(16) This is the Pelasgic, not the historical, Argos.
(17) Book I., line 632; Book VII., line 904. Agave was a
daughter of Cadmus, and mother of Pentheus, king of the
Boeotian Thebes. He was opposed to the mysterious worship
of Dionysus, which his mother celebrated, and which he had
watched from a tree. She tore him to pieces, being urged
into a frenzy and mistaking him for a wild beast. She then
retired to another Thebes, in Phthiotis, in triumph, with
his head and shoulders. By another legend she did not leave
the Boeotian Thebes. (See Grote, vol. i., p. 220. Edit.
1862.)
(18) Aeas was a river flowing from the boundary of Thessaly
through Epirus to the Ionian Sea. The sire of Isis, or Io,
was Inachus; but the river of that name is usually placed in
the Argive territory.
(19) A river rising in Mount Pindus and flowing into the Ionian
Sea nearly opposite to Ithaca. At its mouth the sea has
been largely silted up.
(20) The god of this river fought with Hercules for the hand of
Deianira. After Hercules had been married to Deianira, and
when they were on a journey, they came to the River Evenus.
Here Nessus, a Centaur, acted as ferryman, and Hercules bade
him carry Deianira across. In doing so he insulted her, and
Hercules shot him with an arrow.
(21) Admetus was King of Pherae in Thessaly, and sued for
Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, who promised her to him if
he should come in a chariot drawn by lions and boars.
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