61/122 Perhaps it is a reference to the Greek tale that Hyperion, one of the Titans, was the father of the sun. The _Agathyrsians_ were a Scythian tribe, and the _Dryopes_ were a Thessalian people who dwelt on Mount Parnassus, the especial home of Apollo; Cynthus is a mountain in Delos. 'Ammon' was the African Jupiter. The 'Zephyrs' were the south-west winds, and so the right ones to take the fleet of Aeneas to Italy from Carthage. Atlas was the giant who held apart heaven and earth. |