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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... Cretan mountain , Ida . The obscure Cretan goddess Dic- tynna was probably worshiped chiefly on this mountain . Dicte was also said by some to be the home of the Harpies . Dictynna . An epithet interpreted by Classical writers as " Lady ...
... Cretan mountain , Ida . The obscure Cretan goddess Dic- tynna was probably worshiped chiefly on this mountain . Dicte was also said by some to be the home of the Harpies . Dictynna . An epithet interpreted by Classical writers as " Lady ...
Page 315
... Cretan prison on wings made of wax and feathers , the young man ignored Daedalus ' warning not to fly too near the sun . The wax melted and Icarus fell into the sea south of Samos , which is named Icarian , for him . The body washed ...
... Cretan prison on wings made of wax and feathers , the young man ignored Daedalus ' warning not to fly too near the sun . The wax melted and Icarus fell into the sea south of Samos , which is named Icarian , for him . The body washed ...
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... Cretan Zeus , was incorporated into that of the Hellenic god as the story of his infancy . The Cretan god's manifestation as a bull survived in the episode of Zeus's abduc- tion of Europa to Crete . The Cretan Zeus's connection with ...
... Cretan Zeus , was incorporated into that of the Hellenic god as the story of his infancy . The Cretan god's manifestation as a bull survived in the episode of Zeus's abduc- tion of Europa to Crete . The Cretan Zeus's connection with ...
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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