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Whether he was born of Persephone , goddess of the underworld , or of the Theban princess Semele , while she was already burning with Zeus ' lightnings , " it was a subterranean birth , or a birth in death . As the healing god Asklepios ...
Whether he was born of Persephone , goddess of the underworld , or of the Theban princess Semele , while she was already burning with Zeus ' lightnings , " it was a subterranean birth , or a birth in death . As the healing god Asklepios ...
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Pelagon , ' born to death ' , in whose possession he had found the lunar cow , was also a primaeval man , born from clay , whose existence had indeed modified the loneliness of the primitive conditions but not altered it essentially .
Pelagon , ' born to death ' , in whose possession he had found the lunar cow , was also a primaeval man , born from clay , whose existence had indeed modified the loneliness of the primitive conditions but not altered it essentially .
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When Odysseus was born in the house of Laertes , for whose son he passed among the heroes of the Trojan War , Autolykos was staying there as the guest of his son - in - law and his daughter . They set the baby on his grandfather's knee ...
When Odysseus was born in the house of Laertes , for whose son he passed among the heroes of the Trojan War , Autolykos was staying there as the guest of his son - in - law and his daughter . They set the baby on his grandfather's knee ...
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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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