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 104
... sacrifice of Agamemnon's fairest daughter . Some say that when the sacrifice was carried out , she substituted a deer on the altar and spirited Iphigeneia away to the land of the barbaric Taurians to be her priestess there . Some ...
... sacrifice of Agamemnon's fairest daughter . Some say that when the sacrifice was carried out , she substituted a deer on the altar and spirited Iphigeneia away to the land of the barbaric Taurians to be her priestess there . Some ...
Page 279
... sacrifice to him . Heracles told him to wait for thirty days . If by this time he had not re- turned , Molorchus might sacrifice to him as a hero . If he did return , the sacri- fice should be offered to Zeus the Savior . Heracles then ...
... sacrifice to him . Heracles told him to wait for thirty days . If by this time he had not re- turned , Molorchus might sacrifice to him as a hero . If he did return , the sacri- fice should be offered to Zeus the Savior . Heracles then ...
Page 479
... sacrifice to Hera or for making her armor . The Argives claimed that it was Phoroneus , not Prometheus , who discovered the use of fire . By the nymph Teledice ( Cinna ) he had a son , Apis , and a daughter , Niobe . His wife , Cerdo ...
... sacrifice to Hera or for making her armor . The Argives claimed that it was Phoroneus , not Prometheus , who discovered the use of fire . By the nymph Teledice ( Cinna ) he had a son , Apis , and a daughter , Niobe . His wife , Cerdo ...
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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