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 142
... snake . Only one of Cadmus ' children - his son , Polydorus - did not come to grief . Harmonia bore Cadmus four ... snake . More probably it was a sign of perpetual honor , for the spirit of a dead hero was widely believed to return in ...
... snake . Only one of Cadmus ' children - his son , Polydorus - did not come to grief . Harmonia bore Cadmus four ... snake . More probably it was a sign of perpetual honor , for the spirit of a dead hero was widely believed to return in ...
Page 180
... snake . Others claim that he bred the snake , which , when it was driven from Salamis by Eurylochus , went to the nearby mainland at Eleusis and was taken by the goddess Deme- ter as her attendant . Cychreus is said to have appeared to ...
... snake . Others claim that he bred the snake , which , when it was driven from Salamis by Eurylochus , went to the nearby mainland at Eleusis and was taken by the goddess Deme- ter as her attendant . Cychreus is said to have appeared to ...
Page 508
... snake , or dragon , that lived at Delphi . In the earliest extant account , this dragon was female and was not named . When Hera bore the monster Typhöeus , she gave him to the dragoness to rear . APOLLO [ A ] came to Delphi to ...
... snake , or dragon , that lived at Delphi . In the earliest extant account , this dragon was female and was not named . When Hera bore the monster Typhöeus , she gave him to the dragoness to rear . APOLLO [ A ] came to Delphi to ...
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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