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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... refused to fight any longer or to allow his troops to do so . His mother appealed to Zeus to give the Trojans victory so that the Greeks should be forced to heap honors on Achilles in order to win his help . Zeus consented . As a result ...
... refused to fight any longer or to allow his troops to do so . His mother appealed to Zeus to give the Trojans victory so that the Greeks should be forced to heap honors on Achilles in order to win his help . Zeus consented . As a result ...
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... 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 Eurytus ' mares ( or cattle ) with him , others ...
... 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 Eurytus ' mares ( or cattle ) with him , others ...
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... refused , whereupon the sickness spread to other Argive women . They lost their hair , their skin became leprous , and , imagining themselves to be cows , they roamed wildly through mountains and desert . ( Some attribute this ...
... refused , whereupon the sickness spread to other Argive women . They lost their hair , their skin became leprous , and , imagining themselves to be cows , they roamed wildly through mountains and desert . ( Some attribute this ...
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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