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With its seven towers, before that Amphion and Zethus, sons of Zeus, lords One Lycus in days gone by was husband to Dirce being king of this city Now there is an ancient legend amongst the race of Cadmus, that To drag to the light that hound with bodies three, and thence is he never Of all hath he passed through the mouth of Taenarus into the halls of Hades Divers are the toils he hath accomplished, and last Whether it was that Hera goaded him to submit to this, or that fate was My affliction and to find a home in his own land, did offer EurystheusĪ mighty price for my recall, even to free the world of savage monsters, Whence I am exiled for the slaying of Electryon so he, wishing to lighten Make his home in Argolis, in that walled town which the Cyclopes built, Thebes where I was settled, left his wife Megara and her kin, eager to Heracles, illustrious chief, led her to my halls. Race escorted with the glad music of lutes at her wedding, in the day that Hence sprung Creon, son of Menoeceus, king of this land Īnd Creon became the father of this lady Megara, whom once all Cadmus' These Ares saved a scanty band, and their children's children people theĬity of Cadmus. Sowing of the dragon's teeth grew up a crop of earth-born giants for of The father of Heracles? He it was dwelt here in Thebes, where from the They are seeking refuge at the altar.ĪMPHITRYON What mortal hath not heard of him who shared a wife with Zeus,Īmphitryon of Argos, whom on a day Alcaeus, son of Perseus begat, Amphitryon Nearby stands the altar of Zeus, on the steps of which are now seated AMPHITRYON, MEGARA and her sons by HERACLES. MEGARA, wife of HERACLES, daughter of Creonīefore the palace of HERACLES at Thebes. AMPHITRYON, husband of Alcmena, the mother of HERACLES
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