μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IcelandicBoberg.
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Filed under Athletic contest won by deception.

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Race won by deceptionWrestling match won by deceptionBoxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.)Rowing contest won by deception. The boat is already sawed throughClimbing match won by deceptionDiving match won by deceptionJumping contest won by deceptionThrowing contest won by deceptionDeceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree)Deceptive shinny matchDeception in swinging contestFlying contest won by deceptionBlowing contest won by deceptionRiding contest won by substitution

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