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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... ships in an assault led by Hector . Agamemnon sent old Phoenix , to- gether with Odysseus and Ajax , to offer not only Briseïs but a great deal of treasure as well if Achilles would rejoin the fighting . Achilles refused , and kept ...
... ships in an assault led by Hector . Agamemnon sent old Phoenix , to- gether with Odysseus and Ajax , to offer not only Briseïs but a great deal of treasure as well if Achilles would rejoin the fighting . Achilles refused , and kept ...
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... ships sailed across the Hellespont to the Thracian Chersonese . There the Tro- jan queen , Hecuba , who had been awarded to Odysseus as a concubine , dis- covered that Polymestor , king of the Bistones , had treacherously murdered Pol ...
... ships sailed across the Hellespont to the Thracian Chersonese . There the Tro- jan queen , Hecuba , who had been awarded to Odysseus as a concubine , dis- covered that Polymestor , king of the Bistones , had treacherously murdered Pol ...
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... ships sailed to the island of Aeolia , which was ruled by King Aeolus , keeper of the winds , and which , according ... ships on their homeward journey . Thanks to Aeolus ' kindliness , the ships sailed eastward for nine days and ...
... ships sailed to the island of Aeolia , which was ruled by King Aeolus , keeper of the winds , and which , according ... ships on their homeward journey . Thanks to Aeolus ' kindliness , the ships sailed eastward for nine days and ...
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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