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Meaning of eresictón by felipe lorenzo del rio





felipe lorenzo del rio

eresictón
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King of Thessaly who despised the gods, as the poet Ovid tells us in book VIII of Metamorphosis, lover of waste and banquets. To fix the roof of the banquet hall he decided to cut a sacred holm oak dedicated to Demeter, who disguised as a priestess wanted to dissuade him unsuccessfully, so he ordered Nemesis and Limos (hunger) revenge for this outrage. From then on Erisicton suffered an insatiable hunger. After spending his entire fortune he sold his daughter Mestra several times. Eresicton just ended his torment by eating himself,

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