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His ancestry went back to Deukalion , son of Prometheus , and Pyrrha , daughter of Epimetheus , the two survivors of the most famous deluge , 322 unless it be that his grandfather Hellen , after whom the Hellenes were named , was after ...
His ancestry went back to Deukalion , son of Prometheus , and Pyrrha , daughter of Epimetheus , the two survivors of the most famous deluge , 322 unless it be that his grandfather Hellen , after whom the Hellenes were named , was after ...
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Another daughter of his was Medeia , whose name has become famous and notorious , famous by reason of the golden Aeece , notorious for her murderous deeds and her sorceries . The Aeece was hung up in the shrine of Ares on an oak ...
Another daughter of his was Medeia , whose name has become famous and notorious , famous by reason of the golden Aeece , notorious for her murderous deeds and her sorceries . The Aeece was hung up in the shrine of Ares on an oak ...
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We all know the famous tale582 of how Leda conceived the Tindarids in Lakonia ; Zeus loved her in the shape of a swan under the height of Taygetos , over which those great white birds Aew . In the Messenian Gulf , opposite the Lakonian ...
We all know the famous tale582 of how Leda conceived the Tindarids in Lakonia ; Zeus loved her in the shape of a swan under the height of Taygetos , over which those great white birds Aew . In the Messenian Gulf , opposite the Lakonian ...
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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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