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Things Not Generally Known: Phyllis

Phyllis. A daughter of Sithon. She received Demophoon, who landed on her coasts on his return from the Trojan war, and fell in love with him, and he reciprocated her affection; but afterwards proving faithless, Phyllis hanged herself and according to an old tradition, was changed into an almond tree. Pidus. King of Latium, son of Saturn, who married Venilia. As he was hunting he was met by Circe, who became enamored with him. She changed him into a woodpecker.

Pleiades. A name given to the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. They were placed after death in the heavens and formed a constellation. Pluto, son of Saturn and Ops, inherited his father's kingdom with his brothers, Jupiter and Neptune. He received as his portion the kingdom of the infernal regions, of death and funerals. He seized Proserpine while she was gathering flowers, and carrying her away on his chariot, she became his wife and queen of the infernal regions.

Plutus, the god of riches, was the son of Jason, or Jasius, and Ceres. Polyhymnia. One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over singing and rhetoric Pomona. A nymph at Rome, who was supposed to preside over gardens and to be the goddess of fruit trees.

Prometheus, son of Japetus and Clymene. He surpassed all mankind in cunning and fraud, and even deceived Jupiter himself.

Proserpine, a daughter of Ceres and Jupiter, called by the Greeks Persephone. As she was gathering flowers Pluto carried her off to the infernal regions, where he married her. Ceres, having learned that her daughter had been carried away by Pluto, demanded of Jupiter that Pluto should be punished. As queen of hell, Proserpine presided over the death of mankind.