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Still , the narrators seem to be in agreement to this extent at least , that the first task of Herakles was the fight with the Nemean lion and that for his first six Labours he was assigned on each occasion a region of the Peloponnesos ...
Still , the narrators seem to be in agreement to this extent at least , that the first task of Herakles was the fight with the Nemean lion and that for his first six Labours he was assigned on each occasion a region of the Peloponnesos ...
Page 191
the Greek narrators were trying to express when they called her a slave woman or a widow , glossing the matter over or denying it completely , was the most natural thing in the world in Lydia , where the girls did not live as virgins ...
the Greek narrators were trying to express when they called her a slave woman or a widow , glossing the matter over or denying it completely , was the most natural thing in the world in Lydia , where the girls did not live as virgins ...
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... righteous to strangers ' ; 227 Syleus alone appears to have dealt outrageously with passing strangers . Where he did so is a point on which the narrators did not agree , for there was a Plain of Syleus in Macedonia , 228 but those ...
... righteous to strangers ' ; 227 Syleus alone appears to have dealt outrageously with passing strangers . Where he did so is a point on which the narrators did not agree , for there was a Plain of Syleus in Macedonia , 228 but those ...
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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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