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	Greek mythology A-M - All About Turkey
		In Greek mythology Astraea was the daughter of Zeus and Themis, the goddess of justice.
		In Greek mythology, Eteocles was a son of the incestuous union of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Polynices.
		In Greek mythology Ion was the son of Apollo and the Arthenian princess Creusa, whom Apollo raped on the Acropolis.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /sozlukmit1.htm (7737 words)

	Cyrene
		Cyrene Vase of Arcesilaus: Weighing of Silphium in the presence of King Arcesilaus II of Cyrene 560-c.
		Cyrene - a daughter of the Naiad Creusa, and the, King of the Lapiths Hypsaeus the city Cyrene and the regions Cyrenaica named after her.
		Cyrene is the birthplace of the philosophers Aristippus, Callimachus, Carneades, Eratosthenes and Synesius; the latter, a convert to Christianity, died Bishop of Ptolemais.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Cyrene.html (801 words)

	Cyrene - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Cyrene (city), ancient city in North Africa, located on the site of what is now Shaḩḩāt, Libya.
		Aristaeus, in Greek mythology, son of the god Apollo and the nymph Cyrene.
		He was worshiped as the protector of hunters, herdsmen, and flocks and as...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Cyrene.html (110 words)

	Cyrene
		This myth has Cyrene wrestling a lion which was attacking her father's sheep.
		The god Apollo, passing by, saw this and immediately fell in love with her.
		He carried her off to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene, on the coast of North Africa).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cyrene.html (91 words)

	the oracle :: bssm encyclopaedia
		Cyrene is a female youma controlled by Jadeite in episode 006 to help him gather energy from human beings in order to revive Queen Metallia.
		Cyrene was given a special audio cassette that contained subliminal sound waves that would drain energy from humans, and was sent to Jam Records to replace a master tape in the recording studio with it.
		Cyrene reported to Jadeite that she had failed her mission, and he replied that her life would soon be over unless she recovered the tape.
	www.soul-hunter.com /sailormoon/profiles/villains/motd/cyrene.php (544 words)

	Cyrene - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Cyrene (city), ancient city in North Africa, located on the site of what is now Shaḩḩāt, Libya.
		Cyrene, the ancient Greek city (in present-day Libya) was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region and gave eastern Libya the classical name...
		Cyrene can refer to: Cyrene, a figure from Greek mythology; Cyrene, a Greek colony in Libya (north Africa) The USS Cyrene (AGP-13), a motor torpedo boat tender; 133 Cyrene, an...
	encarta.msn.com /Cyrene.html (223 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Greek &. Roman Mythology (A-M)
		In Greek mythology, Alcyone is the goddess of the sea, the moon, calm and tranquility; She who brings life to death and death to life.
		In Greek mythology, the charybdis was a whirlpool formed by a monster of the same name on one side of the narrow straits of Messina, Sicily, opposite the monster Scylla.
		In Greek mythology, the cornucopia was one of the horns of the goat Amaltheia, which was caused by Zeus to refill itself indefinitely with food and drink.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/D1A.HTM (7718 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		According to Greek mythology, Cyrene (Kyrene) was the daughter of the naiad Creusa and the mortal Hypseus, king of the Lapiths.
		Cyrene was beseiged, and at the height of the seige, a republican coup within the city prompted the oligarchs and upper class to flee, many taking refuge with Thibron and others trekking to Egypt to plead for Ptolemaic intervention.
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

	CYRENE : Princess or nymph of Thessaly ; Greek mythology : KYRENE
		KYRENE (or Cyrene) was a Thessalian princess, the daughter of King Hypseus of the Lapiths.
		CYRE′NE (Kurênê), a daughter of Hypseus or Peneius by Chlidanope, a granddaughter of Peneius and Creusa, was beloved by Apollo, who carried her from mount Pelion to Libya, where Cyrene derived its name from her.
		This is the whole cause of the sickness, and hence it is that the Nymphs, with whom she used to tread the dance in the deep groves, have sent this wretched havoc on your bees.
	www.theoi.com /Heroine/Kyrene.html (2647 words)

	Heroines
		Cyrene was the daughter of Hypseus, a Lapith king in Thessaly.
		Cyrene was probably an attendant of Artemis, and she was renowned for her skill in hunting.
		Apollo spirited the nymph across the sea to Libya, where the god seduced her and Cyrene bore a son named Aristaeüs (Aristaeus), who became a minor agricultural god, and Idmon, who was a warrior seer and an Argonaut.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/heroines.html (9086 words)

	Mythology
		Some of their children were: Apollo, god of the sun, music and medicine; his twin Diana, goddess of the hunt; Hercules, man of strength; Neptune or Poseidon, god of the ocean; and Minerva goddess of crafting and wisdom (she and the Three Graces wove all the clothes and sails for the gods).
		Even though Greek mythology has been in existence for at least 5,000 years, there are no followers of this ancient religion, even though it has influenced our lives in our language, literature, culture, customs, politics, astronomy, and our calendar.
		The inhabitants of Cyrene crowned themselves with fig wreaths when sacrificing to Saturn holding him to be the discoverer of the fruit.
	www.herbsociety-stu.org /Mythology.htm (3203 words)

	Cyrene. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Cyrene submitted to the Persians under Cambyses II (see under Cambyses), but later (after 480
		Although the city became subject to Alexander the Great in 331 and was later practically annexed by the Ptolemies of Egypt, it seems to have had nominal independence until the marriage of Berenice (d.
		At its prime Cyrene was a large and beautiful city and an intellectual center noted for its schools of medicine and philosophy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cy/Cyrene.html (256 words)

	Pagan-Christianity Today Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DEMETER, in Greek mythology, goddess of corn and the harvest, and daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea.
		In early mythology he was represented as one of the primeval forces of nature, the son of Chaos, and the embodiment of the harmony and creative power in the universe.
		MEMNON, in Greek mythology, king of Ethiopia, the son of the Trojan prince Tithonus and of Eos, goddess of the dawn.
	biblicalstudies.qldwide.net.au /pagan_christianity_today_part2.html (12483 words)

	Chiron, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		As it is told, not even Apollo knew, or seemed to know, who Cyrene was when he found her near Mount Pelion without spears wrestling alone with a lion.
		After this, Apollo carried Cyrene off to that part of the land of Libya where in later times he founded a city and named it, after her, Cyrene.
		Cyrene, who was daughter of King Hypseus 1 of the LAPITHS, gave birth to Aristaeus, who himself became a disciple of Chiron, and the discoverer of honey and the olive.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Chiron.html (1874 words)

	Jason of Cyrene: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The aim of the present volume...Eratosthcnes came from Cyrene, Asclepiades from...looked to Callimachus of Cyrene as the leading poetic...story of the quest of Jason and the Argonauts...
		Their king, Aristaeus, son of Apollo and Cyrene, and father of Actaeon, asked his father by...and placed its gilded fleece in the temple of Mars-the very fleece which.
		Claiming to be the condensation of a history of the Maccabees by one Jason of Cyrene, it is a devout treatment of Judas Maccabeus career and of Jews persecuted at the hands of Antiochus.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/jason-of-cyrene.jsp?l=J&p=1 (646 words)

	the oracle :: bssm encyclopaedia
		Cyrene prepares to attack Akiko, but another employee suddenly appears and tells Akiko that Yusuke is in the lobby waiting for her.
		Cyrene takes the Dark Kingdom tape back, and decides to kill the pianist for "wasting her time." As she prepares to strike, Usagi calls out from the stairs.
		Cyrene flies out the window, and Usagi transforms into Sailor Moon with "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" Cyrene lands at a nearby concert hall, but Sailor Moon is already there waiting for her.
	soul-hunter.com /sailormoon/television/summaries/006.php (1805 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 31 (v. 3)
		It seems certain that he was still left by Ptolemy at this time in the government of Cyrene, which he probably continued to hold on behalf of the Egyptian king until about the year b.
		Yet it could not have been long after that he availed himself of the continued disaffection of that people towards Egypt to assume the government of Cyrene as an independent state.
		The continual wars in which Ptolemy was engaged against Antigonus, and the natural difficulties of assailing Cyrene, secured him against invasion ; and he appears to have continued in undisputed possession of the country for near five years.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2365.html (1041 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Aristaeus
		, in Greek mythology, son of Apollo and Cyrene, especially honored as the inventor of beekeeping.
		Supposedly, the music of his lyre was so beautiful that when he played, wild beasts were soothed, trees danced, and rivers stood still.
		Age Of Fable Or Beauties Of Mythology: Chapter XXIV: Orpheus, Eurydice, Aristaeus, Amphion, Linus, Thamyris, et al.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Aristaeus (845 words)

	Cyrene, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Apollo found Cyrene wrestling alone with a lion and carried her off to that part of Libya where in later times he founded a city and named it, after her, Cyrene.
		Others have said that Apollo carried Cyrene off, not when she was wrestling with a lion but while she was tending her sheep along the marsh-meadow of the river Peneus (which flows from the foot of Mt. Pindus in Thessaly).
		By either Apollo or by Abas 3 (son of Melampus 1, son of Amythaon 1, son of Cretheus 1, son of Aeolus 1) Cyrene became mother of Idmon 2, Coeranus 1, and Lysimache 1.
	www.maicar.com /GML/Cyrene.html (1585 words)

	Cyrene, Greece, Greek mythology
		The daughter of Hypseus and Chlidanope, Cyrene was not the least bit interested in men and marriage, and was completely dedicated to hunting on Mt. Pelion.
		This was too much for the god, and he abducted the young woman and made her queen of Libya, where a city with her name was founded.
		Cyrene had Diomedes, who became king in Thrace, where he fed his horses with human flesh.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/cyrene.htm (153 words)

	Mind-N-Magick Wicca & Pagan Glossary - Letter C
		Ceres, in Roman mythology, equivalent to the Greek Demeter, daughter of Saturn and Rhea, wife-sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter, sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pluto, and patron of Sicily.
		In Maya mythology, Chac (sometimes spelled "Chaac") was the god of rain and thunder, and important as a fertility and agriculture god.
		In Etruscan mythology, Charun was a demon who tortured dead souls in the Underworld, as well as the guardian of the entrance to the underworld.
	mind-n-magick.com /glossary/glossary.php?letter=C (2101 words)

	Cyrene
		Cyrene (AGP-13) was launched 8 February 1944 as Cape Farewell by Pusey and Jones Corp., Wilmington, Del., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs.
		Departing Norfolk 10 November 1944, Cyrene arrived at Manus 13 December to escort two squadrons of motor torpedo boats to Hollandia, New Guinea, then sailed on convoy duty to Leyte, P.I., arriving 1 January 1945.
		Cyrene was decommissioned 2 July 1946 and delivered to the War Shipping Administration for disposal the same day.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c16/cyrene.htm (173 words)

	About Classical Mythology
		In Greek mythology, the Hellenes were descendants of Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, survivors of the Deluge.
		So at least in mythology, the Hellenes were already living in Greece during the Bronze Age, which is of course not possible.
		Before the Romans became interested in Greek mythology, it was the Etruscan religion that had influenced early Roman religion, particularly in their own beliefs, customs and rites.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/aboutgreek.html (8049 words)

	The Myth
		Harmonia, in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite and the wife of Cadmus, founder of Thebes.
		She was slain by the hero Hercules when he took from her, as one of his labours, the girdle given to her by her father.
		Ares' son, Ascalaphus, born to Astyoche, was one of the Argonauts, one of the suitors of Helen, and one of the Achaean Leaders.
	www.geocities.com /the_temple_of_ares/themyth.html (1137 words)

	felson
		The former ode begins and ends at the land of Cyrene, and in between the hometown audience is taken vicariously to the land of their own insemination, the island of Thera (cf.
		The performance of the latter ode is situated around the Gardens of Aphrodite at Cyrene: from that origo, or deictic center, the ode bids Arcesilas welcome home the driver of his victorious chariot, his brother-in-law Carrotus.
		I find a Theban reading to be the more satisfying, with the poet pleading for his hometown audience to treat Telesicrates as their own, since, by the maxim of the old--man-of-the-sea, he deserves the encomium that he here and now receives.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/01mtg/abstracts/felson.html (543 words)

	Amazons - All About Turkey
		According to Greek mythology, Amazons were a warlike tribe of women descended from the god of war, Ares and the naiad Harmonia.
		She was one of the queens who helped found the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyrene, and Myrina.
		After settling down to rule her empire, she was called back to the battlefield to defend it from the uprising of her subjects and lost her life in the process.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /amazon.htm (1393 words)

	Cyrene (AGP-13)
		In Greek mythology, a nymph beloved of Apollo.
		Cyrene (AGP-13) was launched 8 February 1944 as Cape Farewell by Pusey and Jones Corp., Wilmington, Del., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsered by Mrs.
		She sailed from Samar 21 December 1945 and arrived at San Francisco 7 January 1946, reporting to the 12th Naval District for repair work in decommissioning small craft.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/auxil/agp13.htm (157 words)

	THEOI GREEK MYTHOLOGY, Exploring Mythology & the Greek Gods in Classical Literature & Art
		Analysis and commentary of the texts and interpretations of the stories and the personas of Greek mythology is currently beyond the scope of the Theoi Project.
		Bronte and Astrape goddesses of thunder and lightning.
		Arachne ; Deucalion ; Salmoneus ; Antiope, Callisto, Coronis, Cyparissus, Cyrene, Danae, Evadne, Hyacinthus, Leda, Tyro.
	www.theoi.com (673 words)

	Resources on Cyrene academic institutions
		Cyrene: The daughter of the naiad Creusa and the mortal Hypseus, king of the Lapiths,and granddaughter of the river god Peneus.
		Cyrene and the Cyrenaica: Cyrene was founded in c.630 BCE as a colony of the Greek island town Thera,...From now on, Cyrene and the Cyrenaica were part of the Ptolemaean empire,
		Cyrene (Cyre`ne), a town and Greek colony in Africa, E. of Egypt,extensive ruins of which still exist, and which was the capital of the State,
	mongabay.org /conservation/Cyrene.htm (2501 words)

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