romanized: Chímaira, lit. 'she-goat') was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia, Asia Minor, composed of different animal parts. Typically, it is depicted...
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Lycian peasants (category Lycia)
gods Artemis and Apollo, who was prohibited from drinking from a pond in Lycia by the people there. The myth tackles the ancient Greek concept of xenia...
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Lycia (Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 Trm̃mis; Greek: Λυκία, Lykia; Turkish: Likya) was a historical region in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to...
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Sarpedon (Trojan War hero) (redirect from Sarpedon (king of Lycia))
was the brother of Minos. There was a temple of Sarpedon in Xanthos, in Lycia, perhaps associated with a supposed burial site there. There was also a...
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(goddess) – entry in Encyclopædia Britannica History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria and Lycia (2007) by George Perrot, page 30 ISBN 0548803196 v t e...
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Leto (category Lycia)
kourotrophic deity, the goddess of motherhood; in Lycia she was a mother goddess. In Roman mythology, Leto's Roman equivalent is Latona, a Latinization...
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In Greek mythology, the name Xanthus or Xanthos (/ˈzænθəs/; Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος means "yellow" or "fair hair") may refer to: Divine Xanthus, the gods'...
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Bellerophon (category Lycia)
while practicing his knife throwing, which caused him to be exiled to Lycia; this origin hypothesis would correspond to how Hermes got his epithet 'Argeiphontes'...
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Stheneboea (category Lycia)
"strong cow" or "strong through cattle") was the daughter of Iobates, king in Lycia. She was the consort of Proetus, joint-king in the Argolid with Acrisius...
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Hippolochus (son of Bellerophon) (redirect from Hippolochus of Lycia)
the race of my fathers, that were far the noblest in Ephyre and in wide Lycia." Homer, Iliad 6.196–197; Apollodorus, 2.3.1 Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.192...
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