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• Pleiades (Sailing Ones) Greek Seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Oceanids; sisters of the Hyades.

• Peleus Greek Son of King Aecus; brother of Telamon; husband of Thetis; father, with Thetis, of the hero Achilles.

• Orpheus Greek A famous poet and singer; son of Oeagrus, king of Thrace, and of Calliope, the Muse; husband of Eurydice.

• Menoetius Greek A second-generation Titan; son of Iapetus and Clymene, who was a daughter of Oceanus; brother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.

• Plutus Greek Son of Demeter and Iasion, son of Zeus and Electra (2); god of wealth and of the Earth's abundant harvests.

• Daedal us (Cunningly Wrought) Greek A legendary Athenian, descendant of the god Hephaestus, who was known as "the divine artificer.

• Oedipus Oedipus, in Greek mythology, king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes.

• Medusa Greek One of the three Gorgons, the only one who was not immortal; her sisters were Stheno and Euryale.

• Metis (Wisdom) Greek A Titan, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, an Oceanid, or ocean Nymph, who was counted among the Titans.

• Oeneus (Oeneous; Vintner) Greek King of Calydon; husband of Althea, father of Meleager, Tydeus, Gorge, and the beautiful Deianira, who eventually married Heracles.

• Phaedra Greek Daughter of Minos of Crete and of Pasiphaë; sister of Ariadne and Androgeus; wife of Theseus, king of Athens.

• Lotus-Eaters (Loto phagi) Greek In Homer's Odyssey, people who lived on the fruit or the roots of the lotus plant.

• Dryads (Nymphs; Tree) Greek The lives of some were entwined with specific trees; they lived and died with that tree.

• Medea Greek A sorceress; daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (Asia Minor); niece of Circe, the witch of the Odyssey.

• Doris (Bounty) Greek An Oceanid, or ocean Nymph; one of the eldest daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys; herself considered a secondgeneration Titan.

• Perseus Greek Son of the god Zeus and Danae; husband of Andromeda; father of Perses; slayer of the Gorgon Medusa.

  Perseus slew Medusa and cut off her head, which he carefully stowed in his leather bag. From the blood of Medusa sprang Chrysaor and the winged horse, Pegasus, children of Medusa and the sea god, Poseidon. Perseus and Andromeda - Mythology. With Medusa’s head in his leather bag, Perseus set off on his winged sandals to take the head to King Polydectes of Seriphos. As he flew along the coast, he saw a beautiful woman chained to a rock, weeping. She was Andromeda, daughter of King Cepheus of Eth...

• Palla s (Warrior) Greek A second generation Titan; considered by some to be the god of warfare and of the springtime battle season.

• Parnassus Greek A mountain in south-central Greece, a few miles north of the Gulf of Corinth which separates mainland Greece from the Peloponnesus.

• Phorcys (Phorcus; Old man of the sea) Greek An ancient sea god; son of Gaia and Pontus; husband to his sister Ceto.

• Scylla and Charybdis Greek Two mythical characters who inhabited the Straits of Messina, between mainland Italy and the island of Sicily.

• Thaumus (Wonder) Greek An ancient sea god, ranked among the second-generation of Titans; son of Gaia and Pontus; brother of Ceto, Phorcys, Nereus, and Eurybia.

• Laestrygonians Greek A race of giant cannibals who devoured many of the crewmen of the ships of Odysseus when the hero anchored near their island.

• Hell espont (Dardanelles) Greek The long narrow channel or strait leading from the Aegean Sea into the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.

• Hyperion (The One Above) Greek One of the Titans; son of Uranus and Gaia; father with Theia of Helios, Selene, and Eos (the Sun, the Moon, and Dawn).

• Eris (Discord) Greek The spirit or goddess of strife; the sister of Ares, Eris accompanied him into battle and helped to cause quarrels and lawlessness.

• Epigoni (Descendants, the younger generation) Greek The sons of the Seven Against Thebes, an expedition launched by Adrastus and Polynices to capture the throne of Thebes.

• Helios (Helius) (The sun god) Greek Helios was husband to Rhodos, the Nymph of the island of Rhodes, which he chose as his favored abode.

• Stheno (Strong) Greek One of the three Gorgons, female monsters; daughter of Ceto, an ancient sea goddess, and Phorcys; her sisters were Euryale and Medusa.

• Chimera (She-Goat) Greek A fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail; the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon.

• Sirens Greek The Nymphs whose sweet song lured sailors to destruction by making them go mad and therefore become shipwrecked on the coast where the Sirens lived.

• Eunomia (Order) Greek A goddess of order and lawful conduct and one of the three Horae, guardians of the seasons, with her sisters Dike (Justice) and Eirene (Peace).

• Virgo (Virgin) Greek One of the constellations; sixth sign of the Zodiac, named for the maiden Erigone, who hanged herself from a tree after finding the grave of her murdered father, Icarius of Attica.

• Pirithoüs Greek Son of Zeus and Dia, the wife of Ixion; king of the Lapiths, a mythical people inhabiting the mountains of Thessaly; friend of the hero Theseus.

• Harpies (Swift Robbers) Greek The storm winds; daughters of Electra (3), a sea Nymph, and an ancient sea god, Thaumus; sisters of the goddess of rainbows, Iris.

• Euryal e (Wide-Stepping) Greek One of the three gorgons, female monsters; daughter of Ceto, an ancient sea goddess, and Phorcys; her sisters were Stheno and Medusa.

• Hestia (Hearth) Greek Goddess of the hearth and fire; eldest daughter of Cronus and Rhea; sister of Zeus and Hera; one of the 12 Olympian gods.

• Seven Against Thebes Greek The name given to the conflict between the rulers of the kingdom of Thebes and the rebels who challenged the king for the throne.

• Prometheus Unbound Author's Preface Percy Bysshe Shelley The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion.

• Pleione Greek Daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys; a nymph, one of the eldest among the thousands of daughters born of this union who were themselves considered by many writers to be Titans.

• Cratus (Crato s; Krato s; Strength) Greek The personification of strength; a demigod or lesser god; son of the Titan Pallas and the water Nymph Styx; brother of Nike (Victory), Bia (Force), and Zelus (Zeal).

• Zelus (Zelos; Zeal, Strife) Greek The personification of rivalry, envy, jealousy, and eagerness; a demigod or lesser god; son of the Titan Pallas and the water Nymph Styx; brother of Nike (Victory), Bia (Force), and Cratus (Strength).

• Theia (Radiant) Greek A first-generation Titan goddess of sight and the shining light of the blue sky; daughter of Gaia and Uranus; mother, with Hyperion, of the gods who brought light to humans: Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn).

• Iphicles Greek Halfbrother of the hero Heracles; son of Amphitryon, a prince of Tiryns, and his wife, Alcmene, who was a daughter of the king of Mycenae; husband to Automedusa, and later, to the youngest daughter of King Creon of Thebes.

• Poseidon Greek Sea god and one of the Olympian gods; son of Cronus and Rhea; brother of Zeus, Hades, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia; husband The Roman goddess Pomona displays her fruits of plenty in the painting by French artist Nicholas Fouche (1653-1733).

• Acropolis - geography.

  The Erechtheum is one of the most elaborate buildings on the Acropolis. Its plan is irregular, probably because of the sloping site and the need to preserve earlier placesof worship on the site or nearby. Porches project from three sides of the Erechtheum, but they are at different heights and are not centered on each side. GracefulIonic columns support the porches on the eastern and northern sides. Elegant caryatids (columns carved in the shape of draped female figures) support the Porch of t...

• Acropolis - USA History.

  The Erechtheum is one of the most elaborate buildings on the Acropolis. Its plan is irregular, probably because of the sloping site and the need to preserve earlier placesof worship on the site or nearby. Porches project from three sides of the Erechtheum, but they are at different heights and are not centered on each side. GracefulIonic columns support the porches on the eastern and northern sides. Elegant caryatids (columns carved in the shape of draped female figures) support the Porch of t...

• Alphabet I INTRODUCTION Bengali Script India developed a number of different writing systems over the course of its history.

  A Pictographic and Ideographic Systems Early systems of writing used pictures to represent things and then to represent the sounds of those things. Pictographic writing, in which a simplified picture of the sunstood for the word sun, was probably the first step toward a written language. Chinese began as a pictographic language. To represent abstract ideas, the Chinese writing system combined pictographs. For example, the pictographs for sun and tree were combined to represent the concept of...

• Roman Art and Architecture - history.

  house, records office, and basilica. Imperial Forum, RomeThe Roman Forum was founded at the beginning of the Roman republic (around 500 bc), and it continued to develop into the late 2ndcentury ad. Among the ruins seen here are the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (since converted into a church, background, left),the foundations of the Basilica Julia (foreground, center), and the three remaining columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux(background, right).Donadoni/Bruce Coleman, Inc. The basili...

• Homer.

  Apollo ), and some have argued that portions of the texts, such as the concluding scenes of the Odyssey, were added by another hand. However, they generally believed that Homer was a poet (or at most, a pair of poets) much like the poets they knew from their own experience. They believed that the Iliad and the Odyssey, although based on traditional materials, were independent, original, and largely fictional. In the last 200 years, however, this view has changed radically, following the emer...

• History of Chemistry - chemistry.

  even better distillation apparatus than the Arabs had made and to condense the more volatile products of distillation. Among the important products obtained in thisway were alcohol and the mineral acids: nitric, aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric), sulfuric, and hydrochloric. Many new reactions could be carried outusing these powerful reagents. Word of the Chinese discovery of nitrates and the manufacture of gunpowder also came to the West through the Arabs. The Chinese atfirst use...