The Pantheon : or, fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c, explained in a manner entirely new ; with an appendix by William Cooke . rs. The victory was followedby the total extermination of that female nation, andHyppolyta, their queen, was by the conqueror given toTheseus, as a reward for his valour. Her belt tiebrought to Eurystheus, J 0. His succeeding exploit war. against Geryon, kingof Spain, who had three bodies, and was the son ofChrysaoris and Callirrhoe. This monarch had a breed ofoxen of a purple colour, who devoured all strangers castto them, and were guarded by
The Pantheon : or, fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c, explained in a manner entirely new ; with an appendix by William Cooke . rs. The victory was followedby the total extermination of that female nation, andHyppolyta, their queen, was by the conqueror given toTheseus, as a reward for his valour. Her belt tiebrought to Eurystheus, J 0. His succeeding exploit war. against Geryon, kingof Spain, who had three bodies, and was the son ofChrysaoris and Callirrhoe. This monarch had a breed ofoxen of a purple colour, who devoured all strangers castto them, and were guarded by a dog with two heads, adragon with seven, b< sides a very watchful and severekeeper. Hercules killed both the monarch and hisguards, and carried the oxen to Gadira, oi Cadiz, hofttwhence he brought them to Eurystheus. It was duringthis expedition, that our hero, as eternal monuments ofhis glory, erected two pillars at Calpe and Abyle,upon the utmost, limits of Africa and Europe. Somegive a more simple turn to the wholcj by saying Ge-ryon was a king of Spain, and governed by means ofthree sons famous for valour and prudence, and that Her-cules. T^f^. THE HE^THFN -GODS. J S3 rules having raised an army of mercenary troops inCrete, first overcame tliem, and subdued that country. 1 1. The next task enjoined him by Eurystheus wasto fetch him the golden apples of the Hesperides f9j,which were guarded by a dragon with a hundred injunction was not easy, since Heresies was evenignorant of the place where they grew. The nymphs ofEridanus, whom he consulted, advised him to^o to Pro-methettfi f I) who eilve nm tne ^formation and direc-tions he wanted, after which he vanquished the dragon,and brought the precious fruit to his master. 1 2. The last command of Eurystheus was for,him to godown to hell, *.nd bring away Cerberus, llutos haying sacrificed to the gods, entered the in-fernal regions, by a cavity of mount Taenarus, and onthe banks of Acheron found a
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