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List of Gods : "Athenians" - 5 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
"Ariadne"	Greek	A daughter of Minos and Pasiphae or Greta. (Apollodorus iii). When Theseus was sent by his father to convey the tribute of the Athenians to Minotaurus, Ariadne fell in love with him, and gave him the string by means of which he found his way out of the Labyrinth, and which she herself had received from Hephaestus.
Hero name "Echetlaeus"	Greek	A mysterious being who during the battle of Marathon appeared among the Greeks a man, who resembled a rustic, and slew many of the barbarians with his plough. After the battle, when he was searched for, he was not to be found anywhere, and when the Athenians consulted the oracle, they were commanded to worship the hero Echetlaeus. Greek
"Eucleia"	Greek	A personification of the glory which the Athenians had reaped in the battle of Marathon. Greek
"Iasus 9"	Greek	A son of Sphelus, the commander of the Athenians in the Trojan war, was slain by Aeneias.
Monster name "Minotaurus"	Greek	A monster with a human body and a bull's head, or, according to others, with the body of an ox and a human head, is said to have been the offspring of the intercourse of Pasiphae with the bull sent from the sea to Minos, who shut him up in the Cnossian labyrinth, and fed him with the bodies of the youths and maidens whom the Athenians at fixed times were obliged to send to Minos as tribute. The monster was slain by Theseus. Greek

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