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Theseus - Perseus

Author: Menelaos Stefanidis

Like all the greatest heroes of Greek myths, Perseus could trace his ancestry back to the very beginnings of time. In fact, his line first sprang from Chaos and Mother Earth, whose best-known children...

Like all the greatest heroes of Greek myths, Perseus could trace his ancestry back to the very beginnings of time. In fact, his line first sprang from Chaos and Mother Earth, whose best-known children were the Titans. The most renowned of these, Oceanus, was the father of all the rivers of the world and his son, the river-god Inachus, became the first to...

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  • Age Age under 7 years old years
  • Item Mythology
  • Language English
  • Number of pages Number of pages 256
  • Cover Cover Soft
  • Year of publication Year of publication 2004
  • Publisher Publisher Sigma

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Like all the greatest heroes of Greek myths, Perseus could trace his ancestry back to the very beginnings of time. In fact, his line first sprang from Chaos and Mother Earth, whose best-known children were the Titans. The most renowned of these, Oceanus, was the father of all the rivers of the world and his son, the river-god Inachus, became the first to rule in Argos and the founder of a line that numbered not only Perseus but even Heracles among its ranks. While Inachus built Argos, and Perseus became that city's mightiest hero, many of the generations that were born between these two lived far away from Greece. How that came about is recounted in the myth of lo, Inachus' unlucky daughter, who was loved by Zeus but hounded from her home by the jealous fury of his wife Hera. Mercilessly hunted down, lo finally reached the banks of the Nile and there gave birth to Epaphus, who was destined to become the first of all the kings of Egypt. How the descendants of the unhappy lo eventually re-established themselves in the city of their forebears is the subject of this tragic story. (...) (from the publisher)

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Author
Menelaos Stefanidis
Publisher
Sigma
Original Title
Theseus - Perseus
Type
Mythology
Language
English
Age
under 7 years old years
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
256
Release Date
2/2004
Publication Date
2004
Dimensions
12x17 cm
ISBN-13
9789604250752

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