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 109
... [ Hesiod , Theogony , 375-382 . ] Astronomy . A lost Greek work on the constellations . Of this poem , once at- tributed to Hesiod , only brief fragments remain . These deal with the Pleiades and the Hyades , Ursa Major , and Orion . The ...
... [ Hesiod , Theogony , 375-382 . ] Astronomy . A lost Greek work on the constellations . Of this poem , once at- tributed to Hesiod , only brief fragments remain . These deal with the Pleiades and the Hyades , Ursa Major , and Orion . The ...
Page 254
... [ Hesiod , Theogony , 270–283 . See also references under PERSEUS . ] Gorgophone . The only daughter of Perseus and Andromeda . The genealo- gies of Gorgophone's husbands are hopelessly confused . According to one of the clearer versions ...
... [ Hesiod , Theogony , 270–283 . See also references under PERSEUS . ] Gorgophone . The only daughter of Perseus and Andromeda . The genealo- gies of Gorgophone's husbands are hopelessly confused . According to one of the clearer versions ...
Page 395
... Hesiod as the Old Man . Hesiod explains that this is because he is kind and just . He was the father , by the Oceanid Doris , of the fifty sea - nymphs the Nereids . Like other sea - deities , such as Thetis and Proteus ( the second of ...
... Hesiod as the Old Man . Hesiod explains that this is because he is kind and just . He was the father , by the Oceanid Doris , of the fifty sea - nymphs the Nereids . Like other sea - deities , such as Thetis and Proteus ( the second of ...
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