Briseïs. Daughter of the Trojan Brises. Being captured, fell to Achilles's share, from whom she was taken by Agamemnon.
Bulis and Sperchis. Two Spartans, given up to Xerxes to atone for his heralds' having been slain; the king refused to retaliate.
Busīris. King of Egypt, who used to sacrifice all strangers to Zeus. When he attempted to offer Heracles, Heracles offered him.
Cadmus. Came from Tyre, once an island, to Greece, bringing with him the Phoenician alphabet. Told at Delphi to follow a certain cow, and build a town where she should lie down; built the Cadmea, citadel of Thebes. Having slain a dragon that guarded a well, was told to sow its teeth, from which sprang the Sparti, or sown men, afterwards Thebans. Married Harmonia, by whom he had Semele and other children.
Calamis. Sculptor, 440 B.C. For Sosandra see note on Portrait-Study (4).
Calānus. Indian gymnosophist. Accompanied Alexander in India. Being ill at eighty-three, burnt himself.
Calisto. Beloved by Zeus. Turned by the jealous Hera into a bear, and by Zeus into the constellation of that name.
Callimachus. Famous Alexandrine grammarian and poet. Wrote eight hundred works. 260 B.C.
Callimedon. Athenian orator in the Macedonian interest.