Greek mythology, Cercaphus (Ancient Greek: Κέρκαφος) may refer to the following figures: Cercaphus, one of the Heliadae. Cercaphus, son of Aeolus and...
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the sons, but according to Diodorus Siculus, the Heliadae were Ochimus, Cercaphus, Actis, Macar (i.e. Macareus), Candalus, Triopas, and Tenages. Diodorus...
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paternal uncle, Cercaphus, who inherited the island. According to an alternate version, Ochimus engaged Cydippe to Ocridion but Cercaphus loved her and...
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engaged to Cydippe, daughter of Ochimus. She was kidnapped by her uncle, Cercaphus. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 27 Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia...
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brother, Cercaphus, successor to his brother's throne. According to an alternate version, Ochimus engaged Cydippe to Ocridion but Cercaphus loved her...
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brother, Cercaphus, who succeeded to the throne of Rhodes. According to an alternate version, Ochimus engaged Cydippe to Ocridion but Cercaphus loved her...
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seized control over the island; Cercaphus married Ochimus' daughter and succeeded to the power. The three sons of Cercaphus, Lindus, Ialysus and Camirus...
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King Cercaphus (Ancient Greek: Κέρκαφος) of Rhodes was one of the Heliadae, sons of Helios and Rhodos, personification of the island. Cercaphus and his...
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founder of Ialysus in Rhodes. He was the eldest son of the Rhodian king, Cercaphus, one of the Heliades, and his niece Cydippe, daughter of Ochimus, also...
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Rhodian tradition, by whom he had seven sons, the Heliadae (Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, Candalus), and the girl Electryone. In...
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river to escape prosecution by the Erinyes over the murder of his brother Cercaphus. Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481 Dionysius of Halicarnassus...
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said to have had Aeolus as a father include: Macedon, Minyas, Mimas, Cercaphus, Aethlius, Ceyx, Arne, Antiope, Tanagra, Iope and Tritogeneia. Apart from...
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According to him, Alpheius was a son of Helios, and killed his brother Cercaphus in a contest. Haunted by despair and the Erinyes he leapt into the river...
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Artemis's sanctuary on Mount Koryphe. Anaxibia, mother of Maeander by Cercaphus. Anaxibia, daughter of Bias and Iphianassa, and niece of Melampus. She...
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names in the island of Rhodes, Ialysos, Kamiros and Lindos (but see also Cercaphus). According to Rhodian mythographers who informed Diodorus Siculus, Danaus...
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from Rhodes upon discovery of their crime. (The two Heliadae Ochimus and Cercaphus stayed aside and remained on the island of Rhodes). Graves, Robert (1960)...
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Strabo reports a genealogy for Amyntor which made him the grandson of Cercaphus, the son of Aeolus, and the brother of Euaemon, the father of Eurypylus...
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one of the Telchines. Ormenus, king of Ormenion in Thessaly and son of Cercaphus. He was the father of Amyntor and Euaemon. Ormenus, one of the warriors...
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eponymous founder of Lindus in Rhodes. He was the son of the Rhodian king, Cercaphus, one of the Heliades, and his niece Cydippe, daughter of Ochimus, also...
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for Cydippe, daughter of King Ormenus of Rhodes and wife of her uncle Cercaphus. Lysippe, the daughter of Proetus and Stheneboea. Along with her sisters...
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eponymous founder of Camirus in Rhodes. He was the son of the Rhodian king, Cercaphus, one of the Heliades, and his niece Cydippe, daughter of Ochimus, also...
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Cephissus Cerambus Cerameicus Painter Cerameis Ceraon Cerastes Cerberus Cercaphus Cercaphus (Heliadae) Cercetes Cercidas Cercopes Cercopes (epic poem) Cercops...
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Clarian Apollo. One tradition claims that he was buried there on Mount Cercaphus, while Cretans came to venerate his memory at a grave in Knossos. In 1780...
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