Scio, one of the island cities claiming to be Homer’s birthplace
Scopas, King of Thessaly
Scorpion, constellation
Scylla, sea nymph beloved by Glaucus, but changed by jealous Circe to a monster and finally to a dangerous rock on the Sicilian coast, facing the whirlpool Charybdis, many mariners being wrecked between the two, also, daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who loved Minos, besieging her father’s city, but he disliked her disloyalty and drowned her, also, a fair virgin of Sicily, friend of sea nymph Galatea
Scyros, where Theseus was slain
Scythia, country lying north of Euxine Sea
Semele, daughter of Cadmus and, by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus
Semiramis, with Ninus the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire of Nineveh
SENAPUS, King of Abyssinia, who entertained Astolpho
Serapis, or Hermes, Egyptian divinity of Tartarus and of medicine
Serfs, slaves of the land
Seriphus, island in the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades
Serpent (Northern constellation)
Sestos, dwelling of Hero (which See also Leander)
“Seven against Thebes,” famous Greek expedition
Severn river, in England
Sevinus, Duke of Guienne
SHALOTT, THE LADY OF
SHATRIYA, Hindu warrior caste
SHERASMIN, French chevalier
Sibyl, prophetess of Cumae
SICHAEUS, husband of Dido
SEIGE perilous, the chair of purity at Arthur’s Round Table, fatal to any but him who was destined to achieve the quest of the Sangreal (See Galahad)
Siegfried, young King of the Netherlands, husband of Kriemhild, she boasted to Brunhild that Siegfried had aided Gunther to beat her in athletic contests, thus winning her as wife, and Brunhild, in anger, employed Hagan to murder Siegfried. As hero of Wagner’s “Valkyrie,” he wins the Nibelungen treasure ring, loves and deserts Brunhild, and is slain by Hagan
Sieglinda, wife of Hunding, mother of Siegfried by Siegmund
Siegmund, father of Siegfried
Sigtryg, Prince, betrothed of King Alef’s
daughter, aided by
Hereward
SIGUNA, wife of Loki
Silenus, a Satyr, school master of Bacchus
Silures (South Wales)
Silvia, daughter of Latin shepherd
Silvius, grandson of Aeneas, accidentally killed in the chase by his son Brutus
Simonides, an early poet of Greece
Sinon, a Greek spy, who persuaded the Trojans
to take the Wooden
Horse into their city
Sirens, sea nymphs, whose singing charmed mariners to leap into the sea, passing their island, Ulysses stopped the ears of his sailors with wax, and had himself bound to the mast so that he could hear but not yield to their music