ring to the Temple of Pollux. Æe′tes [Æetes], a king of Colchis, and father of Medea. Æge′on [Ægeon], a giant with fifty hea

mself. When the Grecians had set the city on fire Æneas took his aged father , Anchises, on his shoulders, while his son, Ascan

r. Æo′lus [Æolus] was the god of the winds. Jupiter was his reputed father , and his mother is said to have been a daughter o

And o’er his gallipots in triumph ride.” Fenton. Æ′son [Æson] was father of Jason, and was restored to youth by Medea. Ag

] was one of the bravest of the Greek warriors in the Trojan War. His father was Telamon, and his mother Eribœa. Some writers

n Greece, where he presided over the Muses. Apollo was the accredited father of several children, but the two most renowned we

goddess of discord and all evil. She was banished from heaven by her father Jupiter. “With Ate by his side come hot from hel

to the extent of killing and roasting his nephews, and inviting their father to a feast, which Thyestes thought was a sign of

en. A′tys [Atys] was a youth beloved by Aurora, and was slain by her father , but, according to Ovid, was afterward turned int

des [Danaides], see Danaus. Dana′us [Danaus], King of Argos, was the father of fifty daughters, who, all but one, at the comm

father of fifty daughters, who, all but one, at the command of their father , slew their husbands directly after marriage. For

Bacchus. Diony′sius [Dionysius]. A name of Bacchus, either from his father Jupiter (Dios), or from his nurses, the nymphs ca

Hippol′yte [Hippolyte], queen of the Amazons, daughter of Mars. Her father gave her a famous girdle, which Hercules was requ

ac′chus [Iacchus]. Another name for Bacchus. Iap′etos [Iapetos]. The father of Atlas. See Japetus. Ib′lees [Iblees]. The Ara

]. The Arabian Satan. Ic′arus [Icarus], son of Dædalus, who with his father made themselves wings with which to fly from Cret

same as Incubus. In′o [Ino], second wife of Athamas, King of Thebes, father of Phryxus and Helle. Ino had two children, who c

s, or giants. Iph′icles [Iphicles] was twin brother of Hercules, and father of Iolaus. Iphigeni′a [Iphigenia] was a daughter

was killed by his mother Procne when six years old, and given to his father Tereus, a Thracian of Daulis, as food. The gods w

and closed during peace. “Old Janus, if you please, Grave two-faced father .” “In two-faced Janus we this moral find, — Whi

nd Terra, husband of Clymene. He was looked upon by the Greeks as the father of all mankind. See Iapetos. Ja′son [Jason], the

nged herself. Jove. A very general name of Jupiter. “From the great father of the gods above My muse begins, for all is full

nourished by the goat Amalthæa. When quite young Jupiter rescued his father from the Titans; and afterward, with the help of

see Ascolia. Le′da [Leda] was the mother of Castor and Pollux, their father being Jupiter, in the shape of a swan. After her

of Oceanus and Tethys, by whom he had a son named Triton. He was also father of Polyphemus (one of the Cyclopes), Phorcus, and

oved fatal to Hercules. Nes′tor [Nestor]. A grandson of Neptune, his father being Neleus, and his mother Chloris. Homer makes

n she had seven sons and seven daughters. By the orders of Latona the father and sons were killed by Apollo, and the daughters

k of hair. This lock his daughter Scylla cut off, and so betrayed her father to his enemies. She was changed into a lark, and

Odin]. In Scandinavian mythology the god of the universe, and reputed father of all the Scandinavian kings. His wife’s name wa

in of the early German tribes. Œ′agrus [Œagrus]. King of Thrace, and father of Orpheus. Œd′ipus [Œdipus]. A son of Laius, Ki

ed by the Sphinx. In solving the riddle Œdipus unwittingly killed his father , and, discovering the fact, he destroyed his own

dicted that he would be the cause of the destruction of Troy, and his father therefore ordered him to be strangled as soon as

od.” Pope. Pe′lops [Pelops], son of Tantalus, king of Phrygia. His father killed him, and served him up to be eaten at a fe

eaten at a feast given to the gods, who, when they found out what the father of Pelops had done, restored the son to life, and

he four chariot horses of Sol. Phle′gyas [Phlegyas]. Son of Mars and father of Ixion and Coronis. For his impiety in desecrat

ng.” Shakespeare. Phor′cus [Phorcus], or Porcys. A son of Neptune, father of the Gorgons. The same as Oceanus. Phryx′us [P

g of lands, also called Sterentius. Pi′cus [Picus]. A son of Saturn, father of Faunus, was turned into a woodpecker by Circe,

indoo god of wisdom. Pol′lux [Pollux]. Twin brother of Castor. Their father was Jupiter and their mother Leda. He and his bro

elief.” F. Lewis. Prome′theus [Prometheus], the son of Japetus and father of Deucalion. He presumed to make clay men, and a

was slain by Patroclus. Sat′urn [Saturn], king of the Universe, was father of Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. These gods quarre

us. Tides, see Narayan. Time [or Saturn]. The husband of Virtue and father of Truth. Tis-iph′one [Tisiphone]. One of the Fu

s [Uranus], literally, heaven. Son and husband of Gæa, the Earth, and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans. The Greek name

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

cquainted with him. You must make her love him, and that will vex her father and mother, and they will scold and insult her fo

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

en the young girl was informed that she must quit the dwelling of her father , and be forced to marry, she knew not whom, she w

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

was so well pleased with Progne, the eldest, that he asked her of her father for a wife. Pandion granted his request, and Prog

fered sacrifices to their gods — in short, they regarded him as their father , and they loved all whom he loved.3 Marriages we

ogne begged her husband to allow her to go to Athens, to see her aged father , and her sister. Tereus replied to this request,

is since she left us. Think how unhappy she must be never to see her father and her sister. You cannot leave the kingdom; you

nderly love, shall be a daughter to you while I am gone. And, my dear father , I shall soon return to you, if it be the will of

will of the gods.” While Philomela was thus urging the consent of her father , she tenderly pressed his hand, and looked loving

to set her at liberty. “Base man,” she cried, “did not you promise my father to be kind to me, and to restore me to him? Did n

Tereus, and to do that, she killed their child, Itys. When the guilty father saw the dead body, he drew his sword, and would h

esis? Ann. Very well. His brothers wanted to kill him, because their father loved him; and they did sell him for a slave; and

d him; and they did sell him for a slave; and they told lies to their father , pretending that some wild beast had killed Josep

Hymen stood by, and his torch burned with a clear, steady blaze. Her father and all her friends were present, and they smiled

ke it so. Some evil genius has sent it to torment me. I will go to my father . I will ask him to bestow my sister immediately u

er to a statue. According to the fable, Mercury obtained Herse of her father , and they were married, as Aglauria had foreseen

no, who was of a vengeful disposition, struck Tiresias blind; but the father of the gods pitied him, and made him amends for t

r. Cadmus could not find Europa, and he did not like to return to his father without her; therefore he went into Greece, but h

s the son of Jupiter; and also, when they did not know who a person’s father was, they said he was some god. Semele, one of th

her died when he was very young, and it was said that Jupiter was his father . Bacchus, while he was a boy, lived in the isle o

s the son of rich parents, and that if they should carry him off; his father would offer a large sum to have him restored. In

o more thy hand shall stroke this beard; no more Embrace thy mother’s father , nor thy voice Address me thus: ‘Who wrings thy h

ffence? Inform me, and my hand Shall punish him that injures thee, my father .’’” Potter’s Euripides. As if Cadmus had said,

autiful daughter, whose name was Danæ. While Danæ was very young, her father went to consult the oracle, to know what should b

in which Danæ was confined, stood on a rock on the sea coast, and her father ordered that she and her infant should be put int

fore you all the vessel in which I have encountered the sea. My cruel father , the king of Argos, in displeasure against me and

Jupiter; and the moment that Atlas heard Perseus say Jupiter was his father , he saw in him the spoiler of his gardens. “Depar

rm of the princess, she gave him her hand, and he restored her to her father and mother. The plants, upon which the Medusa was

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

isius, in Argos. Danæ had often related to Perseus the cruelty of her father to herself and to him; but they had both forgiven

at Teatimas, the king, was celebrating funeral games in honour of his father . At funeral games, it was customary for athletic

t. “These magpies,” said Polyhymnia in reply, “were once women. Their father was Pierus, king of Macedonia. The princesses had

in praise of the giants: of those who once attempted to dethrone our father Jupiter, and all the gods. “She sung that the gia

he Peneus. There, sinking down by the river’s side, she entreated her father to hear her prayer. “O, father!” she cried, “I de

by the river’s side, she entreated her father to hear her prayer. “O, father !” she cried, “I detest Apollo, but still he pursu

served this beautiful nymph, as she was returning from a visit to her father , and instantly descended from Olympus to converse

he Inachus, the loved scene of her youthful sports, she perceived her father , and approached him with familiarity. Inachus was

nd of flowers. The heifer seemed grateful, and licked the hand of her father with her large rough tongue. Io longed to communi

ks for safety, and for gentle breezes. Mercury immediately obeyed his father : he disguised himself in the habit of a shepherd,

oast of so glorious an origin.” “I know not why,” replied Phæton; “my father was Apollo, the son of your father, and is himsel

know not why,” replied Phæton; “my father was Apollo, the son of your father , and is himself the most graceful, beautiful, and

aphus, “dispute the perfections of Apollo; but perhaps he is not your father . Did he acknowledge that you were his son? “My mo

ured of the truth of your mother, and the affection of your celestial father .” So counselled, Phæton quickly ascended to the s

s parent,” said the suppliant, “to entreat thee to declare thyself my father . The son of Io has vaunted that he is the offspri

lo, but he was not moved by his remonstrances. “Remember thy oath, my father ,” replied the rash youth; “instruct me how to per

following adventure of Latona: “In my youth,” began the old man, “my father , being too old and infirm to bear the fatigues of

lve gigantic children, the Titans, whose strength was such that their father , Uranus, greatly feared them. To prevent their ev

d into Tartarus, where she urged the Titans to conspire against their father , and attempt to wrest the sceptre from his grasp.

ho found confinement and chains peculiarly galling, and who hated his father for his cruelty. Gæa finally induced him to lay v

ictorious. Thus armed and admonished, Cronus set forth, came upon his father unawares, defeated him, thanks to his extraordina

mother besought the life of one little one: the selfish, hardhearted father would not relent. As her prayers seemed unavailin

ved young Jupiter from imminent death: it was also necessary that his father should remain unconscious of his existence. To en

nued to issue their irrevocable decrees, even after he supplanted his father and began to rule over all. In common with all ot

mn occasion, and was forced to resign her office. To replace her, the father of the gods was obliged to go in quest of another

ivering limbs, while her trembling hands were filled with leaves. Her father had answered her prayer by changing her into a la

horizon, Clymene would point it out to her boy, and tell him that his father , Apollo, was setting out for his daily drive. Cly

, Phaeton hastened to his mother, and begged her to direct him to his father , that he might obtain the desired proof. Clymene

ressed on, straining his eyes to catch the first glimpse of the godly father , whose stately bearing and radiant air his mother

tching his charge pasture by the river, Argus heard her relate to her father , Inachus, the story of her transformation, and im

s, made him release the Queen of Heaven, and urged him to embrace his father and crave forgiveness. Although restored to favou

om play an important part in heroic mythology. He is also the reputed father of Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome, by a slav

hem the graceful winged steed Pegasus. Neptune is also said to be the father of the giants Otus and Ephialtes, of Neleus Pelia

lovers were blissfully speeding along in Neptune’s chariot, when her father , Evenus, perceiving their escape, started in purs

o detained within its brazen portals a cruel king named Tantalus (the father of Niobe), who, while on earth, had starved and i

under its mass: “He was doomed to sit under a huge stone, Which the father of the gods Kept over his head suspended. Thus he

given the hand of Dia in marriage on condition that he would give her father a stipulated sum of money in exchange, but who, a

ored the maiden to her own form, and let her return home; but, as her father sold her again, the god was obliged to interfere

hat it does now, and was I considered the family altar, for there the father of the family was wont to offer up his daily pray

ne’s back at his mere sight. Boreas, rough and shivering too, was the father of rain, snow, hail, and tempests, and was theref

and united himself to the mares of Dardanus, King of Troy, became the father of twelve steeds so swift that none could overtak

ted games to be celebrated every fifth year in honour of Jupiter, his father . Thence he wandered from place to place, doing go

y promised to marry him. if he would only free her from the lover her father would fain force upon her. Delighted to be able t

nour, although originally instituted by him in honour of Jupiter, his father . The Nemean Games, celebrated in the forest of Ne

seus fled Those dictates, which before his reason sway’d: But now his father from the ramparts’ height, All bath’d in tears, d

sisted, and bound the second to the constantly revolving wheel of his father , Ixion. When Hercules was in Hades in search of C

Æetes wildly called to his daughter to return to her home and to her father . “‘Stay thy rash flight! and, from the distant m

hither depart? the vessel backward steer; Thy friends, thy still fond father , wait thee here.’” Flaccus ( Elton’s tr.). T

on the Greek; and Medea saw that, unless she found means to delay her father , he would overtake her and compel her to return.

mplored her to give them the recipe, that they might rejuvenate their father also. The sorceress maliciously bade them cut the

credulous maidens carried out these instructions, they only slew the father whom they had so dearly loved. Days and years now

youth, and joined the Argonautic expedition. While he was absent, his father omitted the yearly sacrifice to Diana, who, enrag

is princess had led a very adventurous life, for when but a babe, her father , disappointed to see a daughter instead of the lo

om his brothers — a proof of brotherly affection which so touched the father of the gods, that he permitted Castor to return t

was turned to grief when told that the child was destined to kill his father , marry his mother, and bring great misfortunes up

ously, and merely warned him that fate had decreed he should kill his father , marry his mother, and cause great woes to his na

mother, to produce a race Accursed and abhorr’d; and last, to slay My father .” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.). What! kill Poly

klin’s tr.). What! kill Polybus, who had ever been such an indulgent father , and marry the queen, whom he revered as his moth

shing the first part of the prophecy; for the aged man was Laius, his father , journeying in disguise from Thebes to Delphi, wh

and moderately uneventful years now passed by, and Œdipus became the father of two manly sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and tw

otsteps wherever he wished to go. After many days of weary wandering, father and daughter reached Colonus, where grew a mighty

Eteocles and Polynices Antigone, no longer needed by her unhappy father , slowly wended her way back to Thebes, where she

each other with such animosity that both fell. By order of Jocasta’s father , Creon, the corpse or Eteocles received all the h

h under the all-involving bark. She therefore took hasty leave of her father , sister, husband, and son, who, attracted by her

Chapter XXVII: The Trojan War Jupiter and Thetis Jupiter, father of the gods, once fell deeply in love with a beau

tis was destined to be the mother of a son who would far outshine his father . Jupiter carefully pondered this reply, and concl

den, and the wedding preparations were made in the coral caves of her father , Nereus, beneath the foam-crested waves. Thither,

kidnap her.                          “This was cause To Tyndarus her father of much doubt, To give, or not to give her, and h

hetis, Achilles, of whom the Fates had predicted he would surpass his father in greatness. The Hero Achilles Thetis love

bride Affianc’d.” Euripides ( Potter’s tr.). Iphigenia came to her father secretly delighted at being the chosen bride of s

……………………………                                         “Hector, thou Art father and dear mother now to me, And brother and my you

s with savage teeth: Then, as with arms he comes to aid, The wretched father they invade And twine in giant folds: twice round

on until they reached the Æolian Islands, where dwelt Æolus, king and father of the winds. He had heard of Ulysses’ prowess, r

the Trinacrian shores. In the meantime, Lampetia had hastened to her father to apprise him of the crime committed by Ulysses’

ded and accompanied by his tutor Mentor, had set out in search of the father whom he could not believe to be dead. Mentor, non

by the suitors at the entrance of the port. Minerva now permitted the father and son to recognise each other, in spite of thei

strophe, now suddenly remembered that a similar fate awaited his aged father Anchises, his wife Creusa, and little son lulus,

ly prevailed. Æneas and Anchises Æneas rushed home and bade his father prepare to leave Troy; but Anchises obstinately r

n the harbours of Sicania and Drepanum, and while there lost his aged father Anchises.                                 “There

st seek the halls of Dis below, Pass deep Avernus’ vale and meet Your father in his own retreat.” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.).

n shore.” Tomas de Iriarte. After a prolonged conversation with his father , Æneas returned to his companions, and led them t

milla When but a babe in arms, Camilla had been carried off by her father , as he fled before the Volscian troops. When he c

e bank, which, thanks to Diana’s aid, she reached unharmed, while her father plunged into the waves to join her. In his gratit

encountered and slain many warriors, among others Lausus and his aged father Mezentius, two allies of Latinus, who had special

e the capital of Latium. Æneas, as the gods had predicted, became the father of a son named Æneas Silvia, who founded Alba Lon

languages of the same family, showing (as is the case with the word “ father ” in the accompanying table) that they undergo but

German, vater. Dutch, fader. Danish, fader. Swedish, fader. English, father . The most learned of all these philologists argue

to wield his invincible sword, then journeys onward’ in search of his father , performing countless great deeds for the benefit

awn), after slaying the dragon (the demon of drought). Æetes, Medea’s father , is a personification of the darkness, which vain

, a personification of the violet-tinted clouds of dawn), becomes the father of Œdipus, doomed by fate to be the murderer of h

ecomes the father of Œdipus, doomed by fate to be the murderer of his father . Early in life Œdipus is exposed on the barren hi

to, 288-289; slays Hector, 290-292; death, 293; in Happy Isles, 321; father of Pyrrhus, 323; significance, 358, 359 A′cis. Yo

a, and slain by Polyphemus, 304, 305 A-cris′i-us. King of Argos, and father of Danae, 208, 209, 216; significance, 354. 355.

nificance, 168, 352 A-dras′tus. King of Argos; his horse Arion, 130; father of Hippodamia, 227; sends expedition against Theb

ed by Circe and visited by Ulysses, 310-313 Æ-e′tes. King of Colchis, father of Medea and Absyrtus, 236-238; brother of Circe,

y dolphins in, 63, 64; named after Ægeus 226 Æ-ge′us. King of Athens; father of Theseus, 218, 220, 221; drowns himself, 226; s

; train of, 132; significance, 362 An-chi′ses. Husband of Venus, 88; father of Æneas, 322-324; prophecy recalled by, 326; dea

56 A′te, or Eris. Goddess of discord, 272 Ath′a-mas. King of Thebes; father of Phryxus and Helle, 232; Ino in madness slain b

ightens Æneas by prophesying harm, 327 Ce′le-us. 1. King of Eleusis; father of Triptolemus, 162. 2. Father of Andromeda; sign

and Gæa, 6 Cro′nus. Same as Saturn, Time; a Titan who rules supreme; father of Jupiter, 6-10, 12, 14, 22; daughters of, 36, 1

f Danaus, who slay their husbands, 142, 143 Dan′a-us. King of Argos; father of the fifty Danaides, 142 Dan′ube. River of Eur

27 Deu-ca′li-on. Only male survivor of Deluge; son of Prometheus and father of Hellen, 24-26 Di′a. Maiden loved and deserted

taskmaster; appointed twelve labours, 128, 189-200 Eu′ry-tus. Iole’s father ; visited twice by Hercules, 205 Eu-ter′pe. One o

inus, or the Black Sea, 4 E-van′der. King of Tuscans; ally of Æneas; father of Pallas, 335, 336 E-ve′nus. Father of Marpessa

f golden apples, 196; significance, 354 Hes′pe-rus. God of the West; father of the Hesperides, 81, 196 Hes′ti-a. Same as Ves

anaus; saves her husband, 143 I I-ap′e-tus. One of the Titans; father of Prometheus, 6, 14, 199 I-a′pis. Leech consult

y Æneas; cures Æneas with Venus’ aid, 338 I-a′si-us. Same as Iasion; father of Atalanta, 241, 327 Iby′cus. Avenged by the Fu

nce comes the Iliad’s name, 282, 322, 325, 331 In′a-chus. River god ( father of Io), in, 113 In′dia. Bacchus’ visit to, 151

i-fons. A square temple dedicated to Janus, 177 Ja′son. Son of Æson; father of Plutus, the god of wealth, 136; captured the g

e Hellespont, 89-94 Le-ar′chus. Son of Athamas and Ino; slain by his father , 150 Le′da. Mother of Castor and Pollux, Helen a

als in honour of Minerva, in Rome, 43 Mi′nos. 1. King of Crete, 194; father of Ariadne and Phædra, 221, 223. 2. Son of Jupite

God of the sea; the personification of its pleasant aspect, 130, 197; father of Thetis, 271; significance, 362 Nes′sus. The C

n rides, 258-260; significance, 358, 362 Pe′leus. Husband of Thetis; father of Achilles, 234, 241, 271, 278 Pe′li-as. Uncle

43 Pe′lops. Son of Tantalus; gave his name to the Peloponnesus, 143; father of Copreus, 129; significance, 353 Pe-na′tes. Ho

359, 360. 2. A nymph, the mother of Pan, 265 Pe-ne′us. 1. River god; father of Daphne; changes Daphne into a laurel, 50. 2. N

ng the Trojan War, 289 Sat′urn, or Cronus. Son of Uranus and Gæa, 7; father of Jupiter, 9; Italy ruled by, 12, 22; husband of

d protégé of Ceres, 162, 169 Tri′ton. Son of Neptune and Amphitrite; father of the Tritons, 82, 131, 269; significance, 362

on; son of Jupiter and Antiope, 62, 63 Zeus. Same as Jupiter, 9, 10; father of the gods, 39; significance, 341, 347, 348, 352

made to wait on himself. Jupiter, or Jove, (Zeus,) though called the father of gods and men, had himself a beginning. Saturn

her of gods and men, had himself a beginning. Saturn (Cronos) was his father , and Rhea (Ops) his mother. Saturn and Rhea were

to Jupiter, Oceanus to Neptune, Hyperion to Apollo. Hyperion was the father of the Sun, Moon, and Dawn. He is therefore the o

n. Jupiter, with his brothers and sisters, now rebelled against their father Saturn and his brothers the Titans; vanquished th

, ranging the woods, and taking no thought of Cupid nor of Hymen. Her father often said to her, “Daughter, you owe me a son-in

with blushes, threw arms around her father’s neck, and said, “Dearest father , grant me this favor, that I may always remain un

d I will follow slower. I am no clown, no rude peasant. Jupiter is my father , and I am lord of Delphos and Tenedos, and know a

. Her strength begins to fail, and, ready to sink, she calls upon her father , the river god: “Help me, Peneus! open the earth

and her voice was a bellow that frightened even herself. She saw her father and her sisters, went near them, and suffered the

suffered them to pat her back, and heard them admire her beauty. Her father reached her a tuft of grass, and she licked the o

w, but gradually she recovered her confidence and was restored to her father and sisters.   In a poem dedicated to Leigh Hunt,

own Thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey.” Stanza 31. The allusion is prob

ulted the goddess Latona, but not with impunity. When I was young, my father , who had grown too old for active labors, sent me

n advanced up the steep ascent, and entered the halls of his disputed father . He approached the paternal presence, but stopped

rrand. The youth replied, “O light of the boundless world, Phœbus, my father , — if you permit me to use that name, — give me s

I beseech you, by which I may be known as yours.” He ceased; and his father , laying aside the beams that shone all around his

sked to be permitted for one day to drive the chariot of the sun. The father repented of his promise; thrice and four times he

hdrew, marshalled by the Daystar, which last of all retired also. The father , when he saw the earth beginning to glow, and the

s the steeds full fed with ambrosia, and attached the reins. Then the father bathed the face of his son with a powerful unguen

returned to his body. The whole family were delighted — that is, the father , mother, and little girl, for they were all; they

e same bark. At this moment Andræmon, the husband of Dryope, with her father , approached; and when they asked for Dryope, Iole

may be a goddess in disguise. Farewell, dear husband, and sister, and father . If you retain any love for me, let not the axe w

esperus, the Day-star, and the glow of his beauty reminded one of his father . Halcyone, the daughter of Æolus, was his wife, a

e could, and finished with these words: “I promise, by the rays of my father the Day-star, that if fate permits I will return

holds fast to a plank, calling for help, — alas, in vain, — upon his father and his father-in-law. But oftenest on his lips w

ations of pity raised him and carried him home to his mother, for his father was not living. She received the dead body of her

raised my eyes to heaven. ‘O Jupiter,’ I said, ‘if thou art indeed my father , and art not ashamed of thy offspring, give me ba

he tree. Observing their numbers with admiration, I said, ‘Give me, O father , citizens as numerous as these, and replenish my

tell him that we yield ourselves to his mercy. But then, to betray my father ! No! rather would I never see Minos again. And ye

and so put an end to the war. But how? The gates are guarded, and my father keeps the keys; he only stands in my way. O that

you I have done it. See here the purple lock! With this I give you my father and his kingdom.” She held out her hand with the

me companion of their course. A sea-eagle soaring aloft, — it was her father who had been changed into that form, — seeing her

sguised himself; and another, Danaë, in the brazen tower in which her father had imprisoned her, but where the god effected hi

Why should Latona be honored with worship, and none be paid to me? My father was Tantalus, who was received as a guest at the

as a guest. If you honor illustrious descent, I claim Jupiter for my father ; if mighty deeds, I plead the conquest of the Gor

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

ung man was Œdipus, who thus unknowingly became the slayer of his own father . Shortly after this event the city of Thebes was

ipus, ignorant of his parentage, had already become the slayer of his father ; in marrying the queen he became the husband of h

st the infant — Æsculapius was intrusted to his charge by Apollo, his father . When the sage returned to his home bearing the i

ece, Jason felt that one thing was wanting, the presence of Æson, his father , who was prevented by his age and infirmities fro

hat Medea had done for Æson, they wished her to do the same for their father . Medea pretended to consent, and prepared her cal

elias saw the experiment with delight, and appointed a time for their father to undergo the same operation. But Medea prepared

eep, cried out, “My daughters, what are you doing? Will you kill your father ?” Their hearts failed them and their weapons fell

t-drawn chariot and fled to Athens, where she married King Ægeus, the father of Theseus, and we shall meet her again when we c

ster. Theseus and his friend Pirithous, Jason, Peleus, afterwards the father of Achilles, Telamon the father of Ajax, Nestor,

ithous, Jason, Peleus, afterwards the father of Achilles, Telamon the father of Ajax, Nestor, then a youth, but who in his age

less and unhonored death. With his last breath he calls upon his aged father , his brother, and his fond sisters, upon his belo

g these thoughts, the spectators grow impatient for the race, and her father prompts her to prepare. Then Hippomenes addressed

demned to bear on his shoulders the weight of the heavens. He was the father of the Hesperides, and Hercules thought might, if

rrived at manhood was to proceed to Athens and present himself to his father . Ægeus on parting from Æthra, before the birth of

th after her separation from Jason, had become the wife of Ægeus, the father of Theseus. Knowing by her arts who he was, and f

rd to take it, the sight of the sword which he wore discovered to his father who he was, and prevented the fatal draught. Mede

led Media received its name from her, Theseus was acknowledged by his father , and declared his successor. The Athenians were a

ered himself as one of the victims, in spite of the entreaties of his father . The ship departed under black sails, as usual, w

ship departed under black sails, as usual, which Theseus promised his father to change for white, in case of his returning vic

ching the coast of Attica, Theseus forgot the signal appointed by his father , and neglected to raise the white sails, and the

on of Theseus, a youth endowed with all the graces and virtues of his father , and of an age corresponding to her own. She love

d him to life. Diana removed Hippolytus from the power of his deluded father and false step-mother, and placed him in Italy un

he wax and working it over with his fingers, by his play impeding his father in his labors. When at last the work was done, th

e instructions and fitted the wings to his shoulders, the face of the father was wet with tears, and his hands trembled. He ki

athers remained to hold the air. While his mouth uttered cries to his father it was submerged in the blue waters of the sea, w

blue waters of the sea, which thenceforth was called by his name. His father cried, “Icarus, Icarus, where are you?” At last h

y, thinking his slave had escaped. Then she resumed her own form. Her father was well pleased to find her still with him, and

y from her purchasers and came home. By this base method the starving father procured food; but not enough for his wants, and

he Titan that Thetis should bear a son who should be greater than his father , Jupiter desisted from his suit and decreed that

exactions of Juno, his step-mother. I, on the other hand, said to the father of the maiden, ‘Behold me, the king of the waters

and Alcestis. Æsculapius, the son of Apollo, was endowed by his father with such skill in the healing art that he even r

is sufferings: — “Alas! I only wished I might have died With my poor father ; wherefore should I ask For longer life? O, I was

what was most unlovely grew beloved When he was with me. O my dearest father , Beneath the earth now in deep darkness hid, Worn

reparation of a robe for the funeral canopy of Laertes, her husband’s father . She pledged herself to make her choice among the

was the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. He was presented by his father with a Lyre and taught to play upon it, which he

tradition that Danaë and her infant son were confined by order of her father , Acrisius, in a chest and set adrift on the sea.

the son of Neptune. He was a handsome giant and a mighty hunter. His father gave him the power of wading through the depths o

nt, Orion attempted to gain possession of the maiden by violence. Her father , incensed at this conduct, having made Orion drun

hore of Ocean. He came with his warriors to assist the kindred of his father in the war of Troy. King Priam received him with

ief.” Galatea then said, “Acis was the son of Faunus and a Naiad. His father and mother loved him dearly, but their love was n

ry him, placed the infant Telemachus before the plough, whereupon the father turned the plough aside, showing plainly that he

her. He was united in marriage with Andromache, and as a husband and father his character was not less admirable than as a wa

that sad place,     Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears; My father held his hand upon his face;               I, bli

ered by Pope, —                    “Lord of earth and air! O king! O father ! hear my humble prayer! Dispel this cloud, the li

the town Hector stood without determined to await the combat. His old father called to him from the walls and begged him to re

troyed so many of his sons. “Think, O Achilles,” he said, “of thy own father , full of days like me, and trembling on the gloom

estimable ransom with me. Achilles! reverence the gods! recollect thy father ! for his sake show compassion to me!” These words

se words moved Achilles, and he wept; remembering by turns his absent father and his lost friend. Moved with pity of Priam’s s

ir bodies and breathing their pestilential breath in their faces. The father , attempting to rescue them, is next seized and in

he son of Achilles, rushed in wounded, and expired at the feet of his father ; whereupon Priam, overcome with indignation, hurl

n splendor; and when Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, in search of his father , arrived at Sparta, he found Menelaus and Helen c

s, has given us the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of his father . Among other places at which he arrived, followin

uding to her wedding-day, but finding other reasons equally good. Her father readily assented and ordered the grooms to furnis

im why at the mention of Troy his sorrows awaked. Had he lost there a father , or brother, or any dear friend? Ulysses replied

servant of his house. Telemachus, his son, was absent in quest of his father . He had gone to the courts of the other kings, wh

ght he must be more than mortal. But Ulysses announced himself as his father , and accounted for the change of appearance by ex

seized On both; soft murmurs uttering, each indulged His grief.” The father and son took counsel together how they should get

w. Telemachus had hard work to restrain his indignation at seeing his father so treated in his own hall, but remembering his f

result, Æneas made his escape from the scene of destruction, with his father , and his wife, and young son. The father, Anchise

ene of destruction, with his father, and his wife, and young son. The father , Anchises, was too old to walk with the speed req

ollection of Æneas that Polydore was a young prince of Troy, whom his father had sent with ample treasures to the neighboring

er of Belus, king of Tyre, and sister of Pygmalion, who succeeded his father on the throne. Her husband was Sichæus, a man of

in a dream to seek the abode of the dead in order to confer with his father , Anchises, to receive from him a revelation of hi

hey would commit no violence, that Æneas’s only object was to see his father , and finally exhibited the golden branch, at sigh

ed for you as I have watched your career!” To which Æneas replied, “O father ! your image was always before me to guide and gua

ys before me to guide and guard me.” Then he endeavored to enfold his father in his embrace, but his arms enclosed only an uns

dwell on Lethe’s bank, and drink oblivion of their former lives.” “O father !” said Æneas, “is it possible that any can be so

wishes of her parents. But Latinus had been warned in a dream by his father Faunus, that the destined husband of Lavinia shou

her feet. Camilla’s history had been singular from the beginning. Her father , Metabus, driven from his city by civil discord,

th me? and shall I let you go into such danger alone? Not so my brave father brought me up, nor so have I planned for myself w

d, and able to trust to his wings, is to perform the obsequies of his father . But this duty is not undertaken rashly. He colle

d sufficient confidence in his own vigor, he takes up the body of his father and flies with it to the altar of the Sun, where

century, written by himself: “When I was about five years of age, my father , happening to be in a little room in which they h

ste. Others trace it to the fondness of perpetuating, by descent from father to son, certain offices or occupations. The Hindu

idea of retiring from society and devoting himself to meditation. His father in vain opposed this design. Buddha escaped the v

Sequitur patrem, non passibus acquis. —  Virgil . He follows his father with unequal steps. No. 10. Page 349 Mons

mere fiction, the chief Tecumseh says (vol. iii. 234), «The Sun is my father and the Earth is my mother, and I repose on her b

ed, and dignity and majesty of mien and countenance distinguished the father of gods and men and ruler of heaven. These deitie

of the eye ; and dreams, daughters of night : an ass is with them the father of hanging ears 24. A similar mode of expression

ours and named the heavens after him. By several wives Uranos was the father of forty-five children, eighteen of whom, the off

nd sisters, whence she was called the Great Mother. She succeeded her father in his dominion ; and after some time she married

fter her hapless children. The Titans then divided the realm of their father among themselves. The coast of Ocean fell to Atla

eople and the highest mountain of the country after himself. Like his father he was addicted to astronomy ; he first taught th

oticed by preceding writers, which had probably been transmitted from father to son from the most remote times. If to the sour

ϵιρς), Cottos, Briareôs, and Gyes. These children were hated by their father , who, as soon as they were born, thrust them out

hs. Thaumas was by Electra (Brightness), another daughter of Oceanos, father of the swift Iris (Rainbow), and of the ‘well-hai

bore by Tartaros her last offspring, the hundred-headed Typhoeus, the father of storms and whirlwinds. The progeny of the Tita

The fifth Titan, Iapetos, was by Clymene, a daughter of Oceanos, the father of four sons, Atlas, Menœtios, Prometheus and Epi

eprived by one of his sons of the kingdom which he had taken from his father , devoured his children as fast as they were born.

s was grown up, he and the other children of Kronos made war on their father and the Titans. The scene of the conflict was The

eted, Kronos and Rhea give birth to the gods, and Iapetos becomes the father of men154. Their task being thus completed, and t

win the victory, and the three brothers divide the dominions of their father among them by lot159. The Titan-war, as this crit

By Perseïs or Perse (Brightness ?), a daughter of Oceanos, Helios was father of Æetes, and his sister Circe the great enchantr

of Pontos and Earth288. Astræos, as we have just seen, was by Eôs the father of the Winds. Pallas had by Styx the Ocean-nymph,

and clouds, which had fallen to him by lot on the dethronement of his father Kronos ; the sea was the realm of his brother Pos

law and justice, of which he is the fountain378. Zeus is called the ‘ father of men and gods’379 ; his power over both is repr

etrated the brazen prison in which Danae was inclosed, and became the father of Perseus. Antiope, the mother of Amphiôn and Ze

sguised the god from Ægina, the mother of Æacos. By Semele he was the father of Dionysos, who became a god. By Io he had a son

Poseidôn, had offered violence to Alcippe, the daughter of Ares. Her father killed the offender, and he was summoned by Posei

g bulls of Æetes king of Colchis were the gift of Hephæstos to Æetes’ father Helios571 ; and he made for Alcinoös, king of the

hter of Evenos, was beloved by Apollo, whose suit was favoured by her father . Idas, another lover, having obtained a winged ch

iot from Poseidôn, carried off the apparently not reluctant maid. Her father pursued the fugitives, but coming to the river Ly

ughs with water. The goddess herself meantime enters the house of her father , and sits beside her brother Apollo. The adventur

nduct her unsullied to his family, and to dispatch a messenger to her father to treat of the marriage and the dower. But while

offended Aphrodite744, was by her inspired with a passion for her own father . After a long struggle against it, she gratified

two embraced, and clung round the philosopher as if he had been their father  ; and after caressing them for some time, he rest

d, and she remained single, hating that beauty which all admired. Her father consulted the oracle of Apollo, and was ordered t

in love with her. She bore him privately a son, who was reared by her father , herself having married Echecles. By Chione the d

aid by Stilbe or Telauge the daughter of Eosphoros842, Hermes was the father of Autolycos the noted cattle-stealer. The Thessa

vid in his Metamorphoses847. Hermes is in some legends said to be the father of the Arcadian god Pan848, and he is even charge

catching the terrified goddess carried her off in it shrieking to her father for aid, unheard and unseen by gods or mortals, s

llidice tells the goddess the names of the five princes, who with her father governed Eleusis, each of whose wives would, she

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

aughter of Erysichthôn, who by her assuming various forms enabled her father to sell her over and over again, and thus obtain

ods of Olympos ; and that when any one acts unjustly, she sits by her father Zeus, and complains of the iniquity of man’s mind

es. Zeus, says Hesiod979, was by Eurynome, the daughter of Ocean, the father of the ‘three fair-cheeked Graces’ Aglaïa (Splend

of Zeus falls by the hands of Patroclos, Apollo at the command of his father washes his body in the waters of the stream, anoi

d, but on the heads of men. Having conspired with Hera to deceive her father , he took her by the hair and flung her to earth,

er of these hymns relates, that the Nymphs received Dionysos from his father , and reared him in a fragrant cavern of the valle

t occur in the Ilias. Ganymedes and Tithonos, who were mortal by both father and mother, were carried off, the former by the g

s daughter to king Mæôn and his queen Dindyme. She was exposed by her father on Mount Cybelos, where she was suckled by panthe

named Attis. She was afterwards acknowledged by her parents ; but her father , on discovering her intimacy with Attis, seized t

the form of a goat, as she was tending in her youth the flocks of her father on Mount Taÿgeton1164. Some even went so far as t

Dionysos by Chione, or a Naïs ; others1222, that he had a long-eared father , — Pan or a Satyr perhaps, or it may be his own s

sea1231. Yet these Nymphs are of divine nature ; and when Zeus, the father of the gods, calls together his council, None of

at Mount Œta, had a daughter named Dryope. She fed the flocks of her father , and the Hamadryades conceived a strong affection

to belong to him. Hesiod1253 makes him a son of Pontos and Earth, and father by Keto of the Grææ, the Gorgons, the Echidna, an

o, ‘keeping to the bottom of the sea, dwelt with his mother and royal father in a golden house.’ Later poets made him his fath

Hesiod says that the Hesperides were the daughters of Night without a father . Others, however, to assimilate them to their nei

ng it was some disease they left him, recommending him to pray to his father . Next morning, when Polyphemos turned out his she

Telegonos (Far-born), who, as we shall see, unwittingly slew his own father . The Theogony1364 gives them for offspring Agrios

ried away from her native country by Taphian pirates, and sold to the father of Eumæos. We have now completed our survey of th

petos espoused Clymene1448, a daughter of Oceanos, by whom he was the father of four sons, Atlas, Menœtios, Prometheus and Epi

later writers say, for his share in the Titan-war1455. Atlas was the father of the fair nymph Calypso, who so long detained O

rs, named Pleiades after their mother1457. He was also said to be the father of the nymphs named Hyades1458. When, therefore,

siod, and the species of knowledge ascribed to him, and his being the father of two of the celestial constellations, it will b

ned to destroy the brazen race of men, Deucaliôn by the advice of his father made himself an ark (λὰρνακα), and putting provis

t must be previously stated, that the genealogists make Deucaliôn the father of Hellên, who was the father of Doros, Æolos, an

hat the genealogists make Deucaliôn the father of Hellên, who was the father of Doros, Æolos, and Xuthos, which last had two s

ie in his place. When the fatal day arrived Admetos implored his aged father and mother to lay down their small remnant of lif

ers which Zeus had given to Æolos. He then went into the house of his father , by whom he was joyfully recognised. On the intel

in safety1540. But during the absence of Iasôn, Pelias had driven his father and mother to self-destruction, and put to death

pot whence issued a bleating lamb, she persuaded them to treat their father in the same manner1541. Pelias was buried with gr

inst the Indians. Medeia returning unknown to Colchis, found that her father Æetes had been robbed of his throne by his brothe

d mortal men with their love. Iasôn brought her from the realm of her father Æetes, where he had achieved the many grievous ta

illes. By Ægina the daughter of the river-god Asopos Zeus was the father of Æacos, who dwelt in the island named from his

t in the fire, to purge away what he had inherited of mortal from his father  ; and by day she anointed him with ambrosia. But

1608, came at the head of a colony of the Æolids to Elis : he was the father of Endymiôn, who enjoyed the love of the goddess

Porthaôn was by Euryta (grand-daughter of the river-god Acheloös) the father of Agrios, Melas, and Œneus1609. From this geneal

is allowing the god’s familiarity with Althæa, by which he became the father of Deïaneira1611. Œneus, it is also said, killed

selection, of fifty gyas 1618, half arable, half vine-land. His aged father Œneus ascended his chamber and implored him, his

s. Κάδμος. Cadmus. Poseidôn, says the legend, was by Libya the father of two sons, Belos and Agenôr ; the former of who

o intelligence of their sister ; and fearing the indignation of their father , they resolved to settle in various countries. Ph

ays in hunting the wild beasts, and thus protecting the cattle of her father . One day as she was engaged in combat with a lion

the god to avert the evil influence of the dog-star1656. Now Actæôn’s father Aristæos had done just the same at Ceos, and this

he daughter of Nycteus. Their son was Labdacos, who on succeeding his father opposed himself like Pentheus to the religion of

s by Antiope the daughter of Nycteus. Terrified at the threats of her father when the consequences of her frailty became appar

love overcame his prudence, and Iocasta gave birth to a son, whom his father delivered to his herdsman to expose on Mount Cith

ted him to shun his native country, or he should be the slayer of his father and the sharer of his mother's bed. He therefore

wful deed, marrying her own son ; and he married having slain his own father , and immediately the gods made this known to men.

ûs on his sons had the following origin. Polyneices placed before his father a silver table which had belonged to Cadmos, and

ibute, which they paid till relieved from it by Heracles. Erginos was father of the celebrated architects Agamedes and Trophon

d two sons, Trophonios and Agamedes ; though some said Apollo was the father of the former. They became distinguished architec

no mythe more difficult than this of the Aloeids. The names of their father and stepmother1725 relate to agriculture, and the

When the cause was tried, Phyleus honestly gave testimony against his father  ; and Augeas in a rage, even before the votes had

, over which Phylas reigned, by whose daughter Astyoche he became the father of Tlepolemos. One day at the table of Œneus, as

ruck the boy and killed him1780. As it was evidently an accident, the father forgave the death of his son ; but Heracles resol

me as the former one. Πανδίων. Pandion. Pandiôn succeeded his father in the kingdom. In his reign Demeter and Dionysos

her sister ; and killing her own son Itys, served his flesh up to his father . The two sisters fled away ; and Tereus, discover

her weakness she threw the babe into the sea to the protection of his father . Poseidôn took him to Æthiopia, and gave him to h

daughter of Erechtheus, married Zuthos the son of Hellên, to whom his father had assigned the Peloponnese. Her sons by him wer

ετος), and Scylla into that named Ciris (κεȋρις 1830 ) ; and that the father continually pursues the daughter to punish her fo

wn to the proper age, his mother led him to the stone under which his father had deposited his sword and shoes, and he removed

them out. He was now to proceed to Athens and present himself to his father . As the roads were infested by robbers, his grand

ss of her influence when Theseus should have been acknowledged by his father , resolved to anticipate that event ; and moved by

to custom drawn by lot to be sent, in spite of the entreaties of his father to the contrary, he voluntarily offered himself a

ship departed as usual under black sails, which Theseus promised his father to change for white in case of his returning vict

aching the coast of Attica Theseus forgot the signal appointed by his father , and returned under the same sails with which he

æos1859 and Ægæôn1860. In fact it was also said that Poseidôn was the father of Theseus, who comes from Trœzên (where Poseidôn

ter Anticleia (who afterwards married Laertes), and thus was the real father of Odysseus1869. Homer calls Sisyphos ‘the most c

y whom he had a daughter named Libya, who bore to Poseidon Agenor the father of Cadmos and Europa, and Belos, who had by anoth

f the Melampodes, and named it from himself. By many wives he was the father of fifty sons. Danaos had by several wives an equ

ng bridegrooms. All but Hypermnestra obeyed the cruel orders of their father  ; and cutting off the heads of their husbands, th

nceus, for the delicate regard which he had shown to her modesty. Her father , at first, in his anger at her disobedience, put

pt the grandson of that city, and the Phœnician god Belos or Baal the father of Danaos and Ægyptos, i. e. the Argives and the

of his kingdom. The demanded fee appeared out of all reason, and the father declined accepting the recovery of his daughters

whose was her son. She replied that he was the offspring of Zeus. Her father gave no credit to her protestations. Inclosing he

d gushed forth, and with it the winged steed Pegasos and Chrysaôr the father of Geryoneus, for Medusa was at the time pregnant

a, happening at that time to celebrate funeral games in honour of his father lately dead, Perseus engaged in them. As he was t

daughter, who was at the time pregnant by Apollo, but unknown to her father . Her labour came on in the country of Epidaurus,

Pelasgos1979 was by the Oceanis Melibœa or the nymph Cyllene the father of Lycaôn king of Arcadia. Lycaôn had many wives,

Lycaôn king of Arcadia. Lycaôn had many wives, by whom he became the father of fifty sons, who were like himself impious and

d its future name of Trapezôs), and struck with lightning the godless father and sons, with the exception of Nyctimos, whom Ea

om Peleus1993. Atalanta was afterwards recognised by her parents. Her father wishing her to marry, she consented, but only on

a son named Perieres, who was, by Gorgophone the daughter of Perseus, father of Tyndareos, Icarios, Aphareus, and Leucippos. A

the two last and Œbalos were the sons of Perieres, and Œbalos was the father of Tyndareos, Icarios, and Hippocoôn1998. Hippoco

kes pursued the slayers, and coming up with them at the tomb of their father Aphareus, was struck by them in the breast with t

Tyro. Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus was, after the death of her father , brought up in Thessaly by his brother Deïôn. She

lmoneus, i. e. Halmoneus (Sea-man), by whose daughter Poseidôn is the father of Neleus, i. e. Nereus, whose sons are Nestôr (F

beautiful maiden was sought by most of the neighbouring princes, her father declared that he would give her only to him who s

ldren. They therefore brought the vulture, who said that Phylacos the father of Iphiclos had pursued him with a knife when he

ian of god-built Delos,’ to grant him public honour. The voice of his father replied, directing him to follow ; and unseen, he

Protogeneia (First-born), the daughter of Deucaliôn ; and he was the father of Pæôn, Epeios and Ætolos. He proposed the succe

e joined in the body ; their mother's name is Mill (μύλη mola), their father is the Breaker (ἄγω, ἄγνυμι), the son of Feeder (

aid to be the son of Zeus by the nymph Pluto (Wealth), and he was the father of Pelops and of Niobe the wife of Amphiôn. His r

of Pelops, carried him off in his golden car to Olympos. But when his father had drawn on himself the indignation of the gods,

jealousy killed their half-brother Chrysippos, were banished by their father , and at the same time, it is added, he pronounced

us’ son Pleisthenes, whom he had brought up as his own, to murder his father . Atreus taking the youth to be the son of Thyeste

us killed the two sons of Thyestes and served their flesh up to their father  ; and while Thyestes was eating he caused the hea

marriage. Thesprotos gave her to him. She was already pregnant by her father , and shortly after her marriage brought forth a s

ecame the sister of Cadmos. It probably originated in the name of her father  ; and as the legend very appropriately made Agenô

him to thread the mazes of the Labyrinth. She fled with him from her father  ; but Theseus, says Homer, did not reap the fruit

to a jar of honey, and was smothered. When he could not be found, his father sent to inquire of the oracle about him. The answ

a son named Æacos, who being weary of solitude, when he grew up, his father to relieve him turned all the ants in the island

by Pluto committed to his custody2116. Telamôn, when banished by his father , fled to the neighbouring isle of Salamis, where

to be the son of Poseidôn by Euryale the daughter of Minyas ; and his father gave him the power of wading through the depths o

childless : his vow was binding : and yet he was desirous of being a father . The gods took the hide of his only ox, which he

ooing, seized a favourable opportunity, and offered her violence. Her father , incensed at this conduct, having made Oriôn drun

and Lacedæmôn), Halcyone and Celæno (who bore to Poseidôn Hyrieus the father of Oriôn and Lycos), Sterope (the mother of Œnoma

that way, not even The fluttering pigeons which the ambrosia bear To father Zeus, but always the smooth rock Takes one away,

d at this neglect, murdered their husbands. Hypsipyle alone saved her father , whom she kept concealed. This event had occurred

of Dardanos. Jealous of her stepchildren, Idæa maligned them to their father , who, believing the slander, deprived them of sig

hom her country-women had sold when they found that she had saved her father , and who was now nurse to the infant child of Lyc

ing that his mother had taken a bribe against himself, as well as his father , consulted Apollo, and by his advice put her to d

s servant betraying his secret, the sons of Phegeus by order of their father lay in wait for and slew him. Arsinoe on upbraidi

er sons by Alcmæôn might at once attain to manly age, to avenge their father . Her prayer was granted, and they hastened to ven

. The Trojan War. Zeus was, by Electra the daughter of Atlas, the father of two sons, Iasiôn and Dardanos. The former was

a son named Capys, who was by Themis the daughter of his brother Ilos father of Anchises, to whom Aphrodite bore a son, Æneias

he had a son named Bucoliôn2198. Priamos reigned over Ilion after his father . He married Hecabe (Hecuba), the daughter of Dyma

h, adding that it would not cease till the maiden was restored to her father . Agamemnôn expressed his willingness to give her

illeus arises ; the assembly breaks up ; Chryseïs is sent back to her father , and the heralds of the king take Briseïs away fr

d by the court of Areiopagos. He took possession of the throne of his father , and married Hermione the daughter of Menelaos, b

oteus met Menelaos wandering alone, and informed him how to catch her father , and learn from him what he was to do. Menelaos f

d unwittingly slain, took Penelope and Telemachos and the body of his father with him to his mother's isle. Circe there made t

r but from reason, both because he was before man, and because like a father he gives life, health and food.” To this we may a

yed in the south of Europe. Sancho Panza is in Don Quixote called the father of proverbs (padre de los refranes). 25. Ol. xi.

to supplicate. See Welcker, Tril. 549. note. Müller, Eumen. 144 ; the father given him by Æschylus, Antiôn (ἀντιάω to entreat)

. Argonaut. 168. seq. It was probably from this circumstance that the father of Cæneus is named Elatos ; his own name (from κα

thos may be ζάω or ζέω. We have elsewhere (above, p. 61.) the Sun the father of the Moon, and on the hypothesis of night prece

eq. 1705. According to Pausanias, the son of Chryse was Chryses the father of Minyas ; but the authors followed by the schol

e amorous advances of his step-mother Soodâbeh, accused by her to his father  ; but the gallant youth clears himself by going t

bly caused by the resemblance between Danae and Daunia. Daunus is the father of Turnus. 1937. See p. 253. 1938. Hesiod, Shie

Apollod. iii. 8. 2. Asios said that Nycteus, i. e. Nyctimos, was her father  ; Pherecydes said Keteus. Apollod. ut sup. Sch. E

4.) we should have said, “The circumstance of a son thus slain by his father , etc.” for the subject of the Euryalos of Sophocl

its quiet state. Thaumas represents the majesty of the sea. He is the father of Iris* (the rainbow) and of the Harpies (storm-

said to be the sire of Astræus*, Pallas, and Perses. Astræus was the father of the Winds and Stars. Pallas and Styx* (the oce

r mother, who thereupon prompted the Titans to conspire against their father , and induced Chronos, the youngest and bravest of

rise up against his authority, and thus verify the prediction of his father , Uranus. In order, therefore, to render the proph

isdom and intelligence. Grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light

ic. Chronos was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. Zeus, with his brother

warnings, or to punish the transgressions of men. Zeus is called the “ father of gods and men;” his power over both is represen

urprised by Jupiter in the form of a satyr. Dreading the anger of her father , she fled to Sicyon*, where she married Epopeus*.

lops Polyphemus* was son of Poseidon and Thoosa*. The sea-god was the father of two giant sons called Otus* and Ephialtes*. Wh

other, Clytemnestra*, and Ægisthus*, in revenge for the murder of his father , Agamemnon*, wandered for a long time about the e

d carried off the maiden. All this occurred with the knowledge of her father , Zeus, who had, unknown to Demeter, promised Pers

d from the purchaser in the form of some animal, and returning to her father was sold again. Even this means not sufficing, Er

d acted as their invisible protector. The Romans regarded Mars as the father of Romulus*, and the founder and protector of the

se. There the images of the household gods were placed, and there the father , who was the priest of the family, offered sacrif

of the river-god Peneus. Daphne fled from Apollo, and calling to her father for aid, she was transformed into a laurel-bush.

time when Zeus resolved to destroy mankind by a flood. Warned by his father , he built an ark, into which he and his wife reti

oracle, and was told to shun his native country, or he would slay his father and marry his mother. Œdipus resolved never to re

, he said: “Thou art the murderer of the old king, Laius, who was thy father , and thou art wedded to his widow, thine own moth

s) is the child of the darkness (Laius), and he is doomed to slay his father . He is also the child of the dawn (Jocasta), whos

er . The Theban Wars. Eteocles* and Polynices* succeeded their father in the government, agreeing to reign alternately

to Alcmæon, son of Amphiaraus, but, remembering the injunction of his father , he hesitated to accept the position before execu

ollo, to know how he should punish his mother for her cupidity to his father and himself, and he was directed to put her to de

ant sons might grow at once to manhood, and avenge the death of their father . Her prayer was granted. The youths met and slew

that Acrisius would lose his life by the hand of a son of Danae, her father imprisoned her in a brazen tower. Zeus visited he

o set fire to it. No one had the courage to obey him until Pœas*, the father of Philoctetes*, happened to pass by and rendered

victims to expire. Theseus slew him. On reaching Athens he found his father Ægeus married to the enchantress Medea*. By her i

himself as one of the victims, notwithstanding the entreaties of his father , Ægeus. The ship departed under black sails, as u

. The ship departed under black sails, as usual. Theseus promised his father to change them for white in case of his returning

the coast of Attica, Theseus, forgetting the signal appointed by his father , neglected to raise the white sails. Ægeus, who w

d was drowned. The sea was named for him Ægean. Theseus succeeded his father as king of Athens. He united the twelve towns of

works of art, but afterwards, having lost the favor of the king, both father and son were imprisoned. They contrived to escape

o burn their vessel. Becoming aware of the treacherous designs of her father , Medea, in the darkness of the night, went on boa

whom she had taken with her, and scattered his limbs in the sea. Her father stopped to collect the remains of his unfortunate

power of making the old young again, she directed them to slay their father , cut him in pieces, and boil the limbs in a cauld

where he built the town named Ilion, from himself, and Troy from his father . He prayed to Zeus to bestow upon him some sign o

Telemachus to be laid before the plough, and the manner in which the father hastened to remove the child convinced every one

would alone appease the incensed goddess. For a long time the unhappy father refused to listen to all arguments, but at length

e Ethiopians, and came with his warriors to assist the kindred of his father . King Priam received him with great honors. The d

ousing the ambition of the youth, he resigned to him the armor of his father , and conveyed him to the Greek camp. He immediate

had died of grief at her son’s protracted absence, and that his aged father , Laertes*, was wearing his life away in anxious l

ad returned from the Trojan expedition, hoping to gain tidings of his father . That Odysseus might be able to take vengeance on

llowing morning Telemachus returned from his fruitless search for his father . He went first to Eumæus to learn something of th

ht he must be more than mortal; but Odysseus announced himself as his father , and explained that Athene had changed his appear

en threw Telemachus His arms around his father’s neck and wept.” The father and son took counsel together, and it was arrange

, in obedience to Odysseus, Telemachus had removed them. He, with his father and Eumæus, slew the suitors. The joyful intellig

wife. The next morning Odysseus went into the country to see his aged father Laertes. While he was absent, Eupithes*, the fath

y to see his aged father Laertes. While he was absent, Eupithes*, the father of one of the slain suitors, incited the people t

the Trojans. On the night of the destruction of Troy, Æneas, with his father , wife, and young son Ascanius* or Iulus*, escaped

returned to Sicily, where he celebrated funeral games in honor of his father , who had been dead exactly a year. He left with A

a dream to seek the abode of the dead, that he might confer with his father Anchises, and receive from him a revelation of hi

ies to whom its temples were dedicated. The triads often consisted of father , mother, and son; but sometimes of two gods and a

an image of which was placed over the heart of every mummy. Pthah was father of Ra, the sun-god. Ra was, in the mystic sense,

the hairs of Vishnu, and Krishna produced Rudra*, the destroyer, the father of the tempest-gods. Savitar is a name for the s

y described as the great serpent that encircles the earth, and as the father of Hela, the queen of the regions below the earth

f Odin, is the hero of this story. He was born after the death of his father , and became the foster-child of Regin (the smith

called the Great Hare, he was always referred to as a man, the mighty father or elder brother of the race.” Perrot . Someti

rders of the great ocean, whence the sun comes. In time he became the father of mankind, and special guardian of the Iroquois.

hey made men merry and mischievous and clever and happy. The king and father of the gods of the sky was Jupiter. It was he who

Bryant’s complete works. Proserpina. Jupiter was called the father of the gods, but he was not the father of them al

. Jupiter was called the father of the gods, but he was not the father of them all. He had a brother, Neptune, who ruled

shone with happiness and power. At the head of the table sat Jupiter, father of gods and of men. His face was thoughtful and c

efore her, she saw the glint of water. It was the river Peneüs. “O my father ,” she cried, “help me! Save me from him I hate. C

lymene noticed how her son was grieving, and said to him, “Go to your father . See whether he is ashamed of you. He will prove

is head. His courage, however, did not fail. He stood waiting for his father to speak. “What is it that you wish, my son?” ask

lew back to Andromeda, and the two went together to the palace of her father , Cepheus. There all was in a state of deepest mou

heroic thoughts. All this time Æthra told him never a word about his father . Theseus did not know even that his father was li

him never a word about his father. Theseus did not know even that his father was living. But when he was sixteen years old, Æt

als and the shining sword. Then Æthra told him the whole story of his father and these hidden things. “Take the sandals and th

“Take the sandals and the sword,” she said, “and go to Athens to your father , King Ægeus, for the time has come when I must lo

gan good days. Theseus lived happily in the palace with the king, his father . He was always active, ridding the country of mon

g; indeed she could not take her eyes from his fair, noble face. “Oh, father ,” she said, “will you destroy one who is so princ

ot of Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks. But upon a certain day the father of the maiden came to the Grecian camp, bringing

priest made known how Agamemnon had offended Apollo by insulting the father of Chryseis. Agamemnon, like a good king, at once

ts also he gave to the hero, and together they sacrificed to Jupiter, father of gods and of men. Thus the strife came to an en

t of all, and would not go in, but stood and waited for Achilles. His father , King Priam, besought him in vain, for Hector sai

, say that it was Ulysses, son of Laertes, that punished you so.” “My father , Neptune, the god of ocean, will make you pay for

n, Telemachus, will perish, too. He has gone to Pylos for news of his father , and even now the suitors are lying in wait to ki

act together.” Next morning Telemachus set out for the palace, as his father commanded. The suitors were beside themselves wit

e that he was vulnerable only in his heel. Acris΄ius. King of Argos; father of Danaë; 126. Adme΄tus. King of Thessaly; was s

back at the hands of Hercules, 109. Æ΄geus (e΄juse). King of Athens; father of Theseus; 146. Æne΄as, Brother-in-law of Hecto

ave Theseus the clue to the labyrinth, 161; condemned to death by her father , she left Crete with Theseus, 166. Later traditio

army before Troy; became the slave of Agamemnon, 183; restored to her father to stay the wrath of Apollo, 185. Cico΄nians (La

len was then taken back to Sparta, 211. He΄lios. The god of the sun; father of Phaëton, 112; owner of cattle slain by Ulysses

hich the Minotaur was confined, 160. Laer΄tes (la-er΄teez). Ulysses’ father , 224, for whom Penelope was weaving a robe, 237.

over Ulysses, 237. Mi΄nos. King of Crete; oppressor of Athens, 156; father of Ariadne, 158. Min΄otaur. A monster, half-bull

led by the Greeks Poseidon. Brother of Jupiter, 14; god of ocean, 66; father of the Cyclops Polyphemus, 224. Ne΄reids (ne΄re-

sea-nymphs, 87,168. Ne΄reus (ne΄ruse). “The old man of the sea,” 87; father of Thetis, the mother of Achilles. Nes΄tor. King

nscribed “For the Fairest,” 170. Pe΄lias (pe΄li-as). King of Iolcus; father of Alcestis, 98. Penel΄ope (pe-nel΄o-pe). Wife o

by the stratagem of the robe for Laertes, 87. Pexe΄us. A river god; father of Daphne, 58. Perseph΄one (per-sef΄o-ne), 36. (

See Cyclops). Posei ΄ don, 169. See Neptune). Pri΄am. King or Troy; father of Hector and Cassandra; slain at the taking of T

, 147; slew Procrustes, 151; reached Athens and was recognized by his father , 154; went to Crete on the black ship, 158; aided

. A kingdom of Greece, ruled by Admetus, 97, and later by Peleus, the father of Achilles, 170. The΄tis. A sea-nymph; wife of

tradition that Danaë and her infant son were confined by order of her father Acrisius in a chest and set adrift on the sea. Th

gends, and genealogies of Greece lived about 600 b.c. Herodotus, the “ father of history” (484 b.c.), embalms various myths in

the earth. These lightning-eyed, these hundred-handed monsters, their father Uranus feared and attempted to destroy, by thrust

re is a story which attributes the making of man to Prometheus, whose father Iapetus had, with Cronus, opposed the sovereignty

ess of justice, beside Jupiter on his throne. She was’ beloved of the father of gods and men, and bore him the Hours, goddesse

tified with Phosphor. He was king of the Western Land, and, say some, father of the Hesperides, who guarded the golden apples

Pontus (the deep sea, or the water-way), who became, by Mother Earth, father of Nereus. This Nereus, a genial old man of the s

the sea, but later as a mountain. He was the son of Iapetus, and the father of three classes of nymphs, — the Pleiads, the Hy

Semele, Ægina, and Antiope. § 59. Io 111 was of divine ancestry. Her father was the river-god Inachus, son of Oceanus. It is

voice was a bellow. She yearned in vain to make herself known to her father . At length, she bethought herself of writing, and

The adventures of Europa’s brother Cadmus, who by the command of his father went forth in quest of the lost maiden, fall unde

raised my eyes to Heaven. ‘O Jupiter,’ I said, if thou art indeed my father , give me back my people, or take me also away!’ A

abor. Observing their numbers with admiration, I said, ‘ Give me, oh, father , citizens as numerous as these, and replenish my

— When Europa was carried away by Jupiter in the guise of a bull, her father Agenor commanded his son Cadmus to go in search o

and. The youth replied, “Oh, light of the boundless world, Phœbus, my father — if thou dost yield me that name—give me some pr

of, I beseech thee, by which I may be known as thine!” He ceased. His father , laying aside the beams that shone around his hea

sked to be permitted for one day to drive the chariot of the sun. The father repented of his promise, and tried to dissuade th

hdrew, marshalled by the Daystar, which last of all retired also. The father , when he saw the earth beginning to glow, and the

s the steeds full fed with ambrosia, and attached the reins. Then the father , smearing the face of his son with a powerful ung

declined to restore his captive, Chryseis of the fair cheeks, to her father Chryses, the priest of far-darting Apollo. Then t

ltitude. Nor until Agamemnon had sent back his winsome captive to her father did Apollo remove from the Danaans the loathsome

ing of Phrygia, who had been received at the table of the gods by his father , Jupiter. But there was a strain of ingratitude a

r, Jupiter. But there was a strain of ingratitude and conceit in both father and daughter. The father not only betrayed the se

a strain of ingratitude and conceit in both father and daughter. The father not only betrayed the secrets of the gods, but, t

tory of Linus, a beautiful son of Apollo and Psamathe. In fear of her father the king, Psamathe exposed the child on the mount

s and in the spoils of the chase. Spurning all lovers, she prayed her father that she might remain always unmarried, like Dian

for love I pursue thee. I am no clown, no rude peasant. Jupiter is my father . I am lord of Delphi and Tenedos. I know all thin

. Her strength begins to fail, and, ready to sink, she calls upon her father , the river-god: “Help me, Peneüs! open the earth

nt, Orion attempted to gain possession of the maiden by violence. Her father , incensed at this conduct, made Orion drunk, depr

e across the heavens; but with dawn he sinks toward the waters of his father Neptune. In the beginning of summer, he may be se

ffection of Venus for Mars and of her relations with Anchises,175 the father of Æneas, mention is elsewhere made. The followin

she hesitated, the spectators grew impatient for the contest, and her father prompted her to prepare. Then Hippomenes addresse

To her who ratifies the nuptial vow.” She would have wept to see her father weep; But some God pitied her, and purple wings (

y than Orpheus, son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. Presented by his father with a lyre and taught to play upon it, he became

, Neptune displayed milder characteristics. When Amymone, sent by her father Danaüs to draw water, was pursued by a satyr, Nep

of whom it was reported that none could win her save by worsting the father in a chariot race, and that none might fail in th

hen, resuming her own appearance, she was again and again sold by her father ; while by Neptune’s favor she became on each occa

egained her home. Finally, increasing demands of hunger compelled the father to devour his own limbs; and in due time he finis

ylla, daughter of King Nisus of Megara. Scylla of Megara betrayed her father to his enemy, Minos II. of Crete, with whom, alth

ty, into a bird continually the prey of the sea-eagle, whose form her father Nisus had assumed. § 129. Leucothea. 248 — Anothe

phus, king of Egypt, from whom were descended (1) Agenor of Phœnicia, father of Europa and Cadmus, and (2) Belus of Egypt, fat

nor of Phœnicia, father of Europa and Cadmus, and (2) Belus of Egypt, father of Ægyptus and Danaüs. To the family of Agenor we

If thou holdest in honor illustrious descent, I claim Jupiter for my father ; if mighty deeds, I plead the conquest of the Gor

rd upon the water, and the monster appeared. The virgin shrieked; the father and mother, who had now arrived, poured forth lam

ext chapter, but that they follow so closely on those of Perseus. His father , Glaucus, king of Corinth, is frequently identifi

g to Thebes, the hero aided his half-brother Iphicles and his reputed father Amphitryon in throwing off the yoke of the city o

us adventures, arrived at Mount Atlas, in Africa. Since Atlas was the father of the Hesperides, Hercules thought he might thro

lion. — Athamas, brother of Sisyphus, was descended from Æolus, whose father , Hellen, was the son of Deucalion of Thessaly. At

to the vessel. It is said that, in order to delay the pursuit of her father Æetes, Medea tore to pieces her young brother Abs

completed. At Jason’s request, she undertook next to restore his aged father Æson to the vigor of youth. To the full moon she

s heritage. But the daughters of Pelias wished Medea to restore their father also to youth. Medea simulated consent, but prepa

his sleep, the old man cried out, “My daughters, would you kill your father ?” Whereat their hearts failed them and the weapon

t-drawn chariot and fled to Athens. There she married King Ægeus, the father of Theseus; and we shall meet her again when we c

onster. Theseus and his friend Pirithoüs,310 Jason,311 Peleus,312 the father of Achilles, Telamon,313 the father of Ajax, Nest

hoüs,310 Jason,311 Peleus,312 the father of Achilles, Telamon,313 the father of Ajax, Nestor,314 then a youth, but who in his

us, the sisters killed Itylus, and served up the child as food to the father ; but the gods, in indignation, transformed Procne

eus, king of Athens. By Æthra, granddaughter of Pelops, he became the father of the Attic hero, Theseus. Ægeus, on parting fro

The lad Theseus was brought up at Troezen, of which Pittheus, Æthra’s father , was king. When Æthra thought the time had come,

o poison the youth; but the sword which he wore discovered him to his father , and prevented the fatal draught. Medea fled to A

die in the attempt. He, therefore, in spite of the entreaties of his father , presented himself as champion of Athens and of h

th the victims in a vessel bearing black sails, which he promised his father to change for white in the event of his returning

s he had cherished, Hiding away all trace of the solemn behest of his father . For, as was said before, Ægeus, on the departur

veloped mountain, So from Theseus passed all prayer and behest of his father . Waited the sire meanwhile, looked out from his t

of Theseus. Theseus, then, as he paced that gloom of the home of his father , Insolent Theseus knew himself what manner of evi

on of Theseus, a youth endowed with all the graces and virtues of his father , and of an age corresponding to her own, loved hi

ored to life; and then removed by Diana from the power of his deluded father , was placed in Italy under the protection of the

, learning from an oracle that he was destined to be the death of his father , left the realm of his reputed sire, Polybus. It

He, ignorant of his parentage, had already become, the slayer of his father ; in marrying the queen he became the husband of h

und them, thus he spake: “My children, on this day ye cease to have A father . All my days are spent and gone; And ye no more s

Peleus 343 was the son of Æacus and grandson of Jove. It was for his father Æacus, king of Phthia in Thessaly, that, as we ha

e Titan, that Thetis should bear a son who should be greater than his father , the Olympian desisted from his suit, and decreed

marks of his ancient punishment on the rocks of Caucasus. Finally the father of the gods himself came, with his holy spouse an

ry him, placed the infant Telemachus before the plough, whereupon the father turning the plough aside, showed that his insanit

was united in marriage with the noble Andromache, and as husband and father his character was not less admirable than as warr

in that sad place, Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears; My father held his hand upon his face; I, blinded by my tea

nto the town Hector stood without determined to await the combat. His father called to him from the walls, begging him to reti

oyed so many of his sons. “Think, O Achilles,” he said, “of thine own father , full of days like me, and trembling on the gloom

estimable ransom with me. Achilles! reverence the gods! recollect thy father ! for his sake show compassion to me!” These word

se words moved Achilles, and he wept; remembering by turns his absent father and his lost friend. Moved with pity of Priam’s s

ir bodies and breathing their pestilential breath in their faces. The father , attempting to rescue them, is next seized and in

he son of Achilles, rushed in wounded, and expired at the feet of his father ; whereupon Priam, overcome with indignation, hurl

n splendor; and when Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, in search of his father , arrived at Sparta, he found them celebrating the

uding to her wedding day, but finding other reasons equally good. Her father readily assented, and ordered the grooms to furni

im why at the mention of Troy his sorrows awaked. Had he lost there a father , or brother, or any dear friend? Ulysses replied

preparation of a robe for the funeral canopy of Lærtes, her husband’s father . She pledged herself to make her choice among the

Telemachus, his son, had, for some time, been absent in quest of his father , visiting the courts of the other kings, who had

ght he must be more than mortal. But Ulysses announced himself as his father , and accounted for the change of appearance, by e

ed. On both; soft murmurs uttering, each indulged His grief.378 The father and son took counsel together how they should get

w. Telemachus had hard work to restrain his indignation at seeing his father so treated in his own hall; but, remembering his

esult, Aeneas made his escape from the scene of destruction, with his father , and his wife, and young son. The father, Anchise

ene of destruction, with his father, and his wife, and young son. The father , Anchises, was too old to walk with the speed req

ollection of Æneas that Polydore was a young prince of Troy, whom his father had sent with ample treasures to the neighboring

ter of Belus, king of Tyre, and sister of Pygmalion who succeeded his father on the throne. Her husband was Sichæus, a man of

in a dream to seek the abode of the dead in order to confer with his father Anchises to receive from him a revelation of his

they would commit no violence, that Æneas’ only object was to see his father , and finally exhibited the golden branch, at sigh

for thee, as I have watched thy ‘ course!” To which Æneas replied, “O father ! thy image was always before me to guide and guar

ys before me to guide and guard me.” Then he endeavored to enfold his father in his embrace, but his arms enclosed only an uns

dwell on Lethe’s bank, and drink oblivion of their former lives.”“O, father !” said Æneas, “is it possible that any can be so

wishes of her parents. But Latinus had been warned in a dream by his father Faunus, that the destined husband of Lavinia shou

her feet. Camilla’s history had been singular from the beginning. Her father , Metabus, driven from his city by civil discord,

h me? And shall I let thee go into such danger alone? Not so my brave father brought me up, nor so have I planned for myself w

from whom and his wife, a daughter of the giant race, sprang Bor, the father of Odin, Vili, and Ve. They slew the giant Ymir,

eets, And the gods trembled on their golden beds Hearing the wrathful father * coming home — For dread, for like a whirlwind Od

em in that hour? If strength might save them, could not Odin save, My father , and his pride, the warrior Thor, Vidar the silen

Rerir were to compare with Volsung, who ruled over Hunland after his father Rerir went home to Odin. To Volsung were born ten

cued. He, driven to the life of an outlaw, sought means to avenge his father , and Signy, on her part, strove to aid him, — wit

ggeir, and burned him in his hall. Signy, having helped to avenge her father , died with her husband. Sigmund, thereupon, becam

r Regin told that the gods, Odin, Loki, and Hœnir, wandering near his father Rod mar’s house, Loki slew one of Rodmar’s sons,

Odin’s Sleipnir, he avenged upon the sons of Hunding the death of his father . This done, Sigurd rode to Glistenheath and slew

yrie, — who long time had lain in that enchanted sleep that Odin, her father , had poured over her, dooming her to mortal awake

her third husband. Swanhild, “fairest of all women, eager-eyed as her father , so that few durst look under the brows of her,”

d Dyaus pitar, in the Greek Zeu pater, in Latin Jupiter — all meaning father of light. — Max Müller, Sci. Relig. 171, 172. Ora

term, meaning the well-intentioned. Hecate was descended through her father Perses from the Titans, Creüs and Eurybie; throug

Athene, “the virgin of the azure eyes, Equal in strength, and as her father wise” ( Hesiod, Theog.). On Latona, see §§ 37, 72

the World: Neptune. Crete: where Jupiter had been concealed from his father Cronus, and nourished by the goat Amalthea. Inte

s, the older divinity of the sun, who is ordinarily reputed to be the father of Phaëthon (ordinarily anglicized Phaëton). The

with the young sun, and strengthens the theory according to which his father Tithonus is the gray glimmer of the morning heave

as either a son, or an adopted son, of Pandion II. By Æthra he became father of Theseus, in whose veins flowed, therefore, the

he death of Corythus, the son of Œnone and Paris, at the hands of his father , who was jealous of Helen’s tenderness toward the

s, has given us the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of his father . Among other places which he visited, following o

175, 178, 269; Com. §§ 59, 158, genealogy. Age of Gold, 43. Age′nor ( father of Cadmus), 114, 223, 224; genealogy, Com. §§ 59,

s Mar’ tius, Com. § 36. Cap′aneus 217, 274. Cap′itoline Hill. Ca′pys, father of Anchises, Com. § 165 (5). Ca′ria, 149. Came′a,

n of Posidon: sprang with Pegasus from head of Medusa; by Callirrhoë, father of Geryones and Echidna. Chryse′ïs, 126, 290; Com

a; Like Osiris (see below) he is the sun of the underworld. Seb: the father of the Osirian gods. He is the god of earth and i

Osiris and Isis, who, as the strong young sun of the day, avenges his father , the sun of the underworld. He is Horus the child

d. He is Horus the child, Horus the elder (as taking the place of his father on earth), or sometimes Horus Harpocrates, the go

er of moral, darkness and evil. He is the opponent of his brother, or father , Osiris. Represented as a monster with ass’s body

thology with the following; Glau′cus of Corinth, son of Sisyphus, and father of Bellerophon, 231. Glau′cus, grandson of Beller

achus, son of Oceanus, ancestor of the Argive and Pelasgic races, 50; father of Io, 92, 93, 224, 255, 267; Com. §§ 59, 132 (1)

§ 56. See p. 526. Jarnvid, 385. Ja′sius, Ja′sus, Ia′sius, Ia′sus: the father of Atalanta the Arcadian. Ja′son, 27, 223; myth o

is mistress, his favorite animals, and abode, 58; Roman divinity, 88; father of Harmonia, 98; myths of M., 112-117; M. and Dio

us, 2. Me-nœ′ceus, 274; Com. §§ 158-164. Me-nœ′tius, son of Actor and father of Patroclus; an Argonaut, Com. § 165 (4). Men′to

ith Minerva, 109; N. and Iphimedia, 120, 124; and Laomedon, 136, 189; father of Orion, 146; myths of, 189-191; N. and Andromed

stences, and learned the virtuous life; see under Buddha. Ni′sus, (1) father of Scylla, 219 (2); friend of Euryalus, 360-362.

1, 250. Œnom′aüs, 190. Œno′ne, 4, 304, 305; Com. § 169. Œno′pion; the father of Merope; a king of Chios, see Orion. Œ′te, Moun

hios, see Orion. Œ′te, Mount, 124, 241; Com. §§ 75,139-143. O′ï-cles, father of Amphiaraüs; grandfather of Alcmæon. Olympian r

sus, 45; his secret, 45; quotations from Byron and Longfellow, 45-48; father of Atlas, 87, 223, 241, 277, 279; Com. §§ 22-25.

23. Than′atos, Mors; see Death. Tharge′lia, Com. § 38. Thau′mas, the father of Iris, Com. §§ 52-54, table C. The′a, 38. Thea

ideal love, Com. § 40; cf. M. Arnold, Urania. U′ranus (Ouranos), the father of Cronus, 38, 39, 41; see under Heaven. Urdur, 3

293. Milton. 294. See § 169. According to Sophocles, Philoctetes’ father Pœas applied the torch. 295. See the spirited po

s of the Tritons. In the highest heaven is seated Jupiter, master and father of men and gods. Under his feet roll the thunders

im. Jupiter, however, again proved conqueror, chasing from heaven his father and his king, who took refuge in that part of Ita

ol of eternity, which has neither a beginning nor an end. He slew his father , because, the world and time once created, he cou

she placed Beneath his beard, and one his knees embraced: ‘If e’er, O father of the Gods!’ she said, ‘My words could please th

ed the form of a bull, he mingled with the herds belonging to Agenor, father of Europa, while the latter, with her female atte

llo and Diana. Weary of her confinement, and wishing to return to her father Cœus, she arrived near his dominions, where, fati

us of his amours with Leucothoe, discovered the whole intrigue to her father , who ordered his daughter to be buried alive. Apo

ited the palace of the sun, to beg that Phœbus, if he really were his father , would give him proofs of his paternal tenderness

oath must be complied with. When Phaeton received the reins from his father , he immediately betrayed his ignorance and incapa

her substitute, and on the instant slew himself in her stead. “Great father Bacchus, to my song repair, For clustering grapes

ion of the Gods, becoming one of the most faithful counsellors of her father . She was indeed the only one of all the divinitie

tely in arms at so tender a point, and he slew the insulter. Neptune, father of the slain, cited Mars to appear before the tri

tial powers engage, And gods on gods exert eternal rage. From thee, O father ! all these ills we bear, And thy fell daughter wi

ng to a deity, whom they considered the patron of their city, and the father of the first of their monarchs; a faith to which

ldren of ancient Nereus, and behold Their streaming dance about their father old, Beneath the blue Egean; where he sate, Wedde

nd bore to him Hermaphrodite, a child which united the talents of his father with the graces of his mother; at the age of fift

ld, the nurse, terrified at sight of him, ran away in horror, and his father wrapping him up in the skins of beasts, carried h

s with great solemnity.‌ The Sylvans were the children of the foster father of God Bacchus, who accompanied the latter in all

to heaven he rears And, in distress, for refuge flies to prayers. ‘O father Bacchus, I have sinned,’ he cried, ‘And foolishly

e care they entrusted themselves when going on any voyage. He was the father of the Oceanides to the number of three thousand.

hen the gods were informed that her son would become greater than his father , they ceased their addresses, and Peleus, the son

n of Athamas and Ino. He was saved by his mother from the fury of his father , Athamas, who became inflamed by such a sudden fu

ason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father , son, and brother, first were known, Far be it th

but was slain by Medea, who scattered his limbs upon the path of his father , trusting that Æetes’ paternal affection, would m

hessaly, they were received with unusual festivity; but Æson, Jason’s father was unable to be there, owing to the infirmities

t is my offence? What fatal fury, what infernal charm, ‘Gainst a kind father does his daughter arm?’ Hearing his voice, as thu

roceed Betrayed by zeal to an inhuman deed, And in compassion, make a father bleed. Yes, she who has the kindest, tenderest he

ge when he grew up; as Theseus attempted to make himself known to his father , Medea, who had grown jealous of the glory he had

one of the numerous suitors of Dejanira, who had been promised by her father in marriage to that one who should prove the stro

ssession of the heart of Dejanira, and therefore made war against her father , killing him, with three of his sons, while his f

m to be thrown into the sea, with his mother, Danae. The hopes of the father were frustrated; for the slight bark which carrie

r image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img193 He offered Cepheus, her father , his aid in delivering her from danger, provided

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

stranger at a feast; but the sword at his side saved Theseus, for his father recognised it, and introduced him to the people o

o undertake the expedition; and before his departure, he promised his father , if he should be successful, to hoist a white sai

he height of his success, to hoist the white sail he had promised his father , who, seeing a black sail upon his son’s ship, de

a high rock that beetles o’er the flood, With daily care the pensive father stood; And when he saw impatient from afar? The f

usurper, regained the throne of Athens: and that the memory of their father might not be without honour, sent for his remains

of Theseus by a previous union. Venus, having a dislike to Minos, the father of Phædra, sent Cupid to pierce her with his shaf

hand, But thou, Hippolytus, thou hast my heart.     Hip. Theseus — my father  — ‌    Phæ. Thy father and my husband, what of t

us, thou hast my heart.     Hip. Theseus — my father — ‌    Phæ. Thy father and my husband, what of that? Love knows no ties

y knees adoring thee!     Hip. Madam, I would not, could not wrong my father ; And thou, how canst thou meet his face? Shame, s

t!     Hip. What if I did proclaim to him thy guilt? What if I said —  father ! thy wife, my mother, Hath offered me the love du

_1842_img204     The. “‘Dost thou dare look upon me boy?     Hip. My father ?     The. Dost see this sword?     Hip. Aye!     

y words have pierced her to the soul.     Hip. And dost thou doubt me father ?     The. Perfidious wretch! can’st stand before

thy time were short.’” Racine. Banished thus from the court of his father , the only consolation for a long time that Hippol

had been guilty, and Hippolytus was restored to the affections of his father . The name of Theseus had been rendered by his bra

his wife. Having broken this wise resolution, however, he became the father of Œdipus, but to avert the oracle, he ordered Jo

not to return home, or he must inevitably become the murderer of his father , and the husband of his mother. Insérer image ano

he travelled towards Phocis, he met, in a narrow passage, Laius, his father , in a chariot with his arm bearer. Laius insolent

dreadful one Which had foretold that most unhappy son Should kill his father , and enjoy his mother. Œd. ’Tis well! I thank yo

ty of her anguish, devoted her two sons in the presence of their dead father , to revenge his death. Insérer image anonyme_heat

ing, by its touch, every complaint. He succeeded to the throne of his father , and maintained the war against the King of Troy

ame her husband, Agamemnon marrying Clytemnestra; and Tyndarus, their father , monarch of Sparta, assisted in recovering for th

recovering for them their father’s kingdom. Menelaus succeeded to his father in law’s throne, and became King of Sparta, and P

tter had excited the wrath of Diana, by killing a favourite stag. The father heard the decree with the greatest horror and ind

tion for her sacrifice. In vain did she implore the protection of her father : tears and entreaties were alike unavailing, but

rops.” Æschylus. The tradition of the meeting of Iphigenia with her father in the lower regions, after his death, when the l

d Pallas frowned above, severe. Agamemnon. Daughter! Iphig. Beloved father ! is the blade Again to pierce a bosom now unfit F

l thus far below? do tears Spring in these meadows? Iphig. No, sweet father , no. I could have answered that; why ask the Gods

d, ’Tis worthy of the Gods, and lives for ever. Iphig. What spake my father to the Gods above? Unworthy am I then to join in

did amiss, Say it at once, and let me be unblest; But, O my faultless father ! why should you? And shun so my embraces?        

s away. With piercing shriek his bitter fate she moans, While the sad father answers groans with groans; Tears after tears his

ea, and attacked Laocoon’s two sons, who stood next to the altar. The father immediately attempted to defend them, but the ser

thology_1842_img240 Æneas followed the council of Venus. He awoke his father Anchises, placed the old man on his shoulders, to

the shores the beautiful Nausica, who took him to King Alcinous, her father , from whom he received every hospitality. At the

y Jupiter in the likeness of a bull; this prince being ordered by his father never to return if he was unable to find and brin

spitality by punishing him, but sent him with a letter to Jobates the father of his queen, entreating him to put to death the

e had almost reached her side, when she stretched out her arms to her father , the god of a river along whose banks she was fle

her father, the god of a river along whose banks she was fleeing. “Oh father ,” she cried, “help me! help me! Either let the ea

ch had borne her along so swiftly, were now rooted to the ground. Her father had answered her prayer, and had changed her into

she had a little baby boy, whom she called Perseus. The little boy’s father was far away, and Danaë had no one to take care o

er nymphs, her former companions, did not recognize her; and even her father only patted her neck and plucked some fresh grass

r her. But that was too much for the poor girl, — not to have her own father know her! She could not speak to him, but with he

foot she traced her story in the sand. When he read the sad tale, her father wept aloud, and, throwing his arms about his daug

ile, Argus faithfully kept watch, and saw all that had passed between father and daughter. He now thought it time to separate

his wife. The girl would have said yes gladly, but she knew that her father had half promised her in marriage to a great rive

trouble by interfering with the king’s household, and Minos made both father and son prisoners on the island. Daedalus grew ve

he sea which was covered with sail boats, when suddenly he said, “Oh, father , the vessels look like great, white-winged birds

just as their sister birds in the sky do.” The child’s words gave the father a sudden happy thought. He would try to make wing

d befall him, gave the signal to start. Slowly, like two great birds, father and son rose into the air. The fishermen and the

n their knees. Over sea and land they went, swiftly and steadily, the father ever turning to see that his son was following in

lus led the way. But after a time he began to feel bold; and when his father was not looking, flew higher and higher, trying t

e began to fall down, down, down. In his fright he cried aloud to his father . Daedalus turned just in time to see his son’s he

low the waves, while the fatal wings floated on the surface. The poor father flew toward the spot where he had seen his son si

Theseus was born, Minos, king of the island of Crete, also became the father of a baby boy. Minos loved his child very much an

ir skill in various games. When the prince of Crete had grown up, his father told him he might take part in the festival, and

e travelers found him there, and brought his body back to the waiting father . When King Minos saw his murdered son, and heard

r that would mean being a traitor, not only to my city, but to my own father .” The girl loved her father dearly, for he was ve

aitor, not only to my city, but to my own father.” The girl loved her father dearly, for he was very kind to her, and would do

. The end of it was, that one night she crept into the room where her father lay sleeping, and quickly cut the lock of purple

rom her in horror. “What!” he cried, “would you risk the life of your father , and do harm to your city, all for love of a stra

o speak to the people in the streets, and, above all, to see her dear father ; but the nearest she ever came to his palace, was

t until the morrow. But in the evening, Medea, who could see that her father suspected her, told Jason he must kill the dragon

reached home. Jason banished his uncle from the kingdom, and set his father back on the throne. Thus he fulfilled his vow, an

t sun in heaven, which sees all things, likewise has but one eye. “My father rules over the blue sea in which you sport. Liste

gods besides that true and only God who is represented to them as the father of all intelligent beings, and the maker of every

y revealed himself were Adam, Noah and Abraham. Patriarch signifies a father . As soon as Adam was created, God imparted to him

erson who first heard it to others still younger than himself. When a father tells his son, My father told me that he planted

to others still younger than himself. When a father tells his son, My father told me that he planted yonder tree, I tell you t

he celestial gods was Jupiter — the supreme divinity of paganism, the father of gods and men. Besides Jupiter, five gods and s

who deposed Saturn, and afterwards ruled the universe instead of his father . Saturn, upon the usurpation of Jupiter, took ref

he supreme god of the heathens, the governor of heaven and earth, the father of gods and men, the lord of the elements, and th

underer, as master of thunder and lightning. When Jupiter deposed his father Saturn, he divided the empire of the universe amo

aphus, a son of Jupiter, one day told Phaeton that Apollo was not his father . The youth, distressed at this, repaired to the g

horses; but Phaeton, notwithstanding, persevered in demanding of his father to grant his request. To keep his word, Apollo in

lyphemus, and while he was asleep extinguished his only eye. Phorcus, father of the Gorgons and of Proteus, and Triton, were s

cave, or to set at liberty at his own will, or at the command of his father . His children were Boreas, the north wind; Auster

na, and, when pursued by Pan, fled for refuge to the river Ladon, her father , who changed her into a reed. Pan observing that

Thebans the tribute of a hundred oxen, because a Theban had slain his father . These public services induced Creon, King of The

nd strangled him. Hercules wished to marry the Princess Iole, but her father Eurytus refused her to him. He then once more los

is attachment to her. After that time, Hercules, remembering that the father of Iole had refused him his daughter, took upon h

ed. Who was Jason? From what place did Jason embark? Who was Jason’s father and his preceptor? What induced Jason to undertak

tic expedition, and sometimes that he was the friend of Hercules. The father of Theseus was Ægeus, King of Athens, and his mot

did not live together, and Æthra bred up her son in the court of her father . The deeds of Hercules were reported to Trœzene,

el them. Æthra, during his youth, had never informed Theseus that his father was King of Athens, but when he was grown to be a

my son,” said Æthra, addressing herself to Theseus, “belonged to your father , who is Ægeus, King of Athens; whenever you shall

and. Before this wicked project was executed, Theseus appeared to his father with the sword which Æthra had given him. Ægeus k

seus’ vessels was black, and that when he left Athens he promised his father , should he return successful, that he would displ

d at Athens? What enemies did Theseus meet at Athens, and how did his father learn who he was? How did Theseus treat the Palla

nus, and she pronounced a curse upon the descendants of Labducus, the father of Laius. Laius was married to Jocasta, and an or

Œdipus, that he must not go home, for if he did, he would murder his father , and marry his mother. Œdipus did not know what t

mple of female excellence. Her constant attendance upon her afflicted father , her heroic love for her brother, and her strong

finally defeated. Did the sons of Œdipus peaceably succeed to their father ? Who took, the part of Polynices; and what was th

Icarus mounted too high, fell into the sea, and was drowned, but his father was more fortunate, getting safe into Sicily, whe

nally discovered that he was her brother, and introduced him to their father as his son. Priam forgot the disastrous prophecy,

fice, and when she learned that she was the victim, she entreated her father to save her life; but a fatal superstition harden

emachus, the son of Ulysses, went to Sparta to inquire concerning his father , he found Menelaus and Helen living in much luxur

of Proteus, appeared to Menelaus, and counselled him to apply to her father for instruction how to reconcile the offended dei

’s sea-herds, laid them in the sands, and instructed them to take her father by surprise, and hold him till he should declare

son of Lærtes, and the husband of Penelope. When Ulysses married, his father went into rural retirement, and left his kingdom

error at the thought of encountering so invincible a warrior; and his father , mother and friends, entreated him to avoid Achil

ames, Eneas escaped with his life, taking upon his shoulders his aged father , Anchises, and in one hand his household gods, wh

ng son, Ascanius. Creusa, the wife of Eneas, followed her husband and father , but she was unhappily lost in the crowd. Accordi

at Delos, the Strophades, Crete, and Sicily. In Sicily, he buried his father ; hence he would have continued his course to Ital

g man gained a victory at the Olympic games, and so overjoyed was the father by his son’s success, that he expired in embracin

r was a bad man; he is remembered as a skilful politician, not as the father of his people, or for his virtuous example. Peria

called Lidskialf, or the trembling gate. He was called the universal father ; the father of battles; because he adopted as his

kialf, or the trembling gate. He was called the universal father; the father of battles; because he adopted as his children al

a, daughter of the giant Thiasse; who preferring the mountains of her father to the humid palace of her husband, prevailed wit

her of the first nor of the second class? Was Jupiter superior to his father , Saturn, in rank? What god did the Greeks deem th

was worshipped by the ancients as the god of time. He was styled the father of the gods. Birthright secured the succession of

r them, and restored them to liberty. But before Jupiter released his father , he had usurped the kingdom; and, fearing that Sa

— See Fig. 3. Fig. 3. Saturn. Obs. 1. It is probable that, as the father of agriculture, Saturn is represented in the figu

such exposure, or how it was that she came to be acknowledged by her father . Cybele was so called from the name of the mounta

ry over his enemies, if he would set at liberty those Titans whom his father had shut up in Tartarus, and if he could engage t

lso Asteria, of a bull to convey Europa, &c. In a word he was the father of almost all the gods and nymphs, committing inc

hipped as the Supreme God of the Heathens, and was represented as the father of gods and men, shaking heaven with his nod, and

as the best and the greatest of beings; Diespiter, because he was the father of light; Dodonæus, because Dodona, a city in Epi

all Olympus to the centre shook.” Homer. “Then spake th’ almighty father as he sat Enthron’d in gold; and clos’d the great

though the youngest, supplanted Titan his elder brother, and put his father to a violent death. In process of time, Saturn ha

dethroned by his son Jupiter was treated by him as he had treated his father . After a glorious reign, he died in Crete, where

Jupiter.” Eris, his son, succeeded. Obs. 2. — Jupiter’s throwing his father down into the infernal regions, may be thus accou

he goddess of youth, was cupbearer to the gods. Having displeased her father Jupiter, she was removed from the office, and Gan

rly in the morning, they prepare the chariot and the horses for their father , and open the gates of heaven. Ethes, Pasiphæ, an

ypt, was educated in Nisa, a city of Arabia Felix, to which place his father Ammon had sent him. They recognized in the Bacchu

nos, because she was a perpetual virgin; Tritonia, either because her father brought her forth three months after his head had

and surnamed Ares; and the fifth, the Mars of the Latins, the reputed father of Romulus and Remus. The Gauls called their Mars

aving offered violence to Alcippe, the daughter of Mars, the offended father slew him. For this, Neptune summoned him to appea

ed life. In Homer and Virgil, we find Jupiter addressing Venus as his father , which is illustrated by the different views give

arts, was the son of Jupiter and Juno, or some say, of Juno without a father . He resided in heaven for a considerable time, bu

rcury, son of Maia, and grandson of Atlas, reigned after Jupiter, his father , in a part of Italy and Gaul. The qualities of hi

ead in the book of Destiny that she would have a son greater than his father , he gave her for a wife to Peleus, who was father

on greater than his father, he gave her for a wife to Peleus, who was father to Achilles. Questions. Who was Oceanus? To whom

ig. 31. Neptune. Triton was the son of Neptune, and trumpeter to his father . He could calm the ocean and abate storms at plea

od, was the son of Pontus and Terra: but some say, of Neptune. He was father to the Gorgons, of whom we shall speak. Thoosa, h

ll, And heav’n would fly before the driving soul. In fear of this the father of the gods Confined their fury to these dark abo

hed? Chapter VI. Silenus, Midas, Sylvanus. Silenus, the foster father , guardian, preceptor, and perpetual companion of

. All his subjects being swept away by a pestilence, he begged of his father that he would re-people his kingdom. In answer to

from the blood of the slain. Some say, that Typhœus or Typhon, had no father , and that Juno was his mother. He had a collar of

rder of Pelops. The Danaides were fifty sisters, so called from their father Danaus: and named also Belides, from their grandf

ypermnestra, whose husband Lynceus, escaped. She was cited before her father ; but the people, satisfied of her innocence, inte

expired. Œdipus was the son of Laius, king of Thebes by Jocasta. His father was informed by an oracle that he should one day

len. When arrived at manhood, he did not acknowledge the king for his father , but resolved to inquire after his parents. In co

n consulting the oracle of Delphi, he was told that he would meet his father in Phocis. On his way thither, he met Laius and h

bearer, riding in a chariot in a narrow road; but he did not know his father . Laius commanded Œdipus to give way to him: an af

In process of time, he found, by clear proof, that he had killed his father , and married his mother: upon which he became so

tant attendant, prevented him. Eteocles and Polynices succeeded their father in the government, and agreed alternately to reig

of the house which had been inhabited by the Roman woman who fed her father in prison. The Athenians erected altars to Miseri

ished splendid adventures in imitation of Hercules, his relative. His father employed him in delivering his country from the s

had destroyed the Minotaur. He forgot the promise he had made to his father at the moment of his departure. The ship of the p

change his black sails into white ones if he returned victorious. His father descried from a beacon, the ship, which he found

altar on which that tyrant had been wont to immolate strangers to his father Neptune. He killed the giants Albion and Bergeon,

he son of Æson, king of Thessaly, by Alcimede, was an infant when his father died, and his uncle Pelias took upon himself the

ea slew him, and scattered his limbs in the way, in order to keep her father employed in gathering them up. Thus Jason and his

dest, Ganymede, was taken away by Jupiter; the second, Assaracus, was father to Capys, and grandfather to Anchises; and the th

pys, and grandfather to Anchises; and the third, Ilius, succeeded his father , and gave the name of Ilion to a citadel which he

of Ilion to a citadel which he built at Troy. Laomedon succeeded his father Ilius. He built the walls of that citadel, in whi

sione, whom he had delivered from the monster to which Ladomedon, her father , had exposed her by order of the oracle, gave her

ooner had the Grecians set the city on fire, than Æneas took his aged father Anchises on his shoulder, with his son Ascanius c

tellations, because they immoderately bewailed the hard fate of their father Atlas. So were the Hyades, because they incessant

Mercury or Hermes. Chronos or Saturn, having married Rhea, became the father of Osiris and Isis, or, according to some, of Jup

ng to some, of Jupiter and Juno. According to others, Jupiter was the father of five other deities: Osiris, Isis, Typhon, Apol

as represented as the star of day and the regulator of time. When his father was vanquished by a usurper, Horus, in conjunctio

elligent beings, which began to move on the earth and in the sea. The father of mankind was called Protogone, and the first wo

iously unknown to the Scandinavians. It is also probable that he, his father , or the author of this religion, whoever he was,

Icelandic mythology, show us Odin as the terrible and severe god, the father of carnage, the depopulator, the incendiary, the

e divinity, which took pleasure in shedding the blood of men, was the father and creator of them. God, says the Edda , sees

y of Mercury.) The French call it Mercredi. Odin was called Alfadur, ( father of all,) because the gods were descended from him

scended from him and his wife Frigga, or Walfadur, because he was the father of all who fell in battle. He had upwards of one

the family of Bor, from the name of the first of that family, who was father to Odin. The sons of Bor killed the giant Ymer, a

ntonius, is worthy of attention, viz. ‘There is one God, the king and father of all things, and many gods sons of God, ruling

shment of Lycaon. Ques. Who was Jupiter? Ans. He was the king and father of gods and men. He is generally represented as a

ps, or Rhea, in hell. Jupiter conquered the Titans, and delivered his father and mother. He afterwards took up arms against Sa

ed by the beauty of the young princess, and carried her off. When her father grieved at her loss, the courtiers, and perhaps t

story of Cadmus. Ans. Cadmus, the son of Agenor, was ordered by his father to go in search of his sister Europa, with the fu

search proved fruitless, and Cadmus, not daring to appear before his father , went to consult the oracle of Apollo as to what

n pronounced Venus the fairest. He was soon after acknowledged by his father , King Priam; and Venus fulfilled her engagement b

Troy was besieged, Memnon came with an army to aid the kindred of his father . In the first engagements he slew Antilochus [Ant

e son of Cœlum and Terra. He was married to Ops, or Rhea, and was the father of Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. As we have already

[Erigo′ne], a maiden who hung herself in despair, at the death of her father , was changed into the constellation Virgo. Ques.

of Saturn and Ops, and was worshipped as the god of the sea, and the father of rivers and fountains. Ques. How is he represe

that Thetis would give birth to a son who should be greater than his father . Jupiter thereupon desisted from his suit, and Th

she conferred an additional favor by restoring his aged and decrepit father to the vigor and beauty of youth. Jason was ungra

. What was Medea’s revenge? Ans. She murdered, in the sight of their father , the two children whom she had borne to Jason, an

ship departed as usual under black sails, which Theseus promised his father to change for white, in case of his returning vic

us guilty on his return to Athens? Ans. He forgot his promise to his father with regard to the color of his sails, and Ægeus,

mselves in order, as he played. Amphion married Niobe, and became the father of seven sons and as many daughters, who were all

stor and Pollux, Theseus and his friend Pirithous, Peleus, afterwards father of Achilles, Telamon, father of Ajax, Nestor, the

his friend Pirithous, Peleus, afterwards father of Achilles, Telamon, father of Ajax, Nestor, then a youth, and many others of

r treachery by making her his queen, she cut the fatal lock while her father slept. Minos received the gift with horror, and,

ugitive elsewhere. She then resumed her own form, and returned to her father , who was well pleased to find that he had still b

ear 70, B. C. He received a liberal education, and inherited from his father a considerable estate. Of this he was deprived du

y at an early age, but was dissuaded from cultivating this art by his father , who wished him to apply exclusively to the study

of Ulysses, to be laid before the plough, and the manner in which the father hastened to remove the child, convinced every one

the son of Ulysses, had been absent for a long time in search of his father . He had visited the courts of the other kings who

the goddess contrived that he should arrive on the same day with his father , and meet him in the hut of Eumæus. After mutual

much difficulty in dissembling his feelings when the suitors made his father a subject of mockery; and one of them carried his

rged by messages from his sister Electra, to avenge the murder of his father , and her counsels were confirmed by the responses

arrior and a patriot; he was equally admirable as a son, husband, and father ; and his character is perhaps the noblest which h

was the son of Laius [La′ius], king of Thebes. He was exposed by his father immediately on his birth, to avoid the fulfillmen

ring that if he returned thither, he would become the murderer of his father , and be guilty of crimes which would draw upon hi

tead of returning to that city, proceeded to Thebes. Here he slew his father Laius in an accidental encounter, and, after his

[Antig′one], the daughter of Œdipus, had, meanwhile, accompanied her father in his exile, and watched over him with touching

yads until he had attained his fifth year, when he was brought to his father . Anchises was not on friendly terms with the fami

ome time in Sicily, where he celebrated funeral games in honor of his father , who had died there the preceding year. He left w

vatar was when Vishnu assumed the form of a fish, and saved Manu, the father of the human race, from a universal deluge. Ques

eep a god arose, who married a daughter of the giants, and became the father of three sons, Odin, Vili and Ve. These slew the

Has Odin any other name? Ans. He was sometimes called Alfâdur, (All father ,) but this name is occasionally used in a way tha

ed to the adoration of the heavenly bodies. The Sun was adored as the father of the world, the source of light and life. The M

he attends in his rising and setting. The Sun was honored also as the father of the royal Inca race; and, connected with this

battles of Marathon, Salamis and Platæa. Æschylus has been called the father of Grecian tragedy, as he was the first to give r

tan. But, taking the government into his own hands, he drove away his father Saturn, who sought refuge in Italy, with Janus, k

of this God? Jupiter having been saved from the devouring fury of his father Saturn, by the address of Rhea his mother, as has

od of the infernal Regions. What was the real history of Jupiter? His father , Saturn, who reigned over a very large empire, be

risoned him; Jupiter leaving Crete, defeated them, re-established his father , and returned victorious. Saturn, again growing j

and from gaining great reputation in his youth. Afterwards Pater, or father , was added to it; whence was formed Joupater and

aeton. Aurora, every morning, opens the gates of heaven, precedes her father , and announces his return. She petitioned the God

rove that he was really the child of the Sun, Phaeton demanded of his father , to drive the chariot of light for one day. The S

ome cheerful and gay, and others morose and dull. Dionysius, from his father Jupiter; or, from the nymphs called Nysæ, by whom

rch light. Euvyhe, an expression signifying well done, son! which his father Jove frequently addressed to him during the war o

ated at Nysa, a city in Arabia Felix; whither he had been sent by his father , Jupiter Ammon. From them it appears that the Bac

an beings who were so unfortunate as to fall into his hands; Phorcus, father of the terrible Gorgons; Proteus, and Triton. Po

cave, or to set at liberty, at his own will, or at the command of his father . Who were his children? Boreas, the north wind; A

na, and, when pursued by Pan, fled for refuge to the river Ladon, her father , who changed her into a reed. Pan, observing that

s, fifty in number, who, all but one, at the command of their inhuman father , in one night killed their husbands, the sons of

elisks, as emblems of the solar rays, were dedicated to him. When his father was vanquished by Typhon, aided by Isis his mothe

s called Lidskialf, or the trembling gate. He is called the universal father ; the father of battles; because he adopts, as his

skialf, or the trembling gate. He is called the universal father; the father of battles; because he adopts, as his children, a

a, daughter of the giant Thiasse; who preferring the mountains of her father , to the humid palace of her husband, prevailed wi

inventor of sails 113 Dagon, a god of the Philistines 218 Dǎnǎŭs, the father of the Danaide 108 Dēlŏs, a name of Apollo 37 Dēl

chĕsĭs, one of the Parcæ 103 Lachsmee, a Hindû goddess 133 Lādon, the father of Syrinx 90 Lama, Grand 126 Lares, household god