CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... originally a deity of the Latins or Sabines , was a patroness of wild things and of birth , both human and animal . Apparently a fertility goddess of the " mountain - mother " type , she was easily identified with the Greek ARTEMIS ...
... originally a deity of the Latins or Sabines , was a patroness of wild things and of birth , both human and animal . Apparently a fertility goddess of the " mountain - mother " type , she was easily identified with the Greek ARTEMIS ...
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... originally an Asian god . Al- though he was one of the Olympians by Homer's time , he does not figure in many Greek myths , beyond receiving credit for numberless works of art . As a god of fire he often personified fire itself . His ...
... originally an Asian god . Al- though he was one of the Olympians by Homer's time , he does not figure in many Greek myths , beyond receiving credit for numberless works of art . As a god of fire he often personified fire itself . His ...
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... originally personifications of seasons of the year : spring , summer , and winter . Presumably because of their connection with the normal order of Nature , they , like their mother , came to have ethical connotations and were ...
... originally personifications of seasons of the year : spring , summer , and winter . Presumably because of their connection with the normal order of Nature , they , like their mother , came to have ethical connotations and were ...
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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 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