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Serifos (Gr****: Σέριφος, Latin: Seriphus, also
Seriphos;
Seriphos: Eth. Seriphios: Serpho) is a Gr****
island muni****lity in the
Aegean Sea,
located in...
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Polydectes /ˌpɒlɪˈdɛktiːz/ (Gr****: Πολυδέκτης) was the
ruler of the
island of
Seriphos.
Polydectes was the son of
either Magnes and an
unnamed naiad, or of Peristhenes...
- poet
Simonides of Ceos.
Mother and
child washed as**** on the
island of
Seriphos,
where they were
taken in by the
fisherman Dictys ("fishing net"), who...
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horned dragon-like
creature with a snake-headed tail). ****us then flew to
Seriphos,
where his
mother was
being forced into
marriage with the king, Polydectes...
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request of Zeus, the pair survived. They were
washed as**** on the
island of
Seriphos,
where they were
taken in by the
fisherman Dictys—the
brother of King Polydectes—who...
- Kraken, to
destroy Argos. Danaë and ****us
safely float to the
island of
Seriphos,
where ****us
grows to adulthood. Calibos, the
spoiled son of the sea...
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locust with long
front legs. He
translates Zenobius 2.94 with the
words seriphos (maybe a mantis) and graus, an old woman,
implying a thin, dried-up stick...
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mythographer Pherecydes says that ****us
brought the
Cyclopes with him from
Seriphos to Argos,
presumably to
build the
walls of Mycenae. Proetus, the mythical...
- or so at the
court of his father-in-law, ****us
finally sets off for
Seriphos with his wife.
Since Cepheus has no heir of his own, the
departing couple...
- from him.
Stranded in a land
called Seriphos, they were
found by old and
friendly fishermen named Dictys. On
Seriphos, ****us
grows up to be a
strong and...
