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He was accounted one of the brotherhood of beings of primaeval days, sprung from the earth and phallic, as one of the sons of the Mother of the Gods, but a particular one, a single, incomparable divine servant of a goddess.
He was accounted one of the brotherhood of beings of primaeval days, sprung from the earth and phallic, as one of the sons of the Mother of the Gods, but a particular one, a single, incomparable divine servant of a goddess.
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Their names ( respectively ' Virgin Mountain ' and ` Artemis ' Mountain ' ) remind us of the great virgin goddess who bore sway there . Artemis had her temple on a peak of the massif of Artemision and there had the title Oinatis ...
Their names ( respectively ' Virgin Mountain ' and ` Artemis ' Mountain ' ) remind us of the great virgin goddess who bore sway there . Artemis had her temple on a peak of the massif of Artemision and there had the title Oinatis ...
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There , upon Agamemnon promised to offer to the goddess the fairest thing that the year had yielded . 353 This , it seems , Artemis accepted ; but it happened that the king accidentally354 caught sight of a fawn in the goddess's grove ...
There , upon Agamemnon promised to offer to the goddess the fairest thing that the year had yielded . 353 This , it seems , Artemis accepted ; but it happened that the king accidentally354 caught sight of a fawn in the goddess's grove ...
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Contents
Kadmos and Harmonia | 25 |
The Theban Dioskuroi | 34 |
Danaos and his Daughters | 39 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Heroes of the Greeks Myth and man |
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| Publisher | Thames and Hudson, 1959 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 439 pages |
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