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  2. Metamorphoses in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Zeus however slept with her (in some versions, he deceived her by taking the form of Artemis herself, or perhaps Apollo) and left her pregnant. Artemis as well as Hera were enraged; depending on version, either of the two goddesses transformed Callisto into a bear. Eventually, Zeus transferred Callisto to the stars, as the constellation Ursa Major.

  3. Baucis and Philemon - Wikipedia

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    Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a ...

  4. Harmonia - Wikipedia

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    Harmonia and the serpent. According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. [1] By another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brothers were Dardanus and Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island. [2] [3] Almost always, Harmonia is married to Cadmus.

  5. Pentheus - Wikipedia

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    The story of Pentheus is also discussed by Ovid in Book III of his Metamorphoses. [1] Ovid's version diverges from Euripides' work in several areas. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus is warned by the blind seer Tiresias to welcome Bacchus or else "Your blood [shall be] poured out and defile the woods and your mother and her sisters ...

  6. Dionysiaca - Wikipedia

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    During the night Zeus is encouraged to fight by Victory itself (Nike). The following morning Typhon challenges Zeus into combat and is defeated and killed by him after a long battle that affects the whole cosmos. While the earth repairs itself, Zeus promises to Cadmus the hand of Harmonia, daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, and bids him to found ...

  7. List of Metamorphoses characters - Wikipedia

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    Son of Agenor (who was king of Tyre, Phoenicia), brother of Europa, husband of Venus' daughter Harmonia, and the founder of Thebes. Cadmus was sent out to find and return his sister, Europa, to Phoenicia after she had been abducted by Jupiter. III: 3–64, IV: 472–595, VI: 177 [48] Caeneus/Caenis: Born the daughter – Caenis – of the ...

  8. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1330 on Saturday, February 8 ...

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    Hints and the solution for today's Wordle on Saturday, February 8.

  9. Necklace of Harmonia - Wikipedia

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    Polynices offering Eriphyle the necklace of Harmonia; Attic red-figure oenochoe ca. 450–440 BC. Louvre museum. The Necklace of Harmonia, also called the Necklace of Eriphyle, was a fabled object in Greek mythology that, according to legend, brought great misfortune to all of its wearers or owners, who were primarily queens and princesses of the ill-fated House of Thebes.