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SLEEP, twin brother of Death
SLEIPNIR, Odin's horse
SOBRINO, councillor to Agramant
SOMNUS, child of Nox, twin brother of Mors, G.o.d of sleep
SOPHOCLES, Greek tragic dramatist
SOUTH WIND See Notus
SPAR'TA, capital of Lacedaemon
SPHINX, a monster, waylaying the road to Thebes and propounding riddles to all pa.s.sers, on pain of death, for wrong guessing, who killed herself in rage when Aedipus guessed aright
SPRING
STONEHENGE, circle of huge upright stones, fabled to be sepulchre of Pendragon
STROPHIUS, father of Pylades
STYGIAN REALM, Hades
STYGIAN SLEEP, escaped from the beauty box sent from Hades to Venus by hand of Psyche, who curiously opened the box and was plunged into unconsciousness
STYX, river, bordering Hades, to be crossed by all the dead
SUDRAS, Hindu laboring caste
SURTUR, leader of giants against the G.o.ds in the day of their destruction (Norse mythology)
SURYA, Hindu G.o.d of the sun, corresponding to the Greek Helios
SUTRI, Orlando's birthplace
SVADILFARI, giant's horse
SWAN, LEDA AND
SYBARIS, Greek city in Southern Italy, famed for luxury
SYLVa.n.u.s, Latin divinity identified with Pan
SYMPLEGADES, floating rocks pa.s.sed by the Argonauts
SYRINX, nymph, pursued by Pan, but escaping by being changed to a bunch of reeds (See Pandean pipes)
T
TACITUS, Roman historian
TAENARUS, Greek entrance to lower regions
TAGUS, river in Spain and Portugal
TALIESIN, Welsh bard
TANAIS, ancient name of river Don
TANTALUS, wicked king, punished in Hades by standing in water that retired when he would drink, under fruit trees that withdrew when he would eat
TARCHON, Etruscan chief
TARENTUM, Italian city
TARPEIAN ROCK, in Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled
TARQUINS, a ruling family in early Roman legend
TAURIS, Grecian city, site of temple of Diana (See Iphigenia)
TAURUS, a mountain
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
