Jerusalem Delivered: An English Prose Version

Glossary of Names and Places

Glossary of Names andPlaces Biblical, Geographical, and. Mythological Abyla (15.22, 31) The African mountain opposite Gibraltar. SeeHercules and Calpe Acheron (9.59; 13.58) One of the five rivers of Hades; hence, the infernal regions. Tasso uses all five names, (Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx) without drawingdistinctions except to suggest the forgetfulness of Lethe (10.7) and the fieriness of Phlegethon (9.21; 18.48) Achilles (4.96) He was the prey of Love (forDeidamia) when his mother Thetis disguised him asa girl and hid him on the island of Scyrus, to avoid service in the Trojan War (Iliad 9-4ioff.). Also analogous to Tasso's poem is his love for Briseis, which caused his withdrawal from the siege of Troy (Iliad 9,passim) AJige (1.59) This river and the Po are the two largest tributaries of the Adriatic.Thus Rinaldo is at once announced as an Italian hero Aegean (1.60; 12.63) The Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey Africus (19.13) Latin name for the southwest wind. SeeAquilo Alcides (2.62; 6.92; 15.22, 32; 16.3; 19.17) Patronymic for Hercules, q.v. Alecto In late Greek mythology Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone are the three Furies, ministers of divine justice. Tasso emphasizes their torches (2.91; 5.18-23 unnamed; 6.33; 9.11,21,53 unnamed, 67; n.66 unnamed; 16.59) but also mentions such other conventional attributes as their wings and snaky locks (9.1-3; n.66; 16.59) and their scourges (8.72; 9.67). Emphasis on their function as aides of Pluto—Satan—is more Christian than classical (8.1, 59; 9.2; 11.66; 18.87). Astagorre is not a classical name for one of the Furies (8.1) 476 Glossary of Names and Places Alexandria. (15.16 unnamed; 17.15) City at the mouth of the Nile, developed by Alexander the Great, "the mighty Greek." Cf. Strabo, I7.i.6ff. Algiers (15.21) Several cities along the Barbary Coast probably were of importance to Tasso chiefly as centers of piracy. See Alzerbe, Barca, Bizerta, Bugia, Fez, Oran, Tingitan, Tripoli, and Tunis Altino (17.70) A city in the Venetian territories Alzerbe (15.18) See Algiers Amazons (20.41) A race of warrior women who lived without the society of men where the Thermodon river empties into the Black Sea. Cf. Herodotus, 4-iiofT. Amboise (1.62; 11.43) This town is on the Loire, in central France, about a dozen miles east of Tours. Antaeus (15.25 unnamed; 19.17 unnamed; 20.108) See Hercules. Antioch (1.6, 9,26; 3.12; 5.49; 6.56; 7.67; 8.8; 10.72; 11.61) An important city on the Orontes river in Syria, about 300 miles north of Jerusalem . Its siege and capture was the greatest victory by the Crusaders prior to the taking of Jerusalem itself.See Nicaea Antonia (10.31) The building of this tower, at the NW corner of the Herodian Temple, is described in Josephus, TheJewish War, 5.238-46. Tacitus also mentions it (History, 5.11-12). It was utterly destroyed by the Romans under Titus Antony (16.4-7; 20.118 unnamed) See Cleopatra Apelles (17.11) Greek painter of the fourth century B.C. Pliny (Nat. Hist. 35.92) describes his portrait of Alexander the Great clutching the thunderbolts of Zeus Aphrodite (15.60 unnamed) Pliny (Nat. Hist. 35.91—92) praises a painting of Aphrodite Anadyomene ("Venus Rising from the Sea") by the painter Apelles (q.v.) Apollo (10.14; 15.45; 20.103) Preeminently god of the sun, as Phoebus Apollo, but also divine patron of the art of healing G L O S S A R Y O F N A M E S A N D P L A C E S 4 7 7 Aquileia (17.69) A city at the head of the Adriatic, and starting point for several roads leading to the Eastern Roman provinces. It was quite an important city when sacked by Attila (452 A.D.) and later destroyed by the Lombards (568 A.D.) Aquilino (7.75) See Aquilo Aquilo (6.1; 7.75; 9.59,52; 12.63; 17-68) Roman name for Boreas, the north wind. Raymond's war-horse (7.75) derives his name from Aquilo, as does the North Gate of Jerusalem (3.64; 18.55). For Tasso's eclectic naming...