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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 ...
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 ...
Apollo, his father, carried his bride-to-be Stratonice away from her father's home to marry his son. Stratonice was a Calydonian princess, the daughter of King Porthaon by his wife Laothoe . [ 2 ] By her, Melaneus became the father of Eurytus , the famous archer whose reputation overshadowed his father, and of Ambracia , eponym of Ambracia in ...
He and his wife, Valerie, whom he married in 1955, raised six children. In the decades after Apollo 8, Anders joined Lovell, now 96, and Borman, who died last year at age 95, at anniversary ...
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]
William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water ...
Astronaut Bill Anders, who orbited the moon aboard Apollo 8 in 1968, has died in a plane crash off the coast of Washington state. His photo 'Earthrise' captivated the world.
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]