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... story of Scylla is just a Megarian version of a very common folk - tale . A city is being besieged ; then a woman , often the king's daughter , falls in love with her country's enemy whom she has seen from the walls , and opens the ...
... story of Scylla is just a Megarian version of a very common folk - tale . A city is being besieged ; then a woman , often the king's daughter , falls in love with her country's enemy whom she has seen from the walls , and opens the ...
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... story of a great flood in Phrygia ( Dionysiaca xiii . 522 ff . ) which includes the characteristic saving of one man for his piety ( 542-3 ) . How he came by this remains a mystery , but , perhaps significantly , at xiii . 512 ff ...
... story of a great flood in Phrygia ( Dionysiaca xiii . 522 ff . ) which includes the characteristic saving of one man for his piety ( 542-3 ) . How he came by this remains a mystery , but , perhaps significantly , at xiii . 512 ff ...
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... story ( Appendix III ) which she herself called ' Myrmidonia and Pharao- nia ' . R M. Dawkins , who published it ( Forty - five Stories from the Dodekanese [ Cambridge , 1950 ] , pp . 334 ff . ) , suggested as an alter- native title ...
... story ( Appendix III ) which she herself called ' Myrmidonia and Pharao- nia ' . R M. Dawkins , who published it ( Forty - five Stories from the Dodekanese [ Cambridge , 1950 ] , pp . 334 ff . ) , suggested as an alter- native title ...
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12th cent Accius Achelous Aetia Althaea ambo Amores Ancaeus Apollodorus Baucis and Philemon boar Boeo Brooks Otis Burman Callimachus Calydonian Catullus Catullus 64 Cicero Ciris Compare corpora Crete Daedalus dixit Ennius episode epithet erat Erysicthon esset Euripides Fairy's Revenge Fasti folk-tale fragment Georgics Greek Hecale Heinsius Hellenistic Hermes heroes Heroides Hesiod Heteroeumena Homer Horace hunc Hunger Hyginus hymn Icarus illa ipse Latin legend Lelex Magnus manus manuscript Medea medio Megara Meleager Meleager's Mestra Metamorphoses mihi Minos modo neoteric Nicander Nisus Nonnus nunc Oeneus Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Parthenius pater Pausanias Perdix perhaps phrase Plan poem poetry probably Propertius pseudo-Hesiod quae quam quod quoque Roman saepe sanguine Scylla Silius simile story sunt tamen terra Theseus tibi tradition transformation Tristia undas unus variant verb viii Virgil word Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸν