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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)

Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 512

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ia, have all been called the birthplace of Zeus, but the commonAccount, and the one generally followed is, that because Cronusswallowed his children as soon as born, Rhea applied to Uranus andGe (Heaven and Earth) for assistance before the birth of Zeus, inorder that the child might be saved. They… … Zeus (Medal in British Museum.) ILLUSTRATED IN ART, 407 Co bring up the children he had swallowed: first came the stone,which was afterwards set up at Delphi by Zeus. The Cyclopeswhom Cronus had fettered were liberated by Zeus, and in grati-tude they gave him thunder and lightning. He also fieed…

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