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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... land . He entertained AENEAS [ B ] and his followers on their way to Italy . The less vigorous members of Aeneas ' company remained in Eryx and founded a town that they named Acesta in the king's honor . Achaea . A region of the ...
... land . He entertained AENEAS [ B ] and his followers on their way to Italy . The less vigorous members of Aeneas ' company remained in Eryx and founded a town that they named Acesta in the king's honor . Achaea . A region of the ...
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... land south of Egypt . The Greek historians and geographers knew Ethiopia ( Aithiopia ) as a land extending southward from Egypt ( from an east - west line at about the first cataract of the Nile , near the present city of Aswan ) along ...
... land south of Egypt . The Greek historians and geographers knew Ethiopia ( Aithiopia ) as a land extending southward from Egypt ( from an east - west line at about the first cataract of the Nile , near the present city of Aswan ) along ...
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... land was first called Andreïs , for its first settler , Andreus , son of the river - god Pe- neius . Andreus shared the land with Athamas , son of Aeolus , and married his granddaughter Euippe . Upon the death of their son , Eteocles ...
... land was first called Andreïs , for its first settler , Andreus , son of the river - god Pe- neius . Andreus shared the land with Athamas , son of Aeolus , and married his granddaughter Euippe . Upon the death of their son , Eteocles ...
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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