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... serpent - heads springing from a common , shapeless body , comes into the history of Herakles from a very old mythology . To the ancient picture - makers of Mesopo tamia who were the first to fix the type , its meaning was cer tainly ...
... serpent - heads springing from a common , shapeless body , comes into the history of Herakles from a very old mythology . To the ancient picture - makers of Mesopo tamia who were the first to fix the type , its meaning was cer tainly ...
Page 176
... serpent to sleep . The Attic master- painter Meidias , who introduced a whole company of heroes , like an Argonautic expedition , into the Garden of the Hesperides , makes the sorceress Medeia with her box of magic herbs take part in ...
... serpent to sleep . The Attic master- painter Meidias , who introduced a whole company of heroes , like an Argonautic expedition , into the Garden of the Hesperides , makes the sorceress Medeia with her box of magic herbs take part in ...
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... serpent.433 At the Battle of Salamis he appeared in serpent - form on the Greek ships , 434 a token of their victory and a contributor to it , and in his serpent - shape he was Demeter's temple - servant at Eleusis.435 Aiakos , Skiron's ...
... serpent.433 At the Battle of Salamis he appeared in serpent - form on the Greek ships , 434 a token of their victory and a contributor to it , and in his serpent - shape he was Demeter's temple - servant at Eleusis.435 Aiakos , Skiron's ...
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According Achilles Adrastos Agamemnon Aias Aietes Aigeus Akrisios Alkmene allegedly already Amazons Amphitryon Antiope Aphrodite Apollo Argonauts Argos Ariadne Artemis Atalante Athenians Atreus beast Bellerophontes bore brother brought bull called Centaur chariot child cult daughter dead death Deianeira Dionysos Dioskuroi divine Euripides Eurystheus famous father goddess gods golden Greek Hades hand Harmonia Helen Hera Herakles Hermes hero Hesperides Hippodameia honour Iolaos Iolkos island Jason journey Kadmos Kekrops killed king Laios land later marriage Medeia Meleagros Menelaos Minos mother murder Mycenae narrators Odysseus Oidipus Oineus Oinomaos oracle Orpheus palace Pallas Athene Peirithoos Peleus Pelias Pelops Persephone Perseus Phrixos poet Polyneikes Poseidon primaeval Proitos queen sacrifice sent serpent Sisyphos sons story tale Tantalos Telephos temple Theban Thebes Theseus Thetis Thracian Thyestes Tiryns told took tragedy Trojan Troy Tyndareos underworld vase-painting shows wife young Zeus