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(Encyclopedia) Icarus: see Daedalus.

(Encyclopedia) Ion: see Creusa (1.)

(Encyclopedia) Argonauts: see Jason; Argo; Golden Fleece. ...

(Encyclopedia) Thisbe: see Pyramus and Thisbe.

(Encyclopedia) Agave əgāˈvē [key]: see Pentheus. ...

(Encyclopedia) Alpheus ălfēˈəs [key], river god: see Arethusa. ...

(Encyclopedia) hamadryads: see nymph.

(Encyclopedia) mythology [Greek,=the telling of stories], the entire body of myths in a given tradition, and the study of myths. Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study myths in different ways, distin...

(Encyclopedia) Evans, Sir Arthur John, 1851–1941, English archaeologist. He was (1884–1908) keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. From 1900 to 1935 he conducted excavations on the Greek island of Crete, prin...

(Encyclopedia) Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889–1975, English historian; nephew of Arnold Toynbee. Educated at Oxford, he served in the British foreign office during World Wars I and II and was a delegate (1919) to th...