Crowell's Handbook of Classical MythologyCrowell, 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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Edward Tripp. AGAMEMNON Agamemnon . A king of Mycenae . A. Agamemnon and Menelaüs were known as the Atreidae — that is , sons of ATREUS [ A , D ] —though some say that they were actually sons of Atreus ' son Pleisthenes . According to ...
Edward Tripp. AGAMEMNON Agamemnon . A king of Mycenae . A. Agamemnon and Menelaüs were known as the Atreidae — that is , sons of ATREUS [ A , D ] —though some say that they were actually sons of Atreus ' son Pleisthenes . According to ...
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... Agamemnon's con- demnation of his innocent brother PALAMEDES at Troy . Others say that Pal- amedes ' father , Nauplius , avenged his son by causing Aegisthus ' seduction of Clytemnestra . ) For a full year before Agamemnon's return ...
... Agamemnon's con- demnation of his innocent brother PALAMEDES at Troy . Others say that Pal- amedes ' father , Nauplius , avenged his son by causing Aegisthus ' seduction of Clytemnestra . ) For a full year before Agamemnon's return ...
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... Agamemnon went to Ithaca to enlist Odysseus ' support . They found the king wearing a madman's headgear and plowing with a horse and an ox yoked together . Palamedes placed Odysseus ' infant son , Telemachus , in front of the plow , or ...
... Agamemnon went to Ithaca to enlist Odysseus ' support . They found the king wearing a madman's headgear and plowing with a horse and an ox yoked together . Palamedes placed Odysseus ' infant son , Telemachus , in front of the plow , or ...
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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