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One of the lovers of the Greek mythological demigod Heracles. |
One of the lovers of the Greek mythological demigod Heracles. |
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One of the lovers of the Greek mythological demigod Heracles.
Story
While Heracles was in Arcadia he visited amaount Ostracina, where he seduced Phialo, a daughter of the hero Alcimedon. When she bore a son named Aehmagoras, Alcimedon turned them both out of the cave to die of hunger on the mountain. Aechmagoras ried piteously, and a well-intentioned jay flew off to find Heracles, mimicking the sound, and thus drew him to the tree where Phialo sat, gagged and bound by her cruel father. Heracles rescued them and the child grew to manhood. The neighbouring spring has been called Cissa, after the jay, ever since.(1)
According to Robert Graves this story is an ancedotal fancy, supposed to account for the name of the spring, which may have been sacred to a jay-totem clan.(2)
References
1. Pausanias: 5. 12.2.
2. Robert Graves: The Greek Myths Combined edition 1992: 141 Auge. P552.
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