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"And she (Helen) bare to Menelaus, famous with the spear, Hermione and her youngest-born, Nicostratus a scion of Ares."

I know that Hesiod in the Catalogue of Women represented that Iphigeneia was not killed but, by the will of Artemis, became Hecate.

Butes, it is said, was a son of Poseidon: so Hesiod in the Catalogue.

Hesiod represented Sicyon as the son of Erechtheus.

"(Minos) who was most kingly of mortal kings and reigned over very many people dwelling round about, holding the sceptre of Zeus wherewith he ruled many."

The athletic contest in memory of Eurygyes. Melesagoras says that Androgeos the son of Minos was called Eurygyes, and that a contest in his honour is held near his tomb at Athens in the Ceramicus. And Hesiod writes:

"And Eurygyes, while yet a lad in holy Athens...."

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