CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... death , when he came to escort her to the Underworld . Admetus , though plunged into grief , did not refuse his wife's self - sacrifice . She was saved from her fate either because Heracles wrestled with Thanatos and brought her back or ...
... death , when he came to escort her to the Underworld . Admetus , though plunged into grief , did not refuse his wife's self - sacrifice . She was saved from her fate either because Heracles wrestled with Thanatos and brought her back or ...
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... death if old Peleus , Neoptolemus ' grandfather , had not intervened . Fearing her hus- band's vengeance , she fled with Orestes to Sparta . After Neoptolemus ' death at Delphi she bore Tisamenus by Orestes . This boy succeeded his ...
... death if old Peleus , Neoptolemus ' grandfather , had not intervened . Fearing her hus- band's vengeance , she fled with Orestes to Sparta . After Neoptolemus ' death at Delphi she bore Tisamenus by Orestes . This boy succeeded his ...
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... death and generally lacked the re- tributive duties of the Erinyes . Occasionally , in either the singular or the plural , they are identified with the FATES as bringers of death . They were said by Hesiod to be daughters of Nyx ( Night ) ...
... death and generally lacked the re- tributive duties of the Erinyes . Occasionally , in either the singular or the plural , they are identified with the FATES as bringers of death . They were said by Hesiod to be daughters of Nyx ( Night ) ...
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