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AUTOLYCUS , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the son of See also:

Hermes and See also:

FATHER

father of Anticleia, See also:

MOTHER

mother of See also:

ODYSSEUS (in Latin Ulixes, incorrectly written Ulysses)

Odysseus. He lived at the See also:

FOOT

foot of See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

PARNASSUS (mod. Likkoura or Likeri)

Parnassus, and was famous as a thief and swindler. On one occasion he met his match. See also:

SISYPHUS

Sisyphus, who had lost some See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, suspected Autolycus of being the thief, but was unable to bring it See also:

home to him, since he possessed the See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of changing everything that was touched by his hands. Sisyphus accordingly burnt his name into the hoofs of his cattle, and, during a visit to Autolycus, recognized his See also:

PROPERTY

property. It is said that on this occasion Sisyphus seduced Autolycus's daughter Anticleia, and that Odysseus was really the son of Sisyphus, not of Laertes, whom Anticleia afterwards married. The See also:

OBJECT

object of the See also:

story is to establish the See also:

close connexion between Hermes, the See also:

god of See also:

THEFT

theft and cunning, and the three persons— Sisyphus, Odysseus, Autolycus—who are the incarnate representations of these practices. Autolycus is also said to have instructed Heracles in the See also:

art of See also:

WRESTLING (O. Eng. wrcestlian)

wrestling, and to have taken See also:

PART

part in the Argonautic expedition. Iliad, x. 267; Odyssey, xix. 395; See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, 'Metam. xi. 313; See also:

APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus i.

9; See also:

Hyginus, Fab. 201.

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