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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... writers could not decide whether Aegipan was only another name of Pan or whether he was a different character entirely . Hyginus , quot- ing earlier writers , called him a son of Zeus by the nymph Aex or by the goat Boetis . Aex was ...
... writers could not decide whether Aegipan was only another name of Pan or whether he was a different character entirely . Hyginus , quot- ing earlier writers , called him a son of Zeus by the nymph Aex or by the goat Boetis . Aex was ...
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... writers identified it as one or an- other of the islands north of eastern Sicily that are still called the Aeolian Islands ( Isole Eolie ) , as well as the Lipari Islands , their more modern name . Aeolus ( 1 ) . The eponym of the ...
... writers identified it as one or an- other of the islands north of eastern Sicily that are still called the Aeolian Islands ( Isole Eolie ) , as well as the Lipari Islands , their more modern name . Aeolus ( 1 ) . The eponym of the ...
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... writers , including the Roman historian Tacitus , agree that he was a Cilician who migrated to Cyprus . Apol- lodorus says that he was a son of Sandocus , a Syrian descendant of Eos and Tithonus , and Pharnace , daughter of Megassares ...
... writers , including the Roman historian Tacitus , agree that he was a Cilician who migrated to Cyprus . Apol- lodorus says that he was a son of Sandocus , a Syrian descendant of Eos and Tithonus , and Pharnace , daughter of Megassares ...
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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