CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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Page 257
... Hades , " came to be referred to simply as Hades . Hades , a son of Cronus and Rhea , was swallowed by his father , together with his brother Poseidon and his sisters . The youngest brother , Zeus , escaped this fate and forced Cronus ...
... Hades , " came to be referred to simply as Hades . Hades , a son of Cronus and Rhea , was swallowed by his father , together with his brother Poseidon and his sisters . The youngest brother , Zeus , escaped this fate and forced Cronus ...
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 ...
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... 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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