BELLEROPHON. A Corinthian prince. Having slain a man, fled for purification to Proetus of Argos, whose wife Antea fell in love with him and, being repulsed, accused him to Proetus. Proetus sent him to the king of Lycia with a letter requesting his execution. To ensure his death, the king told him to kill the monster Chimera (goat, serpent, and lion), which the winged horse Pegasus, however, enabled him to do. BENDIS. A Thracian Goddess, identified with the Greek Artemis. BRANCHUS. _See_ APOLLO. BRASIDAS. The most distinguished Spartan in the first part of the Peloponnesian War. Trying to dislodge Demosthenes from Pylos, ran his galley ashore, and fainted from the wounds received. BRIMO. 'Grim.' A name of Persephone. BRISEÏS. Daughter of the Trojan Brises. Being captured, fell to Achilles's share, from whom she was taken by Agamemnon. BULIS and SPERCHIS. Two Spartans, given up to Xerxes to atone for his heralds' having been slain; the king refused to retaliate. BUSIRIS. King of Egypt, who used to sacrifice all strangers to Zeus. When he attempted to offer Heracles, Heracles offered him. CADMUS. Came from Tyre, once an island, to Greece, bringing with him the Phoenician alphabet. Told at Delphi to follow a certain cow, and build a town where she should lie down; built the Cadmea, citadel of Thebes. Having slain a dragon that guarded a well, was told to sow its teeth, from which sprang the Sparti, or sown men, afterwards Thebans. Married Harmonia, by whom he had Semele and other children. CALAMIS. Sculptor, 440 B.C. For Sosandra see note on _Portrait-Study_ (4). CALANUS. Indian gymnosophist. Accompanied Alexander in India. Being ill at eighty-three, burnt himself. CALISTO. Beloved by Zeus. Turned by the jealous Hera into a bear, and by Zeus into the constellation of that name. CALLIMACHUS. Famous Alexandrine grammarian and poet. Wrote eight hundred works. 260 B.C. CALLIMEDON. Athenian orator in the Macedonian interest. CALLISTHENES. A philosopher, who, accompanying Alexander, offended him by rude criticism. The king had him carried about in chains, which caused his death by disease. CALYPSO. Nymph of Ogygia, where Odysseus was shipwrecked. Promised him immortality if he would remain; he refused, and the Gods compelled her to let him go. CAMBYSES. Son of Cyrus the Great, and king of Persia, 529-522 B.C. CASSIOPEIA. _See_ ANDROMEDA. CASTALIA. Fountain on Mount Parnassus, in which Apollo's priestess had to bathe before giving an oracle. CASTOR and POLLUX. Also called Dioscuri, and Anaces. Sons of Zeus and Leda, one mortal, the other immortal; the mortal being killed, the two were allowed to divide the other's immortality, spending alternate days in the upper and lower worlds. Pollux a great boxer. Patrons of sailors, appearing in storms as flames, and guiding the ship to safety. Worshipped especially at Sparta, where they were born. CEBES. Theban disciple of Socrates, wrote an allegorical 'Picture' of human life.