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Hamadryades – Horus

Hamadryades

Nymphs who lived in the country and presided over trees.

A famous Carthaginian, father of

A daughter of Perses and Asteria. She was called Luna in heaven, Diana on earth, and Hecate or Proserpine in hell.

A brave and powerful Celtic people.

Mother of the philosopher Seneca.

See Juno.

The descendants of Heracles or Hercules, who, in conjunction with the Dorians, conquered Peloponnesus eighty years after the destruction of Troy.

A town of Campania swallowed up by an earthquake, produced by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, A. D. 79.

A name of Mercury among the Greeks.

A daughter of Mars and Venus who married Cadmus. She was changed into a serpent, and placed in the Elysian Fields.

A freedman, disciple of Philo, in the reign of Adrian, by whom he was greatly esteemed. He wrote five books on dreams.

The Egyptian god of the sun, who was also worshipped in Greece and at Rome.