ERICHTHONIUS, or ERECHTHEUS I. King of Athens, and son of Hephaestus; his mother was not Athene, but Ge. ERIDANUS. Greek name of the Po. ERIGONE. _See_ Icarus. ERINYES. Also called Furies, Eumenides, and Dread Goddesses, employed in punishing the wicked, whether in Hades or on earth, where they represent the pangs of conscience. ERIS. The Goddess of discord; for her story, see _Dialogues of Sea-Gods_, v. EROS. God of love, the Latin Cupid. Lucian plays with the two accounts of his birth and age. According to one, he was older than all the Olympian Gods; according to the other, son of Zeus and Aphrodite. ETHIOPIANS. The Gods were in the habit of visiting the 'blameless Ethiopians' and being feasted by them, according to Homer. EUBULUS. The most influential statesman of the Athenian party opposed to Demosthenes and in favour of peace with Philip. EUCTEMON. An Athenian suborned by Demosthenes's enemy Midias to bring against Demosthenes a charge of deserting while on military service. EUMOLPUS. A Thracian bard who joined the Eleusinians in an expedition against Athens, but was defeated and slain. He was regarded as the founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and his family, the Eumolpidae, continued to be the priests of Demeter there. EUPHORBUS. _See_ PYTHAGORAS. EUPHORION. Epic poet of Chalcis, 276 B.C. EUPOLIS. Among the most famous poets of the Old Comedy, with Aristophanes and Cratinus. EURIPIDES. The most philosophic of the Greek tragedians. Born 480 B.C., died 406 B.C. at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia, whither he had retired from Athens about 408 B.C. EUROPA. Daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, and sister of Cadmus; carried away by Zeus, who assumed the form of a white bull. EURYBATUS. An Ephesian who betrayed Croesus to Cyrus, and became a byword for treachery. EURYDICE. _See_ ORPHEUS. EURYSTHEUS. King of Tiryns. _See_ HERACLES. EURYTUS. King of Oechalia; challenged Apollo to a match with the bow, and was killed for his presumption. EUXINE. 'The hospitable' (#euxenos#); a euphemism for 'the inhospitable,' #axenos#. The Black Sea. EXADIUS. One of the Lapithae, who were assisted by Nestor in their fight against the Centaurs. FATES. The Three Sisters to whose power even the Gods must submit, and who regulate every human life. Clotho holds the distaff, Lachesis spins, and Atropus cuts the thread of life. Lucian also gives them other functions. FAVORINUS. A famous sophist, contemporary with Demonax, whose jests against him depend on the fact that he was supposed to be a eunuch. GALATEA. The 'milk-white,' a Nereid, loved by Polyphemus. GALLI. _See_ ATTIS. GANYMEDE. A beautiful Trojan youth, beloved by Zeus, and carried off by him to be the Gods' cupbearer. GE. 'Earth,' wife of Uranus ('Heaven'), mother of Cronus, Rhea, and the other Titans. GERYON. A three-bodied Spanish giant. _See_ HERACLES.