Crowell's Handbook of Classical MythologyCrowell, 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 108
... gods were said to have married Metope , daughter of the river - god Ladon . Metope bore two sons , Ismenus and Pelagon , and many daughters , among them Aegina , Salamis , Thebe , Ismene , and Corcyra . The nymph Aegina disappeared one ...
... gods were said to have married Metope , daughter of the river - god Ladon . Metope bore two sons , Ismenus and Pelagon , and many daughters , among them Aegina , Salamis , Thebe , Ismene , and Corcyra . The nymph Aegina disappeared one ...
Page 230
... river - god Simöeis , and became the father of Tros , eponym of Troy . [ Homer , Iliad , 30.219–230 ; Apollodorus 3.12.1-2 . ] Eridanus . A mythical European river and its god . Eridanus was , like most river - gods , a son of Oceanus ...
... river - god Simöeis , and became the father of Tros , eponym of Troy . [ Homer , Iliad , 30.219–230 ; Apollodorus 3.12.1-2 . ] Eridanus . A mythical European river and its god . Eridanus was , like most river - gods , a son of Oceanus ...
Page 491
... river - gods - Inachus , Cephisus , and Asterion . When they decided in favor of Hera , Poseidon angrily dried up these rivers and flooded Argos as well . Zeus decided an argument between Poseidon and Athena over Troezen by decreeing ...
... river - gods - Inachus , Cephisus , and Asterion . When they decided in favor of Hera , Poseidon angrily dried up these rivers and flooded Argos as well . Zeus decided an argument between Poseidon and Athena over Troezen by decreeing ...
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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