. m the ex-hausted mythical subjects, and invented plotsof his own, as in his play called Av8os ( 9, § 7 ; 18, §§ 17, 22). In the Thesmo-phoriazusae of Aristophanes he is ridiculed forhis effeminacy, being brought on the stage infemale dress. Agathyrna, Agathyrnum {AyaBvpva, -ov:Ayadvpvaios : Agatha), a Sikel town on the of Sicily. Agathyrsi (Aya6up<roi), apeople in EuropeanSannatia, with a mythical founder Agathyrsus,son of Heracles (Hdt. iv. 10), on the riverMaris (Marosch) in Transylvania. From theirpractice
. m the ex-hausted mythical subjects, and invented plotsof his own, as in his play called Av8os ( 9, § 7 ; 18, §§ 17, 22). In the Thesmo-phoriazusae of Aristophanes he is ridiculed forhis effeminacy, being brought on the stage infemale dress. Agathyrna, Agathyrnum {AyaBvpva, -ov:Ayadvpvaios : Agatha), a Sikel town on the of Sicily. Agathyrsi (Aya6up<roi), apeople in EuropeanSannatia, with a mythical founder Agathyrsus,son of Heracles (Hdt. iv. 10), on the riverMaris (Marosch) in Transylvania. From theirpractice of staining theirskin with a blue dye theyare called by Virgil { 146) picti Agathyrsi.(Cf. Plin. H. N. iv. § 88 ;GsLoxn.) Agave IAyavt)), daugh-ter of Cadmus, wife ofEchion, and mother ofPentheus. She is said tohave accused her sisterSemele of falsely repre-senting Zeus as the fatherof her child; whence thesubsequent revenge of Dio-nysus. When Pentheus attempted to prevent the women from celebrat-ing the Dionysiac festivals on mount Cithaeron, D 2. Agave with head ofPonthoun. (Gem fromIlritlBh Museum.) f 36 AGBATANA lie was torn to pieces there by Agave, who inher frenzy believed him to be a wild beast.(Ov. M. iii. 725.) [Pentheus.]—One of theNereids, one of the Danaids, and one of theAmazons, were also called Agavae. Agbatana. [Ecbatana.] Agdistis (AyStoris), an androgynous deity,the offspring of Zeus and Earth, connected witha Phrygian worship of Attes or Attis. [Seefurther under Attis and Cybele.] Agedincum or Agedicum (Sens), the chieftown of the Senones in Gallia Lugdunensis. Ageladas (AyeAaSas), an eminent statuary ofArgos, the instructor of the three great masters,Phidias, Myron, and Polycletus. He seems tohave worked from the end of the 6th to the middle of the 5th. (See Diet. ScuVpturd.) Agelaus (AyeActos). 1. Son of Heracles andOmphale, and founder of the house of Croesus.—2. Son of Damastor and one of the suitorsof Penelope, slai
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