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ΟΙΧΑΛΙΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΕΥΒΟΙΑ
Οι Κέρκωπες ήταν δύο αδέλφια πασίγνωστοι για τις ληστείες και τις απατεωνιές τους. Κάποια φορά προσπάθησαν να κλέψουν τα όπλα του Ηρακλή καθώς εκείνος κοιμόταν. Δεν τα κατάφεραν, όμως, γιατί ο Ηρακλής ξύπνησε και τους έδεσε σε ένα ξύλο με το κεφάλι προς τα κάτω για να τους τιμωρήσει. Καθώς τους μετέφερε κρεμασμένους στους ώμους του, οι Κέρκωπες κατάφεραν να του φτιάξουν τόσο πολύ τη διάθεση με τα αστεία τους, ώστε τους άφησε να φύγουν.
Cercopes (Kerkopes), droll and thievish gnomes who play a part in the story of Heracles. Their number is commonly stated to have been two, but their names are not the same in all accounts: -either Olus and Eurybatus, Sillus and Triballus, Passalus and Aclemon, Andulus and Atlantus, or Candulus and Atlas (Suidas, s. vv.; Schol. ad Lucian. Alex. 4; Tzetz. Chil. v. 75). Diodorus (iv. 31), however, speaks of a greater number of Cercopes. They are called sons of Theia, the daughter of Oceanus; they annoyed and robbed Heracles in his sleep, but they were taken prisoners by him, and either given to Omphale, or killed, or set free again (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 91). The place in which they seem to have made their first appearance, was Thermopylae (Herod. vii. 216), but the comic poem Kerkopes, which bore the name of Homer, probably placed them at Oechalia in Euboea, whereas others transferred them to Lydia (Suid. s. v. Eurubatos), or the islands called Pithecusae, which derived their name from the Cercopes who were changed into monkeys by Zeus for having cunningly deceived him. (Ov. Met. xiv. 90, &c.; Pomp. Mela, ii. 7)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Oechalia in Euboea was the seat of Eurytus (Sophocles: Trachiniae, line 74)
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