By Johannes C. Andersen
ISBN-10: 1462907784
ISBN-13: 9781462907786
This authoritative quantity combines a wealth of myths and legends with a full of life observation on Polynesian lifestyles and tradition. pleasing stories comprise old tales of the gods and production, nature and the supernatural, love and battle, revenge, and extra. Over seventy five illustrations, plus a 42-page index and thesaurus of Polynesian phrases.
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Not only was she the mother of the greatest hero of ancient times, Heracles, but through him and her other son, Iphicles, she was ancestor of the whole Heraclid dynasty, which was part of the famous Dorian invasion and also linked myth to history through its long line of kings. Alcmena was a granddaughter of Perseus, daughter of Electryon and Anaxo, and is sometimes called Electryone (and also Mideatis from her father's kingdom). Her mother was also her first cousin and, later, sister-in-law, since Amphitryon was Anaxo's brother.
Alcmena was a granddaughter of Perseus, daughter of Electryon and Anaxo, and is sometimes called Electryone (and also Mideatis from her father's kingdom). Her mother was also her first cousin and, later, sister-in-law, since Amphitryon was Anaxo's brother. This made her husband, also a grandchild of Perseus, her first cousin as well as her uncle. Others have called Alcmena's mother Lysidice or Eurydice, daughter of Pelops, which would make her a cousin of Theseus, Agamemnon, and Menelaus. She had ten brothers, including her half-brother, Licymnius, son of Electryon and Media, a Persian slave.
AGLAIA (4), a daughter of Mantineus, was the wife of Abas, king of Argos, and therefore the mother of the Perseid dynasty. She was sometimes called Ocaleia. Abas was the only heir of the mass wedding of the sons of Aegyptus with the daughters of Danaus because Lynceus, his father, was the only Aegyptid spared by the Danaid brides on that bloody wedding night. Aglaia and Abas produced twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus, who quarreled even in the womb, and a daughter, Eidomene, who married Amythaon and became the mother of Melampus and Bias.
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