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The wife of Cepheus , king of Ethiopia . Because Cassiopeia claimed that she , or her daughter , Andromeda , was more beautiful than the Nereids , Poseidon or Ammon sent a sea - monster to ravage the land .
The wife of Cepheus , king of Ethiopia . Because Cassiopeia claimed that she , or her daughter , Andromeda , was more beautiful than the Nereids , Poseidon or Ammon sent a sea - monster to ravage the land .
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When Amphitryon was banished from Argos , Creon and his wife welcomed him and his wife Alcmene . Their daughter Megara later married Heracles , Alcmene's son by Zeus . In Creon's old age Thebes was invaded by Lycus , a descendant of the ...
When Amphitryon was banished from Argos , Creon and his wife welcomed him and his wife Alcmene . Their daughter Megara later married Heracles , Alcmene's son by Zeus . In Creon's old age Thebes was invaded by Lycus , a descendant of the ...
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D. For a time Helen seemed a model wife . She bore a daughter , Hermione , and perhaps a son , Nicostratus . ( On the authority of Stesichorus , among others , Pausanias ( 2.22.6–7 ) said that Iphigeneia was Helen's daughter by Theseus ...
D. For a time Helen seemed a model wife . She bore a daughter , Hermione , and perhaps a son , Nicostratus . ( On the authority of Stesichorus , among others , Pausanias ( 2.22.6–7 ) said that Iphigeneia was Helen's daughter by Theseus ...
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