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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: namely, Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon, who was a mighty warrior
and charioteer.
"Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast
of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore
him two sons Amphion and Zethus. These founded Thebes with its
seven gates, and built a wall all round it; for strong though
they were they could not hold Thebes till they had walled it.
"Then I saw Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon, who also bore to
Jove indomitable Hercules; and Megara who was daughter to great
King Creon, and married the redoubtable son of Amphitryon.
"I also saw fair Epicaste mother of king Oedipodes whose awful
The Odyssey |
