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The author of the War of the Giants says that Cronos took the shape of a horse and lay with Philyra, the daughter Ocean. Through this cause Cheiron was born a centaur: his wife was Chariclo.

Theolytus says that he (Heracles) sailed across the sea in a cauldron ; but the first to give this story is the author of the War of the Titans.

The author of the War of the Titans says that the apples (of the Hesperides) were guarded...

 

...the Story of Oedipus by Cinaethon in six thousand six hundred verses.

Judging by Homer I do not believe that Oedipus had children by Iocasta: his sons were born of Euryganeia as the writer of the Epic called the Story of Oedipus clearly shows.

The authors of the Story of Oedipus (say) of the Sphinx: "But furthermore (she killed) noble Haemon, the dear son of blameless Creon, the comeliest and loveliest of boys."

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