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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... region of the Peloponnesus on the Gulf of Corinth between Elis and Sicyonia and north of Arcadia . Achaea was originally named Aegialus , perhaps for Aegialeus , an early king of Sicyonia . When the Thessalian Xuthus was banished from ...
... region of the Peloponnesus on the Gulf of Corinth between Elis and Sicyonia and north of Arcadia . Achaea was originally named Aegialus , perhaps for Aegialeus , an early king of Sicyonia . When the Thessalian Xuthus was banished from ...
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... region , told the king what had happened . Geryon came rushing after the thief . Heracles turned on him at the river Anthemus and shot him dead . He then sailed to nearby Tartessus , returned the boat to Helius , and headed eastward on ...
... region , told the king what had happened . Geryon came rushing after the thief . Heracles turned on him at the river Anthemus and shot him dead . He then sailed to nearby Tartessus , returned the boat to Helius , and headed eastward on ...
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... region dominated by Troy , were the Teucrians , named for their king Teucer . This Teucer was a son of the river - god Scamander and Idaea , a nymph of Mount Ida , although Roman tradition makes him an immigrant from Crete . During ...
... region dominated by Troy , were the Teucrians , named for their king Teucer . This Teucer was a son of the river - god Scamander and Idaea , a nymph of Mount Ida , although Roman tradition makes him an immigrant from Crete . During ...
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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