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PARNASSIAN LAUREl, wreath from Parnassus, crown awarded to
successful poets
PARNASSUS, mountain near Delphi, sacred to Apollo and the Muses
PARSEES, Persian fire worshippers (Zoroastrians), of whom there
are still thousands in Persia and India
PARTHENON, the temple of Athene Parthenos ("the Virgin") on the
Acropolis of Athens
PASSEBREUL, Tristram's horse
PATROCLUS, friend of Achilles, killed by Hector
PECHEUR, King, uncle of Perceval
PEERS, the
PEG A SUS, winged horse, born from the sea foam and the blood of
Medusa
PELEUS, king of the Myrmidons, father of Achilles by Thetis
PELIAS, usurping uncle of Jason
PELION, mountain
PELLEAS, knight of Arthur
PENATES, protective household deities of the Romans
PENDRAGON, King of Britain, elder brother of Uther Pendragon,
who succeeded him
PENELOPE, wife of Ulysses, who, waiting twenty years for his
return from the Trojan War, put off the suitors for her hand by
promising to choose one when her weaving was done, but unravelled
at night what she had woven by day
PENEUS, river god, river
PENTHESILEA, queen of Amazons
PENTHEUS, king of Thebes, having resisted the introduction of
the worship of Bacchus into his kingdom, was driven mad by the god
PENUS, Roman house pantry, giving name to the Penates
PEPIN, father of Charlemagne
PEPLUS, sacred robe of Minerva
PERCEVAL, a great knight of Arthur
PERDIX, inventor of saw and compasses
PERIANDER, King of Corinuh, friend of Arion
PERIPHETES, son of Vulcan, killed by Theseus
PERSEPHONE, goddess of vegetation, 8 See Pioserpine
PERSEUS, son of Jupiter and Danae, slayer of the Gorgon Medusa,
deliverer of Andromeda from a sea monster, 116 122, 124, 202
PHAEACIANS, people who entertained Ulysses
PHAEDRA, faithless and cruel wife of Theseus
PHAETHUSA, sister of Phaeton, 244
PHAETON, son of Phoebus, who dared attempt to drive his father's
sun chariot
PHANTASOS, a son of Somnus, bringing strange images to sleeping
men
PHAON, beloved by Sappho
PHELOT, knight of Wales
PHEREDIN, friend of Tristram, unhappy lover of Isoude
PHIDIAS, famous Greek sculptor
PHILEMON, husband of Baucis
PHILOCTETES, warrior who lighted the fatal pyre of Hercules
PHILOE, burial place of Osiris
PHINEUS, betrothed to Andromeda
PHLEGETHON, fiery river of Hades
PHOCIS
PHOEBE, one of the sisters of Phaeton
PHOEBUS (Apollo), god of music, prophecy, and archery, the sun
god
PHOENIX, a messenger to Achilles, also, a miraculous bird dying
in fire by its own act and springing up alive from its own ashes
PHORBAS, a companion of Aeneas, whose form was assumed by Neptune
in luring Palinuras the helmsman from his roost
PHRYXUS, brother of Helle
PINABEL, knight
PILLARS OF HERCULES, two mountains--Calpe, now the Rock of
Gibraltar, southwest corner of Spain in Europe, and Abyla, facing
it in Africa across the strait
PINDAR, famous Greek poet
PINDUS, Grecian mountain
PIRENE, celebrated fountain at Corinth
PIRITHOUS, king of the Lapithae in Thessaly, and friend of
Theseus, husband of Hippodamia
PLEASURE, daughter of Cupid and Psyche
PLEIADES, seven of Diana's nymphs, changed into stars, one being
lost
PLENTY, the Horn of
PLEXIPPUS, brother of Althea
PLINY, Roman naturalist
PLUTO, the same as Hades, Dis, etc.
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