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Suppliants (Aeschylus) 130, 206, 439, 446–452 Suppliant Women (Euripides) 11, 12, 206, 452–457 Syrinx 385, 457 T Tantalus 458 Agamemnon 29 Agamemnon 31, 35 Clytaemnestra 119 Hades (underworld) 184–185 Orestes 375, 379 Pelops 390 Pindar 414 Sisyphus 444 Tityus 493, 494 Zeus 523 Tartarus 121, 287, 444, 458–459, 493, 521, 522 Telamon 46, 47, 198, 459, 512 Telegonus 343, 459 Telemachus 459–460 Iliad 261–262 Menelaus 315 Odysseus 341–343 Odyssey 344, 345, 347–349, 351– 354, 356 Palamedes 384 Tereus 460 Tethys 460 Thebaid (Statius) 3, 5– 7, 11–12, 57, 247, 440, 446, 460–484 Thebes Antigone 67–71 Ares 80 Bacchae 96–102 Cadmus 106–107 Creon (1) 120 Eteocles 160 Heracles 209 Heracles 215–220 Oedipus 359–360 Oedipus at Colonus 361, 365 Oedipus the King 365–372 Phoenician Women 409–413 Polynices 415 Seven against Thebes 435–441 Suppliant Women 453, 454, 456 Thebaid 460–484 Theia 484 Themis 165, 484 Theocritus 142, 174– 175, 213, 415–416, 484–485, 512 Theogony (Hesiod) 486–488 Amphitrite 58 Ares 79 Athena 90 Chimaera 116 Cronus 121 Echidna 141 Eos 156 Eros 158 Fates 172 Gaia 174 Graces 180–181 Hecate 187 Hesiod 232 Iris 286 Muses 336 Nereids 338 Nyx 340 Prometheus 420, 421 Sphinx 445 Styx 446 Works <strong>and</strong> Days 516–519 Zeus 522 Theseus 488–491, 489 Aegeus 12–13 Amazons 56 Ariadne 81, 82 Callimachus 108 Catullus 112 Daedalus 128 Dioscuri 139 Hades (god) 183 Helen 193 Heracles 215–220 Heroides 225, 228 Hippolytus 234 Hippolytus 235– 239 Metamorphoses 317–318, 326 Minos 334–335 Minotaur 335 Oedipus at Colonus 361–363, 365 Persephone 392 Phaedra 401 Pirithous 414–415 Suppliant Women 453–456 Thebaid 470, 483 Thetis 491 Achilleid 1–2, 4, 6, 7 Achilles 7, 9 Andromache 60–64 Catullus 112, 113 Dionysus 138 Hephaestus 201, 203 Iliad 250, 254 Metamorphoses 327 Peleus 389, 390 Styx 446 Zeus 522 Index Thucydides 491–492 Thyestes 13, 35, 41, 94, 153, 492 Tibullus 492 Tiresias 492–493 Achilleid 2 Antigone 69, 70 Bacchae 96–97, 99, 101 Hades (underworld) 184 Odysseus 343 Odyssey 347, 352 Oedipus the King 366, 369–370 Phoenician Women 410, 412 Thebaid 463, 472, 474, 479 Titans 493 Atlas 92–94 Coeus 119–120 Crius 120–121 Cronus 121–122 Cyclopes 123 Dione 137 Gaia 174 Hades (underworld) 185 Hyperion 246 Iapetus 248 Metis 332 Mnemosyne 335–336 Oceanus 341 Phoebe 408–409 Rhea 429 Tethys 460 Theia 484 Themis 484 Theogony 487 Uranus 508 Tityus (Tityos) 493–494 Apollo 75, 77
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Contents 6 IntroductIon v A-to-Z En
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i Introduction there were inherited
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iii Introduction Greek</str
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x Introduction to informational sum
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Achelous A river god who engaged in
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Achilleid Rumor spreads of<
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Achilleid fications; for example, w
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Achilles and that
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Acontius and Cydip
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Adrastus In antiquity, visual repre
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Aeneas was capable of</stro
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Aeneid (ca. 29 b.c.e.), and
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Aeneid Desperately, he retraces his
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Aeneid heroes. The procession reach
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Aeneid its armor. When Mezentius he
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Aeneid The immense scope of
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Aeneid was at least partly
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Aeneid Apollonius, who himself was
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Agamemnon to Aeschylus have survive
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Agamemnon sea and
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Agamemnon The Chorus then sings <st
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Agamemnon The aristocratic househol
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Agamemnon the purple tapestries. Th
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Agamemnon links her name, through a
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Aglaurus and Herse
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Ajax on vase paintings playing at d
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Ajax A moment later, Tecmessa enter
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Ajax he lives and
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Alcestis become a mortal’s servan
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Alcestis urged to stay on as a gues
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Alcestis endure the absence <strong
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Alpheus and Arethu
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Amphiaraus Museum, University <stro
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Anchises graphic elements—shells,
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Andromache SynoPSIS The scene is se
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Andromache trayal of</stron
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Andromeda statement. Yet it is stil
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Antigone wrote a (lost) Antigone, <
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Antigone his family, and</s
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Aphrodite marriageable age, engaged
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Apollo of a founde
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Apollo the countryside and<
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Apollonius of Rhod
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Ares The story of
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Ariadne is sometimes said to be a g
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Ars Amatoria Plutus (388). Survivin
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Artemis scolded her brother for his
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Asclepius Artemis, carrying a bow <
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Atalanta Atalanta and</stro
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Athena head, Hephaestus struck him
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Atlas Perseus and
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Autonoe the postclassical period, A
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Bacchae sight, clothed in Dionysian
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Bacchae The Bacchae’s final words
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Bacchae 0 hubris by collapsing into
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Bellerophon 0 wand
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Briseis 0 A cult was established in
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Calchas 0 as the founder of
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Calypso 0 forest. She recognized Ze
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Catullus recent ones,” or “new
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centaur son-to-be, Achilles. The so
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Cerberus Cephalus away with her. A
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Chrysaor ravaged the countryside bu
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Coeus eLectra. Additional classical
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Cronus Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Phoebe,
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Cyclops turret crown and</s
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Cyclops tion of th
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Cyclops intense sufferings
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Danae Danae and th
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Deianira associated with poets, as
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Demophon and Acama
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Dido Dido Performing a Sacrifice. M
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Dionysus punishes Diomedes by makin
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Dioscuri King Midas also encountere
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Echidna A female serpentine monster
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Electra Eileithyia (Ilithyia) The <
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Electra compared to her poverty <st
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Electra sistent manner that sometim
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Electra audience with a devastating
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Electra from within. Orestes <stron
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Electra myth of Am
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Ennius somehow identified on the ba
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Epimetheus his Cephalus and
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Eros Aphrodite’s, is universal; t
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Eumenides of him,
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Eumenides notional object o
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Eumenides ment by pointing to Palla
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Europa 90 plays, of</strong
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Evander classical
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Fasti Ovid (ca. 8 c.e.) Fasti means
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Furies Furies (Erinyes) Female pers
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Ganymede According to Theocritus, t
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giants the archetypal citizen/soldi
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Gorgons the Pergamon Altar. On the
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Gyges, Gyes The Three Graces. Rapha
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Hades was fated to remain there for
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Harmonia his grasp, and</st
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Hector 922, 950-955), Homer’s iLi
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Hecuba sacrifice of</strong
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Hecuba rative symmetry, the return
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Helen enters, Hecuba for a long tim
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Helen with a successful escape, yet
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Helen she stayed on her travels wil
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Helen ruse—a strategic play withi
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Hephaestus 0 to Apollo (316-320), A
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Hera 0 by the Cyclopes, presents Th
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Heracleidae 0 the myths of<
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Heracleidae 0 carried out herself,
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Heracles 0 Heracles and</st
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Heracles In his Seventh Labor, Hera
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Heracles LovES AnD oFFSPRInG Heracl
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Heracles hero of G
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Heracles tryon was banished for kil
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Heracles The scene unfolds before t
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Hermes Parnassus. Andrea Mantegna,
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Herodotus Another popular theme for
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Heroides deeds of
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Heroides competition as well. Accor
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Heroides example, ended up destroyi
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Heroides death, providing a record
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Hestia Hesione Daughter of<
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Hippolytus but disdains love <stron
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Hippolytus Chorus, asking whether h
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Hippolytus she will in turn take ve
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Horace be performed, unless it was
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Hygeia Lucian’s diaLogues <strong
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Hymen this iconographic tradition i
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Hypsipyle to complete their quest.
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Iliad The Fall of
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Iliad jan Pandarus
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Iliad the Greeks h
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Iliad Apollo encourages Aeneas to f
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Iliad mate contemporary Hesiod. In
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Iliad weaknesses as much as anythin
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Iliad misleading to argue either th
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Iliad how the warrior dons the vari
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Io and a son, Poly
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Ion the reasons for their childless
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Ion women are commonly blamed in so
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Ion earth and bein
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Iphigenia among the Taurians Ion’
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Iphigenia among the Taurians captur
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Iphigenia among the Taurians It is
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Iphigenia among the Taurians not ig
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Iphigenia at Aulis returns
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Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides). E
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Iphigenia at Aulis at stake, as in
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Ixion labor persuaded Iris, with th
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Janus Roman god <s
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Jupiter the Phaeacians, where Medea
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Leda according to Diodorus Siculus,
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Libation Bearers SynoPSIS The scene
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Libation Bearers to role an
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Libation Bearers has significance i
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Library 0 and brou
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Lucretius 0 poem. Lucretius made th
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Medea 0 Hanging Marsyas. Marble, <s
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Medea 0 d’Orsay, Paris),
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Medea 0 will prevent her from being
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Medea heroism. Her decision to murd
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Medea It is not accidental that the
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Menelaus rounded by the heroes, who
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Metamorphoses SynoPSIS Book 1 The p
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Metamorphoses story of</str
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Metamorphoses (focusing on final pu
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Metamorphoses this narrative, Areth
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Metamorphoses weeping Niobe, as she
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Metamorphoses formation and
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Metamorphoses metamorphic “Aeneid
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Metamorphoses of V
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Minos Apollo, Marsyas, and<
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Mnemosyne him a thread, on Daedalus
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naiads See nymphs. narcissus Son <s
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notus tracHiniae (555-581). When Ne
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oceanids Nymphs of
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Odyssey Odysseus, Telemachus, <stro
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Odyssey Book 3 They arrive in Pylos
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Odyssey him an antidote to Circe’
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Odyssey agrees to let the old serva
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Odyssey tives, significant glimpses
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Odyssey na’s tutelage, he begins
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Odyssey on their food. The seer The
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Odyssey that he names the child for
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oedipus Eumaeus the swineherd adver
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Oedipus at Colonus the central them
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Oedipus at Colonus go back to Thebe
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Oedipus the King worship in ancient
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Oedipus the King Merope; but one da
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Oedipus the King from outside, but
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Oedipus the King mean salvation or
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orestes oenomaus King of</s
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Orestes tHe taurians. Now Orestes m
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Orestes citizens have turned agains
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Orestes self-satisfied, but not qui
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orpheus and Eurydi
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ovid the MetaMorpHoses, aMores (“
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Pandora literature
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Patroclus Parthenopaeus See seven a
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Peleus when, in his temerity, Belle
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Persephone The Battle of</s
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Perseus his adventure by finding th
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Persians its fear and</stro
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Persians Athenians fighting as free
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Persians quiver emblematically spen
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Phaedra 0 with other, specifically
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Philoctetes 0 forms of</str
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Philoctetes 0 They argue back <stro
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Philoctetes 0 What Odysseus did not
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Phoenician Women 0 404-410), <stron
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Phoenician Women An armed messenger
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Pindar This dual status creates a s
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Polyphemus underworld to abduct Per
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Pomona setting playing or carrying
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Priam The Triumph of</stron
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Prometheus Bound animals an
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Prometheus Bound argues that Oceanu
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Prometheus Bound present play that
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Psyche enumerations, e.g., the geog
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Rhea A Titan, the of</stron
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Sappho (fl. seventh-sixth century b
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Scylla repelled by her act. Shamed
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Seven against Thebes unborn Dionysu
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Seven against Thebes own brother in
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Seven against Thebes relative vulne
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Sileni fuses them into a single, un
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Sisyphus University Museum, Baltimo
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Sphinx According to Aristotle, spec
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Suppliants they have come from Egyp
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Suppliants Argives—presumably bec
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Suppliants position of</str
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Suppliant Women Chorus of</
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Suppliant Women of
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Syrinx The theme of</strong
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telemachus Tartarus. “Misty” Ta
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Thebaid (Homer, Apollonius, Virgil,
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Thebaid scornful and</stron
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Thebaid are involved. He pities the
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Thebaid and Ismene
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Thebaid Capaneus is set on fire but
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Thebaid work, it is necessary to re
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Thebaid of doom wi
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Thebaid child Persephone. Adrastus,
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Thebaid search for Polynices’s bo
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Thebaid from the ruin of</s
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Thebaid sample of
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Thebaid martyr figure symbolizing t
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theocritus is not rooted in a parti
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Theogony of a son
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theseus Phaedra. Theseus’s relati
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thucydides as a bride for Theseus,
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tityus al, Tiresias is the morally
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Trachiniae messenger Lichas first t
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Trachiniae unlike Heracles, Odysseu
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Trachiniae comes to domestic matter
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triton 0 triptolemus Inventor <stro
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Trojan Women 0 die like Polyxena th
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Trojan Women 0 Greek</stron
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typhoeus 0 have done their share <s
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venus See Aphrodite. vertumnus A <s
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Voyage of the Argo
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Voyage of the Argo
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vulcan emphatically makes it clear
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Works and Days We
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Works and Days a p
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Page 1074: seleCted BIBlIoGraPhy This bibliogr
Page 1078: Selected Bibliography Lesky, Albin.
Page 1082: Selected Bibliography Roman
Page 1086: 6 Boldface page numbers indicate ma
Page 1090: Index Polynices 415 Prometheus Boun
Page 1094: Index Calypso 92, 109, 109- 110, 34
Page 1098: Index Dionysus 138 Electra 143-149,
Page 1102: Index centaur 113, 114 Cerberus 115
Page 1106: Index Hypsipyle 246, 247 Ion 272 Me
Page 1110: Index Iliad 250-253, 261 Iphigenia
Page 1114: Index Polyphemus 416, 417 Theocritu
Page 1120: Iliad 250-256, 258, 260 Io 265-266
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