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... Thracian king . An ancient vase - painting shows them winged . Assuredly they were related to the Harpies , Gorgons and Erinyes , and were more at home in Thrace , the land of Boreas the north wind , who mated with mares , 876 than ...
... Thracian king . An ancient vase - painting shows them winged . Assuredly they were related to the Harpies , Gorgons and Erinyes , and were more at home in Thrace , the land of Boreas the north wind , who mated with mares , 876 than ...
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... Thrace . He was all the more like Apollo for that very reason , that it was young men who surrounded him and not women , as they did Dionysos . In his tragedy ' The Bassarai ' , the Thracian name of the Bacchantes , Aeschylus made him ...
... Thrace . He was all the more like Apollo for that very reason , that it was young men who surrounded him and not women , as they did Dionysos . In his tragedy ' The Bassarai ' , the Thracian name of the Bacchantes , Aeschylus made him ...
Page 290
... Thracian fowl , whose habitat was the mouth of the Strymon . It is , of course , possible that those who called Eumolpos a Thracian were not thinking of the northern region any more than in the case of Tereus , but of the district of ...
... Thracian fowl , whose habitat was the mouth of the Strymon . It is , of course , possible that those who called Eumolpos a Thracian were not thinking of the northern region any more than in the case of Tereus , but of the district of ...
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According Achilles Adrastos Agamemnon Aias Aietes Aigeus Akrisios Alkmene allegedly already Amazons Amphitryon Antiope Aphrodite Apollo Argonauts Argos Ariadne Artemis Atalante Athenians Atreus beast Bellerophontes bore brother brought bull called Centaur chariot child cult daughter dead death Deianeira Dionysos Dioskuroi divine Euripides Eurystheus famous father goddess gods golden Greek Hades hand Harmonia Helen Hera Herakles Hermes hero Hesperides Hippodameia honour Iolaos Iolkos island Jason journey Kadmos Kekrops killed king Laios land later marriage Medeia Meleagros Menelaos Minos mother murder Mycenae narrators Odysseus Oidipus Oineus Oinomaos oracle Orpheus palace Pallas Athene Peirithoos Peleus Pelias Pelops Persephone Perseus Phrixos poet Polyneikes Poseidon primaeval Proitos queen sacrifice sent serpent Sisyphos sons story tale Tantalos Telephos temple Theban Thebes Theseus Thetis Thracian Thyestes Tiryns told took tragedy Trojan Troy Tyndareos underworld vase-painting shows wife young Zeus