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 258
... writers , the dead lost their memories of their lives on earth when they drank the water of Lethe . Most shades re- mained forever on the Plain of Asphodel , sometimes going through the mo- tions of their former lives , but without ...
... writers , the dead lost their memories of their lives on earth when they drank the water of Lethe . Most shades re- mained forever on the Plain of Asphodel , sometimes going through the mo- tions of their former lives , but without ...
Page 278
... writers have assumed that the king gave her to him as a reward for his services in the Minyan war . Other writers have said , however , that Heracles returned from this war to find that Creon had been murdered and his throne usurped by ...
... writers have assumed that the king gave her to him as a reward for his services in the Minyan war . Other writers have said , however , that Heracles returned from this war to find that Creon had been murdered and his throne usurped by ...
Page 533
... writers ex- plain their form with the tale that they had been attendants of Persephone and were either transformed by Demeter as a punishment for not aiding Per- sephone against Hades ' abduction , or else given wings by the gods to ...
... writers ex- plain their form with the tale that they had been attendants of Persephone and were either transformed by Demeter as a punishment for not aiding Per- sephone against Hades ' abduction , or else given wings by the gods 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