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Amaury of Hauteville, false hearted Knight of Charlemagne.
Amazons, mythical race of warlike women.
Ambrosia, celestial food used by the G.o.ds.
Ammon, Egyptian G.o.d of life identified by Romans with phases of Jupiter, the father of G.o.ds.
Amphiaraus, a great prophet and hero at Argos.
Amphion, a musician, son of Jupiter and Antiope (See Dirce).
Amphitrite, wife of Neptune.
Amphyrsos, a small river in Thessaly.
Ampyx, a.s.sailant of Perseus, turned to stone by seeing Gorgon's head.
Amrita, nectar giving immortality.
Amun, See Ammon
Amymone, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus, and mother by Poseidon (Neptune) of Nauplius, the father of Palamedes.
Anaxarete, a maiden of Cyprus, who treated her lover Iphis with such haughtiness that he hanged himself at her door.
Anbessa, Saracenic governor of Spain (725 AD).
Anceus, one of the Argonauts.
Anchises, beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), by whom he became the father of Aeneas.
Andraemon, husband of Dryope, saw her changed into a tree.
Andret, a cowardly knight, spy upon Tristram.
Andromache, wife of Hector
Andromeda, daughter of King Cephas, delivered from monster by Perseus
Aneurin, Welsh bard
Angelica, Princess of Cathay
Anemone, short lived wind flower, created by Venus from the blood of the slain Adonis
Angerbode, giant prophetess, mother of Fenris, Hela and the Midgard Serpent
Anglesey, a Northern British island, refuge of Druids fleeing from Romans
Antaeus, giant wrestler of Libya, killed by Hercules, who, finding him stronger when thrown to the earth, lifted him into the air and strangled him
Antea, wife of jealous Proetus
Antenor, descendants of, in Italy
Anteros, deity avenging unrequited love, brother of Eros (Cupid)
Anthor, a Greek
Antigone, daughter of Aedipus, Greek ideal of filial and sisterly fidelity
Antilochus, son of Nestor
Antiope, Amazonian queen. See Dirce
Anubis, Egyptian G.o.d, conductor of the dead to judgment
Apennines
Aphrodite See Venus, Dione, etc.
Apis, Egyptian bull G.o.d of Memphis
Apollo, G.o.d of music and song
Apollo Belvedere, famous antique statue in Vatican at Rome
Apples of the Hesperides, wedding gifts to Juno, guarded by daughters of Atlas and Hesperis, stolen by Atlas for Hercules.
Aquilo, or Boreas, the North Wind.
Aquitaine, ancient province of Southwestern France.
Arachne, a maiden skilled in weaving, changed to a spider by Minerva for daring to compete with her.
Arcadia, a country in the middle of Peloponnesus, surrounded on all sides by mountains.
Arcady, star of, the Pole star.
Arcas, son of Jupiter and Callisto.
Archer, constellation of the.
Areopagus, court of the, at Athens.
Ares, called Mars by the Romans, the Greek G.o.d of war, and one of the great Olympian G.o.ds.
Arethusa, nymph of Diana, changed to a fountain.
