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E ays, 4th ser., p. 98. Egadian Islands (e-ga'di-an i'landz). See Ægates . Ægæon (ē-jē'on). [Gr. Αἰγαίων .] See Briareus . Ægaleos (e-ga le-os). [Gr. Αιγάλεως.] In ancient geography, a mountain-range in Attica separating the A then i an and Eleusinian plains. It ended in a promontory (Amphiale) opposite Salamis. From it Xerxes witne ed the battle of Salamis. Ægates (e-ga'tēz). [L.] In ancient geography, a group of small islands west of Sicily: the modern Ægadi an Islands. They comprise Favignana, Maritimo, Levanzo, and Formica, and belong to the province of Trapani, Sicily. Near them was gained the Roman naval victory over the Cart hag in i ans, 241 B. C. Egean Sea (e-je'an sē). [L. Mare Agæum, Gr.ὁ Αἰγαῖος πόντος , οι τὸ Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος , so called, according to Strabo, from Αιγαί , Æge, a town in Eubœa; according to others (erroneously) from Αιγεύς, Ægeus.] That part of the Mediterranean which lies between Greece on the west, European Turkey on the north, and Asia Minor on the east, and communicates major part of these sculptures has been recovered, and is included in the collection of the Æginetan Marbles (which see) at Munich. Though appearing older, the temple is ascribed to the early part of the 5th century В. С. Of the temple of Aphrodite but one of the great Doric columns, very similar to those of the temple of Athena, but larger, is standing, but the plan has been in part recovered. The temple was hexastyle. Ægin a, Gulf of. See Saronic Gulf. Ægineta, Paulus. See Paulus Ægineta . Æginetan Marbles (ej-i-ne'tan mär'blz). An important collection of sculpture from the temple of Athena in Ægin a, now in the Glyptothek at Munich. These sculptures were discovered in 1811, and consist for the most part of the remains of the series of statues from both pedinients of the temple. Five figures survive from the eastern pediment, and 10 from the western, which is probably complete. Both groups represent the exploits of Greek heroes in the Trojan war, with Athena as the central figure. They belong to an artistic period immediately before the time of full mastery, and thus, while in many particulars admirable, preserve some archaic features, as the rigid smile on the expre ionle faces, and the stiffne of attitude of some of the figures. The date generally accepted is about 475 B. C.; but this is not definitely established. These sculptures were restored by Thorwaldsen. Ægip an (ē'ji-pan). [Gr. Αἰγίπαν , the goat Pan.] In Greek mythology, the goat Pan, in some forms of the myth identical with Pan, and in others different from him. He is called the father of Pan. son of Zeus and Æga, Pan's wife, and also the Ægir (a'jir). [ON. ægir , AS. eágor , the sea.] In Old Norse mythology, the god of the ocean. He was the principal water-demon and by race a giant, but personifies the more propitious characteristics of the sea. He is also called Hler (ON. Hler ) and Gymir . His wife is Ran. Ægis (e'jis). [L. ægis , αἰγίς , the ægis, also a rushing storm, hurricane.] In Greek mythology, originally the storm-cloud enveloping the thunderbolt, the especial weapon of Zeus. It afterward came to be regarded as: (a) The skin of the goat A mal the a, the foster-mother of Zeus, which the latter took for defensive armor in his war with the Titans. (b) A terrible weapon wrought by Hephæstus after the fashion of a thunder-cloud fringed with lightning, intrusted by Zeus to Apollo and to Athena, and a characteristic attribute of the latter. In art the Egis is represented as a sort of mantle fringed with serpents, generally worn over the breast, but sometimes held extended over the left arm, or thrown over the arm to serve as a shield. The Black Sea by the Strait of Dardanelles. It contains many islands, as Eubœa, the Cyclades, the Sporades, Samos, Chios, Mytilene, Samothrace, Thasos, etc. Its chief arms are the Gulf of Nauplia, the Saronic Gulf, the Channels of Egripo and Talant a, and the Gulfs of Lamia, Volo, Saloniki, Cas sandra, Monte Santo, Conte a, Saros, Adramyti, Smyrna, Scala Nova, Mendelia, and Kos. Its chief tributaries are the Salembria, Vardar, Struma, Ma ritz a, Sarabat, and Mendere. Its length is about 400 miles, and its greatest width over 200 miles. See Ægeus . Ægeon (e-je'on). A character in Shakspere's "Comedy of Errors": a merchant of Syracuse. tions, bears in the midst the head of the Gorgon Medusa, and is usually covered with scales like those of a serpent. Ægisthus (e-jis'thus). [Gr. Αίγισθος .] In Greek legend, a son of Thyestes and cousin of Agamemnon: he seduced Clytemnestra, and procured the murder of Agamemnon. In the "Agamemnon" of Æschylus Clytemnestra, incited to the act by Ægisthus, commits the murder. Æglamour (e'gla-mör). The Sad Shepherd in Jonson's play of that name. He grieves at the reported drowning of the shepherde Earine. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names Ægle Ægle (eg'lē). [Gr. Αίγλη.] In Greek mythology: (a) A naiad, mother of the Graces. (b) One of the Hesperides. Egospotami (e-gos-pot'a-mi). [Gr. Αἰγός ποταμοί, 'goat's rivers.'] In ancient geography, a small river and a town of the Thracian Cher sones us, about lat. 40° 20′ N., long. 26° 33′ E., noted as the place of a naval victory of the Spartans under Lysander over the A then i ans, 405 B. c., which led to the close of the Pelopon nesian war. Ægyptus (e-jip'tus). [Gr. Αίγυπτος.] In Greek mythology, a son of Belus and twin brother of Danaus. He received from Belus the sovereignty of Arabia and conquered Egypt. See Egypt . Elfheah (alf heän), or Saint Alphege (al'fej). Born 954: died April 19, 1012. An Anglo-Saxon prelate, made bishop of Winchester in 984 and archbishop of Canterbury in 1006. He was captured by the Danes in 1011, and held for ransom. first agreed to pay, but afterward refused, and in consequence was slain.