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TARTARUS, place of confinement of t.i.tans, etc, originally a black abyss below Hades later, represented as place where the wicked were punished, and sometimes the name used as synonymous with Hades
TEIRTU, the harp of
TELAMON, Greek hero and adventurer, father of Ajax
TELEMACHUS, son of Ulysses and Penelope
TELLUS, another name for Rhea
TENEDOS, an island in Aegean Sea
TERMINUS, Roman divinity presiding over boundaries and frontiers
TERPSICh.o.r.e, Muse of dancing
TERRA, G.o.ddess of the earth
TETHYS, G.o.ddess of the sea
TEUCER, ancient king of the Trojans
THALIA, one of the three Graces
THAMYRIS, Thracian bard, who challenged the Muses to compet.i.tion in singing, and, defeated, was blinded
THAUKT, Loki disguised as a hag
THEBES, city founded by Cadmus and capital of Boeotia
THEMIS, female t.i.tan, law counsellor of Jove
THEODORA, sister of Prince Leo
THERON, one of Diana's dogs
THERSITES, a brawler, killed by Achilles
THESCELUS, foe of Perseus, turned to stone by sight of Gorgon's head
THESEUM, Athenian temple in honor of Theseus
THESEUS, son of Aegeus and Aethra, King of Athens, a great hero of many adventures
THESSALY
THESTIUS, father of Althea
THETIS, mother of Achilles
THIALFI, Thor's servant
THIS'BE, Babylonian maiden beloved by Pyramus
THOR, the thunderer, of Norse mythology, most popular of the G.o.ds
THRACE
THRINA'KIA, island pasturing Hyperion's cattle, where Ulysses landed, but, his men killing some cattle for food, their s.h.i.+p was wrecked by lightning
THRYM, giant, who buried Thor's hammer
THUCYDIDES, Greek historian
TIBER, river flowing through Rome
TIBER, FATHER, G.o.d of the river
TIGRIS, river
TINTADEL, castle of, residence of King Mark of Cornwall
TIRESIAS, a Greek soothsayer
TISIPHONE, one of the Furies
t.i.tANS, the sons and daughters of Ura.n.u.s (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), enemies of the G.o.ds and overcome by them
t.i.tHONUS, Trojan prince
t.i.tYUS, giant in Tartarus
TMOLUS, a mountain G.o.d
TORTOISE, second avatar of Vishnu
TOURS, battle of (See Abdalrahman and Charles Martel)
TOXEUS, brother of Melauger's mother, who s.n.a.t.c.hed from Atalanta her hunting trophy, and was slain by Melauger, who had awarded it to her
TRIAD, the Hindu
TRIADS, Welsh poems
TRIMURTI, Hindu Triad
TRIPTOL'EMUS, son of Celeus , and who, made great by Ceres, founded her wors.h.i.+p in Eleusis
TRISTRAM, one of Arthur's knights, husband of Isoude of the White Hands, lover of Isoude the Fair,
