CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... sacrifice of Agamemnon's eldest daughter , Iphigeneia , would appease Artemis and bring sailing weather . Pressed by the other generals , Agamemnon had to place his duty as command- er - in - chief above his feelings as a father . He ...
... sacrifice of Agamemnon's eldest daughter , Iphigeneia , would appease Artemis and bring sailing weather . Pressed by the other generals , Agamemnon had to place his duty as command- er - in - chief above his feelings as a father . He ...
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... sacrifice of Agamemnon's fairest daughter . Some say that when the sacrifice was carried out , she substituted a deer on the altar and spirited Iphigeneia away to the land of the barbaric Taurians to be her priestess there . Some ...
... sacrifice of Agamemnon's fairest daughter . Some say that when the sacrifice was carried out , she substituted a deer on the altar and spirited Iphigeneia away to the land of the barbaric Taurians to be her priestess there . Some ...
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... sacrifice his daughter at Aulis to ap- pease the anger of Artemis . The goddess substituted a deer for the girl on ... sacrificed . Accounts disagree , too , on what happened to her next . Hesiod is said to have stated that she be- came ...
... sacrifice his daughter at Aulis to ap- pease the anger of Artemis . The goddess substituted a deer for the girl on ... sacrificed . Accounts disagree , too , on what happened to her next . Hesiod is said to have stated that she be- came ...
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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