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Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting.

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“In return Daedalus made a portrait statue of Hercules at Pisa, which Hercules mistook at night for living and threw a stone and hit it. And during the time of his servitude with Omphale it is said that the voyage to Colchis? and the hunt of the Calydonian deceitful men whom Zeus punished by turning them into apes, and that the islands of Ischia and Procida, off the Bay of Naples, were called Pithecusae (‘‘ Ape Islands ”) after them.”

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Filed under Suitor contest: shooting.

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Suitor contest: bending bow of woman's absent husband
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: man to apeResuscitation by a god. (Cf. A454.)Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades)Strong man throws another from walls

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