Devoir de Philosophie

Hesione

Publié le 22/02/2012

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Greek Daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy; sister of Priam. Laomedon offered Hesione as sacrifice to a sea monster to appease the gods Poseidon and Apollo. Heracles slew the monster and gave Hesione in marriage to Telamon, with whom she bore a son, Teucer. Hesione's brother, Priam, now king of Troy, demanded her return. The refusal of the Greeks to return Hesione to her Trojan home was said to have caused some of the ill feeling that eventually led to the war between Greece and Troy (see the Trojan War).

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