The Student's Mythology / A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies
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A COMPENDIUM OF Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies, IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARD AUTHORITIES.
ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES.
BY C. A. WHITE.
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.
NEW YORK. A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON, 714 Broadway. 1889.
Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by W. J. WIDDLETON, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Copyright, 1882, by W. C. Bush.
The Student’s Mythology has been in use in manuscript for nearly three years in one of our largest academies, where it has been received with much favor by both teachers and pupils. Even in that form, which subjected them to the inconvenience of long dictations, it was preferred to any of the ordinary text-books on the subject. Copies were sought for the use of other institutions, and the principals of the academy referred to, consented that the work should be prepared for the press.
In carrying out the plan, the subject matter was carefully classified, and such additions made as were deemed necessary for completeness. As a farther precaution, the whole was submitted to the revision of an eminent classical scholar.
Catherine Ann White
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PREFATORY NOTE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
MOUNT OLYMPUS.
THE GODS—DIFFERENT CLASSES OF DEITIES.
CHAPTER III.
PHŒBUS—APOLLO.
CHAPTER IV.
MARS—ARES.
CHAPTER V.
MERCURY—HERMES.
CHAPTER VI.
BACCHUS—DIONYSUS.
JUNO—HERA.
CHAPTER VIII.
MINERVA—PALLAS ATHENA.
CHAPTER IX.
VENUS—APHRODITE.
CHAPTER X.
LATONA—LETO.
CHAPTER XI.
AURORA—EOS.
SATURN.
JANUS.
CHAPTER XIII.
VULCAN—HAPHÆSTUS.
CHAPTER XIV.
ÆOLUS.
MOMUS.
VESTA—HESTIA.
CHAPTER XVI.
CYBELE.
CHAPTER XVII.
CERES—DEMETER.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THEMIS—ASTRÆA—NEMESIS.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE MUSES.
PAN.
SATYRS AND FAUNS.
TERMINUS.
VERTUMNUS.
DIANA.
NYMPHS.
NEPTUNE—POSEIDON.
PLUTO—HADES.
HELL.
FATES—FURIES.
CHAPTER XXIV.
FABULOUS MONSTERS.
PENATES—LARES.
CHAPTER XXVII.
JASON.
THESEUS.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CASTOR AND POLLUX.
PROMETHEUS.
CHAPTER XXIX.
ORPHEUS.
ARION.
AMPHION.
CHAPTER XXX.
ATLAS.
ORION.
PERSEUS.
CHAPTER XXXI.
BELLEROPHON.
DEUCALION.
DÆDALUS.
CEYX—HALCYONE—THE HALCYON BIRDS.
CHAPTER XXXII.
MELEAGER—THE CALYDONIAN HUNT.
NISUS AND SCYLLA.
ERISICHTHON.
HOMER—HESIOD—VIRGIL—OVID.
AGAMEMNON.
ACHILLES.
CHAPTER XXXV.
ULYSSES.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
ORESTES.
HECTOR.
ŒDIPUS—ETEOCLES AND POLYNICES.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
ÆNEAS.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
SIBYLS—AUGURS.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
ORACLES.
CHAPTER XL.
CLASSIC GAMES.
CHAPTER XLI.
THEATRES.
CHAPTER XLII.
CELEBRATED STATUES.
OSIRIS—APIS—SERAPIS—ISIS—ANUBIS—HARPOCRATES.
BAAL, OR BEL—MOLOCH.
MOLOCH.
THAMMUZ.
OANNES.
CHAPTER III.
PERSIA.
BRAHMA—THE VEDAS.
BUDDHA.
CHAPTER V.
CHINA.
THE GRAND LAMA.
THOR.
FREY AND FREYA.
BRAGI.
HEIMDALL.
VIDAR.
HODUR.
THE VALKYRIOR.
LOKI AND HIS PROGENY.
BALDUR THE GOOD.
DRUIDISM.
MYTHOLOGY OF THE AZTECS.
CHAPTER X.
PERU.
ÆSCHYLUS,
CÆSAR (Caius Julius),
CICERO.
DEMOSTHENES.
DIODORUS,
EURIPIDES,
HERODOTUS,
JUSTIN (Saint).
JUVENAL.
MÆCENAS.
PELASGI.
PLINIUS, (Secundus C.)
PROCOPIUS.
SIMONIDES.
SOPHOCLES.
STRABO.
TITICACA.
VARRO.