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- ↑ William Hansen, Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 344.
- ↑ Robin Hard, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (Routledge, 2004), p. 691.
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- ↑ Hernandez, Mythology, p. 45.
- ↑ Hansen, Classical Mythology, p. 14.
- ↑ Hard, Routledge Handbook, p. 691.
- ↑ Collins et al.,Building a Scholarly Communications Center, p. 73.
