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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... seems to have maintained connections with Elis throughout its history . The aboriginal inhabi- tants of Aetolia were the Curetes , and they seem to have been at odds with the ruling house at Calydon , the principal city of the region ...
... seems to have maintained connections with Elis throughout its history . The aboriginal inhabi- tants of Aetolia were the Curetes , and they seem to have been at odds with the ruling house at Calydon , the principal city of the region ...
Page 65
... seems to weigh in favor of an eastern origin for the god . His familiar epithet Lyceius may have meant simply Ly- cian , rather than " Wolf - God ” or “ Light - God , ” as has often been suggested . In the Iliad , Apollo often seems ...
... seems to weigh in favor of an eastern origin for the god . His familiar epithet Lyceius may have meant simply Ly- cian , rather than " Wolf - God ” or “ Light - God , ” as has often been suggested . In the Iliad , Apollo often seems ...
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... seem merely to carry out the will of the gods , in others even Zeus bows to their will . In the Theogony , the ... seems to have given rise to Clotho's name ( Spinner ) and to many later representations of the three women spinning ...
... seem merely to carry out the will of the gods , in others even Zeus bows to their will . In the Theogony , the ... seems to have given rise to Clotho's name ( Spinner ) and to many later representations of the three women spinning ...
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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