Thetis, a Nereid, mother of Achilles

17. Nausicaa, one of the most attractive characters in the Odyssey, daughter of the king of the Phæacians. She helped Ulysses when wrecked on her father’s coast. Odyssey VI.

18. le palmier de Délos, a famous palm tree to which Homer likens Nausicaa: Odyssey NI 162.

19. Andromaque. Andromache, the wife of Hector the Trojan leader. After the fall of Troy she was given to Pyrrhus. She is considered the symbol of conjugal fidelity.

21. Odyssée : Odyssey, the famous Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, describing the wanderings of Ulysses on his homeward voyage to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

23. violette, the epithet that Homer applies to the sea: op. püpeos.

30. Alceste et Antigone. A/cestis, one of Euripides’ trage. dies, 438 B.C. Antigone, a tragedy by Sophocles, 440 B. C.