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  Althaemenes
In Greek mythology, Althaemenes was a son of Catreus and brother of Apemosyne.
Althaemenes took Apemosyne and left Crete for Rhodes.
Althaemenes and others attacked the ship, and the prophesy came to pass; Catreus died at the hands of his son.
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 Althaemenes
In Greek mythology, Althaemenes was a son of Catreus, brother of Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene.
Althaemenes and others attacked the 'invaders', and the prophecy came to pass; Catreus died at the hands of his son, from a javelin blow.
Now Catreus hid the oracles, but Althaemenes heard of them, and fearing to be his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes, and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.
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  Althaemenes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Althaemenes was a son of Catreus, brother of Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene.
Althaemenes took Apemosyne and left Crete for Rhodes.
There she was raped by Hermes, who had captured her by skinning animals and leaving their slippery hides in her path.
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 Althaemenes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Greek mythology, Althaemenes was a son of Catreus and brother of Apemosyne.
An oracle told Althaemenes that he would murder his own father.
Althaemenes and others attacked the ship, and the prophesy came to pass; Catreus died at the hands of his son.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Althaemenes   (117 words)

  
 Catreus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He had one son, Althaemenes, and three daughters, Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene.
Catreus gave his other daughters to Nauplius to be sold off in foreign lands: Aerope married Pleisthenes, and Clymene married Nauplius himself.
Althaemenes and others attacked the 'invaders', and the prophecy came to pass; Catreus died at the hands of his son, from a javelin blow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catreus   (162 words)

  
 Catreus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Later Hermes fell in love with Althaemenes' sister Apemosyne, but she, being faster in running than the god, which sounds indeed extraordinary, fled away from him, and Hermes was unable to catch her.
Apemosyne came home and told Althaemenes what had happened, but he, believing the story of the god to be a mere pretext, kicked her to death.
Apemosyne emigrated to Rhodes with Althaemenes, who killed her after she was seduced by Hermes.
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 Althaemenes
An oracle had prophesied that Catreus would be killed by his son Althaemenes (or, according to other sources, by one of his children) and so Althaemenes and Apemosyne, together with other people, left Crete and sailed for Rhodes.
When she told Althaemenes to have been impregnated by a god he did not believe her and kicked her to death.
Althaemenes and his men attacked the ship and he killed his father in the ensuing battle with a blow from his javelin, thus fulfilling the prophecy.
www.pantheon.org /articles/a/althaemenes.html   (223 words)

  
 Geographia: Islands
Althaemenes, son of Catreus and grandson of Minos, had fled from Crete, when he heard the oracle that one of Catreus' children would kill the Catreus.
Althaemenes took his sister Apemosyne with him to the island.
Althaemenes did believe his sister's claim about the rape, and he kicked Apemosyne to death.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/islands.html   (3721 words)

  
 Althaemenes Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Althaemenes
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 Minoan Crete
Fearing that he would be the one to murder his father, Althaemenes fled to the island Rhodes, taking his sister Apemosyne with him.
When Althaemenes saw this, he did not believe her about who had raped her.
With the death of Catreus and his son, Althaemenes, Catreus' nephew, Idomeneus became king of Crete.
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 Rhodes
Althaemenes, wishing to foil an oracle which had foretold that he would kill his father, Catreus, left Crete and settled on Rhodes, where he founded a settlement to which he gave the name of Cretenia, a reference to his homeland.
After many years, Catreus arrived on the island in search of his only son, but Althaemenes did not recognise his father at a distance, and, thinking that he was a pirate killed him, thus fulfilling the oracle.
Another hero of myth, Tlepolemos, is associated with the settling of the Dorians on RW des.
www.rodosnet.gr /AboutRhodes/History.htm   (863 words)

  
 GTP
Daughter of Catreus, loved by Hermes, with his brother Althaemenes set out from Crete to Rhodes, killed by her brother.
Now Catreus hid the oracles, but Althaemenes heard of them, and fearing to be his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes, and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.
In the grip of old age Catreus yearned to transmit the kingdom to his son Althaemenes, and went for that purpose to Rhodes.
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 Diotima
The son of Catreus who was told by an oracle that one of his four children would kill him.
Althaemenes somehow learned of the oracle and left to avoid fulfilling it.
While they [cowherds] were throwing rocks at him Althaemenes arrived, threw his javelin, and killed him, not knowing that he was his father.
www.stoa.org /diotima/essays/garrison_catalogue2.shtml   (4708 words)

  
 Dictionary: Aetnaeus to Althaemenes, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
In this reference ancient names are usually kept (for example Libya = Africa).
Althaemenes emigrated from Crete to Rhodes following an oracle.
There he became the murderer of his sister Apemosyne, kicking her to death.
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 Aerope, Greece, Greek mythology
Catreus had been told that one of his children would kill him one day and so he made sure to get rid of them.
His son Althaemenes and daughter Apemosyne left willingly, but Aerope and her sister Clymene were given to Nauplius to be sold abroad.
Because Pleisthenes was sickly, he died young, and so Atreus decided to marry his daughter-in-law and adopt his grandchildren.
www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/aerope.htm   (116 words)

  
 Apemosyne - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Greek mythology, Apemosyne was a daughter of Catreus and sister of Althaemenes.
Althaemenes and others attacked the ship, and the prophecy came to pass; Catreus died at the hands of his son.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Apemosyne contains research on
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Apemosyne   (117 words)

  
 Althaemens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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They are more likely than other sellers to charge a Althaemens price and point out any problems with the car.
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 Althaemenes Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 ZEUGMA Tarihçesi
One dark day, an oracle envisaged that Catreus would be slain by his son, Althaemenes.
In the battle that followed, Althaemenes drove his blade deep into his father's heart and the prophecy came to pass.
Though the son never forgave himself for what he had done, to the people of Rhodes … he was their hero.
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 World Mythology Encyclopedia, Greek Mythology, Norse, Roman, Egyptian, Celtic Mythology
Death must strike him down in the traditional style which he thought to abolish: the New Year Child riding on dolphin-back will run him through with a sting-ray spear.
Much the same fate overtook Catreus of Rhodes: his son Althaemenes accidentally speared him on the beach.
Sting-ray spears, also used by the Polynesians, cause inflamed wounds, which the Greeks and Latins held to be incurable; the sting-ray (trygon pastinaca) is common in the Mediterranean.
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