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He no doubt assumed that the young hero in the fisherman's cottage could not bring this gift , but for very shame would quit the island and abandon the mother he had so far protected . Notoriously , fishermen do not breed horses ...
He no doubt assumed that the young hero in the fisherman's cottage could not bring this gift , but for very shame would quit the island and abandon the mother he had so far protected . Notoriously , fishermen do not breed horses ...
Page 158
Herakles is warned in advance by Athene that Ares will enter the struggle on his son's behalf , and he wounds the god in the thigh with his spear ; his charioteers bring the wounded Ares to Olympos . Herakles takes the arms of Kyknos ...
Herakles is warned in advance by Athene that Ares will enter the struggle on his son's behalf , and he wounds the god in the thigh with his spear ; his charioteers bring the wounded Ares to Olympos . Herakles takes the arms of Kyknos ...
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But it was not made so easy as later poets give us to understand130 for Peleus to bring the sea - goddess out of Nereus ' palace first into Chiron's cavel31 and finally to Phthia on the fertile mainland where Eurytion had once ruled.132 ...
But it was not made so easy as later poets give us to understand130 for Peleus to bring the sea - goddess out of Nereus ' palace first into Chiron's cavel31 and finally to Phthia on the fertile mainland where Eurytion had once ruled.132 ...
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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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