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 376
... called Messenia . They founded as their capital the city later called Andania . It was Messene who first worshiped De- meter and Kore in Messenia , the rites having been shown her by Caucon . In Pausanias ' day Messene had the ...
... called Messenia . They founded as their capital the city later called Andania . It was Messene who first worshiped De- meter and Kore in Messenia , the rites having been shown her by Caucon . In Pausanias ' day Messene had the ...
Page 520
... called Cabeiri were worshiped in the so- called Samothracian mysteries , which , in the Classical period , were second in popularity only to the Eleusinian mysteries among mystery cults . Samothracian mysteries . See CABEIRI . Sangarius ...
... called Cabeiri were worshiped in the so- called Samothracian mysteries , which , in the Classical period , were second in popularity only to the Eleusinian mysteries among mystery cults . Samothracian mysteries . See CABEIRI . Sangarius ...
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... called Ilium , near the southern entrance to the Hellespont . The mythical history of Troy , confused though it is , suggests that the people whom Classical writers called Trojans were a group of tribes which , by the time of the Trojan ...
... called Ilium , near the southern entrance to the Hellespont . The mythical history of Troy , confused though it is , suggests that the people whom Classical writers called Trojans were a group of tribes which , by the time of the Trojan ...
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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