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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... give up his own concubine , Chryseïs , to save the Greeks from a plague . Enraged , he took Briseïs from Achilles . Achilles surrendered her but refused to fight any longer or to allow his troops to do so . His mother appealed to Zeus to ...
... give up his own concubine , Chryseïs , to save the Greeks from a plague . Enraged , he took Briseïs from Achilles . Achilles surrendered her but refused to fight any longer or to allow his troops to do so . His mother appealed to Zeus to ...
Page 295
... give up his hatred of the Greeks and go to the Trojan War , where he would kill Paris with Heracles ' bow . O. The stories of Heracles , his twelve labors , and many other exploits were well known to the ancients . Euripides ' play ...
... give up his hatred of the Greeks and go to the Trojan War , where he would kill Paris with Heracles ' bow . O. The stories of Heracles , his twelve labors , and many other exploits were well known to the ancients . Euripides ' play ...
Page 464
... give them victory . There is an ironic echo of Persephone's life on earth in the tale of her quarrel with Aphrodite over Adonis , who , like herself , was a spirit of the dying and reviving vegetation . Aphrodite placed the infant in a ...
... give them victory . There is an ironic echo of Persephone's life on earth in the tale of her quarrel with Aphrodite over Adonis , who , like herself , was a spirit of the dying and reviving vegetation . Aphrodite placed the infant in a ...
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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