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 59
... punished the Lemnian women for ignoring her worship by giving them a bad odor . Their husbands thereupon took foreign wives and the Lemnian women killed all the men on the island . After several lonely years , they learned to regret ...
... punished the Lemnian women for ignoring her worship by giving them a bad odor . Their husbands thereupon took foreign wives and the Lemnian women killed all the men on the island . After several lonely years , they learned to regret ...
Page 210
... punished Antiope with madness because Dirce had been his votary . He also caused a spring to appear at Thebes at the spot where Dirce had died . Dionysus came to the rescue of the women of Tanagra when they were attacked by a TRITON ...
... punished Antiope with madness because Dirce had been his votary . He also caused a spring to appear at Thebes at the spot where Dirce had died . Dionysus came to the rescue of the women of Tanagra when they were attacked by a TRITON ...
Page 231
... punished offenders against blood kin . The Erin- yes , whom the Romans called Furies , were born , together with the Giants and the Meliae , from the earth when it was fertilized by drops of blood from the castrated Uranus . Some ...
... punished offenders against blood kin . The Erin- yes , whom the Romans called Furies , were born , together with the Giants and the Meliae , from the earth when it was fertilized by drops of blood from the castrated Uranus . Some ...
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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