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    romanized: Chímaira, lit. 'she-goat') was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia, Asia Minor, composed of different animal parts. It is usually depicted...
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    Lycia (Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 Trm̃mis; Greek: Λυκία, Lykia; Turkish: Likya) was a historical region in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to...
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    Lycian peasants (category Lycia)
    gods Artemis and Apollo, who was prohibited from drinking from a pond in Lycia by the people there. The myth tackles the ancient Greek concept of xenia...
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    was the brother of Minos. There was a temple of Sarpedon in Xanthos, in Lycia, perhaps associated with a supposed burial site there. There was also a...
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    (goddess) – entry in Encyclopædia Britannica History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria and Lycia (2007) by George Perrot, page 30 ISBN 0548803196 v t e...
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    Bellerophon (category Lycia)
    while practicing his knife throwing, which caused him to be exiled to Lycia; this origin hypothesis would correspond to how Hermes got his epithet 'Argeiphontes'...
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  • In Greek mythology, the name Xanthus or Xanthos (/ˈzænθəs/; Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος means "yellow" or "fair hair") may refer to: Divine Xanthus, the gods'...
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    Leto (category Lycia)
    kourotrophic deity, the goddess of motherhood; in Lycia she was a mother goddess. In Roman mythology, Leto's Roman equivalent is Latona, a Latinization...
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  • Iobates (category Lycia)
    Bellerophon to him with a sealed message that asked him to kill Bellerophon. Lycia at the time was in the middle of a horrific plague and Iobates didn't want...
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  • Chimera (mythology), a fire-breathing monster of ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals Mount Chimaera, a fire-spewing region of Lycia or...
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  • Stheneboea (category Lycia)
    "strong cow" or "strong through cattle") was the daughter of Iobates, king in Lycia. She was the consort of Proetus, joint-king in the Argolid with Acrisius...
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  • the race of my fathers, that were far the noblest in Ephyre and in wide Lycia." Homer, Iliad 6.196–197; Apollodorus, 2.3.1 Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.192...
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    nymphs). Nymphs are often featured in classic works of art, literature, mythology, and fiction. Since the Middle Ages, nymphs have been sometimes popularly...
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  • in honour to Spanish communist politician José Díaz Dias (Lycia), a city of ancient Lycia Direct Internet Access System Dublin Institute for Advanced...
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  • (Crete), a town of ancient Crete mentioned in the Bible Phoinix (Lycia), a town of ancient Lycia, now in Turkey 4543 Phoinix, a minor planet This disambiguation...
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    with ambrosia, readying it for its dreamlike return to Sarpedon's native Lycia. Similarly, Thetis anoints the corpse of Patroclus in order to preserve...
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  • who named after himself the land he settled, Tremile, which later became Lycia. His mother was the nymph Praxidice, daughter of Ogygus, and he was the...
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    Various claims to the exact place ranged from provinces in Asia Minor (Lycia, Caria, etc.) to the steppes around the Black Sea, or even Libya (Libyan...
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    Cyclopes (redirect from Cyclops (mythology))
    In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (/saɪˈkloʊpiːz/ sy-KLOH-peez; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; singular...
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  • succeeded his father Sarpedon, son of Zeus and Europa, in the kingship of Lycia. He married Deidamia, daughter of Bellerophon, and had by her a son Sarpedon...
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    exhausted by grief and died (or committed suicide). Caunus eventually came to Lycia, where he married the Naiad Pronoe and had by her a son Aegialus. Caunus...
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    In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus (/hərˌmæfrəˈdaɪtəs/ ; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαφρόδιτος, romanized: Hermaphróditos, [hermapʰróditos]) was a child of Aphrodite...
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    Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. Proto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans...
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  • *Trito is a significant figure in Proto-Indo-European mythology, representing the first warrior and acting as a culture hero. He is connected to other...
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  • Arsinoe (redirect from Arsinoe (mythology))
    called Arsinoe in the Ptolemaic period Olbia (Egypt) or Arsinoe Patara (Lycia) or Arsinoe Taucheira (Libya) or Arsinoe Arsinoes Chaos, located in the...
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    In Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, singular: Γίγας, Gígas), were a race of great strength and...
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  • humanized into a son of Tremiles, eponym of Tremile which was afterwards named Lycia. His mother was the nymph Praxidice, daughter of Ogygus, and brother of...
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    Artemis (redirect from Artemis (mythology))
    question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (/ˈɑːrtɪmɪs/; Greek: Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the...
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    romanized: Lúkioi) is the name of various peoples who lived, at different times, in Lycia, a geopolitical area in Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor). The Lykians...
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  • refer to: Mount Cragus, a peak in ancient Lycia Mount Cragus (Cilicia), a peak in ancient Cilicia Cragus (Lycia), a city near the first Mount Cragus Cragus...
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