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Athena

Athena (Minerva) was the daughter of Zeus. She sprang full grown in armor from hisforehead, thus has no mother. She was fierce and brave in battle but, only fights toprotect the state and home from outside enemies. She was the goddess of the city,

handicrafts, and agriculture. She invented the bridle, which permitted man to tamehorses, the trumpet, the flute, the pot, the rake, the plow, the yoke, the ship, and thechariot. She was the embodiment of wisdom, reason, and purity. She was Zeus's favoritechild and was allowed to use his weapons including his thunderbolt. Her favorite city wasAthens. Her tree was the olive. The owl was her bird. She was a virgin goddess.

Apollo

Apollo was the son of Zeusand Leto. His twin sister wasArtemis. He was the god ofmusic, playing a golden lyre. He was the god of the archer, far shooting with a silver bow.The god of healing who taught man medicine. The god of light. The god of truth, who cannot speak a lie. Apollo was considered to have dominion over disease, beauty, light,healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism,and shamans, and was the patron defender of herds and flocks.

One of Apollo's more important daily tasks was to harness his chariot with four horses andrive the Sun across the sky.

He was famous for his oracle at Delphi. People traveled to it from all over the Greek worldto divine the future.

His tree was the laurel. The crow was his bird. The dolphin was his animal.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite (Venus) was the goddess of love, desire and beauty. In addition to her naturalgifts, she had a magical girdle that compelled anyone she wished to desire her. Therewere two accounts of her birth.

One says she was the daughter of Zeusand Dione.

The other went back to the time when Cronuscastrated Uranusand tossed his severedgenitals into the sea. Aphrodite then arose from the sea foam on a giant scallop andwalked to shore in Cyprus.
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Aphrodite, in many of the myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered andeasily offended.

She was the wife of Hephaestus. The myrtle was her tree. The dove, the swan, and thesparrow were her birds.

Hermes

Hermes (Mercury) was the son of Zeusand Maia. He was Zeus' messenger. He was thefastest of the gods. He wore winged sandals, a winged hat, and carried a magic wand. Hewas the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds andcowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures andinvention and commerce in general, of liars, and of the cunning of thieves. He was theguide for the dead to go to the underworld. He invented the lyre, the pipes, the musicalscale, astronomy , weights and measures, boxing, gymnastics, and the care of olive trees.

Artemis

Artemis (Diana) was the daughter of Zeusand Leto. Her twin brother wasApollo. She wasthe lady of the wild things. She was the huntsman of the gods. She was the protector ofthe young. Like Apollo, she hunted with silver arrows. She became associated with themoon. She was a virgin goddess, and the goddess of chastity. She also presided over

childbirth, which may seem odd for a virgin, but goes back to causing Letono pain whenshe was born. The cypress was her tree. All wild animals were scared to her, especiallythe deer.

Hephaestus

Hephaestus (Vulcan or Mulciber) was the son of Zeusand Hera. Sometimes, it was saidthat Hera alone produced him and that he had no father. He was the only god to be

physically ugly. He was also lame. He was the god of fire and the forge. He was the smithand armorer of the gods. He used a volcano as his forge. He was the patron god of bothsmiths and weavers. He was kind and peace loving. His wife wasAphrodite. Sometimes,his wife was identified as Aglaia.
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The poems attributed to Homer, the Iliadand Odyssey, seem to have been sung in their

final form during about the eighth century B.C., although contradictory Greek traditionsoffered many alternative datings. A number of cities asserted that they were the poet'sbirthplace, but the strongest claims were those of the island of Chios, off the west coastof Asia Minor, and the city of Smyrna (Izmir) on that coast. The internal evidence of thepoems on the whole supports the belief that this was the region of the Greek world fromwhich he came. The tradition that he was blind is not implausible, since the bards whoearned a livelihood by singing at Greek courts were often blind.

Homer possessed an exceptionally powerful and imaginative visual sense, which prompted

Voltaire to define him as a "sublime painter." The color, vividness, and tenderness of hissimiles, for example - drawn as they are from an extensive range of nature and life -convey the pictorial and emotional appeal of everyday scenes and doings with a deepsympathy and intuitive power. The rapidly moving, picturesque, imaginative diction inwhich the poet enlarges on these and many other themes is always suited to its varioussubjects.

Homer's unique descriptive talent enables him to present each personage as a strongly

differentiated individual. The most formidable in the Iliadis Achilles. Savage, sulky and

vindictive, at times, but also the most handsome, eloquent, courteous, generous, wise

and cultured of all heroes, possessing in extreme degree all their virtues and faults. He is

by turns lustful for imperishable fame, valorous in battle, and furiously sensitive to insults

- in short, he is the most nearly complete exponent of the Homeric code of honor, which,

for good or evil, is one of the Iliad's outstanding contributions to the social history of the

world.

Virgil,Latin poet, was born in 70 B.C. and died in 19 B.C. His birthplace was Andes nearMantua (Mantova) in northern Italy. He seems to have been partly of Etruscan stock. His

father was a farmer or a potter; his mother's name was Magia Polla. They were wellenough off to send their son to be educated at Cremona and Mediolanum (Milan); later,he studied philosophy, rhetoric, and literary subjects at Rome, where he became a friendof the historian Pollio. Virgil made one appearance as speaker at the bar but soonabandoned public life - possibly when the civil war broke out in 49 B.C. - and moved toNeapolis (Naples) to study philosophy under the Epicurean Siro, whose property hesubsequently inherited. When land in Italy was confiscated for settlement by ex-soldiers in41 B.C., Virgil's father was one of those whose holdings were expropriated (perhapspermanently, despite ancient reports to the contrary) and he went to live with his son


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near Neapolis. At the time of the publication of the Eclogues(37 B.C.), however , Virgilwas living Rome; he became a member of the literary circle of Maecenas, trustedcounselor of Augustus and literary patron, to whom he dedicated the Georgics. He alsorecommended his friend Horace to Maecenas, whom the two poets accompanied on ajourney to Brundusium (Brindisi) in 37.

Soon afterward Virgil withdrew again to Campania, where he spent most of the rest of his

life, keeping away from Rome as much as possible: he had residences at Neapolis andNola by favor of Augustus, to whom Maecenas had introduced him. After working foreleven years on theAeneid, he left Italy in 19 B.C. to travel in Greece and Asia Minor,with the intention of staying away for three years while he polished the poem - afterwhich he proposed to devote himself to philosophy. At Athens, however, he metAugustus, who asked him to return home to him. But Virgil, whose health was nevergood, fell ill at Megara and was brought back as far as Brundusium, where he died. Hisbody was buried outside Neapolis, where his tomb was greatly revered in later ages. Heleft instructions that theAeneid, which was still incomplete, should be burned, but

Augustus ordered Virgil's friends Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca to publish it, withexcisions where necessary.

According to Suetonius' On Poets, Virgil had a tall, large figure and looked like acountryman; he was subject to frequent stomach and throat troubles and headaches, andoften suffered from hemorrhages.

Ovid, Latin poet, was born in 43 B.C. and died in A.D. 17. His birthplace was Sulmo(Sulmona) in the territory of Paeligni, east of Rome, where he came of a family of knightly(equestrian) rank. He learned rhetoric at Rome from Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro, theforemost rhetoricians of the time. He also studied at Athens and visited Asia Minor andSicily. The, for a time, he held minor judicial posts at Rome. Subsequently he abandonedthe legal career for poetry, becoming a member of the circle of the statesman and literary

patron Messalla, like his fellow poet Tibullus. Ovid's literary activity gained him aconsiderable reputation among the fashionable Roman upper class. He married threetimes; it was probably his second wife who bore him a daughter (unless the girl was astepdaughter); his third was related to Paullus Fabius Maximus, a close friend of theemperor Augustus.

In A.D. 8, however, when Ovid was the leading poet of the capital, Augustus suddenlybanished him to Tomis on the Black Sea (now Constanta in Rumania). The reasons for theimperial decision are not fully known, but Ovid himself described his offenses as a "poem"


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(perhaps the Art of Love) and an "indiscretion" (error): possibly he was an accomplice inthe adultery of the emperor's granddaughter Julia, who was exiled at the same time, foradultery. At Tomis, a small superficially Hellenized place on the extreme fringe of theempire, perilously subject to barbarian attacks, Ovid remained: neither Augustus (d. A.D.14) nor his successor Tiberius (14-37) ever recalled him.

Ovid is the poet of the middle and later years of Augustus. He was younger than the other

leading elegists. (Propertius and Tibullus) and long outlived them. Much of his workbelongs to a different era from theirs and displays a different character as well, for he wasborn too late to feel emotional commitment to the Augustian regime. He belonged to anew, smart, sophisticated society, less serious in its interests, that now flourished in thecapital. His verse reflects his elaborate rhetorical education. It moves lightly and speedily,exploiting to perfection the elegiac meter the Ovid employed for all his major works(except the Metamorphoses) and transformed into the scintillating instrument of a novelrefinement. The elegy was traditionally "tearful": but he calls it "festive" instead.

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Hesiod

Aeschylus Apuleius Apollonius of Rhodes Theocritus

Hesiod

Hesiod, a poor farmer, was believed to have written in the ninth, sometimes eighthcentury. Hesiod was the author of several significant poems, the most meaningful beingthe Iliad, Odyssey, and Theogony. Hesiod was believed to have been the first man in

Greece to wonder how everything had happened, the world, the sky, the gods,mankind, and to think out an explanation. TheTheogonyis an account of the creationof the universe and the generations of gods, and this has been proven to be very usefulin increasing our knowledge about Greek mythology.

Aeschylus
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Aeschylus was the oldest of the three tragic poets, the other two being Sophocles andEuripides. Except for Aeschylus' Persians, written to celebrate the Greeks victory overthe Persians, all of his plays contain mythological subjects. Along withHomer,theseworks provide the main foundation of our knowledge of Greek mythology.

Apuleius

Apuleius, a Latin writer, was believed to have written in the second century AD. Thefamous love story of Cupid and Psycheis told only by Apuleius, who writing style andpatterns have often said to have mimicked Ovid.

Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes is said to part of a class of poet's known as the Alexandrian poets.They were called this because when they wrote the center of Greek Literature movedfrom Greece to Alexandria in Egypt. Apollonius of Rhodes has been given credit fortelling the tale of Jason and his search for the Golden Fleece, in the everlasting taleof The Quest of the Golden Fleece.

Theocritus

Theocritus is said to be part of the group classed as the Alexandrian Poet's, alongwith Apollonius of Rhodes, Bion and Moschus. His writing style maintained a medianlevel between the gravity of the deeply religious writers and the frivolous writers, suchas Ovid. He maintained a balance that has given us a different perspective on Greekmythology.

The Titans, also known as the elder gods, ruled the earth before theOlympiansoverthrewthem. The ruler of the Titans wasCronuswho was de-throned by his sonZeus.Most ofthe Titans fought with Cronus against Zeus and were punished by being banishedtoTartarus.

Gaea Cronus

Rhea

Oceanus Tethys

Hyperion

Uranus Crius

Phoebe

Thea Prometheus

Epimetheus
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Mnemosyne

Themis Iapetus

Coeus

Atlas

Metis Dione

Gaea

Gaea was Mother Earth. She mated with her sonUranusto produce the remaining Titans.Gaea seemed to have started as a neolithic earth-mother worshipped before the Indo-European invasion that eventually lead to the Hellenistic civilization.

Uranus

Uranus was the sky god and first ruler. He was the son ofGaea,who created him without

help. He then became the husband of Gaea and together they had many offspring,including theCyclopes,theHecatoncheires,and twelve of the Titans.

His rule ended when whenCronus,encouraged by Gaea, castrated him. He either diedfrom the wound or withdrew from earth.

Cronus

Cronus was the ruling Titan who came to power by castrating his FatherUranus.His wifewasRhea.Their offspring were the first of theOlympians.To insure his safety, Cronus ateeach of the children as they were born. This worked until Rhea,unhappy at the loss ofher children, tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock, instead ofZeus.When he grew up,Zeus would revolt against Cronus and the other Titans, defeat them, and banish themtoTartarusin theunderworld.

Cronus managed to escape to Italy, where he ruled as Saturn. The period of his rule wassaid to be the golden age on earth, a time of peace and happiness that was honored bythe Saturnalia feast. During the golden age, the people of the time had no need for laws

or rules; everyone did right and as such, there was no need.

Rhea

Rhea was the wife ofCronus.She was the Titan of the earth and fertility. Cronus made ita practice to swallow their children. To avoid this, Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing arock, saving her sonZeus.
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Rhea's symbol is the moon. She has another symbol, the swan, because it is a gentleanimal. Also, her other symbol is two lions, supposedly the ones that pull her chariot.

Oceanus

Oceanus was the Latin word for the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans believed to bean enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, it was the ocean-stream at theEquator in which floated the habitable hemisphere. This world-ocean was personified as aTitan, a son ofUranusandGaea.Together with his wifeTethys,they produced the riversand six thousand offsprings called the Oceanids.

Tethys

Tethys was the wife ofOceanus.She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, suchas the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about six thousand daughters called theOceanids.

Hyperion

Hyperion was the Titan of light, an early sun god. He was the son ofGaea andUranus.Hemarried his sisterThea.Their children wereHelius (the sun),Selene (the moon),andEos (the dawn).

Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne was the Titan of memory. She slept withZeus for nine nights and gave birthto the nineMuses.

Themis

Themis was the Titan. Her name meaning "law of nature" rather than "human ordinance"was "of good counsel," was the embodiment of divine order, law and custom. She foughtwith Zeus against the other Titans. She was the mother of theFates andtheHorae (Seasons).
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Iapetus

Iapetus was the father ofPrometheus,Epimetheus,Menoetius, andAtlas byClymene.

Coeus

Coeus was the Titan of Intelligence. He was the father ofLeto and Asteria.

Cruis

Cruis married his sister Eurybia and became the father of Astraeus, Pallas and Perses.

Phoebe

Phoebe was Titan of the Moon. She was the mother ofLeto and Asteria.

Thea

She, along with her brotherHyperion,was the mother of Helios,Selene andEos.She

seems here a goddess of glittering in particular and of glory in general.

Prometheus

Prometheus was the wisest Titan. His name meant "forethought" and he was able toforetell the future. He was the son ofIapetus.WhenZeusrevolted againstCronus,Prometheus deserted the other Titans and fought on Zeus' side.

By some accounts, he and his brother Epimetheuswere delegated by Zeusto create man.In all accounts, Prometheus was known as the protector and benefactor of man. He gavemankind a number of gifts including fire. He also tricked Zeus into allowing man to keepthe best part of the animals sacrificed to the gods and to give the gods the worst parts.

For this Zeuspunished Prometheus by having him chained to a rock with an eagle tearingat his liver. He was to be left there for all eternity or until he agreed to disclose to Zeuswhich of Zeus' children would try to replace him. He was eventually rescuedbyHerculeswithout giving in to Zeus.
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Epimetheus

Epimetheus was a stupid Titan, whose name meant "afterthought". He was the sonof Iapetus. In some accounts, he was delegated, along with hisbrother Prometheusby Zeusto create mankind. He also accepted the gift of Pandora from

Zeus, which lead to the introduction of evil into the world.

Atlas

Atlas was the son of Iapetus. Unlike his brothers Prometheusand Epimetheus, Atlasfought with the other Titans supporting Cronusagainst Zeus. Due to Cronus's advanceage, Atlas led the Titan's in battle. As a result, he was singled out by Zeus for a specialpunishment and was forced to hold up the world on his back.

Metis

Metis was the Titaness of the forth day and the planet Mercury. She presided over allwisdom and knowledge. She was seduced byZeusand became pregnant withAthena.Zeus became concerned over prophecies that her second child would replace Zeus. Toavoid this Zeus ate her. It was said that she was the source for Zeus' wisdom and thatshe still advises Zeus from his belly.

It may seem odd for Metis to have been pregnant withAthenabut, never mentioned asher mother. This was because the classic Greeks believed that children were generatedsolely from the father's sperm. The women was thought to be nothing more than a vesselfor the fetus to grow in. Since Metis was killed well before Athena's birth, her role doesn'tcount.

Dione

According to Homerin the Iliad, she is the mother ofAphrodite.
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Aeacus Aeolus Amphitrite Asclepius

Asopus Castor Charon Clymene Demeter Dionysus Eos

Erinyes Eris Eros Fates

Graces Hebe Helius Horae Iris Leto Maia

Muses Nereus Nemesis Pan

Persephone Pollux Selene Thanatos Thetis Triton

Aeacus

Aeacus was the son of Aegina and Zeus. Hebecame king of the island of Aegina.Hera,ealous thatZeushad carried on with Aegina,sent a plague to the island. Zeus repopulated theisland by turning ants into humans. Aeacusbecame the leader of these people, who wereknown as Myrmidons. Aeacus had two sons,Telamon andPeleus.After his death, he becamea judge in theUnderworld.

Aeolus

Aeolus was the god of winds. He lived on afloating island. He had six daughters and sixsons, who were married to one another. HegaveOdysseusa bag of winds to aid him on hisourney home from Troy. When Odysseus' menopened the bag and released the winds, Aeolusrefused to help him again.

Amphitrite

A Nereid, granddaughter ofOceanuswho wasthe wife ofPoseidon.She was the motherofTriton.She was often a frequent subject in
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Roman mosaics.

Asclepius

The god of healing. His symbol was a snake. His

parents wereApolloand Coronis. His birth wasaccompanied by scandal. While carrying him,Coronis slept with Ischys. This was considered aninsult. The act was reported to Apollo by a crow.Apollo turned all crows, until then white, to blackto mark that they were untrustworthy. Apollothen felt compelled to slay Coronis with hisarrows. He rescued Asclepius from her funeralpyre.

Asclepius was raised byChiron.Chiron taughthim healing which he went on toperfect.Athenagave him two vialsofGorgon'sblood. Blood from the right side ofthe Gorgon revived life. Blood from the left killed.Asclepius started using the blood to raise deadmortals. For this overstepping ofbounds,Zeuskilled him with a thunderbolt.

Apollo could not take revenge on Zeus himself.So he killed theCyclopesthat forged thethunderbolt.

Asopus

Asopus was a river god. Sometimes, he wascalled the son ofOceanusandTethys,

sometimes the son ofPoseidonand Pero, andsometimes the son ofZeusand Eurynome. Hemarried Metope and became the father ofAegina. He caught Zeus lying with his daughter.Zeus fled, but later blasted Asopus with athunderbolt. Aegina became the motherofAeacus.
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Castor

Castor was the brother ofPolluxand Helen. Ledawas their mother. Castor and Pollux lived half oftheir time on earth and half of the time in

heaven. Both Castor and Pollux were theprotectors of sailors. They were also verypowerful in battle.

It was said that onlyPolluxwas divine butbecause of Pollux's love for Castor, the Godsallowed them to spend alternate days onMountOlympusand in theunderworld.

Charon

Charon was the ferryman who takes the souls ofthe dead across the River Styx on a barge. It wascustomary in antiquity to bury a person with acoin between his or her teeth to pay Charon forpassage across the river. Several living peoplemanaged to gain passage from

Charon;Orpheusaccomplished it by charmingCharon with his singing,Herculesintimidatedhim, andAeneasbribed him with the GoldenBough.

Clymene

Clymene was the daughter

ofOceanus andTethys.She was the motherofAtlas,Menoetius,Prometheus,andEpimetheus byIapetus.She was the motherofPhaethon and a number of girls known as theHeliades byHelius.She was married to KingMerops of Egypt.
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Demeter

Demeter was the goddess of corn, grain, and theharvest. She was the daughterofCronus andRhea.It was Demeter that makesthe crops grow each year. The first loaf of breadfrom the harvest was sacrificed to her.

Demeter was intimately associated with theseasons. Her daughter,Persephone,wasabducted byHades to be his wife intheunderworld.In her anger at her daughter'sloss, Demeter laid a curse on the world thatcaused plants to wither and die, the land becamedesolate.Zeus became alarmed and soughtPersephone's return. However, because she had

eaten while in the underworld, Hades had a claimon her. Therefore, it was decreed thatPersephone would spend four months each yearin the underworld. During these months Demetergrieved her daughter's absence, and withdrewher gifts from the world, creating winter. Herreturn brought the spring.

Demeter was also known for founding theEleusinian Mysteries. These were huge festivals

held every five years. They were importantevents for many centuries. Yet, little was knownof them as those attending were sworn tosecrecy. The central tenant seemed to have beenthat just as grain returns every spring after itsharvest and wintery death, so too the humansoul could be reborn after the death of the body.

Dionysus

Dionysus was the god of the vine. He inventedwine and spread the art of tending grapes. Hehad a dual nature. On one hand, he brought joyand divine ecstasy. On the other hand, hebrought brutality, thoughtlessness and rage. Thisreflected both sides of wine's nature. If hechooses, Dionysus can drive a man mad. No
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normal fetters can hold him or his followers.

Dionysus was the son ofZeus and Semele. Hewas the only god to have a mortal parent. Zeuscame to Semele in the night, invisible, felt onlyas a divine presence. Semele was pleased to be alover of a god, even though she did not know

which one. Word soon got aroundandHera quickly assumed who was responsible.Hera went to Semele in disguise and convincedher she should see her lover as he really was.When Zeus next came to her, she made himpromise to grant her one wish. She went so faras to make him swear on theRiver Styx that hewould grant her request. Zeus was madly in loveand agreed. She then asked him to show her his

true form. Zeus, was unhappy, and knew whatwould happen but, having sworn he had nochoice. He appeared in his true form and Semelewas instantly burnt to a crisp by the sight of hisglory. Zeus did manage to rescue Dionysus andstitched him into his thigh to hold him until hewas ready to be born. His birth from Zeus aloneconferred immortality upon him.

Dionysus' problems withHera were not yet over.She was still jealous and arranged fortheTitans to kill him. The Titans ripped him intoto pieces. However,Rhea brought him back tolife. After this, Zeus arranged for his protectionand turned him over the mountain nymphs to beraised.

Dionysus wandered the world activelyencouraging his cult. He was accompanied by the

Maenads, wild women, flush with wine, shouldersdraped with a fawn skin, carrying rods tippedwith pine cones. While other gods had temples,the followers of Dionysus worshipped him in thewoods. Here, they might go into mad stateswhere they would rip apart and eat raw anyanimal they came upon.

Dionysus was also one of the very few that was
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byAphrodite who was angry with Eos for havingan affair with her loverAres.These included:Orion, Cleitus, Cephalus, and Tithonus.

Cephalus, a happily married man who wasallowed to return to his wife only after hefathered Phaethon (not to be confused with

Helius' son by the same name).

Tithonus was of royal Trojan blood. Their twosons were Emathion and Memnon. Tithonuscame to an unfortunate end. Eos was so happywith him that she askedZeus to make him animmortal. This Zeus granted. Unfortunately, sheforgot to ask that he be made ageless as well. Asa result he eventually ended up as a horribly

shriveled, paralyzed, babbling old man. Eosfinally changed him into the first cicada to puthim out of his (and her) misery.

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