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 163
... originally differentiated ; but spirits who lived in the earth , where the dead were buried and from which the crops arose each year , almost inevitably came to be associated with both events . The chief chthonian gods ( chthonioi ) ...
... originally differentiated ; but spirits who lived in the earth , where the dead were buried and from which the crops arose each year , almost inevitably came to be associated with both events . The chief chthonian gods ( chthonioi ) ...
Page 200
... originally a deity of the Latins or Sabines , was a patroness of wild things and of birth , both human and animal . Apparently a fertility goddess of the " mountain - mother " type , she was easily identified with the Greek ARTEMIS ...
... originally a deity of the Latins or Sabines , was a patroness of wild things and of birth , both human and animal . Apparently a fertility goddess of the " mountain - mother " type , she was easily identified with the Greek ARTEMIS ...
Page 275
... originally , like so many other pre - Hellenic goddesses , a patroness of the fertility of the earth . There are strong indications that she governed the lives of cattle and flocks , and she was sometimes connected in cult with crops ...
... originally , like so many other pre - Hellenic goddesses , a patroness of the fertility of the earth . There are strong indications that she governed the lives of cattle and flocks , and she was sometimes connected in cult with crops ...
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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