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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... fell in love with Marpessa , daughter of the river - god Evenus , but IDAS carried her off . Apollo followed him to Messene and would have taken the girl by force , but Zeus intervened and allowed Marpessa to make her own choice of a ...
... fell in love with Marpessa , daughter of the river - god Evenus , but IDAS carried her off . Apollo followed him to Messene and would have taken the girl by force , but Zeus intervened and allowed Marpessa to make her own choice of a ...
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... fell into the waters . The strait was thereafter named Hellespont- " Sea of Helle . " According to Hyginus [ Poetica Astronom- ica 2.20 ] , Helle did not die . Poseidon lay with her and she gave birth to either Paeon or Edonus . Hellen ...
... fell into the waters . The strait was thereafter named Hellespont- " Sea of Helle . " According to Hyginus [ Poetica Astronom- ica 2.20 ] , Helle did not die . Poseidon lay with her and she gave birth to either Paeon or Edonus . Hellen ...
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... fell in love with her corpse . When Thersites jeered at his infatuation , Achilles killed him with a single blow . [ Apollodorus , “ Epitome ” 5.1–2 ; Aethiopis 1. ] Pentheus . A king of Thebes . In his old age , Cadmus abdicated the ...
... fell in love with her corpse . When Thersites jeered at his infatuation , Achilles killed him with a single blow . [ Apollodorus , “ Epitome ” 5.1–2 ; Aethiopis 1. ] Pentheus . A king of Thebes . In his old age , Cadmus abdicated the ...
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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