is note on it he says, «È detto ad imitazione del Pontano.» In a work named ‘Tales of an Indian Camp,’ which seems to be not

Dionysos, of whose origin the following legend was related. A Samian named Elpis, having made a voyage to Africa, saw as he

d noticed by Virgil22. A part of the province of Seistân in Persia is named Neem-rôz, i. e. half-day ; and the popular tradit

occupied themselves in the explication of them. At this time what is named Pragmatism, or the effort to reduce the mythes to

, after several days’ sail he came to three islands, one of which was named Panchaia. The inhabitants of this happy isle were

ct poured forth water in such abundance as to form a navigable river, named the Water of the Sun71, which meandered along, fr

n on this side, fertile as Panchaia itself, was inhabited by a people named Atlanteians, distinguished for their piety and th

heir hospitality to strangers. The first king who ruled over them was named Uranos. He collected the people, who had previous

ior to man ; and when he died, his people gave him divine honours and named the heavens after him. By several wives Uranos wa

ve children, eighteen of whom, the offspring of Titaia or Earth, were named Titans. The most distinguished of their daughters

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

whom she bore two children, endowed with marvellous sense and beauty, named Helios and Selena. But the other Titans now grew

and lightning. The people raised altars to her as a goddess, and they named the sun and moon after her hapless children. The

their father among themselves. The coast of Ocean fell to Atlas, who named the people and the highest mountain of the countr

Libya, Sicily, and Italy. He espoused his sister Rhea, who bore a son named Zeus, in all things the opposite of his grim sire

ite of his grim sire ; whence the people, delighted with his virtues, named him Father, and finally placed him on the throne.

e two great heroic poems which are regarded as the works of Homer are named , are (with the exception of some parts of the Heb

he poems ascribed to him have come down to us, viz. the didactic poem named Works and Days, the Theogony, and the Shield of H

rcules. Hesiod was also said to be the author of a poem in four books named the Catalogues, or Eoiæ81, which related the hist

ew fragments have been preserved. The same is the case with the poems named the Melampodia and Ægimios, likewise ascribed to

of Heaven and Earth, and ending with the death of Odysseus. This was named the Epic Cycle, and it continued to be read durin

pollonius, Callimachus, and the remainder of the Pleias, as they were named , formed poems from them ; while Apollodorus, foll

3, probably only to express its solidity. The superior hemisphere was named Heaven, the inferior one Tartaros. The length of

peculiar names in the time of Homer. The northern one was afterwards named Europe96; the southern, at first called Asia alon

and some of the tribes of Thrace. But Hesiod100 sang of a happy race, named the Hyperboreans, dwelling in everlasting bliss a

es above enumerated, lay Libya and Egypt. The Sidonians, and a people named the Erembians104, are also mentioned by Homer, an

ean, dwelt a people happy and virtuous as the Hyperboreans. They were named the Æthiopians105 : the gods favoured them so hig

ns the southern portion of the terrestrial disk to a nation of dwarfs named , from their diminutive stature110, Pygmies, to wh

estern margin of the earth, by the stream of Ocean, lay a happy place named the Elysian Plain, whither the mortal relatives o

Scandinavians the heaven was solid, and its upper surface, which they named Asgardr (God-abode), was the dwelling of their go

gods on Olympos was closed by a gate of clouds kept by the goddesses named the Seasons ; but the cloudy valves rolled open s

, which lies deep and heavy on the ground146; and they were naturally named Hundred-handed, from their acting so extensively

offspring were the rivers of the earth, and three thousand daughters, named Oceanides, or Ocean-nymphs183. This is all the ac

of Zeus went into202. Mimnermus had the following lines in his poem named Nanno. Helios is doomed to labour every day ; An

plendour)228. The Ocean-nymph Clymene (Bright ?) bore to Helios a son named Phaëthôn (Gleaming). The claims of this youth to

ve under the form of a snow-white ram256. She bore to Zeus a daughter named Pandia257; and Ersa (Dew) was also the offspring

ldren of Hyperiôn and Theia was Eôs, or the Dawn. Like Selene she was named by later poets263 from Pallas, and their reason f

ong the gods275.’ She also carried off Cephalos, and had by him a son named Phaëthôn276. But her strongest affection was for

geniously conjectured326, Zeus, the god of the heaven, was poetically named Kroniôn, that is the Son of Time, and this led to

f Kronos in Greece328; but the Athenians had a festival in his honour named the Kronia, which was celebrated on the twelfth d

, the Greeks of the early ages regarded the lofty Thessalian mountain named Olympos as the dwelling of their gods. In the Ody

ner nature than those of men. It is not blood, but a blood-like fluid named ichôr, which flows in their veins341. They are su

r staff she caused to gush from it a copious flow of water, which she named the Neda, from one of the nymphs who assisted at

the infant deity in a cavern of Mount Lycæon, where there was a place named Cretes, as other spots in Arcadia were designated

ng herself from heaven down to the sea and became the isle afterwards named Delos396. Mortal women also bore a numerous proge

e he was the father of Dionysos, who became a god. By Io he had a son named Epaphos. Many other heroes could also boast of be

. At length they approached a humble cottage where dwelt an aged man, named Philemôn, with Baucis his wife, of equal years :

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

rd the end of the month Anthesteriôn (beginning of March), a festival named the Diasia was held at Athens, in which offerings

country with his trident, and forth sprang the first horse, which was named Scyphios429. The vain people of Attica affected t

ff to Erebos the Oceanis Leuce ; and when she died, he caused a tree, named from her, λεύκη, white poplar,) to spring up in t

Here the corpse was, on payment of an obelos, conveyed by a ferryman ( named Charôn in the language of Egypt) over the Acherus

fancy it to be under the guardianship of a peculiar deity, whom they named from it, Hestia. This goddess does not appear in

romise which he faithfully performed. Henceforth the hill Thronax was named Coccygion (Cuckoo-hill)504. In the Ilias (for she

the loves of the two deities. There was a fount at Nauplia near Argos named Canachos, by bathing in which Hera, the legend sa

f Hera was termed πυλϵὼν by the Spartans, and was formed of the plant named Kyperos, and of the Helichrysos, which is of the

d was invented to explain the origin of a national festival of Bœotia named the Dædala. Of this there were two kinds, the Sma

was called Virgin (Πάρθϵνος)533 ; and a place there sacred to her was named Parthenion. Macris (which we find personified in

he goddess was held to preside over the nuptial league. Hence she was named the Yoker (Ζυγία), the Consecrator (Τϵλϵία), the

n the Ilias is all of metal. In the Ilias578 the wife of Hephæstos is named Charis ; in Hesiod579, Aglaia, the youngest of th

estial herald595, it being the office of the heralds in Homer. A poet named Capito bestowed it (we know not for what reason)

liasians, Pausanias says597, called Ganymede, but in his time she was named Hebe. Strabo says598 that Hebe was worshiped at P

casion to the legend above related, and also to one of a huge serpent named Pythôn, which, it is said, came out of his den an

his arrows619. This serpent, another version of the legend says, was named Delphine620, for the formation of which name, as

in his golden chariot over the sea to Libya, where she bore him a son named Aristæos629. The only celestial amour recorded of

e god, unable to save his life, changed him into the flower which was named from him, and on whose petals Grecian fancy saw t

a643. At the funeral-games, toward the close of the poem644, Eumelos, named Pheretiades and son of Admetos, is one of the com

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

ung to him on the cessation of a plague, or after a victory, was thus named . The name Phœbos-Apollo is generally regarded as

worshiped a goddess the same as or very similar to Artemis, whom they named Britomartis, which in their dialect signified Swe

ature, having been perhaps united with her. There was a similar deity named Aphæa worshiped at Ægina, and they were all joine

another account, these Hyperborean maidens were three in number, and named Upis, Loxo, and Hecaerge695, while a third named

three in number, and named Upis, Loxo, and Hecaerge695, while a third named only Opis and Hecaerge696. There was also a legen

that Zeus carried away the nymph Arge from Lyctos in Crete to a hill named Argillos on the banks of the Nile, where she beca

eucophryne (White-browed)702, in which was shown the tomb of a maiden named Leucophryne703, who was probably regarded as bear

he Heavenly (Urania). It is very important to observe that she was so named at her temple in Cythera, which was regarded as t

always winged, and armed with a bow and arrows776. There was a being named Anterôs (ἀντὶ ἔρως), who was in some cases viewed

time a king and a queen who had three daughters, of whom the youngest named Psyche was one of the loveliest creatures earth e

loves were speedily crowned by the birth of a child, whom his parents named Pleasure779. This beautiful fiction is perhaps a

ions of the spring. Hence it was, in all probability, that the Greeks named the butterfly the soul. The fable of Love and Ps

powers of Corneille, Moliere, and Quinault produced a tragédie-ballet named Psyche, for the amusement of the court of Louis X

ranks of heroes vanquisheth, With whom she is wroth. A Mæonian maid named Arachne, proud of her skill in weaving and embroi

to imitate it : she in consequence invented the pipe, whose music was named many-headed (πολυκέϕαλος), on account of the numb

hena was called Alea, that is probably Warmer. 817. At Sparta she was named Ophthalmitis or Eyed, and at Argos Sharp-sighted.

mselves by some suitable appellation. The Attic peasantry, therefore, named Athena the Ox-yoker (Βουδϵία), the citizens calle

m of a Grecian youth, telling him that he is the son of a wealthy man named Polyctôr (Much-possessing). In the Odyssey Hermei

of Olympos was that with Aphrodite, of which the offspring was a son named Hermaphroditos, from the names of his parents, an

re of flour and water. She undertook the rearing of the babe, who was named Demophoôn, and beneath her care ‘he throve like a

eiôn ; and from the anger of the goddess at being thus abused she was named Erinnys899. It was also a part of the tradition t

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

of civil regulations. Under this title she was honoured in a festival named Thes-mophoria at Athens and Ephesus. She had a te

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

d holding a tragic mask in her left hand. Her instrument was the lyre named Barbiton. Euterpe, over Music ; she held two flut

s and pantomimic dancing (ὄρχησις), played on the stringed instrument named phorminx. She is said to have invented hymns to t

Muses did not escape the darts of Love. Calliope bore to Œagros a son named Linos941, who was killed by his pupil Heracles. S

red by her with love for Pieros the son of Magnes. She bore him a son named Hyacinthos944. Euterpe, or according to some Call

ved from those of rivers ; and the comic poet Epicharmus in his drama named ‘Hebe's Wedding,’ where the gods appeared as thor

Muses the daughters of Pieros and Pimpleia (Fattener and Filler), and named them after seven rivers953. They probably figured

called the daughters of Kronos (Time ?), and by late poets they were named the children of the year, and their number was in

ided into hours, these minor parts were placed under their charge and named from them966. Order and regularity being their pr

ransition was from moral to physical ideas. By Pindar967 the Horæ are named , in their moral capacity, the bestowers of wealth

maxim ‘honesty is the best policy.’ The Athenians worshiped two Horæ, named Thallo Bloom-giver, and Carpo (Fructifier), viewi

he had given them983. The Lacedæmonians worshiped but two, whom they named Cleta (Renowned) and Phaënna (Bright)984. The Ath

themselves with the blood of the wounded. By Apollonius1012 they are named ‘the swift dogs of Hades,’ a character under whic

Ἐριννύες. Furiæ. Diræ. Furies. These goddesses are frequently named by Homer, but he says nothing of their origin. In

rians, the Erinnyes, like the Fates and others, were three in number, named Alecto (Unceasing), Megæra (Envier or Denier), an

ey are there invoked to avenge the breach of filial duty1025, and are named as the punishers of perjury1026 : even beggars ha

s1031 among the inhabitants of Olympos, and in the Odyssey1032 she is named as presiding over the assemblies of men, but noth

radition at Rhamnûs in Attica, where she had a temple (whence she was named Rhamnusia), was that Oceanos was her father1056.

, said by the poet of the Phoronis to be the same with Cybele1059, is named Nemesis by Antimachus1060. This Asiatic Nemesis i

r by Iasios1079. He appears as an actor in the comedy of Aristophanes named from him, and in the Timôn of Lucian. Chapte

esiding god,) he may have been regarded as a son of Zeus by a goddess named Semele, who in after-times, in pursuance of a pra

ad planted there the ivy and the vine ; had built the city Nysa ; and named the mountain Meros, from the circumstance of his

a crow1109. Dionysos next proceeded to Attica, where he taught a man named Icarios the culture of the vine. Icarios having m

rwards descended to Erebos, whence he fetched his mother, whom he now named Thyone, and ascended with her to the abode of the

Uranos ; but meeting near the Ceraunian mountains a beautiful maiden named Amaltheia, he became enamoured of her. He made he

fruitful country, which from its resembling a bull’s horn in form was named the Western Horn, and then Amaltheia’s Horn, whic

him a son, whom, fearing the jealousy of Rhea, he conveyed to a town named Nysa, situated not far from the Horn, in an islan

his festivals were celebrated ; Bassareus, from the fox-skin dresses named bassaræ worn by the Thracians ; Dithyrambos, from

d to Silenos. His temples at Athens1123 and Sparta1124 were in places named marshes (ἐν λίμνɑις), and he was styled Of-the-Ma

a, was celebrated in the spring, the season of showers, and it was so named from the flowers and blossoms, of which he was th

the flowers and blossoms, of which he was the author ; whence he was named the Flowery 1126. The relation of Dionysos to the

e goatskin dress of the goatherds ; and in Attica and Hermione he was named Μϵλάνɑιγις, a name which in the former place was

th the Phœnician merchants who visited their harbours. The revolution named the Return of the Heracleids, which is said to ha

nthers and lionesses, and was afterwards reared by shepherdesses, who named her Cybele. When she grew up she displayed great

a strict friendship with Marsyas, and had a love-affair with a youth named Attis. She was afterwards acknowledged by her par

asties of the Lydian kings, (who according to the usual practice were named after their god,) was probably, like Adonis, a pe

tic worship in general, that of Cybele was enthusiastic. Her priests, named Galli and Corybantes, ran about with dreadful cri

here a stately temple was built to receive her, and a solemn festival named the Megalesia was celebrated every year in her ho

was a goddess worshiped by the Thracians, whose kings were frequently named from her. She was apparently identical with the P

same with Cybele. Her worship also was adopted at Athens ; her temple named the Bendideion was in the Peiræeus1147, and a fes

r temple named the Bendideion was in the Peiræeus1147, and a festival named the Bendideia was celebrated in her honour1148.

longer founded after the destruction of Troy. The more ancient Greeks named the Delta Egypt, the rest Thebes, for which reaso

by Amasis to serve as his guards1160. This monarch appointed the town named Naucratis, which he allowed the Greeks to build o

pecially Dionysos, were delighted with the little stranger ; and they named him Pan (i. e. All), because he had charmed them

fortunate in an amour with the nymph Echo, by whom he had a daughter named Iambe1180 ; but he could not gain the love of Syr

ted with Dionysos, and they formed the chorus of the species of drama named from them. It is not unlikely that they are indeb

on this passage the following tale from Charôn of Lampsacus : A man, named Rhœcos, happening to see an oak just ready to fal

e son of the river Spercheios, who dwelt at Mount Œta, had a daughter named Dryope. She fed the flocks of her father, and the

y afterwards married Andræmôn the son of Mylos. Her son by Apollo was named Amphissos, who founded at the foot of Œta a town

rried to Doris, one of the Ocean-nymphs, and by her he had the nymphs named Nereïdes1251. Νηρηΐδϵς. Nereïdes. The Nere

that bore the golden fruit. In this task they were aided by a serpent named Ladôn1283. These apples were said to have been th

yros and Iris1322, and one of the Seasons bore to this wind-god a son named Carpos (Fruit) 1323. The South- (Νότος) and East-

would seem to intimate a knowledge of Italy and Sicily ; for a place named Temesa, whither the Taphians used to sail to bart

Italy, in ancient times a most cypriferous region, there was a place named Temesa, or rather Tempsa1327. The people of this

er, Tempsa lies on the west side of Italy, and there was also a place named Taminos in the isle, which bestowed its appellati

strength, namely that of rearing the massive walls of Tiryns, thence named Cyclopian, for which purpose they were brought by

Unlike the Cyclopes, they lived in the social state ; their king was named Antiphates, their town Læstrygonia or Telepylos (

them or share their fate, he was met by Hermes, who gave him a plant named Moly, potent against her magic, and directed him

d the Sea, it was at Ææa. Circe is said to have had by Odysseus a son named Telegonos (Far-born), who, as we shall see, unwit

n fled to a desert isle of the Ocean, or as some said to the headland named from her in Italy1366 ; for in the localisation o

me they were called Leucosia, Ligeia and Parthenope1385, while others named them Thelxiope or Thelxinoe, Molpe, Aglaophonos13

on which the oxen of the Sun grazed. In Homer the mother of Scylla is named Cratæis1393 ; but her sire is not spoken of. Stes

aca lay in their way. When however the Greeks settled in Sicily, they named the islet before the port of Syracuse Ortygia ; a

distant West1456. Pleione, an Ocean-nymph, bore him seven daughters, named Pleiades after their mother1457. He was also said

ter their mother1457. He was also said to be the father of the nymphs named Hyades1458. When, therefore, we consider the sign

rvations he fell from it into the sea, and both sea and mountain were named from him1461. His supporting the heaven was usual

y say, a king of the Scythians, and his country was wasted by a river named Eagle (Aϵτòς), whose inundations when he was unab

but when Care went to give it her own name, he insisted on its being named from himself. While they were disputing, Earth ar

nd Graces ; each of the deities gave the commanded gifts, and she was named Pandora (All-gifted). Thus furnished she was brou

tragedians, excepting Sophocles, one of whose lost satyric dramas was named Pandora or the Hammerers. It was equally neglecte

Amythaôn and Pheres1530. This last built the city of Pheræ, which was named from him : his son Admetos married Alcestis the d

as others said, Polymede daughter of Autolycos, by whom he had a son named Iasôn1534. By force or fraud he was deprived of h

king of Colchis, and the Argo, as the vessel in which they sailed was named , returned to Iolcos in safety1540. But during the

d fled to Athens, where she married king Ægeus, by whom she had a son named Medos ; but being detected in an attempt to destr

n. Medos conquered several barbarous tribes, and the country which he named after himself, and finally fell in battle against

de her his spouse, and she bore to the ‘shepherd of the people’ a son named Medeios, whom Cheirôn reared in the mountains, an

iver-god Asopos Zeus was the father of Æacos, who dwelt in the island named from his mother. The children of Æacos were, Pele

the entrails of lions and on the marrow of bears and wild boars, and named him Achilleus, because he never applied his lips

. According to him1586 the offspring of Ixiôn and the cloud was a son named Centauros, who when grown up wandered about the f

ng their dams, the upper their sire. By his wife Dia, Ixiôn had a son named Peirithoös, who married Hippodameia daughter of A

the Lapiths was Cæneus, who was said to have been originally a maiden named Cænis. Poseidôn having violated her, she prayed h

from Zeus by Protogeneia the daughter of Deucaliôn. Her son, who was named Aëthlios1608, came at the head of a colony of the

killed Apis the son of Phoroneus or Iasôn, fled to Curetis, which he named after himself Ætolia. His sons were Pleurôn and C

a colony from Thessaly, and also of Eleians, or Epeians as they were named , having migrated to Ætolia. This last however may

Œneus married Peribœa the daughter of Hipponoös, by whom he had a son named Tydeus1613 ; who, having slain either his uncle,

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

tion was verified. Cadmos became king of the Illyrians, and had a son named Illyrios. Shortly afterwards he and Harmonia were

and the country the Cadmeian land1635 ; the citadel was at all times named the Cadmeia. Cadmos is therefore apparently (like

s car drawn by swans1642 conveyed her to the part of Libya afterwards named from her, and ‘silver-footed Aphrodite’ received

lers at Cyrene ; and in the oldest part of the city there was a fount named Cyre, sacred to him, whence perhaps came the name

ing the nymph Cyrene from the foot of Pelion, and having by her a son named Aristæos. The mythe of Actæôn may be thus explain

between Sigeion and the Chersonese, into which Helle fell, and it was named from her Hellespontos (Helle's Sea). Phrixos went

ilment of the oracle, he settled in this place, built a town which he named from himself Athamantia ; and marrying Themisto t

till she was dead : they then cast her body into the fount which was named from her. They expelled Laïos, seized on the gove

obedience to the lyre of Amphiôn. Zethos married Thebe, from whom he named the town. Amphiôn espoused Niobe the daughter of

e woes Sent by the gods1668. It was said that one son and a daughter named Chloris escaped, and that Amphiôn in attempting,

married to Aëdôn the daughter of Pandareos, by whom he had only a son named Itylos, and a daughter Neïs. Aëdôn, jealous of th

œa the wife of Polybos, who being childless reared it as her own, and named it Œdipûs on account of its swollen feet 1685 ; f

ays hostile to the city of Dionysos, sent to afflict Thebes a monster named the Sphinx1687, sprung from Typhôn and Echidna. S

of Claros. She bore to Rhakios, (or, as others said, to Apollo) a son named Mopsos, a celebrated prophet1701. The name Teires

tia was first possessed by Andreus, the son of the river Peneios, who named it from himself Andreïs. He was succeeded by his

om was by Ares mother of Phlegyas ; the latter bore to Poseidôn a son named Minyas1705. Phlegyas obtained the dominion after

named Minyas1705. Phlegyas obtained the dominion after Eteocles, and named the country Phlegyantis. He also built a city cal

and inquired of the god where he should settle. The Pythia then first named him Heracles1736, for hitherto he had been called

ved at Cleonæ, where he was hospitably entertained by a labouring man named Molorchos. His host being desirous to offer a sac

stonians and slain Diomedes, built a city by the tomb of Abderos, and named it after him. He brought the mares to Eurystheus,

He took a large portion of their territory and gave it to Lycos, who named it Heracleia. The hero reached at length the have

ree. His oxen were of a purple hue, and were guarded by his herdsman, named Eurytiôn, and the two-headed dog Orthos, the prog

r Egypt having been afflicted with a dearth for nine years, a Cyprian named Phrasios, a great soothsayer, came thither, and s

il off her head, and with it bought him ; and hence he was afterwards named Priamos (Purchased) instead of Podarkes (Swift-fo

had just calved, came and suckled him ; and the shepherds finding him named him Telephos from that circumstance1777. Aleos ga

of the Dryopians Heracles became extremely hungry, and meeting a man named Theiodamas driving a wain with two oxen, he unyok

ed to Hera he espoused her daughter Hebe, by whom he had two children named Alexiares (Aider-in-war) and Anicetos (Unsubdued)

ated one ; Stesichorus of Himera (Ol. 48.) also composed a lyric poem named the Geryoneïs, on the expedition to Erytheia ; Pa

d on the testimony of Cecrops, they adjudged the place to Athena. She named the city from herself, and Poseidôn testified his

. Erysichthôn died without children ; Agraulos had by Ares a daughter named Alcippe1792, and Herse by Hermes a son named Ceph

s had by Ares a daughter named Alcippe1792, and Herse by Hermes a son named Cephalos1793. One of the earliest events recorded

of Theopompus, but which was a forgery intended to injure him. It was named Τρικάρανος, and it attacked the traditions and hi

ir autochthony, as it was said, and that a species of this insect was named κϵρκώπη, we have perhaps the simple origin of Cec

ughter of Menytes ; and from his daughter Atthis, who died a maid, he named the country Atthis. Cranaos was expelled by Amphi

t who used the four-horsed chariot. He had by the Naïs Pasithea a son named Pandiôn, who succeeded him. Erichthonios when he

he gave him his daughter Procne in marriage, by whom Tereus had a son named Itys. After some time Procne became desirous of s

ved fled to Crete, where Minôs gave her an inevitable dart, and a dog named Lælaps (Whirlwind), which no beast could escape.

against the Teleboans, and on their conquest he settled in the island named from him Cephalonia1821. Procris is noticed in th

d Cleopatra1824. Chione was loved by Poseidôn, to whom she bore a son named Eumolpos ; to conceal her weakness she threw the

n of the sea-god and grandson of the north wind, and giving him a son named Ismaros, plainly intended to deduce the Eumolpids

e name Tegyrios would seem to point to Bœotia, where there was a town named Tegyra. The spouse of the north-wind was very app

own named Tegyra. The spouse of the north-wind was very appropriately named Mountain-rusher (ὂρος θύω), their children are Bl

sons by him were Iôn and Achæos. According to Euripides, in the drama named from him, Iôn was the fruit of the secret love of

Teleôn, Hoples, Ergades and Ægicoreus the four tribes of Attica were named . Πανδίων. Pandion II. On the death of Ere

ed into the bird called the Seaeagle (ἁλιάετος), and Scylla into that named Ciris (κεȋρις 1830 ) ; and that the father contin

perished1833. Θησεύς. Theseus. The son of Ægeus by Æthra was named Theseus. When grown to the proper age, his mother

. His first day's journey brought him to Epidauros, where dwelt a man named Periphates, a son of Hephæstos. This ferocious sa

rom thence, on the banks of the Cephissos, Theseus met with Damastes, named the Beater-out or Stretcher (Προκρούστης), and th

ious attempt1847. After the death of Antiope, who had borne him a son named Hippolytos, Theseus married Phædra the daughter o

rs on the citadel ; but we find a part of the temple of Athena-Polias named the Erechtheion, and sacred to Erechtheus, and in

as any of the others. As the Lyceion at Athens was said to have been named from Lycos, and there was on it a temple of Apoll

56. The port of Megara (or perhaps the peninsula which formed it) was named Nisæa1857, and thence probably was derived the na

ia1858. Ægeus is plainly only another name for Poseidôn, who was also named Ægæos1859 and Ægæôn1860. In fact it was also said

ary, of which latter art he was regarded as the inventor. His nephew, named Talôs or Perdix, showed a great genius for mechan

men.’ Later authorities tell us1881 that Bellerophontes was at first named Hipponoös : but having accidentally killed one of

named Hipponoös : but having accidentally killed one of his relatives named Belleros, he thence derived his second name. He w

Prœtos, whose wife is also called Sthenobœa, and the king of Lycia is named Iobates. By the aid of the winged steed Pegasos B

nd Tethys, married his sister the Oceanis Melia, by whom he had a son named Phoroneus1890, the first man according to one tra

tutelar deity of Argos1892. By the nymph Laodice Phoroneus had a son named Apis, from whom the peninsula was named Apia ; an

h Laodice Phoroneus had a son named Apis, from whom the peninsula was named Apia ; and a daughter Niobe, the first mortal wom

Her offspring by the god were Argos and Pelasgos, and the country was named from the former, the people from the latter. Noth

Argus. Among the descendents of Phoroneus we meet another Argos, named All-seeing (πανόπτης), as having eyes all over hi

llyria, ascended Mount Hæmus, and crossed the Thracian strait, thence named the Bosporos, rambled on through Scythia and the

where, touched by Zeus, she assumed her original form and bore a son named Epaphos1900. The legend of Io would not appear to

ho carried with them their domestic legends, and in honour of Io they named the adjacent strait Bosporos (Cow-ford), feigning

are told, Memphis the daughter of the Nile, by whom he had a daughter named Libya, who bore to Poseidon Agenor the father of

Cadmos and Europa, and Belos, who had by another daughter of the Nile named Anchinoe two sons, Danaos and Ægyptos1912. Belos

gave Arabia. The latter conquered the country of the Melampodes, and named it from himself. By many wives he was the father

cceeded his father-in-law on the throne. He had by Hypermnestra a son named Abas, to whom he left his kingdom. Abas had twin

in marriage to Melampûs and his brother Bias. He had afterwards a son named Megapenthes1929. The madness of the Prœtides was

s1935. The coffer floated to the little isle of Seriphos, where a man named Dictys drew it out in his nets (δίкτυα) ; and del

48, Alcæos, Mestôr, Electryôn, Sthenelos and Eleios. The daughter was named Gorgophone ; she married Perieres the Laconian. F

ried Perieres the Laconian. From Perseus the royal line at Argos were named the Perseids. The mythe of Perseus is probably on

s, for she had a temple on the Larissa or citadel1951, whence she was named , like Hera, Of-the-Height (Ἀкρία or Aкρίς)1952. H

Alcumena. Perseus was succeeded by his son Alcæos, who had a son named Amphitryôn. Alcæos left the throne to his brother

s, married Lysidice the daughter of Pelops, by whom he had a daughter named Hippothoe, whom Poseidôn carried off to the Echin

oseidôn carried off to the Echinadian isles. She there bore him a son named Taphios, who settled at Taphos, and called his pe

boans, because he had gone far from his native land1963. He had a son named Pterolaos, whom Poseidôn made immortal by setting

air on his head. Pterolaos had several sons, and one daughter who was named Comætho (Hair-burner). When Electryôn succeeded t

y of Epidaurus, and she exposed the babe on Mount Myrtion, afterwards named Titthion (τίτθη a nurse). Here one of the goats t

over Arcadia at the time of Deucaliôn’s flood, Lycaôn had a daughter named Callisto1984, who dedicated herself to the servic

in Arcadia, on a large mound planted with various kinds of trees, and named the Tomb of Callisto, stood a temple of Artemis-C

ere she was suckled by a bear, and at last found by some hunters, who named her Atalanta and reared her. She followed the cha

Meilaniôn won the race. Atalanta became his wife, and they had a son named Parthenopæos. It is added that they afterwards pr

he daughter of Lapithas, Cynortes and Hyacinthos. Cynortes left a son named Perieres, who was, by Gorgophone the daughter of

s in the White Island (Λϵυκὴ) in the Euxine, where she bore him a son named Euphoriôn2006. Πολδϵύκης καὶ Κάστωρ. Pollux e

s of worship. The Tyndarids, Dioscuri or Kings (Ἂνακϵς), as they were named , had their temples and statues2015 ; as also had

as abode at Iolcos, but Neleus settled in Elis, where he built a town named Pylos. Tyro afterwards married her uncle Cretheus

of whom the principal were Periclymenos and Nestôr, and one daughter named Pero. When Heracles attacked Pylos2024, he killed

a child. All was done as the prophet desired, and Iphiclos had a son named Podarkes. Melampûs drove the kine to Pylos, and P

as the prize of a race to his sons ; Epeios won, and the people were named from him ; Pæôn retired in resentment to the bank

, or of Bringer (῎Ακτωρ from ἄγω) and Comer, (Ϻολιόνη from μολέω) and named Acquirer (Κτέατοѕ) and Wealthy, or one to whom we

ll she married. This priesthood was once filled by a beautiful virgin named Comætho. A youth named Melanippos, also distingui

iesthood was once filled by a beautiful virgin named Comætho. A youth named Melanippos, also distinguished for his beauty, co

ing legend was related respecting it. While Calydôn flourished, a man named Coresos was priest of Dionysos in that country. A

a man named Coresos was priest of Dionysos in that country. A maiden named Callirrhoe became the object of his love, but unh

se three brothers fell into discord for the sake of a beautiful youth named Miletos, the son of Apollo, or of Zeus. The youth

em out of Crete. Miletos going to Caria, built a town there, which he named from himself. Sarpedôn went to Lycia, where he ai

nded his dominion over the isles of the Ægæan. Minôs had a brazen man named Talôs given to him by Hephæstos, or to Europa by

which was afterwards placed among the stars2104 ; she bore him a son named Œnopiôn. Phædra was married to Theseus. The tale

ications of the moon, Minôs and his family may have been real persons named after their favourite deity. We regard this hypot

Zeus carried his fair prize into the desert isle of Œnone, afterwards named from her Ægina, where she brought forth a son nam

Œnone, afterwards named from her Ægina, where she brought forth a son named Æacos, who being weary of solitude, when he grew

anged herself into a fount to escape his embraces, he had another son named Phocos2112, whom his brothers, envying his superi

hero gave him Hesione the daughter of Laomedôn, by whom he had a son named Teucros. By Peridæa the grand-daughter of Pelops

an eagle (ἀετὸς) appeared in answer to his prayer, and the child was named from it2117. As in the cycle of the Tyndarids the

rth, they came late in the evening to the house of a small farmer2126 named Hyrieus. Seeing the wayfarers, Hyrieus, who was s

e earth ; and ten months afterwards a boy came to light, whom Hyrieus named Uriôn or Oriôn2127. When Oriôn grew up he went to

a, Coronis, Eudora, Dione, Æsula, and Polyxo ; by Hesiod2135 they are named Phæsula, Coronis, Cleeia, Phæo and Eudora. They w

ations as they appear in the sky, and beyond all doubt they were thus named long before they were converted into a hunter and

ica call it the ‘Elephant2139’, while the husbandmen in ancient Italy named it the ‘Seven Oxen’ (Triones 2140. The Spaniards

the Pleiades was the ‘Pigeons’ (πϵλϵιάδϵς)2142, as they are sometimes named , and with which supposition the legends told of t

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

Virgiliæ, i. e. the ‘Bunch-stars,’ like the Greek name2145. Oriôn was named by the Latins Jugula 2146, or the ‘Warrior,’ and

o the Propontis, where they came to an island with a lofty hill in it named the Bears’ Hill, inhabited by giants with six arm

The adjacent country was possessed by the Dolionians, whose king was named Cyzicos. Having been hospitably entertained by th

n their oath never more to molest Phineus. The isles were thenceforth named the Strophodes, because the Boreiads there turned

y landed. As this isle had appeared (ἀνϵϕῄνατο) so unexpectedly, they named it Anaphe2163. Here they erected an altar to Apol

nd finally reaching the Phasis and Colchis, which last place is first named by the Corinthian poet Eumelos, who did not flour

ource in the mountains, this course had to be given up ; a geographer named Timagetas then fixed on the Ister, for he suppose

he Tyrrhenian sea ; he was followed by Apollonius and by another poet named Peisander2169. The geographer Scymnus however sho

is to the point where it divided, and then went down the other branch named the Saranges into the Mæotis, whence another stre

ect of one of Pindar's finest odes2173, and of the epic of Apollonius named from it ; it is narrated in detail by Apollodorus

on which he built a town called Dardanos. On the death of Teucros, he named the whole country Dardania. He had two sons, Ilos

sea2193. By Astyoche, daughter of the Simoïs, Erichthonios had a son named Trôs, who succeeded him on the throne. Trôs marri

ssaracos married a daughter of the river Simoïs, by whom he had a son named Capys, who was by Themis the daughter of his brot

came to the hill of Ate (Mischief), where he built the town of Ilion, named from himself. He prayed to Zeus to give him a sig

d Hesione, and two other daughters ; by the nymph Calybe he had a son named Bucoliôn2198. Priamos reigned over Ilion after hi

strange event, he took home the babe, reared him as his own son, and named him Paris. When Paris grew up he distinguished hi

h and courage in repelling robbers from the flocks, and the shepherds named him Alexandros2202. He was recognised by his pare

another of the sons of Priamos. In the division of the spoil a maiden named Briseïs fell to the share of Achilleus, and Chrys

r the death of Callidice Odysseus gave the kingdom to his son by her, named Polypœtes, and returned to Ithaca. Soon after, Te

son Astyanax2244 ; the leaders of the people of the far-off Alybe are named Odios and Epistrophos. It is thus that significan

this science were contained in books ascribed to a subterranean dæmon named Tages, who, the Tuscan legend said, had risen up,

, answering to the Zeus of the Greeks, the Jupiter of the Romans, was named Tina2254. A goddess named Kupra was called by the

the Greeks, the Jupiter of the Romans, was named Tina2254. A goddess named Kupra was called by the Romans Juno ; and another

4. A goddess named Kupra was called by the Romans Juno ; and another, named Menerfa or Menrfa, was the original of the Minerv

iter, Juno, and Minerva, which crowned the Capitol at Rome. A goddess named Nortia, answering to the Roman Fortuna, was worsh

incipal deities of Etruria2257. The Tuscan god of the under-world was named Mantus2258, and there was a goddess of it called

the great guardian of the fortune of the city. Jupiter Elicius was so named , as we are told, from the following circumstance2

fell to the ground. Numa having first slain a heifer, took it up and named it Ancile. He regarded it as the pledge of empire

might attempt to steal it, committed them to the care of the priests named Salians. As Latiaris or Of-the-Latins, Jupiter wa

annually worshiped by the Latins on the Alban Mount. The festival was named the Latin Holidays (Feriæ) ; its institution was

ks of the Numicius, and was said to be the deified Æneas. Jupiter was named Feretrius or Bearer, as the spoils of the enemy's

etius2278 as the author of light (lucis), for a similar reason he was named Diespiter, i. e. Dies Pater or Father Day2279. Wh

to be removed to Rome2284. As the patroness of married women Juno was named Matrona. She was called Jugalis as presiding over

, identified by the Greeks with their Eileithyia2288, was probably so named as bringing children to the light. She was invoke

origin of which name is uncertain2298. The festivals of Minerva were named Minervalia or Quinquatrus. They were two in numbe

ing to the Tuscan discipline, Minerva cast her lightnings2299. It was named Quinquatrus as being on the fifth day after the I

ed, crowned with oak, and dancing and singing2311. A similar festival named the Paganalia was celebrated when the sowing of t

her rural character. In the Circus stood a chapel of Venus Murtia, so named it is said from the myrtles which had grown there

another similar temple at Ardea2322. There were two festivals at Rome named Vinalia, in each of which there appears to have b

100. Herod. iv. 32. 101. Ῥίπαι, blasts, whence these mountains were named Rhipæans. 102. Pind. Ol. iii. 24 seq. ; viii. 63

llod. i. 4. l. Hygin. 53. Serv. on Æn. iii. 73.), whence the isle was named Ortygia. This identification of Delos and Ortygia

ambs (ἄρνες) that pastured thereabouts, whence au adjacent spring was named Arne. 429. Sch. Pind. Pyth. iv. 246. Probus on G

hese Müller (Dor. i. 339.) says, are the words of Alcestis in a drama named , it would seem, Admetos. 637. See Part II. chap

ture of oracular responses ; but Artemis, who never gave oracles, was named Loxo. 664. This word is connected with λϵυκςὸ, w

. ix. 31, 9. 885. The tradition was that she sat on the stone thence named Laughterless (ἀγέλαστος). Sch. Aristoph. Knights,

903. Like κρείων, κρέων, the a is merely euphonic. The cyclic Thebaïs named Areiôn κυανоχоιτὴς, and Antimachus said of him,

ne, Asopo, Acheloïs, Heptapora, and Rhodia, (the two last from rivers named by Homer, II. xii. 20. and Hesiod, Th. 341.) the

erod. i. 91. 1006. I. ἀπλανέες : 2. βαρύϕρονες. 1007. The Norns are named Urdur, Verdandi, and Skuld (Past, Present, Future

e to express it. It was the gift bestowed on the child the day it was named , which was usually the eighth day after the birth

9. note c. 1195. Euripides (Cyc. 620.) calls them ϴῆρϵς; the Ionians named them ϕῆρϵς. See Voss, Myth. Br. ii. 291. 1196. H

Hesperides. Peisander it would seem (Sch. Apoll. Rh. iv. 1396.) first named him Ladôn, and called him the offspring of Earth.

i. 106. Strabo, v. 4. 1308. From ἁρπάζω. There was a species of hawk named ἅρπη (Il. xix. 359.). Leclerc derived Harpy from

, Met. xii. 210. seq. He seems to have followed the drama of Æschylus named the ‘Perrhæbian Women.’ Diodor. iv. 70. 1588. Od

. It was probably from this circumstance that the father of Cæneus is named Elatos ; his own name (from καινὸϛ new) refers to

om. 348. 1653. Herod. iv. 158. 1654. Müller, Proleg. 143. 1655. So named probably from the Δημήτϵροѕ άкτή. See Welcker in

υσι. The country, said Hellanicus (Dion. Hal. i. 35.), was henceforth named Italia, Italos (Vitulus) being an ox in the langu

ans, see Sch. Aristoph. Knights, 1365. 1768. There were three places named Œchalia in Greece ; on the banks of the Pencios i

ch. Agam. 1048. Soph. Trach. 252. seq. 1770. The Lydians had a hero named Sandôn similar to Heracles (Lyd. de Magist. iii.

242. Others said he flung himself from a rock into the sea, which was named from him. Nicocrates (ap. Sch. Apoll. Rh. i. 831.

nder this name at Corinth, Paus. ii. 4, 1, 5 ; and Poseidôn was there named Damæos. Sch. Pind. 01. xiii. 98. 1889. According

their own language, ex. gr. Beefeater and Sparrowgrass. The Italians named sir John Hawkwood the condottiere Aguto, and the

1914. See above, p. 405 notec. 1915. Æschylus wrote a satyric drama named Amymone, henee probably the satyr in the legend.

ῆ γϵνομένῃ τῆ πόλϵι. It is, we may see, not supposed that it would be named from the кατοιкιστὴς or founder. 1920. Hesiod n

hat it would be named from the кατοιкιστὴς or founder. 1920. Hesiod named Danaos. He says (ap. Eustath. on Il. iv. 171,).

c. xv. 225. Apollod. ut supra. Sch. Theocr. iii. 43. There was a poem named Melampodia ascribed to Hesiod. Heyne thinks it wa

must not be concealed that there is no traditiov whatever of a people named Pelopians. 2078. Hellanicus ap. Sch. Il. ii. 105

casion to the legend in the text. Another account said that Lycia was named from Lycos the brother of Ægeus king of Attica. H

thing relating to Ægina, see Müller's Æginetica. 2118. Hecatæus thus named the Aoös in Illyria. Strabo, vii. 5. 2119. See A

us (Idyll. xiii.), the hero proceeded on foot to Colchis. In the poem named ‘The Wedding of Ceÿx,’ Heracles is said to have b

and call out of the well, into which they fabled he had fallen, a god named Hylas. The Maryandinians lamented and sought Borm

them that his three daughters would support them. These maidens were named Œno (Wine-giver), Spermo (Seed-giver), and Elaïs

ight divinities, who did not assist at the supreme Council. They were named Dii Selecti — Select Gods. These were Cœlus, Satu

ion of Saturn grew so famous in Latium, that the mountain, afterwards named the Capitoline Hill, was called Saturninus. From

after his name. Apollo was challenged to a musical contest by a satyr named Marsyas. He flayed him alive for his presumption,

the ground the very day on which Alexander the Great was born. A man, named Erostratus, wishing to make his name immortal, se

urd, impious, and licentious, than these horrid festivals, which were named Bacchanalia, Dionysia, Triterica, and Orgia; when

instituted for the same purpose. How came the city of Athens to be so named after this Goddess? The fable relates, that Miner

represented sometimes as being three, and sometimes four, in number; named Aglaia, Thalia, Euphrosyne, Pasithea. They were p

ous tribes of Nymphs? Those who presided over rivers and waters, were named Naiades; those who resided in marshes, Lymniades.

, connected some of them together, formed of them the rural pipe, and named it Syrinx. Pithys was more favourable to the God,

ral robes bound round their waists with girdles of snakes. The Greeks named them Diræ, Erinnes, Disturbers of the Mind. They

ions he was deified, and regarded as the god of strength. He was also named Alcides, from his extraordinary force and valour.

salians, who first mounted and managed horses. One of these Centaurs, named Chiron, was celebrated as being very respectable

gold. It was built with equal skill and magnificence by an architect, named Menon. Part II. Chap. I. Oriental Mythol

anifestations, it supposes him to have ascended to the hall of glory, named Mookze, a region higher than the twenty-sixth hea

ed the Vedas. The sacred language of the Brahmins or Hindû priests is named the Sanscreet, or Sanscrit. The One Supreme Being

ing; the God of the Heavens chief of the good spirits. His consort is named Sachi; his celestial city, Amarávati; his palace,

en, God of death. He is esteemed to be a child of the sun, and thence named Vaivaswata. He is called also, King of Justice. H

n Ceylon and the western peninsula of India, which have been absurdly named Adam’s bridge. A large breed of Apes is, certainl

sacrifice of a man; which is called Neramedha; or of a bull, which is named Gomedha; or of a horse, which is styled Aswamedha

he personification of their great god Osīris, but who, when dead, was named Sorāpis, or Serāpis; that is, Apis in his soros,

as Thoth? An Egyptian god, whom the Greek and Latin writers uniformly named Hermes, or Mercury. To this Hermes, or Theuth, or

e Nile. In the vegetable kingdom, — the Lotus, that species of which, named Nymphæa Nelumbo, was imagined, by the Egyptians,

igious rites, and of giving moral and philosophical instruction, were named Magi, and were justly held in high estimation. Bu

ted region, which the Deity had assigned him. At last, an evil being, named Ahriman, or Arimanius, corrupted the world. After

f the Supreme was raised by Ahriman, when a second Man-Bull appeared, named Taschter, to whom was committed the charge of pro

l office, lights a fire by rubbing together two pieces of a hard wood named Semi, which he keeps lighted through life, for th

ord, as the cause of death, were likewise venerated by them. A being, named Zamolxis, imagined to have the charge of conducti

s. Odin takes no nourishment but wine, and distributes to two wolves, named Geri and Freki, the food served up to him at the

ich she never revealed. She inhabited a magnificent palace of heaven, named Fansal, the illustrious abode. Virgins of high bi

e lightning; to direct the meteors, winds, and storms. His palace was named , the Asylum against terror; and was said to conta

y had killed in their mortal life. It mentions Odin’s steed, as being named Sleipner, having eight legs, and running with inc

of the tribe Thakif, and to him was consecrated a temple, at a place named Nakhlah. Al-Uzzah was the idol of the tribes of K

he god Pan; what was his musical instrument, and how were his priests named ? Which of the Muses presided over the dance, and

power was ascribed to Sem, and who was he? How the Egyptian Mars was named , and under what form was he worshiped? Who was Tr

ter which of the Scandinavian Divinities is the fifth day of the week named , and what is said of his palace? Who was the god

without giving any rain, they said that the terrible being whom they named the snake or dragon was shutting up the waters in

ern portion of the earth was supposed to be inhabited by a happy race named the Hyperboreans*, dwelling in everlasting bliss

ean, dwelt a people happy and virtuous as the Hyperboreans. They were named the Æthiopians. The gods favored them so highly,

estern margin of the earth, by the stream of Ocean, lay a happy place named the Elysian Plain, whither mortals favored by the

e of their divinities, to whom they ascribed all perfections. A fluid named Ichor supplied the place of blood in the veins of

ains of Olympus, in Thessaly. A gate of clouds, kept by the goddesses named Horæ* (the seasons), unfolded its valves to permi

offspring were the rivers of the earth, and three thousand daughters named Oceanides*, or Ocean-nymphs. The abode of Oceanus

called horse or hours. Helios and the ocean-nymph Clymene* had a son named Phaethon*. The claims of this youth to a celestia

s said to have been tenderly attached to a youth of remarkable beauty named Atys*, who, to her grief and indignation, proved

mountains, where they were found by a shepherd, who reared them, and named one Zethus*, the other Amphion*. Antiope, who was

the guiltless offender from her society. Callisto was mother of a son named Arcas*. Hera being extremely jealous changed her

ther’s trumpeter; Rhoda married the Sun-god. The island of Rhodes was named for her. The Cyclops Polyphemus* was son of Posei

the Golden Fleece. He formed for Minos*. King of Crete, a brazen man named Talos*, who compassed the island three times a da

eved her. Apollo carried off Cyrene* to that part of Libya afterwards named for her. Their son was Aristæus, who discovered t

nging its color from white to black.11 Coronis left an infant son named Asclepius* (Æsculapius*), who was educated by the

rove off fifty cows, and took them to Arcadia unseen by any but a man named Battus*. Apollo, pursuing, came to the cave of th

es being unattainable, he, too, pined away from grief; and the flower named for him has ever since continued an emblem of hea

at of Aphrodite, and he was identified with a native Italian divinity named Mutunus. The statues of Priapus, which were set u

Phœnicia, Cilix in Cilicia. Thasos founded in Thrace a town, which he named for himself. Telephassa died, and Cadmus went to

f Cadmus and Hermione were Ino*, Agave*, Autonoe*, Semele*, and a son named Polydorus*. They were all persecuted by Hera. Sem

th. He took the babe to his master, who, being childless, adopted and named it Œdipus* (swollen-foot). When Œdipus had grown

for their size, beauty, and color. They were guarded by another giant named Eurytion*, and a two-headed dog called Orthrus*.

tory. He next delivered the Isthmus of Corinth from a powerful robber named Sinis*, who forced all travelers to bend with him

perished, he threw himself into the sea and was drowned. The sea was named for him Ægean. Theseus succeeded his father as ki

him to keep at a moderate height. Icarus fell into the sea, which was named for him Icarium* Mare, but Dædalus reached Cumæ i

alais, the winged sons of Boreas, pursued the monsters to the islands named Strophades. Here the Boreades seized them, but, o

ntil she came to the hill of Ate* (Mischief), where he built the town named Ilion, from himself, and Troy from his father. He

ken care of the infant. Surprised at the incident, he took the child, named him Paris, and reared him as his own son. Paris a

the suggestion of Athene, who accompanied him under the form of a man named Mentor, Telemachus had gone to the courts of the

third in descent from Saturn, governed the country. He had a daughter named Lavinia, whose hand had been promised to Turnus*,

f the clear heaven, and so of light, warmth, and fertilizing rain, so named from a root denoting moisture, and thus correspon

nation of Vishnu, is said by his followers to have been a mortal sage named Guatama, and also Buddha, the Wise. It is probabl

were far above, peopled by supernatural beings. One of these, a woman named Ataensic, threw herself through a rift in the sky

e with songs of gladness to welcome their queen. She had a little son named Cupid, who also was the god of love; and he was s

sland of Sicily. Long, long ago, there lived on this island a goddess named Ceres. She had power to make the earth yield plen

sleep or played with their fingers and toes in true baby fashion. She named the boy Apollo, and the girl Diana. 5. “Watchin

she could only mimic the last words of others. Now there was a youth named Narcissus, who was as beautiful as a sunshiny day

d a Spider In an ancient city of Greece, there lived a young girl named Arachne, whose parents had once been very poor an

of a Sweet Singer Once there lived in Greece a wonderful musician named Orpheus. When he played his lyre, the trees were

rry Cornwall . The Story of Perseus There was once a princess named Danaë, and she had a little baby boy, whom she ca

ll the trees on its banks. The god of the river had one child, a girl named Io, and there was nothing she liked better than t

ollow reeds together with wax, and thus made a musical pipe, which he named Syrinx, in memory of the vanished nymph.” When Me

rtisan’s Wonderful Wings In ancient Athens there once lived a man named Daedalus, who was highly honored by all the peopl

. But now let us go back to Athens for a while. Daedalus had a nephew named Perdix, a very able young boy, who was anxious to

nce upon a time there lived in Greece a king who had a beautiful wife named Nephele. Nephele means cloud, and there was somet

ed in a certain country a king and queen who had but one child, a boy named Jason. The king, Aeson, was a rather weak, good-n

e a prince. At that time the wisest person in the world was a centaur named Chiron, and he might be called only half a person

Sea God and a Wicked Enchantress There was once a poor fisherman named Glaucus, who earned his daily bread by selling th

   Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee,     Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert d

land called Cyprus. Once there lived on this island a great sculptor, named Pygmalion, who spent his days in carving statues

grew, and it was hard to tear himself away from the marble image. He named his statue Galatea, for he felt almost as though

ar of his awful voice. Besides, she was in love with a young shepherd named Acis; and so, when Polyphemus had finished his so

iter. The inferior gods were comprised in the second order. They were named Dii minorum gentium, gods of the smaller nations,

e, called Opertum, to which men were never admitted. Her favorite was named Atys, for whose death her mad priests commemorate

nd a part of Greece, which he conquered. Jupiter, king of Crete, also named Cœlus or Uranus, had married Titea, or Terra, his

rete, where he had a tomb with this epitaph: “Here lies Zeus, who was named Jupiter.” Eris, his son, succeeded. Obs. 2. — Ju

y Hercules. — See Fig. 7. Fig. 7. Prometheus. Prometheus had a son named Deucalion, who was king of Thessaly, and married

ire at night. Thieves were patronized by Laverna, from whom they were named Laverniones. They worshipped her, when they put t

ius to give Rome warning of approaching calamities. A common soldier, named Ceditius, informed the tribunes that while he was

in the mysteries. Obs. 2. — The Muses were virgins, because a youth, named Adonis, having tried to please them, they put him

ir children’s clothes; Bubastis, by the Egyptians, and her festivals, named Bubastæ, were annually celebrated in the city Bub

placed in the heavens as a constellation. Ariadne brought him a son, named Hymen, the god of marriage. He had many other chi

eace. The gods, having unanimously pronounced Minerva the victor, she named the city Athenæ, and became its tutelary deity. M

Erichthonius, the third king of Athens. These feasts were afterwards named Parthenia, when Theseus had collected the twelve

d, sometimes to this side, and sometimes to that, in wars. The Greeks named him Corytaix, stirring his helmet, to paint him b

They reserved their whole veneration for the waters of the Nile. They named this river Ocean, Ypeus, or Nileus, and often Sir

her parts of the universe. Oceanus had by Tethys, seventy-two nymphs, named Oceanides; Nereus, fifty Nereides, whose names He

d Æacus. The Furies were three sisters, daughters of Acheron and Nox, named Alecto (envy,) Tisiphone (rage,) and Megara (carn

Enarette, was king of Elis. By his wife Alcidice, he had a daughter, named Tyro. He was not contented with an earthly crown,

Danaides were fifty sisters, so called from their father Danaus: and named also Belides, from their grandfather Belus. It is

e he first knew how to govern horses with bridles; but was afterwards named Bellerophon, because he was the murderer of Belle

iter on Mount Olympus. The prow represented a horse, and the ship was named Pegasus. Olympus was reputed to be the abode of t

ir queen, prisoner, married her to Theseus. By Hippolyte he had a son named Hippolytus, perfect beauty, a mighty hunter, and

es of this name mentioned by ancient authors. The Trojan Hercules was named Thasius; the Phœnician, Agenor; the Egyptian cont

of veneration among the people, and three cities in the Thebais, were named after him. He was represented as the star of day

ced from their obedience. The man-bull died of his venom. But a being named Gosohoraun, who instantly sprang up from his left

l? Who became the author of abundance? Who is the supreme creator, so named in the Persian mythology? In what does Oromasdes

all things; to hide his memoirs under ground in the city of the sun, named Sippara; next, to construct a vessel, and put int

me of which still exist,) informs us that an extraordinary personage, named Odin, anciently reigned there; that he performed

ith reigning himself, next repaired to Sweden, where reigned a prince named Gylphe, who, regarding the author of a new worshi

ilities attended him thither. This kingdom soon obeyed a son of Odin, named Sæmungue, who did not fail of being made the auth

rinciples under the name of Tautes and Astarte. Some Scythian nations named them Jupiter and Apia; the Thracians, Cotis and B

day,) and called by the Latins Dies Veneris (the day of Venus.) It is named Vendredi by the French. The third among the princ

h. The third among the principal divinities of the Scandinavians, was named Thor, the god of thunder — a symbol of physical s

rms that he fought the enemies of the gods. The three divinities just named , composed the courts or supreme council of the go

ither begotten by gods, nor acknowledged by immortal mothers; and are named the Valkyrias, or Disas. They appear with a helme

e of his skull the arch of heaven, which is sustained by four dwarfs, named South, (Sudre,) North, (Nordure,) East, (Austere,

, and sight, to which he added beauty and dress. It is from this man, named Askus, (Ash,) and from this woman, named Embla, (

dress. It is from this man, named Askus, (Ash,) and from this woman, named Embla, (Alder,) that is descended the race of men

hich now inhabit the earth. The giant Narfi (darkness) had a daughter named Nott, (night.) She was thrice married. By her hus

that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. … Cocytus, named of lamentation loud. Heard on the rueful stream.”

the goddess of plenty. Co′ran [Coran]. One of Actæon’s hounds was so named . Corn, see Ceres. Cor′onis [Coronis], was a con

an mythological nymphs. Gor′gons, The [Gorgons], were three sisters, named Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa. They petrified every

trea, Nemesis. K Kali. A Hindoo goddess, after whom Calicut is named . Ka′loc [Kaloc]. One of the chief of the Mexican

iter and Juno, or, according to others, of Latona. “Lucina, hail! So named from thine own grove, Or from the light thou giv’

nd he killed himself. There sprang from his blood a flower, which was named after him, Narcissus. “Narcissus so himself fors

d to Amphitrite, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, by whom he had a son named Triton. He was also father of Polyphemus (one of

hen they were nine days old — the day (Nona dies) on which the Romans named their children. Nuptia′lis [Nuptialis]. A title

, and fruitfulness; he was worshiped under the form of a sacred bull, named Apis.                                 “... After

erva. The name was given to Minerva when she destroyed a famous giant named Pallas. The Greeks called their goddess of wisdom

and Bacchus. Any one who slept on this mountain became a poet. It was named after one of the sons of Bacchus. Par′thenon [Pa

t, in all his terrible splendor. She was deified after her death, and named Thyone. Semi-Dei were the demi-gods. Semo′nes [

na changed into reeds, out of which he made his celebrated pipes, and named them “The Syrinx.” T Tac′ita [Tacita]. The

o the sea, and carried her to the unknown shores of Europe, which was named from her. Ques. On what was the story of Europa

as the cause of Apollo’s being driven from heaven? Ans. He had a son named Æsculapius, who was so skilled in medicine that h

and entwined with serpents. Ques. How are these different equipments named ? Ans. The rod was called Caduceus [Cadu′ceus], a

Ques. Who aided the nymphs in their care of Bacchus? Ans. An old man named Silenus. He was considered a demi-god. Ques. How

of the earth. The latter was judged the more useful gift; and Minerva named the city, calling it Athena [Athe′na] or Athens,

ed just before the coming of our Lord. The first month of the year is named from Janus. Chapter XIII. Vulcan — Hephæstus.

honor of Ceres? Ans. The Eleusian or Eleusinian Mysteries. They were named from Eleusis, a town in Greece where they were ce

. Ques. What was the origin of Pan’s reeds? Ans. A beautiful nymph, named Syrinx, was so persecuted by this god, that she p

and sculptors were employed in the decorations of the edifice. A man named Erostratus, who was anxious to make himself famou

at they should live every alternate day. Ques. What Constellation is named from these brothers? Ans. Gemini, or the Twins,

was carried by the waves to the island of Seriphus, where a fisherman named Dictys drew it ashore in his net. He was much sur

floating nest of the halcyon, was in reality a zoöphyte, of the class named by Linnæus, halcyonium. Chapter XXXII. Mel

n travelling. He made several voyages in the company of a sea captain named Mentes; but at length his sight became so much af

aca. While in this island, he was kindly entertained by a wealthy man named Mentor, who related to him the traditionary tales

choose to make public. Ovid wrote, in his exile, poems appropriately named “Tristia,” in which he bewails his hard fate, and

n the mouth of the Tiber. The country around was governed by a prince named Latinus, the son of Faunus and the nymph Marica.

of Faunus and the nymph Marica. This prince had one child, a daughter named Lavinia. Her hand had been promised to Turnus, pr

humadi. Ques. Why were the Isthmian Games so called? Ans. They were named from the Isthmus of Corinth, where they were cele

iod; they say the present arrangement of the Vedas was made by a sage named Vyasa, some five thousand years ago. Ques. What

the Northern Ocean. This island is inhabited by the Hyperboreans, so named because they live beyond the region of the north

ore the Aztecs conquered Anahuac, as that part of Mexico was formerly named . Ques. What sacrifices were offered by the Aztec

nown to us as Venus was an especial object of devotion. The Peruvians named it Chasca, or “the Youth with the long and curlin

ss lump, unfashioned and unframed, Of jarring seeds; and justly Chaos named . No sun was lighted up, the world to view; No moo

he fiery element, Numa Pompilius consecrated an altar, where virgins, named Vestals, maintained perpetual fire. At Delphi and

shield, and one of his horns, which was presented to the nymphs, and named the Horn of Plenty. As Jupiter emerged from infan

es. Among their possessions, the Muses and Apollo had a winged horse, named Pegasus. This courser, born of the blood of Medus

e known his oracles through the medium of a sibyl. This was a female, named also a Pythoness, on account of her seat being fo

, was the peculiar deity of hunters, and called Diana. In Hell she is named Hecate and revered by magicians. ———— “Hecate, l

Oh! thou art beautiful, however it be, Huntress, or Dian, or whatever named , And he the veriest Pagan, that first framed A si

of time, were translated into heaven. When Bacchus, for thus was he ‌ named , had grown out of their guidance, Silenus became

te priests, ‌having unhappily formed a violent attachment to a maiden named Callirhoe, found his love returned with hatred, a

loves were speedily crowned by the birth of a child, whom his parents named Pleasure. Psyche.     “Oh! Goddess, hear t

nd Anger ornament his helmet, while Renown precedes him. His priests, named Salii, carried small bucklers, supposed to be sac

ver it. “From both the illustrious authors of his race The child was named ; nor was it hard to trace Both the bright parents

in whose drooping-bells the bee Makes her sweet music: the Narcissus, named From him who died for love, the tangled woodbine

e a son called Medus. Before his intimacy with Medea, Ægeus had a son named Theseus, who had been sent to Athens with his fat

f Seriphos, one of the Cyclades, where they were found by a fisherman named Dictys, and carried by him to Polydectes, the mon

, and adopted him as her own. The accomplishments of the boy, who was named Œdipus, soon became the admiration of the age; he

made bold war upon his neighbour, and conquered their land, which he named Peloponnesus, or the isle of Pelops. In the famil

ppy Thyestes slew himself with his sword. There was now one son left, named Egisthus, who, himself the fruit of a great crime

nd their gifts!” They would not listen to him. At this moment a Greek named Sinon was brought before them. This perfidious ma

At Italy and Greece, temples were elevated to her; at Greece she was named Nice, and Sylla instituted festivals in her honou

842_img265 Bellerophon was son of Glaucus, King of Corinth, and named at first Hipponous. The murder of Beller, his bro

, and it was hung up in a sacred place. Near this place was a forest, named Odin’s grove, every leaf of which was regarded as

y. In parts of Africa, they worship the soul of the dead, and a being named Molongo, upon whom they are most prodigal in best

ern portion of the earth was supposed to be inhabited by a happy race named the Hyperboreans, dwelling in everlasting bliss a

ean, dwelt a people happy and virtuous as the Hyperboreans. They were named the Æthiopians. The gods favored them so highly t

estern margin of the earth, by the stream of Ocean, lay a happy place named the Elysian Plain, whither mortals favored by the

f Mount Olympus, in Thessaly. A gate of clouds, kept by the goddesses named the Seasons, opened to permit the passage of the

rts of desire into the bosoms of both gods and men. There was a deity named Anteros, who was sometimes represented as the ave

res (Demeter) was the daughter of Saturn and Rhea. She had a daughter named Proserpine, (Persephone,) who became the wife of

us was the porter of heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him. He is the guardian deity of gates, on

ire from heaven; and man, for accepting the gift. The first woman was named Pandora. She was made in heaven, every god contri

llyria, ascended Mount Hæmus, and crossed the Thracian strait, thence named the Bosphorus (cow-ford,) rambled on through Scyt

rth He calls it also the “Star of Arcady,” because Callisto’s boy was named Arcas, and they lived in Arcadia. In Comus, the b

was where now stands the city of Eleusis, then the home of an old man named Celeus. He was out in the field, gathering acorns

Apollo and Hyacinthus. Apollo was passionately fond of a youth named Hyacinthus. He accompanied him in his sports, car

re useful of the two, and awarded the city to the goddess; and it was named after her, Athens. There was another contest, in

e. In very ancient times there lived in Thessaly a king and queen named Athamas and Nephele. They had two children, a boy

a gigantic undertaking. It was accomplished, however, and the vessel named Argo, from the name of the builder. Jason sent hi

t. Hercules in one of his conquests had taken prisoner a fair maiden, named Iole, of whom he seemed more fond than Dejanira a

. His first day’s journey brought him to Epidaurus, where dwelt a man named Periphetes, a son of Vulcan. This ferocious savag

of mountains and grottos, and the Nereids, sea-nymphs. The three last named were immortal, but the wood-nymphs, called Dryads

t, and after that Cyrene thus addressed him: “There is an old prophet named Proteus, who dwells in the sea and is a favorite

lluded to is that she was passionately in love with a beautiful youth named Phaon, and failing to obtain a return of affectio

e flood of deadly hate, Sad Acheron of sorrow black and deep; Cocytus named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; f

with her darts or struck down by her battle-axe. At last an Etruscan named Aruns, who had watched her long, seeking for some

appointed whose office it was to inhale the hallowed air, and who was named the Pythia. She was prepared for this duty by pre

n where there was good ground for running on, and calling a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi. In the f

to a hot one. As the messengers were returning, they found an old hag named Thaukt sitting in a cavern, and begged her to wee

seen. He shared his throne with his wife, the dark goddess of Night, named Nyx or Nox, whose black robes, and still blacker

Deucalion and Pyrrha shortly after became the happy parents of a son named Hellen, who gave his name to all the Hellenic or

sto and Arcas On one occasion he fell deeply in love with a maiden named Callisto, gentle, fair, and slender; but, in spit

e came down to earth to enjoy the society of a youth of mortal birth, named Hyacinthus. To pass the time agreeably, the frien

up.” Owen Meredith. The Story of Clytie A fair young maiden, named Clytie, watched Apollo’s daily journey with stran

ion, while walking alone in the fields, the bride encountered a youth named Aristæus, whose bold admiration proved so distast

to the entrance of Hades, and there saw the fierce three-headed dog, named Cerberus, who guarded the gate, and would allow n

y, science, and music. The Story of Comatas A certain goatherd, named Comatas, used to feed his goats on the slopes of

n Mars, for she is said to have felt a tender passion for a young man named Adonis, a bold young hunter, whose rash pursuit o

id, and Anteros. Mars also fell in love with a beautiful young Vestal named Ilia, a descendant of Æneas, who, in spite of the

another occasion, Neptune, having fallen deeply in love with a maiden named Theophane, and fearful lest some one of her numer

ion of Hades reserved for the exclusive use of the wicked. “Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream.”

alus Tartarus also detained within its brazen portals a cruel king named Tantalus (the father of Niobe), who, while on ear

h, where two adventures awaited him. The first was with a cruel giant named Sinis, nicknamed The Pine-bender, whose usual pra

only practicable pathway led along a rocky ledge, guarded by a robber named Sciron, who forced all who tried to pass him to w

ought them some misfortune. Once Hercules, having landed with a youth named Hylas to cut wood for new oars, bade the youth go

The latter was the reputed son of Mercury and a charming young nymph named Penelope; and we are told that, when his mother f

ther of the gods, once fell deeply in love with a beautiful sea nymph named Thetis, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, — “The

Latium. Æneas, as the gods had predicted, became the father of a son named Æneas Silvia, who founded Alba Longa, where his d

-ge′an Sea. Delos chained in, 45; Arion borne by dolphins in, 63, 64; named after Ægeus 226 Æ-ge′us. King of Athens; father o

from Ion, grandson of Hellen, 26 I-o′ni-an Sea. Sea west of Greece, named after Io, 114 Iph-i-ge-ni′a. Daughter of Agamemn

74, 76, 283; significance, 349 Phœ-nic′i-a. Province in Asia Minor, named after Phœnix, 32; significance, 349 Phœ′nix. Bro

nd Earth; the former was a god called Cœlus, and the latter a goddess named Terra. Cœlus and Terra were the parents of Titan

king of the country. The hill, afterwards called the Capitoline, was named Saturninus from Saturn, and from him all Italy ha

Apollo, as well as to other of the heathen deities. Apollo had a son named Esculapius. Esculapius was the best physician of

the ground the very day on which Alexander the Great was born. A man named Erostratus, wishing to make his name immortal, se

the gospel there, the word of God grew mightily and prevailed. A man named Demetrius, who made “silver shrines for Diana,” t

ous tribes of nymphs: those who presided over rivers and waters, were named Naiades; those who resided in marshes, Lymniades.

nd, connected some of them together, formed of them a rural pipe, and named it Syrinx. Pithys was favourable to the god, but

of hope as himself. A certain king of Thebes, had a son and daughter, named Phryxus and Helle, who were persecuted by Ino, on

ng; the god of the heavens; chief of the good spirits. His consort is named Sachi; his celestial city, Amaravati; his palace,

ds. Odin took no nourishment but wine, and distributes to two wolves, named Geri and Ferki, the food served up to him at the

adis, goddess of hope. Frea inhabited a magnificent palace of heaven, named Fansal, the illustrious abode. Virgins of high bi

s held in great veneration in Egypt. Three cities in the Thebais were named after him, Horus was considered as the supreme lo

gion of Persia became corrupted, and it was reformed by a philosopher named Zoroaster. He prepared a book of doctrines and of

search was vain. The next day she found, by a fountain side, a naiad named Arethusa. “Who are you?” said the goddess to Aret

pily enough in Thrace for a few years. She had a little boy, whom she named Itys, and she loved him dearly. When Itys was abo

Narcissus. Lyriope, a sea-nymph, had a pretty infant, whom she named Narcissus. Like the parents of Psyche, she wished

ir diversions. Among those who admired Narcissus, was a young maiden, named Echo. But Narcissus would take no notice of her;

ghters were Ino, Agave, Antinoe, and Semele. Antinoe married a prince named Aristeus, and they had a son called Acteon. This

e chest in safety to Seriphus, one of the Cyclades. An old fisherman, named Dictys, was standing near the shore, mending his

.” It is related that Io, after she became queen of Egypt, had a son named Epaphus, who was the favourite friend of Phæton.

quently alluded to. Being passionately in love with a beautiful youth named Phaon, and failing to obtain a return of affectio

have most influenced our English literature will follow in the order named . The Romans, being by nature a practical, not a p

re of snakes. They were awful to encounter or to look upon. They were named , like men, the earth-born; and their characterist

uty, another persuasive charm, a third the faculty of music. And they named her Pandora, “the gift of all the gods.” Thus equ

ot the darts of desire into the bosoms of gods and men. Another deity named Anteros, reputed the brother of Eros, was sometim

f this world — of ghosts and clouds and darkness — are also sometimes named the Cimmerians, and are then located in the far n

Janus, the porter of Heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him. He is the guardian deity of gates, on

ent a gadfly to torment Io, who, in her flight, swam through the sea, named after her, Ionian. Afterward, roaming over many l

arded the city to the goddess, and after her Greek appellation it was named . Fig. 37. Minerva’s contest with Neptune. [Vas

the objects of it. He was, for instance, passionately fond of a youth named Hyacinthus. The god of the silver bow accompanied

season destroyed the children, but at last was slain by a noble youth named Corœbus. To appease the wrathful deity, a shrine

ss Coronis (or the Messenian, Arsinoë) bore to Apollo a child who was named Æsculapius. On his mother’s death the infant was

was where now stands the city of Eleusis, near the home of an old man named Celeus. His little girl, pitying the old woman, s

, and listened to his complaint: theinformed him that an aged prophet named Proteus, who dwelt in the sea, and pastured the s

th flowers for the goddess of Plenty, who, adopting it as her symbol, named it Cornucopia. No writer in modern times has made

g fifty men, it was considered a gigantic undertaking. The vessel was named Argo, probably after its builder. Jason soon foun

in Ætolia. His parents were cousins, descended from a son of Endymion named Ætolus, who had colonized that realm. By ties of

they came; and down the lad dropped into the sea, which after him is named Icarian. Fig. 88. Dædalus and Icarus. [Relief

with her darts or struck down by her battle-axe. At last an Etruscan named Aruns, who had watched her long, seeking for some

n where there was good ground for running on, and calling a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi. In the f

h in First English was supplemented by retention of two of the runes, named ‘thorn’ and ‘wen,’ to represent sounds of ‘th’ an

’ for which the Latin alphabet had no letters provided. Each rune was named after some object whose name began with the sound

appointed whose office it was to inhale the hallowed air, and who was named the Pythia. She was prepared for this duty by pre

second illustration in the text is the Artemis Knagia (Diana Cnagia), named after Cnageus, a servant of Diana who assisted in

illustrate Gosse’s poem. § 67. Textual. — For Cecrops, see § 151. He named the city that he founded Cecropia, — a name which

Eurydice. There once lived in Thrace a wonderful young musician named Orpheus, son of the muse Calliope. He understood

s Moore. Alcestis. There once lived in Thessaly a good king named Admetus. He was a gentle ruler and led his people

ow. The god loved her, wooed her, and married her. Their only son was named Phaëton. Helios could not come down often to the

ened that among the captives the Greeks had taken, there was a maiden named Chryseis, the daughter of a priest of Apollo. All