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The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...
The population of Plataea came to Athens as suppliants after the destruction of their city in 427 BC, a few years before the performance of this play. They were allowed to stay in Athens and, exceptionally, they were granted Athenian citizenship. This event may have influenced the play and its reception. [3]
a street in Athens, before the houses of Lysidamus and Alcesimus Casina is a Latin comedy or farce by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus . Set in ancient Athens , the play describes how an Athenian gentleman and his son are both in love with the same slave-girl, Casina.
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In Greek mythology, King Erichthonius (/ ə r ɪ k ˈ θ oʊ n i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐριχθόνιος, romanized: Erikhthónios) was a legendary early ruler of ancient Athens. According to some myths, he was autochthonous (born of the soil, or Earth) and adopted or raised by the goddess Athena.