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... culture , perhaps from Crete , westward and northward through the Mediterranean area . The Sar- dinian Daedaleia ... culture and , during the de- cline of Cretan power , was taken over by the Mycenaean culture of the main- land ...
... culture , perhaps from Crete , westward and northward through the Mediterranean area . The Sar- dinian Daedaleia ... culture and , during the de- cline of Cretan power , was taken over by the Mycenaean culture of the main- land ...
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... culture . Homer [ Iliad 681-685 ] knew the Hellenes only as a tribe living in Hellas , in southern Thessaly . They sent ships to Troy under the leadership of Achilles , ruler of the neighboring state of Phthia . Homer's name for the ...
... culture . Homer [ Iliad 681-685 ] knew the Hellenes only as a tribe living in Hellas , in southern Thessaly . They sent ships to Troy under the leadership of Achilles , ruler of the neighboring state of Phthia . Homer's name for the ...
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... culture , its principal cities being Pessi- nus , Gordium , and Ancyra . Various kings named Midas and Gordius ruled this area , which was the center of Cybele's worship . The Sangarius valley was the homeland of Priam's wife Hecuba ...
... culture , its principal cities being Pessi- nus , Gordium , and Ancyra . Various kings named Midas and Gordius ruled this area , which was the center of Cybele's worship . The Sangarius valley was the homeland of Priam's wife Hecuba ...
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According Achilles Aeëtes Aegeus Aeneas Aeolus Agamemnon Alcmeon Amphitryon Aphrodite Apollo Apollodorus Apollonius Rhodius Arcadia Argive Argonauts Argos Artemis Athamas Athenian Athens Attica became Boeotia bore brother Cadmus called child claimed Corinth Creon Cretan Crete Cronus daughter death Delphi Demeter Diomedes Dionysus Elis eponym Euripides Eurystheus Eurytus father gave Giants goddess gods Greek Hades Helen Helius Hephaestus Hera Heracles Heraclids Hermes Hesiod Homer honor husband Hyginus Hyginus Fabulae Iliad Iolcus island Jason killed king land later Lycus married Medea Menelaüs Messenia Metamorphoses Minos mother Mount murder Mycenae myths Neoptolemus nymph Oceanus Odysseus Oedipus Oeneus oracle Orestes Ovid Pausanias Peleus Pelias Peloponnesus Pelops Perseus Poetica Astronomica Poseidon region returned river river-god Roman rule sailed seer sent ships sister snake sons Sparta story suitors Theban Thebes Theogony Theseus Thetis throne Titans took Trojan Trojan War Troy Tyndareüs wife women worshiped writers young Zeus Zeus's