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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Page 113
... brought the ram to their aid . Another version gives an entirely different reason for the sacrifice . Athamas ' brother Cretheus , king of Iolcus , was married to Demodice or Biadice . This woman , attracted by the handsome Phrixus ...
... brought the ram to their aid . Another version gives an entirely different reason for the sacrifice . Athamas ' brother Cretheus , king of Iolcus , was married to Demodice or Biadice . This woman , attracted by the handsome Phrixus ...
Page 242
... brought back the skin of the Nemean lion , Eurystheus was so terrified that he hid in a bronze jar buried in the ... brought his head to Alcmene , who gouged out the eyes . Other writers claim that Eurystheus was captured alive and ...
... brought back the skin of the Nemean lion , Eurystheus was so terrified that he hid in a bronze jar buried in the ... brought his head to Alcmene , who gouged out the eyes . Other writers claim that Eurystheus was captured alive and ...
Page 459
... brought there from Elis . For this cause the Eleians parted with his shoulder blade . As it was being returned after the ensuing victory , the bone was lost off Euboea . Years later a fisherman named Dardamenus brought it up in his net ...
... brought there from Elis . For this cause the Eleians parted with his shoulder blade . As it was being returned after the ensuing victory , the bone was lost off Euboea . Years later a fisherman named Dardamenus brought it up in his net ...
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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