Cillaros (Cil′laros), see Cyllaros.
Circe (Cir′ce), daughter of the Sun. The knowledge of poisonous herbs enabled her to destroy her husband, the King of the Sarmatians, for which act she was banished. When Ulysses landed at Aeaea, where she lived, she turned all his followers into swine.
Cisseta (Cisse′ta). The name of one of Actaeon’s hounds.
Citherides (Cither′ides). A name of the Muses, from Mount Citheron.
Clio (Cli′o). One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over history.
Cloacina (Cloaci′na). The Roman goddess of sewers.
Clotho (Clo′tho) was one of the Fates. She was present at births, and held the distaff from which was spun the thread of life. See Atropos and Lachesis.
Clowns of Lycia, The (Ly′cia), were changed into frogs by Latona, because they refused to allow her to drink at one of their streamlets.
Cluacina (Clu′aci′na). A name of Venus, given to her at the time of the reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines, which was ratified near a statue of the goddess.
Clytemnestra (Cly′temnes′tra), wife of Agamemnon, slew her husband and married Aegisthus. She attempted to kill her son Orestes, but he was delivered by his sister Electra, who sent him away to Strophius. He afterward returned and slew both Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.