Loup de mer, the French name for
a species of cormorant, 102 note. Loves, the, attend the nuptial pomp of Zeus and Europa, 84. Lucan, Annæus, Latin poet, his Pharsalia referred to, 232. Lucretius, T. Carus, Latin poet, his De Rerum Naturâ quoted or re- ferred to, 111, 133, 139, 142, 165, 203, 223.
Lupines, a leguminous plant used in the diet of the Cynics, 87, 147. Lycanthropy (the metamorphosis of men into wolves), opinion of Pausanias upon, 31 note. Lykaon, a king of Arkadia, father of Kallisto, 162 and note. Lyceum (gymnasium of the Peripate- tics), the, frequented by Menip- pus, 87 and note.
Lydia, a district of S. W. Asia Minor, one of the conquests of Dionysus,
Lynkeus, one of the Argonauts, famous for his keen sight, allusion by Menippus in Hades to, 160. Lysimachus, a Macedonian com- mander, the story of Alexander's treatment of, 125-126 note. Lysippus, laureate sculptor of Alex- ander,177 and note; his sculpture of Dionysus and Herakles quoted by Hermes, 179.
Mænads ("Frantic Women "), the attendants of Bacchus, 4. Mæonides, a name of Homer used by Milton, 160 note.
Mæra, a dog attendant on Eri- gone, 36 note; her introduction into heaven criticised by Momus, 229.
Magi, of Babylon, the, 263, 268. Maia, one of the Pleiades, mother
of Hermes, 15; her account of that infant prodigy, 16,51; listens to the complaints of her son and consoles him, 54-56.
Mallus, a town in Cilicia, with an oracle-shrine of Antilochus, 92
Marathon, the battle of, Pan re- warded for his aid to the Athe- nians at, 52; pictured on the Stoa Poikile at Athens, 193 and note. Margherita, St., of Raffaelle, 80
Marsyas (competitor of Apollo on the pipe), defeated and flayed alive by the God, 32. Martialis, M. Valerius, the Epi- grammatic poet, referred to, 95. Matthew, St., quoted by Clement of Alexandria as vegetarian in his diet, 269 note.
Mausolus, Persian satrap of Karia, questioned by Diogenes in Hades as to his magnificent tomb, 150- 152, 277.
Maximus Tyrius, a Greek rhetori- cian (Dissertations), referred to, 92
Medeia, the Kolchian wife of Iason,
expresses the unhappy condition of her sex, 161 note. Mediterranean (Greek Sea par ex- cellence), the, under the guardian- ship of the Nereids, 80 note. Medusa (the Gorgon), Da Vinci's head of, 37 note; beheaded by Perseus, 81-82.
Megakles, an aristocratic name at Athens, 217 note.
Megapenthes, a tyrant, a dramatis persona ofthe Ferry-Bout, 131 note, 237, 244-261.
Megara, a wife of Herakles, killed by her husband, 26 note. Megillus, a beau of Korinth, a mes- sage of Diogenes to, 89. Meidias, a plutocrat, an enemy of Demosthenes, 205, 221, 222 note. Melanthus, a parasite, 99. Meleager, a famous Kalydonian and Argonautic hero, in Hades, 129. Meletus (or Melitus), the public accuser of Sokrates, 222 and note. Melite, a beautiful girl commemo- rated in the Anthology, 49. Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, worship of the sacred bull at, 232, and note.
Menander (the most famous name in the New Comedy) quoted or referred to, 91, 154, 208, 248. Menelaus (king of Sparta, and hus- band of Helen), preferred as suitor by Helen, 47 and note; sceptical as to the miracles of Proteus,66- 67; in Hades casts the respon- sibility of the Trojan War on Paris, 137, 244 note. Menippean Satires (of Varro), the, referred to, 86 note. Menippus, the Cynic (a frequent dramatis persona in Lucian's Dia- logues), 86 and note; described by Diogenes, 87; jeers in Hades at certain typical princes, 90-91; ridicules the Oracles of Tropho- nius, 92-93; on Charon's boat, 105-111; derides the fable of Tantalus, 133-134; requests Her-
mes to point out to him the "lions" of the Lower World, 135-136; has Eakus as his cicerone in Hades, 139-144; inquires of Kerberus the demeanour of So- krates upon his descent to Hades, 145-146; his altercation with Charon, 146-148; umpire between Nireus and Thersites, 152-153; his interview with Cheiron, the Kentaur, 154-155; ridicules the story of Teiresias, 160-162; his descent, in the flesh, to Hades, 266-281.
Menkeus, King of Thebes, father of Kreon, 277.
Methymna, a city of Lesbos, the birthplace of Arion, 73 and
Methuselah, proverbial use of the name of, 100 note.
Metrodorus, the successor of Epi- kurus in the "Garden," his vegetarian diet, 186 and note. Metaci, resident-aliens, their posi- tion, 227 and note.
Meursius, Jan, a Dutch archæolo- gist, referred to, 166 note. Mezentius, an Etruscan king, father of Lausus, in the Eneis, 153 note. Micromégas, a romance of Voltaire, referred to, 243 note.
Midas, a wealthy king of Phrygia, in Hades, 90-91, 140; has Diogenes for his neighbour in Hades, 279.
Miltiades, the hero of Marathon,
Milton, John, quoted, 82, 90, 160, 185.
Minos (king of Krete, and Judge in the Infernal Regions), arbiter in the quarrel between Alexander of Macedon and Hannibal in Hades, 114-119; reprieves certain brigands from the tortures of Tartarus, 164-167; 211; 223; his special duties, 256 note; 263; 272, 273.
Miser, the, of Fielding, referred to, 252 note.
Misopogon (of the Emperor Julian), the, referred to, 108 note. Mithras, the Persian Solar divinity,
Mormolyka, a fuller form of the above, 37 note.
Morta, the Latin name of one of the Parcæ, 214 note. Moschus (pastoral poet of Syra- kuse), his Idylls referred to, 23, 28, 83, 84, 140.
Müller, his Handbuch der Archäo- logie, referred to, 270. Musæ, the, why unassailed by Eros, 37; sing at the nuptials of Thetis and Peleus, 68.
Mykillus, a cobbler, the hero of the Alektryon of Lucian, 250 note; a candidate for a place in Charon's boat, 250-258.
Mykonos, an island of the Ægean,
Narkissus, a handsome youth be- loved by the nymph Echo, in Hades, 135.
Naulos, ship-passenger-fare, 147 and note.
Nauplia, the Gulf of, a Pelopon- nesian sea, 78 note.
Naxos, an island of the Egean, the
scene of the desertion of Ariadne, 229 note.
Nekropompos, a name or title of Hermes, 55 and note. Nektar, the drink of the Olympian deities, how symbolized by the Pythagoreans, 5; its advancing price noticed by Momus, 226, 235. Nemea, a town in Argolis, Hermes sent to, 5.
Nephele, the mother of Helle, 74 note, 75.
Nereids, daughters of Nereus, nymphs of the Mediterannean Sea, 65, 68, 80; attend the nup- tials of Europa and Zeus, 84. Nepos, Cornelius (a Latin His- torian), Lives of the Military Com- manders referred to, 115 note. Nestor, king of Pylos, father of Antilochus, 128; Sokrates in Hades associates with, 278. New Comedy, the, referred to, 95, 99, 108, 198, 242.
Newman, F. W., Prof., his Iliad of
Homer quoted, 112; his metre adopted, 171; quoted, 204, 230
Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, in- stanced by Hera, 31; her miracu- lous change into stone believed by Pausanias, 31 note. Nireus, next to Achilleus the hand- somest Achæan at Ilium, 104,
Odysseus (Ulysses), the hero of the Odyssey, calls up the ghost of Alkmene in Hades, 22 note; his trick upon Polyphemus, 63- 64; his visions in Hades, 89 note; his prudence, 104; the speech of Aias to, 112 and note; the famous speech of Achilleus, in Hades, to, 128, 129; his inter- view with Herakles, in Hades, 131 and note; evokes the spectres of the Dead, 160 note; his cool reception by Aias in Hades, 163- 164, 249 note; his reply to his mother's ghost, 265 note; his credit in the Lower World, 270; his company sought by Sokrates in Hades, 278.
Ebalus, king of Sparta, father of Hyakinthus, 27.
Eta, Mt., in Thessaly, the scene of the self-immolation of Herakles,
26. Olympia, in Elis, 10; a statue of Hermes discovered at, 20, 65, 107
Olympias, the mother of Alexander of Macedon, her decease, 116 and
Olympus, Mt., in Thessaly, the seat of the third dynasty of the Hel- lenic deities, 121 note. Omphale (a queen of Lydia, mis- tress of Herakles), her treatment of that hero, 26.
Oneiros (or Alektryon), a Dialogue of Lucian, referred to, 250 note. Onion, the, an object of veneration to the Pelusians, 201.
Oppian, a Greek poet, his Halieutika referred to, 72 note.
Oracles, Greek temples or shrines for delivery of, 92, 105 notes; those of Apollo criticized by Momus, 169, 190-192; ridiculed by the Epikurean Damis, 202; by the Cynic Cyniskus, 211, 220, 235.
Orca Marina, the, of Ariosto, 10
Orcus (the Lat. poetic name for Hades), 165, 242, 258 notes. Orestes (of Euripides), the, paro- died, 172 and note.
Oreum, a town, a temple of Poseidon at, 188.
Orcagna, Andrea, an Italian painter of the fourteenth century, alluded to, 274 note.
Origen, the Christian Father, his es-
say Against Celsus referred to, 92 note; quotes St. Paul, 267 note. Orlando Furioso, of Ariosto, referred to, 80.
Orates, a Persian satrap, a fellow- traveller of Krates to Hades, his reluctance to travel on foot, 156- 158. Oropus. a town on the borders of Attica, an oracular shrine at, 92
Orpheus, the (legendary) Greek poet, his credit in Hades, 270 and
Osiris (in the Isis and Osiris of Plu- tarch), referred to, 5 note. Outis (the pseudonym of Odysseus). Polyphemus complains to Po- seidon of its use by that hero, 63-64, 250.
Ovidius Naso, P., referred to, 2, 4, 5,
6, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 40, 52, 56, 59, 61, 63, 65, 66, 67, 72, 77, 80, 82, 83, 96, 98, 103, 105, 133, 138, 141, 149, 154, 160, 162, 163, 165, 186, 223, 229, 231.
Ox, the, an object of worship at Memphis, 201.
"Ox-murder" (Bouphonia), the fes- tival of, a vicarious ceremony at, 166 note.
Oxydrake (a town and people of the Punjaub), Alexander of Macedon boasts of his exploit at, 126 and
Padus (Pado), the, a river in N. Italy, identified with the Eridanus, 58 note; Hannibal boasts of hav- ing overrun the plains of, 115. Pæon (or Pæan), physician to the Olympian Court, 27 and note. Palæphatus (On Incredible Tales), a Greek grammarian, quoted or re- ferred to, 28, 32, 71, 74, 82, 83. Palæstra, the, Helen trained in, 46 and note; Hermes presides in, 55,
Palamedes, an Achæan hero of the
Trojan war, in Hades, 278. Pallas (Athena), "The Bath of," poem of Kallimachus on, 32 note. Pamphilus, the hero of the Andria, 29 note.
Pan, the shepherd-divinity, Zeus
mistaken by Ganymedes for, 6; claims Hermes as his father, 50- 52.
Panathenaic Festival, the, Pyrrhic dance at .18. 48 notes.
andora the Hellenic Eve, wife of Epimetheus), adorned by the Graces and the rest of the divini- ies, 21 note.
Panhellenic Games, the, training of athletes for, 107 note.
Pannuchides (Lat. Pervigilia), "vi- gils," 183 and note. Panope, a Nereid, relates the ri valry of the Goddesses for the prize of beauty, 68-69. Panurge a principal character in the Gargantua and Pantagruel, 262 note.
Parcæ, the, their names, 214. Paris, son of Priam, king of Ilium, arbiter of the beauty of the three Goddesses, 38-48; allusion in the Anthology to, 49 note; appointed judge by Zeus, 68; Quintilian's allusion to, 136 note; deprecates, in Hades, responsibility for the war of Ilium, 138.
Parmenion, a Macedonian com- mander, a victim of the jealousy of Alexander, 116 note. Parthenius, a mountain on the bor- ders of Arkadia, 51 and note. Parthenon ("temple of the Vir- gin"), the, on the Athenian Akropolis, the sculptures of, 18
Paul, St., his Epistles quoted or re- ferred to, 90, 257, 272. Pausanias, the Greek traveller and archæologist (Itinerary of Hellas), quoted or referred to, 6, 18, 20, 23, 27, 31, 32, 35, 47, 52, 59, 72, 74, 77, 82, 89, 92, 107, 176, 194, 201, 214, 233, 243. Peirithous, king of the Lapithæ, 2, 13; with Theseus carries off Helen to Athens, 46-47. Peisistratus, tyrant (tyrannus) of Athens, a rival of Megakles, 245, 261 note.
Peleus, king of the (Thessalian) Myrmidones, his marriage with Thetis, 68, 80 note, 128. Pella, the capital of Macedon, the birthplace of Alexander, 126 note. Pelta, a kind of shield, 124. Penelope, wife of Odysseus, said to have been the mother of Pan, 50 note, 51. Pentele, an Attic deme, the marble of, 178.
Pentelikus, Mt., its derivation from the above, 178 note.
Pentheus, king of Thebes, his oppo-
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