The Vatican Mythographers

Index

index accursed hunger for gold, 205 Acesta and Hippotes, 64 Achilles, 28 Agamemnon and, and the death of Hector, 89 birth of, 316 Jove and Thetis, 89 Peleus and Thetis, 315 Acis, The Cyclops and, 16 Acrisius, 152 Danae and, 71 Actaeon, Proserpina and, 265 Admetus, 173 Adonis, 117 Myrrha and, 83 Aeacus, 195 Aegeus, 158 Aegina, Jove and, 195 Aegyptus, Danaus and, 62, 148 Aeneas, 125 Dido and, 290–91 escape of, 84–85 Underworld and, 251 Aeneas and the River Lethe, 84 Aeolus, 127, 230 Juno and, 226 Aeson, 23 Agamemnon, 21, 194 Achilles and, and the death of Hector , 89 Agave, 141 Agenor and Cadmus, 68 and his sons, 138 347 Alba, history, 107 Alcestis, 49 Alcinous, 36, 204 Alcmena Hercules and, 35 Jove and, 170 Alcon, 72, 184 Alcyone, Ceyx and, 17 allegorical method, 1 Aloeus, Othus, and Ephialtes, 47 Alpheus, Arethusa and, 74 Amaracus, 27, 182 Aminoe (Amymone), 188 Amphiaraus, Polynices and Eteocles, 69 Amphion, 51 Amulius and Numitor, 26, 151 Amycus, King, 166 Neptune and, 50 Amymone, 188 and Palamedes, 33 Antaeus, Hercules and, 176 Anchises, 186 Venus and, 92 Androgeus, 157 Andromache and Molossus, 31 Andromeda, 42 Antaeus and Hercules, 36 Antigone, 77, 135 Antiope Lycus and, 136 Zethus, and Amphion, 50 Apicius, 204 Apis, 45 348 index Apollo, 29 Cassandra and, 77 Daphne and, or the Laurel, 56 Delius, 267 Diana and, 114–15 Eridanus and, 56 as father, 268 horses, 112–13 laurel, 113, 269 Marsyas and, Song of, 155 Muses and, 279–80 names, 111–12 Nine Muses, 113 Phoebus, 268–70, 276–77 Pythius, 266 raven, 113 robbed of divinity, 278 and Sibyl, 70 the Sun, 54 Triple Power of, 111 tripod, 112 Aquarius, 276 Arachne, 135 and Minerva, 49 Arethusa, 180 and Alpheus, 74 Argus, 20 Arion and the Dolphins, 50 Arion of Lesbos, 180 Aristaeus, 141 Arruns, 42 Asterie, Latona and, 28 Astraeus, 127 and Aurora, 78 Atalanta, 124 and Hippomenes, 29 and Meleager, 75 Athamas, King, 22, 163 Athracias the Magician, 74 Atilius’ Good Fortune, 93 Atlas, 121, 154 Atreus, Myrtilus and Thyestes, 22 Attis Berecyntia and, 95 Cybele and, 217 Aurora Astraeus and, 78 Tithonus and, 65, 185 Autonoe, 141 Avernus and Lucrinus, 175 Bacchus, 318–22 Bellerophon, 41, 161 Berecyntia and Attis, 95 Birth of Pan, 48 Birth of Venus, 116 Bito, Cleobis and, 25, 134 black cattle sacrifice to Pluto, 253 books, 144 Branchus, 143 Sinicrus and, 46 Brenus, 192 brides, 226 Brutus, 191 Bubalus, 203 Busiris and Hercules, 40, 174 Cacus and Hercules, 40 Cadmus, 138 Agenor and, 68 and Harmonia, 69 Caenis and Neptune, 70 Calais, 25 Calliope, 44 Callisto, 20 Cameron, Alan, 2 Camillus’ Victory, 93 Cancer, 275 Capricorn, 275 Captiva Gentilis, 1 Carthage, founding of, 91 Carya, Temple at, 115 Cassandra, 186 Apollo and, 77 Cassiopeia, 42 index 349 Castor and Pollux, 44 Ceculus, 47 Celeus and Triptolemus, 17 Centaur, 37 Centaurica, 75 Centaurs, 228 Thessalians and, 73 Cephalus, 32 Cepheus, King, 42, 147 ceraunius, 271 Cerberus, Pluto and, 250 Ceres, 17, 18, 146 Ceyx, 180 and Alcyone, 17 Chance, Jane, 2 Charybdis, 179 Chelone, 134 and Mercury, 51 Chimaera and Bellerophon, 41 Chorebus, Crotopus and, 74 Circe, 16, 200 and Ulysses, 19 Civil War, 192 Cleobis and Bito, 25, 134 Clytemnestra and Orestes, 67 Codrus, 73, 184 Collatinus, 42 Consus and the Games of the Circus, 81 Crateis, 16 Croesus, King of Lydia, 82, 184 Crotopus and Chorebus, 74 Cupid Psyche and, 95 Venus, 118 Cybele, 124, 215–17 The Cyclops and Acis, 16 Cyparissus, 17, 181 Danae, Acrisius and, 71 Danaus, 33 and Aegyptus, 62, 148 Daphne, Apollo and, 56 Dardanus and the Origin of the Trojans , 63 Decii, history, 107 decree of Jove, 128 Deianira, 37 Hercules and, 175 Delius, 267 Demophoon, Phyllis and, 72 dendritis, 272 despoiling the Egyptians, 1 Deucalion and Pyrrha, 80, 136 Diana, 21, 29 Apollo, 114–15 Dictynna, 265 Proserpina, 54 Temple at Carya, 115 Dianisa, 44 Dictynna, 115, 265 Dido Aeneas and, 290–91 founding of Carthage, 91 Saturn, history of, 91 Diomedes, 65, 171, 198 and the Palladium, 66 Diomedes’ Companions, 66 Dionysus, 92 Dirceus, 203 Divine, two brothers called, 183 Divine Palici, 80 Dodona, 189 The Dog Transported to the Constellations , 97 Double Name and the Downfall of Phlegyas, 88 doves, 50 Why the Dove is Consecrated to Venus, 76 Doves of Venus, 117 eagle of Jove, 104, 220 Ebalus, 183 Egyptians, despoiling, 1 Electra...