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 147
... Thestius , who were angered by their nephew's gift of the hide to Atalanta . For the fatal results , in either event , of the quarrel , see MELEAGER . Although the Calydonian boar hunt is the subject of no surviving epic , it was often ...
... Thestius , who were angered by their nephew's gift of the hide to Atalanta . For the fatal results , in either event , of the quarrel , see MELEAGER . Although the Calydonian boar hunt is the subject of no surviving epic , it was often ...
Page 369
... Thestius . Immediately after the birth of the infant Meleager , the three Fates appeared in the mother's room . Clotho and Lachesis predicted that the child would be noble and brave , but Atropos , pointing to a stick burning in the ...
... Thestius . Immediately after the birth of the infant Meleager , the three Fates appeared in the mother's room . Clotho and Lachesis predicted that the child would be noble and brave , but Atropos , pointing to a stick burning in the ...
Page 574
... Thestius ' court , aided him in wars with some unnamed neighbors , and married his daughter Leda . Thestius ' sons were killed by their nephew MELEAGER in a quarrel after the Calydonian boar hunt . [ Apollodorus 1.7.7 , 1.7.10 , 1.8.2–3 ...
... Thestius ' court , aided him in wars with some unnamed neighbors , and married his daughter Leda . Thestius ' sons were killed by their nephew MELEAGER in a quarrel after the Calydonian boar hunt . [ Apollodorus 1.7.7 , 1.7.10 , 1.8.2–3 ...
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