Classical Mythology
PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS 509 the far north, gives a beautiful description of the perfect life lived by the Hy- perborean ...
(^510) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Perseus Beheads Medusa. Limestone metope from Selinus, ca. 540 B.C.; height 58 in. T ...
PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS^511 Medusa, by Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). Marble, 1854; height 27 in. Hosmer emphasizes the be ...
512 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Perseus was able to fly away from Medusa's sisters unharmed, since he was wearing the C ...
PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS 513 Perseus and Andromeda. By Titian (ca. 1477-1576): oil canvas, 1554-1556, 70 l/ 2 X 773 /4 i ...
514 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Andromeda, whom he married, using the Gorgon's head to deal with the op- position of Ce ...
PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS 515 The Baleful Head. By Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898); oil on canvas, 1887, 6OV2 X 503 / 4 in ...
516 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS games which the king of Larissa was celebrating in honor of his dead father, Perseus th ...
PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS^517 cian moon-goddess, Astarte). The versions of Io's legend vary considerably, and Aeschylus g ...
(^518) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS OTHER ARGIVE HEROES Important Argive heroes were the seer Melampus and the heroes wh ...
CHAPTER 22 HERACLES Heracles is the most popular of the Greek heroes, and his legends include ele- ments of saga and folktale.^1 ...
Zeus m. Danaƫ I Perseus m. Andromeda I I I I I I Perses Alcaeus Electryon m. Anaxo Sthenelus m. Menippe Mestor I I I I o Anaxo A ...
HERACLES 521 killed Electryon in a fit of anger and for this reason left Argos with Alcmena and came to Thebes. There he lived w ...
(^522) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Then fear unbearable struck the women who were helping Alcmena at the birth. Alcmena ...
HERACLES 523 number of years Heracles served Eurystheus. Heracles' ghost says to Odysseus: "I was a son of Zeus, but infinite wa ...
524 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra. By Gustave Moreau (1826-1898); oil on canvas, 1869-187 ...
HERACLES 525 on whose golden horns the nymph Taygete, a daughter of Atlas, had stamped the name of Artemis.^8 Pindar's narrative ...
526 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Heracles, Assisted by Athena, Cleans the Augean Stables. Marble metope over the east po ...
HERACLES 527 The Mares of Diomedes Diomedes, son of Ares, was a Thracian king who owned a herd of mares that were fed human fle ...
528 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Quite a different version of the legend of Geryon is told by Herodotus. In this, Heracl ...
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