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  2. Chrysippus of Elis - Wikipedia

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    Instead, Laius carried him off to Thebes and raped him, a crime for which he, his city, and his family were later punished by the gods. [4] Others named as Chrysippus' kidnappers Zeus [5] and even Theseus. [6] In one version Chrysippus' father Pelops, following his son's abduction, curses Laius to be killed by one of his own children. [7]

  3. Limos - Wikipedia

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    Like all of the children of Eris given by Hesiod, Limos is a personified abstraction allegorizing the meaning of the Greek word limos, and represents one of the many harmful things which might be thought to result from discord and strife, with no other identity. [3] Limos was held in particular regard at Sparta.

  4. Medea - Wikipedia

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    Medea in a fresco from Herculaneum. Medea is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis.According to Hesiod (Theogony 956–962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children, Circe and Aeëtes. [5]

  5. List of fratricides in fiction - Wikipedia

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    In the ninja anime series Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha kills his brother Itachi Uchiha to avenge the murder of their family. In the manga and anime series Ginga Densetsu Weed , Hougen, the tyrannical Great Dane, and one of the villains of the series, is forced kill his younger brother, Genba, after he has a fight with the protagonists, falls and hits ...

  6. Argus (king of Argos) - Wikipedia

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    He was a son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, and was possibly the brother of Pelasgus. [1] Argus married either Evadne, the daughter of Strymon and Neaera, or Peitho the Oceanid, [2] and had by her six sons: Criasus, Ecbasus, [3] Iasus, Peiranthus (or Peiras, Peirasus, Peiren), Epidaurus and Tiryns (said by Pausanias to be the namesake of the city Tiryns). [4]

  7. Chelidon (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Chelidon (Ancient Greek: Χελιδών, romanized: Khelidṓn, lit. 'swallow') is a minor figure, a noblewoman from either the city of Miletus or Colophon in an Anatolian variant of the story of Philomela , [ 1 ] though she might have had an independent origin in Attica .

  8. Antiope (Amazon) - Wikipedia

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    Theseus carries Antiope off, from the pediment of Apollo's temple at Eretria, 500s BC.. In Greek mythology, Antiope (/ æ n ˈ t aɪ ə p i /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόπη, derived from αντι anti, "against, compared to, like," and οψ ops, "voice" or "confronting" [1]) was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe, Hippolyta, Penthesilea and possibly Orithyia, queens of the ...

  9. Scylla (daughter of Nisus) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Scylla [1] (/ ˈ s ɪ l ə / SIL-ə; Ancient Greek: Σκύλλα, romanized: Skýlla, pronounced) was a princess of Megara as daughter of King Nisus. Family [ edit ]