The Greek MythsMoyer Bell, 1988 - 412 pages |
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... Medea pretends to be a Hyperborean , that may mean a British , goddess . The underlying religious theory seems to ... Medea's serpent - drawn chariot - serpents are underworld creatures -had wings because she was both earth - goddess and ...
... Medea pretends to be a Hyperborean , that may mean a British , goddess . The underlying religious theory seems to ... Medea's serpent - drawn chariot - serpents are underworld creatures -had wings because she was both earth - goddess and ...
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... Medea claimed it , and the Corinthians accepted Jason as their king . But , after reigning for ten prosperous and happy years , he came to suspect that Medea had secured his succession by poisoning Corinthus ; and proposed to divorce ...
... Medea claimed it , and the Corinthians accepted Jason as their king . But , after reigning for ten prosperous and happy years , he came to suspect that Medea had secured his succession by poisoning Corinthus ; and proposed to divorce ...
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... Medea's ambition on behalf of his children . + f . Others again , misled by the dramatist Euripides , whom the Corinthians bribed with fifteen talents of silver to absolve them of guilt , pretend that Medea killed two of her own ...
... Medea's ambition on behalf of his children . + f . Others again , misled by the dramatist Euripides , whom the Corinthians bribed with fifteen talents of silver to absolve them of guilt , pretend that Medea killed two of her own ...
Contents
Col 7733678 Clas CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE 91239 FOREWORD | 9 |
INTRODUCTION II | 11 |
THE PELASGIAN CREATION MYTH | 27 |
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Achilles Aegisthus Aeneid Agamemnon Ajax ancient Aphrodite Apollo Apollodorus Apollonius Rhodius Arcadian Argive Argonauts Argos Artemis Athene Athene's Athenian bull called chariot Cretan Crete Cronus cult daughter death Delphi Demeter Dictys Cretensis Diodorus Siculus Dionysus divine Electra Epitome Erinnyes Euripides Fabula father goddess gods golden Greece Greek Hellenic Hephaestus Hera Heracles Heracles's Hermes hero Herodotus Hesiod Homer honour horse Hyginus Iliad island Jason killed Labour Libyan lion Lycophron married Medea Menelaus Metamorphoses Minos moon Moon-goddess mother Mount murder Mycenae myth mythographers Nemean nymph Odes Odysseus Olympian oracle Orestes Ovid palace Pausanias Peleus Pelops Pindar Plutarch Poseidon Priam priestess quoted reign ritual river sacred king sacrifice sacrificed sailed Scholiast Scholiast on Homer's sent serpent Servius on Virgil's shrine sons Sparta story Strabo tanist Tartarus temple Thebes Theseus tomb took Trojan Troy Tzetzes viii Virgil's Aeneid worshipped Zeus Zeus's