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    Greek mythology, Admetus (/ædˈmiːtəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄδμητος Admētos means 'untamed, untameable') was a king of Pherae in Thessaly. Admetus succeeded his...
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    (Geography 9.5). The site is in the modern community of Velestino. In Homer Pherae was the home of King Admetus and his wife, Alcestis, (whom Heracles went into...
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  • Admetus or Admetos (Greek: Ἄδμητος) may refer to: Admetus, mythological king of Pherae in Thessaly Admetus, son of Augeas Admetus (epigrammatist), 2nd-century...
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  • Pheres) was the founder of Pherae in Thessaly. Pheres was the son of Cretheus, King of Iolcus and Tyro. He was the brother of Aeson and Amythaon. He fled...
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    Zeus (redirect from Birth of Zeus)
    to serve as a slave to King Admetus of Pherae for a year. According to Diodorus Siculus, Zeus killed Asclepius because of complains from Hades, who was...
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    tradition.In Greek mythology Admetus of Pherae was a friend of Hercules. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polyommatus admetus. Wikispecies has information...
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    Argonauts (category Deeds of Zeus)
    Greek: Ἀργοναῦται, romanized: Argonaûtai, lit. 'Argo sailors') were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around...
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  • the brains of a sheep that had been sacrificed before it had been put on the altar. Eumelus, succeeded his father Admetus as the King of Pherae, and his...
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    bereft of her lover. At the start of the play, she is close to death. In the play's prologue, the god Apollo comes out from Admetus' palace in Pherae (modern...
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    Elena, and even rewrite the tenor role of Admetus for the soprano castrato Giuseppe Millico, in the 1770 revival of Alceste in Vienna. Gluck recomposed and...
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  • Xanthius, was chosen by the oracle as leader of a colony, one of ten sent out of Pherae by Admetus (sending out such colonies was a common practice to avoid...
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    Apollo (redirect from Cult of Apollo)
    trunk. Admetus, the king of Pherae, was also Apollo's lover. During his exile, which lasted either for one year or nine years, Apollo served Admetus as a...
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  • Periclymene (category Companions of Dionysus)
    daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus and Euryanassa . She became the mother of Admetus, Lycurgus, Eidomene (wife of Amythaon), Periopis (mother of Patroclus)...
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  • the Suitors of Helen are those who came from many kingdoms of Greece to compete for the hand of the Spartan princess Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda...
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  • receiving an oracle that he would be leader for a colony sent out of Pherae by King Admetus, and when he besieged the city, a girl named Leucophryne fell...
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  • princess of Pherae as daughter of King of Pheres and possibly, Periclymene, daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus. She was the possible sister of Admetus, Lycurgus...
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    This is a list of mythological characters who appear in narratives concerning the Trojan War. * See Catalogue of Ships ** See Trojan Battle Order This...
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    and Glaphyrae, and well-built Iolcus, these were led by the dear son of Admetus with eleven ships. Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.712. Eugen Oberhummer: Boibe 1...
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  • Calydonian boar hunt Acrisius, a king of Argos Actaeus, first king of Attica Admetus (Άδμητος), a king of Pherae who sailed with the Argonauts and participated...
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    the other great heroic adventure of that generation, the voyage of the Argonauts, which preceded it. The purpose of the hunt was to kill the Calydonian...
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    of Pherae, Thessaly, mother of Thessalonica. Olympias of Epirus, daughter of Neoptolemus I, mother of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. Philinna of Larissa...
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    wall, a scenic painting referring to the myth of Admetus and Alcestis was found. Admetus, a king at Pherae in Thessaly, was promised by an oracle a longer...
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  • the Athenians and with Jason of Pherae, the Tagus of Thessaly. In 373 BC he appeared in Athens with Jason, for the purpose of defending the Athenian general...
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    The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis...
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    (/ˈfiːbi/ FEE-bee) is the most massive irregular satellite of Saturn with a mean diameter of 213 km (132 mi). It was discovered by William Henry Pickering...
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  • a list of named craters in the Solar System as named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. As of 2017, there is a total of 5,223 craters...
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  • Enodia (category Epithets of Artemis)
    4324/9780203581711. ISBN 9780203581711. Georganas, Ioannis. (2008) BETWEEN ADMETUS AND JASON: PHERAI IN THE EARLY IRON AGE Morgan, Catherine. Early Greek...
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  • abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Most of the leaders were bound by the Oath of Tyndareus who made the Suitors of Helen swear that they...
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  • Adamas (mythology) Adeimantus of Collytus Adeimantus of Corinth Adephagia Adiaphora Adikia Admete (Oceanid) Admetus Admetus (mythology) Adonia Adonis Adrasteia...
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  • that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and...
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