By Robert E. Bell
ISBN-10: 0874365813
ISBN-13: 9780874365818
Divinities, people, woman monsters and animals, hermaphrodites, and transsexuals are all the following. ladies of Classical Mythology bargains unparalleled entry to info on ladies principally overlooked in reference works on Greek and Roman fable and offers a clean examine the better-known figures. all of the 2,600 entries locations its topic either within the total context of classical delusion, and within the body of reference of her better-known counterparts.
For every one determine there's a description of her specific contribution to folklore, and an inventory of a few of the poems, tragedies, epics, and different varieties of tales within which she performs a primary function. moreover, the convenient unique index, "The males of their Lives," permits readers to find a selected girl identified essentially via her family members. the feminine characters in classical mythology frequently offer clues to genealogical, chronological, and ancient puzzles. This publication might be welcomed via classical students for the insights and relationships it unearths.
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Not only was she the mother of the greatest hero of ancient times, Heracles, but through him and her other son, Iphicles, she was ancestor of the whole Heraclid dynasty, which was part of the famous Dorian invasion and also linked myth to history through its long line of kings. Alcmena was a granddaughter of Perseus, daughter of Electryon and Anaxo, and is sometimes called Electryone (and also Mideatis from her father's kingdom). Her mother was also her first cousin and, later, sister-in-law, since Amphitryon was Anaxo's brother.
Alcmena was a granddaughter of Perseus, daughter of Electryon and Anaxo, and is sometimes called Electryone (and also Mideatis from her father's kingdom). Her mother was also her first cousin and, later, sister-in-law, since Amphitryon was Anaxo's brother. This made her husband, also a grandchild of Perseus, her first cousin as well as her uncle. Others have called Alcmena's mother Lysidice or Eurydice, daughter of Pelops, which would make her a cousin of Theseus, Agamemnon, and Menelaus. She had ten brothers, including her half-brother, Licymnius, son of Electryon and Media, a Persian slave.
AGLAIA (4), a daughter of Mantineus, was the wife of Abas, king of Argos, and therefore the mother of the Perseid dynasty. She was sometimes called Ocaleia. Abas was the only heir of the mass wedding of the sons of Aegyptus with the daughters of Danaus because Lynceus, his father, was the only Aegyptid spared by the Danaid brides on that bloody wedding night. Aglaia and Abas produced twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus, who quarreled even in the womb, and a daughter, Eidomene, who married Amythaon and became the mother of Melampus and Bias.
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