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  Mygdon of Bebryces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Mygdon of the Bebryces was killed by Heracles on the way to Pontus to complete his ninth labour, which was to fetch the belt of Queen Hippolyte of the Amazons.
After Heracles killed Mygdon, he gave his former lands to Lycus, who renamed the place Heraclea in honour of Heracles.
His parentage is given as Poseidon by the nymph Melia, and he had a brother named Amycus, also a Bebrycian king.
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 Mygdon of Phrygia
In Greek mythology, King Mygdon of Phrygia was the father of Coroebus.
He led his country on the side of Troy during the Trojan War.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 Mygdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Mygdon of Phrygia was a Phrygian king who was an ally of King Priam of Troy.
There is most likely a connection between these Mygdonians and the region of western Thrace (later Macedonia) called Mygdonia, given that the Phrygians were believed to have originated from this part of Europe.
King Mygdon of Bebryces was killed by Heracles.
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 Creation in Classical Mythology on Demodocus.com Home of all things Classical
Coreobus, the son of Mygdon, came to Troy as a suitor of Cassandra, and was killed by the Greeks in the sack of the city.
Mygdon's son, Coroebus, came to Troy as a suitor of Cassandra, but was killed when the city fell.
Nyctimene, the daughter of Epopeus (or an Ethiopian king, Nycteus), was raped by her father.
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 Neoptolemus, Greek Mythology Link.
Coroebus 2, who had come to Troy in order to marry Cassandra, fell fighting at Troy by Aeneas' side, killed by Neoptolemus or by Diomedes 2 or by Peneleus; Coroebus 2 was son of Mygdon, king of the Bebrycians, who once had fought with Priam 1 against the AMAZONS.
Mygdon himself, son of Poseidon and Melie, had been killed years ago by Heracles 1.
Hippomedon 3, son of Hippasus 6 and Ocyrrhoe 3, born beside the river Sangarius.
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 Mygdon - TheBestLinks.com - Greek mythology, Heracles, Trojan War, Troy, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Immortal Journey: The Tales of Heracles, Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius, Centaurus, Draco, Sagitta and Cerberus. Chapter 10: ...
Mygdon, king of the Bebryces, declared war upon us.
They killed many of the Bebryces, including King Mygdon as well, and they claimed a large section of Bebrycian land for their host, who named it Heracleia in their honor.
Energized by their victory and without even a day to rest, they sailed on to the objective of their mission, the harbor of Themiscyra, home of the Amazons.
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 There were two people named Mygdon in Greek mythology Greek mythology...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There were two people named "Mygdon" in Greek mythology Greek mythology.
King Mygdon of Phrygia Mygdon of Phrygia led his country on the side of Troy Troy during the Trojan War Trojan War
King Mygdon of Bebryces Mygdon of Bebryces was killed by Heracles Heracles
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1129 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MY DON, of Soli, a painter of some note, was the disciple of the statuary Pyromachus.
A brother of Amycus, king of the Bebryces, was slain by Heracles, who assisted Lycus in his war with Mygdon.
A son of Acmon, a Phrygian king, who fought with Otreus and Priam against the Amazons.
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 Mygdon of Bebryces - TheBestLinks.com - Amazons, Heracles, Hippolyte, Lycus, ...
Mygdon of Bebryces - TheBestLinks.com - Amazons, Heracles, Hippolyte, Lycus,...
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 Priam 1, Greek Mythology Link.
His daughters occupied the chambers in the building on the other side of the courtyard, and there they lived with the sons-in-law of the king.
Priam 1 is said to have fought the AMAZONS together with Mygdon, king of the Bebrycians, and Otreus 1, king of the Phrygians.
But during the Trojan War, the AMAZONS fought as Trojan allies against the invading Achaeans.
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 The Iliad by Homer: Chapter 3 (continued) - The Literature Page
I see that the Achaeans are subject to you in great multitudes.
When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans."
The old man next looked upon Ulysses; "Tell me," he said, "who is that other, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, but broader across the chest and shoulders?
www.literaturepage.com /read.php?titleid=theiliad&abspage=41&changecolor=3   (382 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: MELIA Naiad Nymph of the Bebryces of Bithynia, Anatolia
(1a) AMYKOS, MYGDON (by Poseidon) (Apollodorus 1.119 and 2.100)
A powerful fellow, he would force arriving strangers to box with him, and in this manner destroy them...
When Lykos [King of Mysia] and the King of the Bebrykes went to war, Herakles helped Lykos out, and slew many, including King Mygdon, the brother of Amykos." - Apollodorus, The Library 1.119 and 2.100
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: ParŒcopolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hierocles (Synecdemus, 639, 8) and Constantine Porphyrogenitus (De thematibus, 2) call it Parthicopolis, but the second locates it in Thrace.
Stephanus Byzantius calls it Parthenopolis and relates according to Theagenes the legend of its foundation by Geræstus, son of Mygdon, said to have named the city in honour of his two daughters.
Pliny (IV, xi) has the same name, but places it in Thrace.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11507c.htm   (192 words)

  
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Can anybody explain what are these saves for?
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 Amazon Women in Ancient Greek Art, A Discussion by Frederick John Kluth of Kent, Ohio
In Greek mythology the Amazons are a nation or race of women warriors which the ancient Greeks often battled.
In the Iliad (Book III) Priam, the king of Troy says: "I went to Phrygia once, the land of vines and galloping horses, and learnt how numerous the Phrygians are when I saw the armies of Otreus and King Mygdon encamped by the River Sangarius.
I was their ally and I bivouacked with them that time and the Amazons, who fight like men, came up to the attack.
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