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	Ovid's Heroides II: Introduction and Commentary
		Demophoon is the son of Theseus, king of Athens.
		She reminds Demophoon of his broken promises ("the joining of hand to hand," and "the promised bond of Hymen"), and of the gods he swore by--Neptune ("your grandfather"), Venus, and Ceres ("the torchbearing goddess").
		Compared to these heroic deeds, Demophoon has only one exploit to be inscribed on his statue--the "fraud" which "deceived the lover who welcomed him." All that Demophoon has inherited of his father's character, she says, is the shameful episode of Theseus' desertion of Ariadne ("his deserted Cretan bride").
	english.edgewood.edu /heroides/hero02ic.htm (2404 words)

	Ovid's Heroides II: Notes and Resources
		Demophoon (or Demophon) fought on the Greek side in the war against Troy, and stayed in Thrace during his return home.
		In some legends, Demophoon also acquired the Palladium--an image of the goddess Minerva (Greek: Athena, or Pallas Athena), which had been the sacred protection of the city of Troy--and took it back to Athens, where it protected that city from disaster or conquest.
		Demophoon's father, Theseus, was reputed to be the son of Neptune rather than of Aegeus.
	english.edgewood.edu /heroides/hero02n.htm (2392 words)

	Ovid - Olga's Gallery
		Phyllis was a Thracian queen who fell in love with Demophoon, son of Theseus and Phaedra, when he stayed at her court on his return from the Trojan wars.
		They married but Demophoon deserted her in several months and went to Athens on a visit, having promised to return in a month.
		When at last Demophoon came back to Thrace and found out about Phyllis, he ran to the almond-tree and embraced it.
	www.abcgallery.com /liter/ovid.html (685 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 180 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This was at the time when Theseus, on his return from the lower regions, found Menestheus in possession of the sovereignty of Attica, and was anxious to emigrate to Scyros.
		In the post-Homeric story Demophoon and Acamas march to Troy with their protector Elephenor.
		When Diflmedes was thrown upon the coast of Attica on his return from Troy, and began to plunder it in ignorance of where he was, Demophoon took the Palladium from him.
	ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0183.html (829 words)

	Phyllis Information
		She was the daughter of Lycurgus, King of Thrace who married Demophoon, son of Theseus, while he stopped in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan war.
		Demophoon, duty bound to Greece, returns home to help his father, leaving Phyllis behind.
		She sends him away with a coffin with the sacrament of Rhea, asking him to open it only when he has given up hope of returning to her.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Phyllis (172 words)

	Watercolour - Phyllis and Demophoon - Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Information Centre
		On his eventual return, Demophoon remorsefully embraces the tree, which blooms, as Phyllis emerges to forgive and reclaim her faithless lover.
		Both Phyllis and Demophoon are modelled on Maria Zambaco, the Anglo-Greek sculptress and medallist with whom Burne-Jones had been having an affair since June 1868 (a host of studies exist for both figures, in various locales).
		And for this reason, in conjunction with Demophoon's nudity, a controversy ensued when it was exhibited at the Old Watercolour Society for the Summer Exhibition of 1870.
	www.bmagic.org.uk /objects/1916P37 (340 words)

	Babbo Ristorante
		Phyllis was the Queen of Thrace who married Demophoon, the son of Thesus and Phaedra.
		Demophoon left Phyllis to visit Athens, promising to return in a month.
		When he did not return, Phyllis was so heartbroken and distraught, the gods took pity upon her and turned her into an almond tree.
	www.babbonyc.com /dolci-sweet_almonds_puglia.html (763 words)

	The Eleusinian Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Herm: So the Goddess took the child Demophoon in Her fragrant bosom with Her divine hands and his mother was glad in her heart.
		And She straightway banished the divine fire with one wave of Her hand, and Demophoon was left lying upon the hearth as if dead.
		Demeter (to Demophoon): A grain of wheat is sown in silence.
	www.fellowshipofisis.com /liturgy/panthea10.html (2715 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION- MARIA ZAMBACO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Edward Burne-Jones, part of the second phase of Pre-Raphaelitism used Zambaco as a model for Phyllis in his 1870 painting "Phyllis and Demophoon".
		When he does not return, Phyllis is distraught and the gods alleviate her suffering by turning her into an almond tree.
		Demophoon eventually returns to Thrace and upon learning of Phyllis' status goes to hug the tree which momentarily is restored as the Queen.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /zambaco7.html (146 words)

	Tree legends
		She married Demophoon, the son of Theseus and Phadra.
		Demophoon was called to Athens when his father died.
		When Demophoon returned he was overwhelmed with guilt and grief and went to the tree which had formerly been his wife.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/flowers/pcd39.html (2751 words)

	Death and Return in the Myth of Persephone by Kathie Carlson: Journal of Mythic Arts, Spring 2006, Endicott Studio
		So she reared Demophoon, the baby, and he grew strong as a god without any feeding at all.
		In her care of Demophoon, Demeter begins to recall and remanifest her powers as a goddess.
		On the surface, she appears to be merely an old woman, competent in resuming a mothering role with a child.
	www.endicott-studio.com /rdrm/rrpersephone4.html (1231 words)

	Phyllis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was the daughter of Lycurgus, King of Thrace who married Demophoon, son of Theseus, while he stopped in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan war.
		She sends him away with a coffin with the sacrament of Rhea, asking him to open it only when he has given up hope of returning to her.
		Where she is buried, an almond tree grows, which blossoms when Demophoon returns to her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phyllis (195 words)

	Ovid's Heroides II: Notes and Resources
		Aegeus: King of Athens; father (or stepfather) of Theseus and grandfather of Demophoon.
		For more information on the god and goddess of the underworld, see the Encyclopedia Mythica articles on Hades and on Persephone; for accounts of them in various Greek writers and for a number of images, see the University of Victoria Classical Myth page's sections on Hades and on Persephone.
		Venus was also involved in the divine dispute which led ultimately to the Trojan War, in which Demophoon participated--see the note on Paris.
	members.terracom.net /~hunter/heroides/hero02n.htm (3539 words)

	Cornell College: Classical Studies Program
		Demeter shows a similar kindness when she is taken in to be a nanny at the home of Metaneira.
		She attempts to show her gratitude to Demophoon and his parents by making him godlike and immortal.
		Although this plan did not work out because Demophoon's parents misunderstood her, Demeter intention was to reward their favor.
	www.cornellcollege.edu /classical_studies/myth/demeter (964 words)

	Chapter Phyllis <i>to</i> Picrochole's Counsellors of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		After some months of mutual affection, Demophoon was obliged to sail for Athens, but promised to return within a month.
		When a month had elapsed, and Demophoon did not put in an appearance, Phyllis so mourned for him that she was changed into an almond tree, hence called by the Greeks Phylia.
		In time, Demophoon returned, and, being told the fate of Phyllis, ran to embrace the tree, which, though bare and leafless at the time, was instantly covered with leaves, hence called Phylla by the Greeks.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1126/14915/1.html (536 words)

	Demophoon
		The goddess Demeter, wandering in search of her daughter Persephone, became Demophoon's nurse.
		As an act of kindness to those who had sheltered her, she attempted to immortalize him by burning out his mortal parts but was surprised in the act by his mother, who thought that she was harming the boy.
		In another version the surprise resulted in Demophoon's death in the flames.
	fyreangyl.tripod.com /Mythology/demophoo.htm (89 words)

	FAVOUR OF DEMETER : Greek mythology
		When she had so spoken, she took the child in her fragrant bosom with her divine hands: and his mother was glad in her heart.
		And the child grew like some immortal being, not fed with food nor nourished at the breast: for by day Kallistephanos (rich-crowned) Demeter would anoint him with ambrosia as if he were the offspring of a god and breathe sweetly upon him as she held him in her bosom.
		But, as the years move round and when he is in his prime, the sons of the Eleusinians shall ever wage war and dread strife with one another continually.'...
	www.theoi.com /Olympios/DemeterFavour.html (1560 words)

	Metaneira * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		The wife of Keleos (Celeos) and the mother of Demophoon.
		After Persephone was kidnapped by Hades (lord of the Underworld), her mother, Demeter wandered the countryside disguised as an old woman and finally ended up in the city of Eleusis.
		Metaneira hired Demeter as the governess for her young son but when Metaneira caught Demeter immortalizing her son, Demophoon, by placing him in the fireplace, Demeter revealed her divinity and established her shrine at Eleusis.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Metaneira_1.html (282 words)

	Illustrations for "Phantastes" by Bernard Sleigh RBSA, 1872-1954 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Recto: Phyllis and Demophoon; verso (unfinished); by Bernard Sleigh RBSA, 1872-1954.
		An important article in the second volume of the Studio (1893) pointed out that the Birmingham School's style of illustration was deeply indebted to that of Burne-Jones, himself as a native of Birmingham.
		This inspiration can be clearly seen in the present drawings, in the frieze-like use of space and details of heads and fantastic armour in Phantastes and in the very subject of Phyllis and Demophoon which Burne-Jones had treated twice in 1870 and 1882 (20).
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /victorian/painting/misc/sleigh1.html (362 words)

	Demeter: Goddess of the Harvest
		There King Celeus and Queen Metaneira entertained her and graciously offered her the position of wet-nurse to their son Demophoon.
		Iambe, a slave in the house (and the daughter of Pan and Echo), tried to cheer Demeter up with silly lascivious verses (iambic verse probably comes from her efforts).
		Unfortunately, Metaneira came in before the ceremony was complete, and Demophoon died.
	www.paleothea.com /SortaSingles/Demeter.html (1036 words)

	Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Pomegranate Seeds. Page 15
		You may imagine, if you can, how Queen Metanira shrieked, thinking nothing less than that her dear child would be burned to a cinder.
		She burst forth from her hiding-place, and running to the hearth, raked open the fire, and snatched up poor little Prince Demophoon out of his bed of live coals, one of which he was gripping in each of his fists.
		Saying these words, she kissed the little Prince Demophoon, and sighed to think what he had lost, and took her departure without heeding Queen Metanira, who entreated her to remain, and cover up the child among the hot embers as often as she pleased.
	www.pagebypagebooks.com /Nathaniel_Hawthorne/Tanglewood_Tales/The_Pomegranate_Seeds_p15.html (571 words)

	Almond.
		The almond has been cultivated in the Middle East for centuries and is mentioned in the Bible: Aaron's rod was an almond branch.
		According to Greek mythology, the almond was originally a grieving nymph, Phyllis, who had been deserted by her lover, Demophoon, and died of a broken heart.
		The gods took pity on her and changed her into a tree that burst into flower when Demophoon finally returned.
	www.herbs2000.com /herbs/herbs_almond.htm (450 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Almonds - Herb Profile and Information
		A beautiful fable in Greek mythology is associated with the tree.
		Servius relates that Phyllis was changed by the gods into an Almond tree as an eternal compensation for her desertion by her lover Demophoon, which caused her death by grief.
		When too late, Demophoon returned, and when the leafless, flowerless and forlorn tree was shown him, as the memorial of Phyllis, he clasped it in his arms, whereupon it burst forth into bloom - an emblem of true love inextinguishable by death.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/a/almon026.html (2695 words)

	Acamas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When his father was exiled from Athens, he was sent to Euboea with his half-brother Demophoon.
		There, they grew to adulthood and joined Euboea's King Elephenor in the Trojan War, where they fought on the side of the Greeks.
		Acamas and Demophoon are not mentioned in Homer's Iliad, but later authors mention that Acamas was one of the men inside the Trojan Horse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acamas (228 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In looking at the episode involving Metainaera and Demophoon, Demeter was functioning as a potential usurper to the power of Zeus.
		Therefore if Demeter had been able to immortalize Demophoon as she wished, she would have been able to tell Zeus he was a jerk (yet, probably in a little bit harsher terms) and that she didn’t need to compromise with him and Hades, because she could create a new child on her own.
		I am now going to elaborate a bit on some of the narrative that jumps out at me. In doing this, I am able to answer some of the questions that are on the table.
	www.classics.uga.edu /courses/clas4340/workshops/pm_4/sartain_pm4.htm (630 words)

	The Road to Eleusis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She does this be holding him over the hearth by his ankle and anointing him with ambrosia.
		The child's name is Demophoon or "shining for the people." Demeter has taken on the name Doso or "I will give."
		In the story of Eleusis, Demophoon does not become immortal.
	www.angelfire.com /oz/aristotimos/eleusis.html (3999 words)

	ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES
		When the daughters of King Keleos found her there and were kind to her, she went with them to their home, where Queen, Metaneira, engaged the disguised Demeter as a nanny for her son Demophoon.
		When, one night, Metaneira came upon Demeter thus purging her son of his mortality, she screamed in horror at the sight.
		Once her rites were established, Demeter promised to teach Metaneira some special, secret ceremonies-the theological backbone (presumably) of the Eleusinian mysteries.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /eleusinianmysteries.htm (804 words)

	Classical E-Text: OVID, HEROIDES 1 - 5
		When once the horns of the moon should have come together in full orb, our shores were to expect your anchor – the moon has four times waned, and four times waxed again to her orb complete; yet the Sithonian wave brings not the ships of Acte.
		Demophoon, to the winds you gave at once both promised word and sails; your sails, alas!
		DEMOPHOON ‘TWAS SENT PYLLIS TO HER DOOM; HER GUEST WAS HE, SHE LOVED HIM WELL.
	www.theoi.com /Text/OvidHeroides1.html (8113 words)

	Acamas Information
		When his father was exiled from Athens, he was sent to Euboea with his half-brother Demophoon.
		There, they grew to adulthood and joined Euboea's King Elephenor in the Trojan War, where they fought on the side of the Greeks.
		Acamas and Demophoon are not mentioned in Homer's Iliad, but later authors mention that Acamas was one of the men inside the Trojan Horse.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Acamas (196 words)

	Computerlove™ - Connecting Creative Talents / High Trousers and Cigars
		Demophoon must return home to help his father and leave Phyllis behind.
		There are two endings to the story, one, Phyllis commits suicide and where she is buried an almond tree grows to where Demophoon eventually returns, and two, Demophoon opens the coffin and accidentally falls on his own sword (oops).
		So Phyllis sends both Demophoon and mr Deitrich off to die and even tries to kill Walter, but in the latter's fortune - or despair - she can't quite fire the second shot.
	www.cpluv.com /www/item/willow/1121 (586 words)

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