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"., "r,crolloJ, r a n,( ! .l l,cw:1,$ !, r oJu.r', +(ini! h'l: APOTjODORUS 57 56 APo[oDoRUs through the skll, hc undcatood that Daidalos s'as rvith Cocalos and de- Aher.ea re'-eio"o fh*cu' r r''ed rrA"err' BL Vcoe:r'*horr rh't'r" oa',dco {iser' ro De or s LrJ Jr- him badr nnmediately. CocaLos prcmised to gne him back and invired .; ;; -; , il ( o.sa,lr r-i., r\e -":;; ro bc gue.r. Bur :lrcr Vir.o. rook, I'e M.li lel b' .o.rlo. dd' - ;,;; ..;F"..: h,r'A'scu dio ror re'ogrr''I *ou*o' Li brl'. Bl "-p".'.i"g"i^, Aee''eo ihoush orhes say rltar he diedwhen he had boiLing warer poured ove. him. t\."vlo,ho,i"r bt ' wl'n'ede ro'edi' "i,?:",,*,r.'',*"'" ir to -h' eL $& JboJ u , ; M;d;,:i dav a"o e"'e hir'\'\'r TheAhzons, Phaidh, dd Hippoltos ;;. " "n. rvrer Age' 'e'o"' ;;;'i,.;"'"" - /re'rrreonr '{ororor'F arhc rrgit ( jo;ned Fleraclet campaign against the Anzons rnd.arried offAndope. Fa r"o'r :;,;;,.-":;;.-.;.;,pr., hi'\"'|d o,re r":r g c'ogrirob' " orhers say Melanippe, and Simonides s).s Hippolyte. So the Anazons countv' i"-"Jrg pr", a"i'..lim, Theseus drove Medeia out of dre againstAthens. They set up their camp around the Areopagos, burTheseus "r,r'. the Athcnians defeated rhen. He had a son Hippolytos with rbe Amazon N5 Crete, the Minotaur, dd Ariadne though some sav but from Deucalion'3 Lc larer gor Minos' daughter Phaidra, and when his rr'",*, -- A* ir<l group sent u aibute to theMinotaur' i.".r"',""i"-** .i..,*.r'ir"i,ut 'f t.''r't"'n'BPu' rt! rcd I'"'1"' ins to her w* benrg celebrated, his Amazon cx-wife showed up dresed foL l-e r"\e'r r t1" ui,l- he Arror an .orp. rion. ,rd i',e, ded ,o k l rl- g.,.. Bur Ley he.ne brlai'ere.\or d,:gt\.JrrPqrt\ir'r' l wl-en " a"" *i ; h'. ro re'p l-rs I pron "J shut rhe doors and killed her But sone say that she wr killed by Thceus in .,."i", """ '"'r-d 'e she "", "ll '"i- 1 5" 1'd *ro' Afier Phaidra bore rwo sons forTheeus, namelyAcrmrs and Demophon, :;,:."i i" ;., .'.^ c'\..',nc' na' " \er \' "rrc 4c'' o "' "rd "' and at hn rg love wirh rbeson he had wnh theAmzon andasked hin to sleep withher He .",i. o"'aa1os to LweaL the wv our of the labvrirth' redourJ'd all women and shrank from sleeping with her.
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