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... Heracles , though this poem in the form in which we have it is not Hesiod's . It deals with Alcmene and her son Heracles , the greatest of all heroes . With an easygoing and some- what banal fluency , very different from the manner of ...
... Heracles , though this poem in the form in which we have it is not Hesiod's . It deals with Alcmene and her son Heracles , the greatest of all heroes . With an easygoing and some- what banal fluency , very different from the manner of ...
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... Heracles against him ( 69 ) . The father of Cycnus is Ares , War himself , and he seeks to avenge the death of his son upon Heracles . But with Athene's help Heracles overcomes even the god . This religious and moral background is ...
... Heracles against him ( 69 ) . The father of Cycnus is Ares , War himself , and he seeks to avenge the death of his son upon Heracles . But with Athene's help Heracles overcomes even the god . This religious and moral background is ...
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... Heracles ; 16 then he justifies this intrusion of mythology into the list of Telesicrates ' victories . The sequence of thought is something like this : ' Iolaus and Amphitryon are buried in Thebes ; Thebes was where Heracles and ...
... Heracles ; 16 then he justifies this intrusion of mythology into the list of Telesicrates ' victories . The sequence of thought is something like this : ' Iolaus and Amphitryon are buried in Thebes ; Thebes was where Heracles and ...
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