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Instead, Laius carried him off to Thebes and raped him, a crime for which he, his city, and his family were later punished by the gods. [4] Others named as Chrysippus' kidnappers Zeus [5] and even Theseus. [6] In one version Chrysippus' father Pelops, following his son's abduction, curses Laius to be killed by one of his own children. [7]
The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths is a children's book by Saviour Pirotta, illustrated by Jan Lewis. First published in hardback by Orchard Books, [1] an imprint of Hachette Book Group in 2003, it has become a favourite with many schools and families exploring ancient Greek myths with children aged five to eight. It has been reprinted ...
In Classical mythology, Dolus (Latin: Dolus, lit. 'Deception, Guile, Deceit') [1] is a figure who appears in an Aesopic fable by the Roman fabulist Gaius Julius Phaedrus, where he is an apprentice of the Titan Prometheus.
The Greek Myths presents the myths as stories from the ritual of all three stages, and often as historical records of the otherwise unattested struggles between Greek kings and the Moon-priestesses. In some cases Graves conjectures a process of "iconotropy", or image-turning, by which a hypothetical cult image of the matriarchal or matrilineal ...
In Greek mythology, Scylla [1] (/ ˈ s ɪ l ə / SIL-ə; Ancient Greek: Σκύλλα, romanized: Skýlla, pronounced) was a princess of Megara as daughter of King Nisus. Family [ edit ]
Thereafter, Ixion lived as an outlaw and was shunned. By killing his father-in-law, Ixion was reckoned the first man guilty of kin-slaying in Greek mythology. This act alone would warrant Ixion a terrible punishment, but Zeus took pity on Ixion and brought him to Olympus and introduced him at the table of the
After his father lost the throne of Athens, Acamas grew up as an exile in Euboea with his brother under the care of Elephenor, a relative by marriage.He and Diomedes were sent to negotiate the return of Helen before the start of the Trojan War, [5] though Homer ascribes this embassy to Menelaus and Odysseus. [6]
According to Hesiod, Alecto was the daughter of Gaea fertilized by the blood spilled from Uranus when Cronus castrated him. She is the sister of Tisiphone and Megaera.These three Furies had snakes for hair and blood dripped from their eyes, while their wings were those of bats. [1]