king of ithaca book Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/king-of-ithaca-book Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The Kings of Ithaca http://travelsfinders.com/the-kings-of-ithaca.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-kings-of-ithaca.html#respond Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:00:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244998 Odysseus belonged to a dynasty of island kings, all only sons. Most were of doubtful parentage. His (supposed) grandfather, Arcesius, was said to be the son of either Zeus or the hero Cephalus. The Athenian Cephalus had been the reluctant and temporary paramour of Eos, goddess of the dawn. Then, in a hunting accident, he tragically killed his true love, Procris (who had returned to him after an affair with King Minos of Knossos). As Cephalus mourned her fate, an oracle advised him to mate with the first thing he came across. This turned out to be a she-bear, but

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