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  2. Metamorphoses in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Zeus Found in books from the 1990s. Supposedly Cynara from the island of Cinarus was a beautiful maiden who attracted the attention of Zeus and was brought by him to Olympus. She, missing her family, fled back to the earth, and was turned into an artichoke by the rejected god. [45] Fingernails: Onyx ("fingernail") None

  3. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  6. Io (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    [17] [18] [19] Hera then sent Argus Panoptes, a giant who had 100 eyes, to watch Io and prevent Zeus from visiting her, and so Zeus sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argus. According to Ovid, he did so by first lulling him to sleep by playing the panpipes and telling stories. [20] Zeus freed Io, still in the form of a heifer.

  7. Iasion - Wikipedia

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    At the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, Iasion was lured by Demeter away from the other revelers. They had intercourse as Demeter lay on her back in a freshly plowed furrow. When they rejoined the celebration, Zeus guessed what had happened because of the mud on Demeter's backside, and out of envy killed Iasion with a thunderbolt.

  8. Semele - Wikipedia

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    Semele (/ ˈ s ɛ m ɪ l i /; Ancient Greek: Σεμέλη, romanized: Semélē), or Thyone (/ ˈ θ aɪ ə n i /; Ancient Greek: Θυώνη, romanized: Thyṓnē) in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother [1] of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.

  9. Dionysiaca - Wikipedia

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    Book 4 – Harmonia refuses to marry Cadmus because of his poverty, but Aphrodite takes the shape of Peisinoe, a girl of the neighbourhood, and produces a full encomium of Cadmus' beauty to convince her. Harmonia willingly leaves Samothrace with Cadmus who sails with her to Greece.