ccording to some mythologists, were the beautiful Isles of the Blest, where mortals who had led virtuous lives, and had thus

the sight of the gods, were transported without tasting of death, and where they enjoyed an eternity of bliss. These islands

eyond all expression, Gæa swore revenge, and descended into Tartarus, where she urged the Titans to conspire against their fa

rfluous. In haste, therefore, he released the Cyclopes from Tartarus, where they had languished so long, stipulating that in

e obliged to yield. Some of them were hurled into Tartarus once more, where they were carefully secured by Neptune, Jupiter s

scene of this mighty conflict was supposed to have been in Thessaly, where the country bears the imprint of some great natur

eary at last of bloodshed and strife, withdrew to Italy, or Hesperia, where he founded a prosperous kingdom, and reigned in p

ived for his portion the sceptre of Tartarus and all the Lower World, where no beam of sunlight was ever allowed to find its

e. With this purpose in view, he assembled the gods on Mount Olympus, where , in solemn council, they decided to create woman;

another in their ineffectual efforts to escape, closed over the homes where they might have been so happy, and drowned their

d Jupiter, moreover, changed their humble abode into a superb temple, where they could offer daily sacrifices on his altars.

eldest son to go on alone. Cadmus wandered on till he came to Delphi, where he consulted the oracle; but, to his great dismay

t dismay, the only reply he received was, “Follow the cow, and settle where she rests.” The Delphic Sibyl. Michael Angel

n Libya — were world-renowned. He also had a famous temple at Dodona, where an oak-tree gave forth mysterious prophecies, whi

ng of gods; this long-lost shrine has recently been discovered. “Oh, where , Dodona! is thine aged grove, Prophetic fount, an

pity for all they had suffered, he transferred them both to the sky, where they are still known as the constellations of the

ebrated with great pomp. Less important feasts were held in each city where a temple was dedicated to her. On one of these oc

sions an old priestess was very anxious to go to the temple at Argos, where she had ministered to the goddess for many years,

he conclusion of the services the ex-priestess went into the portico, where her sons had thrown themselves down to rest after

them while asleep to the Elysian Fields, the place of endless bliss, where such as they enjoyed eternal life. Chapter IV

tead. Not long after her birth, Cecrops, a Phœnician, came to Greece, where he founded a beautiful city in the province since

have fallen from heaven, was carried in procession through the city, where the people hailed its appearance with joyful crie

re by Juno’s unrelenting hatred, Latona finally came to the seashore, where she stretched out imploring hands to Neptune, who

rpose, Jupiter interfered, and, to punish him, banished him to earth, where he entered the service of Admetus, King of Thessa

uches it, vanishes, leaving nothing but verdure in the self-same spot where but a moment before it sparkled in all its purity

c failed to make life endurable, and Orpheus wandered off to Olympus, where he so piteously implored Jupiter to restore his w

The magic sounds penetrated even into the remote depths of Tartarus, where the condemned shades suspended their toil for a m

other wife by the name of Dirce, these youths hastened off to Thebes, where they found the state of affairs even worse than r

be moved, quickly laid hands upon him, and hurled him into the water, where he fell upon the broad back of a dolphin, who bor

gods placed Arion’s harp, together with the dolphin, in the heavens, where they form a constellation. The Story of Phaeto

o the worship of Apollo were at Delos, his birthplace, and at Delphi, where a priestess called Pythia gave out mysterious ora

Apollo’s shafts, and that they now lay cold and stiff in the forest, where they had eagerly hastened a few hours before, to

an eternal sleep to fall upon him, and bore him off to Mount Latmus, where she concealed him in a cave held sacred to her, a

suit, Diana and her followers came to one of the still mountain pools where they had often resorted to enjoy a plunge. The co

a great blue wave; and they carried her down into their coral caves, where they tenderly nursed her, and taught her with the

ith that purpose in view, carried her up to the surface of the sea, —  where Tritons, Oceanides, and Nereides all crowded arou

ared to lead the soul of the departed down into the Infernal Regions, where it was welcomed by Proserpina, queen of the realm

was welcomed by Proserpina, queen of the realm, and led to the place where pure and virtuous mortals enjoyed an eternity of

the contrary, made it more and more unendurable, she went to Olympus, where she fell at Jupiter’s feet, imploring him to rele

temple, ministering to the goddess, or in a lonely tower by the sea, where she dwelt alone with her aged nurse. “Honey-swee

city Sestus, and even passed over the Hellespont and reached Abydus, where Leander, the bravest and handsomest youth of the

anger, she bade him depart; but he refused to go until he had learned where she lived, and proposed to swim across the Helles

m, longed for him, and, as soon as the sun had set, sped to the bower where the birds were sleepily trilling forth their even

ed not remain alone in the palace, but hastened out into the gardens, where she soon lost consciousness of her misery in a de

uring river; but the god of the stream caught and carried her ashore, where his daughters, the water nymphs, restored her to

h of food. He had not gone very far, before he came to a wide meadow, where Apollo’s herds were at pasture. The oxen were fat

me in useless search and conjecture, but strode off to Mount Cyllene, where he found Mercury peacefully sleeping in his cradl

ded innocence, until Apollo, exasperated, dragged him off to Olympus, where he was convicted of the theft, and condemned to r

and taking the further precaution of spreading a cloud over the spot where he generally met her, to shield her from all chan

ce called Ionian. After swimming across it, she took refuge in Egypt, where Jupiter restored her to all her girlish lovelines

Egypt, where Jupiter restored her to all her girlish loveliness, and where her son Epaphus was born, to be the first king an

noted for its fierce storms and war-loving people.     “Infant Mars, where Thracia’s mountains rose, Press’d with his hardy

a wider sphere for their youthful activity, and, leaving the mountain where they had grown up, journeyed out into the world t

eir fortunes. After some time they came to a beautiful hilly country, where they decided to found a great city, the capital o

n to return to Olympus, and withdrew to the solitudes of Mount /Etna, where he established a great forge in the heart of the

changed her into a sheep, and conveyed her to the Island of Crumissa, where he assumed the guise of a ram, and in this metamo

ed at these good tidings, that he transferred the dolphin to the sky, where he forms a well-known constellation. Neptune and

not overtake the fleeing pair, and in his anger plunged into a river, where he was drowned, and which from him received the n

ugh which shadowy spirits glided incessantly, led to the throne room, where Pluto and Proserpina sat in state, clad in their

he gods, incensed by the Danaides’ heartlessness, sent them to Hades, where they were compelled to fill the bottomless cask.

, which was seized by the King of Troy, Pelops took refuge in Greece, where he ruled the extensive peninsula, the Peloponnesu

. To punish the inhuman Tantalus, the gods then sent him to Tartarus, where he stood up to his chin in a stream of pure water

eceived the gods. His reprehensible conduct was punished in Tartarus, where he was condemned to roll a huge stone to the top

, which offence seemed so unpardonable, that he sent him to Tartarus, where he was bound to a constantly revolving wheel of f

tals how fondly he had loved her; he brought her spirit up to heaven, where he raised her to the rank of a deity. ‘“Died?’ —

petual state of intoxication as they went with him from land to land, where he taught the people the cultivation of the vine

at they lost all presence of mind, and jumped overboard into the sea, where they were drowned and changed into dolphins. On a

e air. It rose higher and higher, until the gods fixed it in the sky, where it still forms a brilliant constellation, known a

the Greater and Lesser Dionysia, the Liberalia, and the Bacchanalia, where the wildest merrymaking and licence were freely i

hastened off to the Island of Sicily, her favourite place of resort, where she wandered about all day long, attended by a me

d all had refused the honour, and declined to accompany him to a land where the sun never shone, the birds never sang, and th

abduct her. Straight through the bushes he strode, direct to the spot where she was seated. The noise of crackling branches a

and thither the mother wandered, calling her daughter, and wondering where she could be, and why she did not come bounding t

ted limbs. She soon found one, the Alpheus River, and selected a spot where the trees hung over the limpid waters, where the

ver, and selected a spot where the trees hung over the limpid waters, where the sand on the bottom was fine and even, and whe

he limpid waters, where the sand on the bottom was fine and even, and where no mortal eyes could see her as she threw aside h

eus, who was still hovering near there, suddenly beholding a fountain where none had ever existed before, surmised what had h

ntain now subsided again into its usual undertone; and Ceres, knowing where to seek her daughter, was about to depart, when s

nd now from their fountains         In Edna’s mountains Down one vale where the morning basks,         Like friends once part

The Return of Proserpina Now, although poor Ceres had ascertained where to find her missing daughter, her grief was not a

l temples were dedicated to Ceres and Proserpina in Greece and Italy, where yearly festivals, the Thesmophoria and the Cereal

d wide until he finally reached the court of Lyncus, King of Scythia, where the false monarch would have treacherously slain

ice was ended, they were at liberty either to continue in the temple, where they were treated with the greatest respect, or t

ollo; and, although born in Thessaly, he early in life came to Italy, where he founded a city on the Tiber, to which he gave

d with black plumes, and on an ebon sted: Black was the covering too, where lay the god, And slept supine, his limbs display’

the earth, were the Æolian Islands, now known as the Lipari Islands, where Æolus, god of the storm and winds, governed a ver

d at his command, however reluctant, returned to their gloomy prison, where they expended their impotent rage in trying to sh

vertaken, and borne away to the inaccessible regions of snow and ice, where he detained her, and made her his wife. She becam

tingly committed. In his grief he withdrew to the mountain solitudes, where he would probably have lingered all the remainder

his first task, Hercules was told to repair to the marshes of Lerna, where lurked a seven-headed serpent, the Hydra; and put

t in reward for his good offices the gods transferred him to the sky, where he is known as the constellation Sagittarius.

xth task. The Steeds of Diomedes He then hastened on to Thrace, where Diomedes, the king, kept some fine coursers, whic

ay home with this marvellous herd, Hercules paused on Mount Aventine, where , during the night, the loathsome giant Cacus stol

n obedience to this advice, Hercules went to the Caucasian Mountains, where , on the brink of a mighty precipice, he found Pro

d Hercules to his brother Atlas, telling him he would be sure to know where the apples could be found. Hercules wended his wa

w where the apples could be found. Hercules wended his way to Africa, where Atlas dwelt, and on his way passed through the la

las listened attentively to all Hercules had to say, declared he knew where the apples could be found, and promised to get th

n his sleep, plucked the apples, and returned unmolested to the place where he had left Hercules. But his steps became slower

of habit, become a necessity: so the hero first journeyed to Olympia, where he instituted games to be celebrated every fifth

ed from place to place, doing good, and came to the house of Admetus, where he was surprised to find all the court in mournin

se for complaint. Finally duty took him back to the court of Eurytus, where he beheld Iole, whom he had seen and loved in the

foot, and flung him from the heights of Mount Œta down into the sea, where he perished. “And Lichas from the top of Œta thr

lost in death. High Olympus gives harmonious greeting     To the hall where reigns his sire adored; Youth’s bright goddess, w

n top of her brazen tower, her eyes wistfully turned toward the city, where girls of her age enjoyed freedom, and were allowe

to a golden shower, and gently dropped down on the turret beside her, where his presence and spirited conversation soon won t

ossing, the cask was finally washed ashore on the Island of Seriphus, where Polydectes, the king kindly received mother and c

a girl, had been considered very handsome indeed. Her home, in a land where the sun never shone, was very distasteful to her,

d in turn, and who were the only living beings cognisant of the place where Medusa dwelt. Invisible by virtue of his magic he

and as he flew, Medusa’s blood trickled down on the hot African sand, where it gave birth to a race of poisonous reptiles des

f Andromeda Thence Perseus flew on until he reached the sea-shore, where a strange sight greeted him. Away down on the “ro

ith this gift, the goddess set it in the centre of her terrible Ægis, where it retained all its petrifying power, and served

red Medusa; and Acrisius, now old and weak, was taken from the prison where he languished, and restored to his wonted honours

eign, the gods, who had always loved him, placed him among the stars, where he can still be seen, with his wife Andromeda, an

ut a very young man, Ægeus, King of Athens, journeyed off to Trœzene, where he fell in love with and married a beautiful youn

he rock, take the sword and sandals, and come and join him in Athens, where he should be introduced to the people as his son

which his father’s trusty weapon lay; and, conducting him to the spot where it was, she told him the whole story, and bade hi

tinued his journey in peace, until he came to the Isthmus of Corinth, where two adventures awaited him. The first was with a

s foot, kick him over the side, and hurl him down into the sea below, where a huge tortoise was ever waiting with gaping jaws

again, for Theseus kicked him over the precipice, into the breakers, where the tortoise feasted upon his remains with as kee

pretext of entertainment, deluded travellers into entering his home, where he had two beds of very different dimensions, — o

few more exploits of a similar character, and finally reached Athens, where he found that his fame had preceded him. The firs

o the frame, Dædalus bade Icarus don his plumage and fly to a country where they would be free, promising to follow him thith

ht feathers, sank down faster and faster, until he fell into the sea, where he was drowned, and which, in memory of him, bear

t of the palace, and, under cover of the darkness, entered the prison where Theseus was confined. There she tremblingly offer

and then boldly penetrated into the intricate ways of the labyrinth, where many whitening bones plainly revealed the fate of

urv’d labyrinth his steps convey’d.” Catullus. Arrived at the place where his ship rode at anchor, he found his companions

ant such a blow, that he lost his balance and fell into the deep sea, where he was drowned, and where thermal springs still b

ost his balance and fell into the deep sea, where he was drowned, and where thermal springs still bear witness to the heat of

riadne strayed apart, and threw herself down upon the ground to rest, where , before she was aware of it, sleep overtook her.

, embarked with them and set sail, leaving her alone upon the island, where Bacchus soon came to console her for the loss of

and in his grief cast himself into the sea, since known as the Ægean, where he perished. “As from a mountain’s snowy top are

is woes. He therefore made an excursion into the land of the Amazons, where Hercules had preceded him, and whence he brought

, in return for Pirithous’ kind offices, he accompanied him to Hades, where they intended to carry off Proserpina. While they

unpleasant position, and thus enabled him to return to his own home, where he now expected to spend the remainder of his lif

til at last they hated him, and banished him to the Island of Scyros, where , in obedience to a secret order, Lycomedes, the k

rt. Theseus’ bones were piously brought back, and interred in Athens, where he was long worshipped as a demi-god. Chapter

secure Juno’s assistance, he began by visiting her shrine at Dodona, where the oracle, a Speaking Oak, assured him of the go

hs, with drawn swords, pursued the Harpies to the Strophades Islands, where the birds promised to remain. Jason, sailing on i

ained fast to the bottom of the sea, near the mouth of the Bosphorus, where they remained immovable like any other rocks. The

Elton’s tr.). Accompanied by Medea, Jason next hastened to the tree where the dragon kept guard over his treasure. An opiat

his hideous trunk. Jason then tore the coveted fleece from the branch where it had hung for many a year, and bore it in trium

f recovering his unnatural daughter: so he returned sadly to Colchis, where he buried his son’s remains with due solemnity. M

eary and sorrowful life, and every day he wandered down to the shore, where he sat under the shade of the Argo’s hulk, which

who evinced no sign of fear, and in compassion they carried her home, where they trained her to love the chase. The grand Cal

ud of her skill and of her spoil, had returned to her father’s court, where no other heir having appeared, she was joyfully r

great for their fraternal love, he translated then both to the skies, where they form a bright constellation one of the signs

were held in many places, but specially in Sparta, their birthplace, where they had world renowned wrestling matches. Ch

was Laius, his father, journeying in disguise from Thebes to Delphi, where he wished to consult the oracle. Œdipus then leis

then leisurely pursued his way until he came to the gates of Thebes, where he found the whole city in an uproar, “because th

l By strangers murdered, for so fame reports, By robbers in the place where three ways meet.” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.)

that purpose in view, advanced slowly, sword in hand, along the road where lurked the Sphinx. He soon found the monster; whi

ve it at his sword’s point over the edge of a neighbouring precipice, where it was killed. Œdipus marries his Mother On

er many days of weary wandering, father and daughter reached Colonus, where grew a mighty forest sacred to the avenging deiti

r needed by her unhappy father, slowly wended her way back to Thebes, where she found that the plague had ceased, but that he

one to endure such a slight patiently; and he hastened off to Argos, where he persuaded Adrastus, the king, to give him his

her life; but, when he saw his prayers were vain, he ran to the place where Antigone was confined, sprang into her narrow cel

s grief was, of course, intense; and the horror he felt for the place where the catastrophe had occurred, added to his fear l

hment for his involuntary crime, made him flee to the court of Argos, where he took refuge with Prœtus, the king, who was als

the cool waters of the Hippocrene (a fountain which had bubbled forth where his hoofs first touched the earth), or to visit t

ar Corinth. Bellerophon proceeded, therefore, to the latter fountain, where , after lingering many days in the vain hope of ca

y the gods, defeated these warlike women also, and returned to Lycia, where , after escaping from an ambush posted by the king

rried the child along the banks of a little lake close by the palace, where bloomed a profusion of gay-coloured flowers. “A

f this grotesque little divinity, Mercury carried him off to Olympus, where all the gods turned him into ridicule. Pan was wi

to change his nature; and swimming about comfortably in the element, where he now found himself perfectly at home, he began

y the fair nymph’s side, Paris wandered off to a lonely mountain top, where the three goddesses besought him to judge their q

reescore girls, in sportive flight we stray’d, Like youths anointing, where along the glade The baths of cool Eurotas limpid

ed, and to prevent his going, sent him off to the court of Lycomedes, where , under some pretext, he was prevailed upon to ass

r another returned without having seen him or being able to ascertain where he was hiding. The Greeks, however anxious to dep

b, with a pack upon his shoulders, Ulysses entered Lycomedes’ palace, where he shrewdly suspected Achilles was concealed, and

led to the hymeneal altar, she was dragged to the place of sacrifice, where the priest, with uplifted knife, was about to end

h was duly sacrificed, while Iphigenia was borne in safety to Taurus, where she became a priestess in one of the goddess’s te

d wafted them swiftly and steadily over the sea to the Trojan shores, where an army stood ready to prevent the Greek troops f

ed him away from the battlefield, and bore him unseen to his chamber, where he was joined by Helen, who bitterly reproached h

uestioning the women, heard that his wife had gone to the Scæan Gate, where he now drove as fast as his noble steeds could dr

d demonstrated that his duty called him out upon the field of battle, where he must hold his own if he would not see the city

were driven, inch by inch, away from the walls, ever nearer the place where their vessels rode at anchor. They now ardently l

e wide space which separates the coast of Asia Minor from Mount Ætna, where Vulcan laboured at his forge.            “She fo

on, he consigned them to Thetis, who hastened back to her son’s tent, where she found him still bewailing the loss of Patrocl

nd when the dust-cloud had blown away, the Trojans from the ramparts, where they had waited in agony for the issue of the fig

inious treatment, and finally they saw Achilles drive off to the spot where Patroclus’ funeral pile was laid, and there aband

id, and there abandon the corpse. Achilles then returned to his tent, where for a long time he continued to mourn his friend’

on guided Priam in safety through the Grecian camp to Achilles’ tent, where the aged king fell at the hero’s feet, humbly ple

of finding him alive. They nevertheless wended their way to the cave where they had deposited him, where, to their unbounded

vertheless wended their way to the cave where they had deposited him, where , to their unbounded surprise, they still found hi

ain the image he sought, and accompanied him back to his native land, where Nemesis left him forever. Chapter XXVIII: Adv

assistance. They had moored their vessel under an overhanging cliff, where no one would be likely to find it, and had theref

us The Greeks now sailed on until they reached the Æolian Islands, where dwelt Æolus, king and father of the winds. He had

aves, and only after many days came to the land of the Læstrygonians, where fresh losses awaited them. These people were cann

d Remained to them. Thus sorrowing they were driven Into their cells, where Circe flung to them Acorns of oak and ilex, and t

, let his vessel drift along until its prow grated on a pebbly beach, where he landed. Then, walking straight before him, he

sed with him; but at last he was forced to depart, and return to Ææa, where he lingered to perform the funeral rites for Elpe

ace turrets, and by an inadvertent movement had fallen to the ground, where he had been found dead. The Sirens These ob

t Circe’s isle, and sailed along until they drew near the rocky ledge where the Sirens had their abode. These maidens were wo

on, prepared a loathsome drug, which she bade him pour into the water where Scylla was wont to bathe. Glaucus faithfully did

s again rowed on until they sighted Trinacria, the island of the sun, where Phaetusa and Lampetia watched over the sun god’s

ng for the wind and waves, was washed ashore on the Island of Ogygia, where the fair sea nymph Calypso had taken up her abode

of aught but rest, Ulysses dragged himself into a neighbouring wood, where he fell asleep on a bed of dry leaves. While he w

hand. Nausicaa obeyed, and drove with her maidens down to the shore, where , after their labours were duly finished, they all

estor and Menelaus, and finally in a dream bade him return to Ithaca, where he would find the parent he sought. The young pri

owever, averred that he had gone in search of the Isles of the Blest, where he dwelt in perfect peace, and enjoyed the consta

isembodied spirit, and heard her bid him seek the banks of the Tiber, where a beautiful young bride would comfort him for her

eusa’s ghost vanished, and Æneas sadly returned to the ruined temple, where he found many fugitives ready to follow him where

the shores of Troy. “Weeping I quit the port, the shore, The plains where Ilium stood before, And homeless launch upon the

sting-place. They rowed over the briny deep until they came to Delos, where they stopped to consult the oracle, who bade them

nder their advance. Exhausted, they landed on the Strophades Islands, where they proposed to recruit their strength by a hear

em embark again in great haste, and row on until they came to Epirus, where they again effected a landing. In this country th

by the calm which now reigned supreme, steered for the nearest port, where they anchored their seven vessels, all that now r

mpanied by a number of faithful subjects, landed on the Libyan coast, where she entreated the inhabitants to sell her as much

n all his manly beauty. Dido then led her guests to the banquet-hall, where they recounted their adventures by land and sea,

il the threatening clouds made them take refuge in the Sicanian port, where they celebrated the usual games to commemorate An

e the women, children, and aged men in Sicily, and travel on to Cumæ, where he was to consult the Sibyl, visit the Infernal R

, sent two of her snowy doves to lead the way and alight on the tree, where Æneas readily found the object of his search.

his branch as key, he and the Sibyl boldly entered the Lower Regions, where all the ghastly sights and sounds we have already

. They did not pause, however, until they reached the Elysian Fields, where they found Anchises, gravely considering among th

h of the Tiber, whose course they followed until they reached Latium, where their wanderings were to cease. Latinus, king of

adness. The Fury executed both commands, and Amata fled to the woods, where she concealed her daughter Lavinia, to keep her s

ecame the father of a son named Æneas Silvia, who founded Alba Longa, where his descendants reigned for many a year, and wher

ounded Alba Longa, where his descendants reigned for many a year, and where one of his race, the Vestal Virgin Ilia, after ma

Dahana, the Sanskrit dawn, we find another version of the same story, where the sun, although enamoured with the dawn, causes

death of his beloved Procris “while she lingers in a thicket (a place where the dew’ lingers longest).” This interpretation h

n, Eurydice; and as the light (Eurydice) reappears opposite the place where he disappeared, but is no more seen after the sun

the condensation of vapour, falls from her exalted seat into the sea, where she is lost. The ship Argo “is a symbol of the ea

g her husband’s temporary absence, and bears her off to the far east, where , after struggling for a while to retain possessio

erb to ignite. Vulcan dwells by preference in the heart of volcanoes, where the intense heat keeps the metals in fusion, and

rt from, 237; sailors of, 238 Col′chis. Land in Asia ruled by Æetes, where the golden fleece was kept, 232, 233; return from

kept, 232, 233; return from, 240 Co-lo′nus. Forest sacred to Furies, where Œdipus vanished in a storm, 252 Co-los′sus. Stat

, 14, 22; daughters of, 36, 158, 171; son of, 136 Cru′mis-sa. Island where Neptune carried Theophane; birthplace of the gold

ied Theophane; birthplace of the golden-fleeced ram, 130 Cu′mæ. Cave where the Sybil gave her prophecies, 332 Cu′pid, or Cu

80, 181; Mercury, leader of, 115 Drep′a-nu m. Land visited by Æneas, where Anchises died, 327. Dry′a-des. Plant nymphs, sup

es man’s creation, 14; man’s life given by, 1 5 Er-y-man′thus. Place where Hercules slew the wild boar, 192 Er-y-the′a. Isl

river Oceanus; visited by the gods, 5 Eu-boe′an or Eu-bo′ic Sea. Sea where Hercules cast Lichas, 206 Eu-hem′er-us. Exponent

pedon, 32, 289; significance, 349, 353 Eu-ro′tas. River near Sparta, where Helen bathed, 275 Eu′rus. East wind; son of Æolu

f Jupiter, 28. 2. Goddess of plenty, 202 Fo′rum. Chief place in Rome where public matters were discussed, 119 Furies. The E

y Latinus, 335; Æneas comes to, 333 Lat′mus. Mountain in Asia Minor, where Endymion lies asleep, 77; significance, 352, 357.

ipelago; Vulcan landed there, 122; Philoctetes on, 294 Ler′na. Marsh where the Hydra lay concealed, 191 Le′the. River of fo

6 Light, Same as Æther, 3 Lip′a-ri Islands. Same as Æolian Islands, where Ulysses landed, 184 Little Bear. Areas changed i

f Ægeus, 220, 221; significance, 356 Me′di-a. Country in Asia Minor, where Medea took refuge, 221 Med-i-ter-ra′ne-an. Sea d

la′ni-on. Same as Hippomenes; husband of Atalanta, 243 Mi′lo. Island where statue of Venus was found, 108 Mi-ner′va. Same a

hanatos, god of death, 179-182, 183 Mo-sych′lus. Mountain in Lemnos, where Vulcan fell from heaven, 122 Müller. Authority on

whose summit Hercules builds his funeral pyre, 206 O-gyg′i-a. Island where Calypso detains Ulysses seven years, 316 O-lym′p

362 Phth′ia. Peleus, king of, 278 Pi-re′ne. Fountain near Corinth, where Pegasus drinks, 258 Pi′rates. Bacchus borne off

given to Romulus when deified, 120 R Re-gil′lus. Lake in Italy where occurred the battle in which the Dioscuri were su

hter of, 171; significance, 361 Rhodes. Island in the Mediterranean, where the Colossus stood, 72 Rhœ′cus. Lover of the Ham

er; mother of Bacchus, 147-150; significance, 361 Se-ri′phus. Island where Danae and Perseus were cast ashore, 210, 216 Ser

ho led Æneas down to the Infernal Regions, 332, 333 Si ca′ni-a. Land where Anchises died; visited twice by Æneas, 327. 331

the Trojans to secure the wooden horse, 296, 297 Sip′y-lus. Mountain where stood the statue of Niobe, 7 5 Si′rens. Maidens

ree Gorgon sisters, immortal like Euryale, 210 Stroph′a-des. Islands where the Harpies took refuge when driven from Thrace,

, 73, 143; significance, 353. 354 Tar′ta-rus. Abyss under the earth, where the Titans, &c, were confined, 6, 7, 8, 11, 1

rus, whose prostrate body covered nine acres, 145 Tra-chin′i-a. Land where Hercules died, 188 Tri-na′cri-a. Land visited by

[Frontispice.] [Epigraph.] O, ye delicious fables! where we wave And woods were peopled, and the air, with

the sea. The zephyr wafted her along the waves to the Isle of Cyprus, where she was received and attired by the Seasons, and

the wild, Deep in the unpruned forest, ’midst the roar Of cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled On infant Washington? Has e

, and fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter he fled to Italy, where he reigned during what was called the Golden Age.

remained on a projecting hilltop, and a few, in boats, pulled the oar where they had lately driven the plough. The fishes swi

the temple, deformed as it was with slime, and approached the altar, where no fire burned. There they fell prostrate on the

of gods and men. Jupiter had him chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed on his liver, which was renewed

with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapo

dead;     The vultures, to the conqueror’s banner true,     Who feed where Desolation first has fed,     And whose wings rai

he handsomest youth, and Thisbe the fairest maiden, in all Babylonia, where Semiramis reigned. Their parents occupied adjoini

tunity by turning to Shakspere’s play of the Midsummer Night’s Dream, where it is most amusingly burlesqued. Cephalus and

tigued with hunting, when the sun got high he would seek a shady nook where a cool stream flowed, and, stretched on the grass

ual. Then she stole out after him, and concealed herself in the place where the informer directed her. Cephalus came as he wa

s compliments, and he pursued till she came to the bank of the river, where he overtook her, and she had only time to call fo

Juno took them and put them as ornaments on the tail of her peacock, where they remain to this day. But the vengeance of Jun

have so much reason to complain exalted to the heavens, in that part where the circle is the smallest, in the neighborhood o

His friends and fellow-huntsmen cheered on the dogs, and looked every where for Actæon, calling on him to join the sport. At

rive thence some choice oxen, and there I saw the very pond and marsh where the wonder happened. Near by stood an ancient alt

ance she espied on the bottom of the valley this pond of clear water, where the country people were at work gathering willows

ns of the Bull, in front of the Archer, and near the Lion’s jaws, and where the Scorpion stretches its arms in one direction

o, having resisted as long as he could, Phœbus at last led the way to where stood the lofty chariot. It was of gold, the gift

at last your heart fails you, and you will benefit by my advice, stay where you are in safety, and suffer me to light and war

Babylonian Euphrates and Ganges, Tagus with golden sands, and Cayster where the swans resort. Nile fled away and hid his head

From th’ empyrean headlong to the gulf Of the half-parched Eridanus, where weep Even now the sister trees their amber tears

ithin, and things that lustre have imbibed In the sun’s palace porch, where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway on t

on. At last a humble mansion received them, a small thatched cottage, where Baucis, a pious old dame, and her husband Philemo

ut fire. They were finally subdued and buried alive under Mount Ætna, where they still sometimes struggle to get loose, and s

pen air, under the sunlight and moonlight and falling showers. It was where now stands the city of Eleusis, then the home of

ence she at first set out, and stood by the banks of the River Cyane, where Pluto made himself a passage with his prize to hi

the fold. A cold sweat came over me, my hair flowed down in streams; where my foot stood there was a pool. In short, in less

st, Book IV : —                         “Not that fair field Of Enna where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer fl

ied his net, and proceeded to sort the fishes on the grass. The place where he stood was a beautiful island in the river, a s

e enchantress Circe. Accordingly he repaired to her island — the same where afterwards Ulysses landed, as we shall see in one

beasts, the victims of her art, and proceeded to the coast of Sicily, where Scylla lived. There was a little bay on the shore

out to do the same, when she perceived blood dropping from the places where her sister had broken them off the stem. The plan

to make it strike Hyacinthus. Keats alludes to this in his Endymion, where he describes the lookers-on at the game of quoits

nd Halcyone: Or, The Halcyon Birds. Ceyx was king of Thessaly, where he reigned in peace, without violence or wrong. H

, making no noise with his wings, and soon came to the Hæmonian city, where , laying aside his wings, he assumed the form of C

s. It was now morning. She went to the sea shore, and sought the spot where she last saw him, on his departure. “While he lin

f the funeral pile. By chance the home of Anaxarete was on the street where the procession passed, and the lamentations of th

is invoked by Thomson: — “Bear me, Pomona, to thy citron groves, To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep or

repose and the refreshment of the bath, seated herself in the alcove, where a table immediately presented itself, without any

nished, and she found herself in the open field not far from the city where her sisters dwelt. She repaired thither and told

.” Then she ordered Psyche to be led to the storehouse of her temple, where was laid up a great quantity of wheat, barley, mi

indow of his chamber which happened to be left open, flew to the spot where Psyche lay, and gathering up the sleep from her b

unt,     Where silence sits to listen to the stars; In the deep glade where dwells the brooding dove,     The painted valley,

choes of the voice of Love,     And found his footsteps’ traces every where . “But never more they met since doubts and fears

ow in the field, and should follow her wherever she might wander, and where she stopped, should build a city and call it Theb

t which were invented by the Phœnicians. This is alluded to by Byron, where , addressing the modern Greeks, he says, — “You h

ground did not cool them, but, on the contrary, they heated the spot where they lay. Nor could the physicians help, for the

favorable disposition towards me!’ By chance there grew by the place where I stood an oak with wide-spreading branches, sacr

head. There was a tower on the city walls, which overlooked the plain where Minos and his army were encamped. To this tower S

y neither earth nor sea yield thee a resting-place! Surely, my Crete, where Jove himself was cradled, shall not be polluted w

issus. Echo was a beautiful nymph, fond of the woods and hills, where she devoted herself to woodland sports. She was a

u have         Hid them in some flowery cave,             Tell me but where ,     Sweet queen of parly, daughter of the sphere

ed, and found myself reposed Under a shade on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

d, and he was drowned. The waves bore his body to the European shore, where Hero became aware of his death, and in her despai

the heavens, formed by sunbeams reflected from the shower,8 in which, where the colors meet they seem as one, but at a little

anaë, in the brazen tower in which her father had imprisoned her, but where the god effected his entrance in the form of a go

uncompleted. The goddess was indignant. On the Cynthian mountain top where she dwelt she thus addressed her son and daughter

he towers of the city. Spread out before the gates was a broad plain, where the youth of the city pursued their warlike sport

tiate your hard heart, while I follow to the grave my seven sons. Yet where is your triumph? Bereaved as I am, I am still ric

chest and set adrift on the sea. The chest floated towards Seriphus, where it was found by a fisherman who conveyed the moth

uld behold her without being turned into stone. All around the cavern where she dwelt might be seen the stony figures of men

and sea. As night came on, he reached the western limit of the earth, where the sun goes down. Here he would gladly have rest

on seems to have thought, who alludes to this story in his Penseroso, where he addresses Melancholy as the                 “

s to cause her to be placed in that part of the heaven near the pole, where every night she is half the time held with her he

e joyful parents, with Perseus and Andromeda, repaired to the palace, where a banquet was spread for them, and all was joy an

al of these events.” So saying, he held the Gorgon’s head to the side where Phineus was looking, and in the very form in whic

in his Pegasus in Pound.   Shakspere alludes to Pegasus in Henry IV. where Vernon describes Prince Henry: — “I saw young Ha

ced to keep vigilant guard over them. Their instinct led them to know where buried treasures lay, and they did their best to

eached the kingdom of Colchis, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, where he safely landed the boy Phryxus, who was hospita

est their departure, and made the best of their way back to Thessaly, where they arrived safe, and Jason delivered the fleece

ts. She ascended it, and borne aloft made her way to distant regions, where potent plants grew which she knew how to select f

sed her arts here for a good purpose, but not so in another instance, where she made them the instruments of revenge. Pelias,

to the palace, mounted her serpent-drawn chariot and fled to Athens, where she married King Ægeus, the father of Theseus, an

e found a translation of one of the choruses of the tragedy of Medea, where the poet Euripides has taken advantage of the occ

ioness, and of her lord and master a lion, and yoked them to her car, where they are still to be seen in all representations,

ntries, Hercules reached at length the frontiers of Libya and Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Calpe and Abyla, a

etting the golden apples of the Hesperides, for Hercules did not know where to find them. These were the apples which Juno ha

while the hero slept. That their foot-prints might not serve to show where they had been driven, he dragged them backward by

not happened that in driving the remainder of the herd past the cave where the stolen ones were concealed, those within bega

ly done, hung herself. Hercules, prepared to die, ascended Mount Œta, where he built a funeral pile of trees, gave his bow an

den lost in death. High Olympus gives harmonious greeting To the hall where reigns his sire adored; Youth’s bright goddess, w

us journey by land. His first day’s journey brought him to Epidaurus, where dwelt a man named Periphetes, a son of Vulcan. Th

vercome all the perils of the road, Theseus at length reached Athens, where new dangers awaited him. Medea, the sorceress, wh

r arts, fled once more from deserved punishment, and arrived in Asia, where the country afterwards called Media received its

sailed for Athens. On their way they stopped at the island of Naxos, where Theseus abandoned Ariadne, leaving her asleep.13

ut Pluto seized and set them on an enchanted rock at his palace gate, where they remained till Hercules arrived and liberated

w him. In a later age the Athenian general Cimon discovered the place where his remains were laid, and caused them to be remo

where his remains were laid, and caused them to be removed to Athens, where they were deposited in a temple called the Theseu

henceforth was called by his name. His father cried, “Icarus, Icarus, where are you?” At last he saw the feathers floating on

e land Icaria in memory of his child. Dædalus arrived safe in Sicily, where he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wing

and after the victory a temple was erected in their honor on the spot where they appeared.   Macaulay in his Lays of Ancient

e you going to carry me?’ One of them replied, ‘Fear nothing; tell us where you wish to go and we will take you there.’ ‘Naxo

a war-horse. He penetrated through the wood and reached an open space where the chief scene of the orgies met his eyes. At th

an immortal lover, instead of the mortal one she had lost. The island where Ariadne was left was the favorite island of Bacch

aw just now, with hair dishevelled and in humble garb, standing about where you stand? Tell me truly; so may your luck be goo

yrus was the lover of Flora. Milton alludes to them in Paradise Lost, where he describes Adam waking and contemplating Eve st

                    “— That Nyseian isle, Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call, and Libyan Jo

reless words their law. “And day by day more holy grew     Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew     Their

d with distinguished honor, but suffered the body of Polynices to lie where it fell, forbidding every one on pain of death to

urther, but when she was gone erected a statue to Modesty on the spot where they parted. Ulysses and Penelope had not enjoyed

es gathered up the fragments of his body and buried them at Libethra, where the nightingale is said to sing over his grave mo

Jupiter among the stars. His shade passed a second time to Tartarus, where he sought out his Eurydice and embraced her with

ging mountains,           Beside the falls of fountains,           Or where Hebrus wanders,           Rolling in meanders,   

ood curled like a mountain on either side. He descended to the region where the fountains of the great rivers lie; he saw the

s get away if you hold fast the chains. I will carry you to his cave, where he comes at noon to take his midday repose. Then

spirit’s Song in Comus: —                “Sabrina fair!       Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, transluc

h his twin brother Zethus he was exposed at birth on Mount Cithaeron, where they grew up among the shepherds, not knowing the

his back, and carried him mounted thereon safe to shore. At the spot where he landed, a monument of brass was afterwards ere

adrift on the sea. The chest floated towards the island of Seriphus, where both were rescued by Dictys, a fisherman, and car

sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmos, where she stoops each night, Gilding the mountain with

ng her fatal error with many tears, Diana placed him among the stars, where he appears as a giant, with a girdle, sword, lion

g to decide in so delicate a matter, sent the goddesses to Mount Ida, where the beautiful shepherd Paris was tending his floc

er place, and Iphigenia, enveloped in a cloud, was carried to Tauris, where Diana made her priestess of her temple.   Ten

led his lance at the huge warrior. It was well aimed and struck Ajax, where the belts that bore his sword and shield crossed

e fight. Patroclus and his Myrmidons at once plunged into the contest where it raged hottest; at the sight of which the joyfu

ep, by whom it was transported to Lycia, the native land of Sarpedon, where it received due funeral rites. Thus far Patroclus

eached the ears of his mother, Thetis, far down in the deeps of ocean where she abode, and she hastened to him to inquire the

to himself, “by whose command the people went to this day’s contest, where so many have fallen, seek safety for myself again

reach of his spear, Achilles choosing with his eye a vulnerable part where the armor leaves the neck uncovered, aimed his sp

the guards, and without hinderance he introduced Priam into the tent where Achilles sat, attended by two of his warriors. Th

placing wisdom before valor; whereupon Ajax slew himself. On the spot where his blood sank into the earth a flower sprang up,

wd fled in all directions. The serpents advanced directly to the spot where Laocoon stood with his two sons. They first attac

e fallen from heaven. Accordingly Orestes and Pylades went to Tauris, where the barbarous people were accustomed to sacrifice

m Troy the vessels first made land at Ismarus, city of the Ciconians, where , in a skirmish with the inhabitants, Ulysses lost

the strangers, and growled out to them, demanding who they were, and where from. Ulysses replied most humbly, stating that t

wn escape, they pursued their way till they arrived at the Ææan isle, where Circe dwelt, the daughter of the sun. Landing her

o signs of habitation except in one spot at the centre of the island, where he perceived a palace embowered with trees. He se

r sinuous course pursuing side by side, Strayed all around, and every where appeared Meadows of softest verdure, purpled o’er

tched himself, and heaping the leaves over him, fell asleep. The land where he was thrown was Scheria, the country of the Phæ

sort of heroes,) and their battlements, till they came to the palace, where the goddess, having first given him some informat

ciently observed the scene, he advanced with rapid step into the hall where the chiefs and senators were assembled, pouring l

oud and disclosed him to the assembled chiefs. Advancing to the place where the queen sat, he knelt at her feet and implored

ew of stout rowers selected, and all betook themselves to the palace, where a bounteous repast was provided. After the feast

Minerva appeared to him in the form of a young shepherd, informed him where he was, and told him the state of things at his p

he heroes of the Argonautic expedition, and took refuge in the island where Æneas now found them. When they entered the port

take him off with them as he had no means of sustaining his existence where he was but wild berries and roots, and lived in c

came calm, sought the nearest shore, which was the coast of Carthage, where Æneas was so happy as to find that one by one the

est, Storms of ambition tossing us repressed.” Dido. Carthage, where the exiles had now arrived, was a spot on the coa

s had now arrived, was a spot on the coast of Africa opposite Sicily, where at that time a Tyrian colony under Dido, their qu

by flying.” Palinurus. After touching at the island of Sicily, where Acestes, a prince of Trojan lineage, bore sway, w

the story of Palinurus in Scott’s Marmion, Introduction to Canto I., where the poet, speaking of the recent death of William

drew his doctrines from their most esteemed philosophers. The region where Virgil locates the entrance into this abode is pe

ny on the face of the earth. It is the volcanic region near Vesuvius, where the whole country is cleft with chasms, from whic

the Sibyl restrained him. They then came to the black river Cocytus, where they found the ferryman, Charon, old and squalid,

Pluto; but consoled him by informing him that the people of the shore where his body had been wafted by the waves should be s

ned his companion and resumed his route. They next entered the fields where roam the heroes who have fallen in battle. Here t

an friends, but the Sibyl hurried him away. They next came to a place where the road divided, the one leading to Elysium, the

iddle tract of darkness, and came upon the Elysian fields, the groves where the happy reside. They breathed a freer air, and

about their brows. The Sibyl addressed a group of these, and inquired where Anchises was to be found. They were directed wher

hese, and inquired where Anchises was to be found. They were directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant vall

e directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant valley, where he was contemplating the ranks of his posterity,

the west of the earth, near Ocean, and describes it as a happy land, where there is neither snow, nor cold, nor rain, and al

day they came in sight of the scattered buildings of the infant town, where in after times the proud city of Rome grew, whose

d him the Tarpeian rock, and the rude spot then overgrown with bushes where in after times the Capitol rose in all its magnif

poor Evander, whence they saw the lowing herds roaming over the plain where now the proud and stately Forum stands. They ente

.” When young he travelled extensively, and it is said visited Egypt, where he was instructed by the priests in all their lea

the Persian and Chaldean Magi, and the Brahmins of India. At Crotona, where he finally established himself, his extraordinary

ed from the fetters of the body passes to the habitation of the dead, where it remains till it returns to the world, to dwell

the Merchant of Venice, makes Gratiano allude to the metempsychosis, where he says to Shylock: — “Thou almost mak’st me wav

blessings upon the rest of the world. He conquered the nations every where , but not with weapons, only with music and eloque

icence was also erected there in honor of the god, and at every place where one of his limbs had been found minor temples and

vessel magnificently decorated and conveyed down the Nile to Memphis, where a temple, with two chapels and a court for exerci

l,” etc. Oracles. Oracle was the name used to denote the place where answers were supposed to be given by any of the d

d mystic sentence spoke; etc. Byron alludes to the oracle of Delphi where , speaking of Rousseau, whose writings he conceive

fact that Æolus was the ruler of some islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, where he reigned as a just and pious king, and taught t

he figure is unsurpassed. The effect is completed by the countenance, where on the perfection of youthful godlike beauty ther

up the body of his father and flies with it to the altar of the Sun, where he leaves it to be consumed in flames of fragranc

happening to be in a little room in which they had been washing, and where there was a good fire of oak burning, looked into

ng animal, and in winter retires to some hollow tree or other cavity, where it coils itself up and remains in a torpid state

forever. The time will come when the adherents of Ormuzd shall every where be victorious, and Ahriman and his followers be c

on of their ancestors fled to the deserts of Kerman and to Hindustan, where they still exist under the name of Parsees, a nam

ch ultimately had the effect of entirely abolishing it in the country where it had originated, but to scatter it widely over

esent day, in the several Lamas of Thibet, China, and other countries where Buddhism prevails. In consequence of the victorie

hom he calls Negus. Milton alludes to him in Paradise Lost, Book XI., where , describing Adam’s vision of his descendants in t

hemselves in an immense forest, and searched on all sides for a place where they might pass the night, and at last came to a

had taken overnight for a hall was the giant’s glove, and the chamber where his two companions had sought refuge was the thum

agility. He then arose and went with all who were present to a plain where there was good ground for running on, and calling

I have all along deceived thee by my illusions; first in the forest, where I tied up the wallet with iron wire so that thou

fallen on me, but I slipped aside and thy blows fell on the mountain, where thou wilt find three glens, one of them remarkabl

g his natural shape, cut off the mistletoe, and repaired to the place where the gods were assembled. There he found Hodur sta

ething at Baldur?” “Because I am blind,” answered Hodur, “and see not where Baldur is, and have, moreover, nothing to throw.”

hrowing this twig at him, and I will direct thy arm towards the place where he stands.” Hodur then took the mistletoe, and un

obliged to delay their vengeance out of respect for the sacred place where they were assembled. They gave vent to their grie

emendous leap without touching it. Hermod then rode on to the palace, where he found his brother Baldur occupying the most di

aldur. The gods took up the dead body and bore it to the sea shore where stood Baldur’s ship Hringham, which passed for th

es on Heroes and Hero Worship gives an animated account of the region where the strange stories we have been reading had thei

nic chasms, like the waste, chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire, —  where , of all places, we least looked for literature or

n down. On the seaboard of this wild land is a rim of grassy country, where cattle can subsist, and men by means of them and

fs, whose strength defied The crested Roman in his hour of pride; And where the Druid’s ancient cromlech frowned, And the oak

f light, And baring unto heaven each noble head, Stood in the circle, where none else might tread.” The Druidical system was

rassed at all points on the mainland, retreated to Anglesey and Iona, where for a season they found shelter and continued the

island which still bears the name of “Eilen nam ban,” women’s island, where their husbands seem to have resided with them, ex

ence and purity. After leaving earth, she was placed among the stars, where she became the constellation Virgo — the Virgin.

, who cannot rise to so just and elevated a conception, see multitude where he contemplates unity, and numerous intelligent c

which he tied together, resolving to halt and give battle at the spot where the line he made of them should terminate. These

they at once inferred them to be the same under different names ; but where the legends would not accord, the deities themsel

t potent of monarchs : the chief seat of his dominion had been Crete, where he died and was buried, after having made five pr

and they murdered Hyperiôn, and flung Helios into the river Eridanos, where he was drowned. At the tidings Selena, who loved

ering voyages to Temesa90, (perhaps the place of that name in Italy,) where they exchanged iron for copper. But the great aut

g gods will send Unto the Elysian Plain, and distant bounds Of earth, where dwelleth fair-haired Rhadamanthys : There life is

upper surface as the abode of Jehovah and his holy angels, the place where he had formed his magazines of hail, rain, snow,

……………………… a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth and height, And time and place ar

rent of Mockery. Hesiod places the abode of Night in the West, behind where Atlas supports the heavens171. Night and Day, he

, conveyed him during the night round the northern part of the earth, where his light was only enjoyed by the happy Hyperbore

same poet his palace is evidently situated in the East. Æetes’ city, where swift Helios’ beams Within his golden chamber lie

r of the Greeks, places the pastures of the solar steeds in the West, where they have ambrosia for grass207; and Statius208,

ribes the Sun as loosing his steeds on the margin of the western sea, where the Nereïdes and Seasons take off their harness.

is also in the East that Ovid places the splendid palace of the Sun, where the lucid god sat enthroned, surrounded by the Da

e other places. The chief seat of his worship was the isle of Rhodes, where stood the celebrated Colossus, or statue of brass

; and Pindar315 gives a luxuriant description of this blissful abode, where the departed heroes of Greece dwelt beneath the m

mountain named Olympos as the dwelling of their gods. In the Odyssey, where the deities are of a character far more dignified

it to be no more than the summit of a terrestrial mountain. Olympos, where they say the ever firm Seat of the gods is, by th

eisoa and Hagno, reared the infant deity in a cavern of Mount Lycæon, where there was a place named Cretes, as other spots in

r was closed against them. At length they approached a humble cottage where dwelt an aged man, named Philemôn, with Baucis hi

they reached the summit they turned round to look, and beheld a lake where the town had stood. Their own house remained, and

Athena408. The most famous temple of this god was at Olympia in Elis, where every fourth year the Olympian games were celebra

homage to the sovereign of the gods. His great oracle was at Dodona, where , even in the Pelasgian period, his priests, the S

were numerous. He was also named like the other gods from the places where he was worshiped, ex. gr. Clarios, Cithæronios. T

he worship of the deities who are the subjects of them, in the places where the scenes of the supposed contests are laid451.

e dog of Hades to the realms of day465 ; others that it was in Pylos, where the god was aiding his worshipers against the son

d tranquillity. The idea of its being the abode of the departed good, where in calm islands they dwelt ‘from every ill remote

y Grecian city stood the hearth, on which the sacred fire flamed, and where the offerings were made to Hestia497. In that of

ed into Greece from the East512. Peafowl were first brought to Samos, where they were kept at the temple of Hera ; and gradua

h, as we will now proceed to explain, was represented in those places where Hera was principally worshiped. We have above rel

sixty years. According to Pausanias, there was a wood near Alalcomenæ where grew the finest oaks in Bœotia, to which the Plat

car taking its place by lot, and ascended to the summit of Cithærôn, where an altar of wood stood ready prepared ; a bull wa

awn by oxen538, so too were the cars in the procession of the Dædala, where a cow also was the victim. It has likewise been s

rus. This tale is an evident interpolation in the part of the Odyssey where it occurs. Its date is uncertain ; but the langua

Nereïs Thetis saved and concealed him in a cavern beneath the Ocean, where during nine years he employed himself in manufact

f Hephæstos’ working in any other substance than metal are in Hesiod, where at the command of Zeus he forms Pandora of earth

re at the command of Zeus he forms Pandora of earth and water576, and where he uses gypsum and ivory in the formation of the

, Ætna582, Hiera (one of the Liparæan isles)583, and all other places where there was subterranean fire, were regarded as the

ds to him Crissa beneath Mount Parnassos as a quiet sequestered spot, where no unseemly sounds would disturb the holy silence

god playing on his lyre precedes them, and leads them to his temple, where they become his priests and ministers618. As migh

Phœbos ; he carried her in his golden chariot over the sea to Libya, where she bore him a son named Aristæos629. The only ce

lphi in Phocis, — his acquisition of which we have above related, and where , as the mythe of Pythôn would seem to intimate, a

de all their work to execute her orders. She now proceeds to Arcadia, where Pan, the chief god of that country, supplies her

being nearly overtaken by him, she sprang from a cliff into the sea, where she was saved in the nets (δίκτυα) of some fisher

ence, but she got to shore and took refuge in a grove on that island, where she became invisible (ἀϕανὴς) : hence she was wor

ul way he resolved to force her. For this purpose he came to Letrini, where she and her nymphs were celebrating a pannychis o

rethusa. To escape from his importunities she passed over to Ortygia, where she was changed into a fountain, and Alpheios bec

om Lyctos in Crete to a hill named Argillos on the banks of the Nile, where she became the mother of Dionysos698. If Artemis

hat the latter is their character in the Homeric and Hesiodic poetry, where , as we have seen, Apollo appears only as the god

ed the land at the island of Cythera, and thence proceeded to Cyprus, where grass grew beneath her feet, and Love and Desire

s seized with love. She immediately hastened to her temple in Cyprus, where the Graces dressed and adorned her, and then in t

air over hills and dales and plains, till he had brought her to Ida, where he informed her that she was to be the wife of An

fended Artemis, he was torn by a wild boar746 and died747. The ground where his blood fell was sprinkled with nectar by the m

rs diminishing. She summoned her son ; and conducting him to the city where Psyche dwelt, showed him the lovely maid, and ord

uring stream ; but, fearing Love, it cast her upon a bank of flowers, where she was found and consoled by the god Pan. She no

e she is found by Cupid, who had escaped by the window of the chamber where he had been confined by his mother : he awakens h

reeks, and he on that of the Trojans. But on the shield of Achilleus, where the people of the besieged town are represented a

lf in the arms of Zeus, when preparing to accompany Hera to the plain where the Greeks and Trojans were engaged in conflict.

Athena was most honoured in Athens, the city to which she gave name, where the splendid festivals of the Panathenæa were cel

she says, was once shut up in a brazen prison by Otos and Ephialtes, where he languished till Hermeias, being informed of hi

e met a tortoise, which he caught up and carried back into the cave ; where quick as thought he killed the animal, took out t

his cradle, and resumed his journey. He arrived by sunset in Pieria, where the oxen of the gods fed under the care of Apollo

him of his having seen a child driving cows along. He comes to Pylos, where he sees the traces of his cattle, but is amazed a

f the god. Apollo takes the key, opens and searches the three closets where the nymph kept her clothes, ornaments, and food,

ns the child that he will fling him into Tartaros unless he tells him where the cows are : but Hermes stoutly denies all know

in the management of the herds. They now proceed together to Olympos, where Apollo still suspicious exacts an oath from Herme

f Pallas-Athene. Smitten with her charms, he entered the royal abode, where the three sisters, Aglauros, Pandrosos and Herse,

e her escape, and had wandered thither. She entreats them to tell her where she is ; and wishing them young husbands and as m

wever she declined. Iambe the serving-maid then prepared one for her, where she sat in silence, thinking of her ‘deep-bosomed

he chief seats of the worship of these deities were Attica ; Arcadia, where they were called the Great Goddesses 904 , and Pe

ir fellow-citizens from their family-sacrifices ; and in those states where ancient statues, aërolites, and such like were pr

 ; and the comic poet Epicharmus in his drama named ‘Hebe's Wedding,’ where the gods appeared as thorough bon-vivans, made th

of the country was born there991. Eileithyia was worshiped at Delos, where a hymn was sung in her honour ascribed to the anc

y to the Achæans, she takes her way thither from Olympos over Lemnos, where she meets Sleep. She accosts him as the king of a

his spouse, overcomes the fears of Sleep, who accompanies her to Ida, where taking the shape of a bird he sits in a tree till

Theogony a daughter of Night1055. The tradition at Rhamnûs in Attica, where she had a temple (whence she was named Rhamnusia)

gling itself with the systems of these countries, and entered Greece, where , after a long struggle with the Apollo-system, th

e first of these passages is that in the sixth book of the Ilias1083, where Diomedes and Glaucos encounter in the field of ba

æan was in the earliest times a chief seat of the Dionysiac religion, where the worship of the god of wine was celebrated wit

and his subjects afterwards bound him and left him on Mount Pangæon, where he was destroyed by wild horses, for such was the

nto a bat, an owl, and a crow1109. Dionysos next proceeded to Attica, where he taught a man named Icarios the culture of the

his two sons to amity1111, and Dionysos thence passed over to Naxos, where he met Ariadne. It was on his way thither that hi

nd his queen Dindyme. She was exposed by her father on Mount Cybelos, where she was suckled by panthers and lionesses, and wa

ch readily yielded compliance, and the goddess was conveyed to Rome ; where a stately temple was built to receive her, and a

gian Cybele1144. Her worship was introduced at Athens and at Corinth, where it was celebrated in private with great indecency

mmonly supposed ; but that the river Cenchrius and the grove Ortygia, where the travailing Latona, resting against an olive-t

, who were out a-pirating, were driven by stress of weather to Egypt, where they landed and began to plunder the country. As,

s Move quick their feet, by the dark-watered spring In the soft mead, where crocus, hyacinths, Fragrant and blooming, mingle

ummit of a lofty rock. A tree of her own name (πίτυς, pine) sprang up where she died, and it became the favourite plant of Pa

ou shall therefore be punished.” The shepherds instantly became trees where they stood, at the temple of the nymphs ; and to

, and becoming intoxicated threw himself down on the shore to sleep ; where as he lay, a Tanagrian cut off his head with an a

en beautifully imitated by Virgil in the fourth book of his Georgics, where Aristæos on the loss of his bees seeks in a simil

f his soothsaying1268. Some said he dwelt with the Nereïdes at Delos, where he gave responses to all who sought them1269 ; ac

a god of the sea. Glaucos, we are told1274, seeing Ariadne in Naxos, where she had been abandoned by Theseus, became enamour

iced’ Hesperides dwelt1282 ‘beyond (πέρην) the bright Ocean’ opposite where Atlas stood supporting the heaven, and they had c

ns, ‘who dwelt beyond the bright Ocean in the extremity toward night, where the clear-voiced Hesperides abide.’ It names them

s and Encelados, on the last of whom Athena flung the isle of Sicily, where his motions cause the eruptions of Ætna1349. It i

gonians, the poet says1357, Lamos’ high town, Far-gated Læstrygonia, where aloud The herdsman as he drives in calls, and he

d their enchantment, and cause them to fling themselves into the sea, where they were changed into rocks1380. It was afterwar

public1389 places one of them on each of the eight celestial spheres, where their voices form what is called the music of the

his native isle Syria, says that it lies beyond (καθύπϵρθϵν) Ortygia, where are the turnings (τρπαὶ) of the sun. Syria, he pr

nth Eumæos’ nurse died, and wind and water carried them on to Ithaca, where they sold him to Laërtes. Their course was theref

on is ever filling up the vacancies caused by death ; races migrate ; where population once flourished, there is desolation ;

ces migrate ; where population once flourished, there is desolation ; where once the wilderness spread, is heard the busy hum

Helena.’ When they died, Zeus removed them to the ends of the earth, where they dwell, away from man, in the Islands of the

the other Titans ; and it is worthy of notice, that in the Theogony ( where there is more of order and method than is usually

t ‘Hope alone remained in the infrangible house within the jar1485 ;’ where , though interpreters in general have understood t

osity, man raised the lid, and all the blessings flew away to heaven, where they abide shunning the earth. Hope alone remaine

an. In fact, with the exception of a dubious passage in Theognis1489, where Hope is said to be the only good deity that remai

hem to indicate a state of society resembling that of Egypt or India, where huge pyramids and temples were raised by serfs, b

t be always regarded as a world in itself1528, the creation of fancy, where the real assumes the garb of the imaginary, and b

es the garb of the imaginary, and becomes indistinguishable from it ; where no event can be pronounced absolutely true ; wher

uishable from it ; where no event can be pronounced absolutely true ; where fancy and ingenuity are ever at liberty to sport

the bard evermore resounds, pleasant to view and curious to explore ; where the search after truth is rewarded by insight int

stos drove Iasôn and Medeia from Iolcos, and they retired to Corinth, where they lived happily for ten years ; till Iasôn, wi

ldren mounted a chariot drawn by winged serpents, and fled to Athens, where she married king Ægeus, by whom she had a son nam

ith their love. Iasôn brought her from the realm of her father Æetes, where he had achieved the many grievous tasks which the

father-in-law by accident at the Calydonian hunt, he fled to Iolcos, where he was purified by Acastos the son of Pelias1558.

aced. He boasted of his fortune, and Zeus precipitated him to Erebos, where Hermes fixed him with brazen bands to an ever-rev

named Centauros, who when grown up wandered about the foot of Pelion, where he copulated with the Magnesian mares, who brough

elephos in Arcadia. Diomedes brought his body to Argos, and buried it where the town called from him Œnoe was afterwards buil

in Phœnicia, Cilix in Cilicia ; Cadmos and his mother went to Thrace, where Thasos founded a town also named from himself1623

self about her, but to follow a cow as his guide, and to build a city where she should lie down. On leaving the temple he wen

of Pelagôn he followed her. She went through Bœotia till she came to where Thebes now stands, and there lay down. Wishing to

carry her in his golden car over the sea to the rich garden of Zeus, where Libya would joyfully receive her in a golden abod

æmôn1659. Athamas, being obliged to leave Bœotia, inquired of the god where he should settle. He was told to establish himsel

where he should settle. He was told to establish himself in the place where he should be entertained by the wild beasts. Havi

the wild beasts. Having wandered over many lands, he came one day to where some wolves were devouring the thighs of sheep. A

consequences of her frailty became apparent, Antiope fled to Sicyôn, where she married Epopeus. Nycteus out of grief put an

shedding tears. Now mid the rocks among the lonely hills In Sipylos, where are they say the beds Of the goddess-nymphs who b

when driven from Thebes by the Antiopids, retired to the Peloponnese, where he was entertained by Pelops, whose son Chrysippo

f his mother's bed. He therefore resolved never to return to Corinth, where so much crime as he thought awaited him, and he t

and the power of foreseeing coming events. Teiresias lived at Thebes, where he was contemporary with all the events of the ti

however, to prevent the recurrence of such an event, sent him away to where his herds were feeding, and there he grew up to g

purified by Thestios. He then went to Delphi, and inquired of the god where he should settle. The Pythia then first named him

Zeus, unsuspicious of guile, swore, and Hera hastened down to Argos, where the wife of Sthenelos the son of Perseus was seve

nd invulnerable. On his way to engage him Heracles arrived at Cleonæ, where he was hospitably entertained by a labouring man

hydra, which he found on a rising ground near the springs of Amymone, where her hole was. He shot at her with fiery darts til

d waste the region of Psophis. Heracles took his road through Pholoe, where he was hospitably entertained by Pholos the Centa

ving him from his lair with loud cries, chased him into a snow-drift, where he caught and bound him, and then took him to Myc

rta and Arcadia, and crossing the Isthmus came to Marathôn in Attica, where he did great mischief to the inhabitants. For his

stheus, who turned them loose ; and they strayed on to Mount Olympos, where they were destroyed by the wild beasts. The ninth

re Theseus and Castôr and Polydeukes, he sailed to the isle of Paros, where four sons of Minôs dwelt. Two of the ship's compa

os and Sthenelos, the sons of Androgeos, and then sailed on to Mysia, where he was hospitably entertained by Lycos, king of t

med it Heracleia. The hero reached at length the haven of Themiscyra, where Hippolyta came to inquire the cause of his arriva

les, placing the oxen in the cup, brought them over to the continent, where he returned his vessel to the Sun-god. He drove h

o the Sun-god. He drove his cattle through Iberia, and came to Lygia, where Alebiôn and Dercinos, the sons of Poseidôn, attem

his way in quest of the apples Heracles came to the river Echedoros, where he was challenged to a single combat by Cycnos th

m, bound and held him fast, and never let him go till he had told him where the golden apples were. Having gotten this inform

ng over to Libya went on till he came to Irassa by lake Tritonis1759, where Antæos the son of Poseidôn reigned, who was wont

ty, was said to be the son of Earth1760. From Libya he went to Egypt, where Busiris, another son of Poseidôn, reigned. This k

mphidamas, and his herald Chalbes1761. He then roamed through Arabia, where he killed Æmathiôn the son of Eôs and Tithonos ;

radiant cup, in which he crossed to the opposite side1762. He came to where Prometheus lay chained, and, moved by his entreat

en saw the mysteries, after which he proceeded to Tænaron in Laconia, where the entrance to the under-world was, and went dow

rld. The hero having now performed all his tasks, returned to Thebes, where he gave Megara in marriage to Iolaos. Wishing him

ytos refused to comply with his desire. Heracles then went to Amyclæ, where he was purified by Deïphobos the son of Hippolyto

lcodôn. Having ravaged Côs, he went at the call of Athena to Phlegra, where he fought with the Gods against the Giants. Not l

grown up, consulted the oracle respecting his parents, came to Mysia, where he was kindly received by Teuthras, whom he succe

hom he succeeded in his kingdom. Heracles went afterwards to Calydôn, where he sought the hand of Deïaneira the daughter of Œ

realm of his friend Ceÿx. On their way they came to the river Euenos, where Nessos the Centaur had taken his abode, and carri

In this wretched state he got on shipboard and returned to Trachis ; where Deïaneira, on learning the consequence of what sh

he pyre was flaming, a thunder-cloud conveyed the sufferer to heaven, where he was endowed with immortality ; and being recon

Cecrops, at the head of a colony, from Saïs in Lower Egypt to Attica, where he civilised the rude aborigines, gave them relig

the test. Procris on finding how she had been deceived fled to Crete, where Minôs gave her an inevitable dart, and a dog name

s. Enamoured of her beauty, he seized and carried her away to Thrace, where she bore him the winged youths Zetes and Calaïs ;

s from Thrace, while the name Tegyrios would seem to point to Bœotia, where there was a town named Tegyra. The spouse of the

with Apollo. When she had given birth to him she laid him in the cave where she had met the god ; and Hermes, at Apollo's des

Pandiôn II., who was expelled by the Metionids. He retired to Megara, where he married Pylia the daughter of king Pylos ; who

her accounts, Ægeus laid an ambush for him as he was going to Thebes, where games were to be celebrated by Laïos. Minôs made

us journey by land. His first day's journey brought him to Epidauros, where dwelt a man named Periphates, a son of Hephæstos.

he borders of Megara, he came to the narrow path overhanging the sea, where the robber Scirôn — from whom the pass derived it

n, Scirôn would give him a kick, which tumbled him down into the sea, where a huge tortoise always lay ready to devour the bo

flung his body down to the tortoise1838. Theseus came now to Eleusis, where Cercyôn, said to be a son of Hephæstos, reigned.

vercome all the perils of the road, Theseus at length reached Athens, where new danger awaited him. He found his father's cou

to penetrate in safety the windings of the labyrinth, till he came to where the Minotaur lay, whom he caught by the hair and

hem, and placed them on an enchanted rock at the gate of his realms ; where they sat unable to move, till Heracles passing by

evidently devised to account for the abode of the Ionians in Attica, where their settlement was probably effected by conques

be regarded as the introducers of the worship of Apollo into Attica, where it seems to have been originally confined to the

said that Poseidôn was the father of Theseus, who comes from Trœzên ( where Poseidôn was the guardian-god — πολιοȗχος), and c

ll into the sea and was drowned. Dædalos arrived in safety in Sicily, where he was kindly received by Cocalos king of that is

of mythes in which we find the Iapetids, Ixiôn, Tantalos and others, where , under the character of persons with significant

rthly weakness. This is expressed in the fine picture of the Odyssey, where every word is significant, and where we may obser

the fine picture of the Odyssey, where every word is significant, and where we may observe Sisyphos is spoken of in indefinit

laucos the son of Sisyphos, form a pleasing episode of the Ilias1879, where they are related to Diomedes by Glaucos the grand

t an insect to sting the steed ; and he flung his rider to the earth, where he wandered in solitude and melancholy till his d

regions of Europe and Asia, arrived at last on the banks of the Nile, where , touched by Zeus, she assumed her original form a

e heroines of the Eoiæ. Her story however was noticed in the Ægimios, where it was said that her father's name was Peirên, th

ughters and fled over the sea. He first landed on the isle of Rhodes, where he set up a statue of the Lindian Athena ; but no

ena ; but not willing to abide in that island, he proceeded to Argos, where Gelanôr, who at that time ruled over the country,

f the Danaïdes did not pass without due punishment in the underworld, where they were condemned to draw everlastingly water i

e welling forth of the blood of some person who was slain on the spot where the spring emitted its waters1922. The number fif

ields. Prœtos was worsted, and driven out of Argos. He fled to Lycia, where the king Iobates gave him his daughter Anteia or

ed Megapenthes1929. The madness of the Prœtides was sung in the Eoiæ, where it was ascribed to the vengeance of Dionysos for

th, drew Danae in private with her son to the altar of Herceian Zeus, where he made her answer on oath whose was her son. She

nds and waves1935. The coffer floated to the little isle of Seriphos, where a man named Dictys drew it out in his nets (δίкτυ

n’s head. Perseus full of grief retired to the extremity of the isle, where Hermes came to him, promising that he and Athena

mounted into the air, accompanied by the gods, and flew to the Ocean, where he found the three Gorgons fast asleep1937. Feari

ed him and his partisans to stone. Perseus now proceeded to Seriphos, where he found that his mother and Dictys had been obli

, when on his way to the Gorgons, to the country of the Hyperboreans, where he was hospitably entertained by that happy peopl

Acrisios is apparently connected with the Larissa, the height (ἄкρον) where tradition said he lay buried1954 ; Danae seems to

y his wife Alcmena and her half-brother Licymnios, retired to Thebes, where he was purified by Creôn, who gave his daughter P

wife's bringing forth a female, he exposed the babe in the mountains, where she was suckled by a bear, and at last found by s

in marriage with Achilleus in the White Island (Λϵυκὴ) in the Euxine, where she bore him a son named Euphoriôn2006. Πολδϵ

he district between the Alpheios and the Neda, formerly called Pylos, where the Neleids reigned ; and to Pisatis, the ancient

Salmoneus. Salmoneus, one of the sons of Æolos, settled in Elis, where he built a city. He was a bold impious man, who a

n she exposed. A troop of mares, followed by the herdsmen, passing by where they lay, one of the mares touched the face of on

into discord, and Pelias abode at Iolcos, but Neleus settled in Elis, where he built a town named Pylos. Tyro afterwards marr

id. The herdsmen of Iphiclos took him, and he was thrown into prison, where he was attended by a man and a woman. The man ser

not being able to catch him, had stuck the knife in a wild pear-tree, where the bark grew over it. The terror, he said, had d

follow ; and unseen, he brought him to the hill of Kronos at Olympia, where he gave him the double treasure of prophecy by au

s into (ἐνδύϵι) the sea, or possibly in the Lelegian mythe the cavern where he meets the moon. The rationalisers said that En

ty as they were driving along a cliff to throw Myrtilos into the sea, where he was drowned. Others say, that Hippodameia bein

is course2081. Thyestes fled to Thesprotia, whence he went to Sicyôn, where his daughter Pelopia dwelt. He arrived on the ver

hould bring back his brother. He went to Thesprotia in search of him, where he beheld Pelopia the daughter of Thyestes ; and

ns Agamemnôn and Menelaos in search of Thyestes. They went to Delphi, where they met him, who was also come to consult the go

order. He was directed to take up his abode, and dedicate the coffer, where he should find people sacrificing after a strange

re-embarked, and the wind carried him to Aroe on the coast of Achaia, where he saw a procession moving along the shore, leadi

to her cruel fate. As a victim, she was crowned and led to the altar, where Coresos stood to perform the appointed sacrifice 

lt a town there, which he named from himself. Sarpedôn went to Lycia, where he aided Cilix against the people of that country

lands. Having committed an accidental homicide, he retired to Bœotia, where he married Alcmena, the mother of Heracles. Accor

Blest. Later poets place him with Minôs and Æacos in the under-world, where their office is to judge the dead. Minôs married

a real cow, in which he inclosed Pasiphae, and placed it in the mead where the bull used to feed. All succeeded as was desir

impossible for those who entered it. In this he placed the Minotaur, where he preyed on the victims given to him2100 . The p

find his son ; and Polyeidos, by his skill in divination, discovered where he was. Minôs then ordered him to restore him to

prize into the desert isle of Œnone, afterwards named from her Ægina, where she brought forth a son named Æacos, who being we

hen banished by his father, fled to the neighbouring isle of Salamis, where Kychres the son of Poseidôn by Salamis the daught

Uriôn or Oriôn2127. When Oriôn grew up he went to the isle of Chios, where he became enamoured of Merope the daughter of Œno

hence pursued their voyage through the Hellespont into the Propontis, where they came to an island with a lofty hill in it na

s buried Cyzicos with solemn magnificence. They then sailed to Mysia, where they left behind them Heracles and Polyphemos ; f

 : Heracles returned to Argos2155. The Argo next touched at Bebrycia, where Amycos the son of Poseidôn and Bithynis reigned.

. Leaving Bebrycia, they sailed to Salmydessos on the Thracian coast, where Phineus, the prophet-prince, dwelt in blindness a

tis, over the Ægæan and Greece to some islets beyond the Peloponnese, where their pursuers came up with them, and were about

were cast on it by a storm, and they became their guides to Colchis, where they shortly after entered the Phasis. Iasôn lost

some time they proceeded on their homeward voyage and came to Crete, where the brazen man, Talôs, prohibited their landing ;

leaving Crete the night came on so black and dark that they knew not where they were ; but Apollo, taking his stand on the r

s (Lightner), and offered sacrifices ; they thence proceded to Ægina, where they watered ; and they finally arrived at Iolcos

head, they then carried their vessel overland to the northern ocean, where they launched it, and so sailed down the west sid

gns them the following course. They sailed up the Phasis to the point where it divided, and then went down the other branch n

neices taking with him the collar and robe of Harmonia fled to Argos, where Adrastos the son of Talaos son of Bias then reign

neices, a Theban ; Tydeus, an Ætolian2176. The host marched to Nemea, where Lycurgos then reigned. Being in want of water, Hy

ide them to a spring. She left the child Opheltes lying on the grass, where a serpent found and killed him. The leaders slew

2190. Dardanos afflicted at the death of his brother left Samothrace, where they had dwelt, and passed over to the main-land,

t Samothrace, where they had dwelt, and passed over to the main-land, where Teucros the son of the river Scamandros and the n

ce to an oracle, gave him a spotted cow, and told him to build a city where she should lie down. Ilos followed the cow till s

n. Ilos followed the cow till she came to the hill of Ate (Mischief), where he built the town of Ilion, named from himself. H

follow ; the vessel puts to sea, and Alexandros arrives at Lacedæmôn, where he is entertained by the Tyndarids. At Sparta he

plane-tree, a serpent came out of the altar, and ascending the tree, where was a sparrow's nest with eight young ones, devou

hed her away, leaving a hind in her place, and carried her to Tauria, where she made her immortal2214. The wind now proving f

led by him ; this causes a dissension, and Achilleus sails to Lesbos, where having sacrificed to Leto, Apollo and Artemis, he

his return. A storm arising, he was driven to that part of the coast where Ægisthos the son of Thyestes resided. During his

ship. When he grew up he and Pylades secretly returned to Mycenæ2226, where he killed his mother and Ægisthos. The Erinnyes o

hose god had urged him to commit the deed, and thence went to Athens, where he was acquitted by the court of Areiopagos. He t

ia, Zeus sent forth a storm which drove some of his vessels to Crete, where they went to pieces against the rocks. Five, on b

ia and Egypt, the Æthiopians, Sidonians and Erembians, and Libya2231, where the lambs are born horned, and the sheep yean thr

an priests pretended that Paris was driven by adverse winds to Egypt, where Proteus, who was then king, learning the truth, k

ity, till they had taken it ; and that then Menelaos sailed to Egypt, where his wife was restored to him2234. Odysseus sailed

ut homewards2236 he landed in the country of the Ciconians in Thrace, where his men took and burned the town of Ismaros ; but

p, with his wealth on the shore. On awaking he was informed by Athena where he was ; and going to the house of his swineherd

le, and on his return he went as directed by Teiresias to Thesprotia, where he married the queen Callidice. Heading her subje

reece shows, the great preserver of the popular religion in a society where it is of a complex and varied nature. That of Gre

pe first occurs in the Homeridian hymn to the Delian Apollo (v. 251), where it is opposed to the Peloponnese and the islands,

Icaromenippus (13.) of the witty Lucian Empedocles lives in the moon, where he feeds on dew ; and in the same writer's True H

l drawing the chariots of the gods are in Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite, where she describes the chariot of that goddess as draw

drawn by sparrows ; and that of Alcæus to Apollo (below, ch. viii.), where the god has a team of swans. 367. Il. xiv. 300.

76. This is probably founded on the passage in the Odyssey (xi. 568.) where the hero says he saw Minôs judging in Erebos, but

, 523.), Æacos and Rhadamanthys sit at the point in the mead (τριόδῳ) where the path branches off to the Isles of the Blest a

o it that we have met with elsewhere is in Sophocles (Œd. Tyr. 176.), where Hades is called ‘the western god’ (ἀκτὰν πρὸς ἑσπ

Heyne and Payne Knight in regarding the line of the Ilias (ix. 457.) where this epithet occurs as spurious. It is contrary t

παȋος. ІІομπαȋος ἴσθε τόνδε ποιμαίνων ἐμὸν Іκέτην. — Æsch. Eum. 91. where we may observe the allusion to the rural characte

the practice of mixing sea-water with wine ? 875. Ye vallies low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds

9. above, p. 17. 939. Il. ii. 594. 940. Nicander ap. Anton. Lib. 9. where the names of the birds are given ; these of cours

. seq. 1114. …………… that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jov

147. 1130. Welcker, Ueber das Satyrspiel (Nach. zur Tril. 186-211.), where much valuable matter on the subject of Dionysos w

ntly employed in the Poly-Olbion of Drayton thus : Through the slades where beauteous Severn plays. 1233. Od. xiii. 102. 1

ioned by Homer ; but the legend is noticed in the Theogony (v. 326.), where she is called Фῖξ. Though this legend is probably

ed Hermes to steal her away and convey her to the Isles of the Blest, where she should espouse Rhadamanthys. Hermes obeyed, a

ffin found the stone, which they took out, and set it up in the grove where her Heroön stood at Thebes. 1735. Apollod. ut su

he case most similar to the present occurs in the Persian Shâh-Nâmeh, where Siyawush the son of Ky Kaoos, king of Persia, is,

d Greek poets answer exactly to the good of the romances of chivalry, where the good knight is the brave knight. 1883. Ol. x

olyolbion, Song x. “A fountain is said to have broke out in the place where St. Osithe was beheaded, which is seen to this da

the Nereïdes were confined. 1940. The scene was localised at Joppa, where the marks of the chains were to be seen on a rock

sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmus, where she stoops each night, Gilding the mountain with

2062. Pind. Ol. i. 114. seq. 2063. Apoll. Rh. i. 752. seq. cum Sch. where Phereeydes is quoted. Tzetz. Lye. 156. Hygin. 84.

. 172. 2136. Pherecydes ut supra. 2137. Müller, Proleg. 191. seq., where the subject of astronomical mythes is treated wit

edding of Ceÿx,’ Heracles is said to have been left behind at Aphetæ, where he went for water (Sch. Apoll. Rh. i. 1290.). It

his event was afterwards transferred to the north side of the Euxine, where the town of Tomi (τόμοι cuttings) was said to hav

zes (Lyc. 570.) the poet of the Cypria made the Greeks stop at Delos, where Anios the son of Apollo urged them to remain for

which men once described whatever they saw and heard in the countries where they lived. This key which has unlocked almost al

and Hypnos, dwelt in a cave which Hesiod places in the west, “behind where Atlas supports the heavens.” Hemera shared this a

tus* (Vulcan), conveyed him, with his glorious equipage, to the east, where he recommenced his bright career. Helios, as the

disgusted with his infirmities, and at last shut him up in a chamber, where soon little else was left of him but his voice. E

e over witchcraft and enchantment, and to haunt sepulchres, the point where two roads cross, and lonely spots where murders h

o haunt sepulchres, the point where two roads cross, and lonely spots where murders had been committed. She was supposed to b

allowed. The stone which had counterfeited Zeus was placed at Delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. Chronos

Zeus, with his brothers and sisters, took his stand on Mount Olympus, where he was joined by Oceanus, Themis, Mnemosyne, and

d a special importance. The most ancient of them was that of Dodona*, where the Pelasgian* Zeus was worshiped at a time prior

us at Olympia*, on the northern bank of the river Alpheus*, in Elis*, where the renowned Olympian games were celebrated. The

rm of a satyr. Dreading the anger of her father, she fled to Sicyon*, where she married Epopeus*. Nycteus put an end to his l

k a captive to Thebes. Her infant sons were exposed on the mountains, where they were found by a shepherd, who reared them, a

red through Europe and Asia, until she at length found rest in Egypt, where , touched by the hand of Zeus, she recovered her o

by lightning. Zeus and Hermes once came in the evening to a village, where they sought hospitality, but nowhere did they rec

us, Poseidon had a splendid palace beneath the sea at Ægæ*, in Eubœa, where he kept his horses with golden manes and brazen h

nt more particularly revered in countries bordering on the sea-coast, where fish naturally formed a staple commodity of trade

shades, as they were called, were driven by Aides into his dominions, where they passed their time in brooding over the vicis

l in caves near the entrance of Hades. Field of Asphodel* was a place where spirits waited for those whose fate had not been

d from Apollo, burned the temple of that god at Delphi. He was placed where a stone hanging over his head, and evermore threa

head of his rebellious son. Their place of abode was the lower world, where they were employed by Aides and Persephone to cha

r was once playing with the daughters of Oceanus in a flowery meadow, where they were picking flowers and making garlands. Pe

Pluto. When Demeter missed her darling child, and none could tell her where she had gone, she kindled torches, and during man

be regarded as a type of the grain which long remains in the ground, where it has been sown, as though dead, but afterwards

nos* (virgin) was one of Athene’s names, whence the temple of Athens, where she was most religiously worshiped, was called th

Hestia had not her share. Each town had its Prytaneum* (public hall), where the prytanes*, or elders, held their meetings. Th

er were unavailing. Dionysus* induced Hephæstus to return to Olympus, where , after having released the queen of heaven from h

ly a covered fireplace. In the Campus Martius, however, was a temple, where the festival of the Vulcanalia, or Volcanalia, wa

he figure is unsurpassed. The effect is completed by the countenance, where , on the perfection of youthful godlike beauty, dw

ed to assemble in a shady grove or on the banks of a favorite stream, where they joined in song or the dance. The hind, dog,

r tears are the rain-drops which turn to ice on the mountain-summits, where men fancy they see her form hardened into stone.”

nd her two sisters. “The worship of Dionysus extended to every place where the vine was cultivated. He was regarded, by Gree

; terror seized the offenders, who leaped from the ship into the sea, where they were changed into dolphins. A fine represent

nd Ariadne*, daughter of Minos*, king of Crete, on the isle of Naxos, where she had been abandoned by Theseus*, and she becam

“The Muses were honored alike by mortals and immortals. On Olympus, where Apollo acted as their leader, no festivity was co

s and preferred the peaceful solitude of the woods and the mountains, where they led a merry, joyous life.” Seemann . The

Rome under the name of Victoria. Her chief shrine was on the Capitol, where successful generals erected statues of the goddes

ed as a kindly, benevolent old man, the good spirit of the Ægean Sea, where he and his wife, Doris*, dwelt with their fifty d

g temples in groves, that all places devoted to sacred purposes, even where there were no trees, were called groves. That thi

ance on Prometheus by having him chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where during the daytime an eagle devoured his liver, w

searching for her, to follow a cow as his guide, and to build a city where she should lie down. On leaving the temple he pas

ng a cow he followed her through Bœotia, until at length, on the site where Thebes afterwards stood, she looked towards heave

sent some of his companions to bring water from a neighboring spring, where they were slain by a dragon, sacred to Ares, whic

cared for by Zeus, who caused it to float to the island of Seriphos, where Danae and Perseus were rescued by Dictys*, brothe

ord. After a long journey, Perseus arrived on the borders of Oceanus, where dwelt the Grææ*, sisters of the Gorgons, who were

into stone. Perseus, accompanied by his bride, returned to Seriphos, where he found that Polydectes had been treating Danae

ad been treating Danae with great cruelty. He proceeded to the palace where the king and his friends were assembled, and disp

a punishment, Amphitryon*, his step-father, sent him into the country where his flocks and herds were feeding, and there Hera

rove them back with arrows and firebrands, and pursued them to Malea, where they took refuge with the good Centaur Chiron. Un

t of the thickets into the snow-drifts on the summit of the mountain, where he caught and bound him, and then carried him to

s of prey whose home was on the shore of Lake Stymphalis, in Arcadia, where they caused great destruction among men and cattl

the hero permission to capture this bull. Heracles took it to Mycenæ, where it was set free by Eurystheus. It was eventually

livered the mares to Eurystheus, who set them loose on Mount Olympus, where they became the prey of wild beasts. 9. The Gird

a wearisome journey Heracles arrived at the western coast of Africa, where , as a monument of his perilous expedition, he ere

foot through Iberia, Gaul, and Italy. At length he arrived at Mycenæ, where Eurystheus sacrificed the oxen to Hera. 11. The

, gave him the desired information. Heracles then proceeded to Libya, where he was challenged to a wrestling-match by the gia

air and squeezed him to death in bis arms. He then passed into Egypt, where Busiris* was in the habit of sacrificing all stra

and slew Busiris and his son. From Egypt he journeyed into Ethiopia, where he slew Emathion*, son of Eos and Tithonus, for h

then wandered through Arabia, and at last arrived at Moutit Caucasus, where Prometheus groaned in unceasing agony. Heracles s

ructed him how to find his way to that remote region in the far west, where Atlas supported the heavens on his shoulders, nea

found the heroes Theseus* and Pirithous seated on an enchanted rock, where they had been placed by Aides as a punishment for

nded. The hero, after his release from servitude, returned to Thebes, where he gave his wife, Megara, in marriage to Iolaus.

and placed Phyleus on the throne. Heracles now proceeded to Calydon, where he wooed the beautiful Deianeira*, daughter of Œn

driven by Athene, appeared and bore the illustrious hero to Olympus, where he was joyfully received by the gods. Hera, in to

ns sailed for Athens. On the way they stopped at the island of Naxos, where Theseus abandoned Ariadne, because Athene had app

gloomy realm. Aides set them on an enchanted rock at his palace gate, where they remained until Heracles liberated Theseus; b

bele. That goddess changed them into lions and yoked them to her car, where they are still to be seen in all representations

ays avoids high places. Dædalus fled with his son Icarus to Crete, where they were welcomed by Minos. He built the Labyrin

eparted, leaving them behind. The Argonauts next arrived in Bebrycia, where Amycus* reigned. He always challenged strangers t

at with Pollux. They sailed on to Salmydessus, on the European coast, where the prophet Phineus* reigned, whom the gods had p

murder of Absyrtus.” They accordingly steered for the island of Ææa*, where dwelt Circe, a famous enchantress and aunt to Med

ion of seeing him restored to youth. Medea and Jason fled to Corinth, where they lived happily for ten years. At length Jason

was directed by the oracle to follow a spotted cow, and build a town where she should lie down. He followed the cow until sh

n. He followed the cow until she came to the hill of Ate* (Mischief), where he built the town named Ilion, from himself, and

the fleet set sail, and arrived safely in Greece. Arriving at Sparta, where Menelaus*, the husband of Helen, was reigning, he

ificed, Artemis substituted a hind, and conveyed Iphigenia to Tauris, where she became a priestess in the temple of the godde

nd perished in the flames. Odysseus repaired to the island of Scyros, where he found Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. Having

t it with a blow of his trident, and precipitated him into the waves, where he perished. Odysseus*, or Ulysses*. The har

ed a fire, he discerned the strangers and demanded who they were, and where they were from. Odysseus informed him they were s

aped. They pursued their way till they arrived at the island of Ææa*, where dwelt Circe*, the daughter of the sun. Landing he

tination in the far west. On arriving at the spot indicated by Circe, where the waters of the rivers Acheron* and Cocytus* mi

joined his companions, they once more put to sea and returned to Ææa, where they spent one day with Circe. They then took a f

six of them. At length they reached the island of Trinacria (Sicily), where the sun-god pastured his flocks and herds. Odysse

“‘Land of the Lotus-eaters,’ the fair fields of the deep blue heavens where the bright clouds float lazily, as if they would

In the confusion, his wife was lost. They sought refuge on Mount Ida, where with other fugitives they remained until the foll

ter a short voyage, they landed at the foot of Mount Ætna, in Sicily, where the Cyclopes dwelt. Here, meeting one of the comp

the Trojans sought the nearest shore, which was the coast of Africa, where Dido* was then building the city of Carthage. Did

f with the sword Æneas had left behind him. Æneas returned to Sicily, where he celebrated funeral games in honor of his fathe

m of his promised bride. Alecto then went to the camp of the Trojans, where she saw Iulus and his companions hunting. She ins

essel magnificently decorated, and conveyed down the Nile to Memphis, where a temple with two chapels, and a court for exerci

ake Mœris. A chosen number of these animals were kept in the temples, where they were given elegant apartments, and treated t

e “Great Hall of Justice,” before Osiris and his forty-two assessors, where the heart was weighed in the infallible scales of

tified was a deity with its idol, that, in the inscriptions of kings, where the great gods were invoked in turn, the images o

on of their ancestors fled to the deserts of Kerman and to Hindustan, where they still exist under the name of Parsees*, a na

sted with the wickedness of men, that he retired into a desert place, where he spent six years in prayer and meditation. He t

nic chasms, like the waste, chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire, — where , of all places, we least looked for literature or

en down. On the seaboard of this wild land is a rim of grassy country where cattle can subsist, and men by means of them and

ained secluded in caves and grottos, or in the depths of oak forests, where they were supposed to study the deeper mysteries

with great slaughter. They found a last asylum in the island of Iona, where they maintained an influence until the latter par

were converted by the preaching of St. Columba, a native of Ireland, where Christianity had been established for nearly a ce

is messengers and servants. Seated at the extreme east, ‘at the place where the earth is cut off,’ watching in his medicine-l

skara was driven from the earth and forced to reside in the far west, where he became ruler of the spirits of the dead. The v

y cruel to make her unhappy. He lay down upon a bank of violets, near where Psyche sat, and said to himself as he gazed at he

n the midst of a garden in one of the islands, not far from the place where she now is.” Somnus instantly arose, and expandin

hee.” The two gods, after a speedy flight, alighted on the promontory where Psyche was, and approached the maiden unseen. She

best kill him. I will give you a dagger. When you approach the couch where be shall be asleep, take this instrument in your

er, and when she should be found, return to the skies, and inform her where the audacious mortal could be found. Poor Psyche,

e stones spoke, and commanded her to enter a cavern, not far distant, where she would descry a road that led directly to the

m a cake. And there is a river called the Styx, which you must cross, where you will see a boatman ready to convey you over;

down insensible. Happily for Psyche, Cupid was hovering near the spot where this indiscretion was committed, and flew to her

at that time known. Ann. Did the pagans believe in Heaven and Hell, where the good and the bad go after death. Mother. Yes

below the surface of the earth. Ann. Psyche went to Pluto’s kingdom; where was that? Mother. Pluto was the king of the worl

No; that man could not have seen it. He lived in a very hot country, where it never freezes; and so he did not believe that

. She saw in Enna a fountain, whose waters made a mournful murmuring, where she had never seen water before, and the veil of

good of all ages, and all countries. But your daughter is in Elysium, where the virtuous and the pure alone forever dwell. Wh

he pure alone forever dwell. Why would you bring her back to a world, where the violent and the wicked are mingled with the v

tatoes; and such food is very wholesome, and is abundant almost every where . Ann. Is that all the story teaches? Mother. No

er departure, Pandion attended his daughter to the harbour of Piræus, where the vessel of Tereus lay. There Pandion embraced

elease her from confinement, and she bribed the old woman to tell her where Philomela was confined. The people of Thrace, as

d fable which is very pretty, that belongs to Phrygia, in Asia Minor, where it would seem the people were apt to believe in t

ppose is the fact contained in this fable? Mother. It might be, that where a, virtuous pair had lived, a temple was built, a

Mother. Do you remember the passage? Ann. Yes, the very words, and where I read them. These are the words which Abraham ad

apostles were at Lystra, in Asia Minor, near the province of Phrygia, where the fable says Jupiter and Mercury visited Baucis

e, which they did not know before. Cecrops had learned this in Egypt, where he came from. Ann. Did the Egyptians know more t

gate his misfortune, gave him a staff, with which he could walk every where as securely as the most dear-sighted person. When

l to see their faces in. Lyriope certainly had none in the coral cave where she dwelt; so little Narcissus might be kept ther

g at his pretty face. But Lyriope sent her son to a beautiful island, where , as he grew up, he ran about the woods, and spent

was the son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia. Jupiter came to the meadows where the flocks of Agenor fed. He saw the pretty Europ

; so he came like a beautiful milk-white bull, and began to eat grass where Europa was sporting with some young girls, her fr

ather without her; therefore he went into Greece, but he did not know where to fix himself till he had prayed to the gods for

to follow a certain heifer, which he should soon meet in the way, and where she should stop, and lie down, to commence a new

stop, and lie down, to commence a new city. Cadmus went from Delphi, where he consulted the god, toward the east, and procee

lay down on the grass to rest. Cadmus judged that this was the place where the gods intended he should establish himself. Th

the flight of Europa. Mother. I suppose a man came to the sea-coast, where she was amusing herself; that a bull’s head was s

a heifer guided Cadmus? Mother. He might have followed a heifer; and where she lay down might have been a spot on which he t

horns and skin, to make him ridiculous, and drove him into the wood, where some dogs, mistaking him for a stag, fell upon hi

ep in a place which he did not know to be safe. We cannot always know where we are safe, but we can almost always think befor

omen act, know that while there are many good and happy persons every where , there are also many who are wicked and miserable

t; in short, to the worst of mankind. Erebus was a dark gloomy place, where perpetual silence reigned. There the indolent, th

answered not, but followed her guides to a dark nook beyond Tartarus, where Tisiphone and her sisters sat discoursing upon th

y them, as he lay asleep under a tree, near the seaside, from a place where they had landed to procure water. The pirates ima

xible, he suddenly caused the vessel to stop in the midst of the sea, where she became immoveable as a rock, and her sails, c

all over Greece, and he was worshipped as a god. Festivals were every where celebrated in honour of him. These festivals were

t he might know the truth concerning them. He went to Mount Citheron, where the orgies were held, and concealed himself, as h

k you of Pentheus? Ann. That he was not very prudent to hide himself where the Menades held their orgies; but though he was

n to kill him, and therefore he shut up the princess in a high tower, where no man could see her, nor visit her. Jupiter love

thrown into the waves, and some merciful god has saved our lives. But where am I? in what strange land? Who will protect us?

. “Gorgona dwelling on the brink of night, Beyond Die Hounding main: where , silver-voiced, The Hesperian maidens in their wa

ould be a great achievement, and his courage would be commended every where . Polydectes admired the project; he thought Perse

ia. Here he beheld Andromeda, the king’s daughter, chained to a rock, where she was expecting, in unspeakable anguish, to be

“Thou hast heard my prayer.” Perseus instantly descended to the spot where she stood, her delicate arm bound by a heavy chai

, I saw first some ugly women, called the Graiæ, and they informed me where I should find their frightful neighbours. I took

e old man heard of it, and afterward conveyed her to his humble home, where Aglauria still lived. Danæ and her children did n

that shut up the winds? Mother. Æolus, the wind god, who had a cave where be kept the winds. These were Boreas, the north w

selves to entertain her. Calliope related that not far from the place where they were seated, in the valley below, a fountain

e cottages of peasants. In fact, like the “blessed sun,” he was every where , making all eyes glad, restoring the sick to heal

nd, and put ingeniously together, and it was conveyed to the Vatican, where it is carefully preserved. I will allow you to re

and caused his hundred eyes to be placed in the tail of her peacocks; where , deprived of the power of vision, they served to

er, fled into Lydia. “‘When Latona and her children reached the place where we now stand, it happened to be a season of great

llisto’s slender, white hands had changed into great, hairy paws; and where but a moment before a fair young woman had stood,

And the pine has a fringe of softer green, And the moss looks bright, where my step has been. From the streams and founts I

hen Ceres arose and went to Jupiter and said, “I have found the place where my daughter is hidden. Give her back to me, and t

nd at once; and, although it made Latona very sad to go from the home where she had been so happy, she hastened away, for she

ain set forth on her wanderings. She came at length to a desert land, where there was not a blade of grass or a flower to res

with the heat and the exercise, he came to a shady spot in the woods, where , hidden among the low bushes, there was a little

ff, as though too feeble to walk erect, she came into the little room where Arachne sat spinning. She joined the circle that

so wicked and cruel that the people for miles around the swampy land where it dwelt lived in constant terror. No one dared g

nd after following many dark and winding passages, came to the throne where the king and queen were seated in state. Before P

s). When they were tired of the sport, they would seek a shady place where , perhaps, a cool brook sped along over the stones

n! The merry, sweet ring of the hunter’s horn. Now through the copse where the fox is found, And over the stream, at a might

rk did not upset, and one day a large wave carried it upon an island, where it rested on the sloping shore. There some kind p

Medusa’s island home, and the only people in the whole world who knew where that was were three sisters who lived together in

and the Graeae (Burne-Jones). Then he flew back swiftly to the grove where Mercury was waiting, and thanked him for all his

He flew over many lands and seas, until at last he came to the island where the terrible Gorgons lived. He dared not look dow

he had many strange adventures by the way. When he reached the island where his mother lived, he went straight to their littl

be dead. You see, it had taken a long, long time to reach the island where Medusa lived; for it was so far away that no one

s of showing their anger. The nymphs sent a sea serpent to the island where Cassiopeia lived, and he did so much harm that ev

r own lips. She was frightened and hastened to the banks of the river where she had so often walked with her boy companion. W

stray sheep that crossed his path, and when he came near to the hill where Argus was watching, he began to play on a pipe of

d been sitting for a long time, when at last Argus asked the shepherd where his musical pipe had come from, and then Mercury

into the stream, and a moment later a clump of reeds grew in the spot where she had vanished. When Pan stretched out his arm

orite, and she set his eyes in the tail of her own bird, the peacock, where they shine in splendor to this day. But alas! the

without further trials, arrived safe in the city of Hercules’ birth, where they spent many happy years together. So well did

n store for him. He traveled many miles, and at last came to the city where his master was living. He sought him out and gave

Icarus, he left Athens in the night and fled to the island of Crete, where King Minos received him very kindly. But before l

e of them for his own. One day Icarus was looking now up into the sky where many birds were flying to and fro, and then down

ng voice, he said, “Icarus, my boy, watch me all the time, and follow where I lead; for if you go too low the water may clog

see that his son was following in safety. For a while Icarus followed where Daedalus led the way. But after a time he began t

al wings floated on the surface. The poor father flew toward the spot where he had seen his son sink, lifted the lifeless bod

ens, was still a young man, he was one day passing through a village, where he saw a beautiful maiden with whom he fell in lo

at stone, let him take the sword and sandals and follow me to Athens, where I will make him heir to my throne.” Then, kissing

wn to be a strong youth, and one day his mother took him to the place where the sword and sandals were buried, and told him o

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

ll the young boys and girls were called together in the market place, where they drew lots to decide which should be the vict

us lifted the anchor, and, rejoicing, they sailed away from the place where they had expected to die. The Minotaur was dead,

y for starting. Hand in hand, husband and wife went down to the place where the boat was moored. There they parted, with many

orning broke, she hastened down to the shore, to visit again the spot where she and her husband had exchanged their last fare

lambs they offered in sacrifice to the gods. As they neared the spot where they were to be put to death, suddenly there came

the Song I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not foll

flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it ca

the tasks were. He walked away from the palace, down toward the shore where his boat was anchored, and he thought of Juno’s p

morning all the people of Colchis went in a great crowd to the field where Jason was to meet his death, as they thought. In

ature’s head and seized the Golden Fleece from the branches overhead, where it hung, making the forest bright as though the s

ough the sun were shining upon it; then he hastened back to his ship, where Medea and his companions were anxiously awaiting

t dearer to him than anything else was a stag that lived in the grove where he hunted. The stag was a beautiful creature, wit

ed through the woods, seeking the shady nooks and the little streams, where the stag could see his beautiful antlers reflecte

left him sad and hopeless. For many days he came in vain to the spot where he had so often seen Scylla, but the maiden no lo

lled with a colorless liquid, and told him to throw it into the water where Scylla bathed. Glaucus hastened home, and finding

er where Scylla bathed. Glaucus hastened home, and finding the spring where Scylla usually took her evening bath, he emptied

to change their shape; and at last she screamed aloud in terror, for where her limbs had been, there were now six horrible,

s fell, when thou wert dying,     From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying,     Will tears the cold turf stee

e would be disappointed, Pygmalion hastened home and entered the room where the marble girl gleamed from her pedestal. Throwi

e and Galatea were married in the temple of the goddess, at the altar where Pygmalion first offered up his prayer. They led a

would listen to my pleading. My cave is in the heart of the mountain, where the heat of the midday sun is never felt, nor the

e birds stopped singing, in their fright. At last he came to the spot where the shepherd and Galatea were sitting lovingly to

oaks of Dodona, or the calm groves of the Eumenides, or the fountain where Proserpine vanished under ground with Pluto; or t

ed mountain Parnassus, on the side of which was the temple of Delphi, where Apollo was supposed to be present in person. Imag

onclude with the words of Barry Cornwall — “Oh! ye delicious fables, where the wave,     And wood, were peopled; and the air

obable may be feigned for amusement, and in imitation of history; but where no such designs appear, but they seem to be what

ound in sacred history, in the creation, as well as in all mythology, where we see the names of Bramah, Vishnu, and Siva. U

asts of the forest, she received the name of Cybele from the mountain where her life had been preserved. She is called also t

presided over the fiery element, Numa Pompilius consecrated an altar, where virgins, named Vestals, maintained perpetual fire

hem as forgot their vow, were placed in a large hole under the earth, where a bed was placed, with a little bread, wine, ‌oil

, save Bacchus, sought safety in flight, and hid themselves in Egypt, where they obtained refuge under various forms: from th

y internal dissensions. ——— “The bruised Titans mourned Within a den where no insulting light Could glimmer on their tears;

d Within a den where no insulting light Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans They felt, but heard not; hard f

8 Enraged at this daring, Jupiter had him conveyed to Mount Caucasus, where being chained to the rock, a vulture preyed upon

oods, the vale,     She called on Echo still throughout the song; And where her sweetest theme she chose A soft responsive vo

ddressed. There far apart, and high above the rest The Thunderer sat; where old Olympus shrouds His hundred heads in heaven,

represented as superbly arrayed, in a chariot drawn by two peacocks, where she sat with a sceptre in her hand, having always

aving always a peacock beside her. She was adored above all at Argos, where her feasts were celebrated by the sacrifice of a

the sea, and was changed into the isle which bears the name of Delos; where Latona afterwards sought refuge from the fury of

wishing to return to her father Cœus, she arrived near his dominions, where , fatigued with her journey, she begged a drop of

d the chaste Castalia, whom he pursued to the very foot of Parnassus, where the Gods metamorphosed her into a fountain. As Ap

the only way of consoling herself, sought a retired and lonely spot, where she threw herself on the earth, whispering “King

ssus, his victory was celebrated in all Greece by the young Pythians; where crowns, ‌formed at first of the branches of oak,

ak, but afterwards of laurel, were distributed to the conquerors, and where they contended for the prize of dancing, music an

larly in Egypt, Greece, and Italy; the most famous was that of Delos, where they celebrated the Pythian games, that of Soract

of Delos, where they celebrated the Pythian games, that of Soractes, where the priests worshipped by treading with their nak

e tripod finally returned to Thales, and was deposited in the temple; where , as we have seen, it served the sibyl for a seat.

she dwelt, until one day she was induced to enter a temple at Lycaen ( where , with her son Arcas, she had been brought), and w

she snatched him from the power of Pluto, and placed him in a grotto, where she came down from Heaven every night to enjoy hi

ecreed that his name should never be mentioned. In one of the temples where Diana was worshipped, the presiding priest was al

of waves’ ebb and flow: Like a lone beacon on a desert coast Showing where all her hope was wrecked and lost.” Hood. It wa

is related of the youth Bacchus. When dwelling in the Isle of Naxos, where he had been for some years, becoming oppressed wi

maiden, guilty only of not loving, was crowned and led to the altar, where he who had once been her lover, stood ready to be

ambourine. “This was indeed a monstrous superstition, even in Greece, where it was alone capable of combining ideal beauty, a

e_heathen-mythology_1842_img066 She was soon after carried to heaven, where all the gods admired her beauty, and all the godd

ng the most highly valued, was that in the temple of Jupiter Olympus, where she was represented by Phidias, as rising from th

harm, the goddess blooming in her face; Her looks demand respect, and where she goes Beneath her tender feet the herbage blow

were sometimes reckoned among the Gods, and had a temple at Corinth, where worship and sacrifices were solemnly offered. “T

ed for a time to Thrace, and Venus took refuge in the isle of Cyprus, where she gave birth to Cupid. Vulcan, as we have recor

had been expelled from Olympus, and then prevailed on him to return, where he was reconciled to his parents. He seems, howev

th, should he return. The Goddess conveyed him to the isle of Cyprus, where he was suckled by the wild beasts of the forest.

light and the dagger. —————— “She softly rose, And seized the lamp —  where it obscurely lay, With hand too rashly daring to

ass, beneath the whispering roof     Of leaves and trembled blossoms, where there ran         A brooklet, scarce espied: ’Mid

n the vaults of hell: Earthly these passions of the earth They perish where they have their birth;     But Love is indestruct

ving serpents, as a punishment for the desecration of that sanctuary, where only worship and incense should have been offered

consul, before he went on an expedition, to visit the temple of Mars, where he offered his prayers, and shook in a solemn man

Their streaming dance about their father old, Beneath the blue Egean; where he sate, Wedded to prophecy, and full of fate! Or

luto, as god of the kingdom of hell, and whatever is under the earth, where ————— “Cerberus, the cruel worm of death, Keeps

ne of the attendant maidens of Proserpine had been metamorphosed, and where he had, according to the received traditions, dis

e fair Cyane gone? Is this fountain left alone For a sad remembrance, where We may in after times repair, With heavy heart an

ty of Troy. O Hermes, ’tis thou who conductest the blest To the seats where their souls shall for ever exist, Who governest t

ored as its deities. They had altars chiefly on the coast of the sea, where the piety of mankind made offerings of milk, oil,

azure colour. The chief place of his residence was in the Egean Sea, where he was attended by his daughters, who often dance

father wrapping him up in the skins of beasts, carried him to Heaven, where Jupiter and the other Gods, entertained themselve

all.” Horace. This god of the shepherds chiefly resided in Arcadia, where the woods and the mountains were his habitation.

cefulness. Who loves to see the hamadryads dress Their ruffled locks, where meeting hazels darken, And through whole solemn h

, he fancied he had made a mistake, and repaired to that of the hero; where the female dress which the latter had adopted, de

you all?’ at last she hears him call, And she straight answers him, ‘ where are you all?’ “‘Speak yet again,’ he cries, ‘is

e god of lewdness. His festivals took place principally at Lampsacus, where they consecrated the ass to him; and the people n

life blood rush back in one throb to my heart, And saw the pale lips where the rest of that spell Had perished in terror, an

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

And the fence has a fringe of softer green, And the moss looks bright where my foot hath been. I have sent thro’ the wood-pa

t! There is something come over brow and eye, Which speaks of a world where the flowers must die! Ye smile! — but your smile

to a brighter shore, Ye are marked by care, ye are mine no more, I go where the loved, who have left you, dwell, And the flow

her forehead, and a face of care; — There is enough of withered every where To make her bower, — and enough of gloom; There i

r-borne car to ride With barren Darkness by his side, Round the shore where loud Lofoden     Whirls to death the roaring whal

re loud Lofoden     Whirls to death the roaring whale, Round the hall where Runic Oden     Howls his war song to the gale;  

loved retreat, her favourite shore: Here Peleus seized her slumbering where she lay, And urged his suit, with all that love c

s he then sunk beneath the glassy flood, And broken accents fluttered where he stood. Bright Sol had almost now his journey d

thian sea, and like the rest of the sea gods, reposed upon the shore, where those resorted who wished to consult him to obtai

ir at the uselessness of their search, they retired to the sea shore, where , in the midst of desolate rocks, they sang songs

e poured the juice of poisonous herbs into the waters of the fountain where Scylla bathed, and no sooner had the nymph entere

o that part of the sea which separates the coast of Italy and Sicily, where she was changed into rocks which continue to bear

, His name is echoed thro’ the nations wide,     Reared is the column where his ashes lie; He sought for fame, he won it, bra

d with black plumes, and in an ebon stead; Black was the covering too where lay the god, And slept supine, his limbs displaye

tion was said to be the mother. The palace of Somnus was a dark cave, where the god lies asleep on a bed of feathers. The dre

ill slowly passed the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stray. The world was sad; the garden was a wil

many an ancient, kingly head     Slumbers, immortalized in stone; And where , through marble grots beneath,     The lifeless,

kill a frightful dragon which remained ever on the watch at the tree where the golden fleece was suspended. All were in fear

er dragons once more, to make her escape through the air, to Colchis, where , by some it is stated, she was re-united to Jason

l infanticide     Where peace and mercy dwell for evermore? The land where Heaven’s own hallowed waters play,     Where frie

his fifth labour Hercules was ordered to clean the stables of Augias, where three thousand oxen had been confined for many ye

to Eurystheus. They were sent to Mount Olympus by the King of Mycenæ, where they were devoured by the wild beasts; or, accord

h hideous yell The monster bull, and three-fold dog of hell.” “Then, where Nemea’s howling forests wave, He drives the Lion

d been sold expired, Hercules left her, and returned to Peloponnesus, where he re-established Tyndarus on the throne of Spart

ift he plunged in, ‘these billows shall be past,’ He said, nor sought where smoother waters glide But stemmed the rapid dange

d no slight possession of his affections. She accompanied him to Œta, where he was going to raise an altar, and offer a sacri

w. He has received many surnames and epithets, either from the place where his worship was established, or from the labours

able to find them, they erected an altar to his memory, upon the spot where the burning pile had been. Perseus. This he

d her son, was driven on the island of Seriphos, one of the Cyclades, where they were found by a fisherman named Dictys, and

hile sleeping, and refused to return them until they had informed him where their sisters, the Gorgons resided. When the nece

so great, you should have bravely sought, That blessing on the rocks where fixed she lay; But now let Perseus bear his prize

ll met, and destroyed by his courage. He arrived at Athens in safety, where his reception was not so cordial as he hoped, for

victory there, he was driven by contrary winds on the Isle of Naxos, where he had the meanness to desert Ariadne, whose cond

my heart, That from the hour I was Theseus’ wife, Even at the altar, where my plight was vowed, My thoughts were all of thee

e scenes of thine infamy, Away and seek beneath a sky unknown, A land where Theseus’ name hath never sounded; Fly, traitor! b

vest, I in vain repine.’” Virgil. ‌He returned to the upper world, where the only solace which he could find, was to sooth

  The laurel and the glorious rose     Thy glad beam yet may see, But where no purple summer glows O’er the dark wave I haste

e in the feet of the child, and hung him on a tree on Mount Cithæron, where he was soon found by one of the shepherds of Poly

e of abdicating. Polynice disgusted at such conduct retired to Argos, where Adrastus, king of the place, gave him his daughte

ished, and he was tortured by the Furies until he retired to Arcadia, where he married Alphisibaus. To fill up the measure of

, but was at last forced to leave Phrygia and seek a retreat in Pisa, where he married Hippodamia, the daughter of the king,

and they were treated with great kindness, and from thence to Sparta, where , like the remainder of the Greek princes, they so

ould put him to death. He, however, returned with Cassandra to Argos, where the sad prediction was fulfilled. One day as he c

thus turn away? Calling me with such fondness! I am here, Father! and where you are, will ever be. Aga. Thou art my child — 

en that found faith with me! the dirk Which severed flesh from flesh, where this hand rests, Severs not, as thou boasted’st i

re Teach what we know, from those we know, and sink Often most deeply where they fall most light. Time was when for the faint

hero joined the Trojans that survived, and all retired to mount Ida, where they constructed a fleet of twenty vessels, in wh

ed a savage ferocity, shut up Ulysses and his companions in a cavern, where he kept his sheep. In the morning Polyphemus came

nonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img242 He arrived in the isle of Æolia, where reigned Æolus, king of the winds. This monarch tr

em. In alarm the vessels again put to sea, and they landed in an isle where abode Circe, a famous magician. When he had ancho

ich this queen had built the most gorgeous edifices; in one of which, where she gave to him a splendid entertainment, the her

. She was the goddess of sensual pleasures, and had a temple at Rome, where she was worshipped under the title of Volupia.

onfined, Whom love at first, and fate at last, has joined. Thou tree, where now one lifeless lump is laid, Ere long o’er two

e day to him was a dull blank, and was employed in watching the spot, where at night he saw the beacon which cheered his way.

t gaze,                 Watching the lingering rays, In the far west, where Summer-day was dying?                 Did’st thou

               Wandering thro’ bowers beloved,                 Roving where he had roved, Yearn for his presence, as for one

e had committed which, he fled to the court of Prœtus, King of Argos, where being of a noble and fine person, he won the affe

ost famous of their places of worship is that point of the peninsula, where the Ganges, suddenly abandoning the mountains, is

ests, by the rays of the moon, and the flashing of torches. The field where his holy ceremonies had been celebrated, was sown

d; there was a deep well in the neighbourhood of the temple at Upsal, where the chosen person was thrown in headlong, in hono

as carried to such a pitch as to become merely bacchanalian meetings, where , amidst shouts, dancing, and indecent gestures, s

uakes proved that she could move, if she would. Down under the earth, where the sun never shines, the Greeks thought that the

elf. At any moment, however, he might disappear to return to Olympus, where the gods of heaven lived. He was not the only one

ne were souls that dared be free; Power, and fame, and liberty. Land where every vale and mountain    Echoes to immortal str

and was as quiet as a land of ghosts must be. Even Elysium, the place where men lived who had been brave and good on earth, P

only sound Ceres heard was a faint sobbing from the edge of the lake, where one of the poor little nymphs lay weeping for her

in the nights, they could see in the sky the glow of her great torch, where the mighty goddess wandered alone, searching; and

d her face and rose, and went slowly up the path of stars to Olympus, where the gods of heaven dwell; for, she said, “My brot

es was reverenced by all. Then they sat down again at the long table, where they were eating and drinking. Ah, but it was a b

, “farewell;    The coal-black horses wait for me. O shade of shades, where I must dwell,    Demeter, mother, far from thee!

y. He had seen the eternal fire burning in the great hall of Olympus, where the gods of heaven dwell, and he knew how it chee

eeply. At last, one day, an idea came to him and he went to the cliff where Prometheus hung. “Listen, brother,” he said to th

Next day he went up the star-road and into the great hall of Olympus, where the gods of heaven were feasting. The air was swe

ollo, the god of light and song, came by. He was just from the earth, where he had done a great service to mankind. For the s

nor make him send back Eurydice. Then Orpheus said, “I will seek her where she is,” and he rose and went to the promontory o

f at his second loss, turned and went out into the fresh, bright air, where the careless sun was shining and the birds were s

t air, where the careless sun was shining and the birds were singing, where the grass and the trees were green and the blue s

woodland path, he saw two beautiful goddesses sitting beside the way where it forked. Goddesses they really were, though the

hundred-headed serpent. Little would he care about magic maidens. But where were the gardens of the Hesperides? How should he

to seek out Nereus, the old man of the sea, for he could surely tell where the gardens were. Then Hercules wandered far and

the giant Atlas, who holds the earth and sky apart. He will tell you where the gardens of the Hesperides are, and will help

es boldly set Prometheus free, and Prometheus, in gratitude, told him where Atlas could be found. Far to the west, over land

las. “You will do better to let me go after them for you. I know just where the gardens are, and besides, I am much taller th

a changed man in an instant. One moment he stayed to ask the servant where Alcestis was to be buried, then he was gone. He c

then he was gone. He came just in time, for when he reached the place where they had buried her, there was Death carrying awa

d these words with joy, and set out at once for the far distant east, where the sky comes down to the earth. There the palace

y that he had made the dizzy ride. At last Helios led him to the hall where the great chariot stood. Vulcan, the workman of t

he horses veered, and in a moment were dashing toward the north pole, where the Great Bear stood. The Bear, surprised and enr

re, Lo I the strange steed had departed    And they knew not when nor where . But they found upon the greensward,    Where hi

er, Medusa. But the aged priest, though very wise, could not tell him where she could be found. So Perseus went out and walke

. Seek first the Grææ, the sisters of the Gorgons. They will tell you where Medusa is to be found.” With these words the godd

under him all the day, but in the evening he came to the ice cliffs, where the North Wind has his home. Here also live the G

tooth cried out: — “Sister, give me the eye, quickly, that I may see where the wretch is.” Then they all began to talk and r

” “Listen,” said Perseus. “I will give you the eye, but tell me first where I shall find the Gorgon Medusa.” “No, no,” the

he flew. He passed the palaces of sunset and went on into the region where the chariot of the sun is never seen. At last, in

mother and his beautiful bride, set out at last for Argos and Greece, where his own kingdom awaited him, and there he gave ba

g ray    Shows not his hark mid all the seas, Though I can trace from where I stand    All the flowery Cyclades. “O had the

ys they sped over the waves, but on the third day they came to Pylos, where Nestor, the wisest of mortal men, dwelt. From the

Trojans won. They drove the Greeks further and further back, even to where the ships were drawn up high upon the beach. Then

recian camp and the assembly of the chiefs. When he came to the place where the chiefs were sitting, he went to Agamemnon and

ed entered the city in disguise, and stealing quietly into the temple where the Palladium stood; they seized the sacred statu

erpents. When they reached the shore, they went straight to the place where Laocoön stood with his two sons. In a moment they

ht came on and the happy city was fast asleep, he went up on the wall where it overlooked the sea. Before long he saw far out

the leadership of Æneas, were now hiding in the forest of Mount Ida, where , long before, Paris had given the golden apple to

ys the storm raged, and when it cleared away the fleet was far beyond where any ships had ever been before. On the tenth day

d Ulysses and his companions. “Who are you, strangers?” he said, “and where have you come from?” Their hearts sank at the sou

ve. Sadly they rowed away, and came to the land of the Læstrygonians, where the sun never sets. It was a beautiful and fertil

s drove them away, grunting and squealing, and shut them up in sties, where they wallowed in the mire, not contentedly, like

e who has it can never be bewitched. Ulysses soon came to the palace, where he called aloud. The enchantress threw open the s

hen they passed Scylla and Charybdis, and came to the pleasant island where the Oxen of the Sun graze in the meadows. “Rememb

about, but on the tenth he was washed ashore on the Island of Ogygia, where the fair goddess Calypso reigned. Now, when the g

see him or do him harm. When Ulysses awoke, he did not at first know where he was, but soon the mist cleared, and with joy h

rits who have been brave and good, 22, 38. En΄na. A valley in Sicily where Proserpina was carried off by Pluto, 15-17, 23.

ne eye and one tooth, which they used in turn, 132; they told Perseus where to find the Gorgon Medusa, 134. Ha΄ d es, 38. Th

Protection against sorcery, 229. Mt. Cau΄c asus. Mountain in Scythia where Prometheus was chained, 91. Mt. Hel΄ic on. Sacre

΄iads (na΄yadz). Water-nymphs, 96. Nax΄os. An island s.e. of Greece, where Theseus is said to have deserted Ariadne, 168. N

s, encountering numerous difficulties, he at length arrived in Italy, where he was hospitably received by Latinus, king of th

had been healed by him; but his most famous shrine was at Epidaurus, where , every five years, games were held in his honor.

s was derived from his connection with the splendid Temple at Delphi, where he uttered the famous oracles. Some writers recor

ce of Apollo was on Mount Parnassus, a mountain of Phocis, in Greece, where he presided over the Muses. Apollo was the accred

who sat at the Areopagus. Areop′agus [Areopagus], the hill at Athens where Mars was tried for murder before twelve of the go

e Labyrinth by means of a clew of thread, she fled with him to Naxos, where he ungratefully deserted her; but Bacchus wooed h

[Arion] was a famous lyric poet of Methymna, in the Island of Lesbos, where he gained great riches by his art. There is a pre

e sun. Berecyn′thia [Berecynthia], a name of Cybele, from a mountain where she was worshiped. Bi′formis [Biformis], a name

was queen of the island of Ogygia, on which Ulysses was wrecked, and where he was persuaded to remain seven years. Ca′ma [C

, and the use of medicinal herbs. Jupiter placed him among the stars, where he appears as Sagittarius, the Archer. Chlo′ris

rmatians, for which act she was banished. When Ulysses landed at Ææa, where she lived, she turned all his followers into swin

hicus]. A name of Apollo, from Delphi. Del′phos [Delphos], the place where the temple was built, from which the oracle of Ap

and Luna. Din′dyme′ne [Dindymene]. A name of Cybele, from a mountain where she was worshiped. “Nor Dindymene, nor her pries

ng riches.                               “… That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer fl

of Bacchus. Dodo′na [Dodona] was a celebrated oracle of Jupiter. “O where , Dodona, is thine aged grove, Prophetic fount, an

ry. Ge′ryon [Geryon] was a triple-bodied monster who lived at Gades, where his numerous flocks were guarded by Orthos, a two

urple and golden. It was given to Phryxus, who carried it to Colchis, where King Æetes entertained Phryxus, and the hide was

o. The episode gave the name of the Hellespont to the part of the sea where Helle was drowned, and it is now called the Darda

word means tracker. Idæ′a [Idæa]. A name of Cybele, from Mount Ida, where she was worshiped. Idæ′an Mother [Idæan Mother].

ons, and Io had to wander from place to place till she came to Egypt, where she became wife of King Osiris, and won such good

Hercules in conquering the Hydra, by burning with hot irons the place where the heads were cut off; and for his assistance he

he whirling wheel.” Pope. J Ja′ni [Jani] was a place in Rome where there were three statues of Janus, and it was a m

g their invocations. Thus the Sol or Sun worshipers turn to the east, where the sun rises, and the Mohammedans turn toward Me

. Also the river in Arcadia to which Syrinx fled when pursued by Pan, where she was changed into a reed, and where Pan made h

rinx fled when pursued by Pan, where she was changed into a reed, and where Pan made his first pipe. Læ′laps [Lælaps]. One o

f the names of Bacchus. Ler′na [Lerna]. The lake or swamp near Argos where Hercules conquered the Lernæan Hydra. Le′the [Le

pposed to consist of nine vast regions of ice beneath the North Pole, where darkness reigns eternally. See Nastrond. Night,

see Aristæus. Olym′pius [Olympius]. A name of Jupiter, from Olympia, where the god had a splendid temple, which was consider

s the magnificent mountain on the coast of Thessaly, 9,000 feet high, where the gods were supposed to reside. There were seve

sun.” He was afterward slain by Diana and placed amongst the stars, where his constellation is one of the most splendid. O

sculapius and Itys. P Pacto′lus [Pactolus]. The river in Lydia where Midas washed himself by order of Bacchus, and the

when her head was cut off by Perseus. His abode was on Mount Helicon, where , by striking the ground with his hoof, he caused

ses, derived from Pieria, a fountain in Thessaly, near Mount Olympus, where they were supposed to have been born. Also, the d

ished Prometheus by commanding Mercury to bind him to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture daily preyed upon his liver, which grew

u′sia [Rhamnusia]. A name of Nemesis, from Rhamnus, a town in Attica, where she had a temple in which was her statue, made of

ivia]. A surname given to Diana, because she presided over all places where three roads meet. Tropho′nius [Trophonius]. A le

Æolia. After Circe had turned his companions into swine on an island where he and they were shipwrecked, he compelled the go

sea, and was immediately carried to the abode of the gods on Olympus, where they were all charmed with her extreme beauty. Vu

in manuscript for nearly three years in one of our largest academies, where it has been received with much favor by both teac

m, giving the allegorical meaning attached to the ancient myths, only where their application is clear and simple. For the sa

riter has avoided questions of comparative mythology, except in cases where the analogies are too obvious to be passed unnoti

His words were simple, and his soul sincere; Needless was written law where none oppressed; The law of man was written in his

d that Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, visited a temple in Sicily, where he saw a statue of Jupiter arrayed in a mantle of

ceeded in concealing Jupiter from him. She sent him secretly to Crete where he was educated on Mount Ida, by the nymphs, or,

snow-white bull, and mingled with the herd that grazed in the meadow where the young princess was gathering flowers. Europa,

oung heifer, which he would meet in the fields, and to mark the place where she should lie down to rest. He was to build a ci

uck Phæton with a thunderbolt. His body was hurled into the river Po, where it was found and buried by the nymphs of the plac

is commonly called the messenger of the gods. He also swept the room where the gods supped, and made their beds. Ques. What

. Bacchus did not share his mother’s fate, but was conveyed to Naxos, where he was educated by some nymphs. Ques. How did Ba

is wonderful steed flew to Mount Helicon, the residence of the Muses, where , by striking the earth with his foot, he produced

truction of his native city. He was, therefore, exposed on Mount Ida, where he was found and cared for by some shepherds. Aft

by the jealousy of Juno, she found an asylum in the island of Delos, where she gave birth to Apollo and Diana. Terra (the ea

. He was deposed by Jupiter, and was obliged to take refuge in Italy, where he taught the people the arts of civilized life.

s. What was his occupation? Ans. He had a blacksmith shop in Lemnos, where he manufactured Jupiter’s thunderbolts, and the a

, and sowing wheat and other grains, so that men ate wholesome bread, where before they had lived on roots and acorns. Ques.

d her of what had taken place. Ceres repaired immediately to Olympus, where she made her complaint to Jupiter, and demanded t

Eleusinian Mysteries. They were named from Eleusis, a town in Greece where they were celebrated. Ques. What rites were prac

n to be initiated was first introduced into a dark subterranean cave, where he was terrified with the most fearful sights and

Neptune worshipped? Ans. Neptune had an altar in the Circus at Rome where sacrifices were offered, and plays were acted, re

that their hour had come, and flung themselves headlong into the sea, where they were transformed into rocks. Ques. Who was

sband, the king of the Sarmatians, she was obliged to fly into Italy, where she fixed her dwelling on the promontory Circæum.

h grieved by this transformation, that she cast herself into the sea, where she was changed into a rock, made famous by the m

fections of Juno. For this insolence Jupiter cast him down into hell, where he was fastened to a wheel which revolved continu

of Lerna, and ravaged the surrounding country. Hercules noticed that where he cut off one of the heads of this serpent, two

m into the sea. He then fled in his agony to the summit of Mount Œta, where he erected a funeral pyre with forest trees which

re called from her, Hellespont. Phryxus arrived in safety at Colchis, where he sacrificed the ram to Jupiter, who placed it a

e signs of the Zodiac. The fleece was hung in a grove sacred to Mars, where it was guarded by bulls who breathed flame from t

he proceeded. Theseus followed her instructions, and when he came to where the Minotaur lay, he slew him, and found his way

t, but he was so ungrateful as to abandon her on the island of Naxos, where she had fallen asleep on the shore. Ariadne was a

e sea. The coffer was carried by the waves to the island of Seriphus, where a fisherman named Dictys drew it ashore in his ne

e sacrifice, and his daughter was chained to a rock by the sea-shore, where she was abandoned to her fate. Perseus, returning

ea which is called Icarian, from his name. Dædalus arrived in Sicily, where he was employed by Cocalus [Coc′alus], king of th

ould never meet, an Oread was sent to the ice-clad plains of Scythia, where Famine chiefly dwelt. Arriving at Mount Caucasus,

ounded the Odyssey. Becoming totally blind, Homer returned to Smyrna, where he probably composed the greater part of his poem

by the recitation of his verses. He died at Ios, one of the Cyclades, where he was buried. The fame of Homer is founded on hi

nt Helicon. He emigrated afterwards to Orchomenos, in western Bœotia, where he died. The only complete works of Hesiod now ex

r, and when she was gone, he erected a statue to Modesty, on the spot where they parted. When the Grecian princes were called

ween Scylla and Charybdis, Ulysses landed in the island of Thrinakia, where the cattle of Hyperion (the Sun) fed in verdant p

n admitted, in ancient times, to the halls of chieftains and princes, where they entertained the guests with stories of their

Apollo, at Delphi. By the command of that god, he repaired to Athens, where he was tried by the court of Areopagus. The judge

. Polynices was indignant at this breach of faith, and fled to Argos, where he married the daughter of King Adrastus. This mo

the son of Venus and Anchises [Anchi′ses]. He was born on Mount Ida, where he was nurtured by the Dryads until he had attain

rked, she killed herself in despair. Æneas spent some time in Sicily, where he celebrated funeral games in honor of his fathe

Milton. Ques. What do you understand by oracles? Ans. The places where the heathen divinities were supposed to answer th

ing through the Libyan desert, Bacchus came to a barren waste of sand where his whole army was in danger of perishing for wan

inistrants in these shrines of imposture. Many instances are recorded where Christians imposed silence on oracles by pronounc

n Games so called? Ans. They were named from the Isthmus of Corinth, where they were celebrated. They were instituted in hon

Memnon. Ghosts and infernal deities ascended from beneath the stage, where there were appropriate contrivances for their int

of his Satires, thus ridicules their superstition: Who has not heard where Egypt’s realms are nam’d What monster gods her fr

th century, those who refused to embrace the Koran fled to Hindostan, where they still exist under the name of Parsees. At Bo

sted with the wickedness of men, that he retired into a desert place, where he spent six years in prayer and meditation. At t

d passions of men against the progress of the faith. In ancient Rome, where the idols and superstitions of every conquered na

s mouth, he encircled the whole world. Hela was cast into Niffleheim, where she receives as her subjects all who die of sickn

ay rejoicing. Having cut down the mistletoe, he repaired to the place where the gods were assembled, and put the bough among

r nine days, and as many nights, the hero rode through darksome glens where no object could be discerned in the gloom. On the

ined secluded in caves and grottoes, or in the depths of oak forests, where they were supposed to study the deeper mysteries

Some of these sorceresses were obliged to assist at nocturnal rites, where , with their bodies painted black, and their hair

he Apostle of the Highlands. This missionary was a native of Ireland, where Christianity had been established for nearly a ce

abandon the country. He proceeded to the shores of the Mexican gulf, where he took leave of his followers, promising that, w

th of its own accord. This prodigy took place in the valley of Cuzco, where the wedge sank into the ground, and disappeared f

l for the erection of other buildings. Fields of maize are now waving where the golden gardens once sparkled in the sun, and

lus was pardoned. He deemed it prudent, however, to retire to Sicily, where he was kindly entertained by Hiero. His death is

accounts received from other travellers. The general opinion is that where Herodotus speaks from his own observation, or rel

the vices and follies of his day, not sparing the emperors themselves where their conduct was deserving of reproach. Hadrian

magnanimity to overlook the offence, and Juvenal was exiled to Lybia, where he died soon after. Mæcenas . Minister an

ream was, at length, conducted through a garden adjoining the chamber where he lay, and the soft murmur of the falling waters

unt of composition. While still quite young, Pliny served in Germany, where he commanded a troop of cavalry; he afterwards pr

red very little service to the art of medicine. The case is different where he speaks of geography, history and the fine arts

uth free from dross in what he calls the lowest stage, hecastotheism, where everything is endowed “with life: with personalit

everything is endowed “with life: with personality, will, and design… where everything discovered by the senses is looked upo

d endowed with all the attributes supposed to be inherent in himself; where everything is a god.” Nor do we discover the trut

h “men no longer attribute life indiscriminately to inanimate things; where the same powers and attributes recognized by subj

ion in man are attributed to the animals by which he is surrounded; … where man worships beasts, and the phenomena of nature

ods.” Nor do we hold truth undebased in the third stage, physitheism, where “animal gods are dethroned; the powers and phenom

ze it in psychotheism, a still higher plane of mythologic philosophy, where “mental, moral, and social characteristics are pe

s, lyrics, and novels, of our essays and orations, like a golden warp where the woof is only too often of silver, are the myt

ures of heroes in which magical and ghostly agencies play a part, and where animals and inanimate nature don the attributes o

of immediate and selfish needs, and then unrolls a vision of a world where men and things exist simply for the purpose of de

me cases the myth was, without doubt, from the first an allegory; but where the myth was consciously fashioned as an allegory

proceeded first the starry vault of Heaven, durable as brass or iron, where the gods were to take up their abode. Earth broug

(or Zeus), the rescued infant, was concealed in the island of Crete, where , nurtured by the nymphs, Adrastea and Ida, and fe

upiter, acting again under the advice of Gæa, released from Tartarus, where Uranus had confined them, the Cyclopes and the He

r Hades), the government of the underworld, dark, unseen, mysterious, where the spirits of the dead should dwell, and of Tart

rophecy was his; and his will was made known at the oracle of Dodona, where answers were given to those who inquired concerni

of her parents, she was wedded to Jupiter in this garden of the gods where ambrosial rivers flowed, and where Earth sent up

Jupiter in this garden of the gods where ambrosial rivers flowed, and where Earth sent up in honor of the rite a tree of life

d Apollo chose first to spend a year in the land of the Hyperboreans, where for six continuous months of the year there is su

ise, — and danced in chorus about the tripod (or three-legged stool), where the expectant priestess of Apollo had taken her s

st the island of Cythera; thence, like a dream, she passed to Cyprus, where the grace and blossom of her beauty conquered eve

e land of dreams, to the mead of asphodel in the dark realm of Hades, where dwell the souls, the phantoms of men outworn.” 87

divinity of Heaven. His palace was on the precipitous isle of Æolia, where , with his six sons and six daughters, he kept ete

n margin of the earth, by the stream of Ocean, lay the Elysian Plain, where certain mortals enjoyed an immortality of bliss.

of sombre trees, — willows and silver poplars. The meads of Asphodel, where wander the shades, are barren, or, at best, studd

he dead were brought to trial. The condemned were assigned to regions where all manner of torment awaited them at the hands o

y below. But the souls of the guiltless passed to the Elysian Fields, where each followed the chosen pursuit of his former li

ometimes named the Cimmerians, and are then located in the far north, where the sun neither rises nor sets. But Homer’s Elysi

was fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter, he fled to Italy, where he reigned during the Golden Age. In memory of hi

rgus Juno took and scattered as ornaments on the tail of her peacock, where they remain to this day. But the vengeance of Jun

shall presently receive thee, Crete that was mine own foster-mother, where thy bridal chamber shall be.”113 Fig. 35. Eu

eard. ‘I accept the omen,’ I cried. By chance there grew by the place where I stood an oak with widespreading branches, sacre

for their reception. At last a small thatched cottage received them, where Baucis, a pious old dame, and her husband Philemo

hrough heat and dust many aweary league till they reached the temple, where stood the gold and ivory master-work of Polyclitu

e heavens, formed by sunbeams reflected from the shower,126 in which, where the colors meet they seem as one, but at a little

of bronze; and Minerva drave it home against Mars’ nethermost belly, where his taslets were girt about him. There smote he h

a cow in the field, should follow her wherever she might wander, and where she stopped should build a city and call it Thebe

ted goddess espied in the bottom of the valley a pond of clear water, where the country people were at work gathering willows

his lightning slew them. They atoned for their presumption in Hades, where bound by serpents to a pillar, they were tormente

ns of the Bull, in front of the Archer, and near the Lion’s jaws, and where the Scorpion stretches its arms in one direction

o, having resisted as long as he might, Phœbus at last led the way to where stood the lofty chariot. It was of gold, the gift

abylonian Euphrates and Ganges, Tagus, with golden sands, and Caÿster where the swans resort. Nile fled away and hid his head

he towers of the city. Spread out before the gates was a broad plain, where the youth of the city pursued their warlike sport

atiate thy hard heart, while I follow to the grave my seven sons. Yet where is thy triumph? Bereaved as I am, I am still rich

of her father the king, Psamathe exposed the child on the mountains, where , brought up by shepherds among the lambs, he was

ull of love, because of him. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their fir

ome. And now from their fountains In Enna’s mountains, Down one vale where the morning basks Like friends once parted Grown

One day, having repaired to a valley enclosed by cypresses and pines where gushed a fountain of sparkling water, the chaste

ning, followed the sound of a Cyclops’ hammer till he reached Lemnos, where Vulcan, taking pity on him, gave him Cedalion, on

ng her fatal error with many tears, Diana placed him among the stars, where he appears as a giant, with a girdle, sword, lion

beginning of summer, he may be seen with daybreak in the eastern sky, where , beloved by Aurora, he remains gradually paling b

ents, amid the lamentations of their subjects, ascended the mountain, where she was left alone. While Psyche stood there, pan

and the refreshment of the bath, Psyche seated herself in the alcove, where , without any visible aid, a table immediately pre

ace and gardens had vanished. She found herself not far from the city where her sisters dwelt. Thither she repaired, and told

ose, in search of her husband. Finally she reached a temple of Ceres, where she won the favor of the goddess by arranging in

ereupon she ordered Psyche to be led to the storehouse of the temple, where was laid up a great quantity of wheat, barley, mi

ven the cattle to the shade, gathered the woolly gold from the bushes where it was clinging, and returned to Venus with her a

o the kingdom of Pluto. She was admitted to the palace of Proserpine, where , contenting herself with plain fare instead of th

lipped through a crack in the window of his chamber, flew to the spot where his beloved lay, gathered up the sleep from her b

t mount, Where silence sits to listen to the stars; In the deep glade where dwells the brooding dove, The painted valley, and

st grass, beneath the whispering roof Of leaves and tumbled blossoms, where there ran A brooklet, scarce espied! “’Mid hushe

e a lioness; her lord and master a lion, — and yoked them to her car, where they are still to be seen in all representations,

d hour! — Went Hero thorough Sestos, from her tower To Venus’ temple, where unhappily, As after chanc’d, they did each other

hich I wear.’ … Then she told him of the turret by the murmuring sea where all day long she tended Venus’ swans and sparrows

d, and he was drowned. The waves bore his body to the European shore, where Hero became aware of his death, and in her despai

as the handsomest youth, and Thisbe the fairest maiden, in Babylonia, where Semiramis reigned. Their parents occupied adjoini

stole the oxen of his half-brother Apollo from the Pierian mountains, where they were grazing. He covered their hoofs with ta

ess it brought with it. Finally he approached his native city Thebes, where his own cousin, Pentheus, son of Agave and grands

ere carrying him. One of the mariners replied, “Fear nothing; tell us where thou wouldst go, and we will convey thee thither.

nting the pilot from steering toward Naxos, they bore away for Egypt, where they might sell the lad into slavery. Soon the go

by the noise, penetrated through the wood, and reached an open space where the chief scene of the orgies met his eyes. At th

, like a living rose, The immortal splendor of his face he shows, And where he glances, leaf and flower and wing Tremble with

the heart of Pluto. In the vale of Enna is a lake embowered in woods, where Spring reigns perpetual. Here Proserpine was play

pen air, under the sunlight and moonlight and falling showers. It was where now stands the city of Eleusis, near the home of

oddess stooped and gathered some poppies. Then, entering the cottage, where all was in distress, — for the boy, Triptolemus,

es responded. The Muses buried the fragments of his body at Libethra, where the nightingale is said to sing over his grave mo

Halcyon Birds. — Morpheu flew, on silent wings, to the Hæmonian city, where he assumed the form of Ceÿx. Pale like a dead man

air fans the cloud apart; there comes A glimpse of that dark world where I was born. Once more the old mysterious glimme

would indicate: — Fig. 68. Dancing Satyr. [ Pitt’s Vergil.] Just where the Treasury’s marble front228 Looks over Wall S

multitude, And yet more joyous rose, and shriller, I saw the minstrel where he stood At ease against a Doric pillar: One hand

ated, nodded her assent. She despatched an Oread to ice-clad Scythia, where Cold abides, and Fear, and Shuddering, and Famine

cul.: Thompson’s Horace.] “Bear me, Pomona, to thy citron groves, To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep or

sudden he came in sight of Galatea and Acis, in the hollow of a rock, where they had hearkened to the strains of the Cyclops.

. 75. Sea-monsters. [Wall painting: H. and P.] “Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, transluc

uld behold her without being turned into stone. All around the cavern where she dwelt might be seen the stony figures of men

r cattle that passed on the sand-hills. Rolling and dripping it came, where bedded in glistening purple Cold on the cold sea-

e joyful parents, with Perseus and Andromeda, repaired to the palace; where a banquet was opened for them. But in the midst o

of discipline, the youth was rusticated, — sent off to the mountains, where among the herdsmen and the cattle he grew to migh

ntries, Hercules reached at length the frontiers of Libya and Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Abyla and Calpe as

robbery of the golden apples of the Hesperides. Hercules did not know where to find them; but after various adventures, arriv

attle, while the hero slept. That their footprints might not indicate where they had been driven, he dragged them backward by

ned that while he was driving the remainder of the herd past the cave where the stolen ones were concealed, those within begi

done, hanged herself. Hercules, prepared to die, ascended Mount Œta, where he built a funeral pile of trees, gave his bow an

den lost in death. High Olympus gives harmonious greeting To the hall where reigns his sire adored; Youth’s bright goddess, w

ow the Dardanelles. The ram safely landed the boy Phryxus in Colchis, where he was hospitably received by Æetes, the king of

ot borne aloft by dragons, she traversed the fields of air to regions where flourished potent plants, which only she knew how

clung, and green flowers and white Reddened and broke all round them where they came.318 It was a slight wound, but Meleag

like a god, — Aimed on the left side his well handled spear, Grasped where the ash was knottiest hewn, and smote, And with n

sferred, with his brother Rhadamanthus and with King Æacus, to Hades, where the three became judges of the Shades. This is th

ng knell.”324 Dædalus, mourning his son, arrived finally in Sicily, where , being kindly received by King Cocalus, he built

us journey by land. His first day’s journey brought him to Epidaurus, where dwelt Periphetes, a son of Vulcan. This ferocious

m to his father, and prevented the fatal draught. Medea fled to Asia, where the country afterwards called Media is said to ha

sate, — Potent neither voices to hear nor words to re-echo?… Yea, but where shall I turn? Forlorn, what succor rely on? ‘Hast

homeless strand of an isle remote of the ocean! No, no way of escape, where the circling sea without shore is, — No, no couns

had aforetime dealt Ariadne, — Fixed Ariadne that still, still stared where the ship had receded, — Wounded, revolving in hea

d been abandoned, was Naxos, loved and especially haunted by Bacchus, where with his train of reeling devotees he was wont to

ut Pluto seized and set them on an enchanted rock at his palace gate, where , fixed, they remained till Hercules, arriving, li

lowed. God took him from his troubles. Antigone returned to Thebes; — where , as we shall see, her sisterly fidelity showed it

d with distinguished honor, but suffered the body of Polynices to lie where it fell, forbidding every one, on pain of death,

decide so delicate a matter, Jupiter sent the goddesses to Mount Ida, where Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy, was tending hi

n her place. Iphigenia, enveloped in a cloud, was conveyed to Tauris, where Diana made her priestess of her temple.348 Iphig

rled his lance at the huge warrior. It was well aimed and struck Ajax where the belts that bore his sword and shield crossed

e fight. Patroclus and his Myrmidons at once plunged into the contest where it raged hottest; at the sight of them the joyful

His groans reached the ears of Thetis, far down in the deeps of ocean where she abode, and she hastened to inquire the cause.

e to himself, “by whose command the people went to this day’s contest where so many have fallen, seek refuge for myself from

reach of his spear, Achilles choosing with his eye a vulnerable part where the armor leaves the neck uncovered, aimed his sp

cast the guards into a heavy sleep, he introduced Priam into the tent where Achilles sat, attended by two of his warriors. Th

us was rated above valor; wherefore Ajax slew himself.359 On the spot where his blood sank into the earth a hyacinth sprang u

wd fled in all directions. The serpents advanced directly to the spot where Laocoön stood with his two sons. They first attac

Troy, the vessels first made land at Ismarus, city of the Ciconians, where , in a skirmish with the inhabitants, Ulysses lost

d the strangers, and growled out at them, demanding who they were and where from. Ulysses replied most humbly, stating that t

wn escape, they pursued their way till they arrived at the Ææan isle, where Circe dwelt, the daughter of the sun. Landing her

o signs of habitation except in one spot at the centre of the island, where he perceived a palace embowered with trees. He se

f Ulysses, drowned herself. Her body was cast up on the Italian shore where now stands the city of Naples — in early times ca

tched himself, and heaping the leaves over him, fell asleep. The land where he was thrown was Scheria, the country of the Phæ

sort of heroes), and their battlements, till they came to the palace, where the goddess, having first given him some informat

ciently observed the scene, he advanced with rapid step into the hall where the chiefs and senators were assembled, pouring l

oud and disclosed him to the assembled chiefs. Advancing to the place where the queen sat, he knelt at her feet and implored

ew of stout rowers selected, and all betook themselves to the palace, where a bounteous repast was provided. After the feast

Minerva appeared to him in the form of a young shepherd, informed him where he was, and told him the state of things at his p

urther, but when she was gone erected a statue to Modesty on the spot where they parted. Ulysses and Penelope had not enjoyed

he heroes of the Argonautic expedition, and took refuge in the island where Æneas now found them. When the Trojans entered th

ake him off with them, as he had no means of sustaining his existence where he was, but wild berries and roots, and lived in

e sea became calm, sought the nearest shore, — the coast of Carthage, where Æneas was so happy as to find that one by one the

safe, though badly shaken. The Sojourn at Carthage. Dido. — Carthage where the exiles had now arrived, was a spot on the coa

s had now arrived, was a spot on the coast of Africa opposite Sicily, where at that time a Tyrian colony under Dido their que

Palinurus. Italy at Last. — After touching at the island of Sicily, where Acestes, a prince of Trojan lineage, bore sway, w

back with it to the Sibyl. § 175. The Infernal Regions. — The region where Vergil locates the entrance to the infernal regio

ny on the face of the earth. It is the volcanic region near Vesuvius, where the whole country is cleft with chasms from which

the Sibyl restrained him. They then came to the black river Cocytus, where they found the ferryman, Charon, old and squalid,

Pluto; but consoled him by informing him that the people of the shore where his body had been wafted by the waves should be s

senger and his fare. [Relief: Sepolcri.] They next entered the fields where roam the heroes who have fallen in battle. Here t

an friends, but the Sibyl hurried him away. They next came to a place where the road divided, the one leading to Elysium, the

iddle tract of darkness, and came upon the Elysian fields, the groves where the happy reside. They breathed a freer air, and

about their brows. The Sibyl addressed a group of these, and inquired where Anchises was to be found. They were directed wher

hese, and inquired where Anchises was to be found. They were directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant vall

e directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant valley, where he was contemplating the ranks of his posterity,

day they came in sight of the scattered buildings of the infant town where in after times the proud city of Rome grew, whose

d him the Tarpeian rock, and the rude spot then overgrown with bushes where in after times the Capitol was to rise in all its

poor Evander, whence they saw the lowing herds roaming over the plain where soon should stand the proud and stately Forum. Th

hemselves in an immense forest, and searched on all sides for a place where they might pass the night. At last they came to a

had taken overnight for a hall was the giant’s glove, and the chamber where his two companions had sought refuge was the thum

agility. He then arose and went with all who were present to a plain where there was good ground for running on, and calling

I have all along deceived thee by my illusions; first in the forest, where I tied up the wallet with iron wire so that thou

allen on me, but I slipped aside, and thy blows fell on the mountain, where thou wilt find three glens, one of them remarkabl

g his natural shape, cut off the mistletoe, and repaired to the place where the gods were assembled. There he found Höder sta

hing at Balder?” “Because I am blind,” answered Höder, “and see not where Balder is, and have moreover nothing to throw.”

throwing this twig at him, and I will direct thy arm toward the place where he stands.” Höder then took the mistletoe, and u

Asgard, take Sleipnir, Odin’s horse, and ride o’er the bridge Bifrost where is Heimdall’s watch, past Midgard fortress, down

emendous leap without touching it. Hermod then rode on to the palace, where he found his brother Balder occupying the most di

wood Of Jarnvid, which to east of Midgard lies Bordering the giants, where the trees are iron; There in the wood before a ca

Balder. — The gods took up the dead body and bore it to the sea-shore where stood Balder’s ship Hringham, which passed for th

as, I know, To other gods it were, is my enforced Absence from fields where I could nothing aid; For I am long since weary of

find again with joy The ruin’d palaces of Odin, seats Familiar, halls where we have supp’d of old, Re-enter them with wonder,

en save a world of flickering flame, And a hurrying, shifting tangle, where the dark rents went and came… … Now Sigurd turns

design, to embroider in his vesture a silken cross over the one spot where the hero was vulnerable. Then the crafty Hagen, w

Nibelungs because of their possession of the hoard, to Etzel’s Court, where , after a desperate and dastardly encounter, in wh

other legends Zeus was born in Arcadia, or even in Epirus at Dodona, where was his sacred grove. He was in either case reare

place; here Mars was adored by sacrifice, and here stood his temple, where his priests, the Salii, watched over the sacred s

he latter name may be derived simply from that part of Phocis (Pytho) where the town of Delphi was situate, or that again fro

This derivation is more probable than that from Lycia in Asia Minor, where the god was said originally to have been worshipp

he figure is unsurpassed. The effect is completed by the countenance, where , on the perfection of youthful godlike beauty, th

His followers are also known as Edonides (from Mount Edon, in Thrace, where he was worshipped), Thyiades, the sacrifices, Len

P. L. 2, passage beginning “Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate,” where the rivers of Erebus are characterized according

ombination of Lydian and Dorian. Shaker of the World: Neptune. Crete: where Jupiter had been concealed from his father Cronus

enia. Mount Tmolus: in Lydia. Mount Œte: between Thessaly and Ætolia, where Hercules ascended his funeral pile. Ida: the name

ded his funeral pile. Ida: the name of two mountains, — one in Crete, where Jupiter was nurtured by Amalthea; the other in Ph

d in ivory when Pelops was restored to life. Mount Cynthus: in Delos, where Apollo and Diana were born. Interpretative. — Ma

Chios. — An island in the Egean. Lemnos: another island in the Egean, where Vulcan had a forge. Interpretative. — The ancien

ght’s chaste empress, in her bridal play. Laughed through the foliage where Endymion lay.” Poems. — Beside Keats’ the most

tained a temple to Venus. Cnidos (Cnidus or Gnidus): a town in Caria, where stood a famous statue of Venus, attributed to Pra

is king of the mythical Æthiopians who lived in the land of gloaming, where east and west met, and whose name signifies “dark

lton, P. L. Bk. 4: — “That Nyseian isle, Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call, and Libyan Jo

and, of course, he would here behold the giant Atlas, who, stationed where heaven and earth meet, sustains upon his shoulder

mphs, however, had her placed in a part of the heavens near the pole, where she is half the time held with her head downward,

that the cranes used to migrate every winter to the Pygmies’ country, where , attacking the corn-fields, they precipitated war

owncast, wrestling with Death and overcoming him, restoring happiness where sorrow had obtained. No grander conception of man

Bride of Abydos, thus describes the appearance of the deserted scene where once stood Troy: — “The winds are high, and Hell

en young he travelled extensively, and is said to have visited Egypt, where he was instructed by the priests, and to have aft

tructed by the priests, and to have afterwards journeyed to the East, where he visited the Persian and Chaldean Magi, and the

d from the fetters of the body, passes to the habitation of the dead, where it remains till it returns to the world, to dwell

1) Son of Apollo. With his mother Thyria, he leaped into lake Canope, where both were changed into swans. (2) Son of Posidon,

ropa, 97, 234, 255, 349. Rhamnu′sia: Nemesis, from Rhamnus in Attica, where she was specially worshipped; Com. § 175. Rhapsod

, 217. Tire′sias, 23, 274, 276; Com. §§ 158-164. Ti′ryns, in Argolis, where Hercules was brought up. Tisiph′o-ne, 84, 348. Ti

blasphemous in a wide path over the edge of the infernal precipices, where she beholds a thousand-fanged serpent come up and

to vulgar apprehension, the refined and liberal may explain. In cases where evident morals are inculcated by Fables, observat

parts of the universe; so that man was to believe himself to be every where observed by some of those deities, for whom he wa

d hands, overcame Saturn, and shut him arid Cybele in a close prison, where they lay till Jupiter, being grown up, fought for

laws ordain’d, and civil customs taught; And Latium call’d the land, where safe he lay From his unduteous son and his usurpi

, led Cybele, his sister-in-law, and Corybas, his nephew, to Phrygia, where they introduced the mysteries of Terra, the mothe

hter to a king of Phrygia; and that she left that country for Latium, where she married Saturn. It was she who first fortifie

restrain his fury. His phrensy drove him to the mountains of Phrygia, where he killed himself with a hatchet. He was about to

bs. 2. — The worship of fire was introduced originally from the east, where the sun was deemed the most glorious image of the

he had treated his father. After a glorious reign, he died in Crete, where he had a tomb with this epitaph: “Here lies Zeus,

for nine days, and at length rested upon the top of mount Parnassus, where they remained till the waters subsided. They then

prevented her drinking at a spring. Her favorite retreat was Sicily, where every man made an annual sacrifice to her. The fo

the earth by the waters of the deluge. Juno, pursuing her rival every where , influenced Terra to swear not to give her a habi

place. While she was passing through Lycia, she stopped near a swamp, where some peasants were working. Being exhausted with

p;c. His favorite residence was on Mount Parnassus in Phocis, Greece, where he presided over the muses. Apollo was called Cyn

mphion soon died of sorrow or of the plague. Niobe returned to Lycia, where she ended her days in sorrow. The poets gave out,

the motions of the moon. Endymion retired to the mountains in Caria, where he often spent his nights, which caused the fable

lover. Jupiter, however, saved her infant, and shut it in his thigh, where it remained till its birth. This ridiculous fable

rified, he asked how he came there. One of the crew replied: “Tell us where you wish to be, and thither we will conduct you.”

oetical generation, appears to have been taken from the Sacred Books, where Wisdom says, that she descended from the divine h

Neptune summoned him to appear before an assembly of gods (on a hill where afterwards the celebrated court of Areopagus was

or they regularly talked with each other through a chink in the wall, where they conversed undiscovered, and which, at their

an time, recovering from her fright, came forth to the mulberry tree, where , in agonizing grief, she had to encounter the awf

ade up his mind to live single. He made an artificial image of Venus, where the finest features, ranged in the most exact sym

irculation of rivers, fountains, clouds, and rains, which carry every where fruitfulness. Oceanus was married to Tethys, by w

e poured the juice of poisonous herbs into the waters of the fountain where Scylla was wont to bathe; and in washing herself

her union. He rudely rushes to seize her, and she flees into a field, where a venomous serpent, hidden under the flowers, is

of hunting. In pursuing a stag, he leaped accidentally into the sea, where , exhausted with heat and fatigue, he perished. Hi

y that prince. He therefore blew her away, and carried her to Thrace; where he had by her two sons, Calais and Zethes. Boreas

ive preparations and the most extraordinary circumspection. The house where the feast was celebrated was adorned at great exp

s the goddess of sheepfolds and pastures, chiefly worshipped at Rome, where her feasts were celebrated every April, under the

to say that he had asses’ ears, had entrusted his secret to a marsh, where the reeds, agitated by the wind, uttered these wo

ecrated it to the Lares. The name of Lararium was given to that place where they were worshipped. They are often confounded w

derstood, departed souls. They preside over the sepulchral monuments, where the Romans superscribed D. M. that is, Diis Manib

or the residence of infants. It was called the Field of Lamentations, where neither joy nor punishment was experienced, and h

s, and Atropos. They resided in a cave, scooped out of a marble rock, where they were charged with the management of the fata

Rhadamanthus, brother to Minos, retired to Calea, a town of Boeotia, where he married Alcmena, widow of Amphytrion. He was r

mpted to offer Latona violence; for which he was cast down into hell, where , when stretched out, he covered nine acres of gro

d pierced him through the body with an arrow, and placed him in hell, where a massive stone, hanging over his head, perpetual

again, maintain that it was on account of his having informed Asopus where his daughter Ægina had been carried by Jupiter; b

ke his word, and was at length taken to the infernal regions by Mars, where the king of hell inflicted on him this rigorous p

o Juno; but Jupiter sent a cloud in the likeness of Juno to the place where Ixion had agreed to meet her, and the deceived lo

s were produced. Jupiter expelled him heaven; but as he boasted every where that he had won the affection of Juno, the god st

orted. Some say that he had discovered to the river Asopus, the place where Jupiter concealed his daughter Ægina after having

ds. His residence was on the island Erythia, near Gades, (now Cadiz,) where he kept numerous flocks, which were guarded by a

hose of three ships, once engaged in commerce on the coast of Africa, where were found gold, the tusks of elephants, the horn

t, and cast into the sea. The chest was blown to the island Seriphos, where a fisherman, by the name of Dictys, found it, too

head of Medusa. Perseus mounted Pegasus, and flew towards Mauritania, where , being rudely treated by Atlas, he turned him int

into the mountain which bears his name. Thence he went into Ethiopia, where he delivered Andromeda from a monster which was r

ith him; but he soon after ungratefully left her in the island Naxos, where she was found and married by Bacchus. Theseus had

o his nostrils, and resuscitated him. He afterwards settled in Italy, where he changed his name to Viribus, because he had be

fastened to his father’s chariot wheel, and Theseus, to a huge stone, where they experienced excruciating torments. Hercules,

ith hideous yell The monster bull, and three-fold dog of hell. Then, where Nemea’s howling forests wave, He drives the lion

he retired into that part of Phrygia which borders on the Bosphorus, where he built the city of Troy, about seven centuries

after struggling through many difficulties, finally arrived in Italy, where he was hospitably received by Latinus, king of th

f king Alcinous, who received him kindly. He sailed asleep to Ithaca, where Minerva awaked him, and advised him to dress hims

and Hermes, her minister; and to have run over Asia and Europe, every where introducing the worship of the gods and a respect

y soul of the man-bull. The man-bull was placed in an elevated place, where he enjoyed perfect happiness for some time. At la

ed from its body, it is conveyed to the city of Yama, called Yamapur, where it receives a just sentence from him. Thence it i

ted her to some god, and in two months she was carried to the temple, where a small broom and a censer were placed in her han

r as the forest of Dodona, situated in Chaonia, a province of Epirus; where she informed the inhabitants, that the great Jupi

tten cause, induced her to fix her residence in the forest of Dodona, where she gathered the acorn which served as nourishmen

d, they drew the Pythia from the tripod, to conduct her to her abode, where it required several days for her to recover from

When one comes to consult this oracle, before descending into the den where he receives the answer, he must pass some days in

the agitation excited, he was taken to the chapel of the good genius, where they permitted him to resume his senses. Next, he

gods. He gave his emissary a sealed billet to be handed in at Malea, where there was the oracle of Mopsus. The envoy lay dow

o the Sibyl of Cumæ, and honoured her as a divinity in the very place where she had delivered her oracles. 5. The fifth Sibyl

days of Solon and Crœsus. 9. The Phrygian, whose abode was at Ancyra, where she delivered her oracles. 10. The Tiburtian, or

owns to his sons than with reigning himself, next repaired to Sweden, where reigned a prince named Gylphe, who, regarding the

country. After these glorious expeditions, Odin retired into Sweden, where , feeling his end draw near, he would not await, t

Scythia, to take his place with the other gods at an eternal banquet, where he would receive, with great honours, those who,

As soon as he had breathed his last, his body was carried to Sigutna, where , conformably to the usage which he had brought in

y address, and rare talents, could easily pass for a god in a country where nobody equalled him, and in which the people gave

situated the place of meeting, the most splendidly ornamented of all, where the gods administered justice. Herein appeared Gl

ies of the gods, who, after divers efforts, inclosed the wolf Fenris, where he is to remain until the last day, when he will

be let loose, and devour the sun. The serpent was cast into the sea, where he will remain until conquered by the god Thor; a

ered by the god Thor; and Hela was banished into the infernal abodes, where she has the government of nine worlds, which she

Loke was locked up by the gods in a cave shut by three sharp stones, where he shudders with such rage, as to cause the earth

.” Helga. The court of the gods was usually held under a large oak, where they administered justice. This oak is represente

and after having refreshed its branches, it falls back on the ground, where it keeps up the dew with which bees compose their

y. The three beautiful virgins, the Nornas, often meet under the oak, where they determine the fate of mortals. Their names a

ny for the guilty. The first was the palace of Odin, called Valhalla, where that god received all who died a violent death, f

by a second generation. The second was the palace covered with gold, where the just were to rejoice eternally after the rene

n’s refulgent form. He who rules, by night, the heaven,     Wist not where his beams to throw; All to barren darkness given,

o dwell in wo repining,     Far beyond the path of day; In that bower where serpents twining,     Loathsome spit their venom’

stom. When the victim was chosen, it was conducted towards the altar, where the sacred fire was burning day and night. Among

bly. When they immolated men, the victim was laid upon a large stone, where he was either choked or crushed. When the blood s

ower; an ancient Icelandic ode describes him as descending into hell, where he consults a celebrated prophetess. Ignorance, w

ions to those ages and early histories which have left some vestiges, where the mind can walk without being swallowed up in u

ped the carnage, hid themselves in the heart of forests and in caves, where they devoted themselves to meditation; and the ve

s, spared these dispensers of glory; attracted them into their camps; where gratitude and rewards animated the bards to paint

he most gloomy ideas, and often went to spend nights upon the heaths; where the whistling of the winds and the noise of the t

proaching him, the protecting spirit appeared to him in the situation where he was to die, and uttered plaintive cries. At th

people,” says Tacitus , “have nothing for their temple but a forest, where they discharge the duties of their religion. No o

mbled with great rejoicing, and went in procession towards the places where the plant was found, two diviners marching forwar

t lived in celibacy; the second, though married, remained in temples, where they cleared tables, and did not see their husban

e events, and a perpetual remembrance of the past. That part of Italy where Saturn took refuge, was called Latium, and lies a

ve set the world on fire, had not Jupiter struck Phaeton into the Po, where he was drowned. His sisters, the Heliades, mourne

but afterwards moved to the volcanic islands of Lipari, near Sicily, where he forged Jupiter’s thunderbolts. Nor was his na

rried destruction before them. The ancients sometimes marked the spot where they supposed a thunderbolt had fallen, enclosed

exquisitely beautiful, and an eagle carried him from earth to heaven, where he poured out nectar for Jupiter. Who was Hebe?

t which rendered him invisible. Thus equipped, Perseus flew to Spain, where he found Medusa, and unseen himself, presented th

ended the solemnity, and the assembly dispersed to different places, where they concluded the day in feasting and mirth. The

ricious people banished Phidias, and he withdrew from Athens to Elis, where he was beloved and cherished, and where he made a

withdrew from Athens to Elis, where he was beloved and cherished, and where he made a statue of Jupiter, that was reckoned am

innocent and happy occupation was to wander over the valley of Enna, where , attended by companions as lovely as herself, she

The ground opened upon the occasion, the ebon coursers descended, and where the earth closed over the car of Pluto and Proser

he was not himself observed. It is suitable to wisdom, which discerns where the careless are blind, to take such a bird as he

as called Dione. Her favourite residence was in the island of Cyprus, where she was worshipped at the city of Paphos. Venus,

alia, from the place consecrated to him being supposed to be the same where Romulus and Remus were suckled by a wolf, in Lati

and Eacus, held their tribunal in a place called the Field of Truth, where no falsehood could be heard, and no misrepresenta

ollo, because he dared to insult Diana, and was thrown into Tartarus, where vultures unceasingly prey upon his liver, which i

large tracts of country; when their houses are only rude cabins, and where there are no considerable towns, nor many cultiva

come within their range, they immediately enter the slight enclosure where the flocks and herds are confined, and bear them

ow bank. The fifth labour was the cleansing of the stables of Augias, where 3,000 oxen had been confined many years. This was

e promontory of Africa thus produced, was Mount Abyla; that of Spain, where Gibraltar now stands, Mount Calpe. Hercules kille

with hideous yell The monster Bull, and threefold Dog of hell. Then where Nemea’s howling forests wave, He drives the lion

iously to the departure of Theseus, took him along with her to a spot where a large stone was fixed, and commanded her son to

happy under his regulations, that peaceable people from other places where no wise government existed, went to reside in Att

ghts of other princes, and they banished him to the island of Scyros, where he died and was buried. In time, the Athenians fo

er of Talus, Dædalus, with his son Icarus, fled from Athens to Crete, where they were welcomed by Minos. Dædalus constructed

drowned, but his father was more fortunate, getting safe into Sicily, where he is supposed to have built certain temples. The

aculously to her temple in Taurica, (the Crimea of modern geography,) where she made her a priestess. After this, the Argive

tetes, and made the latter swear that he would never reveal the place where Hercules commanded him to inter his remains, when

y. Philoctetes, in an unguarded moment, revealed to Ulysses the place where Hercules was interred; and the gods, to punish hi

the arrows of Hercules, and Ulysses immediately departed for Lemnos, where he found Philoctetes, and entreated him to follow

e Temple of Minerva. Cassandra had fled thither as an asylum, a place where she might be secure from the ill treatment which

shook the rock with his trident, and precipitated Ajax into the sea, where he was drowned. By Neptune rescued from Minerva’

its course to the coast of Africa, and next to the island of Sicily, where he visited the Cyclops. Polyphemus, the King of t

hip carrying Ulysses. Ulysses was next driven to the island of Circe, where the enchantress metamorphosed all his companions

Thus destitute and forlorn, Ulysses floated to the island of Calypso, where he was kindly received by that goddess. Calypso l

ntinöus, King of the Phocians, came, with his attendants, to the spot where the stranger lay, and awakened him by their voice

, entertained him kindly, and afterwards conducted him to his palace, where he asked charity of his son Telemachus, which the

all laws; so he left his country and settled himself in Magna Grecia, where he died. What was the character of Diomed? What

n fear for her own life, escaped with a company of Tyrians to Africa, where she founded the city of Carthage. According to Vi

its body, it is immediately conveyed to Yamapur, or the city of Yama; where it receives a just sentence from him; and thence,

tatues? What are the principal of the modern temples of the Hindu and where are they commonly erected? Which is the most cele

litical State of the Hindus. It is a singular fact, that in Asia, where the Hebrews dwelt, among whom a revelation of the

age of Abraham to that of Christ, a period of nineteen centuries; and where our Saviour himself spent his days on earth, that

to take his place amongst the other deities at the immortal banquet, where he would receive those who died with arms in thei

r messenger of ill Hela was described as occupying an immense palace; where her hall was Sorrow; her table. Famine; her knife

n’s refulgent form. He who rules, by night, the heaven.     Wist not where his beams to throw. All to barren darkness given.

dwell in wo repining.     Far beyond the path of day. In that bower, where serpents twining,     Loathsome spit their venome

the Roman soldiers first brought the Christian religion into Britain, where it was cordially received, and where, either in t

Christian religion into Britain, where it was cordially received, and where , either in the Catholic or Protestant form, it ha

d at home of disease, or old age, were conveyed to the abode of Hela, where they pined in endless hunger and want. Hela lay u

r reached Tlapalla. He was stopped on his way at the city of Cholula, where the inhabitants, charmed with his gracious manner

red her to some god, and in two months she was carried to the temple, where a small broom, and an equally small censer was pl

d in reverence by the nations of antiquity. A pillar would be erected where some extraordinary mercy or deliverance had occur

uttered oracles. Among- the ancients, certain places were fixed upon, where priests, when they were consulted, gave informati

gions are different, but the sentiments are the same, except in those where human sacrifices are permitted; they are the natu

not Greeks, barbarians. 8. Cenotaph, a monument, erected upon a spot where the remains of the dead are not interred. 9. Nes

ng his own image upon the shield of Minerva. Phidias retired to Elis, where he produced a statue of Jupiter, which was the mo

of Grecian philosophy and mythology, travelled and studied in Egypt, where they learned those doctrines, which, having model

hich are: Dindyméne, Idæa, and Berecynthia, from different mountains, where she was worshiped. She was likewise called Ops an

ghter of a king of Phrygia, who came from her own country into Italy, where she married Saturn. She was the first who fortifi

riking themselves in their dances; or Curetes, from the island Crete, where they brought up Jupiter; or Dactyli, from the Gre

ounted, in aftertimes, the God of the sea. Shem had the rest of Asia, where the worship of fire became almost general, and th

ter’s mother, had the address to save him, and sent him from Arcadia, where he then was, into Crete, to the recesses of Mount

driven back into Greece, and defeated even there, he fled into Italy, where he was kindly received by Janus. Exciting the ‘Ti

of having given birth to this goddess: principally, Samos, and Argos, where she was more particularly worshiped. Who were her

d now the fiery horses neigh’d aloud, Breathing out flames and pawing where they stood. They spring together forth, and swift

ukopis, or Blue-eyed. Where was she principally worshiped? At Athens; where a most magnificent temple was erected in honour o

what was her worship? Temples were erected to her honour almost every where ; but the most beautiful were those of Paphos, Gni

Jupiter, obliged, by disgrace, to take refuge in the Isle of Lemnos, where he established the art of working iron and brass.

Hermes, as the inventor of eloquence; Cyllenius, from Mount Cyllene, where he was born. Nomius, from his inventing laws. Cam

lia from the place consecrated to him, being supposed to be the same, where Romulus and Remus were suckled by the wolf, in La

the abodes of heroes. Not far from them, is seen the dread tribunal, where Minos, Eacus, and Rhadamanthus administer strict

ese rites complete, they reach the flowery plains, The verdant groves where pleasure endless reigns. Here glowing æther shoot

ollo, because he dared to insult Diana, and was thrown into Tartarus, where vultures unceasingly prey upon his liver, which i

south of it; most of the countries east of the Ganges, and in Tibet, where resides the Grand Lama, the Chief Priest of that

of glory, named Mookze, a region higher than the twenty-sixth heaven, where he remains in happiness and incorruptibility; whi

anches o’er the sky, Drinking with all its leaves, celestial dew. Lo! where from thence, as from a living well, A thousand to

its body, it is immediately conveyed to Yamapur, or the city of Yama; where it receives a just sentence from him; and thence,

his god had the head of a dog: dogs were accounted sacred to him; and where his worship principally prevailed, these animals

house which fronted the rising sun. He was then conveyed to Memphis, where a delightful abode, ample space for exercise, and

n cut off, thrown up into the air, and suffered to remain on the spot where it fell. The Scythians also offered to their gods

to take his place amongst the other deities, at the immortal banquet, where he would receive those who died with arms in thei

or messenger of ill she was described as occupying an immense palace; where her hall was Sorrow; her table, Famine; her knife

s the palace of Odin, the Valhalla in the city of Midgard, or Asgard; where the souls of heroes who had fallen in battle, enj

n’s refulgent form. He who rules, by night, the heaven,     Wist not where his beams to throw; All to barren darkness given,

dwell in woe repining,     Far beyond the path of day, In that bower, where serpents twining,     Loathsome spit their venom’

their venom’d spray. ——— — —————A few grey stones Now mark the spot where Odin’s temple stood, And there the traveller seek

Cybele celebrated? What was the Opertum? What was the Palladium, and where was it preserved? Who were the most ancient God a

s first coined copper money? By whom was Jupiter Ammon worshiped, and where was his temple? Who was the inventor of boats and

mination? What colour is sacred to Buddha? How is he represented, and where was his worship celebrated? Who were Suradevi, Ca

the name of the Scandinavian hill, and how was it described? When and where was the Edda compiled, and what are its contents?

e its Priests? Who were its Deities? By whom was Belus worshiped, and where was his celebrated temple? Who was Belus supposed