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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... According to some accounts Attica took its final name directly from Actaeüs , instead of from Atthis , daugh- ter of Cecrops ' successor , Cranaüs . [ Apollodorus 3.14.2 ; Pausanias 1.2.6 . ] Acte or Actaea . See ACTAEUS . Actor ( 1 ) ...
... According to some accounts Attica took its final name directly from Actaeüs , instead of from Atthis , daugh- ter of Cecrops ' successor , Cranaüs . [ Apollodorus 3.14.2 ; Pausanias 1.2.6 . ] Acte or Actaea . See ACTAEUS . Actor ( 1 ) ...
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... according to tradition , completed the federation of the demes , or townships , of Attica . He included the city of Megara , thereby extending Athenian domination along the isthmus as far as the boundaries of Corinth . The origin of the ...
... according to tradition , completed the federation of the demes , or townships , of Attica . He included the city of Megara , thereby extending Athenian domination along the isthmus as far as the boundaries of Corinth . The origin of the ...
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... According to some accounts , Jason's son Thessalus returned to Iolcus and succeeded Acastus on the throne . E. Hera , having used Jason to achieve her revenge on Pelias , took no fur- ther interest in him . According to some accounts ...
... According to some accounts , Jason's son Thessalus returned to Iolcus and succeeded Acastus on the throne . E. Hera , having used Jason to achieve her revenge on Pelias , took no fur- ther interest in him . According to some accounts ...
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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