Almost all the principal persons, whose names occur in the mythology of Greece and Italy, are represented as shepherds. Not only the Gods Faunus, Apollo, Pan, Sylvanus, Pales, Adonis, but Eumelus, Triptolemus, Ericthonius, Eumolpus, Aristæus, Battus, Daphnis, Terambus of Egypt, and Osiris, are represented of that profession. Hence it is, that we find altars, and inscriptions to the shepherd [1234]Gods. Apollo was styled Νομευς, and Ποιμνιος; and was said to have been educated in [1235]Arabia. When Rhea produced to the world Poseidon, she gave him to the care of a [1236]shepherd to bring him up among the flocks. Atlas, the great astronomer, is represented as a shepherd. [1237]Ατλας μαθηματικος ην Λιβυς ανηρ.--Πολυειδος δε ὁ διθυραμβοποιος τον Ατλαντα τουτον ΠΟΙΜΕΝΑ Λιβυν φησιν. _Atlas the great mathematician, was a person of Libya. The Dithyrambic poet Polueidos says, that Atlas was a Libyan shepherd._ There was a tradition that the temple of Ammon in Libya was built by a shepherd, from whom it received its name; [1238]απο του ἱδρυσαμενου ποιμενος. It is reported of the Muses, that they were of shepherd extraction, and tended flocks, which they entrusted to their favourite Aristæus. [1239]Και μιν ἑων μηλων θεσαν ηρανον, ὁσσ' ενεμοντο Αμπεδιον Φθιαν Αθαμαντιον, αμφι τ' ερυμνην Οθρυν, και ποταμου ἱερον ῥοον Απιδανοιο. This is the person by Virgil styled Pastor Aristæus. Zethus and Amphion are described as of the same profession, though kings of Thebes, [1240]Ζηθος δε και Αμφιων αδελφοι ησαν ποιμενες. Even the monster Polyphemus is taken notice of as a musician, and a [1241]shepherd. Macrobius mentions, that among the Phrygians the Sun was worshipped under a pastoral [1242]character, with a pipe and a wand. Tiresias, the prophet, is by Hyginus styled Tiresias, Eueri filius, or as some read it, Tiresias, Eurii filius, [1243]_Pastor_. This was also one of the titles out of many conferred upon the Phenician Hercules, to whom they attributed the invention of purple. He was the chief Deity, the same as Cham, and Orus, the God of light; to whom there is a remarkable invocation in the Dionusiaca of Nonnus. [1244]Αστροχιτων Ἡρακλες, αναξ πυρος, Ορχαμε κοσμου, Ηελιε, βροτεοιο βιου δολιχοσκιε ΠΟΙΜΗΝ.