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The Iliad of Homer

BOOK XXIV
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149 This was during the wars with the Titans.
150 -- _Amphitryon's son,_ Hercules, born to Jove by Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon.
151 -- _AEgiale_ daughter of Adrastus.

The Cyclic poets (See Anthon's Lempriere, _s.

v._) assert Venus incited her to infidelity, in revenge for the wound she had received from her husband.
152 -- _Pherae,_ a town of Pelasgiotis, in Thessaly.
153 -- _Tlepolemus,_ son of Hercules and Astyochia.

Having left his native country, Argos, in consequence of the accidental murder of Liscymnius, he was commanded by an oracle to retire to Rhodes.

Here he was chosen king, and accompanied the Trojan expedition.


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