Who's Who in Classical MythologyRoutledge, 2 aug 2004 - 384 pagina's Who's Who in Classical Mythology is the most complete and detailed reference book of its kind. It offers scholarly, yet accessible accounts of those mythological tales surrounding such gods as Apollo, Zeus, Athena and Dionysus, and mortals such as Achilles, Odysseus, Jason, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus and Tarquin. |
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... god of a river in northwestern Greece. He was a son of Oceanus andTethys. Achelouswrestled with Heracles forthe hand of ... gods arranged the marriage of Thetis withamortalking, Peleus, and in order to recompense her they celebrated the ...
... gods; there Aegisthus slewhim. Thyestes and Aegisthus then ruled Mycenae, but Agamemnon and Menelaus drove them out. When Agamemnon left to fight the Trojan War, Aegisthus, in spiteofa warning from Hermes, came back toMycenae and ...
... gods. A. e. nus. A king ofthe Dolionesof Mysia; the father of Cyzicus. A. e. ol. u. s. 1. Son of Hippotas and king ofthe floating island of Aeolia (perhaps the Aeolian Isles north of Sicily), a mortal to whom Zeus, as a result of his love ...
... gods and escapedwith hislife. He hauled himself up on a rock called Gyrae, whereupon Poseidon blasted itwith athunderbolt and drowned him. After his death, according to one tradition, Aias was buried by Thetis onthe islandof Myconos ...
... gods. A l cithoe One of the daughters of Minyas,who were turned into bats. A l cm a eon Son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle and brother of Amphilochus. When Polynicesplannedhis expedition to obtain the throne of Thebes, he tried to persuade ...