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Teleboans
An Acarnanian people, Amphitryon's defeat of them, expedition of Amphitryon against them, the inhabitants of Taphos, Electryon proposes to make war on them.
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Teleboans
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 13/7/2001: 17 for Teleboans.
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Kephalos (Cephalus)
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Cephalus, (Kephalos). The son of Deion, and a grandson of Aeolus,
married to Procris, the eldest daughter of Erechtheus. They dwelt at Thoricos
in Attica, and lived happily together till curiosity to try the fidelity of his
wife entered the mind of Cephalus. Feigning a journey of eight years, he disguised
himself and came to Procris with a splendid jewel, which he offered to her on
dishonourable terms. After much hesitation she yielded, when her husband discovered
himself and reproached her with her conduct. She fled from him in shame, but they
were soon after reconciled. Cephalus went constantly to the chase; and Procris
growing suspicious, as she had failed herself, fancied that he was attracted by
the charms of some other fair one. She questioned the slave who used to accompany
him; and he told her that his master used frequently to ascend the summit of a
hill and cry out, "Come, Nephele, come!" Procris went to the designated
hill and concealed herself in a thicket; and on her husband's crying, “Come, Nephele,
come!” (which was nothing more than an invocation for some cloud, Wephele, to
interpose itself between him and the scorching beams of the sun), she rushed forward
towards her husband, who, in his astonishment, threw his dart and unwittingly
killed her. This legend is told with great variations. Cephalus, for his involuntary
crime, was banished. He went to Thebes, which was at that time ravaged by a fox
which nothing could overtake, and he joined Amphitryon in the chase of it. His
dog Laelaps ran it down; but, just as he was catching it, Zeus turned them both
to stone. Cephalus then aided Amphitryon against the Teleboans, and on their conquest
he settled in the island named from him Cephallenia.
| This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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Kephalos, Cephalus : Perseus Project Index
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