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... legend made the Olympians offensive to his standard of morality , then legend had to be reformed and improved . A notable example of this tendency is Pindar's rejection , in his First Olympian Ode , of the story that Pelops had been ...
... legend made the Olympians offensive to his standard of morality , then legend had to be reformed and improved . A notable example of this tendency is Pindar's rejection , in his First Olympian Ode , of the story that Pelops had been ...
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... Legend , Folktale Up to this point , the words " myth " and " legend " have been used rather loosely to describe those traditional narratives that have come down to us through Greek and Roman sources . This comes about because scholars ...
... Legend , Folktale Up to this point , the words " myth " and " legend " have been used rather loosely to describe those traditional narratives that have come down to us through Greek and Roman sources . This comes about because scholars ...
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... Legend or saga ; defined , 17-18 ; heroic , 281 , 283-84 ; historical facts in , 280-81 ; unusual birth of heroes in , 283 Legend of Cupid and Psyche , The ( Marmion ) , 200 Legend of Good Women ( Chaucer ) , 135 , 209 , 291 , 353 , 360 ...
... Legend or saga ; defined , 17-18 ; heroic , 281 , 283-84 ; historical facts in , 280-81 ; unusual birth of heroes in , 283 Legend of Cupid and Psyche , The ( Marmion ) , 200 Legend of Good Women ( Chaucer ) , 135 , 209 , 291 , 353 , 360 ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 19 |
Battles of the Titans and the Rise of Zeus | 40 |
Zeus versus Cronus and the Titans | 55 |
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Achilles Adonis Aeneas Aeschylus Agamemnon Age of Heroes ancient Aphrodite Apollo Argonauts Argos Artemis Athena battle beauty birth Cadmus called century B.C. child Clytemnestra Creon Cronus daughter dead death deity Delphi Demeter Dido Dionysus divine earth epic Euripides fate father Figure goddess Gods on Mount golden Greece Greek Hades hand heaven Hector Helen Hephaestus Hera Heracles Hermes Hesiod Homer husband Iliad island Jason killed king land later legend legendary lover marriage Medea Menelaus Minos mortal mother Mount Olympus Muses myth mythological nymph Odysseus Oedipus Olympian oracle Orestes Orpheus Ovid palace Paris Persephone Perseus poem poet Poseidon Priam Prometheus Psyche punishment Rise of Zeus ritual river Roman ship Sophocles soul story symbol tale Tartarus tells temple Thebes theme Theseus Thetis Tiresias Titans took tradition Trojan Trojan War Troy turned Underworld Venus Vergil wife women worship young Zeus