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Bulfinch's Mythology (part 8 of 8)

Part 8 of 8 · Thomas Bulfinch · Public domain text

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Contents (85)
  1. Opening about 3 min
  2. Author'S Preface about 10 min
  3. I. INTRODUCTION about 15 min
  4. II. PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA about 11 min
  5. III. APOLLO AND DAPHNE--PYRAMUS AND THISBE CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS about 14 min
  6. Chapter IV about 15 min
  7. V. PHAETON about 12 min
  8. VI. MIDAS--BAUCIS AND PHILEMON about 9 min
  9. VII. PROSERPINE--GLAUCUS AND SCYLLA about 15 min
  10. VIII. PYGMALION--DRYOPE-VENUS AND ADONIS--APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS about 10 min
  11. IX. CEYX AND HALCYONE: OR, THE HALCYON BIRDS about 11 min
  12. X. VERTUMNUS AND POMONA about 7 min
  13. XI. CUPID AND PSYCHE about 17 min
  14. XII. CADMUS--THE MYRMIDONS about 11 min
  15. Chapter XIII about 12 min
  16. XIV. MINERVA--NIOBE about 12 min
  17. XV. THE GRAEAE OR GRAY-MAIDS--PERSEUS--MEDUSA--ATLAS--ANDROMEDA about 9 min
  18. XVI. MONSTERS about 10 min
  19. XVII. THE GOLDEN FLEECE--MEDEA about 13 min
  20. XVIII. MELEAGER AND ATALANTA about 9 min
  21. XIX. HERCULES--HEBE AND GANYMEDE about 10 min
  22. XX. THESEUS--DAEDALUS--CASTOR AND POLLUX about 13 min
  23. XXI. BACCHUS--ARIADNE about 8 min
  24. Chapter XXIX about 1 min
  25. Chapter XXII about 14 min
  26. Chapter XXIII about 12 min
  27. Chapter XXIV about 13 min
  28. XXV. ARION--IBYCUS--SIMONIDES--SAPPHO about 14 min
  29. XXVI. ENDYMION--ORION--AURORA AND TITHONUS--ACIS AND GALATEA about 7 min
  30. I. , 1., 182 about 3 min
  31. XXVII. THE TROJAN WAR about 25 min
  32. XXVIII. THE FALL OF TROY--RETURN OF THE GREEKS--ORESTES AND ELECTRA about 13 min
  33. Chapter XXIX about 16 min
  34. XXX. THE PHAEACIANS--FATE OF THE SUITORS about 16 min
  35. XXXI. ADVENTURES OF AENEAS--THE HARPIES--DIDO--PALINURUS about 12 min
  36. XXXII. THE INFERNAL REGIONS--THE SIBYL about 15 min
  37. XXXIII. CAMILLA--EVANDER--NISUS AND EURYALUS--MEZENTIUS--TURNUS about 18 min
  38. XXXIV. PYTHAGORAS--EGYPTIAN DEITIES--ORACLES about 17 min
  39. Chapter XXXV about 14 min
  40. XXXVI. MODERN MONSTERS--THE PHOENIX--BASILISK--UNICORN--SALAMANDER about 11 min
  41. Chapter XXXVII about 14 min
  42. XXXVIII. NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY--VALHALLA--THE VALKYRIOR about 12 min
  43. XXXIX. THOR'S VISIT TO JOTUNHEIM about 11 min
  44. Chapter XL about 20 min
  45. XLI. THE DRUIDS--IONA about 12 min
  46. I. INTRODUCTION about 16 min
  47. II. THE MYTHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND about 4 min
  48. III. , Canto IX., 38.] about 10 min
  49. III. MERLIN about 8 min
  50. IV. ARTHUR about 15 min
  51. V. ARTHUR (Continued) about 14 min
  52. VI. SIR GAWAIN about 5 min
  53. VII. CARADOC BRIEFBRAS; OR, CARADOC WITH THE SHRUNKEN ARM about 7 min
  54. VIII. LAUNCELOT OF THE LAKE about 19 min
  55. IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE CART about 9 min
  56. X. THE LADY OF SHALOTT about 6 min
  57. XI. QUEEN GUENEVER'S PERIL about 6 min
  58. XII. TRISTRAM AND ISOUDE about 12 min
  59. XIII. TRISTRAM AND ISOUDE (Continued) about 10 min
  60. XIV. SIR TRISTRAM'S BATTLE WITH SIR LAUNCELOT about 5 min
  61. XV. THE ROUND TABLE about 7 min
  62. XVI. SIR PALAMEDES about 5 min
  63. XVII. SIR TRISTRAM about 5 min
  64. XVIII. PERCEVAL about 12 min
  65. XIX. THE SANGREAL, OR HOLY GRAAL about 9 min
  66. XX. THE SANGREAL (Continued) about 9 min
  67. XXI. THE SANGREAL (Continued) about 17 min
  68. XXII. SIR AGRIVAIN'S TREASON about 13 min
  69. XXIII. MORTE D'ARTHUR about 17 min
  70. Introductory Note about 4 min
  71. I. THE BRITONS about 6 min
  72. II. THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN about 9 min
  73. III. THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN (Continued) about 13 min
  74. IV. THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN (Continued) about 12 min
  75. V. GERAINT, THE SON OF ERBIN about 17 min
  76. VI. GERAINT, THE SON OF ERBIN (Continued) about 12 min
  77. VII. GERAINT, THE SON OF ERBIN (Continued) about 19 min
  78. VIII. PWYLL, PRINCE OF DYVED about 10 min
  79. IX. BRANWEN, THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR about 14 min
  80. X. MANAWYDDAN about 18 min
  81. XI. KILWICH AND OLWEN about 20 min
  82. XII. KILWICH AND OLWEN (Continued) about 11 min
  83. XIII. TALIESIN about 28 min
  84. Introduction about 6 h 38 min
  85. Bulfinch's Mythology (part 8 of 8) about 4 min
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TIBER, river flowing through Rome

TIBER, FATHER, god of the river

TIGRIS, river

TINTADEL, castle of, residence of King Mark of Cornwall

TIRESIAS, a Greek soothsayer

TISIPHONE, one of the Furies

TITANS, the sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), enemies of the gods and overcome by them

TITHONUS, Trojan prince

TITYUS, giant in Tartarus

TMOLUS, a mountain god

TORTOISE, second avatar of Vishnu

TOURS, battle of (See Abdalrahman and Charles Martel)

TOXEUS, brother of Melauger's mother, who snatched from Atalanta her hunting trophy, and was slain by Melauger, who had awarded it to her

TRIAD, the Hindu

TRIADS, Welsh poems

TRIMURTI, Hindu Triad

TRIPTOL'EMUS, son of Celeus , and who, made great by Ceres, founded her worship in Eleusis

TRISTRAM, one of Arthur's knights, husband of Isoude of the White Hands, lover of Isoude the Fair,

TRITON, a demi god of the sea, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Amphitrite

TROEZEN, Greek city of Argolis

TROJAN WAR

TROJANOVA, New Troy, City founded in Britain (See Brutus, and Lud)

TROPHONIUS, oracle of, in Boeotia

TROUBADOURS, poets and minstrels of Provence, in Southern France

TROUVERS', poets and minstrels of Northern France

TROY, city in Asia Minor, ruled by King Priam, whose son, Paris, stole away Helen, wife of Menelaus the Greek, resulting in the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy

TROY, fall of

TURNUS, chief of the Rutulianes in Italy, unsuccessful rival of Aeneas for Lavinia

TURPIN, Archbishop of Rheims

TURQUINE, Sir, a great knight, foe of Arthur, slain by Sir Launcelot

TYPHON, one of the giants who attacked the gods, were defeated, and imprisoned under Mt. Aetna

TYR, Norse god of battles

TYRE, Phoenician city governed by Dido

TYRIANS

TYRRHEUS, herdsman of King Turnus in Italy, the slaying of whose daughter's stag aroused war upon Aeneas and his companions

U

UBERTO, son of Galafron

ULYSSES (Greek, Odysseus), hero of the Odyssey

UNICORN, fabled animal with a single horn

URANIA, one of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne

URDUR, one of the Norns or Fates of Scandinavia, representing the Past

USK, British river

UTGARD, abode of the giant Utgard Loki

UTGARD LO'KI, King of the Giants (See Skrymir)

UTHER (Uther Pendragon), king of Britain and father of Arthur,

UWAINE, knight of Arthur's court

V

VAISSYAS, Hindu caste of agriculturists and traders

VALHALLA, hall of Odin, heavenly residence of slain heroes

VALKYRIE, armed and mounted warlike virgins, daughters of the gods (Norse), Odin's messengers, who select slain heroes for Valhalla and serve them at their feasts

VE, brother of Odin

VEDAS, Hindu sacred Scriptures

VENEDOTIA, ancient name for North Wales

VENUS (Aphrodite), goddess of beauty

VENUS DE MEDICI, famous antique statue in Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

VERDANDI, the Present, one of the Norns

VERTUMNUS, god of the changing seasons, whose varied appearances won the love of Pomona

VESTA, daughter of Cronos and Rhea, goddess of the homefire, or hearth

VESTALS, virgin priestesses in temple of Vesta

VESUVIUS, Mount, volcano near Naples

VILLAINS, peasants in the feudal scheme

VIGRID, final battle-field, with destruction of the gods ind their enemies, the sun, the earth, and time itself

VILI, brother of Odin and Ve

VIRGIL, celebrated Latin poet (See Aeneid)

VIRGO, constellation of the Virgin, representing Astraea, goddess of innocence and purity

VISHNU, the Preserver, second of the three chief Hindu gods

VIVIANE, lady of magical powers, who allured the sage Merlin and imprisoned him in an enchanted wood

VOLSCENS, Rutulian troop leader who killed Nisus and Euryalus

VOLSUNG, A SAGA, an Icelandic poem, giving about the same legends as the Nibelungen Lied

VORTIGERN, usurping King of Britain, defeated by Pendragon 390, 397

VULCAN (Greek, Haephestus), god of fire and metal working, with forges under Aetna, husband of Venus

VYA'SA, Hindu sage

W

WAIN, the, constellation

WELLGUNDA, one of the Rhine-daughters

WELSH LANGUAGE

WESTERN OCEAN

WINDS, THE

WINTER

WODEN, chief god in the Norse mythology, Anglo Saxon for Odin

WOGLINDA, one of the Rhine-daughters

WOMAN, creation of

WOODEN HORSE, the, filled with armed men, but left outside of Troy as a pretended offering to Minerva when the Greeks feigned to sail away, accepted by the Trojans (See Sinon, and Laocoon), brought into the city, and at night emptied of the hidden Greek soldiers, who destroyed the town

WOOD NYMPHS

WOTAN, Old High German form of Odin

X

XANTHUS, river of Asia Minor

Y

YAMA, Hindu god of the Infernal Regions

YEAR, THE

YGDRASIL, great ash-tree, supposed by Norse mythology to support the universe

YMIR, giant, slain by Odin

YNYWL, Earl, host of Geraint, father of Enid

YORK, Britain

YSERONE, niece of Arthur, mother of Caradoc

YSPA DA DEN PEN'KAWR, father of Olwen

Z

ZENDAVESTA, Persian sacred Scriptures

ZEPHYRUS, god of the South wind,

ZERBINO, a knight, son of the king of Scotland

ZETES, winged warrior, companion of Theseus

ZETHUS, son of Jupiter and Antiope, brother of Amphion. See Dirce

ZEUS, See JUPITER

ZOROASTER, founder of the Persian religion, which was dominant in Western Asia from about 550 BC to about 650 AD, and is still held by many thousands in Persia and in India

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