Treasury of Greek Mythology

by Donna Jo Napoli

  as inspiration

  labors 144–147

  sense of humor

  slaying lion

  slaying snakes

  slaying sons and nephew

  strength

  and Theseus 24.1–24.2

  wives 22.1, 22.2

  Hermes (messenger of the gods) 8–9, 94–99

  aiding Perseus 20.1, 20.2

  and Apollo 10.1, 15.1, 16.1

  birth

  fetching Persephone from Hades

  62

  inventions 15.1–15.2, 15.3

  killing Argus

  teaching women to deceive

  thievery 15.1–15.2

  Hermione

  Herodotus (historian)

  Hesiod

  Hesperides 8.1–8.2, 8.3–8.4, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1

  Hestia (goddess of the hearth) 8–9, 3.1, 4.1, 34–39

  Hippolyta, Queen (Amazons)

  Homer

  Humans, creation of 17.1–17.2, 17.3

  Hunt goddess see Artemis

  Hydra 144–145, 22.1, 22.2

  Hylas

  Hyperion (Titan) 3.1, 17.1

  I

  Iapetus

  Ida, Mount

  Io (priestess)

  Iolaos

  Iolcus

  Iphicles 22.1–22.2

  Iphigenia

  Iris

  Israelites

  J

  Jason (wanderer of the seas) 150–159

  Justice 24.1, 24.2

  Justice, goddess of see Themis

  L

  Labyrinth 164–165

  Leda

  Lemnos (island) 13.1, 21.1, 23.1

  Lernaean hydra 144–145

  Leto (daughter of Titans) 10.1–10.2, 68, 11.1, 12.1, 21.1

  Life, beginnings of

  Love god see Eros

  Love goddess see Aphrodite

  Lyres

  Apollo playing his 10.1, 15.1

  Hermes playing his 15.1, 15.2, 99

  invention 15.1–15.2, 15.3

  Orpheus playing his 23.1, 23.2, 23.3

  M

  Maenads (dancing women)

  Maeve, Queen (Celtic lore)

  Maia (daughter of Atlas) 12.1, 15.1

  Marriage goddess see Hera

  Medea 156–157, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1

  Medusa (Gorgon) 6.1, 6.2, 45, 20.1, 130, 20.2, 21.1

  Megara

  Melpomene (Muse)

  Menae

  Menelaus, King (Sparta) 25.1, 25.2

  Merope 21.1, 21.2

  Messenger of the gods see Hermes

  Metis (nymph) 7.1–7.2, 7.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Minos, King (Crete) 24.1–24.2

  Minotaur 24.1, 24.2–24.3, 24.4, 166, 24.5

  Mnemosyne (Titan) 10.1, 10.2

  Mohini

  Moon goddess see Selene

  Morning Star

  Mortals

  Dionysus’ affect on

  loved by immortals 18.1, 19.1

  see also women

  Mother Earth see Gaia

  Muses 10.1, 67, 10.2

  Music god see Apollo

  Mycenae 22.1–22.2

  Mysia

  Mythology, reasons for itr.1–itr.2, 9.1

  N

  Native American stories

  Naxos (island)

  Nemean lion 22.1–22.2

  Nereids 6.1, 20.1

  Nereus 6.1, 13.1

  Nessus

  Nicippe

  Night 1.1, 8.1

  Nile (river), Egypt

  Niobe 11.1–11.2

  Notos

  Nymphs 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1

  O

  Oceanus (Titan) 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1

  Odysseus 23.1, 155, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3

  Oenone 25.1, 25.2

  Oenopion, King (Chios) 21.1–21.2

  Olive trees , 49

  Olympians 3.1, 4.1

  Olympus, Mount

  Oracles 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 23.1

  Orion (constellation) 21.1, 21.2, 21.3

  Orion (the hunter) 134–139

  Orpheus 23.1, 23.2, 23.3

  Ortygia (island)

  Othrys, Mount

  P

  Paris, Prince (Troy) 25.1–25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.5

  Pasiphaë 24.1–24.2

  Peacocks 12.1, 12.2

  Pegasus (winged horse) 20.1, 21.1

  Pelasgians

  Peleus, King (Phthia) 25.1, 25.2

  Pelias, King (Iolcus) 23.1–23.2, 23.3

  Pentheus

  Periphetes

  Persephone 8–9, 9.1, 63

  Perseus (constellation) 20.1, 20.2

  Perseus (ill-fated hero) 124–133

  and Andromeda 20.1–20.2, 20.3–20.4

  birth and childhood 20.1, 20.2

  cleverness 20.1, 20.2

  and the Graeae 20.1, 20.2–20.3

  heartlessness 20.1, 20.2

  and Medusa 20.1, 20.2, 20.3

  and Polydectes 20.1–20.2, 20.3

  sense of wariness

  Peter Pan

  Philoctetes 22.1, 22.2, 25.1

  Phineas, King (Salmydessus) 23.1–23.2

  Phobos

  Phorcys (sea god)

  Pirithous, King

  Plato

  Polydectes, King (Seriphos) 20.1–20.2, 20.3

  Polydeuces 23.1, 25.1

  Polyhymnia (Muse)

  Polyphemus

  Pontus (wholeness of the seas) 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1

  Poseidon (god of the sea) 8–9, 6.1

  birth

  children 20.1, 21.1

  friendship with Nereus

  helmet of invisibility

  honors

  joy in visiting Pontus

  and Medusa 6.1, 6.2, 20.1, 21.1

  and Minos 24.1–24.2

  rulership of the seas 4.1, 5.1

  trapped in Cronus’ belly 5.1, 6.1

  trident 4.1, 6.1

  vengeance

  war with Titans 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1

  and Zeus

  Priam, King (Troy) 25.1, 25.2

  Procrustes (robber)

  Prometheus 17.1–17.2, 17.3

  Proteus

  R

  Revenge

  Rhea (Titan) 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1

  River Styx 8.1–8.2, 8.3, 25.1

  Rivers, mother to 3.1, 7.1

  Roman mythology

  S

  Salmydessus, Thrace

  Sarmatians 11.1

  Sea god see Poseidon

  Seas

  beginnings 1.1, 1.2

  gods of

  Seasons 9.1, 9.2

  Sekhmet (Egyptian goddess of war)

  Selene (goddess of the moon) 8–9, 17.1, 17.2, 112–117

  Semele 19.1–19.2

  Seriphos (island)

  Sicily (island)

  Side

  Sinis

  Sirens 23.1–23.2, 23.3–23.4

  Skamander (river), Troy

  Socrates

  Sophocles

  Sparta

  Stars 14.1, 91, 18.1, 20.1, 127, 21.1, 137, 21.2

  Stymphalian birds

  Styx (river of hate) 8.1–8.2, 8.3, 25.1

  Sun

  in creation stories

  and daylight

  Sun god see Helios

  Symplegades (rocks) 23.1–23.2

  T

  Tartarus (Underworld) 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1

  Terpsichore (Muse)

  Tethys (Titan) 3.1, 7.1

  Thalia (Muse)

  Thebes 22.1, 22.2, 24.1

  Theia (Titan) 3.1, 17.1

  Themis (Titan) 3.1, 9.1

  Theseus (king of Athens) 160–169

  Thetis

  Thetis (nymph goddess) 25.1, 25.2

  Tiryns

  Titans

  families

  locked in Tartarus 2.1, 4.1

  Uranus’ fear of 2.1, 2.2

  war with Olympians 4.1–4.2, 6.1

  Trickster tales

  Triton (Poseidon’
s son)

  Troezen

  Trojan horse , 178–179

  Troy

  war with Greece 4.1, 25.1–25.2

  Tyndareus, King (Sparta) 25.1, 25.2

  Typhon 4.1–4.2, 4.3

  Tyr (Norse god of war)

  U

  Underworld

  children in 2.1, 3.1

  Erebus

  Odysseus in

  Tartarus 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1

  Underworld god see Hades

  Urania (Muse)

  Uranus (Father Heaven) 8–9, 2.1

  assisting Rhea

  children 2.1–2.2, 2.3–2.4, 3.1–3.2

  and Cronus 3.1, 14.1

  emergence

  marriage to Gaia 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

  plots against him 2.1, 3.1

  and Pontos

  prophesy about Cronus 3.1, 7.1

  soothing personality

  usurping childbearing from

  women

  and Zeus

  Uranus (planet) , 19

  V

  Variable stars

  Venus (goddess) see Aphrodite

  Venus (planet) 14.1, 14.2

  Virgil

  W

  War god see Ares

  War gods in other cultures 16.1, 16.2

  Water gods

  Water nymphs 7.1, 11.1

  Wheelchairs 13.1, 13.2

  Winds

  Wine

  Wine god see Dionysus

  Wisdom goddess see Athena

  Women

  creation of

  Dionysus’ affect on

  learning from the gods

  monthly cycles 18.1–18.2

  power in childbearing

  Wood nymphs

  Z

  Zephyr

  Zeus (king of the gods) 8–9, 4.1

  and Alcmena

  and Aphrodite 14.1–14.2

  Apollo-Hermes judgment

  appointing Poseidon ruler of the

  seas

  and the Argonauts

  and Artemis

  battle with Cronus 4.1–4.2

  birth

  birth of Athena 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 12.1–12.2

  breastplate

  as cheat

  children 9.1–9.2

  and Danaë

  and Demeter

  Endymion’s endless sleep 18.1, 116–117, 18.2

  freeing his siblings 5.1–5.2, 6.1

  and Gaia 3.1, 4.1

  and Hera 12.1–12.2, 79, 16.1

  and Leto 10.1, 12.1

  lightning bolt 4.1, 32, 4.2, 5.1

  and Maia 12.1, 15.1

  making Orion a constellation

  marriages 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 19.1

  and Metis 7.1, 12.1, 12.2

  most-beautiful contest

  and nymphs 7.1–7.2

  prophesy that his son would

  overthrow him

  romances

  as ruler of everything except sea

  and Underworld 4.1, 5.1

  and Semele 19.1–19.2

  sense of entitlement

  usurping childbearing from

  women

  vengefulness

  war with Titans 4.1, 4.2