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 37
... wife as well , after which they took the fatal gifts to Delphi . Returning to their homeland , Acarnan and his brother settled the land north of the Ache- loüs along the coast and called it Acarnania . Euripides is said to have claimed ...
... wife as well , after which they took the fatal gifts to Delphi . Returning to their homeland , Acarnan and his brother settled the land north of the Ache- loüs along the coast and called it Acarnania . Euripides is said to have claimed ...
Page 174
... wife , Eurydice ( or Eniocha ) , hanged herself from grief . An Athenian army under Theseus forced Creon to allow the burial of the Argives . When Amphitryon was banished from Argos , Creon and his wife wel- comed him and his wife ...
... wife , Eurydice ( or Eniocha ) , hanged herself from grief . An Athenian army under Theseus forced Creon to allow the burial of the Argives . When Amphitryon was banished from Argos , Creon and his wife wel- comed him and his wife ...
Page 372
... wife and take her back to Sparta . In both versions , Menelaüs , unlike his brother Agamemnon , was able to reassume the rule of his homeland with no opposition . At his death he and his wife achieved immortality in the Islands of the ...
... wife and take her back to Sparta . In both versions , Menelaüs , unlike his brother Agamemnon , was able to reassume the rule of his homeland with no opposition . At his death he and his wife achieved immortality in the Islands of the ...
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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