Athamas, king of Alus, vii. 24, 25; and his children, legend of, iv. 161 _sqq._; sentenced to be sacrificed as expiatory offering for the country, iv. 162; said to have reigned at Orchomenus, iv. 164; the dynasty of, v. 287 Athanasius, on the mourning for Osiris, vi. 217 Athboy, in County Meath, rath near, x. 139 ’Atheh, Cilician goddess, v. 162 Athena, hair offered by maidens before marriage to, i. 28; mother of Erichthonius, ii. 199; perpetual lamp of, in the Erechtheum, ii. 199; at Troy, Locrian maidens in the sanctuary of, ii. 284; served by maidens on the Acropolis at Athens, iii. 227 _n._; sacrifices to, iv. 166 _n._ 1, vii. 56; temple of, at Salamis in Cyprus, v. 145; and hot springs, v. 209, 210; and the _aegis_, viii. 40, 41; priestess of, uses a white umbrella, x. 20 _n._ 1 ——, Magarsian, a Cilician goddess, v. 169 _n._ 3 —— Sciras, sanctuary of, vi. 238 Athenaeus, on Celtic and Roman indifference to death, iv. 143 Athenian boys, race of, at the vintage, vi. 238; boy carrying an olive-branch in procession, vi. 238 —— custom of keeping a sacred serpent on the Acropolis, iv. 86 —— festival of swinging, iv. 281 —— sacrifice of the _bouphonia_, viii. 4 _sqq._ —— sacrifices to the Seasons, i. 310 Athenians decree divine honours to Demetrius Poliorcetes and his father Antigonus, i. 390 _sq._; prayed to Zeus for rain, ii. 359; their tribute of youths and maidens to Minos, iv. 74; their superstition as to an eclipse of the moon, vi. 141; sacrifice to Dionysus for the fruits of the land, vii. 4; the first to receive corn from Demeter, vii. 54; claimed to be the first to spread the knowledge of corn among mankind, vii. 54 _sqq._; sacrifice an apple to Hercules, viii. 95 _n._ 2; their annual festival of the dead at the Anthesteria, ix. 152 _sqq._; their use of human scapegoats, ix. 253 _sq._; their mode of reckoning a day, ix. 326 _n._ 2; their religious dramas, ix. 384; offer cakes to Cronus, x. 153 _n._ 3