Hydra. A celebrated monster, or serpent, with seven, or, according to some, fifty heads, which infested the Lake Lerna. It was killed by Hercules.

Hymen. Son of Bacchus and Venus, and god of marriage.

Hyp'erion. Son of Ccelus and Terra.

Ica'rius. Son of Cebalus; having received from Bacchus a bottle of wine, he went into Attica to showmen the use of it, but was thrown into a well by some shepherds whom he had made drunk, and who thought he had given them poison.

Ic'arus. The son of Daedalus, who, flying with his father out of Crete into Sicily and soaring too high, melted the wax of his wings and fell into the sea, thence called the Icarian sea.

I'o. The daughter of Inachus, turned by Jupiter into a white heifer, but afterward resumed her former shape; was worshipped after her death by the Egyptians under the name of Isis.

Iphigeni'a. The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who, standing ready as a victim to be sacrificed to appease the ire of Diana, was by that goddess transformed into a white hart and made a priestess.

I'ris. The daughter of Thumas and Elec-tra; one of the Oceanides and messenger and companion of Juno, who turned her into a rainbow.

Ixi'on. A king of Thessaly and father of the Centaurs. He killed his own sister, and was punished by being fastened in hell to a wheel perpetually turning.

Ja'nus. The son of Apollo and Creusa and first king of Italy, who, receiving the banished Saturn, was rewarded by him with the. knowledge of husbandry and of things past and future.

Ja'son. The leader of the Argonauts, who, with Medea's help, obtained the golden fleece from Colchis.

Ju'no. The daughter of Saturn and Ops; sister and wife of Jupiter, the great queen of heaven and of all the gods, and goddess of marriages and births.

Ju'piter, or Zeus. The son of Saturn and Ops; the supreme deity of the heathen world, the most powerful of the gods and governor of all things.

Laoc'oon. A son of Priam and Hecuba and high priest of Apollo, who opposed the reception of the wooden horse into Troy, for which he and his two sons were killed by serpents.

Laom edon. A king of Troy, killed by Hercules for denying him his daughter Hesione after he had delivered her from the sea-monster.

La'res. Inferior gods at Rome, who presided over houses and families; sons of Mercury and Lara.

Le'the. A river of hell whose waters caused a total forgetfulness of things past.

Lu'cifer. The name of the planet Venus, or morning star; said to be the son of Jupiter and Aurora.

Lu'Na. The moon; the daughter of Hyperion and Terra.

Luper'calia. Feasts in honor of Pan.

Mars. The god of war.

Mede'a. The daughter of Aetes and a wonderful sorceress or magician; she assisted Jason to obtain the golden fleece.

Mem'non. The son of Tithonus and Aurora and king of Abydon; killed by Achilles for assisting Priam, and changed into a bird at the request of his mother.

Menela'us. The son of Atreus, king of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.

Mentor. The faithful friend of Ulysses, the governor of Telemachus, and the wisest man of his time.

Mer'cUry, or HermEs. The son of Jupiter and Maia; messenger of the gods, inventor of letters, and god of eloquence, commerce and robbers.

Mi'das. A king of Phrygia, who had the power given him of turning whatever he touched into gold.

Miner'va, or Pallas. The goddess of wisdom, the arts, and war; produced from Jupiter's brain.

Minotaur. A celebrated monster, half man and half bull.

Mnemosyne, The goddess of memory, and mother of the nine Muses.

Mo'mus. The son of Nox and god of folly and pleasantry.

Morpheus. The minister of Nox and Somnus, and god of sleep and dreams.

Mo ses. Nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, named Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania. They were mistresses of all the sciences and governesses of the feasts of the gods.

Mu'ta. Goddess of silence.

Na'iades. Nymphs of streams and fountains.

Nakcis'sus. A beautiful youth, who, falling in love with his own reflection in the water, pined away into a daffodil.

Nemesis. One of the infernal deities and goddess of revenge.

Nep'tune. The son of Saturn and Ops; god of the sea and, next to Jupiter, the most powerful deity.

Nes'tor. The son of Neleus and Chloris and king of Pylos and Messenia. He fought against the Centaurs, was distinguished in the Trojan war, and lived to a great age.

Ni'obe. Daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, who, preferring herself to Latona, had her fourteen children killed by Diana and Apollo, and wept herself into a stone.

Nox. The most ancient of all the deities and goddess of night.

Ocean'ides. Sea-nymphs, daughters of Oceanus; three thousand in number.

Oce'anus. An ancient sea-god.

Oed'ipus. King of Thebes, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, unwittingly killed his father, married his mother, and at last ran mad and tore out his eyes.

Om'phale. A queen of I,ydia, with whom Hercules was so enamored that he submitted to spinning and other unbecoming offices.

Ores'tes. The son of Agamemnon.

Or'phEus. A celebrated Argonaut, whose skill in music is said to have been so great that he could make rocks, trees, etc., follow him. He was the son of Jupiter and Calliope.

Palla'dium. A statue of Minerva, which the Trojans imagined fell from heaven, and with which their city was deemed unconquerable.

Pan. The son of Mercury and the god of shepherds, huntsmen and the inhabitants of the country.

Pandora. The first woman, made by Vulcan, and endowed with gifts by all the deities. Jupiter gave her a box which contained all the evils and miser-ies of life, but with hope at the bottom.

Par'is, or Alexander. Son of Priam and Hecuba; a most beautiful youth, who ran away with Helen, and thus occasioned the Trojan war.

Parnas'sus. A mountain of Phocis famous for a temple of Apollo; the favorite residence of the Muses.

Peg'asus. A winged horse belonging to Apollo and the Muses, which sprang from the blood of Medusa when Perseus cut off her head.

Pena'tes. Small statues, or household gods.

Penel'ope. A celebrated princess of Greece, daughter of Icarus and wife of Ulysses; celebrated for her chastity and constancy in the long absence of her husband.

Per'seus. Son of Jupiter and Danae; performed many extraordinary exploits by means of Medusa's head.

Pha'eton. Son of Sol (Apollo) and Cli-mene. He asked the guidance of his father's chariot for one day as a proof of his divine descent; but, unable to manage the horses, set the world on fire, and was therefore struck by Jupiter with a thunderbolt into the River Po.

Philome'la. The daughter of Pandion, king of Athens; changed into a nightingale.

Phin'eas. King of Paphlagonia; had his eyes torn out by Boreas, but was recompensed with the knowledge of futurity. Also, a king of Thrace, turned into a stone by Perseus.

PhcE'bus. A title of Apollo.

Ple'iades. Seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, changed into stars.

Plu'tq. The son of Saturn and Ops, brother of Jupiter and Neptune and the god of the infernal regions.

Pomo'na. The goddess of fruits and autumn.

Pri'am. The last king of Troy, the son of Laomedon, under whose reign Troy was taken by the Greeks.

Prome'theus. The son of Japetus; said to have stolen fire from heaven to animate two bodies which he had formed of clay, and was therefore chained by Jupiter to Mount Caucasus, with a vulture perpetually gnawing his liver.

Proserpine. Wife of Pluto.

Pro'teus. The son of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea-god and prophet, who possessed the power of changing himself into any shape.

Psyche. A nymph beloved by Cupid and made immortal by Jupiter.

Pyg'mies. A nation of dwarfs only a span long, carried away by Hercules.

Pyr'amus and Thisbe. Two lovers of Babylon, who killed themselves with the same sword, and thus caused the berries of the mulberry tree, under which they died, to change from white to red.

Python A huge serpent, produced from the mud of the deluge; killed by Apollo, who, in memory thereof, instituted the Pythian games.

Re'mus. The elder brother of Romulus, killed by him for ridiculing the city walls.

Rom'ulus. The son of Mars Ilia; thrown into the Tiber by his uncle, but saved, with his twin brother, Remus, by a shepherd; became the founder and first king of Rome.

Sat'urn. A son of Ccelus and Terra; god of time.

Sat'yrs. Attendants of Bacchus; horned monsters, half goats, half men.

Semir'amis. A celebrated queen of Assyria, who built the walls of Babylon; was slain by her own son Ninyas and turned into a pigeon.

Sile'nus. The foster-father, master and companion of Bacchus. He lived in Arcadia, rode on an ass and was drunk every day.

Si'rens. Sea-nymphs, or sea-monsters, the daughters of Oceanus and Amphi-trite.

Sis'yphus. The son of Aeolus; a most crafty prince, killed by Theseus and condemned by Pluto to roll up hill a large stone, which constantly feu back again.

Som'nus. The son of Erebus and Nox and the god of sleep.

Sphinx. A monster who destroyed herself because Cedipus solved the enigma she proposed.

Sten'tor. A Grecian whose voice is reported to have been as strong and as loud as the voices of fifty men together.

Styx. A river of hell.

SylvanuS. A god of woods and forests.

Ta'cita. A goddess of silence.

Tan'talus. The son of Jupiter and king of Lydia, who served up the limbs of his son Pelops to try the divinity of the gods, for which he was plunged to the chin in a lake of hell and doomed to everlasting thirst and hunger.

Tar'tarus. The part of the infernal regions in which the wicked were punished.

Tau'rus. The bull under whose form Jupiter carried away Europa.

Telem'achus. The only son of Ulysses.

Ti'tan. The son of Ccelus and Terra, elder brother of Saturn and one of the giants who warred against heaven.

Tri'ton. The son of Neptune and Amphi-trite, a powerful sea-god and Neptune's trumpeter.

Troy. A city of Phrygia, famous for holding out a siege of ten years against the Greeks, but finally captured and destroyed.

Ulysses. King of Ithaca, who, by his subtlety and eloquence, was eminently serviceable to the Greeks in the Trojan war.

Venus, or Aphrodite. One of the most celebrated deities of the ancients, the wife of Vulcan, the goddess of beauty, the mother of love, and the mi tress of the graces and of pleasures.

Ves'ta. The sister of Ceres and Juno, the goddess of fire and patroness of vestal virgins.

Vul'can. The god who presided over subterraneous fire, patron of workers in metal.

Zeph'yrus. The west wind, son of Aeolus and Aurora and lover of the goddess Flora.