Classical Mythology, 7th Edition - obinfonet: dia logou

INDEXES 1-23
Icarius (i-kar' i-us): Erigone's father who received
Dionysus hospitably in Attica, 294
Icarus (ik' a-rus): Daedalus' son who, given wings by his
father, disobeyed his instructions and drowned, 549,
568, 568-569
Ichor (T kor or i' kor), the clear blood of the gods, 128
Idas (F das), son of Aphareus and Lynceus' brother, and
Argonaut who wooed and won Marpessa, 436
Idmon (id' mon), of Colophon, father on Arachne, 112;
seer and an Argonaut, 578
Idomeneus (i-dom' e-ne-us or i-dom' e-nùs), king of
Crete and ally of the Greeks at Troy, 449, 483
Inachus (in' ak-us), river of Argos, father of lo and
Phoroneus, 508, 516-517
Indra (ind' ra), Indian hero, similar to Heracles, 539
Ino (T nô), daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, Semele's
sister, who cared for the infant Dionysus, and wife of
Athamas, 275, 381, 573-574, 574, 612
lobâtes (î-ô' ba-tëz), king of Lycia, father of Stheneboea,
and taskmaster of Bellerophon, 614
lo (T Ô), Inachus' daughter, loved by Zeus, turned into
a cow, and mother of Epaphus, 20, 91-93, 375, 508,
516-517
Iolaûs (ï-ô-là' us), nephew and helper of Heracles, 520,
523, 531, 541, 544
Iole (T o-lë), Eurytus' daughter, with whom Heracles fell
in love, 534-535, 536, 545
Ion (I' on): eponymous ancestor of the Ionians, 78; son
of Apollo and Creusa, 549, 554
lovis (jô' vis). See Jupiter
Iphicles (if i-klëz), son of Amphitryon and Alcmena and
father of Iolaus, 519, 520, 533
Iphigenia (if-i-je-nï' a), daughter of Agamemnon and
Clytemnestra, she was sacrificed by her father at Aulis
or saved by Artemis to become her priestess in Tauris,
406, 409, 415, 452, 453
Iphimedeia (if-i-me-dë' a or if-i-me-dï' a), mother of the
Aloadae; she claimed Poseidon was their father. See
Aloadae
Iphis (T fis): girl changed by Isis into a boy, married
Ianthe, 617-618; scorned lover of Anaxarete, 617
Iphitus (if i-tus), son of Eurytus, brother of Iole, and
killed by Heracles, 534
Iris (ï' ris), daughter of Thaumas and the Oceanid, Electra,
goddess of the "Rainbow" and messenger of the
gods, especially Juno, 153, 578
Iron Age, follows the historical Bronze Age; the last of
the legendary Ages of humankind, 82-83
Irus (T rus), beggar who insulted Odysseus, 493
Ishtar (ish' tar), Sumerian Inanna (in-an na), Akkadian
goddess of love, sexual creation, and war; her sister is
a Ereshkigal and her consort is Dumuzi (Tammuz),
103-104
Isis (ï' sis), Egyptian goddess of mysteries, equated with
lo, 365-366, 516
Islands of the Blessed, one of the Greek conceptions of
Paradise, 65
Ismene (is-më' ne), Antigone's sister and foil, 23, 381
Isthmian (isth' mi-an) Games, Panhellenic festival in
honor of Poseidon, founded by Sisyphus and refounded
by Theseus, 564, 613
Ithaca (iuY a-ka), island off the west coast of Greece,
home of Odysseus, 484, 493-495
Itys (T tis or i' tis), son of Tereus and Procne who is murdered
by his mother and served up to his father, 549
lulus (ï-ù' lus), another name for Ascanius, as ancestor
of the gens Julia, the family of the Caesars. See Ascanius
Ixion (ik-sï' on), king of the Lapiths and sinner in Tartarus,
bound to a revolving wheel, 345, 602-603
Janus (jà' nus), Roman god of bridges, entrances, and
archways, 624-626, 656; Curiatius (kùr-i-â-shi-us or kûi-'
ti-us), 658
Jason (jâ' son), son of the deposed king of Iolcus, Aeson,
husband of Medea and Glauce, and the hero of the Argonautic
quest for the Golden Fleece, 573-600, 574, 579,
581, 587
Jocasta (jô-kas' ta), mother and wife of Oedipus, 380,381,
382-386, 395
Jove (jôv). See Jupiter
Juno (jù' nô), wife of Jupiter, equated by the Romans
with Hera, 629-630; Juno Sororia (so-ror' i-a), 658
Jupiter (jù' pi-ter) or lovis, love, Jove: supreme god of
the Romans, equated with Zeus and husband of Juno,
58, 627-629, 628, 648, 656; Optimus Maximus (op' timus
maks' i-mus), "Best Greatest," 627
Juturna (jû-tur' na), water nymph and fountain, sister of
Turnus and loved by Jupiter, Juturnalia (jû-tur-nâ' lia),
the festival of Juturna, 637
Kibisis (ki' bi-sis), a wallet or sack for Perseus to hide
Medusa's severed head, 506, 509
Kingu (king' u), leading ally of Tiamat and bound by
Marduk, 99
Kore (ko' rë), "Girl," another name for Athena and Persephone,
633
Kumarbi (kum-ar' bi), Hittite god who castrates Anu, 97,
103
Labdacus (lab' da-kus), king of Thebes and father of
Laius, 379, 381
Labors of Heracles, 523-530, 524, 526, 529, 607
Labors of Theseus, 555-558
Labrys (lab' ris), double axe, 567
Labyrinth (lab' i-rinth), maze at Cnossus, home of the
Minotaur, 558, 567
Lacedaemon (las-e-dë' mon), region in the southern
Peloponnesus and another name for Sparta, 545
Lachesis (lak' e-sis), "Apportioner," the one of the three
Fates who measures the thread of a person's life, 125,336,
338
Ladon (là' don): offspring of Phorcys and Ceto, serpent
that guarded the tree with golden apples of the Hesperides,
153, 528
Laertes (là-er' tëz), husband of Anticlea and father of
Odysseus; variant has Sisyphus as Odysseus' father,
501
Laius (là' us or lï' us), son of Labdacus and husband of
Jocasta, killed by his son Oedipus, 379, 380, 381
Laocoôn (là-ok' ô-on), priest of Apollo who struck the
wooden horse with his spear, and with his two sons
was throttled by a serpent, 475
Laodamia (lâ-ô-da-mï' a), daughter of Bellerophon, consort
of Zeus, and mother of Sarpedon, 446; wife of
Protesilaus who killed herself, 454