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Zeus carried off Aegina, Asopus' daughter, and Sisyphus, who had witnessed the act, told Asopus that he could reveal the identity of the person who had abducted Aegina, but in return Asopus would have to provide a perennial fountain of water at Corinth, Sisyphus' city. Accordingly, Asopus produced a fountain at Corinth, and pursued Zeus, but ...
According to Apollodorus and Pindar, Aegina was abducted by Zeus, [6] with Ovid adding that he did so in the form of a flame; [7] he then took her to an island near Attica, [8] then called Oenone, [9] henceforth known by her name. Aegina's father Asopus chased after them; his search took him to Corinth, where Sisyphus was king. Sisyphus, having ...
Antiope's twin sons were Amphion, son of Zeus, and Zethus, son of the mortal Epopeus. Another pair of twins with dual parentage are the Dioscuri, who often appear as snakes, protecting temples. [21] Dionysos, to whose worship Antiope was devoted, visited her with madness, causing her to wander restlessly all over Greece until she was cured. [12]
Sisyphus betrayed one of Zeus's secrets by revealing the whereabouts of the Asopid Aegina to her father, the river god Asopus, in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian acropolis. [8] Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus in Tartarus.
However, the Argonautica [8] and Valerius Flaccus [9] relate that Sinope was abducted to the site by Zeus, who, in his passion, swore to fulfil her dearest wish. [10] Sinope declared she wished to remain a virgin. Sinope later tricked Apollo and the river Halys in the same fashion and remained a virgin all her life.
Zeus accuses them of lying to Poseidon, but they say if he decides the prop “The line appears, the order wanes, the family falls, and kaos reigns.” But did Kaos reign in the season finale of ...
One rare version of the myth makes Thebe a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus [5] and/or Heracles. [6] Thebe, daughter of Asopus [2] and Metope, [7] who was said to have consorted with Zeus. [8] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes [9] after her because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus.
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