Footnotes
[1]The Titans in Greek mythology were descended from Uranus and Gaea (Heaven and Earth). In the latest legends, Titan, father of the Titans, gave up supreme power to Cronus, his younger brother, but finally regained it. He in turn was overcome by Zeus.
[2]Cronus, father of Zeus, was a Titan, and was dethroned by Zeus after he had usurped the government of the world. The Romans identified him with Saturn.
[3]Vulcan, in mythology, was the son of Jupiter and Juno.
[4]The legend also states that hope remained in the box.
[5]Oceanus in Greek mythology is typical of the ocean and stream earlier than Poseidon.
[6]Themis in mythology was the goddess of justice and peace.
[7]Doris in mythology was the wife of Nereus, a seer dwelling in the Ægean Sea, and had fifty daughters, called Nereids.
[8]The myth also states that Phaëthon had three sisters—Phaëthusa, Lampetié, and Phœbé—and that while they were lamenting Phaëthon’s death, Zeus turned them into poplar trees, weeping amber instead of tears.
[9]He is also said in another myth to have been the son of Œagrus, a Thracian river god.
[10]The muse of epic poetry.
[11]Another version of the myth relates that Aristæus, son of Apollo and Cyrene, loved Eurydice and when she repulsed him he pushed her into a wood where the serpent stung her, and that the nymphs revenged her death by the destruction of his bees.
[12]Ixion is said to have been punished by Jupiter for insulting Juno. He was struck by a thunderbolt and sent to Tartarus, where he was tied to a wheel which never ceased revolving.
[13]Sisyphus was a famous robber killed by Theseus. His punishment was to roll a great rock to the top of a hill which no sooner reached the top than it rolled down again.
[14]Ceres’ daughter was Persephone, who was stolen by Pluto.
[15]In the Roman mythology, Mars.
[16]Hera is Juno in the Roman mythology.
[17]Phlegyas was the father of Ixion, and a Thessalian king.
[18]Mount Sipylus is near Smyrna.
[19]Europa, daughter of Agenor and sister of Cadmus, was abducted by Zeus, who took her to Crete. She was the mother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, judges in the lower world.
[20]Cadmus is also reputed to have been the introducer of the letters of the Greek alphabet.
[21]Eryx, a city and mountain in western Sicily, now known as Monte San Giuliano, near Palermo.
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