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| A shapeless mass such as that out of which the universe was made; also used as another name for Hades (14.404) |
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| Gigantomachy (attack of the giants) |
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| monsters, said to have made war on the gods “I.I52-62”, their blood changed into human form (1.160, 5.319, 10.150, 14.2-3) |
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| Son of Lapetus (a Titan), brother of Epimetheus, father of Daucalion moulded man out of clay (1.82-3, 363-4) |
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| king of Arcadia, father of Callisto offends the gods (1.164), his offence and punishment (1.198-200, 208-40), changed into a wolf (1.233-9), terrifies Callisto (2.495-6) “Wolf/Warewolf” |
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| A great snake killed by Apollo near Delphi (1.438-47, 459-60) |
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| Son of Prometheus, husband of Purrba survivor of the great flood (1.319-415), changed into stone (1.401-10), the flood (7.356) |
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| Daughter of Epimetheus, wife of Deucalion (1.319-415), throws stones which are changed into the new human race (1.401-10) |
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| Daughter of Peneus, loved by Apollo (1.451-567), changed into a laurel tree by her father (1.547-52) |
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| God of music, poetry and medicine, son of Jupiter and (Latona), brother of Diana, father of Aesculapius and Phaethon (as a sun-god often confused with the Sun, son of Hyperion, particularly in relation to the Phaethon story).Kills the Python and establishes the Pythian games. *p.678 |
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| Daughter of Inachus, raped by Jupiter (1.585-688), changed into a snow-white heifer (1.611), as a fugitive (1.725-47), changed back into human form (1.738-43 2.524) worshipped as Isis (1.747, 9.686) “Turned into caw” |
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| Messenger god (mainly for Jupiter), son of Jupiter and Maia, ordered to kill Argus (1.669-89), kills Argus (1.713-19) |
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| A beautiful Arcadian naiad loved by Pan (1.689-712), changed into reeds from which Pan’s pipe is formed (1.706) |
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| A monster with a hundred eyes, son of Arestor, placed as a guard for Io by Juno (1.624-88), killed by Mercury (1.714-21), eyes set into the feathers of Juno’s peacocks (1.722-3, 2.533) |
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| Son of the Sun (confused with Apollo) and Clymene seeks confirmation of the sun as his father and drives his chariot (1.751-79, 2.19-329), killed by Jupiter (2.311-13), the Sun’s distress at his loss (4.246) “Son of Helios and Klymene, not Apollo” |
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