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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... accounts Attica took its final name directly from Actaeüs , instead of from Atthis , daugh- ter of Cecrops ' successor , Cranaüs . [ Apollodorus 3.14.2 ; Pausanias 1.2.6 . ] Acte or Actaea . See ACTAEUS . Actor ( 1 ) . A son of Deïon ...
... accounts Attica took its final name directly from Actaeüs , instead of from Atthis , daugh- ter of Cecrops ' successor , Cranaüs . [ Apollodorus 3.14.2 ; Pausanias 1.2.6 . ] Acte or Actaea . See ACTAEUS . Actor ( 1 ) . A son of Deïon ...
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... account of the Returns is given by Apollodorus [ " Epitome " 6-7 ] . Apollodorus ' account seems to have been based on the ... accounts claim that Rhadamanthys established a code of laws in Crete and that Minos gave him rule over certain ...
... account of the Returns is given by Apollodorus [ " Epitome " 6-7 ] . Apollodorus ' account seems to have been based on the ... accounts claim that Rhadamanthys established a code of laws in Crete and that Minos gave him rule over certain ...
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... accounts of the Scythians ( including a long one by Herodotus ) are confused and contradictory , but the tribes seem to have been invaders from northern Asia who conquered inhabitants of the Black Sea region of Iranian origin . They ...
... accounts of the Scythians ( including a long one by Herodotus ) are confused and contradictory , but the tribes seem to have been invaders from northern Asia who conquered inhabitants of the Black Sea region of Iranian origin . They ...
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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