CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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Page 259
... Hades , the boundary is usually the Styx , although sometimes it is Ach- eron , a swampy river or lake . Other rivers of Hades were the flaming Phlege- thon or Pyriphlegethon , Cocytus , and Lethe , the river of forgetting . The dead ...
... Hades , the boundary is usually the Styx , although sometimes it is Ach- eron , a swampy river or lake . Other rivers of Hades were the flaming Phlege- thon or Pyriphlegethon , Cocytus , and Lethe , the river of forgetting . The dead ...
Page 289
... Hades . In preparation for this , the most difficult of all his trials , Heracles went to Eleusis in order to be initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries . First he had to be purified , by Eumolpus , of his murder of the Cen- taurs ...
... Hades . In preparation for this , the most difficult of all his trials , Heracles went to Eleusis in order to be initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries . First he had to be purified , by Eumolpus , of his murder of the Cen- taurs ...
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... Hades . Persephone , even more than Hades himself , seems to have controlled the activities of the spirits of the dead . Occasionally she sent them to the upper world , and she returned at least one dead woman - Alcestis -to life . On ...
... Hades . Persephone , even more than Hades himself , seems to have controlled the activities of the spirits of the dead . Occasionally she sent them to the upper world , and she returned at least one dead woman - Alcestis -to life . On ...
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