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CREON CRETE and attacked Thebes ( see SEVEN AGAINST THEBES ) . During
this war Creon lost a second son , Menoeceus , who sacrificed himself for the city
in obedience to an oracle . The Thebans repulsed the Argives , but both ...
CREON CRETE and attacked Thebes ( see SEVEN AGAINST THEBES ) . During
this war Creon lost a second son , Menoeceus , who sacrificed himself for the city
in obedience to an oracle . The Thebans repulsed the Argives , but both ...
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CRE THE US CRONUS her to Crete , where she bore three sons , Minos ,
Rhadamanthys , and Sarpedon . Zeus then married her to Asterius , who had
succeeded his father Tectamus as king . Asterius , whose daughter Crete was the
eponym ...
CRE THE US CRONUS her to Crete , where she bore three sons , Minos ,
Rhadamanthys , and Sarpedon . Zeus then married her to Asterius , who had
succeeded his father Tectamus as king . Asterius , whose daughter Crete was the
eponym ...
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A king of Crete . A. Some Classical writers , no doubt struck by the fact that Minos
appears in mythology to have been almost perpetually the king of Crete , claimed
that there were two kings of that name . The first was one of three sons of Zeus ...
A king of Crete . A. Some Classical writers , no doubt struck by the fact that Minos
appears in mythology to have been almost perpetually the king of Crete , claimed
that there were two kings of that name . The first was one of three sons of Zeus ...
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| Title | Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology |
| Author | Edward Tripp |
| Published | 1970 |
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