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 492
... horse Arion . Demeter was worshiped in parts of Ar- cadia in a horse - headed form , and her seducer was known as Horse Poseidon . Poseidon seduced Medusa , then a lovely girl , in a temple of Athena . Athena , enraged , transformed her ...
... horse Arion . Demeter was worshiped in parts of Ar- cadia in a horse - headed form , and her seducer was known as Horse Poseidon . Poseidon seduced Medusa , then a lovely girl , in a temple of Athena . Athena , enraged , transformed her ...
Page 600
... horse . The hollow interior of this statue was large enough to contain a considerable number of men . A group of Greek leaders , under Odysseus ' command , hid themselves inside the horse . The rest of the Greeks broke camp and sailed ...
... horse . The hollow interior of this statue was large enough to contain a considerable number of men . A group of Greek leaders , under Odysseus ' command , hid themselves inside the horse . The rest of the Greeks broke camp and sailed ...
Page 601
... horse . They hesitated no longer , but broke through the walls of their own city in their eagerness to bring the horse to their citadel , the Pergamum . There it remained while the Trojans feasted to honor the goddess and celebrate the ...
... horse . They hesitated no longer , but broke through the walls of their own city in their eagerness to bring the horse to their citadel , the Pergamum . There it remained while the Trojans feasted to honor the goddess and celebrate 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