CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 57
Page 69
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.16 . ] Aquilo . The Latin name for the north wind . When personified as a god by the Romans , this wind was often called by his Greek name , Boreas . Arabus . A son of Hermaon and Thronia , daughter of Belus ...
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.16 . ] Aquilo . The Latin name for the north wind . When personified as a god by the Romans , this wind was often called by his Greek name , Boreas . Arabus . A son of Hermaon and Thronia , daughter of Belus ...
Page 101
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.20 . ] Arimaspians or Arimaspi . A fabulous one - eyed people . According to Herod- otus , as well as later writers , the Arimaspians lived beyond the Issedones , who lived beyond the Scythians . Their country ...
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.20 . ] Arimaspians or Arimaspi . A fabulous one - eyed people . According to Herod- otus , as well as later writers , the Arimaspians lived beyond the Issedones , who lived beyond the Scythians . Their country ...
Page 519
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.15 . ] Sagittarius ( The Archer ) . A constellation . The personage represented in this star - group is said to be Crotus , son of Pan by Eupheme , the Muses ' nurse . Crotus was a favorite of the Muses , who ...
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.15 . ] Sagittarius ( The Archer ) . A constellation . The personage represented in this star - group is said to be Crotus , son of Pan by Eupheme , the Muses ' nurse . Crotus was a favorite of the Muses , who ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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 Erinyes 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