shouts of triumph they dragged the great image into the city? Need I
tell you how, in the darkness of the night, the fleet returned from
Tenedos, and the mighty host again landed upon the Trojan shore; or how
the heroes, concealed within the wooden horse, came out of their
hiding-place, and opened the gates to their friends outside; or how the
Hellenes fell upon the astonished Trojans, awakened so suddenly from a
false dream of peace; or how, with sword and torch, they slew and
burned, and meted out the doom of the fated city? It was thus that the
princes of Hellas performed the oath which they had sworn, years and
years before, in the halls of King Tyndareus; and it was thus that the
wrongs of Menelaus were avenged, fair Helen was given back to her
husband, and the honor of Hellas was freed from blemish.
*THE AFTER WORD.*
And now, if you would learn more concerning the great heroes of the
Golden Age, you must read the noble poems in which the story of their
deeds is told. In the Iliad of Homer, truly the grandest of all poems
written by men, you will read of what befell the Greeks before the walls
of Troy,--of the daring of Diomede; of the wisdom of Nestor; of the
shrewdness of Odysseus; of the foolish pride of Agamemnon; of the
nobility of Hector; of the grief of old King Priam; of the courage of
Achilles. In the AEneid of Virgil, you will read of the last day of the
long siege, and the fatal folly of the Trojans; of crafty Sinon; of the
sad end of Laocoon, who dared suspect the object of the wooden horse; of
the destruction of the mighty city; and of the wanderings of AEneas and
the remnant of the Trojans until they had founded a new city on the far
Lavinian shore. In the tragedies of AEschylus, you will read of the
return of the heroes to Greece; of the sad death of Agamemnon in his own
great banquet-hall; of the wicked career of Clytemnestra; of the
terrible vengeance of Orestes; of what befell Iphigenia in Tauris, and
how she returned to her native land. And in the Odyssey of Homer,
second only to the Iliad in grandeur, you will read of the strange
adventures of Odysseus; how he, storm-tossed and wind-driven, strove for
ten weary years to return to Ithaca; how, after the fall of Troy,--
"He overcame the people of Ciconia; how he passed thence to the rich
fields of the race who feed upon the lotus; what the Cyclops did, and
how upon the Cyclops he avenged the death of his brave comrades, whom
the wretch had piteously slaughtered and devoured; and how he came to
AEolus, and found a friendly welcome, and was sent by him upon his
voyage; yet 'twas not his fate to reach his native land; a tempest
caught his fleet, and far across the fishy deep bore him away, lamenting
bitterly. And how he landed at Telepylus, among the Laestrigonians, who
destroyed his ships and warlike comrades, he alone in his black ship
escaping." ...
You will read, too, of how he was driven to land upon the coast where
Circe the sorceress dwelt, and how he shrewdly dealt with her deceit and
many arts:--
"And how he went to Hades' dismal realm in his good galley, to consult
the soul of him of Thebes, Tiresias, and beheld all his lost comrades
and his mother,--her who brought him forth, and trained him when a
child; and how he heard the Sirens afterward, and how he came upon the
wandering rocks, the terrible Charybdis, and the crags of Scylla,--which
no man had ever passed in safety; how his comrades slew for food the
oxen of the Sun; how mighty Zeus, the Thunderer, with a bolt of fire
from heaven smote his swift bark; and how, his gallant crew all
perished, he alone escaped with life. And how he reached Ogygia's isle,
and met the nymph Calypso, who long time detained and fed him in her
vaulted grot, and promised that he ne'er should die, nor know decay of
age, through all the days to come; yet moved she not the purpose of his
heart. And how he next through many hardships came to the Phaeacians,
and they welcomed him and honored him as if he were a god, and to his
native country in a bark sent him with ample gifts of brass and gold and
raiment."
How he made himself known to old Eumaeus the swineherd, and to his son
Telemachus, and how his old nurse, Eurycleia, knew him by the scar which
he had received when a boy from the wild boar on Mount Parnassus. How
he found his palace full of rude suitors seeking the hand of faithful
Penelope; and how, with the great bow of Eurytus, he slew them all, and
spared not one.
... "Never shall the fame
Of his great valor perish; and the gods
Themselves shall frame, for those who dwell on earth,
Sweet strains in praise of sage Penelope."
*NOTES.*
NOTE 1.--ODYSSEUS AND HIS NURSE. _Page_ 12.
In the Odyssey, Book I., lines 425-444, a similar incident is related
concerning Telemachus and Eurycleia. Many of the illustrations of life
and manners given in this volume have been taken, with slight changes,
from Homer. It has not been thought necessary to make distinct mention
of such passages. The student of Homer will readily recognize them.
NOTE 2.--APOLLO AND THE PYTHON. _Page_ 43.
Readers of the "Story of Siegfried" cannot fail to notice the
resemblance of the legends relating to that hero, to some of the myths
of Apollo. Siegfried, like Apollo, was the bright being whose presence
dispelled the mists and the gloom of darkness. He dwelt for a time in a
mysterious but blessed region far to the north. He was beneficent and
kind to his friends, terrible to his foes. Apollo's favorite weapons
were his silver bow and silent arrows; Siegfried's main dependence was
in his sun-bright armor and his wonderful sword Balmung. Apollo slew
the Python, and left it lying to enrich the earth; Siegfried slew Fafnir
the dragon, and seized its treasures for his own.--See _The Story of
Siegfried_.
NOTE 3.--SISYPHUS. _Page_ 50.
"Yea, and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous
stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet,
and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But
oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him
back: so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing.
And he once more kept heaving and straining; and the sweat the while was
pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his
head."--_Homer's Odyssey_, XI. 595.
NOTE 4.--A SON OF HERMES. _Page_ 50.
Autolycus was said to have been a son of Hermes, doubtless on account of
his shrewdness and his reputation for thievery. Hermes is sometimes
spoken of as the god of thieves.
NOTE 5.--THE CHOICE OF HERACLES. _Page_ 61.
This moral lesson is, of course, of much later date than that of our
story. It is the invention of the Greek sophist Prodicus, who was a
contemporary of Socrates.
NOTE 6.--MELEAGER. _Page_ 68.
Readers of the "Story of Roland" will readily recognize several points
of resemblance between the legend of Meleager's childhood and the story
of Ogier the Dane. It is, indeed, probable that very much of the latter
is simply a medieval adaptation of the former.--See also the account of
the three Norns in _The Story of Siegfried_.
NOTE 7.--THE DEATH OF ASCLEPIUS. _Page_ 91.
The story of Balder, as related in the Norse mythology, has many points
of resemblance to that of Asclepius. Balder, although a being of a
higher grade than Asclepius, was the friend and benefactor of mankind.
He was slain through the jealousy of the evil one: his death was
bewailed by all living beings, birds, beasts, trees, and plants.--See
_The Story of Siegfried_.
NOTE 8.--PARIS AND OENONE. _Page_ 109.
A very beautiful version of this story is to be found in Tennyson's poem
entitled "OEnone." It will well repay reading.
NOTE 9.--THE SWINEHERD'S STORY. _Page_ 119.
This story was afterwards related to Odysseus under very different
circumstances. The curious reader is referred to the Odyssey, Book XV.,
390-485.
NOTE 10.--PRAYERS. _Page_ 129.
"The gods themselves are placable, though far
Above us all in honor and in power
And virtue. We propitiate them with vows,
Incense, libations, and burnt-offerings,
And prayers for those who have offended. Prayers
Are daughters of almighty Jupiter,--
Lame, wrinkled, and squint-eyed,--that painfully
Follow Misfortune's steps; but strong of limb
And swift of foot Misfortune is, and, far
Outstripping all, comes first to every land,
And there wreaks evil on mankind, which Prayers
Do afterwards redress. Whoe'er receives
Jove's daughters reverently when they approach,
Him willingly they aid, and to his suit
They listen. Whosoever puts them by
With obstinate denial, they appeal
To Jove, the son of Saturn, and entreat
That he will cause Misfortune to attend
The offender's way in life, that he in turn
May suffer evil, and be punished thus."
_The Iliad_ (BRYANT'S Translation), IX. 618-636.
A sacrifice to Poseidon similar to that described here is spoken of in
the Odyssey, III. 30-60.
NOTE 11.--THE LABORS OF HERACLES. _Page_ 140.
It seems to have been one of the unexplainable decrees of fate that
Heracles should serve Eurystheus twelve years, and that at his bidding
he should perform the most difficult undertakings. The account of the
twelve labors of Heracles, undertaken by command of his master, belongs
to a later age than that of Homer, The twelve labors were as follows:--
1. The fight with the Nemean lion.
2. The fight with the Lernaean hydra.
3. Capture of the Arcadian stag.
4. Destruction of the Erymanthian boar.
5. Cleansing the stables of Augeas.
6. Putting to flight the Harpies, or Stymphalian birds.
7. Capture of the Cretan bull.
8. Capture of the mares of Thracian Diomede.
9. Seizure of the girdle of the queen of the Amazons.
10. Capture of the oxen of Geryones.
11. Fetching the golden apples of the Hesperides.
12. Bringing Cerberus from the lower world.
NOTE 12. _Page_ 151.
The description of the palace of Tyndareus given here has many points of
resemblance to the description of the palace of Alcinous.--See
_Odyssey_, VII. 85.
NOTE 13. THE VENGEANCE OF ODYSSEUS. _Page_ 224.
Palamedes, according to the ancient story, went to Troy with the heroes,
where he distinguished himself by his wisdom and courage. But Odysseus,
who could never forgive him, caused a captive Phrygian to write to
Palamedes a letter in the name of Priam, and bribed a servant of
Palamedes to conceal the letter under his master's bed. He then accused
Palamedes of treachery. Upon searching the tent, the letter was found,
and Palamedes was stoned to death. When Palamedes was led to death, he
exclaimed, "Truth, I lament thee, for thou hast died even before me!"
There are other stories as to the manner of the death of Palamedes.
Some say that Odysseus and Diomede induced him to descend into a well,
where they pretended they had discovered a treasure; and when he was
below, they cast stones upon him, and killed him. Others state that he
was drowned by them while fishing; and others that he was killed by
Paris with an arrow.--See _Smith's Classical Dictionary_.
NOTE 14.--THE GARDEN OF LYCOMEDES. _Page_ 230.
The curious reader may find in the description of the garden of Alcinous
(Odyssey, VII. 85, _et seq._) some resemblance to the description here
given of the garden of Lycomedes.
NOTE 15.--THE CASKETS OF ZEUS. _Page_ 233.
"Beside Jove's threshold stand
Two casks of gifts for man. One cask contains
The evil, one the good; and he to whom
The Thunderer gives them mingled sometimes falls
Into misfortune, and is sometimes crowned
With blessings. But the man to whom he gives
The evil only stands a mark exposed
To wring, and, chased by grim calamity,
Wanders the teeming earth, alike unloved
By gods and men."--_The Iliad_, XXIV. 663-672,
NOTE 16.--DEATH OF AJAX. _Page_ 258.
"The soul of Ajax, son of Telawon, alone stood apart, being still angry
for the victory wherein I prevailed against him, in the suit by the
ships concerning the arms of Achilles that his lady mother had set for a
prize; and the sons of the Trojans made award and Pallas Athene. Would
that I had never prevailed and won such a prize!"--_Odyssey_, XI.
544-548.
[Illustration: Map--HELLAS, THE SHORES OF THE AEGEAN AND ILIOS.]
*INDEX TO PROPER NAMES.*
[_The figures in parentheses indicate the page or pages on which the
name receives fullest mention._]
Acarnania (3, 72), the most western province of Hellas.
Acastus (92), son of Pelias, king of Iolcos; he was slain by Peleus.
Achaia (5), the northern coast of Peloponnesus.
Achilles (91, 109, 225-236, 246, 255), son of Peleus and the sea-nymph
Thetis. The chief hero among the Hellenes.
Actaeon (87), a celebrated huntsman. He was changed by Artemis into a
stag, and torn to pieces by his own dogs.
Admetus (90, 166), king of Pherze in Thessaly.
AEson (80), son of Cretheus, and father of Jason. He was excluded from
the kingship of Iolcos by his half-brother Pelias.
AEtolia (5), a country north of the Corinthian Gulf (Bay of Crissa), and
east of Acarnania.
Agamemnon (150, 233, 238, 251), king of Mycenae, and commander-in-chief
of the Hellenic forces in the war against Troy.
Ajax Telamon, sometimes called the greater Ajax (150, 234, 257), son of
Telamon, king of Salamis. He was a nephew of Peleus, and hence a cousin
of Achilles.
Ajax Oileus, sometimes called the lesser Ajax (151, 234), son of Oileus,
king of the Locrians.
Alcestis (166), daughter of Pelias, and wife of Admetus.
Alpheus (132), a river which flows through Arcadia and Elis.
Althea (65), the mother of Meleager.
Amphithea (53), grandmother of Odysseus.
Amphitryon (55), the stepfather of Heracles.
Anticleia (2, 219), daughter of Autolycus, and mother of Odysseus.
Antilochus (131, 151), son of Nestor.
Aphareus (125, 187), founder of the town of Arene in Messene, and father
of Idas and Lynceus.
Aphrodite (99-110, 160), goddess of love and beauty.
Apollo (37-46, 189, 208), son of Zeus and Leto. He was the god of
prophecy and of music and song, the punisher of evil, and the helper of
men.
Arcadia (5, 132), a country in the middle of the Peloponnesus.
Ares (223), the god of war. _Mars_.
Arethusa (133), a sea-nymph.
Argo (2, 89), the ship upon which Jason and his companions sailed to
Colchis.
Argolis, see Argos.
Argonauts (2, 67), "the sailors of the Argo."
Argos (2, 5), a name frequently applied by Homer to the whole of the
Peloponnesus. A district north of Laconia, often called Argolis.
Argus (196), a monster having a hundred eyes, appointed by Here to be
the guardian of Io.
Artemis (134, 239), daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin-sister of
Apollo. She was the goddess of the chase, and the protectress of the
young and helpless. _Diana_.
Asclepius (87-90), son of Apollo, and god of the healing art.
_AEsculapius_.
Atalanta (68, 162), daughter of Iasus and Clymene; the fleet-footed wife
of Milanion.
Athene (10, 14,99-105) goddess of wisdom, and "queen of the air;" often
called Pallas Athene. _Minerva_.
Atropos (66, 98), one of the Fates.
Aulis (233, 239-251), a harbor in Boeotia, on the Euripus.
Autolycus (48), the grandfather of Odysseus.
Balios and Xanthos (97), the horses of Peleus.
Boeotia, a district north of the Corinthian Gulf, bounded on the east by
the Euripus, and on the west by Phocis.
Bosphorus (197), the "ox ford," the strait connecting the Sea of Marmora
with the Black (Euxine) Sea.
Cadmus (217), a Phoenician who settled in Hellas, and founded the city
of Thebes. He is said to have brought the alphabet from Phoenicia.
Calchas (225, 241-252), the wisest soothsayer among the Hellenes. He
died of grief because the soothsayer Mopsus predicted things which he
had not foreseen.
Cal{~CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U U+045e~}don (66-76), an ancient town
and district of AEtolia, on the Evenus River.
Castor (56, 68, 146, 185), twin-brother of Polydeuces.
Centaurs (84-86), an ancient race inhabiting Mount Pelion and the
neighboring districts of Thessaly.
Cephallenia (183), a large island near Ithaca.
Charybdis (155), a dreadful whirlpool on the side of a narrow strait
opposite Scylla.
Cheiron (58, 78, 170), a Centaur, "the wisest of men," and the teacher
of the heroes.
Chryse (252), an island in the AEgaean Sea; also a city on the coast of
Asia Minor, south of Troy.
Circe (270), daughter of Helios, a sorceress who lived in the island of
AEaea.
Cleopatra (67-76), wife of Meleager.
Clotho (66, 98), one of the Fates.
Clytemnestra (152, 242-252), daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, and sister
of Castor and Polydeuces and Helen. She was married to Agamemnon, and
became the mother of Iphigenia and Orestes.
Colchis (2, 87-89), a country of Asia, at the eastern extremity of the
Black Sea.
Copais (40), a lake in Boeotia.
Corinth (5, 49, no), a city on the isthmus between the Corinthian Gulf
and the AEgaean Sea.
Corycia (51), a nymph who lived on Mount Parnassus.
Crissa (5, 29), the ancient name of the Gulf of Corinth; also, the name
of a town in Phocis.
Cronus (11,182), the youngest of the Titans, and the father of Zeus.
_Saturn_.
Cythera (165), an island off the south-western point of Laconia.
Deianeira (142, 171-181), wife of Heracles.
Delos (38), the smallest of the Cyclades islands in the AEgaean Sea.
Delphi (5, 30-45), a town on the southern slope of Mount Parnassus.
Deucalion (200), son of Prometheus, and father of Hellen.
Diomede (151, 235), son of Tydeus, and king of Argos.
Dodona (171, 225), an ancient oracle of Hellas, situated in Epirus in a
grove of oaks and beeches.
Echion (61, 76), son of Autolycus.
Elis (125), a country on the western coast of the Peloponnesus, south of
Achala.
Epaphos (16, 198), son of Zeus and Io.
Eris (98), the goddess of discord.
Erymanthus (139), a mountain in Arcadia.
Euboea, the largest island of the AEgaean Sea, separated from Boeotia by
the Euripus.
Eumaeus (114-119), the swineherd of Ithaca.
Euripus (233), the narrow strait between Euboea and Boeotia.
Eurycleia (12), the nurse of Odysseus and of Telemachus.
Eurystheus (138), the master of Heracles, king of Argolis.
Eurytion (71, 92), king of Phthia.
Eurytion (85), a Centaur.
Eurytus (55, 136-144), king of OEchalia.
Evenus (176), a river in AEtolia.
Gan{~CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U U+045e~}medes (208), the most
beautiful of mortals, son of Tros.
Glaucus (25), a fisherman who became immortal by eating of the divine
herb which Cronus had sown.
Gorgons (27), three daughters of Phorcys and Ceto.
Gray Sisters (26), daughters of Phorcys.
Hades (89, 170), the god of the lower regions. _Pluto_.
Hebe (98), the goddess of youth.
Hector (101, 255), son of Priam; the chief hero of the Trojans.
Helen (145-162, 216, 267), daughter of Tyndareus and Leda of Lacedaemon,
represented in mythology as the daughter of Zeus and Leda. "The most
beautiful woman in the world."
Helenus (258), son of Priam, soothsayer of the Trojans.
Helios (5, 15-19), the god of the sun. _Sol_.
Hellas, the name which the Greeks applied to their country. _Greece_.
Hellen (203), son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and ancestor of all the
Hellenes.
Hephaestus (90, 160, 193), the god of fire. _Vulcan_.
Here (99-105), the wife of Zeus. _Juno_.
Heracles (55, 87-90, 138-144, 169-181, 211-214), the most celebrated of
all the old heroes. _Hercules_.
Hermes (100-104, 196), the herald of the gods, son of Zeus and Maia.
_Mercury_.
Hesione (210-213), the sister of Priam
Hesperia (19), "the western land."
Hesperides (5, 27, 139), guardians of the golden apples which Earth gave
to Here on her marriage day--said by some to be the daugters of Phorcys
and Ceto.
Hippodameia (84, 167) wife of Peirithous.
Hyllus (176), son of Heracles.
Hyperboreans (6, 39), a people living in the far North.
Iasus (163), an Arcadian, father of Atalanta.
Icarius (155, 162), brother of Tyndareus, and father of Penelope.
Ida (102-109, 208), a mountain-range of Mysia in Asia Minor, east of
Troy.
Idas (67, 185), "the boaster," son of Aphareus, and father of Cleopatra.
Idomeneus (151, 215, 235), king of Crete.
Ilios (206-214, 253), a name applied to the district in which Troy was
situated. _Ilium_.
Ilus (208), son of Dardanus.
Inachus (196), the first king of Argos.
Io (196-199), daughter of Inachus, and mother of Epaphos from whom was
descended Heracles.
Iolcos (77-110), an ancient town of Thessaly at the head of the
Pegasaean Gulf.
Iole (138-144, 173-181), daughter of Eurytus of OEchalia, beloved by
Heracles.
Iphigenia (242-252), daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
Iphitus (136-153, 172), son of Eurytus, one of the Argonauts.
Ithaca (1, 113), a small island in the Ionian Sea, the birthplace of
Odysseus.
Jason (2, 68, 87), leader of the Argonauts.
Lacedaemon (5, 145-169, 189-204), a district of Laconia in which was
situated Sparta. The name is also applied to the town of Sparta.
Lachesis (66), one of the Fates.
Laconia (5, 145), a country in the south-east of Peloponnesus.
Laertes (2, 182), king of Ithaca, father of Odysseus.
Laodamia (254), daughter of Acastus, and wife of Protesilaus.
Laomedon (208-314), king of Troy, father of Priam.
Lapiths (84), a people inhabiting the country adjoining Mount Pelion in
Thessaly.
Leda (146), wife of Tyndareus of Lacedaemon.
Lemnos (253, 260), an island in the AEgaean Sea.
Lichas (174-179), the herald of Heracles.
Linus (56), a musician, brother of Orpheus.
Lycomedes (228), king of Scyros.
Lydia (173), a district of Asia Minor.
Lynceus (185), son of Aphareus, brother of Idas.
Machaon (151, 262), son of Asclepius, the surgeon of the Greeks in the
Trojan war.
Medea (89), daughter of AEetes, king of Colchis, celebrated for her
skill in magic.
Medusa (27), one of the Gorgons.
Meleager (66-76), son of Oineus and Althea, husband of Cleopatra.
Menelaus (150, 234), brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen.
Messene (120), a country in the south-western part of the Peloponnesus.
Milanion (163), the husband of Atalanta.
Mycenae (150), an ancient town in Argolis.
Mysia (239), a country in Asia Minor.
Nedon (131), a river of Messene.
Neleus (125, 173), son of Poseidon and Tyro, brother of Pelias, and
father of Nestor.
Nessus (176), a Centaur, ferryman at the River Evenus.
Nestor (125, 235), king of Pylos, son of Neleus.
Nireus (151, 160, 235), one of the heroes of the Trojan war.
Oceanus (194), god of the Ocean.
Odysseus, the hero of this story, son of Laertes, husband of Penelope.
_Ulysses_.
OEchalia (138, 174), a town supposed to be somewhere in Euboea.
OEnone (103, 263), daughter of the river-god Cebren, and wife of Paris.
OEta (171, 180), a rugged pile of mountains in the south of Thessaly.
Oineus (65), king of Pleuron and Calydon.
Olympus (5, 79), a mountain in Thessaly, on the summit of which Zeus
held his court.
Omphale (173), a queen of Lydia.
Orestes (244), son of Agamemnon.
Orpheus (248), the greatest of the old musicians.
Orsilochus (129, 134), son of Alpheus, king of Messene.
Ortygia (134), an island near the coast of Sicily.
Palamedes (166, 217-224), son of Nauplius, king of Euboea.
Pallas Athene, see Athene.
Paris (101-110, 204-216), son of Priam of Troy.
Parnassus (5, 30-36, 201), a mountain, or group of mountains, a few
miles north of the Corinthian Gulf.
Patroclus (227, 234), the friend of Achilles.
Peirithous (84, 167), king of the Lapiths, son of Ixion and Dia.
Peleus (71, 91-100, 227), son of AEcus and Endeis the daughter of
Cheiron.
Pelias (80, 125), son of Poseidon and Tyro, and brother of Neleus. He
made himself king of Iolcos, by excluding his half-brother AEson from
the throne.
Pelion (79-110), a lofty mountain in Thessaly not far from Iolcos.
Peloponnesus, all that part of Hellas south of the Corinthian Gulf (Bay
of Crissa).
Penelope (152, 162-168), daughter of Icarius, cousin of Helen, and wife
of Odysseus.
Perseus (27), one of the older heroes, son of Zeus and Danae.
Phaeethon (15-19), son of Helios and Clymene.
Phemius (3, 14), a celebrated minstrel.
Pherae, or Pharae (130-144), an ancient town in Messene on the river
Nedon. Also (90), a town in Thessaly of which Admetus was king.
Philoctetes (159, 180, 252, 260-263), a friend of Heracles, and the most
celebrated archer in the Trojan war.
Phorcys (20-27), "the old man of the sea."
Phthia (92), a district in the south-east of Thessaly.
Polydeuces (146, 185), brother of Castor and Helen. _Pollux_.
Poseidon (22-27, 208), the god of the sea. _Neptune_.
Priam (101, 207-214), the last king of Troy, son of Laomedon, and father
of Hector and Paris.
Prometheus (191-203), a Titan, son of Iapetus, the friend of man.
Protesilaus (254), a hero from Phylace in Thessaly.