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In bare outline, Statius’s Achilleid is about Thetis’s attempt to keep her son from the Trojan war, where he will be killed.
She takes him from Thessaly, where he is under the tutelage of the centaur Chiron, to the court of Lycodemes, king of Skyros.
After he and Diomed land at Skyros (the Greeks have heard a prophecy that this is where Achilles is hiding), Ulysses brings to the court of Lycodemes feminine gifts, as well as a golden shield and spear.
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 Theseus
Late in his life Theseus loses popularity in Athens and is exiled.
He wanders to Scyrus where he is hurled off a cliff by Lycodemes.
Article "Theseus" created on 03 May 1997; last modified on 31 October 2005 (Revision 3).
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 Theseus
Theseus welcomed the wandering Oedipus and helped Adrastus to bury the Seven Against Thebes.
Lycodemes of the island of Scyrus threw Theseus off a cliff after he had lost popularity in Athens.
In 475, in response to an oracle, Cimon of Athens, having conquered Skyros for the Athenians, identified as the remains of Theseus "a coffin of a great corpse with a bronze spear-head by its side and a sword" (Plutarch, Life of Cimon, quoted Burkert 1985, p.
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 Theseus - Gurupedia
Theseus welcomed the wandering Oedipus and helped Adrastus to bury the
Lycodemes of Scyrus threw Theseus off a cliff after he had lost popularity in Athens.
Mary Renault's The King Must Die (1958) is a dramatic retelling of the Theseus legend and, while fictional, is generally faithful to the spirit and flavor of the best-known variations of the original story.
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 Editing Lycodemes - Edit - Smartybrain Encyclopedia What is Editing Lycodemes
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