INDEX
471 ; union of — with Heaven,
481, 501 Earth-holder (Poseidon), 79, 259,
377 Earth-shaker (Poseidon), 53, 79,
111 ; s. of Ehea and Cronos, 113,
149, 227, 259. 449 ; gives gifts of
healing to Machaon and Poda-
leirius, 525 Echemus, k. of Arcadia, deserted
by his wife Timandra, 191 Echidna, dwelUng of — , mother of
Orthus and Cerberus, 101 ;
mother of the Lernaean Hydra,
103 Echinades Islands (off coast of
Acarnania), 179 Echo, 445
Egypt. 431 ; Menelaiis in, 527 Egyptians, 43 n. ; mode of thresh- ing amongst the ^modern — , 63
n. ; co.smology of the ancient — ,
93 n., 569 Eileithyia, dau. of Zeus and Hera.
147, 331 ; assists at birth of
Apollo, 333 Eion, 517
Ei'oue, dau. of Nereus, 99 Eiones, 593 Eirene (Peace), 145 Eiresiae, 327 Elara, mother of Tityos by Zeus,
173 Eiatus, one of the Lapithae, f. of
Ischys, 213 ; s. of — (Ischys), 339 Electra, one of the Pleiades, 67 ;
dau. of Ocean, mother of Iris
and the Harpies by Thaiimas,
99 ; a river-nymph, dau. of
Tethys and Ocean. 105, 319 Electryon, 217 n.. 219 ; dau. of
(Alcmena), 221, 227 Elephenor, of Euboea, woos Helen,
197 Eleusis, xx.w ; snake of Cyehreus
at — , 207 ; f. of Celeus, 297, 311,
325 Eleusinian, Eleusinians, xxxv,
xxxvi ; war amongst the — , 309 ;
— ■ mysteries, 303 and n., 323 Eleuther, hills of — , the domain of
Mnemosyne, 83 Elis, 261, 355, 531 Eniathion, s. of Eos and Tithouus,
153
Emulation, one of the two Strifes, xviii
Enceladus, s. of Tartarus and Earth, overthrown by Zeus, 501
Endymion, s. of Zeus and Calyce, 161 ; cast out from Heaven into Hades, 261
Enienae, 341
Eniocha, w. of Creon k. of Thebes, 225
Envy, the curse of the Iron Age, 17
Enyo, one of the Graiae, 99
Eoiae, the — , part of the Catalogues of Vomen, xxii ; meaning of the title, xxiii, xxiv
Eos (Dawn), 79 ; dau. of Hyperion, 107 ; bears Memnon to Tithonus, Phaethon to Cephalus, 153, 377 ; story of — and Tithonus, 421- 423 ; dau. of Hyperion and Eurypliai'ssa, 459 ; obtains im- mortality for Memnon. 507
Eospliorus (the Morning Star), 107
Epei. Epeians, 183 ; rulers of Elis, 353
Epeius, builds the Wooden Horse, 511
Epliorus on the Pelasgi, 175
Epic, the early Gireek — , three periods of — , ix. xi ; — Cycle, tlie beginning of the, 481, 480
Epicasta (otlierwise Polycasta), dau. of Kestor, mother of Homer, 569
Epidaurus, 197 ; s. of Argos, 257, 593
Epifioni (i) a poem of the Epic Cycle, xxix ; attributed to Homer, 487 : composition of. 591 (ii) " The After-born," send first- fruits of the spoils from Thebes to Delplii, 489
Epimetheus, receives Pandora from Zeus, 9 ; s. of lapetus and Clymene, how he did mischief to men, 117
Epiphrades, 571
Epithalanmim of Peleus and Thetis, a Hesiodic poem, xxiii
Epopeus, story of — ,.told by Nestor, 493
Erato, one of the Muses, 83, 97
Eratosthenes, the Hesiod of — , 589
Erebus, s. of Chaos. 87 ; (as a
620