Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology, Volume 10Crowell, 1970 - 631 pages Reference work with alphabetically-arranged entries illuminates the characters, places, and literary sources of Greek and Roman myths. |
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... first to land at Troy . Protesilaüs disembarked first , and was the first Greek to be killed . In this opening battle Achilles was pitted against Cycnus , king of Colonae . Discovering that this son of Poseidon was in- vulnerable to ...
... first to land at Troy . Protesilaüs disembarked first , and was the first Greek to be killed . In this opening battle Achilles was pitted against Cycnus , king of Colonae . Discovering that this son of Poseidon was in- vulnerable to ...
Page 86
... first glimpse of him . She gave him a magic drug , made from a plant that had grown from the blood of Prometheus as it dripped from the eagle's talons , and told him how to use it and how to enlist the aid of Hecate . In return , Jason ...
... first glimpse of him . She gave him a magic drug , made from a plant that had grown from the blood of Prometheus as it dripped from the eagle's talons , and told him how to use it and how to enlist the aid of Hecate . In return , Jason ...
Page 429
... first called Andreïs , for its first settler , Andreus , son of the river - god Pe- neius . Andreus shared the land with Athamas , son of Aeolus , and married his granddaughter Euippe . Upon the death of their son , Eteocles , the rule ...
... first called Andreïs , for its first settler , Andreus , son of the river - god Pe- neius . Andreus shared the land with Athamas , son of Aeolus , and married his granddaughter Euippe . Upon the death of their son , Eteocles , the rule ...
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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