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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... Peleus , king of Phthia , and Thetis . A. Peleus ' marriage to a sea - goddess , after a wedding that had been ar- ranged and attended by the gods , was a happy one until the birth of their first child , Ligyron . Thetis , wishing to ...
... Peleus , king of Phthia , and Thetis . A. Peleus ' marriage to a sea - goddess , after a wedding that had been ar- ranged and attended by the gods , was a happy one until the birth of their first child , Ligyron . Thetis , wishing to ...
Page 321
... Peleus , came to Iolcus . When he spurned the advances of Acastus ' wife , she accused him to her husband of trying to violate her . Acastus tried unsuccessfully to bring about Peleus ' death . Peleus , with the aid of Jason and the ...
... Peleus , came to Iolcus . When he spurned the advances of Acastus ' wife , she accused him to her husband of trying to violate her . Acastus tried unsuccessfully to bring about Peleus ' death . Peleus , with the aid of Jason and the ...
Page 574
... Peleus , who was considered the worthiest man of his time . Some say , however , that he had to win her by force . On Cheiron's ad- vice , he captured her in her favorite grotto on the Magnesian coast . Like many other deities of the ...
... Peleus , who was considered the worthiest man of his time . Some say , however , that he had to win her by force . On Cheiron's ad- vice , he captured her in her favorite grotto on the Magnesian coast . Like many other deities of the ...
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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