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Page 62
THE ABDUCTION OF PERSEPHONE DEMETER, THE SISTER of Zeus,
Poseidon and Hades and the goddess of grain and agriculture, had a daughter
called Persephone. One day, when Persephone was out with friends picking
flowers, ...
THE ABDUCTION OF PERSEPHONE DEMETER, THE SISTER of Zeus,
Poseidon and Hades and the goddess of grain and agriculture, had a daughter
called Persephone. One day, when Persephone was out with friends picking
flowers, ...
Page 64
Medea and Clytemnestra are the most famous husband-slayers. Clytemnestra
hated her husband Agamemnon after he sacrificed their eldest daughter,
Iphigeneia, at the goddess Artemis' command, to enable the Greeks to sail to
Troy to fight ...
Medea and Clytemnestra are the most famous husband-slayers. Clytemnestra
hated her husband Agamemnon after he sacrificed their eldest daughter,
Iphigeneia, at the goddess Artemis' command, to enable the Greeks to sail to
Troy to fight ...
Page 203
The mythic narrative as recorded in the Samguk yusa is composed of four scenes
which describe how: a king discovered the daughter of a river spirit who had
been raped; the river spirit's daughter gave birth to a giant egg out of which the
hero ...
The mythic narrative as recorded in the Samguk yusa is composed of four scenes
which describe how: a king discovered the daughter of a river spirit who had
been raped; the river spirit's daughter gave birth to a giant egg out of which the
hero ...
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Contents
Introduction | 6 |
PIS Ancient Near East | 12 |
flflfc Oceania | 216 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Encyclopedia of world mythology |
| Author | Arthur Cotterell |
| Publisher | Barnes & Noble Books, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0760728550, 9780760728550 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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