GENERAL INDEX

Jason she enabled him by her
arts to win the Golden Fleece
Megalostrita: 119; a poetess be-

loved by Aleman

Megara: 147; one of Sappho’s
‘ circle ’

Melanchrés (or Melanchrus): 309,
351, 371; a tyrant of Mytilene,
overthrown by Pittacus and the
elder brothers of Alcaeus in the
poet’s childhood, 612 B.c.

Melanippus: 395, 397; friend of
Alcaeus a

Memnon: 95; son of the Dawn
and leader of the Ethiopians
against the Greeks before Troy
(see Hippolochus)

Ménon: 399; a favourite of
Alcaeus

Messenia: 15; a district of the
Peloponnese

Messoa: 45; a part of the city of
Sparta
Méthymna: 19, 89, 137, 153; a
city of Lesbos

Midas: 11; the name of a legend-
ary king (or kings) of Phrygia

Mnasidica : 265; a pupil of Sappho

Musaeus: 10; an early poet,
author of a hymn to Demeter,
now lost, which Pausanias con-
sidered genuine, and reputed
author of other works current in
antiquity

Muse: 3, 31, 33, 45-7, 63, 67, 81,
85, 97, 103, 109, 119, 159, 163-7,
169, 175-7, 193, 257-9, 271-3,
299, 305, 313, 401

Myrsilus: 309, 345, 349, 365; son
of Cleanax; atyrant ot Mytilene;
his reign falls between those of
Melanehros and Pittacus

Mysia: 113, 387; a district in the
N.W. of Asia Minor

Mytilen@é: 141, 159, 163, 167, 175,
211, 241, 309, 3387, 345-7, 395,
419; the chief city of Lesbos

Nanno: 57; one of <Aleman’s
chorus-girls

Naucratis: 141, 149; the Greek
emporium in the Egyptian Delta

Nausicai: 74; daughter of Alci-
noiis king of the Phaeacians, who

456

encounters Odysseus when he
lands on the island (Od. 6)

Nebuchadnezzar : 405

Néreids: 205, 393, 395; ° sea-
nymphs, daughters of Nereus

Néreus : 218, 393; the Sea-God

Nicias: 11; an Athenian general
satirised by Aristophanes

Nile: 149, 411

Nidbé: 105, 279, 299; wife of
Amphion king of Thebes; she
hoasted to Leto of the number
of her children, whereupon they
were slain by Leto’s children
Apollo and Artemis

Nymphs : 173, 331

Nyrsilas; 71

Odysseus (Ulysses): 87; one of
the chief Greek heroes before
Troy; his wanderings on his way

home are the subject of the
Odyssey :
Oenis: 125; a town of Laconia
Oeonus : 51 "
Olén: 10; of Lycia; an early
poet; according to Pausanias,

the author of the oldest Greek
hymns to the Gods

Onchéstus : 327; a town of Boeoti

Onogla (sie): 125; a town o
Laconia

Orpheus: 10, 19, 23, 37, 107, 381;
the early Thracian poet and
musician; according to Pausa-
nias he was later than Olen

Orthia : 55 (where see note)

Pamphos: 10, 257; an early poet;
according to Pausanias, author
of the oldest Athenian hymns,
but later than Olen

Pamphylia: 157; a district of th
S. coast of Asia Minor

Pandion ; 269: son ef Ericht tie
king of Athens: father of Proe¢
and Philoméla. who were tur
into a swallow and a nightin

Panormus: 189; the mame
several Greek towns; it is dou
ful if the most famous, n
Palermo, is intended here

Paphos: 71,189; a city of Cypru
famous as a seat of the worshi
of Aphrodite