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	Pentheus 1, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		He was the son of Echion 2, who is one of the so called SPARTI, men born from the teeth of a dragon of Ares.
		Echion 2 is one of the SPARTI, and Agave 2 was daughter of Cadmus.
		Besides Pentheus 1, Echion 2 and Agave 2 had a daughter Epirus, who was journeying with Cadmus and Harmonia 1, bearing the remains of Pentheus 1, when she died.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Pentheus1.html (2364 words)

	ceyx - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		In Greek mythology Ceyx, son of Eosphorus and the king of Thessaly was married to Alcyone.
		They were very happy together, but after Ceyx perished in a shipwreck, Alcyone threw herself into the sea.
		In modern Wiccan mythology, Ceyx was the daughter of Lucifer).
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/ceyx (118 words)

	Mythical Creatures and Monsters
		Echion had married Agave, Cadmus' daughter, and became the father of Pentheus.
		In Egyptian mythology, the Sphinx appeared to be wingless.
		The Gorgons were perhaps the strangest of the monsters that appeared in Classical mythology.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/beasts.html (6982 words)

	Characters of Greek Mythology - Olympians - Hermes - Messenger God and Divine Herald
		Hermes was born to Zeus and Maia in a cave in Arcadia.
		Zeus entrusted Hermes with a herald's staff, winged sandals, and assorted other things and saw that he was welcomed into the Olympian family.
		Characters of Greek Mythology was established in June 1998 by Tonya James
	mythology.tonyarn.com /olympians/hermes.html (215 words)

	Views of Hermes
		Ningishzida's parallel in Greek Mythology would be Hermes, the god of trickery and persuasive speech.
		In Greek mythology Hermes was the son of Zeus and Maia, daughter of the Titan Atlas.
		In Greek mythology, clouds are said to be Apollo's cattle, and as described above, Hermes stole Apollo's cattle.
	www.richeast.org /htwm/hermes/hermes.html (1901 words)

	The Boar Symbol
		Echion throws the first spear, but it misses, and scars the bark of a maple tree; Jason's spear overshoots, then Mopsus cries out a prayer to Apollo and hurls his spear.
		We can also go further afield and compare mythologies from other parts of the world, places that could have had no contact with Mediterranean or northern peoples.
		Joseph Campbell tells of the Malekulans in Melanesia, where boars are sacrificed at Megalithic shrines as a payment enabling one to enter the Otherworld at death.
	www.writer2001.com /boars.htm (4894 words)

	Mindy's Mythology Page
		Amrita - In Hindu Mythology, the water of immortality which the gods obtained by churning the ocean, using Mount Mandara as a stick and the serpent Vasuki as a rope, while Vishnu in the avatar of a tortoise was the pivot.
		Aristaeus - In Greek mythology, protector of vines and olives, huntsmen and herdsmen.
		In Norse mythology, the tree of the Universe which sprang from the body of Ymir.
	members.aol.com /mindysmazes/myth/mythterm.htm (4986 words)

	.:innocence:. snow angel ~ The Heavens
		Takeuchi Naoko's, creator of the BSSM series, biggest influence when creating and designing her character was ancient Greek and Roman mythology.
		Much of her characters' personalities, attacks, and weapons are based loosely on the personas of the famous gods and goddesses of Mt. Olympus.
		Hermes, or Mercury in Roman Mythology, was the most cunning and most productive of all the gods in Olympus.
	innocent-ami.com /mercury/heavens.html (1107 words)

	The My Hero Project - Jason and the Argonauts
		As with much of ancient mythology, the stories change slightly from source to source, but the meaning, general idea and moral remain the same.
		Hellenism.net is the "Greek Central Network" and focuses on Greek culture, including Greek Mythology.
		Classical Mythology Maps focuses on classical mythology and provides maps for it, including that of Jason and the Argonauts' journey.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Jason_Argonauts_Myth (845 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 3 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Ancient Library > Bookshelf > Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology > v.
		§ 9.) The picture in the Vatican, known as " the Aldobrandini Mar riage," is supposed by some to be a copy from the " Bride " of Echion.
		Kunst, § 140, 3.) Hirt supposes that the name of the painter of Alexander's marriage, whom Lucian praises so highly, aetion, is a corruption of Echion.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1111.html (1032 words)

	Uranus (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology Uranus is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth (Hesiod, Theogony).
		His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus, likewise from caelus the Latin word for sky.
		In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in Theogony, Uranus came every single night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uranus_(mythology) (738 words)

	Agave, Greece, Greek mythology
		She was married to Echion, who was one of the Sparti who had been born out of the dragon's teeth that Cadmus had sown when founding Thebes.
		Together with Echion she had a son: Pentheus.
		When Semele was killed after she had gotten pregnant with
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/agave.htm (209 words)

	Gigantes
		In Greek mythology, the Gigantes were giants who sprang forth from the blood of the wounded Uranus after being castrated by Cronus.
		This mountain was the holy peak of Mount Athos.
		The Gigantes were Alcyoneus ("mighty ass"), Clytias, Enceladus, Echion and Athos
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/g/gi/gigantes.html (161 words)

	Classical Mythology: Hail the Conquering Hero — Infoplease.com
		Teiresias told Oedipus that the plague would end only if a sown man (one of the descendents of the Spartoi) died for the city.
		Menoeceus, Jocasta's father and great-grandson of Echion, threw himself from the city's walls and earned the praise of all Thebans for his sacrifice and devotion to the city.
		Teiresias then announced that though the plague would indeed end, the gods had expected the sacrifice not of Menoeceus, but of Menoeceus's grandson, who had killed his father and married his mother.
	www.infoplease.com /cig/mythology/hail-conquering-hero.html (643 words)

	CLASSICS CADMUS PAGE
		His search for his sister after her abduction by Zeus took him to Greece, where his companions were killed by a serpent guarding a fountain (Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3) he killed the serpent and was instructed to sow its teeth.
		From the ground where they fell armed men rose up proceded to kill each other until five were left, including Echion, father of Pentheus.
		The men who sprang up from the ground were known as Spartoi, meaning "sown men" (not to be confused with Spartans).
	web.princeton.edu /sites/classics/mythology/cadmus.html (118 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Hermês
		He was the son of Zeus and Maia, born on Mount Cyllene.
		He was the father of Echion, Autolycus and Daphnis, and, by some accounts, of Pan.
		He was a deity of travel, trade, commerce, ingenuity, manual skill, athletics, eloquence and oratory, of the wind and of speed; the patron of shepherds, herdsmen, athletes, orators, writers, thieves, merchants, travelers, prophets, soothsayers and magicians.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/hermes.htm (730 words)

	House of Thebes
		These five men (Echion, Chthonius, Hyperenor, Pelorus and Udaeüs or Udaeus) became known as Sparti (Sown-Men).
		For killing the dragon, Cadmus was punished, where he has to serve Ares for 8 years.
		Pentheus was son of the Sparti Echion and Agave.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/thebes.html (4346 words)

	Dave's Classics Page: Genaeological Charts
		This page contains geneological tables for many of the most important figures in Greek mythology.
		The tables were created in 1992 by myself, and I spent a great deal of time recently trying to get them up to scratch.
		See my page of sources(when I get it made) for information on how to get a copy of important sources.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/2749/myth/tables.html (170 words)

	Amazon.com: The Universe, the Gods, and Men: Ancient Greek Myths: Books: Jean-Pierre Vernant,Linda Asher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		In short, it is a book for children that presupposes that the adult knows his or her Greek mythology.
		His effort to make Greek mythology simple is unforgivably simplistic; all the excitement is thoroughly excised.
		Thus, Echion is "one of the five Spartoi; husband of Agave, father of Pentheus." Agave is "daughter of Cadmus and mother of Pentheus." Pentheus is "grandson of Cadmus on his mother's, Agave's side, and son of Echion." Are you dizzy yet?
	www.amazon.com /Universe-Gods-Men-Ancient-Greek/dp/0060197757 (1608 words)

	Pentheus
		The son of Echion and Agave, king of Thebes.
		He resisted against the introduction of the Dionysic cult, and was torn to pieces by his own mother and other Bacchae in their frenzy, mistaking him for a wild animal.
		Article "Pentheus" created on 16 May 1999; last modified on 16 May 1999 (Revision 1).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/p/pentheus.html (81 words)

	The Messenger God HERMES
		Son of Zeus and Maia, the daughter of a Titan, Hermes was the messenger god of Greek mythology, identified with his Roman counterpart, Mercury.
		Hermes sired many children throughout Greek mythology: Priapus, Ceryx, Aethalides, Echion and Eurytus, Abderus, Cephalus, Agreus, and Bunus, Lycus, Nomius, Pherespondus and Pronomus.
		Hermaphroditus and Salmacis were then physically merged while Hermaphroditus was bathing, thus creating a female boy, and giving us our modern word for this condition, hermaphrodite.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mythology/75995 (375 words)

	Classical Mythology on Demodocus.com The Theban Saga
		He prophesied that, in Order for Thebes to withstand the coming attack, a decendant of the Spartoi must be sacrificed.
		Menoeceus, the son of Creon, and descendant of Echion, stood atop the walls of Thebes, and, stabbing himself, fell to his death.
		Both coincide, since Echion, father of Pentheus, was, in fact, one of the sown men.
	www.demodocus.com /myth/sagas/thebes.html (3516 words)

	Uranus (mythology) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus (sometimes Titan) ("sky").
		He may have originally been the same Indo-European god as the Hindu Varuna.
		After Uranus was deposed, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=57082 (212 words)

	Gigantes - Free net encyclopedia
		Image:Dionysos Giant Louvre G434.jpg In Greek mythology, the Gigantes were a race of giants, children of Ge (the primordial Earth mother), who was fertilized by the blood of Ouranos that resulted from his castration by Cronus.
		The primordial Gigantes rose up in arms against the Olympians in an attempt to end the Olympian reign.
		The Gigantes were Alcyoneus or Alkyonios, Athos, Clytias or Klytias, Enceladus (or Enkelados), Echion and Pallas.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Gigantes (379 words)

	AGAVE : The deity from Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		This ended in such burning passion SEMELE did not survive it.
		AGAVE went on to marry King Echion and became Queen of Thebes.
		When Echion died their son Pentheus inherited the throne and AGAVE became a Queen Mum.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=AGAVE (294 words)

	Hermes, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		This happened when a Sicilian princess made him drunk and consorted with him.
		Echion 1 is found among the ARGONAUTS, and among the CALYDONIAN HUNTERS.
		The city of Eleusis is named after this Eleusis, sometimes called Eleusinus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Hermes.html (1623 words)

	Cosmos and Logos:Greek and Roman Mythology Glossary
		He appears to be named after the herm, a guidepost planted between forked roads.
		He had many children, including Pan, Erytus (the Argonaut), Echion, Aethalides, Pharis, Abderus, Hermaphroditus (with Aphrodite), Eudorus, and Myrtilus.
		His symbols were the caduceus (staff with entwined serpents), winged sandals, and cap.
	www.cosmosandlogos.com /category/000056.php (5263 words)

	- Kadmos built the walls of Thebes \| greek mythology
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		Godess Athena told him to sow the dragon's teeth into the earth and from them, they sprang armed men (Sparti), who killed each other, surviving only five (Chthonius, Echion, Hyperenor, Pelorus, Udaeus).
		One of them, Agave, married Echion and in his reign the God Dionysos appeared for first time in Greece to establish his rights and obtain divine honor.
	www.greek-mythology.net /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18 (400 words)

	Spartes
		In Greek mythology, the Spartes ("sown") were the men who grew from the sown teeth of a dragon.
		Only five survived the battle that accompanied their birth.
		One of the five was Echion, who married Cadmus' daughter, Agave.
	www.fastload.org /sp/Spartes.html (91 words)

	Argonaut Hotel
		: ''For other uses, see Argonaut.'' In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece.
		The name may also have been inspired by the submarine of that name built in 1897 by Simon Lake that was the first submarine to navigate extensively in the open sea.
		Of course, the name is ultimately derived from the band of heroes in Greek mythology who sailed with Jason in the ship ''Argo'' to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/10/argonaut-hotel.html (1271 words)

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