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If the mythological character is replaced by one purely human , the legends of
heroes become tales of warlike men , to whom the epithet of ' hero ' applies only
in that sense , divorced from cult , in which Homer uses it , approximately ' noble ...
If the mythological character is replaced by one purely human , the legends of
heroes become tales of warlike men , to whom the epithet of ' hero ' applies only
in that sense , divorced from cult , in which Homer uses it , approximately ' noble ...
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He had become blind in his youth , as the hero who had taken his mother to wife
was to become in the prime of life . It was told of him too531 that he was the
descendant of one of the Spartoi , Udaios , the ' man of the ground . His mother
was ...
He had become blind in his youth , as the hero who had taken his mother to wife
was to become in the prime of life . It was told of him too531 that he was the
descendant of one of the Spartoi , Udaios , the ' man of the ground . His mother
was ...
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The first of them , Klotho , sang , ' He shall become a man of noble spirit ;
Lachesis , the second , sang of the hero he was to become ; Atropos , the third ,
gazed into the fire on the hearth , in which a log was burning , and sang : ' He
shall live ...
The first of them , Klotho , sang , ' He shall become a man of noble spirit ;
Lachesis , the second , sang of the hero he was to become ; Atropos , the third ,
gazed into the fire on the hearth , in which a log was burning , and sang : ' He
shall live ...
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Contents
Kadmos and Harmonia | 25 |
The Theban Dioskuroi | 34 |
Pelops and Hippodameia | 62 |
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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 | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 439 pages |
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