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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 44
Page 296
... Heraclids , now under Hyllus , captured many cities in the Pelopon- nesus , but a year later a plague broke out which an oracle blamed on this pre- mature invasion . Hyllus withdrew his forces , but , encouraged by the Delphic oracle's ...
... Heraclids , now under Hyllus , captured many cities in the Pelopon- nesus , but a year later a plague broke out which an oracle blamed on this pre- mature invasion . Hyllus withdrew his forces , but , encouraged by the Delphic oracle's ...
Page 297
... Heraclids should be guided by " a three - eyed one . " Temenus exiled Hippotes , the seer's killer , for ten years and , on meeting a man riding a one - eyed horse , engaged him as guide for the ex- pedition , promising him the kingship ...
... Heraclids should be guided by " a three - eyed one . " Temenus exiled Hippotes , the seer's killer , for ten years and , on meeting a man riding a one - eyed horse , engaged him as guide for the ex- pedition , promising him the kingship ...
Page 298
... Heraclids , " and associated it with the Dorian inva- sion which Thucydides [ 1.12.3 ] placed eighty years after the ... Heraclids is the subject of no surviving work of literary importance . Though Euripides ' tragedy Children of ...
... Heraclids , " and associated it with the Dorian inva- sion which Thucydides [ 1.12.3 ] placed eighty years after the ... Heraclids is the subject of no surviving work of literary importance . Though Euripides ' tragedy Children of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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