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 92
... snake that had so long guarded the fruit , lay dead on the ground . The Hesperides were gathered about him wailing , but they vanished the moment that the strangers appeared . Nonetheless Orpheus prayed to them to show him and his ...
... snake that had so long guarded the fruit , lay dead on the ground . The Hesperides were gathered about him wailing , but they vanished the moment that the strangers appeared . Nonetheless Orpheus prayed to them to show him and his ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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