"Mithrobarzanes, why do we longer linger, and not return again to life ?" And to this rejoined he: "Courage, Menippus; for I will show you a short and easy path." And, in fact, he led me to a certain spot, darker and murkier than the rest, pointing to a certain dim and faint light in the distance flowing, as it were, through a chink. "That," said he, "is the shrine of Trophonius, and from that place the people of Boeotia make their descent. Ascend, then, by this road, and immediately you will be upon Hellenic soil." Delighted at what he told me was I, and, after taking leave of the Magus, with very much difficulty I crept through the narrow mouth, and here I am, somehow or other, in Lebadeia.'
1 Now Livadhia, a town in Boeotia. The Oracle of Trophonius was situated in a cavern not far distant from the town. See Νεκ. Διαλ. iii.
his occupation in Hades, 278
Alexis, Comic poet, referred to, 92
note; Menander borrows from,
154 note.
Alkamenes, Greek sculptor, referred
to, 176 note.
Alkestis, of Euripides, referred to,
Alkestis, wife of Admetus, brought
from Hades by Herakles, 286 note.
Alkibiades, his life saved by Sokra-
tes, 108 note; a principal figure
in the Symposion of Plato, 144
note: referred to, 221.
Alkinous, in Hades, 276.
Alkiphron, epistolary writer, re-
ferred to, 182 note.
Alkmene, wife of Amphitryon, be-
loved by Zeus, 3 note, 21, 55, 132.
Alpheus, a River-God, questioned
by Poseidon respecting his rape
of the nymph Arethusa, 75.
Amaurotes, the allies of Pantagruel,
262 note.
Ambrosia, how regarded by the Py-
thagoreans, 9 note; its enhanced
price noticed by Momus, 226,
rank in Heaven, 177; Zeus ridi-
culed by Momus as, 232.
Anytus, a principal informer against
Sokrates, 222 note.
Aornus, a hill-fort on the Indus,
stormed by the Macedonians, 127
Apelles, the laureate-painter of
Alexander of Macedon, 116, 117,
177 notes.
Aphrodite (Venus), referred to,
16; charges Selene with her
amour with Endymion, 22-24;
upbraids Eros, 24-26; referred to,
29, 30; her liaison with Ares, 33-
34; interrogates Eros, 36-38;
before Paris, 38-48; her children
criticized by Apollo, 52-53; a
competitor for the golden apple,
60-69; at the bridal-procession of
Zeus and Europa, 84; referred to,
103, 104; wounded in battle, 185.
Aphrodite, Anadyomene (rising
from the sea"), the original of,
127 note; referred to, 178, 255.
Aphrodite," the Golden," 104, 178.
Aphrodite, "the Knidian," 10 note,
178, and note, 255 note.
Aphrodite, Cestus of, stolen by
Hermes, 16; Athena demands of
Paris its removal, 44; described,
44 note.
Apis, the sacred Egyptian Bull,
criticized by Momus, 232, and note.
Apokalupsis (Apocalypse of St. John),
the, referred to, 222 note, 255
Apollo, the lover of Daphne and
Hyakinthus, 4; discourses with
Hephæstus on the infant Hermes,
15-16; recounts to Hermes the
manner of the death of Hya-
kinthus, 27-28; envies Hephæstus
his beautiful wives, 29-30; Hera
ridicules his pretensions to uni-
versal knowledge, and his oracu-
lar jugglery, 31; informed by
Hermes of the revenge of He-
phæstus on Aphrodite and Ares,
33-34; criticizes Aphrodite's pro-
geny, 53; discourses with Bac-
chus on Priapus, 51; identified
with Helios, in later Hellenic
theology, 56 note; criticizes the
divine pretensions of the Dios-
kuri, 58-60; his altercation with
Thanatos, 97 note; his prophetic
pretensions ridiculed in Zeus the
Tragedian, 168-178; his gigantic
statue at Rhodes, 178, and note;
his servitude with Admetus ridi-
culed by Cyniskus, 217; his
numerous prophet rivals, 233, and
note; takes the chair at an Olym-
pian Convention, 235; his plu-
ralities abolished by Act of the
Olympian Parliament, 236.
Apollodorus (Bibliotheca), referred
to, 5, 19, 22, 32, 35, 50, 55, 59,
69, 72, 74, 80, 136, 145, 154, 160,
165, 186, 231, 256 notes.
Apollonius (of Rhodes), Argonautica
cited, 58, 69, 81, 129, 280 notes.
Apollonius (of Tyana), his birth
miraculously announced, 66 note.
Appian (a Greek historian of Rome),
referred to, 119 note.
Apuleius (De Aureo Asino), relates
the immortalization of Psyche, 9
note; describes the representation
in sculpture of Diana and her
Dogs, 32 note; describes a theatri-
cal representation of the Judgment
of Paris, 48 note; narrates a rabies
panic, 134 note; on the descent of
Psyche to Hades, quoted, 146
note; his De Magiù referred to,
932; his De Aureo Asino referred
to, 242 note.
Aquarius (Constellation of), Zeus
promises Ganymedes to place
him in the Heavens as, 47 note.
Aratus (author of the Phænomena,
a poem), referred to, 80 note.
Araxes, a river of Armenia, referred
to, 157.
Arbela, the scene of one of the great
victories of Alexander of Mace-
don, noticed by Hannibal, 116;
by Alexander, 118.
Archimedes, the great mechanician,
referred to, 109 note.
Areiopagus (Court of) at Athens,
referred to, 222 note.
Ares (Mars), robbed by Hermes,
15; the lover of Aphrodite, 25,
30; caught in adultery with
Aphrodite, 33-34; conquered by
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