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Expanding the mention of Felipe Lorenzo del Río about the repeated sale of the daughter of Eresictón or Erisictón, I add that it was possible because just as the father received a curse, she received the gift of changing appearance at will and with that trick escaped from her owners to return to Thessaly. See lime , Mestra , Demeter , Nemesis .

  




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

Name of two characters from Greek mythology. Eresictón de Attica was the son of the first king of Athens, Cécrope and Princess Aglauro. There was also Eresictón of Thessaly, son of Triopas and Hiscila. He was punished by Démeter and condemned to suffer from insatiable hunger.

  


felipe lorenzo del rio

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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