t, and did not deserve to be punished for the folly of her father and mother ; however, Venus resolved to bring some misfortune

ll tell you, for I must employ you to afflict Psyche.” “But why, dear mother , said Cupid, interrupting his mother,” would you

afflict Psyche.” “But why, dear mother, said Cupid, interrupting his mother ,” would you afflict poor Psyche. Has she despised

ith him. You must make her love him, and that will vex her father and mother , and they will scold and insult her for her perve

, near where Psyche sat, and said to himself as he gazed at her, “Ah, mother !” at the same time dropping his bow and arrows, w

ds. As he flew upward, Cupid thought it might be well not to tell his mother of his intention to disobey her. She might, perha

h a veil, he only determined to hide his own plans. — Not to tell his mother his intentions concerning Psyche, lest she should

prudently inform some person who he was, that would betray him to his mother . Some persons call such planning and concealment

d punished, as happened in this case. In the meantime, the father and mother of Psyche became very curious to know the future

have pitied and helped the poor; and when I leave my dear father and mother , all my friends will be sorry for my departure; b

d these angry words from his lips: “I quit you, ungrateful Psyche. My mother commanded me to find a monster, and force you to

l her the truth. At first Cupid would not open his lips, but when his mother importuned him, he told her the whole story, and

x, revived Psyche, and giving her a kiss of peace, bade her go to his mother and deliver it, telling her at the same time he W

Little Ann Walton one day read die story of Cupid and Psyche to her mother . When she had finished reading, they conversed to

air, would make an admirable queen for him, but he knew that her fond mother would never consent she should go to his gloomy k

with me; let us away. If you believe him, you will die. Think of your mother ; can you quit her; and us, your friends; and thes

nn and her Mother. Ann. I am not quite satisfied with this story, mother , of Proserpine. I should like to know if Pluto ke

, of Proserpine. I should like to know if Pluto kept her, and how her mother bore the loss of her. Mother. You shall have a s

r; but no daughter awaited her. Where to look for her, the distracted mother knew not. She went to all the places in which she

ter’s leave descended to the world of ghosts. Proserpine received her mother tenderly, and consented to return to earth. It ha

not appear that Proserpine was honest enough to tell the truth to her mother or to Pluto; she hoped she had not been seen, but

ust lose her daughter, that Pluto consented she should dwell with her mother half of the year, and the rest of the time she sh

elfish than she was, and she darted at him a look of displeasure. His mother exclaimed, “Be silent, boy; are you not ashamed.

ike the rest of its species, and he glided into a hole from which his mother couldn’t recover him. Conversation: Mother and

le, looks for the passage, reads it to herself, and then aloud to her mother .) “When,” & c. See page 53. Mother. Now you

ad part of Mr. Keats’s sweet description of this poetic warbler. (Her mother gives her a book, and Ann reads.) “Thou wast not

, she will go to the apartment of the ladies of our house. We have no mother , but our good nurse, Euryclea, is our friend and

riking example of idleness and vanity, and of their punishment. Ann’s mother then related to her the following story. Narci

ory of Acteon, as usual, desired to know the meaning of it, which her mother thus explained. Mother. The grove consecrated to

ng the condemned was Tityas, who had offered an insult to Latona, the mother of Apollo and Diana. For this offence he was sent

he daughters of Cadmus, had a little boy, who was called Bacchus. His mother died when he was very young, and it was said that

tree, the better to observe the Bacchantes. Among them was Agave, the mother of Pentheus, and his two aunts, Ino and Autonoe.

; but I will take care to prevent that: I will get rid of him and his mother too. The tower in which Danæ was confined, stood

in unspeakable anguish, to be devoured by a sea monster. Andromeda’s mother was a vain, silly woman. She boasted of her own b

rincess, she gave him her hand, and he restored her to her father and mother . The plants, upon which the Medusa was laid, were

s bride. It may be that you do not know the perfidy of her father and mother . They gave her to me when I asked her in marriage

d by the people, as their king, Perseus got ready to return, with his mother and wife, to Argos; but he first restored the loa

et to utter verses, and teaching the musician his sweetest tones. His mother was Latona, and his sister, Diana, or the moon. J

exercise, he resolved to kill the Python, for its persecution of his mother . With a quiver full of arrows, he attacked the Py

he is not your father. Did he acknowledge that you were his son? “My mother , Clymene,” answered Phæton, “has often told me th

ded from Jove.” To settle the question, Phæton immediately sought his mother , and complained of Epaphus. “My dear son,” answer

ll not disturb your repose, when you are assured of the truth of your mother , and the affection of your celestial father.” So

of mortality. Condescend, divine Apollo, to vindicate the words of my mother , who asserts that her child derives his birth fro

he world in search of the unfortunate youth’s remains. At length, the mother and sisters of Phæton discovered his monument, an

the heavens. Do the offspring of Latona command your homage of their mother ? — they are but two! But the progeny of the royal

e fatal arrows. Scarcely had tidings of this misfortune reached their mother , when the wretched queen saw her daughters transf

to madness by the loss of all his children, killed himself; and their mother , left alone of all, sat the mute image of despair

es in the Trojan War. He was the son of Peleus, King of Thessaly. His mother , Thetis, plunged him, when an infant, into the St

us] was the god of the winds. Jupiter was his reputed father, and his mother is said to have been a daughter of Hippotus. Æolu

the Greek warriors in the Trojan War. His father was Telamon, and his mother Eribœa. Some writers say that he was killed by Ul

des [Alcides], one of the names of Hercules. Alcme′na [Alcmena], the mother of Hercules, was daughter of Electryon, a king of

he wife of Neptune, was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was the mother of Triton, a sea god. “His weary chariot sought

os], one of the two Cupids, sons of Venus. Antic′lea [Anticlea], the mother of Ulysses. Anti′ope [Antiope] was the wife of L

way by Jupiter, who assumed the shape of an eagle. Astre′a [Astrea], mother of Nemesis, was the goddess of justice; she retur

ope the gates of day.” She was daughter of Sol, the sun, and was the mother of the stars and winds. She is represented as rid

f Magna Dea, Bona Dea, Alma Mammosa, and Thesmorphonis. Ceres was the mother of Proserpine. See Ambarvalia. “To Ceres bland,

d. Corn, see Ceres. Cor′onis [Coronis], was a consort of Apollo and mother of Æsculapius. Another Coronis was daughter of a

d of wealth corresponding to the Greek Plutus. Cy′bele [Cybele]. The mother of the gods, and hence called Magna Mater. She wa

id′na [Echidna]. A woman having a serpent’s tail. She was the reputed mother of Chimæra, and also of the many-headed dog Ortho

ay the liver of Prometheus, and also of the Nemean lion; in fact, the mother of all adversity and tribulation. Echno′bas [Ech

h right hand. Hec′uba [Hecuba]. The wife of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Paris. Taken captive in the Trojan war, she fe

ed divinity of the Egyptians. See Io. I′tys [Itys] was killed by his mother Procne when six years old, and given to his fathe

he gods and goddesses, and mistress of heaven and earth. Juno was the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Hebe, and Lucina. She prompted t

see Scylla and Nysus. Lato′na [Latona], daughter of Cœlus and Phœbe, mother of Apollo and Diana. Being admired so much by Jup

ander], see Hero. Leather Bottle, see Ascolia. Le′da [Leda] was the mother of Castor and Pollux, their father being Jupiter,

s. Ma′ha′soor [Mahasoor]. The Hindoo god of evil. Ma′ia [Maia]. The mother of the Grecian Mercury. Mam′mon [Mammon]. The mo

goddess of vengeance or justice, was one of the infernal deities. Her mother was Nox. She was supposed to be constantly travel

Nepha′lia [Nephalia]. Grecian festivals in honor of Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses. Nep′tune [Neptune], god of the sea

tor [Nestor]. A grandson of Neptune, his father being Neleus, and his mother Chloris. Homer makes him one of the greatest of t

os, and sister of Erebus and Mors. She personified night, and was the mother of Nemesis and the Fates. Nundi′na [Nundina]. Th

ee Fates. Par′is [Paris], the son of Priam, king of Troy, and of his mother Hecuba. It had been predicted that he would be th

nd also of Minerva. See Pallas. Pasiph′ae [Pasiphae] was the reputed mother of the Minotaur killed by Theseus. She was said t

[Pollux]. Twin brother of Castor. Their father was Jupiter and their mother Leda. He and his brother form the constellation G

The Egyptian Hercules. Sem′ele [Semele], daughter of Cadmus and the mother of Bacchus (Dionysus), who was born in a miraculo

and Doris. Her husband was Peleus, king of Thessaly, and she was the mother of the famous Achilles, whom she rendered all but

Vengeance, see Nemesis. Ve′nus [Venus]. The goddess of beauty, and mother of love. She is said to have sprung from the foam

he meanwhile, Arcas had grown to be a fine, tall youth, who, like his mother , was very fond of hunting. So good a marksman was

instant, in spite of the many years since she had last seen him, the mother knew her son; and she gazed with wondering eyes a

cely knowing what he did, he raised his bow and aimed an arrow at his mother . Just at this moment Jupiter appeared, and snatch

le. To make up as far as he could for Juno’s cruelty, he changed both mother and son into bright, glowing stars, and put them

Gladness of Nature Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,     When our mother Nature laughs around; When even the deep blue hea

ng.” Proserpine spent the long, happy days in the fields, helping her mother , or dancing and singing among the flowers, with h

ghout the world. It seemed as though the great earth grieved with the mother for the loss of beautiful Proserpine. When the st

le cried aloud to Jupiter that he should bring Proserpine back to her mother , for they were sadly in need of great Ceres’ help

untain, and I come from the inmost parts of the earth, O Ceres, great mother ! There I saw your daughter seated on a throne at

home if she had tasted no food while in Pluto’s kingdom. So the happy mother hastened down into Hades. But alas! that very day

e hear them croaking in the marshes. This is the story of the unhappy mother , and of the men who were changed into frogs becau

o standing before her. With harsh words, the goddess ordered the poor mother to leave the island at once; and, although it mad

was always held so as to shield them, not herself, from the sun. The mother was glad to suffer anything for her children’s sa

twin sister, is the goddess of the moon. So much did they honor their mother that her lightest wish was a law to them, and not

love himself, and in a very strange way. When Narcissus was born, his mother took him to a wise man who could foretell the fut

ud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick he runs, he flies. “Oh, mother ! I am wounded through, — I die with pain — in soo

of her and her child. One day, some cruel people put Perseus and his mother into a boat, and set them adrift on the great, wi

kind people found them, and gave Danaë and her little boy a home. The mother and son lived there for many years, until Perseus

w that if the boy were gone he could easily do what he liked with the mother . At last he thought of an adventure that would pl

y strange adventures by the way. When he reached the island where his mother lived, he went straight to their little cottage.

and, after wrapping the head of Medusa in a cloth, went to greet his mother . She was overjoyed to see her son, for she had lo

with their wonderful eye could tell how to reach it. Perseus told his mother all that had happened to him, and, above all, how

at everybody loved her. Many thought her even more beautiful than her mother , for whose vanity she was to die. And Cassiopeia

y spring there was a festival held in Thebes, in honor of Latona, the mother of the beautiful twin gods, Apollo and Diana. And

astened to the temple, with garlands of flowers to offer to the great mother , Niobe came last of all, dressed in a beautiful g

her to hear the hymns sung in honor of the two great twins and their mother . She heard the queen’s boastful words, and hasten

ana. She told them that Niobe had dared to compare herself with their mother , that she’ had called her children greater than t

brother and sister went down to Thebes, to avenge the insult to their mother . The seven princes were in the fields, mounted on

unished enough. But when she spoke these words of scorn against their mother , their anger blazed forth afresh, and Diana seize

man of his time. When he was but a few weeks old, Juno, who hated his mother and therefore wished to kill the little boy, sent

last seen as a baby, had grown to be a strong youth, and one day his mother took him to the place where the sword and sandals

e and took from under it the sword and the sandals. Then, bidding his mother farewell, he started for Athens, The journey to A

y eat or wear. Their only grief was at the loss of their lovely young mother Nephele. Nephele had now been gone a long, long w

save Saturn, who, led by ambition and vengeance, and assisted by his mother in his schemes, dethroned his sire, usurped his e

gy_1842_img009 —— “Jealous of the infant’s future power, A stone the mother gave him to devour; Greedy he seized the imaginar

ient Vesta, to distinguish her from her daughter Vesta, who, with her mother , is also called Cybele. But the Deity of whom we

hade which is our form invests us round; Else we are shapeless as our mother night.     Pro. I laugh your power, and his who s

e had previously taken the vows of perpetual celibacy; and became the mother of Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthus. “The ruler

ould obtain, was that she should pass six months of the year with her mother and six months with Pluto, when she became his wi

oves the blooming maid as soon as seen. ‌The frighted Goddess to her mother cries: But all in vain, for now far off she flies

Jupiter, as the King of the Gods could not restore Proserpine to her mother , Destiny having decreed otherwise. But of this be

erving, that she had a better claim to altars and sacrifices than the mother of Apollo. This insolence provoked Latona, and sh

mself with greater facility, he assumed the shape and features of her mother . Their happiness was complete, when Clytie, her s

elded to the power of love, and sought to please Clymene, who was the mother of Phaeton. To this nymph succeeded the chaste Ca

aeton resolved to know his true origin; and at the instigation of his mother , he visited the palace of the sun, to beg that Ph

on, who was killed by Achilles at the siege of Troy. The tears of his mother were the origin of the early dew, and the Egyptia

ed in the midst of torments, the most cruel and excruciating, and his mother , stricken with despair at the sight of them, dest

be thy loving light, where’er it spills, And blessed thy fair face, O mother mild! Still shine, the soul of rivers as they run

ed fatal; he was descried by the Bacchanals, who rushed upon him. His mother was the first to attack him, her example was inst

in his grace. To Bacchus, therefore, let us tune our lays, And in our mother tongue resound his praise.” Virgil. As Bacchus

st celebrated deities of the ancients, was the goddess of beauty, the mother of love, the queen of laughter, the mistress of t

that he ventured to dart one, dipped in the subtle poison against his mother .     “Love! oh! he breathes and rambles round th

elt his vengeance in a different manner. Cupid was wandering with his mother over a meadow, beautifully enamelled with flowers

arth, until Cupid, luckily escaping from the confinement to which his mother had subjected him, found his lost love, and repro

Among the ancients, he was worshipped with the same solemnity ‌as his mother Venus; and as his influence was extended over the

n by her a flower, through the very touch of which she might become a mother . The goddess tried, and from her touch sprang Mar

rage of fight. No bound, no law, thy fiery temper quells, And all thy mother in thy soul rebels. In vain our threats, in vain

a child which united the talents of his father with the graces of his mother ; at the age of fifteen, he began to travel, and b

on, was enamoured of him, and with the assistance of Juno, became the mother of Priapus. Juno having vowed vengeance against t

eauty and youth, she was termed the Goddess of youth, and made by her mother the cup-bearer to all the Gods. She was dismissed

tide, As conscious of its own rich essence, ebbed away.” Moore. Her mother employed her to prepare her chariot, and to harne

hich he had formerly joined. “I once had a haunt near a cot. where a mother Daily sat in the shade with her child, and would

or ever; Tho’ I oft longed to know, but could ask it of none, Was the mother still fair, and how big was her son?” Hood. Tim

her proper shape stood blushing by his side.” Dryden. Thetis became mother of several children by Peleus, but all these she

is, however, was useless, as he went with the rest of the Greeks. The mother , still anxious for his preservation, prevailed up

s ‌Melicerta, and was the son of Athamas and Ino. He was saved by his mother from the fury of his father, Athamas, who became

gave birth to day and light: she is called by some of the poets, the mother of all things, of gods no less than of men, and w

e’s sad funeral shroud. Beside the infant on its cradle bed,     The mother watches thro’ the hour of night; Hope hath not qu

dreams, of whom, by a beautiful idea, imagination was said to be the mother . The palace of Somnus was a dark cave, where the

the incensed Jason attempted to avenge their murder on the barbarous mother , she escaped by flying through the air in a chari

me upon the guilty Medea. Festivals were also appointed, in which the mother was represented as destroying her own offspring,

y ruthless heart appal! Pause at the bold, irrevocable deed —     The mother strikes — the guiltless babes shall fall! …………………

ad confined his daughter in a brazen tower, to prevent her becoming a mother , because, according to the words of an oracle, he

er born, than Acresius caused him to be thrown into the sea, with his mother , Danae. The hopes of the father were frustrated;

ptune sent a sea-monster to ravage the country, because Cassiope, her mother , had boasted herself fairer than Juno and the Ner

armed men, and attempted to carry her off. In vain did the father and mother of Andromeda interfere. “Chief in the riot, Phin

rseus went to Seriphos, and arrived there at the very moment that his mother Danae sought the altar of Minerva, to save hersel

s felt a desire to return to his native country, and arrived with his mother and Andromeda on the Peloponnesian coast, as some

n the house of Pittheus. When he came to maturity, he was sent by his mother to Ægeus, and a sword which had been hidden benea

truth will out, My love is gained!     Hip. I hope, indeed so, — as a mother . Phæ. aside — (How coldly doth he speak, while t

my veins The hot blood bounds in fierce convulsive starts.) Not as a mother do I love thee, But — as a woman — now my breast

did proclaim to him thy guilt? What if I said — father! thy wife, my mother , Hath offered me the love due but to thee, Hath w

Now by my crown, this is most base effrontery, But ’tis in vain, thy mother hath told all, Hath told how, with an impious lov

with a father’s curse, And I must vindicate myself or die? Phædra, my mother , and thy wife, avowed In accents shameless as the

he ordered Jocasta to destroy the infant immediately he was born. The mother was unable to obey this cruel command, but gave h

inevitably become the murderer of his father, and the husband of his mother . Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img

ught to pass, for Œdipus mounted the throne, and married Jocasta, his mother , by whom he had two sons, Polynice and Eteocles,

unhappy parricide, and still more, that he was the husband of his own mother . Œdipus. “‘Why speak you not according to my ch

foretold that most unhappy son Should kill his father, and enjoy his mother . Œd. ’Tis well! I thank you gods! ’tis wondrous

iaraus quitting Argos for Thebes, he told his son Alcmeon to slay his mother , if news of his death should reach him; and when

derly beloved but as she was a great favourite with Clytemnestra, her mother , the Greeks sent for Iphigenia, pretending that t

, after his death, when the latter was ignorant of the ‌infamy of her mother , and the cause of her father’s death, is thus bea

ill win back past kindness.                 Tell me then, Tell how my mother fares who loved me so, And grieved, as ‘twere for

us as his ancestor. This young hero had been hidden by his frightened mother in the isle of Cyros. Clothed in female garments,

an insulting throng, And in his parents sight now dragged along. The mother first beheld with sad survey, She rent her tresse

bandoned himself to feelings of grief and rage at not being able, his mother made known to him the uselessness of his efforts.

y catastrophe. Among this number was Andromache, widow of Hector, and mother of Astyanax. She fell to the share of ‌Neoptolemu

the state. Victory. Styx, daughter of Ocean and Thetis, was the mother of Victory. This deity attended at the conquests

eforth she cannot escape from us.” ‌ Victory, by the commands of her mother , aided Jupiter in his battle with the Titans; and

earance worn and melancholy. Discord, daughter of Night, is the mother of a family of evils, almost too numerous to ment

ddh. 2. His miraculous and divine conception in the bosom of a mortal mother . 3. His birth. 4. His progress in wisdom. 5. His

He is represented as a beautiful youth, sometimes conversing with his mother and consort, in the midst of his gardens and temp

ose whom she favours, while they who fall, are honoured by the mighty mother Frigga, herself mourning over their fate, not ind

m. One only refused, and Balder was doomed, to the great grief of his mother , to rest in the infernal regions. Among the amuse

hich might have the power of injuring Balder. The goddess Frigga, the mother of Balder, undertook this task; and she exacted a

Cottus* (volcano). The Race of Pontus*. — By Pontus, Gæa became the mother of the fabulous sea-deities — Nereus*, Thaumas*,

*. — The offspring of this pair were Leto* and Asteria*. Leto was the mother of Apollo* and Artemis*. Crius*. — This Titan is

em in Tartarus directly after their birth. This displeased Gæa, their mother , who thereupon prompted the Titans to conspire ag

and Selene. She was first married to Astræus, by whom she became the mother of the winds — Boreas* (north), Zephyrus* (west),

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

, Rhea; Roman, Ops*; Phrygian, Cybele*. Rhea, the wife of Chronos and mother of Zeus and the other great gods of Olympus, like

s. Zeus, the son of Chronos and Rhea, when born, was concealed by his mother in a cave of Mount Ida, in Crete. A goat called A

nerva), fully armed. His second goddess-wife was Themis*, who was the mother of the Horæ* (Seasons) and Mœræ* (Fates). Dione*

Mœræ* (Fates). Dione* appears as the wife of Zeus of Dodona, and the mother of Aphrodite* (Venus), while Arcadian Zeus was we

Hera* (Juno) was recognized as his only legitimate queen. She was the mother of Ares* (Mars), Hephæstus* (Vulcan), and Hebe*.

Leda*, whose affections Zeus gained under the form of a swan, was the mother of four children — two mortal and two immortal. T

d swam across the sea with her to the island of Crete. Europa was the mother of Minos*, Rhadamanthus*, and Sarpedon*. The firs

sun, from east to west. The Dawn has been taken from the sky, but her mother follows her, until at length she sinks to sleep i

. Artemis drove the guiltless offender from her society. Callisto was mother of a son named Arcas*. Hera being extremely jealo

her in the woods, was about to kill her, when Zeus, transporting both mother and son to the skies, made them the constellation

w him out of heaven, and his leg was broken by the fall. Hera was the mother of Ares, Hephæstus, Hebe, and Ilithyia*. Hera res

by this court. The story relates that Orestes, after having slain his mother , Clytemnestra*, and Ægisthus*, in revenge for the

or to his horrified gaze, in which he beheld the face of his murdered mother . At length, however, he was befriended by Apollo

eus sent Hermes with a petition to Pluto to restore Persephone to her mother . He consented, and she joyfully prepared to follo

ng Pluto to allow Persephone to spend six months of the year with her mother , whilst during the other six she was to be the jo

him at night in the glow of the fire. The imprudent curiosity of his mother , who watched the goddess and rushed into the room

of Zeus and Hera. According to one account, he was born lame, and his mother cast him from heaven into the sea. The Oceanides

e occasion of a quarrel between Zeus and Hera, Hephæstus assisted his mother , whereupon the angry god of heaven seized him by

d him into a stag. His own dogs tore him in pieces. Niobe*, being the mother of seven sons and seven daughters, proudly set he

ed him as their tutelary deity, and offered sacrifices to him and his mother , Maia, on the Ides of May. In later times he was

*, and he was snatched by Zeus from the devouring flames in which his mother perished when Zeus appeared to her in all the spl

opposition from Pentheus*, who then governed the country. Agave*, the mother of the king, and her sisters, inspired with Bacch

s making him appear as a wild beast, he was torn to pieces by his own mother and her two sisters. “The worship of Dionysus ex

n of the Nereides were Amphitrite, the wife of Poseidon; Thetis*, the mother of Achilles; and Galatea*, who was beloved by the

ng from his forehead, beard and feet like a goat. At sight of him his mother tied in dismay. Hermes wrapped him in a hare-skin

d not to return until they found her. They went, accompanied by their mother , Telephassa*, and Thasos*, a son of Poseidon. The

a son named Polydorus*. They were all persecuted by Hera. Semele, the mother of Dionysus, was consumed by the lightnings of Ze

of Dionysus, was consumed by the lightnings of Zeus. Agave became the mother of Pentheus, who opposed the worship of Dionysus,

s, who opposed the worship of Dionysus, and was torn to pieces by his mother and other votaries of the god. Ino was persecuted

e was doomed to die by the hands of his son, who would then marry his mother . Accordingly, when their infant son was born, Lai

h not being the son of the king. He appealed to Merope*, his supposed mother , but she gave him an equivocal reply. He repaired

to shun his native country, or he would slay his father and marry his mother . Œdipus resolved never to return to Corinth, beli

aius, who was thy father, and thou art wedded to his widow, thine own mother .” The old servant who had exposed the infant on M

he hesitated to accept the position before executing vengeance on his mother Eriphyle. Thersander*, son of Polynices, presente

mæon consulted the oracle of Apollo, to know how he should punish his mother for her cupidity to his father and himself, and h

illed Phegeus and his wife. They brought the robe and collar to their mother , and by the direction of Achelous these fatal tre

. Zeus visited her in the form of ashower of gold, and she became the mother of Perseus. When he was four years old, Acrisius

cry. Enraged at finding his precautions unavailing, he enclosed both mother and child in a chest, which he cast into the sea.

k rock. Perseus then delivered the maiden to her parents. Cassiopea*, mother of Andromeda and wife of Cepheus*, had dared to c

d by his grandfather, Pittheus. When he was sixteen years of age, his mother led him to the stone on which he was to try his s

eared and devoured nine little birds in their nest, and afterward the mother . Calchas predicted from this incident that the si

ng at the brilliant destiny which awaited her beautiful daughter, the mother obeyed, and sent the maiden to Aulis. When she wa

us allowed the other shades to approach. Among them he recognized his mother . From her he learned that she had died of grief a

acle of Apollo, and received the ambiguous answer, “Seek your ancient mother ; there the race of Æneas shall dwell, and reduce

hom its temples were dedicated. The triads often consisted of father, mother , and son; but sometimes of two gods and a king. O

da means ancestress, and it is so called because it is considered the mother of Icelandic poetry. The Sagas* were written in D

h are supposed to surround the land, preceded by the dawn (the virgin mother ), which fades as soon as the sun has risen.” Br

hen, thinking he would be happier with a helpmeet, he married his own mother , Nyx. Of course, with our present views, this mar

nification of Time, who creates only to destroy. In vain the bereaved mother besought the life of one little one: the selfish,

ception practised upon him, Cronus then took leave, and the overjoyed mother clasped her rescued treasure to her breast. It wa

the meaning of this mysterious command. “The Earth,” said he, “is the mother of all, and the stones may be considered her bone

her, and not to return till they had found her. Accompanied by their mother , Telephassa, they immediately set out on their jo

sun in arching colours glows.” Flaccus ( Elton’s tr.). Juno is the mother of Mars, Hebe, and Vulcan, and is always describe

ly, the heifers could not be found. Rather than disappoint their aged mother , who had set her heart upon attending the service

ons of all the people, who admired this trait of filial devotion. The mother was so touched by her sons’ affection, that, as s

feelings, she readily consented to their union, and became the proud mother of Orpheus, who inherited his parents’ musical an

who, however, shared none of his artistic tastes. Hearing that their mother Antiope had been repudiated by her second husband

ick by some insolent taunts which they added, Phaeton hastened to his mother , and begged her to direct him to his father, that

limpse of the godly father, whose stately bearing and radiant air his mother had so enthusiastically described. Apollo, from h

talus, Niobe, heard this boast, and laughed in scorn; for she was the mother of fourteen children, — seven manly sons and seve

pt for her great loss. This story is an allegory, in which Niobe, the mother , represents winter, hard, cold, and proud; until

very hungry towards evening, young Mercury escaped from his sleeping mother , and sallied out in search of food. He had not go

forest. The double sentence was ruthlessly carried out, and the young mother perished; but, contrary to all previsions, the ba

lympus was of old standing. He had once been tenderly attached to his mother , had lavished upon her every proof of his affecti

herous embrace. Vulcan despatched this throne, when completed, to his mother , who, delighted with its beauty and delicate work

of the already excited Bacchantes, who, led by Agave, the king’s own mother , dragged him from his hiding-place and tore him l

r earth she was leaving, and then, with a fond thought of her anxious mother , who, when evening came, would vainly seek her ch

e could be found except the scattered flowers. Hither and thither the mother wandered, calling her daughter, and wondering whe

fires of Mount Ætna, continued her search. Day dawned, and still the mother called, awakening the morning echoes with her lon

and ice, where he detained her, and made her his wife. She became the mother of Zetes and Calais, — who took part in the Argon

im grow weaker and weaker, now that he was no longer sustained by his mother Earth, from whom he derived all his strength, unt

ned this astonishing news, than he flew into a great rage, vowed that mother and child should perish, and despatched he guards

tening to o’erturn The wide-tost vessel, not with tearless cheeks The mother round her infant gently twined Her tender arm, an

on the Island of Seriphus, where Polydectes, the king kindly received mother and child. Here Perseus, the golden-haired, grew

of young Perseus, who loudly declared that none should dare force his mother as long as he were there to defend her. This boas

his maiden was the princess Andromeda. To atone for the vanity of her mother , Cassiopeia, who claimed she was fairer than any

o Seriphus. There, hearing that Polydectes had dared to ill-treat his mother because she still refused to accede to his wishes

gave the kingdom to the king’s brother, and, accompanied by wife and mother , returned to his native land. The borrowed helmet

r, and, as he was still but a child, entrusted her to the care of his mother , Æthra, until she attained a suitable age for mat

nging in fierceness, on each other turn’d Tumultuous battle. On their mother earth By their own spears they sank; like pines,

f when told that the child was destined to kill his father, marry his mother , and bring great misfortunes upon his native city

warned him that fate had decreed he should kill his father, marry his mother , and cause great woes to his native city.       

s’ries it denounc’d Against me; ’twas my fate, Apollo said, To wed my mother , to produce a race Accursed and abhorr’d; and las

such an indulgent father, and marry the queen, whom he revered as his mother ! Never! Rather than perpetrate these awful crimes

, placed on a chariot, crowned King of Thebes, and married to his own mother , Jocasta, unwittingly fulfilling the second fearf

ower, than he stretched out his little hands. To please him, the fond mother plucked it and gave it to him. She had scarcely d

a charming young nymph named Penelope; and we are told that, when his mother first beheld him, she was aghast, for he was the

so, for the three sisters told him that Thetis was destined to be the mother of a son who would far outshine his father. Jupit

ed to favour the Greeks; and Hector, hastening back to Troy, bade his mother go to the temple with all her women, and endeavou

t see the city taken, the Trojans slain, and the women, including his mother and beloved Andromache, borne away into bitter ca

thou art gone, — Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother . ………………………………………………………                           

                                    “Hector, thou Art father and dear mother now to me, And brother and my youthful spouse bes

vengeance, Achilles would have rushed from his tent unarmed; but his mother prevailed upon him to wait until the morrow, when

to come and rescue the precious corpse. Mindful of his promise to his mother , Achilles still refused to fight, but, springing

luded, he vanished; but Ulysses lingered a little longer to allow his mother to drink some blood, and explain how she came to

nt he determined to take her life; but ere he could do so, Venus, his mother , stayed his hand, and bade him remember that the

at death. Perseus also belongs to this category of myths. Danae, his mother , either the earth (dano means “burnt earth”) or t

rts from, Atalanta (the dawn maiden), and is finally slain by his own mother , who casts into the flames the brand upon which h

used great distress. Urged on by unrelenting fate, he marries his own mother , Jocasta, now the violet-tinted twilight, and end

ys, as they come each in order.” We have also Ceres or Demeter, “the mother of all things,” and more particularly of “the mai

ter, they said that the beautiful child had been stolen away from her mother by dark beings, who kept her imprisoned beneath t

her. God of light, 3; dethroned, 6 æ′thra. Princess of Troezene, 218; mother of Theseus, 221; Helen intrusted to, 227; signifi

Deianeira’s charm for, 204; pose of 207 Al-cim′e-de. Queen of Iolcus mother of Jason, 230 Al-cin′o-us. Phæcian king enables

ars carried off by Halirrhothius 117 Alc-me′ne. Wife of Jupiter, and mother of Hercules, 17, 188; significance, 353 A-lec′to

nelope’s suitors; slain by Ulysses, 320 An-ti′o-pe. Wife of Jupiter; mother of Amphion and Zethus; persecuted by Dirce, 62 A

ss of virtue; takes charge of Hercules, 189-191. 2. Wife of Alcinous; mother of Nausicaa, 317 Ar-e-thu′sa. Nymph of Diana; ch

e Semele’s jealousy, 147, 148. Bi′ton. Brother of Cleobis; draws his mother to the temple, 38 Bœ-o′ti-a. Province in Greece,

an War, 280 Cal-li′o-pe. Muse of heroic poetry; loved by Apollo, 69; mother of Orpheus, 58 Cal-lis′to. Maiden loved by Jupit

ne. 1. Wife of Iapetus; an ocean nymph, 14. 2. Nymph loved by Apollo; mother of Phaeton, 64, 65, 68 clyt-æm-nes′tra. Wife of

lso known as Ariadne’s Crown, 156 Co-ro′nis. Maiden loved by Apollo; mother of Æsculapius, 45, 46; significance, 350, 353 Co

of sails, 185 Dan′a-e. Maiden visited by Jupiter as a golden shower; mother of Perseus, 208-210; significance, 341, 354, 361

r and Hemera create the, 3; divisions of the, 4; realm of the 14; the mother of all, 25; oath by the, 148; Antæus, son of the,

Jupiter and Mnemosyne, 69 Er′e-bus. God of darkness, 2; marries his mother , Night, 2; progenitor of egg, 4; dethroned, 6 E-

Venus, 83 Eu-ro′pa. Daughter of Agenor; wife of Jupiter, 31, 34. 42; mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, 32, 289; si

pell, 311; Ulysses’ men misled by, 315 Eu-ryn′o-me. Wife of Jupiter; mother of the Graces, 83 Eu-rys′theus. Hercules’ taskma

Har-mo′ni-a. Daughter of Mars and Venus, 85, 118; wife of Cadmus, 34; mother of Semele, 147 Har′pies. Monsters, half woman, h

m buries, 293; shade of, 322; widow of, 327 Hec′u-ba. Wife of Priam; mother of Paris and Hector, 273, 275; Hector seen by, 29

; daughter of Uranus and Gæa, 6. 2. Priestess of Vesta; wife of Mars; mother of Romulus and Remus, 118, 339 Il′i-ad. Homer’s

352. 353. 354, 358, 359. 360, 361-365 Jus′tice. Same as Themis, 30; mother of seasons, 83 Ju-tur′na. Sister and charioteer

Ixion, king of, 145; Pirithous, king of, 226 La′ra. Wife of Mercury; mother of the two Lares, 174 La′res. Two tutelary divin

significance, 352, 357. 359 La-to′na. Same as Leto; wife of Jupiter; mother of Apollo and Diana, 44, 45, 129; boast of, 72; s

the Elysian Fields from Hades, 139, 179, 180 Le′to. Same as Latona; mother of Apollo and Diana, 61; significance, 352, 357,

lapius, 47; Philoctetes healed by, 295 Ma′ia. Goddess of the plains; mother of Mercury, 109; significance, 364 Man. The crea

ed bride of Orion, 78 Met-a-nei′ra. Wife of Celeus, king of Eleusis; mother of Triptolemus, 163 Me′tis. Daughter of Oceanus;

Mne-mos′y-ne. A Titanide, 6, 10; goddess of memory; wife of Jupiter; mother of the Muses, 68 Mœ′ræ. The Fates, or Parcæ, who

us; Achilles’ son; slays Priam, 294, 323 Neph′e-le. Wife of Athamas; mother of Phryxus and Helle, 232; significance, 356, 362

s, and form a constellation, 150 Nyx. Same as Nox, goddess of night; mother of Day and Light, 2, 3, 4, 6; mother of Furies, 1

. Same as Nox, goddess of night; mother of Day and Light, 2, 3, 4, 6; mother of Furies, 139 O O-ce-an′i-des. Daughters

10, 14, 126; significance, 362 O-cris′i-a. A slave; wife of Vulcan; mother of Servius Tullius, 125 O-dys′seus. Same as Ulys

, and accidentally slain by her, 77-79 Or-i-thy′i-a. Wife of Boreas; mother of Calais, Zetus, Cleopatra, and Chione, 186 Or′

es, 277; suitors of, 318-320; significance, 359, 360. 2. A nymph, the mother of Pan, 265 Pe-ne′us. 1. River god; father of Da

81; significance, 352 Sem′e-le. Daughter of Cadmus; wife of Jupiter; mother of Bacchus, 147-150; significance, 361 Se-ri′phu

ope, 277, 278; adventures of, 318-320 Tel-e-phas′sa. Wife of Agenor; mother of Europa, 32; significance, 349 Tel′lus. Same a

he had a fair young daughter, Proserpina, who loved them. Never was a mother happier than Ceres as she watched Proserpina wand

n, indeed, Proserpina was frightened. She shrieked and called for her mother , but Ceres was far away, in Spain, caring for the

a little sad, and though she would eat nothing and often wept for her mother , Proserpina made the grim old palace seem a very

nd blue as the skies in spring. It was Proserpina, coming to meet her mother . And Ceres, in her joy, wept and laughed at the s

egan again over all the earth. Yet Proserpina could not stay with her mother always. While she was in the underworld she had t

the trembling lea.     “The coal-black horses rise — they rise.    O mother , mother!” low she cries —    Persephone — Perseph

mbling lea.     “The coal-black horses rise — they rise.    O mother, mother !” low she cries —    Persephone — Persephone! “O

orses wait for me. O shade of shades, where I must dwell,    Demeter, mother , far from thee!    Ah, fated doom that I fulfill!

meter’s daughter stands alone    Upon the fair Eleusian meads.    Her mother meets her. “Hail!” saith she;    “And doth our da

Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick he runs, he flies; “Oh mother I — I am wounded through — I die with pain — in s

when you thought never again to see the face of majestic Ceres, your mother — such is my woe, and greater, for I had rather b

e was a mere babe of a few months, he met his first great danger. His mother , Alcmena, had put him to bed one night with his t

o Olympus and make him one of the gods of heaven.” Alcmena was a good mother , and after hearing that, she did all that was pos

ng, in his great heart. He remembered what Tiresias had said, for his mother , Alcmena, had told him. Then, lifting his head, h

nd the fruits of peace reigned year after year. Alcestis was a loving mother to the little boy and girl that were born to her

“I must carry the Gorgon’s head to Polydectes,” he said, “and take my mother back to her home in Argos. My home also is there.

and wise fisherman. A few days afterward, the hero, with his queenly mother and his beautiful bride, set out at last for Argo

Theseus. Theseus was the son of Ægeus, the king of Athens. His mother , Æthra, lived in Trœzen, at her father’s palace.

e loss of his slave, Briseis, whom he loved. Then Thetis, the goddess mother of Achilles, went up to Olympus and prayed Jupite

mself harm. Far away, at the bottom of the ocean, Thetis, the goddess mother of Achilles, heard the sounds of grief. She rose

wept with him. Then Achilles said: — “Indeed, I have had my revenge, mother , and the Greeks have paid dearly for the wrong Ag

but in the end it is a burning and torturing fire. I will forget it, mother , and from now on I shall fight again in the front

o me, but if he bend the bow, he shall have a rich prize.” “Leave us, mother ,” said Telemachus, fearing a quarrel with the sui

e΄res (se΄reez). Called Demeter by the Greeks. Sister of Jupiter, 14; mother of Proserpina, 15; goddess of agriculture, 14; sh

ome of Ulysses’ companions, 227. Clym΄ene (klim΄e-ne), 112. A nymph; mother of Phaëton. Cre΄tan (kre΄tan). Pertaining to Cre

The most famous is Polyphemus, 220. Dan΄aë. Daughter of Acrisius and mother of Perseus. Cast adrift; reached the island of Se

e΄reus (ne΄ruse). “The old man of the sea,” 87; father of Thetis, the mother of Achilles. Nes΄tor. King of Thrace; cry old, a

e). Son of Danaë. As an infant, was cast adrift upon the sea with his mother in a small boat; rescued by Dictys, 18; sent by P

was compelled to allow Proserpina to spend part of each year with her mother , 34-35. Protesila΄us. First Greek to die in the

Ser΄iphus. Island east and south of Greece, 125. Here Perseus and his mother were found on the beach by Dictys. Sic il΄ian. P

father of Achilles, 170. The΄tis. A sea-nymph; wife of Peleus, 170; mother of Achilles, 182. Thrace. Country n. w. of Greec

hem was Prometheus. Trœ΄zen. A kingdom of Greece; home of Æthra, the mother of Theseus, 146. Troy, or Il΄ium. A city and cou

111 (note); daughter of Jupiter. Goddess of love and beauty, 47, 166; mother of Cupid, 64; received from Paris the golden appl

ery considerable (see p. 194, note b), and which they regarded as the mother of dews (p. 61). Another name of the goddess may

umseh says (vol. iii. 234), «The Sun is my father and the Earth is my mother , and I repose on her bosom.» It would therefore s

d Rhea, also named Pandora. The former, who was the eldest, aided her mother to rear her brothers and sisters, whence she was

m all except Kronos, who lying in wait with the sickle with which his mother had armed him, mutilated his unsuspecting sire. T

d the stars of heaven. Styx, a daughter of Oceanos, was by Pallas the mother of Envy and Victory, Strength and Force ; and Ast

ns are born ; who all, except Oceanos158, at the instigation of their mother , fall on their sire, whom Kronos mutilates. They

passed, He to the depths of sacred gloomy Night might come, Unto his mother and his wedded wife, And his dear children ; but

ern regions. The god visited her during the night, in the form of her mother . The virgin was obliged to comply with his wishes

he being the source of her light252; while a third view made her the mother by him of the four Seasons253. In one of the Home

th, Eôs asked and obtained him from Zeus272. Eôs was, by Astræos, the mother of the winds Boreas, Zephyros and Notos, and of t

h last espoused Perses, the son of Crios. Leto was destined to be the mother of Apollo and Artemis under the new order of thin

heroic pupils music as well as other accomplishments, a more suitable mother could not be assigned him than the nymph Lyrelovi

c and archery, his sister Artemis the goddess of the chace, and their mother Leto, Aphrodite goddess of love, and her mother D

the chace, and their mother Leto, Aphrodite goddess of love, and her mother Dione, Ares god of war, Pallas Athene goddess of

s Eurynome next produced him the Graces ; Demeter was then by him the mother of Persephone, Mnemosyne of the Muses, and Leto o

husband Amphitryôn to deceive the modesty of Alcmena, who became the mother of Heracles. Leda was beguiled by him in the shap

ch Danae was inclosed, and became the father of Perseus. Antiope, the mother of Amphiôn and Zethos, was forced by him in the g

of fire or the plumage of an eagle disguised the god from Ægina, the mother of Æacos. By Semele he was the father of Dionysos

form of the river-god, ‘mingled in love’ with her, and she became the mother of Pelias and Neleus421. Iphimedeia bore him Otos

mplished his wishes. But when she had implored him in the name of her mother to spare her, he gave her a solemn promise to mak

s when he had given birth to Pallas-Athene. He was born lame, and his mother was so displeased at the sight of him that she fl

here he fell when flung from heaven by Zeus for attempting to aid his mother Hera, whom Zeus had suspended in the air with anv

s, and soon Niobe was by the arrows of these deities made a childless mother , and stiffened into stone with grief604. Tityos,

ontemn her humble isle, and would erect there the temple vowed by his mother . Leto assented with an oath, and the friendly isl

s, must have been an epithet of Hades ; Clymene, the name of Admetos’ mother , is one of Persephone ; and Pheræ was a town sacr

a hill named Argillos on the banks of the Nile, where she became the mother of Dionysos698. If Artemis was merely one of the

Διώνη. Dione. In the Ilias732 Dione is a wife of Zeus, and mother of Aphrodite. The name Dione also occurs among th

nd the Latin poets739 she is sometimes called by the same name as her mother . Hesiod740 says she sprang from the foam (ἀϕρὸς)

rents768. In Olên’s hymn to Eileithyia769 that goddess was termed the mother of Love, and Alcæus said that ‘well-sandaled Iris

al world depends. Nothing was more natural than to term Aphrodite the mother of Love, but the reason for so calling Eileithyia

scaped by the window of the chamber where he had been confined by his mother  : he awakens her with the point of one of his arr

827,) is in one place of the Ilias called the son of Zeus828, but his mother is unnoticed. When, in the same poem, Dione is co

-break he slunk home and stole into his cradle, not unobserved by his mother , who reproached him with his deeds ; but he repli

nk is also laid to the charge of this sly deity. Watching one day his mother and her sisters when they went to bathe, he stole

by her obstinacy, he turned her into a black stone. Herse became the mother of Cephalos846. The only amour of Hermes with any

the two deities. Demeter, a daughter of Kronos and Rhea, and by Zeus mother of Persephone877, was evidently the goddess of th

ven, the fishy sea and beams of the sun, so long she hoped to see her mother and the tribes of the gods ; and the tops of the

the depths of the sea resounded with her divine voice. At length her mother heard ; she tore her head-attire with grief, cast

ays her not to be precipitate, but to wait till she had consulted her mother Metaneira, who had a young son in the cradle, of

s and went home. As soon as they had related their adventure to their mother , she agreed to hire the nurse at large wages : A

he ground, declaring what he had lost by the inconsiderateness of his mother , but announcing that he would be great and honour

ing at home seated on a couch with his wife, who was mourning for her mother . On making known to Aïdoneus the wish of Zeus, ‘t

kindly addressed Persephone, granting her permission to return to her mother . The goddess instantly sprang up with joy, and he

ad not, she would be free to spend her whole time with her father and mother  ; whereas if but one morsel had passed her lips,

s the swallowing of the grain of pomegranate, and then relates to her mother the whole story of her abduction. They pass the d

under-world : it reappears, — that is, Persephone is restored to her mother , and she abides with her two-thirds of the year.

os to the god of the river Strymôn945 ; Melpomene was by Acheloös the mother of the Sirens. Hymenæos, the god of marriage, was

ribed to the ancient Lycian poet Olên. In this she was said to be the mother of Love992. Eileithyia was called993, 1. Labour-a

[a name synonymous with Moira] span with her thread for him when his mother brought him forth ; ’ and in the latter1003, Alci

Aisa and the heavy Cataclothes span with the thread for him when his mother brought him forth.’ It is probable that Homer, in

mon noun, it seems to be equivalent to fate. Achilleus says, that his mother gave him the choice of two keres ; — one, to die

one to give him counsel1034. Themis is said1035 to have succeeded her mother Earth in the possession of the Pythian oracle1036

analogy might lead to the supposition of Zeus being her sire, by some mother who is unknown. Hesiod1038 says that swift Iris a

yric poet Alcæus, who is followed by Nonnus, Iris was by Zephyros the mother of Love1041. Homer styles Iris Gold-winged 1042,

e at Thebes1066 Fortune held Wealth (Πλοȗτος) in her arms, whether as mother or nurse was uncertain. The image of this goddess

the Ilias. Ganymedes and Tithonos, who were mortal by both father and mother , were carried off, the former by the gods to be t

ne, and Dionysos have consequently become the son of Zeus by a mortal mother . The vintage is in wine-countries at the present

lf against them ; but Dionysos caused him to be torn to pieces by his mother and his aunts. The daughters of Minyas, Leucippe,

urred. Dionysos afterwards descended to Erebos, whence he fetched his mother , whom he now named Thyone, and ascended with her

nis. Owing to the malignity of Hera, he was born so deformed that his mother was horrified and renounced (ἀπαρνϵῖτο) him, when

e best known of them are, Amphitrite the wife of Poseidôn, Thetis the mother of Achilleus, and Galateia, who was loved by the

nd Amphitrite, who, ‘keeping to the bottom of the sea, dwelt with his mother and royal father in a golden house.’ Later poets

347 ; yet the daughter of Eurymedôn, their last king, was by Poseidôn mother of the king of the Phæacians, a people of the ord

er magic art she changed into a bird1368. Another legend made her the mother of Faunus by the god of the sea1369. The Moly (μῶ

the latter island, on which the oxen of the Sun grazed. In Homer the mother of Scylla is named Cratæis1393 ; but her sire is

d Cratæis1393 ; but her sire is not spoken of. Stesichorus called her mother Lamia1394 ; Hesiod said she was the daughter of P

ion. A hundred years each child spent in ignorant simplicity with its mother , and when they attained to youth they lived but a

ts ; and that she was given in marriage to Epimetheus, and became the mother of Pyrrha, the first mortal woman. It is also des

lace. When the fatal day arrived Admetos implored his aged father and mother to lay down their small remnant of life for his s

40. But during the absence of Iasôn, Pelias had driven his father and mother to self-destruction, and put to death their remai

Zeus was the father of Æacos, who dwelt in the island named from his mother . The children of Æacos were, Peleus, Telamôn, and

uests1573. When the celebrated son of Peleus and Thetis was born, his mother wished to make him immortal. She therefore placed

worst of it, and could not keep the field ; but when, enraged at his mother Althæa, he remained with his wife the fair Cleopa

ther Œneus ascended his chamber and implored him, his sisters and his mother supplicated him, but in vain. He remained inexora

not to return till they had found her. They were accompanied by their mother and by Thasos a son of Poseidôn. Their long searc

re established himself in Phœnicia, Cilix in Cilicia ; Cadmos and his mother went to Thrace, where Thasos founded a town also

os founded a town also named from himself1623. After the death of his mother Cadmos went to Delphi, to inquire of the oracle r

to him, it is said, by the divine artist himself. Harmonia became the mother of four daughters, Semele, Autonoe, Ino, and Agau

royed all his bees ; and the mode adopted by him on the advice of his mother to stock once more his hives. Actæôn was the offs

e an ocular witness of the revels. While there he was descried by his mother and aunts, to whom Dionysos made him appear to be

ted with her numerous progeny she set herself above Leto, who was the mother of but two children ; the latter complained to Ap

on the earth ; her husband’s name Epopeus is of similar import ; her mother is Polyxo (Polylyxo), Light-full. Amphiôn is the

ness 1677, is the daughter of the Flourishing-one (Tantalos), and the mother of the Green-one (Chloris). In her then we may vi

w unknowingly accomplished the remainder of the oracle. He had by his mother two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, and two daught

e ancient forms. The hero of the Odyssey says, “I saw (in Erebos) the mother of Œdipodes, the fair Epicaste, who in her ignora

the lofty roof, and left to him many woes, such as the Erinnyes of a mother produce.” In the Ilias1689 the funeral games are

y children by her son, Eurygeneia the daughter of Hyperphas being the mother of his wellknown children. According to the cycli

o daughters, Chrysogeneia and Chryse ; the former of whom was by Ares mother of Phlegyas ; the latter bore to Poseidôn a son n

iage to Heracles, and her younger sister to Iphicles1733. Alcmena the mother of the hero also married Rhadamanthys the son of

n ; and he is made to be the son of the king of the gods, by a mortal mother . To render his perfection the more manifest, the

n she sat in hers was unable to rise. Hephæstos was called to set his mother free ; but he, who had done it through malice for

malice for her having flung him out of heaven, replied that he had no mother . Dionysos contrived to make him drunk, and while

s, the latter by Icarios. Pandiôn married Zeuxippe, the sister of his mother , by whom he had two sons, Erechtheus and Butes, a

nsult the oracle on the subject of progeny, Iôn was recognised by his mother , and as the true representative of the Erechtheid

f Ægeus by Æthra was named Theseus. When grown to the proper age, his mother led him to the stone under which his father had d

rrying her off, and they succeeded. Placing her under the care of his mother Æthra at Aphidnæ, Theseus prepared to assist his

en, Isandros, Hippolochos, and Laodameia ; which last was by Zeus the mother of Sarpedôn. Falling at length under the displeas

up his daughter and her nurse, in order that she might never become a mother . But Zeus had seen and loved the maiden ; and und

ower he poured through the roof down into her bosom. Danae became the mother of a son, whom she and her nurse reared in secrec

to stone. Perseus now proceeded to Seriphos, where he found that his mother and Dictys had been obliged to fly to the protect

to Athena, who set it in the middle of her shield. Accompanied by his mother and his wife Andromeda, Perseus now set out for A

ans asserted that Asclepios first saw the light in their country. His mother was Arsinoe the daughter of Leucippos, and the pl

a to rear. It is also said that Areas, having been separated from his mother and reared among men, meeting her one day in the

the woods, was on the point of slaying her, when Zeus transferred the mother and son to the skies. Finally it was, according t

2003,’ and she calls Castôr and Polydeukes her ‘own-brothers whom one mother bore with her2004.’ In the Odyssey2005 these are

the recovery of their sister Helena from the power of Theseus, whose mother Æthra they dragged in return into captivity. They

ark Pelias, the other Neleus. When they grew up they discovered their mother , and resolved to kill her stepmother Sidero, by w

ve her only to him who should bring him from Thessaly the cows of his mother Tyro, which Iphiclos of Phylace detained, and had

o ease her labour, and bring his offspring to the light. The mourning mother left her new-born babe on the ground, and two ‘gr

rays’ i. e. of the violets (ἴων) which surrounded him ; and hence his mother called him Iamos — Violety. On attaining ‘the fr

ve to death. Ægisthos went to the prison, bearing the sword which his mother had given him ; and the moment Thyestes beheld it

e youth how he had come by it. He replied that it was the gift of his mother . At the desire of Thyestes, Pelopia came, and the

he sire of Cadmos, Europa was also said to be his daughter, while her mother Telephassa became the inappropriate mother of Cad

be his daughter, while her mother Telephassa became the inappropriate mother of Cadmos. We shall presently see the real nature

idental homicide, he retired to Bœotia, where he married Alcmena, the mother of Heracles. According to Homer2096 , Rhadamanthy

l used to feed. All succeeded as was desired, and Pasiphae became the mother of Asterios, called the Minotaur, from his having

ce) is the daughter of Phœnix (Red) and Telephassa (Far-shining), and mother of Minôs, a name not unlike Men 2109 (Μὴν, Moon) 

bore to Poseidôn Hyrieus the father of Oriôn and Lycos), Sterope (the mother of Œnomaos by Ares), and Merope, who married Sisy

ording to Pindar, the Pleiades were passing through Bœotia with their mother when they were met by Oriôn, and his chase of the

Alcmæôn the son of Amphiaraos. Alemæôn would however first punish his mother  ; but Eryphile, who had received the robe of Harm

s, and Thersandros placed on the throne. Alcmæôn on learning that his mother had taken a bribe against himself, as well as his

and the Psophites were forced to retire. The youths returned to their mother with the collar and robe, which by the direction

sparrow's nest with eight young ones, devoured them all, and then the mother herself ; after which Zeus turned him into stone,

take Briseïs away from Achilleus. The injured prince complains to his mother , at whose entreaty Zeus promises to punish the Ac

overcome the wrath of Achilleus. He is reconciled to Agamemnôn ; his mother brings him armour made by Hephæstos ; he goes for

Nestôr falls by his hand ; he is himself slain by Achilleus, but his mother obtains immortality for him from Zeus. Achilleus

p he and Pylades secretly returned to Mycenæ2226, where he killed his mother and Ægisthos. The Erinnyes of his mother persecut

enæ2226, where he killed his mother and Ægisthos. The Erinnyes of his mother persecuting him, he fled to Delphi, whose god had

try on the very day that Orestes was giving the funeral feast for his mother and Ægisthos, whom he had slain2233. Helena was,

dôn by Earth (the natural parent of a plant), and add that it was her mother that changed her on her prayer. Paus. vlii. 20. 4

sire of Linos and Orpheus. Hesiod (Fr. 97.) said that Urania was the mother of Linos. See Conon 19. 942. Argiope according t

πωπέϊ ποιμένι λαῶν. Apud Paus. ii. 6, 4. 1675. The name of Æetes’ mother was Antiope (above, p. 312.). The root of Zethos

, and on the hypothesis of night preceding day, the Moon might be the mother of the Sun. Zeus-Epopeus is like Zeus-Tyndareos.

1676. Soph. Antig. 834. Elec. 150. Dione, one of the Hyades, is her mother (Ovid, Met. vi. 174. Hygin. 9.). Sappho (Athen. x

ϵὑρȋν. 2002. t was probably the war of Troy that made Nemesis the mother of Helena. Sch. Pind. Nem. x. 150. 2003. Il. ii

omewhat like that of Soohrâb, and who was sent in quest of him by his mother , and through the artifice of Penelope falls by hi

rical traditions similar in various countries, or inherited from some mother country. But, although some historical myths may

ountry. But, although some historical myths may have descended from a mother race, it has already been demonstrated (§ 7.1) th

ad veiled and garments unbound, and cast behind you the bones of your mother .” They heard the words with astonishment. Pyrrha

, Trembling, Panic, and Fear, — also his sister Eris, or Discord (the mother of Strife), his daughter Enyo, ruiner of cities,

ture of fire. According to his own story,77 he was born halt; and his mother , chagrined by his deformity, cast him from Heaven

of the gods. Yet, again,78 he says that, attempting once to save his mother from Jupiter’s wrath, he was caught by the foot a

sky, Fanning the busy dreams from my dim eyes, — Waken me when their mother , the gray Dawn, Tells them that dreams and that t

lo, born on Mount Cynthus, in the island of Delos. Latona, the future mother of Diana and Apollo, flying from the wrath of Jun

atin nomenclature, Aurora, the rosy-fingered goddess of the Morn, was mother of the stars and of the morning and evening breez

; so also, another goddess of the earth, Rhea, the wife of Cronus and mother of Jupiter. In Phrygia, Rhea became identified wi

er. In Phrygia, Rhea became identified with Cybele, whose worship, as mother of the gods, was, at a later period, introduced i

of the gods, was, at a later period, introduced into Rome. The Greek mother , Rhea, was attended by the Curetes; the Phrygian

me. The Greek mother, Rhea, was attended by the Curetes; the Phrygian mother by the Corybantes, who celebrated her orgies with

for each and other, She waits for all men born; Forgets the earth her mother , The life of fruits and corn; And spring and seed

to some stories, the Hesperids. The last-mentioned, assisted by their mother , Hesperis, and a dragon, guarded the golden apple

emeter); Liber (Bacchus); Libera (Proserpina); Magna Mater, the great mother of the gods (Rhea, Cybele); Orcus (Pluto, Hades);

ans Cœus and Phœbe. This goddess became, as we have already seen, the mother of Apollo and Diana. The ire of Juno against her

ser still she clung about her maiden, and kept saying how she was her mother , and herself had nursed Europa. But that other wi

ebes. She was descended, through both parents, from the gods; for her mother Harmonia was daughter to Mars and the laughter-lo

pened, they had been ordered to execute the cruel sentence upon their mother . But with a band of their fellow-herdsmen, they a

statue of Hera at Argos. Her sons testified their affection for their mother , by yoking themselves, since no oxen were at hand

chariot old, And wore themselves the galling yoke, and brought Their mother to the feast of her desire, Grant them, O Hera, t

endure to see thee in anguish; mine offspring art thou, and to me thy mother bare thee. But wert thou born of any other god un

given, Vulcan, because of his lameness, was cast out of Heaven by his mother Juno. The sea-goddesses, Enrynome and Thetis, too

de and gained proficiency in it. In order to revenge himself upon the mother who had so despitefully used him, he fashioned in

he depths of the sea a throne of cunning device, which he sent to his mother . She gladly accepting the glorious gift, sat down

Phœbus Apollo illustrate, first, his birth and the wanderings of his mother , Latona; secondly, his victory over darkness and

peaceful ways to the oracle of Delphi, but had ventured to insult the mother of the twin deities. They overthrew also the Aloa

ton’s being the son of a god. Phaëton complained of the insult to his mother Clymene. She sent him to Phœbus to ask for himsel

sband, Amphion, overwhelmed with the blow, destroyed himself. But the mother knelt over the lifeless bodies, and kissed them R

ide the corpses that they were bewailing. Only one remained, whom the mother held clasped in her arms, and covered, as it were

say they might compare Even with thyself in virgin purity: May not a mother in her pride repeat What every mortal said? One

erected midway between Argos and Delphi; and every year Linus and his mother were bewailed in melancholy lays by the mothers a

ed by thy curiosity. But now perform the task imposed upon thee by my mother , and I will care for the rest.” Then Cupid, swif

this is true: so like was one the other, As he imagined Hero was his mother ; And oftentimes into her bosom flew, About her na

es met his eyes. At the same moment the women saw him, among them his mother , Agave, and Autonoë and Ino, her sisters. Taking

m for a wild boar, they rushed upon him and tore him to pieces, — his mother shouting, “Victory! Victory! the glory is ours! ”

saw her, loved her, and carried her off. She screamed for help to her mother and her companions; but the ravisher urged on his

three times a solemn charm, then went and laid him in the ashes. His mother , who had been watching what her guest was doing,

Proserpine had dropped in her flight, and float it to the feet of the mother . Ceres, seeing this, laid her curse on the innoce

however, was effected by which she was to pass half the time with her mother , and the rest with the lord of Hades. § 106. Trip

im often to be nursed under her branches, and to teach him to say “My mother lies hid under this bark,” — the luckless woman a

herefore, as we shall see, they persecuted Orestes, who had slain his mother . Therefore, like the accusing voice of conscience

ove with thee, maiden, I, on the day when first thou earnest, with my mother , and didst wish to pluck the hyacinths from the h

and this my one eye, the dearest thing that is mine. “Ah me, that my mother bore me not a finny thing, so would I have gone d

f the sea. His bees having perished, Aristæus resorted for aid to his mother . She, surrounded by her maidens in the crystallin

and won her. Their son was Perseus. King Acrisius, in dismay, ordered mother and child to be boxed up in a chest and set adrif

s were, however, rescued at Seriphus by a fisherman, who conveyed the mother and infant to Polydectes, king of the country, by

water, and the monster appeared. The virgin shrieked; the father and mother , who had now arrived, poured forth lamentations a

d brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe! ”278 With his mother and his wife Perseus returned to Argos to seek hi

ey became grandparents of the famous Alcmene, sweetheart of Jove, and mother of Hercules. § 138. Bellerophon and the Chimæra 2

se strength was invincible so long as he remained in contact with his mother Earth. He compelled all strangers who came to his

not when the twittering nestlings look towards the perch, while their mother flaps her wings above the smoke-browned beam; and

noted, the wife of Hercules;308 while Leda, the sister of Althæa, was mother of Castor and Pollux,309 and of Clytemnestra and

ck, shuddering before the destruction of her son. The feelings of the mother and the sister contend within her. Now she is pal

t the violence of her offspring. Finally the sister prevails over the mother : — turning away her face, she throws the fatal wo

n pang. He burns; he calls upon those whom he loves, Atalanta and his mother . But speedily the brand is ashes, and the life of

d forth to the wandering winds. When, at last, the deed was done, the mother laid violent hands upon herself. Chapter XX. T

r sire, Ariadne Quitting the sister’s arms, the infatuate gaze of the mother , — She whose sole delight, whose life, was her de

yer of his father; in marrying the queen he became the husband of his mother . These horrors remained undiscovered, till, after

cle of Delphi to conduct against Thebes a new expedition. Thereto his mother Eriphyle, influenced by Thersander, the son of Po

elf, perished during the flight. Alcmæon, returning to Argos, put his mother to death, but in consequence repeated in his own

was Leda, daughter of Thestius of Calydon, and sister of Althæa, the mother of Meleager and Dejanira. To Tyndareus Leda bore

hope of revenge. He would fly instantly in search of Hector. But his mother reminded him that he was now without armor, and p

im from the walls, begging him to retire nor tempt the encounter. His mother , Hecuba, also besought him, but all in vain. “How

rth to gaze once more on the face of their hero. Foremost of all, the mother and the wife of Hector came, and at the sight of

es pursued by the Furies. 372— This revolting act, the slaughter of a mother by her son, though extenuated by the guilt of the

a wagon for the purpose. The clothes were put therein; and the queen mother placed in the wagon likewise an abundant supply o

cold nor summer’s drought arrested their growth. The languid sunset, mother of roses,377 Lingers, a light on the magic seas,

ollo, and received an answer, ambiguous as usual, — “Seek thy ancient mother ; there the race of Æneas shall dwell, and reduce

nother would succeed. Æneas followed the directions of the Sibyl. His mother Venus sent two of her doves to fly before him and

more of life in prospect. Nor can I be the cause of such grief to thy mother , who has chosen to be here in the camp with thee

ng friendship. Euryalus replied, “I have but one boon to ask. My aged mother is with me in the camp. For me she left the Troja

chiefs were moved to tears, and promised to do all his request. “Thy mother shall be mine,” said Iulus, “and all that I have

his son, determined to consult the prophetess Angerbode, a giantess, mother of Fenris, Hela, and the Midgard Serpent. She was

, leaving the gods, went by the sea to Fensalir, the house of Frigga, mother of the gods, to ask her what way there might be o

in the night away. And Nanna on her bed sank back; but then Frea, the mother of the gods, with stroke Painless and swift, set

valor such that they honored him. But after many days, Grim-hild, the mother of Gudrun, administered to Sigurd a magic potion

as placed among the stars as the constellation Virgo, the virgin. Her mother was Themis (Justice). Astræa holds aloft a pair o

roductive soil (§ 34 C), who passes in the Iliad (5: 370, 428) as the mother of Aphrodite; is worshipped at Dodona by the side

t Dodona by the side of Zeus, and is regarded by Euripides as Thyone, mother of Dionysus ( Preller 1. 259). The epithets and n

ugh her father Perses from the Titans, Creüs and Eurybie; through her mother Asteria from the Titans, Cœus and Phœbe. She was

: 304-323 (The Peleus and Thetis). For translation, see § 165ª. Leda, mother of Castor, Pollux, Helen, and Clytemnestra, see §

Pollux, Helen, and Clytemnestra, see § 165 c and Commentary. Danaë, mother of Perseus, see § 134. Interpretative. — The wav

ment (Iliad 18), Eurynome was daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was mother , by Jupiter, of the Graces. Thetis: see §§ 52, 16

(the forgetful), but Preller is doubtful. Possibly Leto and Leda (the mother of the bright Castor and Pollux) have something i

to have been arranged in the pediment of a temple. The figure of the mother , clasped by the arm of her terrified child, is on

of the sun, and at last her death or disappearance in the lap of her mother , the earth.” The word Daphne also means, in Greek

ee genealogical table, I, § 132 (5) C. See same table for Merope, the mother of Glaucus and grandmother of Bellerophon (§ 138)

the western ocean. Midas is fabled to have been the son of the “great mother ” Cybele, whose worship in Phrygia was closely rel

he underworld; when the corn reappears, Proserpine is restored to her mother . Spring leads her back to the light of day. The f

Those of the Spring represented the restoration of Proserpine to her mother ; those of the Autumn the rape of Proserpine. An i

ative. — Milton, Il Pens.; Drummond, Summons to Love, “Rouse Memnon’s mother from her Tithon’s bed”; Akenside, Pleasures of th

e origin of the Cornucopia. Jupiter at his birth was committed by his mother Rhea to the care of the daughters of Melisseus, a

r might wish. Illustrative. — The name Amalthea is given also to the mother of Bacchus. It is thus used by Milton, P. L. Bk.

east (stanza), 76; worshippers of B., 76; or the Roman Liber, 88; his mother Semele, 98; myths of B., 174-180; his wanderings,

92. Callim′achus, Com. § 11. Calli′o-pe, the muse of epic poetry, 72; mother of Orpheus, 138, 185. Callir′rhoë; see Chrysaor.

5). Cre′üs, Com. § 17. Creü′sa, 249, 338; (1) wife of Jason, 249; (2) mother of Ion, Com. § 151; (3) wife of Æneas, 338; Com.

314, 317, 340; Com. §§ 17, 126. Cyc′nus: (1) Son of Apollo. With his mother Thyria, he leaped into lake Canope, where both we

6; Com. § 51. Deïdami′a: (1) orLaodami′a, daughter of Bellerophon and mother of Sarpedon; (2) daughter of Lycomedes of Scyros,

phon and mother of Sarpedon; (2) daughter of Lycomedes of Scyros, and mother of Pyrrhus by Achilles; (3) or Hippodami′a, wife

i-ome′des (son of Mars), owner of the man-eating mares, 236. Di-o′ne, mother of Venus (Aphrodite), 52; Com. §§ 34, 40. Dionys′

sponds with the Greek Cronus; his consort was Nut. Nut: wife of Seb, mother of the Osirian gods; the vault of heaven; she may

is consort is Mut, or Maut, and their son is Khuns. Mut or Maut: the mother ; the Theban goddess of womanhood, wife of Amen-Ra

gardens, Priapus. Neith: goddess of the upper heaven; self-produced; mother of the sun; goddess, consequently, of wisdom, the

88. Enya′lius: the horrible, the warlike; an epithet for Mars. Eny′o, mother , daughter, sister, or wife of Mars; the horror, 5

-seeing, the pardoner, merciful even to the guilty. Ushas: the dawn, mother of mornings, brilliant of raiment, golden-colored

r. Mag′na Ma′ter, 88. Mahâbhârata, 35, 36; transl. Com. § 15. Ma′ia, mother of Mercury (Hermes), 52, 68, 172; Com. § 101. Ma′

dants of Minyas, king of Thessaly; Argonauts. Mist, 37. Mne-mos′y-ne, mother of the Muses, 38, 71; Com. § 17. See Rossetti ,

Niflheim, 366, 367, 370. 372, 388; Com. §§ 185, 186. Night, Nyx, Nox; mother of Fates and of Nemesis, 72,195, 214; geneal. tab

Peripha′tes, 260. Perse′i′s: daughter of Perses, wife of Helios, and mother of Pasiphaë, Ariadne, Phædra, and Æetes; see Com.

Milo, 66-68; star of, 73; among the Romans, 88; Cypris, 93, 152, 153; mother of Harmonia, 96, 138; myths of, 150-172; V. and A

r’s hands. A recognition being happily effected, Æpytus, aided by his mother , put Polyphontes to death, and took possession of

n of the kingdom to Titan; but, in compliance with the request of his mother , he yielded his right to his younger brother Satu

How was Janus represented? Chapter IV. Of Cybele. Cybele, the mother of the gods, was the sister and wife of Saturn. H

inted with a crown of towers; Pasithea, because she is considered the mother of all the gods; Bona Dea, or the “Good Goddess,”

the form of the earth. — See Fig. 4. Fig. 4. Cybele. “High as the mother of the gods in place, And proud, like her, of an

nephew, to Phrygia, where they introduced the mysteries of Terra, the mother of the gods. They also affirm that Cybele gave he

iests, took their names from Corybas. In time Cybele was reckoned the mother of the gods. The goddess Astergatis was the symbo

omans highly distinguished themselves by the worship they paid to the mother of the gods. Obs. 3. — History informs us that C

name. Vesta the elder, or Terra, or Tellus, the wife of Cœlus and the mother of Saturn, was the older goddess. She is painted

urn and Cybele, and was the twin brother of Juno. He was saved by his mother from destruction, and entrusted to the care of th

ed between heaven and earth. Vulcan having effected the rescue of his mother , was thrust out of the celestial abodes, and brok

into a peacock, and impressed his eyes on its feathers. Juno was the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Hebe, and Ilithya, or Lucina. He

r breasts swell with milk; Alma, because she feeds and nourishes as a mother ; Thesmophoris, because she taught men to affix bo

in the kingdom of Pluto, and the other part in the usual abode of her mother Ceres. Obs. 3. — Allegorically, Proserpine may s

n, was the wife of Astræus, one of the Titans, by whom she became the mother of the stars and winds. When she rises, the winge

Memnon aided Priam in the Trojan War, and was killed by Achilles. His mother issued from her wood pile, birds, called Memnonid

ws destroyed the serpent Python, which Juno had sent to persecute his mother . In conjunction with Diana, he slew the children

th Diana, he slew the children of Niobe, because Niobe insulted their mother . Niobe herself was changed into a rock. His son Æ

his orgies, was torn in pieces by the Bacchanals, among whom were his mother and sister. Lycurgus, not the Spartan lawgiver, w

e he was born on the promontory Brisa in Lesbos; Bromius, because his mother uttered dying groans; Bugens, Tauriformis, or Tau

bathing in the fountain of Helicon; but, to answer the prayers of his mother , she conferred on him the gift of prophecy. She a

was called by the Greeks, Athena, because she never drew milk from a mother or nurse’s breast; Pallas, because she slew a gia

 23. Minerva. “Out of her father’s scull, as they report, Without a mother , all in arms leap’d forth.” Lucian. “Arachne t

: Venus, Cupid, Adonis. Venus, the goddess of Love and Beauty, the mother of Cupid, and the patroness of the Graces, is sai

ter of Heaven and Light; the second, born of the foam of the sea, and mother to Cupid; the third, daughter of Jupiter and Dion

Cupid; the third, daughter of Jupiter and Dione, wife to Vulcan, and mother of Anteros; and the fourth was Astarte, wife to A

king of Phrygia. She married Thoas, who was surnamed Cinyras, and was mother to Æneas. Thoas erected to her temples in Paphos,

owery field, Cupid boasted that he could gather more flowers than his mother . Venus accepted the challenge. Cupid flew from fl

syne, (gay,) and Pasithea. They were the constant attendants of their mother , who sometimes represented Hours or Seasons. They

for a considerable time, but having offended Jupiter by relieving his mother , whom Jupiter had suspended by a chain from the t

Chapter IV. Proteus. Proteus, an amphibious deity, had for his mother the nymph Phœnice. He was called Vertumnus by the

ished Aristæus by lulling his bees. In order to repair that loss, his mother Cyrene sends him to consult Proteus; recommends h

her to the Gorgons, of whom we shall speak. Thoosa, his daughter, was mother to Polyphemus, the most celebrated of the Cyclops

because they believed that each one who felt it, would prove a happy mother . There were some other rural deities resembling P

ire, said he should live as long as it continued unconsumed. Althaea, mother to Meleager, extinguished the brand, and kept it

light, Two daughters at a birth were born to night: These their brown mother , brooding on her care, Endu’d with windy wings to

. The charm they weave Into his fate, and then the chamber leave: His mother snatch’d it with a hasty hand Out of the fire, an

bats. A black sheep was offered to her, to intimate that she was the mother of the Furies. So was the cock, because he procla

ome say, that Typhœus or Typhon, had no father, and that Juno was his mother . He had a collar of one hundred dragon-heads roun

g to some, of Jupiter and Elara. So prodigious was his size, that his mother , whom Jupiter had hidden in a subterraneous cave

ordered his wife to destroy their child soon after his birth; but the mother gave this child to a servant, and ordered her to

ebes, beat the Sphinx, and married Jocasta whom he knew not to be his mother . She bore two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and t

found, by clear proof, that he had killed his father, and married his mother : upon which he became so frantic as to put out hi

and without giving marks of the utmost respect. Truth was deemed the mother of Virtue, and daughter of Time. She was represen

d of medicine, was the son of Apollo, by the nymph Coronis. After his mother had been shot for her infidelity by Apollo, he wa

fabled to have metamorphosed himself into a shower of gold, while his mother was shut up in a strong tower. “Within a brazen

omeda was the daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, by Cassiope. Her mother irritated the Nereides by pretending to equal the

Castor and Clytemnestra, who are said to have been mortal like their mother . Castor and Pollux were often called Tyndaridæ by

daughter Iphigenia. Ulysses forthwith brought away Iphigenia from her mother , under pretext of giving her in marriage to Achil

hard with Diomedes and Achilles; and being preserved by his immortal mother , he escaped unhurt. No sooner had the Grecians se

n of Peleus, king of Thessaly, by Thetis, the goddess of the sea. His mother dipped him in the river Styx, and thereby rendere

ulnerable, except the heel by which she held him. It is said that his mother concealed him in the night under a fire, after sh

a second race of men proceeded. The moon is celebrated as the common mother , from whom all animals sprang when the world was

ans acknowledged a god of mirth, a god of gold, a god of merchants, a mother of all the gods, and the Tep-it-o-tine, the same

red oracles; next Themis; and after her, Phœbe, daughter of Terra and mother to Latona. This last transmitted her rights to he

Pisidorus to Olympia. The young man having been declared victor, his mother leaped over the barrier, and hastened to embrace

belief was founded the veneration they had for Earth. They called her mother earth, the mother of the gods. The Phœnicians ado

the veneration they had for Earth. They called her mother earth, the mother of the gods. The Phœnicians adored these two prin

doubt, because she was deemed the principle of all fecundity, and the mother of. all that exists. It was to her that they appl

mself a beginning. Saturn (Cronos) was his father, and Rhea (Ops) his mother . Saturn and Rhea were of the race of Titans, who

al artist, was the son of Jupiter and Juno. He was born lame, and his mother was so displeased at the sight of him that she fl

her accounts say that Jupiter kicked him out for taking part with his mother in a quarrel which occurred between them. Vulcan’

hene,) the goddess of wisdom, was the offspring of Jupiter, without a mother . She sprang forth from his head completely armed.

ad veiled and garments unbound, and cast behind you the bones of your mother .” They heard the words with astonishment. Pyrrha

om Juno is alluded to in the story. The tradition was that the future mother of Apollo and Diana, flying from the wrath of Jun

of the god, and Phaëton went in rage and shame and reported it to his mother . “If,” said he, “I am indeed of heavenly birth, g

o his mother. “If,” said he, “I am indeed of heavenly birth, give me, mother , some proof of it, and establish my claim to the

aid, “My son, you deserve not to be disowned, and I confirm what your mother has told you. To put an end to your doubts, ask w

saw her, loved her, and carried her off. She screamed for help to her mother and companions; and when in her fright she droppe

eat distress, for the boy seemed past hope of recovery. Metanira, his mother , received her kindly, and the goddess stooped and

d to his body. The whole family were delighted — that is, the father, mother , and little girl, for they were all; they had no

three times a solemn charm, then went and laid him in the ashes. His mother , who had been watching what her guest was doing,

Proserpine had dropped in her flight, and waft it to the feet of the mother . Ceres, seeing this, was no longer in doubt of he

compromise was made, by which she was to pass half the time with her mother , and the rest with her husband Pluto. Ceres allow

the underworld. It reappears — that is, Proserpine is restored to her mother . Spring leads her back to the light of day.   Mi

n up, tells with a smile of bliss, This prank of Pluto to his charmed mother ,     Who turns to greet the tidings with a kiss.”

hade; and when he is old enough to talk, let him be taught to call me mother , and to say with sadness, ‘My mother lies hid und

lk, let him be taught to call me mother, and to say with sadness, ‘My mother lies hid under this bark.’ But bid him be careful

and with exclamations of pity raised him and carried him home to his mother , for his father was not living. She received the

him and says, “My dear son, punish that contumacious beauty; give thy mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great; inf

t exultation and triumph.” Cupid prepared to obey the commands of his mother . There are two fountains in Venus’s garden, one o

same curiosity. But now perform exactly the task imposed on you by my mother , and I will take care of the rest.” Then Cupid, a

as Tantalus, who was received as a guest at the table of the gods; my mother was a goddess. My husband built and rules this ci

d on the corpse she was bewailing. Another, attempting to console her mother , suddenly ceased to speak, and sank lifeless to t

at course to take. Six were now dead, and only one remained, whom the mother held clasped in her arms, and covered as it were

en originally arranged in the pediment of a temple. The figure of the mother clasped by the arm of her terrified child, is one

his daughter’s child would be the instrument of his death, caused the mother and child to be shut up in a chest and set adrift

towards Seriphus, where it was found by a fisherman who conveyed the mother and infant to Polydectes, king of the country, by

the waves with his broad breast. The virgin shrieked, the father and mother who had now arrived at the scene, wretched both,

r and mother who had now arrived at the scene, wretched both, but the mother more justly so, stood by, not able to afford prot

yer of his father; in marrying the queen he became the husband of his mother . These horrors remained undiscovered, till at len

the rest to strife. Plexippus and Toxeus, the brothers of Meleager’s mother , beyond the rest opposed the gift, and snatched f

t the thought of bringing destruction on her son. The feelings of the mother and the sister contend within her. Now she is pal

hangs suspended in uncertainty. But now the sister prevails above the mother , and she begins as she holds the fatal wood: “Tur

rother, and his fond sisters, upon his beloved Atalanta, and upon his mother , the unknown cause of his fate. The flames increa

ess called by the Greeks Rhea and Ops. She was the wife of Cronos and mother of Zeus. In works of art she exhibits the matronl

se strength was invincible so long as he remained in contact with his mother Earth. He compelled all strangers who came to his

and take them from under it. When she thought the time had come, his mother led Theseus to the stone, and he removed it with

s. At the same moment the women saw him; and first among them his own mother , Agave, blinded by the god, cried out, “See there

and wound him. In vain he cries to his aunts to protect him from his mother . Autonoë seized one arm, Ino the other, and betwe

arm, Ino the other, and between them he was torn to pieces, while his mother shouted, “Victory! Victory! we have done it; the

he wife of Neptune. She was the daughter of Nereus and Doris, and the mother of Triton. Neptune, to pay his court to Amphitrit

the Nereids, the most celebrated of whom were Amphitrite, Thetis, the mother of Achilles, and Galatea, who was loved by the Cy

r chapter on the Trojan war it will appear that Thetis was a faithful mother to him, aiding him in all difficulties, and watch

e origin of the Cornucopia. Jupiter at his birth was committed by his mother Rhea to the care of the daughters of Melisseus, a

might wish. The name of Amalthea is also given by some writers to the mother of Bacchus. It is thus used by Milton, P. L., Boo

r-nymph Cyrene. His bees had perished, and he resorted for aid to his mother . He stood at the river side and thus addressed he

to his mother. He stood at the river side and thus addressed her: “O mother , the pride of my life is taken from me! I have lo

precious bees. My care and skill have availed me nothing, and you my mother have not warded off from me the blow of misfortun

ou my mother have not warded off from me the blow of misfortune.” His mother heard these complaints as she sat in her palace a

above the water and seeing him, returned and gave information to his mother , who ordered that he should be brought into her p

d himself in hunting and tending the flocks. Meanwhile Antiope, their mother , who had been treated with great cruelty by Lycus

ea then said, “Acis was the son of Faunus and a Naiad. His father and mother loved him dearly, but their love was not equal to

degree of impartiality; not, however, without exceptions. Thetis, the mother of Achilles, warmly resented the injury done to h

ile that he would destroy himself. His groans reached the ears of his mother , Thetis, far down in the deeps of ocean where she

hope of revenge. He would fly instantly in search of Hector. But his mother reminded him that he was now without armor, and p

from the walls and begged him to retire nor tempt the encounter. His mother , Hecuba, also besought him to the same effect, bu

rth to gaze once more on the face of their hero. Foremost of all, the mother and the wife of Hector came, and at the sight of

illes in the heel, the only vulnerable part about him. For Thetis his mother had dipped him when an infant in the river Styx,

oth Ægisthus and Clytemnestra. This revolting act, the slaughter of a mother by her son, though alleviated by the guilt of the

mus, line 252: —                              “I have often heard My mother Circe and the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-ki

a wagon for the purpose. The clothes were put therein, and the queen mother placed in the wagon, likewise, an abundant supply

llo, and received an answer, ambiguous as usual, — “Seek your ancient mother ; there the race of Æneas shall dwell, and reduce

er would succeed. 27 Æneas followed the directions of the Sibyl. His mother , Venus, sent two of her doves to fly before him a

ore of life in prospect. Nor can I be the cause of such grief to your mother , who has chosen to be here in the camp with you r

ng friendship. Euryalus replied, “I have but one boon to ask. My aged mother is with me in the camp. For me she left the Troja

chiefs were moved to tears, and promised to do all his request. “Your mother shall be mine,” said Iulus, “and all that I have

is brows, Presented sacrifice to Moon and Stars, And to the Winds and mother Elements, And the whole circle of the Heavens, fo

his son, determined to consult the prophetess Angerbode, a giantess, mother of Fenris, Hela, and the Midgard serpent. She was

became the constellation Virgo — the Virgin. Themis (Justice) was the mother of Astræa. She is represented as holding aloft a

mes called Ops, and sometimes Berecynthia. Cybele was regarded as the mother of the gods, and was thence called Magna Mater — 

swan. This lady was the wife of Tyndarus, king of Sparta; she was the mother of four children celebrated in poetic history. He

tes in her honour. At Rome she was called Juno Matrona, the matron or mother , and was regarded with the highest veneration. Ju

lcomed by Proserpine, who gladly prepared to return to earth with her mother . Pluto, however, was not to be deceived; he had e

the year between earth and hell. She was to spend six months with her mother , and the other six months with Pluto. The mytholo

h that of Proserpine herself. Proserpine spent half the year with her mother on earth, and the other half with Pluto in hell.

g spirits? Aurora. Aurora was the goddess of morning, and the mother of the winds and the stars. She was represented s

wife of Pluto was Proserpine; her history is related with that of her mother , Ceres. The following verses describe the rape of

ars his gaping jaws with sinewy arms;     Lifts proud Antæus from his mother plains, And with strong grasp the struggling gian

of Hercules. The father of Theseus was Ægeus, King of Athens, and his mother was Æthra, daughter of Pittheus, King of Trœzene.

knew the sword, and readily believed Theseus when he related what his mother had told him. Ægeus was delighted with his new-fo

As soon as Jocasta had a son, Laius commanded her to kill him; but no mother could be so cruel, so she gave the infant to her

ot the son of Peribœa. When Œdipus heard this, he begged his supposed mother to tell who were his real parents: Peribœa did no

not go home, for if he did, he would murder his father, and marry his mother . Œdipus did not know what to do: he had no home b

rry the queen, and govern the kingdom; accordingly Œdipus married his mother . But in a few years a terrible pestilence., or mo

thers these; the same our native shore, One house contained us as one mother bore.                             * * * * * * So

ophocles, to have been exceedingly good; abhorring the conduct of her mother , piously lamenting her father’s murder, and anxio

restes was grown to manhood, he conceived the design of punishing his mother and her accomplice; and, to aid her brother’s pur

orry for what he had done; that he thought constantly of his murdered mother , and hated himself for his crime. Euripides, one

the Styx. After this precaution, the heel only, the part by which his mother held him, was liable to be wounded. Achilles was

, by anatomists, the tendon of Achilles. When Achilles was young, his mother asked him whether he preferred a long life, spent

sire. When Achilles was lamenting the loss of Briseis, he reminds his mother of his destiny. Oh! parent goddess! since in ear

the thought of encountering so invincible a warrior; and his father, mother and friends, entreated him to avoid Achilles. Hec

ral beauty, and when he was brought back to Troy, and received by his mother , wife, and sister, Hecuba exclaimed, “Yet glowes

which ensued between Eneas and Turnus; that Eneas was assisted by his mother , Venus, and by Evander, and that, being tired of

h she was celebrated. A god of mirth, one of gold and of merchants, a mother of all the gods, like Cybele, and the Tep-it-o-to

, in hell. Jupiter conquered the Titans, and delivered his father and mother . He afterwards took up arms against Saturn himsel

of Phœbus and Clymene [Clym′ene]. At the earnest solicitation of his mother , he repaired to the palace of the Sun for the pur

of madness, and rushing upon the unhappy man, tore him to pieces. The mother of Pentheus, and her sisters, were the leaders in

s Minerva? Ans. She was the goddess of wisdom and of war. She had no mother , but sprang full armed from the head of Jupiter.

atona; hence she was said to have been the first wife of Jupiter, the mother of Apollo and Diana, (the sun and moon) and the n

descended thither, and Proserpine prepared joyfully to accompany her mother , when Ascalaphus [Ascal′aphus] reported that he h

ermitting Proserpine to divide the year, spending six months with her mother on earth, the other six with Pluto in the inferna

eatment, the infant, in a few days, became a beautiful young man. His mother , Meganira, wondered at this, and resolved to disc

f the Muses and Graces, and joined them in singing the praises of her mother Latona. Ques. How is Diana represented? Ans. As

s called upon Apollo and Diana to revenge the insult offered to their mother , and humble the haughty Niobe. This they effected

e sacrificed to the goddess Mania, who was supposed by some to be the mother of the Lares. After the expulsion of the Tarquins

ece? Ans. Phryxus, son of Athamas, king of Thebes, received from his mother a ram of a golden color, or, according to fable,

in brothers, the sons of Jupiter and Leda. Castor was mortal like his mother , and when he died, Pollux grieved so much that Ju

dromeda? Ans. She was the daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia. Her mother , Cassiopeia, had boasted that she was fairer than

ther. Understanding by this expression the earth, which is the common mother of all, they gathered stones which they cast behi

as the son of Peleus, king of Phthiotis [Phthio′tis] in Thessaly; his mother was Thetis, a sea-goddess. Many incredible storie

ich the hero was nursed in his infancy. According to one account, his mother designed to make him immortal, and for that purpo

g of Thrace, was treacherously murdered by that monarch. The bereaved mother planned a terrible revenge. Promising disclosures

earch was therefore made for the child, who had been concealed by his mother in the recesses of Hector’s tomb. Here he was dis

aws assign, It nothing grieves me. Had I left my brother, From my own mother sprung, on the bare earth To lie unburied, that,

onfucius was carefully educated in virtue and learning by his widowed mother . At her death he retired, according to Chinese cu

da means ancestress, and it is so called because it is considered the mother of Icelandic poetry. The Sagas were written in De

. What is the history of Cybele? Cybele was generally regarded as the mother of the gods, and, on that account, was called Mag

ed. Great guardian queen of Ida’s hills and woods, Supreme, majestic mother of the gods! Whose strong defence proud tow’ring

m the devouring fury of his father Saturn, by the address of Rhea his mother , as has before been recounted, and nourished by t

ious of his children, caused them all to be confined. Rhea, Jupiter’s mother , had the address to save him, and sent him from A

was said to have been translated into the moon, and to be the general mother . Who were Typhon and Nepthys? Typhon and Nepthys

d to him. When his father was vanquished by Typhon, aided by Isis his mother , Horus revenged his death, expelled the usurper,

was renewed after the general deluge. She is celebrated as the common mother , from whom proceed all the various descriptions o

nnection with the sun; Pachamama, or the Earth; and Mamacocha, or the mother sea. They did not practise the sanguinary rites o

mān, a Persian deity 185 Alcīdes, a name of Hercules 110 Alcmenǎ, the mother of Hercules 110 Alēcto, one of the Furies 102 Amā

mes in honour of Neptune 74 Cōnsŭs, a name of Neptune 74 Cŏrōnĭs, the mother of Esculapius 108 Cŏry̌bāntĕs, priests of Cybele

er of Syrinx 90 Lama, Grand 126 Lares, household gods 91 Larmida, the mother of the Lares 92 Lātōna, the mother of Apollo 36 L

es, household gods 91 Larmida, the mother of the Lares 92 Lātōna, the mother of Apollo 36 Lemnĭus, a name of Vulcan 67 Lerna,

habad, a Persian deity 179 Mahasoor, a malignant spirit 131 Māiă, the mother of Mercury 70 Mamacocha, a Peruvian deity 221 Mān

es, the Egyptian Pan 167 Mithras, a Persian deity 184 Mnēmŏsy̌ne, the mother of the Muses 41 Moloch, a name of Sol 30 Moloch,

a name of Mercury 71 Nornes, the Scandinavian destinies 206 Nox, the mother of the Furies 104 Nȳctĕlĭŭs, a name of Bacchus 47

arvest 87 Seisa, the protectress of corn in the ground 87 Sĕmĕlē, the mother of Bacchus 46 Semōnes, gods of a middle nature 5