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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... goddess , both as the Syrian Goddess and as Aphrodite . The Greeks had always known that Aphrodite was an Asiatic goddess . Herodotus stated that the oldest shrine of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ) was in the Phoenician city of ...
... goddess , both as the Syrian Goddess and as Aphrodite . The Greeks had always known that Aphrodite was an Asiatic goddess . Herodotus stated that the oldest shrine of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ) was in the Phoenician city of ...
Page 105
... goddess ; moreover , she was certainly not Greek . In cult she was a patro- ness of all young living things , animal or human . At Ephesus , where her great temple was one of the " seven wonders of the world , " she ( or a goddess early ...
... goddess ; moreover , she was certainly not Greek . In cult she was a patro- ness of all young living things , animal or human . At Ephesus , where her great temple was one of the " seven wonders of the world , " she ( or a goddess early ...
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... goddess known as the Bona Dea . [ Vergil , Aeneid , 7.45-103 . ] Faustulus . See ROMULUS AND REMUS [ A ] . Fishes , The . See PISCES . Floating Islands . See STROPHADES . Flood . See DEUCALION ( 1 ) . Flora . A Roman goddess of ...
... goddess known as the Bona Dea . [ Vergil , Aeneid , 7.45-103 . ] Faustulus . See ROMULUS AND REMUS [ A ] . Fishes , The . See PISCES . Floating Islands . See STROPHADES . Flood . See DEUCALION ( 1 ) . Flora . A Roman goddess of ...
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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