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This sanctuary is on the borders of
After
There, they say, is the seat of Demeter Fury.
Antimachus, unknown location.
Now Oncius was, according to tradition, a son of Apollo, and held sway in Thelpusian territory around the place Oncium; the goddess has the surname Fury for the following reason.
8.25.5When Demeter was wandering in search of her daughter, she was followed, it is said, by Poseidon, who lusted after her. So she turned, the story runs, into a mare, and grazed with the mares of Oncius; realizing that he was outwitted, Poseidon too changed into a stallion and enjoyed Demeter.
8.25.6At first, they say, Demeter was angry at what had happened, but later on she laid aside her wrath and wished to bathe in the
The image of Fury holds what is called the chest, and in her right hand a torch; her height I conjecture to be nine feet. Lusia seemed to be six feet high. Those who think the image to be Themis and not Demeter Lusia are, I would have them know, mistaken in their opinion. Demeter, they say, had by Poseidon a daughter, whose name they are not wont to divulge to the uninitiated, and a horse called Areion. For this reason they say that they were the first Arcadians to call Poseidon Horse.
8.25.8They quote verses from the Iliad
and from the
in confirmation of their story. In the Iliad
there are verses about Areion himself:
Not even if he drive divine Areion behind,
Hom. Il. 23.346In the
The swift horse of Adrastus, who was of the race of the gods.
it is said that Adrastus fled from
>Wearing wretched clothes, and with him dark-maned Areion.
Thebaid, unknown location.They will have it that the verses obscurely hint that Poseidon was father to Areion, but Antimachus says that Earth was his mother:
Adrastus, son of Talaus, son of Cretheus,
Antimachus, unknown location.
The very first of the Danai to drive his famous horses,
Swift Caerus and Areion of
Whom near the grove of Oncean Apollo
Earth herself sent up, a marvel for mortals to see.
But even though sprung from Earth the horse might be of divine lineage and the color of his hair might still be dark. Legend also has it that when Heracles was warring on
Adrastus was the third lord who tamed him.
Antimachus, unknown location.
The
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