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Hyginus also reports that "some authors" said that Amphiaraus was the son of Apollo. [8] Amphiaraus married Eriphyle, the sister of his cousin Adrastus (the grandson of Melampus' brother Bias), and by her was the father of two sons, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus. [9] From the geographer Pausanias, we hear of three daughters, Eurydice, Demonissa and ...
From Sthenelus the son of Capaneus, and comrade of Diomedes, we hear that at Thebes "of the seven gates", their fathers "perished through their own blind folly". [52] And finally in Book 14, we learn from Diomedes that Tydeus was buried at Thebes. [53] In Homer's Odyssey, we hear of a fifth champion, Amphiaraus betrayed by his wife Eriphyle. [54]
Eriphyle (/ ɛr ɪ ˈ f aɪ l iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἐριφύλη, romanized: Eriphúlē) was a figure in Greek mythology who, in exchange for the necklace of Harmonia (also called the necklace of Eriphyle) given to her by Polynices, persuaded her husband Amphiaraus to join the expedition of the Seven against Thebes. She was then slain by her ...
And how Ardastus and Amphiaraus were reconciled by Adrastus giving his sister Eriphyle to Ampiaraus: But the stronger man puts an end to a former dispute. After giving man-subduing Eriphyle as a faithful pledge to Oecles’ son [Amphiaraus] for a wife, they became the greatest of the fair-haired Danaans . . . [59]
[235] [236] Apollo's harmonious music delivered people from their pain, and hence, like Dionysus, he is also called the liberator. [160] The swans, which were considered to be the most musical among the birds, were believed to be the "singers of Apollo". They are Apollo's sacred birds and acted as his vehicle during his travel to Hyperborea. [160]
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed their first baby, a son named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in May 2019. “We are pleased to announce that Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and ...
The Amphiareion of Oropos (Greek: Άμφιάρειο Ωρωπού), situated in the hills 6 km southeast of the fortified port of Oropos, was a sanctuary dedicated in the late 5th century BCE to the hero Amphiaraos, where pilgrims went to seek oracular responses and healing.