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 266
... Troy solely for the purpose of provoking war . Herodotus tells an Egyptian version in which Paris stopped at Egypt on his way to Troy with Helen . Proteus , indignant at the abduction , which some of Paris ' sailors reported to him ...
... Troy solely for the purpose of provoking war . Herodotus tells an Egyptian version in which Paris stopped at Egypt on his way to Troy with Helen . Proteus , indignant at the abduction , which some of Paris ' sailors reported to him ...
Page 585
... Troy . They landed by mistake in Mysia and lost some of their men to a force led by Telephus , king of Teuthrania ( Pergamon ) , although Achilles wounded the defender . Discouraged , the Greeks returned home . A guide to Troy was ...
... Troy . They landed by mistake in Mysia and lost some of their men to a force led by Telephus , king of Teuthrania ( Pergamon ) , although Achilles wounded the defender . Discouraged , the Greeks returned home . A guide to Troy was ...
Page 586
... Troy as long as it could count on supplies and other aid from the many nearby cities that were under its dominance . They therefore set about destroying these vassals and allies one by one . This operation seems to have been mainly ...
... Troy as long as it could count on supplies and other aid from the many nearby cities that were under its dominance . They therefore set about destroying these vassals and allies one by one . This operation seems to have been mainly ...
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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