Chapter I: Notes

[3.1] Ovid, _Metam._, iv. 604; Strabo, x. 5; Pausanias, ii. 16; Lucian, _Sea-gods_, xiv.

[4.1] Pausanias, ii. 18; Bent, _The Cyclades_, 2.

[4.2] Pausanias, ii. 16; Plutarch, _Rivers and Mountains_, xviii., Inachus. An inscription was discovered not very long ago at Mykene, testifying to the worship of Perseus there. xxvi. _The Antiquary_, 192, citing an article by Dr. Tsoundas in the _Ephemeris Archæologike_.

[5.1] Pausanias, ii. 21, 23.

[5.2] Vergil, _Æneid_, vii. 371. See also Preller, ii. _Röm. Myth._, 330.

[5.3] Pausanias, iv. 35.

[5.4] Josephus, _Wars_, iii. 9; Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, v. 14; ix. 4; Maundeville, c. 4.

[6.1] Herod. vi. 53, 54 (I quote Rawlinson’s translation); vii. 61, 150.

[7.1] Ælian, _De Nat. Anim._, xii. 21; Jeremias, _Izdubar-Nimrod_, passim; Smith, _Chaldean Account of Genesis_, passim.

[8.1] Tylor, i. _Prim. Cult._, 306, citing Tzetzes ap. Lycophron’s _Cassandra_; Diodorus Sic., iv.

[8.2] Herod. ii. 91, 15. If we may trust Diodorus Siculus (i.), the Egyptians claimed that Perseus was born in Egypt.

[9.1] Ælian, _De Nat. Anim._, iii. 28, 37; xiii. 26.

[13.1] Pitrè, _Nov. Pop. Toscane_, 1.

[14.1] ii. Von Hahn, 114, 310. For particulars of the story-teller, see _ib._ 308.

[17.1] O’Donovan, i. _Four Masters_, 18, note. The story was taken down by O’Donovan from the dictation of Shane O’Dugan in 1835.

[19.1] Grimm, i. _Tales_, 419.

[20.1] Grimm, i. _Tales_, 420.

[21.1] Cavallius, 78.

[23.1] Leskien, 544, 548, citing Antoni Nowosielski, _Lud Ukrainski._