Myths of Greece and Rome by H. A. Guerber (early reader chapter books TXT) 📕
Greatly dissatisfied with the treatment her children had received at their father's hands, Gæa remonstrated, but all in vain. Uranus would not grant her request to set the giants free, and, whenever their muffled cries reached his ear, he trembled for his own safety. Angry beyond all expression, Gæa swore revenge, and descended into Tartarus, where she urged the Titans to conspire against their father, and attempt to wrest the scepter from his grasp.
[Sidenote: The Titans revolt.]
All listened attentively to the words of sedition; but none were courageous enough to carry out her plans, except Cronus, the youngest of the Titans, more familiarly known as Saturn or Time, who found confinement and chains peculiarly galling, and who hated his father for his cruelty. Gæa finally induced him to lay violent hands upon his sire, and, after releasing him from his bonds, gave him a scythe, and bade him be of good cheer and return victorious.
Thus armed and admonished, Cronus se
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Emerson, 297.
Euripides, 166, 229, 311, 315, 316.
Eusden, 118.
Flaccus, 52, 220, 269, 271.
Fletcher, 38.
Francklin, 169, 232, 234, 236, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 331.
Frere, 15.
Goldsmith, 134.
Gray, 179.
Hemans, 60, 98.
H. H. (Helen Hunt Jackson), 73.
Hesiod, 15, 21, 29, 33, 154, 229, 339.
Holmes, 330.
Homer, 23, 39, 41, 43, 58, 94, 145, 147, 149, 153, 156, 161, 167, 168, 172, 211, 292, 297, 305, 315, 318, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 325, 326, 328, 329, 336, 338, 344, 345, 346, 349, 352, 354, 355, 357, 358, 359.
Homeric Hymn, 190, 195.
Horace, 27, 75, 278.
Hunt, 114, 216, 341.
Ingelow, 187, 194.
Iriarte, Tomas de, 372.
Keats, 67, 90, 98, 105, 119, 120, 134, 149, 176, 179, 192, 301, 303, 304.
Landon, 113.
Longfellow, 27, 88, 99, 107, 206.
Lowell, 23, 64, 79, 131.
Lucan, 214.
Macaulay, 130, 279.
Martinez de la Rosa, 177.
Melanippides, 73.
Meleager, 94, 265.
Meredith, Owen, 72.
Milton, 79, 144, 163, 238.
Moore, 16, 71, 72, 193, 278.
Morris, 97, 100, 101, 110, 123, 127, 128, 151, 183, 194, 235, 248, 252, 335.
Moschus, 45, 137.
Nonnus, 171.
Onomacritus, 267, 269, 271.
Orphic Argonautics, 266.
Orphic Hymn, 188.
Ovid, 12, 35, 37, 44, 70, 118, 172, 173, 177, 178, 208, 255, 298, 299.
Pike, 61.
Pindar, 17, 168.
Pitt, 163, 196, 205.
Pope, 23, 39, 57, 77, 147, 156, 167, 168, 239, 292, 298, 299.
Potter, 166, 229, 246, 311, 315, 316.
Prior, 68, 143, 148, 174, 243, 283.
Quintus Smyrnæus, 307.
St. John, 242, 244.
Saxe, 62, 63, 77, 84, 119, 160, 253, 255.
Schiller, 121, 238.
Scott, 165.
S. G. B., 238.
Shakespeare, 44, 76, 139.
Shelley, 55, 103, 241.
Simonides, 241.
Somerville, 90.
Sophocles, 169, 232, 234, 236, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 331.
Southey, 91.
Spenser, 59, 82, 105.
Statius, 136, 138.
Swift, 75.
Tennyson, 59, 80, 105, 306, 307, 331, 339, 359.
Theocritus, 216, 310, 341.
Timocreon of Rhodes, 159.
Virgil, 41, 51, 64, 131, 142, 160, 161, 163, 168, 169, 182, 193, 196, 202, 205, 213, 224, 333, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 369, 370, 373, 374, 376, 377.
Warton, 182.
Wordsworth, 33, 65, 88, 223, 273, 295, 316, 317.
Worsley, 87.
Young, 202.
GLOSSARY AND INDEX.A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V Z
Ab-syr´tus.
Son of King Æetes of Colchis;
slain by Medea, 271.
A-by´dus.
A city of Asia Minor;
the home of Leander, 111-116.
A-chæ´us.
Grandson of Hellen, and ancestor of the Achaians, 38.
A-cha´i-ans.
Inhabitants of the province of Achaia, 38.
A-cha´tes.
Friend and inseparable companion of Æneas, 366, 367.
Ach-e-lo´us.
River in Greece, bearing the name of its god, 232.
Ach-e-men´i-des.
Ulysses’ sailor, rescued from Polyphemus by Æneas, 365.
Ach´e-ron.
1. River in Hades, 161;
Ulysses visits, 350;
Æneas crosses, 372.
2. Father of Furies, 163.
A-chil´les.
Son of Peleus and Thetis, 314-316;
surrenders Briseis, 318, 319;
the Greeks appeal to, 323-325;
slays Hector, 326-329;
death, 330;
in Happy Isles, 359;
father of Pyrrhus, 361;
significance, 394, 395.
A´cis.
Youth loved by Galatea, and slain by Polyphemus, 341.
A-cris´i-us.
King of Argos, and father of Danae, 240, 241, 249;
significance, 390, 391.
A-crop´o-lis.
Hill in Athens, the site of the Parthenon and Theseus’ temple, 262.
Ac-tæ´on.
Hunter changed to a stag by Diana, 100, 101.
Ad-me´te.
Daughter of Eurystheus, covets Hippolyte’s girdle, 223.
Ad-me´tus.
King of Thessaly, served by Apollo, and saved from death by Alcestis, 64, 65;
Hercules restores Alcestis to, 230;
one of the Argonauts, 266;
in Calydonian Hunt, 275;
significance, 386.
A-do´nis.
Hunter loved by Venus and slain by a boar, 108-110;
significance, 195, 389.
A-dras´tus.
King of Argos;
his horse Arion, 153;
father of Hippodamia, 260;
sends expedition against Thebes, 287.
Æ´a-cus.
One of the three judges of the dead in Hades, 163.
Æ-æ´a.
Island inhabited by Circe and visited by Ulysses, 347-350.
Æ-e´tes.
King of Colchis, father of Medea and Absyrtus, 268, 271;
brother of Circe, 347;
significance, 392.
Æ-ge´an Sea.
Delos chained in, 62;
Arion borne by dolphins in, 82, 83;
named after Ægeus, 259.
Æ-ge´us.
King of Athens;
father of Theseus, 250, 252, 253;
drowns himself, 259;
significance, 391.
Æ´gis.
Shield or breastplate of Minerva and Jupiter, 58;
loaned to Perseus, 243;
bears Medusa’s head, 249.
Æ-gis´thus.
Murderer of Agamemnon;
slain by Orestes, 336.
Æg´le.
One of the Heliades;
changed to a poplar tree, 87.
Æ-gyp´tus.
Brother of Danaus, 166.
Æ-ne´a-dæ.
City which Æneas proposed to found in Thrace, 363.
Æ-ne´as.
Son of Venus and Anchises, 111;
Æneas’ descendants, 140;
worship introduced into Italy by, 198;
hero of Virgil’s Æneid, 360-377.
Æ-ne´as Sil´vi-a.
Son of Æneas;
founder of Alba Longa, 377.
Æ-ne´id.
Virgil’s epic poem on the adventures of Æneas, 374.
Æ-o´li-a.
1. Same as
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