Thriai [Gr.] Three nypmhs of Parnassus, daughters of Zeus, inspired with the gift of prophecy when they ate honey.
Vatican [L. Vaticanus.] Rom. Relig. The god who causes an infant to uttrr his first cry.
Doto [NL., fr. Gr. Dōtō, name of a Nereid.]
Penelopeia Or Penelope an Arcadian nymph who was the mother of Pan by Hermes. [ Comp. PENELOPE. ]
shepherd god Pan.
annona [L.] 2. [cap.] By personification, a goddess of the yearly crops. She is represented with a horn of plenty and ears of grain.
Father Neptune Personification of the ocean. See NEPTUNE.
Ligyda [ NL., also Lygia, Ligya, fr. Gr. Ligeia, a siren.]
Valetudo [L.] Rom. Relig. A goddess of health whose cult was introduced into Rome with that of Aesculapius.
Sisyphides [Gr. Sisyphidēs.] A son or descendant of Sisyphus; ─ sometimes applied to Odysseus.
Three Sisters, the Myth. The three Fates. See FATE, n., 5.
Demetrian adj. Of, pert. to, or like, Demeter.
Vacuna [L.] Rom. Myth. A Sabine goddess of hunting and of victory in war.
Pierian adj. [L. Pierus, fr. Mount Pierus, in Thessaly, sacred to the Muses.] Of or pert. to Pieria, a region of ancient Macedonia, one of the earliest seats of the worship of the Muses. Specif., an epithet of the Muses; hence used with alllusive reference to knowledge or poetry.
Drink up, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.
Aïdes Hades, the god. Poetic.
Lemnian adj. [L. Lemnius, fr. Lemnus, fr. Gr. Lēmnos.] Of or pert. to the isle of Lemnos. ─ n. A native or inhabitant of Lemnos; also, Poet., Hephaestus.
progne [L., a swallow, traditionally said to be fr. Progne ( the sister of Philomela ), who was changed into a swallow, fr. Gr. Proknē.]
Lady Luck ( sometimes l. c. ) the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game. [ 1930 - 35]
Dircaean adj. [L. Dircaeus.] Pertaining to, or named from, the fountain Dirce, near Thebes, which city was the home of the poet Pindar ( called the "Dircaean Swan" by Horace ); hence, Pindaric; poetic.
Lemonias [NL., fr. Gr. leimōnias a meadow nymph, fr. leimōn meadow.]
Aidoneus [Gr. Aïdōneus.] Gr. Myth. = HADES, the god. Poetic.
maenad [L. Maenas, -adis, fr. Gr. mainas, -ados, fr. mainasthai to rave. See MANIA.] 1. Gr. Relig. A nymph attendant upon Dionysus ( which see ); also, a woman who celebrated the orgiastic rites of Dionysus; a bacchante. Cf. BACCHAE. ─ maenadic, adj. ─ maenadism, n. 2. Any frenzied or unnaturally excited woman.
Prometheus [L., fr. Gr. Promethēus, lit., Forethinker.] Gr. Relig. A Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene, or, according to Aeschylus, a son of Themis, or Gaea, regarded as the founder of civilization, and, in later classical tradition, as the creator of the human race. Prometheus sided with the Olympians in their struggle against the Titans, but, grieved of their neglect of mankind, he stole fire from heaven and bestowed it upon man along with the arts which control of it makes possible. Zeus, angered, had him bound to Mount Caucasus. But Prometheus, who was gifted with prophetic foresight, knew the source from which Zeus was to be eventually overthrown, and the god, to win this knowledge, offered to release him. The Titan refused, rather than perpetuate an unjust reign. Zeus then caused a vulture daily to consume his liver, which grew again at night, dooming him to this fate until some immortal should consent to die in Prometheus's stead. This Chiron did, and Hercules slew the vulture and released the Titan. Cf. EPIMETHEUS.
Lemnian smith Vulcan; Hephaestus.
Medusa [ L., fr. Gr. Medousa.] 1. Gr. Myth. One of the Gorgons ( see GORDON, n., 1 ). She was slain by Perseus, who succeeded in cutting off her head by looking at its reflection in his shield. She is fabled by some have been a beautiful maiden, whose hair ws transformed into snakes by Athena, whose sanctuary she had violated.
Dirca [ NL., fr. L. Dirce, fr. Gr. Dirkē, a fountain in Thebes.]
Cerynean adj. [ Gr. Keryneios.] Gr. Myth. Designating the gold-antlered stag or hind which haunted Cerynea on the borders of Arcadia and Achaia, whose capture was one of the labors of Hercules.
terra [ It. L. See TERRACE.] The earth; earth; [cap.], Rom. Relig. earth as a goddess.
