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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Edward Tripp. Medea or Medeia . A Colchian sorceress . A. Medea was a daughter of Aeëtes , king of Colchis , and Eidyia , the youngest of the Oceanides , or Hecate , daughter of Perses . A beautiful young woman , Medea was a priestess of ...
Edward Tripp. Medea or Medeia . A Colchian sorceress . A. Medea was a daughter of Aeëtes , king of Colchis , and Eidyia , the youngest of the Oceanides , or Hecate , daughter of Perses . A beautiful young woman , Medea was a priestess of ...
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... Medea and Jason in Corinth is a grim one , best known from Euripides ' play that bears Medea's name . Although Jason was accepted by the Corinthians , the presence of the barbarian sorceress Medea was less welcome . The people and even ...
... Medea and Jason in Corinth is a grim one , best known from Euripides ' play that bears Medea's name . Although Jason was accepted by the Corinthians , the presence of the barbarian sorceress Medea was less welcome . The people and even ...
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... Medea , who bore him a son , Medus . Later Theseus , grown to young manhood , appeared at Aegeus ' court at his mother's urging , but neither father nor son knew that they were related . Medea , no doubt fearing that Medus would lose ...
... Medea , who bore him a son , Medus . Later Theseus , grown to young manhood , appeared at Aegeus ' court at his mother's urging , but neither father nor son knew that they were related . Medea , no doubt fearing that Medus would lose ...
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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