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 163
... earth or Underworld . This term is used of deities , spirits ( daimones ) , and heroes who were thought to live in or beneath the earth and whose concern was with the dead or with the fertility of the earth . Many chthonian divinities ...
... earth or Underworld . This term is used of deities , spirits ( daimones ) , and heroes who were thought to live in or beneath the earth and whose concern was with the dead or with the fertility of the earth . Many chthonian divinities ...
Page 192
... earth - goddess . Aeschylus claimed that Themis gave up her rights to the Titaness Phoebe , who in turn relinquished ... earth's shrine . Its name survived in Delphi's alter- nate name , Pytho , and in the title of Apollo's prophetess ...
... earth - goddess . Aeschylus claimed that Themis gave up her rights to the Titaness Phoebe , who in turn relinquished ... earth's shrine . Its name survived in Delphi's alter- nate name , Pytho , and in the title of Apollo's prophetess ...
Page 609
... earth - goddess survived in the tales of his unions with various local earth - god- desses , such as Semele and Demeter . There is considerable evidence to suggest that Hera , too , was originally an earth - goddess . Some scholars have ...
... earth - goddess survived in the tales of his unions with various local earth - god- desses , such as Semele and Demeter . There is considerable evidence to suggest that Hera , too , was originally an earth - goddess . Some scholars have ...
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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