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    Written Report in Mythology by Rose

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    The document describes several figures from Greek mythology. Callisto was a nymph transformed into a bear and later a constellation. She had a son with Zeus. Chiron was a wise centaur who taught famous heroes. Clytie was an Oceanid who fell in love with Helios and was later transformed into a flower. Dryope was seduced by Apollo and later became a nymph. Erichthonius was the autochthonous king of Athens. Hero and Leander were star-crossed lovers. Epimeides was a Cretan seer credited with religious writings and inventions.

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    The document describes several figures from Greek mythology. Callisto was a nymph transformed into a bear and later a constellation. She had a son with Zeus. Chiron was a wise centaur who taught famous heroes. Clytie was an Oceanid who fell in love with Helios and was later transformed into a flower. Dryope was seduced by Apollo and later became a nymph. Erichthonius was the autochthonous king of Athens. Hero and Leander were star-crossed lovers. Epimeides was a Cretan seer credited with religious writings and inventions.

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    The document describes several figures from Greek mythology. Callisto was a nymph transformed into a bear and later a constellation. She had a son with Zeus. Chiron was a wise centaur who taught famous heroes. Clytie was an Oceanid who fell in love with Helios and was later transformed into a flower. Dryope was seduced by Apollo and later became a nymph. Erichthonius was the autochthonous king of Athens. Hero and Leander were star-crossed lovers. Epimeides was a Cretan seer credited with religious writings and inventions.

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    Callisto

     Was a nymph, daughter of Lycaon, King of Arcadia.


     She was transformed into a bear and turned into a constellation.
     She was one of Artemis hunting attendants.
     She was a follower of goddess Artemis, and therefore, she must have taken a vow of
    chastity.
     Zeus fell in love and lured her, turned into Artemis and took advantage to her.
     Has a son named Lucas.
     Was turned into bear either by Zeus while trying to hide his misdeeds, by Hera out of
    jealousy, or by Artemis out of anger that she broke her vow of chastity.

    Chiron

     The most important Centaurin Greek mythology, famous for his teaching ability.
     He was the son of the Titan god Cronus and the nymph Philyra.
     He lived on Mount Pelion with his consort, the nymph Chariclo, with whom he had three
    daughters, Hippe, Endeis, and Ocyrhoe; as well as a son, Carystus.
     Had famous heroes and gods of Greek myths as students—
    Asclepius, Ajax, Achilles, Theseus, Jason, Peleus, Perseus, and
    even Heracles and Phoenix.
     His death was the result of events that started when Heracles visited the centaur Pholus
    in his cave, while trying to complete the fourth task described in the Labours of Heracles.
     Gave up his immortality in exchange for Prometheus' freedom, when he was asked to do
    so by Heracles because he was one of being hit and attacked by a poisoned arrows, and
    caused unbearable pain.
     Chiron then took a space on Mount Olympus along with the gods.

    Clytie

     Was a name given to a number of figures in Greek mythology. However, the best known
    character with that name was an Oceanid.
     As an Oceanid, a water nymph, she was the daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
     She was the lover of the sun god Helios, who eventually deserted her to pursue
    Leucothea, daughter of Orchamus.
     Was was enraged and told Orchamus about the love affair.
     Was sentenced by her father to death by burying her alive.
     Was transformed into a flower, the heliotrope or turnsole, which turns towards the
    direction of the sun.
    Dryope

     Was once a mortal princess who was seduced by the god Apollo in the guise of a tortoise
    and a serpent.
     Was later transformed into a nymph by the Hamadryades of Oita.
     Penelopeia—a daughter of Dryops (Oak-Face) loved by the god Hermes.
     While she tended the flocks of her father on Mount Oeta, she became the playmate of
    the Hamadryades.
     Hamadryades taught her to sing hymns to the gods and to dance.
     Was seen by Apollo, who, in order to gain possession of her, metamorphosed himself
    into a tortoise.
     Was carried off and concealed by Hamadryades in a forest.

    Erichthonius

     Was an early king of ancient Athens in Greek mythology, and it was believed that he was
    autochthonous (born of the soil).
     Was born because of semen of Hephaestus that fell in Athena's thigh, after wiping it
    away using a wool and threw it in the ground.
     Was kept by Athena in a box after he was born.
     When Erichthonius reached adulthood, he drove the usurper Amphictyon out of the
    throne, and became the new leader of Athens.
     Married Praxithea, with whom he had a son, Pandion the First.
     Created the Panathenaic Festival.
     After his death, Zeus was so impressed that he transformed him into a constellation, the
    Charioteer (Auriga).

    Hero and Leander

     Were famous lovers in Greek mythology.


     Hero, who lived in the town of Sestos, served as a priestess of the goddess Aphrodite
    (Venus). Leander was a youth from the nearby town of Abydos, located across a narrow
    strip of water called the Hellespont.
     Met at a festival and fell in love.
     One winter night, the wind blew out the flame in the lamp, causing Leander to lose his
    way and drown.
     The next morning, when Hero saw his lifeless body washed up on the shore, she killed
    herself by jumping out of the tower.

    Epimeides

     Cretan seer, reputed author of religious and poetical writings, including a Theogony,
    Cretica, and other mystical works.
     Religious theories of an Orphic character were attributed to him as well.
     He conducted purificatory rites at Athens about 500 BCE, according to Plato (about 600
    according to Aristotle).
     His miraculous sleep of 57 year his dealings with oracles, and his wanderings outside the
    body have led some scholars to regard him as a legendary figure of a shamanistic type.
     Is credited with invention of the paradox of the liar, in which a sentence says of itself
    that it is false, thus being true if it is false and false if it is true.

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    Silvestre, Rosemarie D.

    BSE-ENG 2B

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    Prof Beverly Julian

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