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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Page 273
... Hera , Hephaestus devised a throne for her as a gift . Hera unsuspectingly sat in it and was held fast . Hephaestus was welcomed back to heaven , but only Dionysus could persuade him to re- lease Hera . According to another version of ...
... Hera , Hephaestus devised a throne for her as a gift . Hera unsuspectingly sat in it and was held fast . Hephaestus was welcomed back to heaven , but only Dionysus could persuade him to re- lease Hera . According to another version of ...
Page 274
... Hera's pursuit of HERACLES , Zeus's son by Alcmene . According to some traditions , Zeus tricked Hera into giving Heracles suck while she slept . The Milky Way was caused by the spilled milk when she woke to discover the trick ...
... Hera's pursuit of HERACLES , Zeus's son by Alcmene . According to some traditions , Zeus tricked Hera into giving Heracles suck while she slept . The Milky Way was caused by the spilled milk when she woke to discover the trick ...
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... Hera . She bore Ares , Eileithyia , and Hebe . Hephaestus may also have been her child by Zeus , but in most accounts the artisan - god was conceived by Hera alone as a protest against her husband's independence in producing Athena from ...
... Hera . She bore Ares , Eileithyia , and Hebe . Hephaestus may also have been her child by Zeus , but in most accounts the artisan - god was conceived by Hera alone as a protest against her husband's independence in producing Athena from ...
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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