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 394
... hand . Some time after the Spartan and Phthian leaders had both re- turned home , Neoptolemus claimed his promised bride . Unwilling to go back on his word , Menelaüs agreed . He took Hermione away from Orestes , who had gone mad after ...
... hand . Some time after the Spartan and Phthian leaders had both re- turned home , Neoptolemus claimed his promised bride . Unwilling to go back on his word , Menelaüs agreed . He took Hermione away from Orestes , who had gone mad after ...
Page 441
... hand flourished a spear while the other held a distaff and spindle . The same author gave its origin as follows : After her birth from the head of Zeus , the child Athena was reared by the god Triton together with his own daughter ...
... hand flourished a spear while the other held a distaff and spindle . The same author gave its origin as follows : After her birth from the head of Zeus , the child Athena was reared by the god Triton together with his own daughter ...
Page 467
... hands ran red ever afterward . ) Cepheus held a great banquet in Perseus ' honor , but the young man soon learned that , in his eagerness to save his daughter , the king had failed to mention that he had al- ready promised Andromeda's hand ...
... hands ran red ever afterward . ) Cepheus held a great banquet in Perseus ' honor , but the young man soon learned that , in his eagerness to save his daughter , the king had failed to mention that he had al- ready promised Andromeda's hand ...
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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