rain; and is also the thunderer and hurler of lightning.

e large selection of reproductions from famous pictures and statuary, also , will show something of the debt which art, both

account of the creation of the world and of all living creatures, but also a code of laws to regulate their conduct. All the

that a hand mighty enough to call all these wonders into life, could also have created the beautiful earth whereon they dwe

a and all the rivers were supposed to derive their waters. The Greeks also imagined that the portion of the Earth directly n

ng fires         We give him back in song.” Moore. South of Greece, also near the great river Oceanus, dwelt another natio

ent, however, to have saved young Jupiter from imminent death: it was also necessary that his father should remain unconscio

s triumph was very short-lived. Enceladus, another redoubtable giant, also created by Gæa, now appeared to avenge Typhœus. H

and join in the merry games of their companions. For the first time, also , Pandora refused to comply with his request. Dism

e, and the shrine of Jupiter Ammon in Libya — were world-renowned. He also had a famous temple at Dodona, where an oak-tree

?” Byron. A magnificent temple at Olympia, on the Peloponnesus, was also dedicated to Jupiter; and here every fifth year t

stellations of the Great and Little Bear. Juno, like her husband, had also her special attendant, Iris (the Rainbow), whom s

s of worship were at Mycenæ, Sparta, Argos, Rome, and Heræum. She had also numerous other sanctuaries scattered throughout t

th immortality, left his service, and went to assist Neptune, who had also been banished to earth, to build the walls of Tro

company of Cyparissus, a clever young hunter; but this friendship was also doomed to a sad end, for Cyparissus, having accid

which the gods placed in the heavens as a bright constellation, Lyra, also called by Orpheus’ name. The Story of Amphion

loquence rules with resistless sway. Calliope, Muse of heroic poetry, also wore a laurel crown; and Urania, Muse of astronom

the fair twin sister of Apollo, was not only goddess of the moon, but also of the chase. “‘Goddess serene, transcending eve

Endymion was not, however, the only mortal loved by Diana, for it is also related that her affections were bestowed upon a

ulness, and Orion was punished by the loss not only of his bride, but also of his eyesight. Blind, helpless, and alone, he n

e; among others the world-renowned sanctuary of Ephesus. The ancients also celebrated many festivals in honour of this fair

atch for her coming, for the three Charities (Graces, or Gratiæ) were also present. “‘These three on men all gracious gifts

gulf.” Lewis Morris. Venus and Anchises The Goddess of Beauty also loved Anchises, Prince of Troy, but, ashamed of l

ne.” Keats. Mercury was not only the messenger of the gods, but was also appointed god of eloquence, commerce, rain, wind,

ttering his feathers stain’d with various hue.” Moschus. This story also is an allegory. Io personifies the moon, restless

emios (Dread), and Pallor (Terror). Bellona, or Enyo, goddess of war, also accompanied him, drove his chariot, parried dange

re him three beautiful children, — Harmonia, Cupid, and Anteros. Mars also fell in love with a beautiful young Vestal named

with firm gait The monarch’s steps.” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). Vulcan also devised a golden throne with countless hidden spr

after, Vulcan married one of the Graces, who, however, seems to have also soon wearied of his society, for she deserted him

amp;c., all of whom play an important part in heroic mythology. He is also the reputed father of Servius Tullius, sixth king

that city, who, in return, promised a handsome compensation. Apollo, also banished from heaven at that time, volunteered to

, and by his dishonesty incurred the hatred and contempt of this hero also . Some time after, having finished his time of ser

ered into the memorable contest in which he was signally defeated. He also disputed the sovereignty of Trœzene with Minerva,

ains, lakes, and seas were not only subject to his rule, but he could also cause terrible earthquakes at will, and, when he

res, and whose pelt was the goal of the Argonautic expedition Neptune also loved and married Medusa in the days of her youth

, he produced from them the graceful winged steed Pegasus. Neptune is also said to be the father of the giants Otus and Ephi

ervision of the Infernal Regions, situated beneath the earth, and was also appointed god of the dead and of riches, for all

h time Charon reluctantly ferried them over free of charge. There was also in Hades the sacred river Styx, by whose waters t

ore.” Virgil ( C. Pitt’s tr.). The Story of Ibycus The Furies also had an important part to play upon earth, as the

rds executed for their crime. The three Fates (Mœræ, Parcæ), sisters, also sat near Pluto’s throne. Clotho, the youngest, sp

led to fill the bottomless cask. The Story of Tantalus Tartarus also detained within its brazen portals a cruel king n

of mankind, was worshipped principally throughout Italy, although she also had shrines in Greece and Asia Minor. The family

er allowed to go out for want of fuel or timely care. Its flames were also intended to represent the purity of the goddess,

a name generally applied to souls when separated from the body — were also reckoned among the Roman divinities, and the illu

was customary for the head of the family to remove his household gods also , and establish them suitably before he thought of

ime special sacrifices and prayers were offered up at his shrines. He also presided over all gates and avenues, and through

year, he holds the number 300 in one hand and 65 in the other. He was also supposed to watch over peace and war, and had num

ny couch, upon which reclined the monarch of sleep. His garments were also black, but all strewn with golden stars. He wore

e beheld of men, are ever true.” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). Dreams were also frequently sent through the gates of horn to prep

for Morpheus, the son as well as the prime minister of Somnus, he was also called the god of sleep, and mortals were wont to

’s tr.). The ancients were not content to worship the gods only, but also offered up sacrifices to a few mortals, who, by t

Apples of the Hesperides, daughters of Hesperus, god of the West, and also known as the Evening Star. “O Hesperus! thou bri

end Philoctetes set fire to the stupendous mass. At first Philoctetes also refused to do his bidding; but, bribed by the pro

epeated this tale to his companions, the two sons of Boreas, who were also in the Argo, begged permission to drive them away

her to give them the recipe, that they might rejuvenate their father also . The sorceress maliciously bade them cut their fa

. Pollux, who was immortal, then implored Jupiter to allow him to die also , that he might not be parted from his brothers — 

eir legions at the celebrated battle of Lake Regillus. Their name was also given to meteors, sometimes seen at sea, which at

e court of Argos, where he took refuge with Prœtus, the king, who was also his kinsman. Anteia’s Treachery He had not

mazons; but the hero, aided by the gods, defeated these warlike women also , and returned to Lycia, where, after escaping fro

induced the king not only to forego further attempts to slay him, but also to bestow upon the young hero his daughter’s hand

hysical sight. Pan The male divinities of the woods, which were also very numerous, were mostly Satyrs, — curious bein

His body was all covered with goat’s hair, and his feet and ears were also those of a goat. Amused at the sight of this grot

 As a reed with the reeds in the river.” E. B. Browning. The Romans also worshipped three other divinities of nature entir

had charge over the woods and plants. Priapus, god of the shade, was also a rural deity, but his worship was only known alo

re mortal after having enjoyed the attention of the gods (for Neptune also had wooed Her), and demurred, until Jupiter promi

rrupted strife, the Greeks’ effort to enter Troy, or Ilium, as it was also called, were vain, as were also the Trojans’ atte

rt to enter Troy, or Ilium, as it was also called, were vain, as were also the Trojans’ attempts to force the foe to leave t

s deeds of valour were now performed by the heroes on both sides, and also by the gods, who mingled in the ranks and even fo

, refusing to be comforted. The gods, from their celestial abode, had also witnessed this heartrending scene, and now Jupite

s and command him to restore Hector’s body to his mourning family. He also directed Mercury to lead Priam, unseen, into Achi

their ten-years’ encampment, and were let into the city by Sinon, who also released their companions from their prison withi

refused to depart until she had made choice of a second husband; and also that Telemachus, now a young man, indignant and d

chilles, who thrust his sword into the youth, and then murdered Priam also . “So Priam’s fortunes closed at last: So passed

n prophecy of Cassandra, purporting that they would settle there, and also that Dardanus, their first progenitor, was report

f the queen, who was giving audience to some of their companions, who also had miraculously escaped from the waves. These me

ophers in the vain hope of evading Christian satire. Learned men have also explained these self-same myths as historical fac

tful union of heaven and earth, of rain and grain.” The former school also declare that the myth of Cupid and Psyche, which

ion of myths is not only the most accredited at the present time, but also the most poetical. We therefore give a brief syno

ced to the Sanskrit root div or dyu, meaning “to shine”; and there is also a noun dyu in that language which means either “s

kindred people to express all they felt toward God”; but as the word also meant the visible sky, with its ever-changing asp

ice. G. F. Watts. By permission of Mr. Frederick Hollyer. Orpheus is also sometimes considered as the sun, plunging into an

nd his severed head floated down the stream murmuring “Eurydice,” may also , perchance, have been intended to represent eithe

t by a sudden storm of thunder.” The story of Diana and Endymion has also been interpreted as a sun myth, in which the name

the word ios, ‘poison’”), of which he is shorn only at death. Perseus also belongs to this category of myths. Danae, his mot

sonification of the dawn, the offspring of Celeus and Cassiopeia, who also represent night and darkness. In company with And

nt night and darkness. In company with Andromeda, Perseus, whose name also signifies “the destroyer,” revisits his native la

ld age, when he is about to sink into the sleep of death. Meleager is also a solar hero. After joining the Argonautic expedi

and knowledge-giving light of the sky; for in Sanskrit the same word also means “to wake” and “to know,” while the Latins c

ball of stones and clods.” Diana, like Apollo, her twin brother, was also a child of the sky (Jupiter) and of night (Latona

t (Latona), and, like him, was born in the “bright land” (Delos). She also possessed bright and unerring arrows, and in the

e of the setting sun (Endymion). Io and Circe, already mentioned, are also personifications of the moon, and Io’s wanderings

ws his own children, “the Days, as they come each in order.” We have also Ceres or Demeter, “the mother of all things,” and

morning, which streamed in upon the darkness of the night. Semele has also been interpreted as the earth, the chosen bride o

rom his native element, even in the Greeks’ conception of him, as are also the Tritons, Oceanides, Nereides, and the allurin

ons, Oceanides, Nereides, and the alluring Sirens; who, however, have also been viewed as personifications of the winds.

ed by the sunbeams (Apollo’s arrows). Fire Myths The fire myths also form quite a large class, and comprise the Cyclop

tread causes the very earth beneath them to tremble. In this group we also find Prometheus, whose name has been traced to th

goddess of marriage, Aphrodite. The Greek Hestia (or Latin Vesta) was also a personification of fire; and, her name having r

and tumult.” Otus and Ephialtes, the gigantic sons of Neptune, were also at first merely personifications of the wind and

s of the sun. Pan, Æolus, his numerous progeny, and the Harpies, were also wind divinities who never entirely lost their ori

ron at, 219; Polybus, king of, 246-248, 251 Co-ro′na. Constellation, also known as Ariadne’s Crown, 156 Co-ro′nis. Maiden

′ma; Attendant of Jupiter, goddess of fame, 28 Fates. Three sisters; also known as Mœræ or Parcæ, 27, 141, 273, 278, 293 F

fell into the Icarian Sea, 222 I′da. Mountain in Crete, and near Troy also , 9, 285 I′das. A mortal befriended by Neptune; el

, 222 Lac-e-dæ-mo′ni-a. Province in Peloponnesus; capital of Sparta, also name of Sparta, 277 Lac-e-dæ-mo′ni-ans. Inhabita

eptune, 261, 262 Na-pæ′æ. Valley nymphs, who looked after the flocks also , 261 Nar-cis′sus. Youth loved by Echo; enamoured

tor of dreams, 109, 114 Ops. Same as Cybele; name given to Rhea, and also to Ceres, 8 O-re′a-des. Mountain nymphs who guid

0 1. Besides this Pluto, god of the Infernal Regions, the Greeks also worshipped Plutus, a son of Ceres and Jason, who

ues cannot fail to elicit from every honest heart. The consideration, also , that this work, which is chiefly designed for th

ear understanding, not only of the ancient poets and historians, but, also , of the best modern poets, the duty of enlighteni

d defaced, and which are totally unfit for the eye of youth. The work also brings down the study of Mythology to the more co

ntain, namely, an account of Temples, Oracles, Sibyls, and Games, and also of the Mythology of Northern Europe.  The engrav

to four orders. The first order comprised the superior gods, who were also called Dii majorum gentium, gods of the greater n

oes whose glorious actions raised them to the rank of immortals, were also received among these gods. The fourth order conta

ed for refuge to Janus, king of Italy, who not only received him, but also shared with him his throne. — Italy was anciently

d that of a young man, regarding the year that has just commenced. He also had empire over highways, doors, gates, locks, an

ommanded two different people, and divided his empire with Saturn. It also records that that prince had medals with two face

they introduced the mysteries of Terra, the mother of the gods. They also affirm that Cybele gave her own name to that godd

or permitted to marry until they had attained the age of thirty. They also took care of the palladium, on which the very exi

of children, and he was often connected with female mortals, by whom, also , he had children. Jupiter is described as having

of Diana to deceive Calisto, of an eagle to carry away Ganymede, and also Asteria, of a bull to convey Europa, &c. In a

ia, and a part of Greece, which he conquered. Jupiter, king of Crete, also named Cœlus or Uranus, had married Titea, or Terr

nts, who gave names to their children soon after their birth; and was also called Nona Dies. When a boy entered the ninth da

Justice, the balance of which always ought to be perfectly equal. It also signifies that in this month, days and nights are

ts Gænymede, pouring out the nectar to Jupiter and the other gods. He also designates abundant rains which fall during this

awk and the wolf were sacred to him, because their eyes are piercing; also the raven, the crow, and the swan, because they a

at mental endowment that mankind refine their intellect, and they are also indebted to it for their progress in knowledge. T

merely the emblems of the sun and the twelve signs of the zodiac. He also explains the number of the fifty women given to t

called the Parthenon, in commemoration of her perpetual celibacy, and also the Hecatompedon, from being one hundred feet in

is vigilance to prevent surprise. Ravens, magpies, and vultures, were also offered, because they followed armies, to feast o

ew herself headlong into the sea, and perished. The river Selemus was also reputed to have the virtue of extinguishing the f

in council; and were carried from one side of the room to another. He also formed some golden statues, and animated them in

mortal frame; but when applied to the dead, they returned to life. It also had the power of settling controversies: two impl

hing equalled the respect of the Egyptians for the Hydria, which they also called Canopus, their god. According to them, the

sheep, goats, and the like. The Lares, sons of Mercury by Lara, were also inferior gods, who presided over houses and famil

nius, or a good spirit, and a malus Genius, or a bad spirit. They are also called Genium album et nigrum, or a white and a b

lf into the Adriatic gulf, near Ambracia. The Cocytus (tears, groans) also flowed in Epirus, or rather, Thessaly, and fell i

sisters, daughters of Jupiter and Themis, or of Necessity. They were also called the Destinies. Their names were Clotho, La

r men of his age. His love of justice inspired the poets to place him also among the judges of hell. Abacus, son of Jupiter

d him under the weight of the whole island of Sicily. This island was also denominated Trinacria because it is shaped like a

nd made a great noise as he drove his chariot, to imitate thunder. He also darted lighted torches, as if to imitate lightnin

des were fifty sisters, so called from their father Danaus: and named also Belides, from their grandfather Belus. It is repo

d a radiant sun or moon, because each was considered eternal. She was also represented in the figure of the Phenix, a fabulo

that of a serpent, which forms a circle by biting its tail; sometimes also in that of an elephant, on account of the longevi

sented Silence as a goddess whom they called Ageronia. The latter had also the god of speech, whom they called Aius Locutius

dable weapons. Æsculapius was chiefly worshipped at Epidaurus. He had also a temple at Rome, and was worshipped there under

nd respected it; but the Greeks were the first to worship them. It is also from the Greek language that the word hero is der

om a monster which was ready to devour her. By the head of Medusa, he also petrified Phineus, his rival as well as the soldi

of the youth, that he gave him his daughter Philonœ in marriage, and also his crown. Sthenobæa committed suicide when she h

y murdered in his sight the two children which she had borne him, but also enclosed fire in a little box, and sent it to Cre

conquered, procured them the surname of Anaces, or Benefactors. They also rendered themselves formidable at sea, and cleare

r Eurydice was following him or not; but at the same time she stopped also ; so that he could not hear her footsteps. He ther

each other, to lay themselves in the form of a regular building, and also compose the walls of the city of Thebes. “Amphio

nce whose name it bears, painted him as the pillar of the world. They also held that Perseus had metamorphosed him into a ro

a supreme intelligence that had created the world; and that there was also in man an intelligence superior to the body, and

his ceremony they performed with wanton and indecent rites. There was also an ox worshipped at Heliopolis; but this is said

and buried under Mount Ætna. Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis, was also an emblem of the sun. He was a particular object

im immortal. Obs. 1. — The fable of Typhon, which the Egyptians, and also the Greeks, embellished with attributes, was an a

us, and in the other, a branch of palm. He is commonly called Barker; also Hermanubis. He had temples and priests, and his i

Egyptians suppose the soul of Osiris to transmigrate? Was not there also an ox worshipped at Heliopolis? Had Apis any temp

had an apartment containing a magnificent bed and a golden table. He also had a gigantic statue of solid gold, and a throne

nd hurtful planets, and counted generations and reigns by sares. They also divided time by neres and soses. The sare marked

him. He was honoured with three great sacrifices a year. The Mexicans also celebrated the worship of a goddess of hunting, a

of gold, ivory, ebony, or of some other valuable material. There were also placed the statues of great men, gildings, and pa

bucklers, tripods, and the like. On festival days, these temples were also adorned with olive-branches and ivy. At Rome, bef

n. This temple, among the most ancient dedicated to paganism, was also the most singular in its structure. Berosus, acco

reek text makes no mention of this prodigious height; and Strabo, who also gives a description of this temple, makes it one

esting places to those who mounted the tower. The most lofty room was also the most highly adorned, and the one for which th

hich amounted to more than one hundred thousand talents. He mentions, also , a second statue, eighteen feet high, made of gol

nterpreters; and it was given out, that the oaks in the Dodona forest also delivered their oracles. The beam of the ship Arg

sed the edifice to tremble even to its foundations. Then the priests, also called the prophets, took the Pythia, conducted h

ices, which caused the answers of the prophetess to be heard. She was also priestess to Hecate, and the sacred woods of the

ey into the deserts. This king of Pontus there sought an asylum, and, also , means of revenge. Accordingly, he attempted to a

ip, as a chief, aided by twelve other pontiffs, a sort of druids, who also administered justice (Drotars.) Odin, having unit

ely came to signify the supreme god of the Scythians and Celts. It is also known that the heroes of all these nations, prete

nder of a new worship, previously unknown to the Scandinavians. It is also probable that he, his father, or the author of th

Universe, to whom all were subject. And, according to Tacitus, such, also , was the god of the ancient Germans. The ancient

t dialects, Odensdag, Ousdag, Wodens-day, and Wednesday. This god was also accounted the inventor of the arts; and is though

cunning . He had several children of Signie, his wife. Three monsters also owed their existence to him: the wolf Fenris, the

d mounted on swift horses. It is their duty to wait upon heroes. Odin also employs them in fights, to choose out those who w

asses of rocks on to the tops of hills. In some places in Norway, are also found grottoes cut in the rock with wonderful pat

iches; and among other things, a very costly golden ring. Iceland had also its temples. The chronicles mention two that were

ed the night-mother, being that which produced all others. This epoch also marked the beginning of their year, which, among

artly upon the people, and partly upon the sacred wood. With it, they also besmeared the images of the gods, the altars, the

, and which they could consult, under the form of small idols. It was also believed, that others conjured the manes from the

untries were the native soil of our first parents; and that they were also the brilliant centre whence the arts and sciences

rs, the heroes of the early romances of chivalry, first arose. It may also be observed, that al the historians, after having

acquainted them with their Andate, the goddes of victory: the Romans also brought them some of their gods. Tacitus and Dion

molating human victims. In farther extending our researches, we might also find among them vestiges of the worship of the Ph

It was there that they buried treasures taken from their enemies; and also , that prisoners were immolated, enclosed in colos

ulius Cæsar, was mysterious, and could be known to nobody. The Druids also cultivated the science of medicine. Upon, this po

hed, instantly felt peace and gaiety spring up in their breast. It is also necessary to range among the number of their supe

Roman emperors against this crime, not only prove its existence, but also show how pertinaciously they persisted in it. The

he isles which bordered on the coasts of Gaul and England. The Druids also inhabited them; and there the Druids and Druidess

ly unfolded by Plato and his genuine disciples. The peculiarity of it also is this, that it is no less scientific than subli

tly similar to, without being, the First Cause. “These mighty powers, also , are called by the poets, a golden chain, on acco

eks and procreates, but produces light and benefits. On this account, also , he is called αγκυλομητις, agkulometis, or inflec

ll those parts which surround the earth. “According to this theology, also , of the gods some are mundane, but others, superm

hus in Jupiter, Æsculapius in Apollo, and the Graces in Venus. We may also behold the spheres with which they are connected,

ion of this, see Taylor’s translation of Proclus on the Theology, and also on the Timæus, of Plato.

practice of borrowing illustrations from mythology. The prose writers also avail themselves of the same source of elegant an

ing of death, to enjoy an immortality of bliss. This happy region was also called the “Fortunate Fields,” and the “Isles of

nd to drive through the air, giving light to gods and men. The stars, also , except those forming the Wain or Bear, and other

gs; but all, when summoned, repaired to the palace of Jupiter, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth, th

hose usual abode was the earth, the waters, or the underworld. It was also in the great hall of the palace of the Olympian k

rom place to place with the speed of the wind, or even of thought. He also shod with brass the celestial steeds, which whirl

To friends, to foes; which skill men call Civility.” The Fates were also three — Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Their offi

appalling. Their names were Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megæra. They were also called Eumenides. Nemesis was also an avenging go

, Tisiphone, and Megæra. They were also called Eumenides. Nemesis was also an avenging goddess. She represents the righteous

Divinities. The preceding are Grecian divinities, though received also by the Romans. Those which follow are peculiar to

son of Saturn, was worshipped as the god of fields and shepherds, and also as a prophetic god. His name in the plural, Fauns

the priest to the Penates of his own house. The Lares, or Lars, were also household gods, but differed from the Penates in

bandoned it, one by one, till Astræa3 alone was left, and finally she also took her departure. Jupiter, seeing this state of

uds, and disclose the skies to earth, and earth to the skies. Neptune also directed Triton to blow on his shell, and sound a

d heaven could not convulse,     A mighty lesson we inherit.” Byron also employs the same allusion, in his ode to Napoleon

oven into wreaths for their brows. And, as eternal youth is mine, you also shall be always green, and your leaf know no deca

of music and poetry will not appear strange, but that medicine should also be assigned to his province, may. The poet Armstr

appointed tree, and covered it with kisses and with tears. “My blood also shall stain your texture,” said he, and drawing h

ed the sword into her breast. Her parents ratified her wish, the gods also ratified it. The two bodies were buried in one se

The last star in the tail of the Little Bear is the Pole-star, called also the Cynosure. Milton says: — “Straight mine eye

of mariners, and to the magnetic attraction of the North He calls it also the “Star of Arcady,” because Callisto’s boy was

t that movement, which sweeps every thing else along, should hurry me also away. Suppose I should lend you the chariot, what

stars withdrew, marshalled by the Daystar, which last of all retired also . The father, when he saw the earth beginning to g

s of Ceres, — “why do you sit here alone upon the rocks?” The old man also stopped, though his load was heavy, and begged he

ry of his fate.   It was said that Zephyrus, (the West wind,) who was also fond of Hyacinthus and jealous of his preference

es the flower amid the sobbing rain.” An allusion to Hyacinthus will also be recognized in Milton’s Lycidas: — “Like to th

easy in the absence of Halcyone? Would you rather have me away?” She also endeavored to discourage him, by describing the v

ll suffer not only the real evils which you must encounter, but those also which my fears suggest.” These words weighed heav

rave While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.” Keats, also , in Endymion, says, — “O magic sleep! O comforta

verse, With British freedom, sing the British song.” But Pomona was also regarded as presiding over other fruits, and as s

hey lay. Nor could the physicians help, for the disease attacked them also , and the contact of the sick gave them infection,

art not ashamed of thy offspring, give me back my people, or take me also away!’ At these words a clap of thunder was heard

y the water-nymphs; and when they smote their breasts Echo smote hers also . They prepared a funeral pile and would have burn

n — and those of women, — spinning, weaving, and needle-work. She was also a warlike divinity; but it was defensive war only

own city, awarded to her as the prize of a contest with Neptune, who also aspired to it. The tale ran that in the reign of

n her work. It was not only beautiful when it was done, but beautiful also in the doing. To watch her, as she took the wool

Say no more,” said he; “speech only delays punishment.” So said Diana also . Darting through the air, veiled in clouds, they

, accompanied only by one attendant, met in a narrow road a young man also driving in a chariot. On his refusal to leave the

golden bridle. When he awoke the bridle remained in his hand. Minerva also showed him Pegasus drinking at the well of Pirene

ndor of his wings, and soared towards heaven. Our own poet Longfellow also records an adventure of this famous steed in his

e bowed her head the grain ripe for harvest in the laden fields bowed also . She planned a punishment so dire that one would

and justice, whence he was termed an elder; the gift of prophecy was also assigned to him. Triton and Proteus. Triton

mphitrite, and the poets make him his father’s trumpeter. Proteus was also a son of Neptune. He, like Nereus, is styled a se

By this name the Latins designated the Muses, but included under it also some other deities, principally nymphs of fountai

ed that mystic meeting With her most starry canopy;” etc. Tennyson, also , in his Palace of Art, gives us a glimpse of the

illed with whatever the possessor might wish. The name of Amalthea is also given by some writers to the mother of Bacchus. I

came within the sound of his lyre, fell harmless at his feet. So did also the stones that they threw at him. But the women

for it is needless for any one to attempt to deceive you. And do you also cease your efforts to elude me. I am led hither b

re the plaintive tale Of his lost bees to her maternal ear.” Milton also appears to have had Cyrene and her domestic scene

fall in. He told his captors and demanded to be let out, warning them also . They took his warning, and thus escaped destruct

o and her “leap” are referred to the Spectator, Nos. 223 and 229. See also Moore’s Evenings in Greece. Chapter XXVI. End

o the lost Pleiad: — “Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below.” See also Mrs. Hemans’s verses on the same subject. Auro

im, to tell him the extent of the Grecian calamities. He reminded him also how, at the time of departing for Troy, Achilles

r. Hector leaped from the chariot to rescue his friend, and Patroclus also descended to complete his victory. Thus the two h

and begged him to retire nor tempt the encounter. His mother, Hecuba, also besought him to the same effect, but all in vain.

nforces pang on pang and stifles gasp on gasp.” The comic poets will also occasionally borrow a classical allusion. The fol

at beauteous nymph, Too beauteous Helen; no uncourtly gift.” Milton also alludes to a famous recipe for an invigorating dr

ered him. It was intended by the conspirators to slay his son Orestes also , a lad not yet old enough to be an object of appr

e palace and mingle with the suitors as formerly; that Ulysses should also go as a beggar, a character which in the rude old

alls of chieftains, and often treated like a guest; though sometimes, also , no doubt, with contumely. Ulysses charged his so

Discord, whose hair was of vipers tied up with a bloody fillet. Here also were the monsters, Briareus, with his hundred arm

he Titan race, who warred against the gods, lie prostrate; Salmoneus, also , who presumed to vie with Jupiter, and built a br

nd taught him the difference between mortal weapons and divine. Here, also , is Tityus, the giant, whose form is so immense t

gave no share to others; the last being the most numerous class. Here also were those who had violated the marriage vow, or

se who fell by wounds received in their country’s cause, holy priests also , and poets who have uttered thoughts worthy of Ap

excellent and fair         That made the old time splendid.” Milton also alludes to the same fable in P. L., Book III, l. 

rains in my hand.’ Unluckily I forgot to ask for enduring youth. This also he would have granted, could I have accepted his

secret of the sounding wire, And formed the seven-chorded lyre.” See also the same poet’s Occupation of Orion. “The Samian

source of warmth, life, and fruitfulness, in addition to which he was also regarded as the god of the Nile, who annually vis

rom all parts of the country. A temple of surpassing magnificence was also erected there in honor of the god, and at every p

ities to those who consulted them respecting the future. The word was also used to signify the response which was given. The

nderings of Io represent the continual revolutions of the moon, which also suggested to Milton the same idea. “To behold th

ll these sources combined than from any one in particular. We may add also that there are many myths which have arisen from

o the centre shook.”31 The Minerva of the Parthenon. This was also the work of Phidias. It stood in the Parthenon, o

nt the iris and pupil. The Parthenon, in which this statue stood, was also constructed under the direction and superintenden

he matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.” Byron also alludes to this statue. Speaking of the Florence

attitude much resembles that of the Apollo, the sizes correspond and also the style of execution. It is a work of the highe

e authority of Herodotus, is 850 B. C. Virgil Virgil, called also by his surname, Maro, from whose poem of the Ænei

conducted through the weapon killed not only the rider, but the horse also . To this Lucan alludes in these lines: — “What t

rivate houses, as a sovereign remedy against spiders, and that it was also hung up in the temple of Diana, for which reason

ted in the bony protuberance on the forehead of the giraffe; but this also is short and blunt, and is not the only horn of t

was necessary to guide them in their religious ceremonies. They were also commanded to take rank in the order of their birt

ough the sovereign of the country was chosen from the Shatriya class, also called Rajputs, the Brahmans possessed the real p

ers or husbandmen. Consequently they sometimes grow rich, and it will also sometimes happen that Brahmans become poor. That

followers to have been a mortal sage, whose name was Gautama, called also by the complimentary epithets of Sakyasinha, the

religious observances prescribed in them and kept by the Hindus. They also reject the distinction of castes, and prohibit al

the Roman Catholic church. They found convents for priests and nuns; also processions and forms of religious worship, atten

ident in Upper Asia. The Pope sent a mission in search of him, as did also Louis IX. of France, some years later, but both m

h. When he girds it about him his divine might is doubled. The third, also very precious, is his iron gloves, which he puts

e loose and ran after the mare into the forest, which obliged the man also to run after his horse, and thus between one and

s redoubted weapon, and slaughtered Thrym and all his followers. Frey also possessed a wonderful weapon, a sword which would

asion to ask any one else in the hall to wrestle with him, and it was also getting late; so he showed Thor and his companion

to enclose it between his head and tail. Thy wrestling with Elli was also a most astonishing feat, for there was never yet

count of his blindness, and going up to him, said, “Why dost thou not also throw something at Baldur?” “Because I am blind,”

se Gulltopp, and Freya drove in her chariot drawn by cats. There were also a great many Frost giants and giants of the mount

fall, direct their course to the battle-field called Vigrid. Thither also repair the wolf Fenris, the Midgard serpent, Loki

as a symbol of the divinity. The Latin writers assert that the Druids also worshipped numerous inferior gods. They used no i

the manner of a table upon other stones set up on end. The Druids had also their high places, which were large stones or pil

ulcated many very noble and valuable principles of conduct. They were also the men of science and learning of their age and

al historians of all past transactions, public and private. They were also accomplished genealogists,” etc. Pennant gives a

themselves and those dependent on them the comforts of life. Marriage also was allowed them, and most of them seem to have e

ve wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.” See, also , Milton’s Hymn to the Nativity, stanzas xiv, and

is own character and will. Four hundred years after Noah, Abraham was also instructed how to serve God acceptably; and four

, persons living at the same time with themselves, love and serve him also ; and many believed them, and walked with God, as

e not taught the true nature of God, worshipped the works of God, and also adored good men as divine beings. The sun, moon,

alled the petasus, and with wings for his feet called talaria. He had also a small sword which could render him invisible, w

frantic gestures, drove them through the field of battle. Victory was also an attendant of Mars. She had several temples in

ne, which shook both land and sea; and a dog of brass for Jupiter. He also constructed invincible armour for Achilles and En

e latter a Trojan hero, who were engaged in the siege of Troy. Vulcan also fabricated palaces of pure gold for the celestial

ant affairs, were held in the temple of Vulcan. At Memphis, in Egypt, also , was a most magnificent edifice raised in honour

he horse: he taught the use of fire, and the fusion of metals, and he also is said to have been the inventor of letters; he

st to be done, when intelligent beings are called upon to act. Wisdom also includes the will to do what is right, and the lo

Wisdom under the character of Minerva. Solomon, the wise Hebrew king, also personified wisdom in the book of Proverbs, and r

ts original name was Cecropia, from the founder, Cecrops. Minerva was also called Pallas, from a Greek word, signifying bear

what severe. On her head was a golden helmet, and her breastplate was also of gold. In her right hand Minerva bore a beaming

girls to rest upon, and an umbrella to screen them from the sun; they also carried water and honey for the libations. Foreig

dmen in the fields, before they began to reap. Sacrifices to her were also offered in the spring, and oblations of wine, hon

so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should

called the Temple of the Winds. Zephyr loved young Hyacinth, who was also beloved by the nymph Echo, and by Apollo. Hyacint

ies were women, commonly represented with torches in their hands, and also carrying whips of scorpions. Tisiphone, Megæra, a

geance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord;” but the same Scripture also says, “whom he loveth he chasteneth:” “He does no

a child in a profound sleep, holding in his hand poppies, which serve also for his pillow. Somnus, or sleep, is called by Ho

n easy prey, sometimes attacking and destroying their helpless owners also . When weak men, and weaker women, hear the roar o

ter, and the goddess forgave him. The fourth labour of this hero, was also to take alive a wild boar. This boar ravaged Erym

was killed? Theseus. Theseus was a king of Athens, yet he is also ranked among fabulous heroes; for it is sometimes

f the robbers, and treated him as a deliverer and a benefactor. Ægeus also was pleased with the young stranger, and was part

come into Attica, he would be ready to punish such an enemy. Theseus also said he would take advice of wise men in Athens,

rpheus; he loved her dearly: but another man, one Aristæus, loved her also . The Greeks of that age had never heard of the co

ncouraging them during their labours in erecting them. ——— Arion was also a famous poet and musician, who acquired wealth b

ed the wedding. Venus, Minerva, and Juno were there, and Discord came also among them: that is, the goddesses contended with

e a request so reasonable, and when he granted the body of Hector, he also allowed a truce; a suspension of hostilities, tha

ugh she had been previously promised to Turnus, for a wife. Eneas met also with a kind reception from Evander, a prince of A

distinction, are called the Seven Wise Men of Greece — and to them is also added the tradition of certain monuments of art,

e god of death. He is esteemed to be a child of the sun: he is called also , King of Justice. He is distinguished as being th

orbids them to receive new doctrines, and their political regulations also hinder them from learning from each other. Among

themselves in hunting the shades of stags. These northern barbarians also believed that all those who died at home of disea

ams. Priests took charge of the sacred fires in Persia, and they were also instructors of youth. These priests were often wi

comfort — who made man, and gave him the power to think and feel, and also what becomes of the soul after death. Thus the mo

that have been related of the gods, and call these virtuous men gods also . To honour the gods properly, it is necessary to

od’s people and their worship, with that of the heathens; and curious also to compare heathen nations with each other. There

and Romans. The Bible relates the history of the Deluge or flood; it also gives the history of Samson, and the sacrifice of

avenly music and inhale the perfume of flowers. The Mexicans believed also in the transmigration of souls, that is, that the

which he made, and an excellent example in his conduct. Quet-zal-cot also taught the art of dying cotton, and of producing

iades of the Greeks, presided over rivulets and fountains. Tlaloc was also associated with a goddess of water, who divided w

t thunder, lightning, and comets expressed the will of the gods. They also maintained, that motions and chattering of birds

he awful mandate, which ordains that not only talents and virtue, but also states and empires, and even the earth itself sha

the knowledge of one true God; and that from him, in due time, should also descend, one in whom all the families of the eart

o the higher services of the temple, and to instruct the people. They also pronounced solemn blessings upon the people in th

on this occasion was called the paschal lamb. Ripe corn (barley) was also offered at the Passover. On the last day of the P

the divine mercy in bestowing the fruits of the earth. The Pentecost also celebrated the revelation of the law to Moses on

which had blessed the inmate’s ancestors; and which would bless him ‌ also , if he cultivated the social affections: for the

g awe, and a path as from one world to another.” G. Moir Bussey has also observed, with much elegance and feeling: — “The

blood thus shed sprang the Giants and the Furies, rendering fruitful also the foam of the sea, of which was born Venus Aphr

e time returns with the years and days; and this part of the fable is also an image of the operations which nature accomplis

le from the mountain where her life had been preserved. She is called also the ancient Vesta, to distinguish her from her da

to distinguish her from her daughter Vesta, who, with her mother, is also called Cybele. But the Deity of whom we now write

with rising turrets, and sometimes with the leaves ‌of an oak. She is also seen with many breasts, to intimate that the eart

e which denotes him an avenger of the laws of hospitality. Jupiter is also distinguished by the name of Ammon from the follo

or. Juno. Juno, who was the daughter of Saturn and Cybele, was also sister and wife to Jupiter. Her pride protected h

yme_heathen-mythology_1842_img026 The intrigue of Jupiter with Io, is also celebrated in the history of his amours. Juno bec

doubt that the worship which is offered to Phœbus, as the sun, is due also to Apollo; and indeed, under both titles is he ad

erred by this example, Pan, favourite of Midas, King of Lydia, wished also to compete with Apollo in the art of which the la

wan at the very moment he was yielding to his deep regrets. Aurora is also the daughter of Apollo. She granted the gift of i

n his oracles through the medium of a sibyl. This was a female, named also a Pythoness, on account of her seat being formed

uch excessive fury, that not only those who consulted the oracle, but also the priests who conducted her to the sacred tripo

ichore, Linus of Clio, and Orpheus of Calliope. Arion and Pindar were also stated to be the children of the Muses, to whom t

Hesiod. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img049 She was also the Goddess of chastity, and it was in this chara

ing with the cordage and the sails, and twining round the oars, which also became immoveable. Much as the sailors were aston

s of ivy, and of vine. The Bacchantes, his ordinary priestesses, bore also in their hands the thyrsis. His feasts were celeb

ogether grow,     Twin nurslings of Despair.” Anon. The affection also which Venus entertained for Anchises, a youth dis

He’s gone — up bubbles all his amorous breath.” Keats. ‌Venus was also surnamed Cytheræa, because she was the chief deit

Mechanitis, in allusion to the many artifices practised in love; and also goddess of the sea, because born in the bosom of

he shield of Hercules described by Hesiod. The chariot of the sun was also by this deity. “A golden axle did the work uphol

uin presented to him the arms and spoils of the conquered; and to him also , was dedicated the lion. Insérer image anonyme_he

and afterwards on horseback, contended. To celebrate these festivals, also , the maidens divided into troops, and armed with

een that Minerva, not satisfied with being goddess of Wisdom, claimed also pre-eminence in beauty, although Paris by his jud

he oceans, rivers, and fountains, were subjected to him, but he could also cause earthquakes at pleasure, and raise islands

an to rise, and causes the thunder of its tempests. With this trident also , he shakes the world, and bids the earth to tremb

ixed to a wheel which went constantly round, rendering his punishment also eternal; with Tantalus, condemned to a burning th

st.” Cowper. The Danaides, daughters of Danaus, king of Argos, were also there, who, in obedience to the cruel advice of t

al regions, and not only presided over orators and merchants, but was also the god of thieves, pickpockets, and all dishones

nd from him the Fauns and Satyrs are often called Sileni. The Satyrs, also gods of the Country, were considered as mischievo

tumn, Ceres with Summer, and Flora with Spring. The four seasons have also been described with great distinctness, by poets,

te and of Phorcys, was a beautiful nymph, greatly beloved by Glaucus, also one of the deities of the sea. Scylla scorned his

moon,” to exercise their benevolence or their fury. They were allowed also to leave their tombs three times during the cours

rlands of flowers, and fruit offerings presented to them. The Penates also closely resembled the Lares, and presided over ho

im to Colchis, a large beam fell upon and crushed him to death. Medea also died at Colchis, and after her death is said to h

the murder, and throw the crime upon the guilty Medea. Festivals were also appointed, in which the mother was represented as

ated the people, and preyed on the flocks of Amphitryon, laying waste also the adjacent country. From this monster Hercules

and Pirithous, who were condemned to punishment in hell; and Cerberus also was granted to his prayers, provided he made use

rduous labours, which the jealousy of Eurystheus imposed upon him, he also achieved others of his own accord, equally great

for his remains from Scyros, and gave them a magnificent burial. They also raised to him statues and a temple; festivals and

hey also raised to him statues and a temple; festivals and games were also instituted in his honour, to commemorate the acti

onfines of ethereal air, Unmindful and unable to forbear, Mistrusting also lest her steps might stray, And gladsome of the g

e defender was added to the cause of Menelaus. But the besiegers were also to possess the arrows of Hercules, which this her

ns the talismanic protector of their city, the Palladium. Ulysses was also charged with this mission, and the intrepid Diome

o her at Athens; but at Rome, the capital in which the God of War was also peculiarly honoured, several altars were dedicate

e after, by Palamedes, an additional four, and by Simonides of Melos, also , the same number. In addition to the alphabet, by

ling in the light of diamonds and precious stones. The Hindoos revere also a large serpent as a god: “‘The god! the very go

ngue.” Southey. A cow, of whom the gods disputed the possession, is also worshipped by them; she was obtained by one of th

tagem very like that employed by Jupiter with Europa. They pay homage also to peculiar divinities, such as the goddess of pl

. But not only did they delight in the sacrifices of human life, they also gave way in their orgies to unbounded licentiousn

was, according to them, three-in-one and one-in-three. They possessed also a Venus, who, with her three sisters, presided ov

side, hand in hand, as an emblem of mutual affection. ‌ The Mexicans also had a goddess of old age, to whom they rendered h

pottery, have been found in their sepulchral excavations. “Evidences also exist in Mexico, of two great branches of hierogl

divinity?” The following description of one of their gods, we think, also affords additional ground for this opinion. Insér

rang the months. The Otaheitians, more advanced in civilization, have also more extended ideas of the divinity. They worship

eace. The invention of crowns and boats was attributed to him; he was also the first who coined copper money. This Prince ca

in the desert, west of Egypt. Jupiter Serapis, worshiped in Egypt, is also very ancient. Jupiter Belus, mentioned by Herodot

ther, was added to it; whence was formed Joupater and Jupiter. He was also called Zeus; Optimus Maximus, or the Best, and Gr

Phrygia, having determined the victory in favour of the god Pan, who also contended with Apollo for the prize of music, Apo

s in Greece and Thrace, raised temples to their honour. They presided also over friendship and gratitude; and were worshiped

ant affairs, were held in the temple of Vulcan. At Memphis, in Egypt, also , was a most magnificent edifice raised in honour

ps and Tellus were indifferently applied to the earth; and frequently also the appellations of the Goddesses, Vesta, Ceres,

by the wolf, in Latin lupus. His priests were called Luperci. Pan was also regarded as the inspirer of sudden unfounded frig

he Greeks named them Diræ, Erinnes, Disturbers of the Mind. They were also called Eumenides, or the Mild, when supposed to b

child in a profound sleep, holding in his hand, poppies, which serve also for his pillow. Who was Mors? Mors, or Death, was

s actions he was deified, and regarded as the god of strength. He was also named Alcides, from his extraordinary force and v

conscience, and still not only susceptible of happiness or pain, but also sensible of the destruction awaiting them, as the

rs, objects next in splendour to the great luminary of day, attracted also a proportionate degree of their admiration and wo

Hindû scriptures seem to make the world one with the Deity, yet they also explicitly convey the doctrine of creation, in th

d to be a child of the sun, and thence named Vaivaswata. He is called also , King of Justice. He is distinguished as being th

having borrowed from them, not only their religious ceremonies, but, also , most of their gods. The inhabitants of the Theba

is was considered, likewise, as a personification of the Nile. He was also the Pluto of the Egyptians, and, at the same time

are as yet weak, and the day has but a short duration. He represented also that power in nature which fosters the opening of

sensible objects of worship to the votaries of this religion. Heroes also received their veneration, not as fierce conquero

mensity of space: and by means of which, not only bodies, but spirits also , axe rendered visible; as being the first princip

air, and suffered to remain on the spot where it fell. The Scythians also offered to their gods the first fruits of the ear

dued, and introduced conveniences unknown amongst them before, he was also worshiped as the god of arts and sciences. To him

with their science; as the Chaldeans were not only their priests, but also their philosophers. They were greatly addicted to

piece of wood carved into the shape of a serpent’s head. His forehead also was azure, and a band of the same colour passed u

s have been shortened and simplified. There have been some omissions, also , to suit the immaturity of the pupils, but none h

en in full, but a few fragmentary passages of beauty and interest are also included. After consideration, it seemed best not

ade the green stalks come up and be fruitful. The trees of the forest also had each a fair spirit; and to one who understood

When one crop was taken in, another began to sprout. Ceres took care also to have the flowers always blooming. This she did

dwell, and he knew how it cheers and warms those who have it. He knew also that the fire was sacred, and that Jupiter did no

form, or let the earth swallow me up. Quick, for he is here.” Apollo also had seen the river, and he thought, “Now I have h

 — “If with the gods’ help I find her, surely with their help I shall also conquer her.” Then in the moonlight Perseus saw t

ng he came to the ice cliffs, where the North Wind has his home. Here also live the Grææ, and Perseus soon found the three o

tes,” he said, “and take my mother back to her home in Argos. My home also is there.” Next day the wedding of Perseus and An

who is so princely?” But King Minos answered, sternly, — “My son was also princely and strong, yet the men of Athens slew h

hs. But you shall not, stranger, for I will save you from this danger also .” Then she took from under her cloak a skein of t

ss.” And Agamemnon, hearing these words, was touched, and said: — “I, also , was in the wrong, O Achilles, for the goddess of

seis to be brought and to be given back to Achilles. Many rich .gifts also he gave to the hero, and together they sacrificed

ns, and when Laocoön came to the aid of his children, they caught him also in their folds. After they had slain all three, t

us. Son of Jupiter, and twin brother of Diana. God of light and song; also of health and disease. Slew the Python, 58; serve

merely to introduce the children to some of our greatest authors, but also to cultivate a taste for what is purest and best

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car at night when Apollo had gone to rest in the western sky. She was also the goddess of hunting; and, in the daytime, she

ladness to welcome their queen. She had a little son named Cupid, who also was the god of love; and he was sometimes called

for they were sacred to Diana and her nymphs. Actaeon was a youth who also was very fond of hunting. More than all else, he

still lived on earth, and, as I said, she was very beautiful. She was also very vain of her beauty, and one day boasted that

irl clinging to his back, screaming with all her might. Hercules, who also was having a hard time fighting the strong curren

same time that Theseus was born, Minos, king of the island of Crete, also became the father of a baby boy. Minos loved his

other story, that whereas Minos could be a very good friend, he could also be a very cruel enemy. What he asked of the peopl

of course; for Venus had not only turned the marble to life, she had also made Galatea return the sculptor’s great love. Py

out him, which, though not so well known as that of the Golden Touch, also shows that King Midas was sometimes not so wise a

hought him the finest musician in the world. The nymphs of the woods, also , loved to hear Pan play on his flute, and at last

ait till the stranger-guest was satisfied. This little boy was hungry also , and somewhat impatient, and surprised to see Cer

began the rites of Bacchus. Progne was among them, and the old woman also , from whom she had got the web of Philomela; the

cause every body loves truth. Ann. But we love stories, or fictions, also . Mother. That is true, too. We love both fact an

ther. That gentleman who said Mercury was a good example to man, said also that Narcissus was a striking example of idleness

at while there are many good and happy persons every where, there are also many who are wicked and miserable. The ancients,

presumed that malignant gods induced men to commit those crimes, and also that they brought evils upon mankind. Ann. Did e

, but of a god, as they said that Perseus was the son of Jupiter; and also , when they did not know who a person’s father was

oned, I think of the bells which ring to summon us to church; I think also of the church itself, of the minister, and of the

light. The inhabitants of Tenedos and of Delphi are my subjects. I am also the god of music and of healing; stay, and listen

a young Ligurian prince, who was the intimate friend of Phæton, came also to weep over his grave, and Jupiter metamorphosed