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Page 95
... Argos lies at the foot of this hill . Argos seems to have dominated Argolis until the rise of Mycenae . Even after that time the names of Argos and the Argives , its inhabitants , were often used to designate the entire region and its ...
... Argos lies at the foot of this hill . Argos seems to have dominated Argolis until the rise of Mycenae . Even after that time the names of Argos and the Argives , its inhabitants , were often used to designate the entire region and its ...
Page 97
... Argos even in Pausanias ' day ( second century A.D. ) . Inachus ' daughter , Io , fled Argos in the form of a cow and reached Egypt , where she gave birth to a son by Zeus . She was to become the ancestress of the ruling houses of ...
... Argos even in Pausanias ' day ( second century A.D. ) . Inachus ' daughter , Io , fled Argos in the form of a cow and reached Egypt , where she gave birth to a son by Zeus . She was to become the ancestress of the ruling houses of ...
Page 578
... Argos . Tiryns was no doubt be- lieved to have been founded by Argus ' son Tiryns , but it first gained promi- nence some generations later when it was occupied by Proëtus , a refugee from the enmity of his brother Acrisius , who ruled ...
... Argos . Tiryns was no doubt be- lieved to have been founded by Argus ' son Tiryns , but it first gained promi- nence some generations later when it was occupied by Proëtus , a refugee from the enmity of his brother Acrisius , who ruled ...
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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