1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Dejanira

A daughter of Oeneus, king of Aetolia.

Her beauty procured her many admirers, and her father promised to give her in marriage to him who should excel in a competition of strength. Hercules obtained the prize, and married Dejanira.

Delos or Delus. The smallest of the islands called Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. According to a legend it was called out of the deep by the trident of Poseidon (Neptune), but was a floating island until Zeus (Jupiter) fastened it by adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea, that it might be a secure resting-place to Leto (Latona) for the birth of Apollo and Artemis (Diana). Hence it became the most holy seat of the worship of Apollo.

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