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... wife ' theme that occurs in other Greek myths too , for example the stories of Phaedra and Hippolytus or Peleus and the wife of Acastus . Then Bellerophon is set three tasks , one after the other : first he has to kill the monstrous ...
... wife ' theme that occurs in other Greek myths too , for example the stories of Phaedra and Hippolytus or Peleus and the wife of Acastus . Then Bellerophon is set three tasks , one after the other : first he has to kill the monstrous ...
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Geoffrey Stephen Kirk. You shall be turned into a serpent , and your wife shall change into the savage form of a snake - Harmonia , Ares ' daughter , whom you won though yourself a mortal . With your wife , as the oracle of Zeus declares ...
Geoffrey Stephen Kirk. You shall be turned into a serpent , and your wife shall change into the savage form of a snake - Harmonia , Ares ' daughter , whom you won though yourself a mortal . With your wife , as the oracle of Zeus declares ...
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... wife Aerope and gets the kingdom by a trick , then Atreus regains it after serving up Thyestes ' own children for him to eat . These are the highly indirect consequences of a curse once laid on Pelops by Oenomaus ' charioteer Myrtilus ...
... wife Aerope and gets the kingdom by a trick , then Atreus regains it after serving up Thyestes ' own children for him to eat . These are the highly indirect consequences of a curse once laid on Pelops by Oenomaus ' charioteer Myrtilus ...
Contents
PART I | 9 |
The Relation of Myths to Folktales | 30 |
Five Monolithic Theories | 49 |
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