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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Page 69
... Arcadia for many generations . In ancient Greece , Arcadia was regarded , with some justice , as a primitive region where rude , even barbarous , customs and rites persisted . The view of Arcadia as an idyllic land inhabited by nymphs ...
... Arcadia for many generations . In ancient Greece , Arcadia was regarded , with some justice , as a primitive region where rude , even barbarous , customs and rites persisted . The view of Arcadia as an idyllic land inhabited by nymphs ...
Page 183
... Arcadia . Cypselus , a descendant of Stymphalus , was reigning when the Heraclids and Dorians successfully invaded the Peloponne- sus . Seeing kingdoms falling to the Dorians on all sides of Arcadia , he realized that resistance would ...
... Arcadia . Cypselus , a descendant of Stymphalus , was reigning when the Heraclids and Dorians successfully invaded the Peloponne- sus . Seeing kingdoms falling to the Dorians on all sides of Arcadia , he realized that resistance would ...
Page 538
... Arcadia . A son of Elatus and Laodice , Stymphalus founded , or at least named for himself , a city in northern Arcadia . Pelops , when he was conquering much of the Peloponnesus , found himself unable to make much headway in Arcadia ...
... Arcadia . A son of Elatus and Laodice , Stymphalus founded , or at least named for himself , a city in northern Arcadia . Pelops , when he was conquering much of the Peloponnesus , found himself unable to make much headway in Arcadia ...
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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