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Greek mythologyGreek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
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Pandareus (Πανδάρεως) was the son of
ClymeneClymene or Klymenê may refer to:*104 Klymene, an asteroid*Clymene Dolphin *Clymene or Asia , an Oceanid, wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius...
and
MeropsMerops may refer to several figures from Greek mythology:#King of Ethiopia, husband of Clymene, who lay with Helios and bore Phaethon#Resident of Miletus, husband of another Clymene and father of Pandareus...
. His residence was given as either
EphesusEphesus was an ancient Roman and Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek period....
or
MiletusMiletus was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia , near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria...
. At the request of his friend,
TantalusIn Greek mythology Tantalus was a son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto. Thus he was a king in the primordial world, the father of a son Broteas whose very name signifies "mortals" . Other versions name his father as Tmolus "wreathed with oak," son of Sipylus, a king of Lydia. Both Tmolus and Mount...
, Pandareus stole a bronze (or golden) dog from a temple to
ZeusIn Greek mythology, Zeus is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the...
on
CreteCrete is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km²...
. According to various sources, he was turned to stone or fled to
SicilySicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy. Several much smaller islands surrounding it are considered to be part of Sicily....
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Pandareus and his wife were both killed by the gods, and their children were left as orphans. Pandareus was the father of
AedonAëdon is, in Greek mythology, the daughter of Pandareus of Ephesus. According to Homer she was the wife of Zethus, and the mother of Itylus....
, and had at least one other daughter. After the death of their parents,
AphroditeAphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty and raw sexuality. According to Greek poet Hesiod, she was born when Cronus cut off Ouranos's genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the aphros arose Aphrodite.Because of her beauty other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace...
took care of and fed the daughters,
HeraIn the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage. In Roman mythology, Juno was the equivalent mythical character. The cow, and later, the peacock were sacred to her...
taught them to be proper women, and Athene made them accomplished; but when Aphrodite went to see
ZeusIn Greek mythology, Zeus is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the...
to get them married, storm winds carried them away to become handmaidens of the
furiesIn Greek mythology the Erinýes or Eumenídes or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead...
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