Alecto – Apulia
Alecto
One of the Furies. She is represented with her head covered with serpents, and breathing vengeance, war, and pestilence.
Alpes
Probably from the Celtic Alb or Alp, meaning "a height." These mountains form the boundary of northern Italy.
Amiternum
One of the most ancient towns of the Sabines, on the Aternus, the birthplace of the historian Sallust.
Ammon
An Egyptian divinity whom the Greeks identified with Zeus, and the Romans with Jupiter.
Amor
The god of love, had no place in the religion of the Romans, who only translate the Greek name Eros into Amor.
Arachne
tor of it, and to have built the walls of Thebes by the sound of his lyre.
Amphitrite
A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, who married Neptune. She is sometimes called Salatia. She was mother of Triton, a sea deity.
Anadyomene
A famous painting by Apelles, of Venus rising from the sea.
Anticlea
Daughter of Autolycus, wife of Laërtes, and mother of Ulysses, died of grief at the long absence of her son.
Antiope
Daughter of Nycteus, king of Thebes, and Polyxo, was beloved by Jupiter. Amphion and Zethus were her offspring.
Apollodorus
Of Athens, flourished about B. c. 140. His work, entitled Bibliotheca, contains a well-arranged account of the Greek mythology.
Apulia
Included, in its widest signification, the whole of the southeast of Italy from the river Frento to the promontory Iapygium.