Roman name for the Greek god Dionysus.

Character in Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740-1).

Austen's major novels include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818). A minor novel, Lady Susan, was first published in the 1871 edition of James Edward Austen-Leigh's A Memoir of Jane Austen along with the fragment The Watsons and a synopsis of the unfinished Sanditon. Austen is also appreciated for her comic juvenilia, especially Love & Freindship (1922).

One of the original knights of the Order of the Garter who fought under Prince Edward's command in the Battles of Crecy and Poitiers during the Hundred Years' War.

English antiquary, biographer, and pioneer archaeologist. His notable works include Brief Lives (written between 1669 and 1696), Monumenta Britannica (written between 1663 and 1693), and Naturall Historie (written between 1659 and 1671), all published posthumously.

English writer and freethinker with interests in mesmerism, naturalism, materialism, and phrenology. He advised Harriet Martineau on mesmerism during her 5-year illness, to which she attributed her recovery. The two went on to publish their correspondence as Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development (1851).

Also known as Pallas Athene, Athena, the Greek personification of wisdom, is goddess of strategic warfare and arts and crafts such as spinning and weaving. She was born of Zeus and Metis after Zeus swallowed Metis, fearing she would have a son stronger than himself. The god Hephaestus struck Zeus on the forehead with an axe, and Athena sprang from the opening fully armed. Athena is often equated with the Roman goddess Minerva.

Goddess of error, delusion, and rash action.

Personification of virtue who, when the Golden Age ended and the earth became dominated by iniquity, ascended to the heavens and became the constellation Virgo.

Mistress of Pericles often attacked in Athenian dramatic works for her supposed undue political influence.