Bible Encyclopedias

Amphic`tyonic Council
A council consisting of representatives from several confederate States of ancient Greece, twelve in number at length, two from each, that met twice

Aristæ`us
A son of Apollo, the guardian divinity of the vine and olive, of hunters and herdsmen; first taught the management of bees, some of which stung Eurydice

Ar`temis
In the Greek mythology the daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin sister of Apollo, born in the Isle of Delos, and one of the great divinities of the Greeks;

Astar`te
Or r he female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the male, these two being representative respectively of the conceptive and generative powers

Bellay, Joachim Du
french poet; author of sonnets entitled "regrets," full of vigour and poetry; wrote the "antiquités de rome"; was called the apollo of the pléiade, the best poet and the best prose-writer among them (1524-1560).

Bel`vedere
name given a gallery of the vatican at rome, especially that containing the famous statue of apollo, and applied to picture-galleries elsewhere.

Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo
an italian painter, sculptor, and architect, born at naples; produced his "apollo and daphne" at eighteen, his masterpiece; was architect to the pope, and designed the colonnade of st. peter's; he died wealthy (1598-1680).

Cad`mus
A semi-mythological personage, founder of Thebes, in Boeotia, to whom is ascribed the introduction of the Greek alphabet from Phoenicia and the invention

Cassandra
A beautiful Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, whom Apollo endowed with the gift of prophecy, but, as she had rejected his suit, doomed to

Castalia
a fountain at the foot of parnassus sacred to the muses; named after a nymph, who drowned herself in it to escape apollo.

Chrysëis
the daughter of chryses, priest of apollo, a beautiful maiden who fell among the spoils of a victory to agamemnon, and became his slave, and whom he refused to restore to her father until a deadly plague among the greeks, at the hands of apollo, whose priest her father was, compelled him to give her up.

Clytie
a nymph in love with apollo, god of the sun, who did not respond to her; but, with all the passion he durst show to her, turned her into a sunflower.

Colossus
Any gigantic statue, specially one of Apollo in bronze, 120 ft. high, astride over the mouth of the harbour at Rhodes, reckoned one of the seven wonders

D'orsay, Count
A man of fashion, born in Paris; entered the French army; forsook it for the society of Lord and Lady Blessington; married Lady B.'s daughter by a former

Daphne
a laurel), a nymph chased by apollo, transformed into a laurel as he attempts to seize her; henceforth sacred to the god.

Delos
The smallest and central island of the Cyclades, the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and where the former had a famous oracle; it was, according to

Deucalion
Son of Prometheus, who, with his wife Pyrrha, by means of an ark which he built, was saved from a flood which for nine days overwhelmed the land of Hellas.

Dodo`na
an ancient oracle of zeus, in epirus, close by a grove of oak trees, from the agitation of the branches of which the mind of the god was construed, the interpreters being at length three old women; it was more or less a local oracle, and was ere long superseded by the more widely known oracle of delphi (q. v .).

Ephialtes
one of the giants who revolted against zeus and threatened to storm heaven; he appears to have been maimed by apollo and hercules.