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 vii
... turned to reference books only in search of clues to points that I might otherwise have missed . Sources include the epics of Homer , Vergil , and Apollonius Rhodius ; all of Greek tragic drama ; the poems of Hesiod ; the Homeric Hymns ...
... turned to reference books only in search of clues to points that I might otherwise have missed . Sources include the epics of Homer , Vergil , and Apollonius Rhodius ; all of Greek tragic drama ; the poems of Hesiod ; the Homeric Hymns ...
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... turned back the Trojans with a shout and rejoined the fighting . Insatiably eager for revenge , he killed dozens of Tro- jans and even fought the river Scamander when the river - god , finding his wa- ters choked with Achilles ' victims ...
... turned back the Trojans with a shout and rejoined the fighting . Insatiably eager for revenge , he killed dozens of Tro- jans and even fought the river Scamander when the river - god , finding his wa- ters choked with Achilles ' victims ...
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... turning everything that they touched to food , a boon which led , however , to their destruction . Aeneas stopped at ... turned over the oracle directly to Apollo or that he took it by force . Some add that he exchanged the island of ...
... turning everything that they touched to food , a boon which led , however , to their destruction . Aeneas stopped at ... turned over the oracle directly to Apollo or that he took it by force . Some add that he exchanged the island of ...
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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