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Echidna's family tree varies by author. [4] The oldest genealogy relating to Echidna, Hesiod's Theogony (c. 8th – 7th century BC), is unclear on several points. According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a "she" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which ...
The male echidna's penis is 7 centimetres (2.8 in) long when erect, and its shaft is covered with penile spines. [29] These may be used to induce ovulation in the female. [30] It is a challenge to study the echidna in its natural habitat, and they show no interest in mating while in captivity. Prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ...
Aristophanes (/ ˌ ær ɪ ˈ s t ɒ f ə n iː z /; [2] Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. [3]
The mythographer Apollodorus calls Ladon the offspring of the monstrous Typhon and Echidna, [4] a parentage repeated by Hyginus [5] and Pherecydes; [6] similarly, Ladon is called the son of Typhon in Tzetzes' Chiliades. [7] According to Ptolemy Hephaestion's New History, as recorded by Photius in his Bibliotheca, Ladon was the brother of the ...
Nyx (Night) is variously said to be Phanes' daughter [4] or older wife; she is the counterpart of Phanes and is considered by Aristophanes the first deity. According to Aristophanes, [ 8 ] in a play where Phanes is called "Eros", Phanes was born from an egg created by Nyx and placed in the boundless lap of Erebus , after which he mates with ...
The Wasps (Classical Greek: Σφῆκες, romanized: Sphēkes) is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes.It was produced at the Lenaia festival in 422 BC, during Athens' short-lived respite from the Peloponnesian War.
The Acharnians or Acharnians [3] (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαρνεῖς Akharneîs; Attic: Ἀχαρνῆς) is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes.
Codex Ravennas 429 of Ravenna’s Classense Library, dated to the mid-tenth century, is the oldest manuscript to preserve all eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes. [1] About a quarter of the Lysistrata and the entirety of the Thesmophoriazusae survive the medieval period only in this codex and copies made from it. [2]