Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology (Cassell Reference)
Language: English
Pages: 736
ISBN: 030435788X
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Zeus for deliverance. He did so, and even as he prayed the blessed rain began to fall. Even after his death he was honoured for his justice, for he kept the keys of HADES (2), and along with MINOS and RHADAMANTHYS became a judge of the souls of the dead. [Hesiod, Theogony 1003-5; Ps.-Hesiod, Catalogue of Women 205, 212a M-W; Pindar, Olympian 8.30-47, Nemean 8.6-8, Isthmian 8.21-7; Aristophanes, Frogs 464-78; Plato, Gorgias 524a, Apology 41a; Apollodorus 3.12.6; Pausanias 1.39.6, 2.29.2-10; Ovid,
blocked by the great River Sollax, she was only too happy to entrust herself to the god if he would carry her across to safety. She bore him a son, Medus, who gave his name to the Medes; and the name of the river was changed to the Tigris. Alphesiboea (2). The name given by Pausanias (8.24.8) to the daughter of Phegeus and first wife of ALCMAEON, usually called Arsinoe. Alseids see NYMPHS. Althaea. The daughter of THESTIUS, and the wife of OENEUS, king of Calydon, by whom she had several sons and
speaks of 'the waves of Amphitrite' (3.90), of 'the great swell of dark-eyed Amphitrite' (12.60), Amphitryon 87 and of sea-monsters 'like those that famous Amphitrite fosters in such numbers' (5.422). She does, however, play a small part in the myth of THESEUS. Bacchylides (Ode 17) recounts how Minos threw his ring into the sea, challenging Theseus to fetch it and thus prove that Poseidon was his father. Undaunted, Theseus leapt into the sea and was taken by dolphins to Poseidon's palace.
him away. Perseus showed him the head of the Gorgon Medusa (see GORGONS), which turned him into the huge mountain high enough and strong enough to support the sky with all its stars. Atlas holding up the sky occurs in art from the sixth century BC. In Hellenistic and Roman art he strains to support the globe. The Titan about to hand his great burden over to Heracles was the subject of one of the panels painted by Panaenus around Pheidias' great statue of Zeus at Olympia. In the Middle Ages, Atlas
might be mistaken, she followed him the next morning when he went off to hunt. He made his kill, then as usual lay down and called on Aura to come and soothe him. Procris, overhearing, moaned in sorrow, and Cephalus, thinking that some wild creature was hiding in the bushes, threw his javelin towards the sound. Procris cried out in pain as the javelin found its mark, and Cephalus, recognising the voice of his dear wife, ran to her. She died in his arms. Apollodorus (3.15.1) draws a quite
