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 75
... women . The Lemnians were thrown into a panic at the sight of a ship approaching from the direction of Thrace . They had reason to dread a Thracian invasion , or indeed any visitors at all . Some years before , the goddess Aphrodite ...
... women . The Lemnians were thrown into a panic at the sight of a ship approaching from the direction of Thrace . They had reason to dread a Thracian invasion , or indeed any visitors at all . Some years before , the goddess Aphrodite ...
Page 76
... women , dishonored by their husbands with the Thracian women , had finally locked them out of the city , upon which the men had gone to live in Thrace . She went on to invite the Argonauts to settle among them , and even indicated that ...
... women , dishonored by their husbands with the Thracian women , had finally locked them out of the city , upon which the men had gone to live in Thrace . She went on to invite the Argonauts to settle among them , and even indicated that ...
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... women at their revels . Pentheus climbed a pine tree on the mountain to watch them as they danced and tore animals limb from limb . They soon discovered him and uprooted the tree . Believing him in their frenzy to be a lion , they tore ...
... women at their revels . Pentheus climbed a pine tree on the mountain to watch them as they danced and tore animals limb from limb . They soon discovered him and uprooted the tree . Believing him in their frenzy to be a lion , they tore ...
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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