Crowell's Handbook of Classical MythologyCrowell, 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 89
... murder the Argonauts crossed the northern end of the Adri- atic to the Amber Islands that cluster about the mouth of the ERIDANUS River and remained hidden there until they felt safe from further Colchian pursuit . Unable to proceed ...
... murder the Argonauts crossed the northern end of the Adri- atic to the Amber Islands that cluster about the mouth of the ERIDANUS River and remained hidden there until they felt safe from further Colchian pursuit . Unable to proceed ...
Page 124
... murder of the children . He was told to bring Thyestes back to Mycenae . Searching for him , Atreus came to King Thespro- tus . He saw the lovely Pelopia , who had returned to Thesprotia , and , thinking that she was the king's daughter ...
... murder of the children . He was told to bring Thyestes back to Mycenae . Searching for him , Atreus came to King Thespro- tus . He saw the lovely Pelopia , who had returned to Thesprotia , and , thinking that she was the king's daughter ...
Page 289
... murder of his own children in a fit of madness , refused to give his daughter to him , in spite of the pleas of his elder son Iphitus that he honor his pledge . Heracles left Oechalia , vowing vengeance . Some say that he drove some of ...
... murder of his own children in a fit of madness , refused to give his daughter to him , in spite of the pleas of his elder son Iphitus that he honor his pledge . Heracles left Oechalia , vowing vengeance . Some say that he drove some 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