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Updated: June 3, 2025
And I myself go to the land of Attica, where I shall dwell with King Ægeus, the son of Pandion. And as for thee, thou shalt perish miserably, for a beam from the ship Argo shall smite thee on the head. So shalt thou die." Thus was the vengeance of Medea accomplished. Oeneus, who was king of the city of Pleuron in the land of Ætolia, had a fair daughter, Deïaneira by name.
And when everything was ready, King OEneus gave the word, and fire was touched to the grass and the twigs upon the altars; and the grapes and the wheat that had been laid there were burned up. Then the people shouted and danced, for they fancied that in that way the thank offerings were sent right up to Ceres and Bacchus and Mercury and Athena and all the rest.
Oeneus gave a belt rich with purple, and Bellerophon a double cup, which I left at home when I set out for Troy. I do not remember Tydeus, for he was taken from us while I was yet a child, when the army of the Achaeans was cut to pieces before Thebes.
"Yea, by Zeus!" said he, "if so be that I know it." "Tell me, then, who is this woman whom thou hast brought?" "A woman of Euboea; but of what lineage I know not." "Look thou here. Knowest thou who it is to whom thou speakest?" "Yea, I know it; to Queen Deïaneira, daughter of Oeneus and wife to Hercules, and my mistress." "Thou sayest that I am thy mistress.
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