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 126
... ( perhaps by an earlier marriage ) . Hyginus [ Fabulae 99 , 100 ] tells a more complicated story . At the same time that Auge was exposing her child on Mount Parthenius , Atalanta was do- ing the same with Parthenopaeüs , her child by ...
... ( perhaps by an earlier marriage ) . Hyginus [ Fabulae 99 , 100 ] tells a more complicated story . At the same time that Auge was exposing her child on Mount Parthenius , Atalanta was do- ing the same with Parthenopaeüs , her child by ...
Page 278
... perhaps through unsuccessful attempts to establish plausi- ble relationships of cause and effect among traditions that were originally un- connected . Heracles married Creon's daughter Megara , and many writers have assumed that the ...
... perhaps through unsuccessful attempts to establish plausi- ble relationships of cause and effect among traditions that were originally un- connected . Heracles married Creon's daughter Megara , and many writers have assumed that the ...
Page 437
... perhaps the best known is the Metamorphoses , a long narrative poem concerned with myths in which the characters changed their forms . Ovid colored his stories with a great num- ber of picturesque details , often inventing incidents and ...
... perhaps the best known is the Metamorphoses , a long narrative poem concerned with myths in which the characters changed their forms . Ovid colored his stories with a great num- ber of picturesque details , often inventing incidents and ...
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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