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, Carmanor or Karmanor (

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: Καρμάνωρ ''Karmánōr'') was a

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priest who purified

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after he killed the

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c dragon

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. He was the father of two sons Euboulus and

Chrysothemis In Greek mythology, Chrysothemis or Khrysothemis (; grc, Χρυσόθεμις, "golden law") is a name ascribed to several characters. ''Female:'' * Chrysothemis, may refer to known as the attributes of the golden harvest as an agricultural demi ...

. According to

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the name Carmanor "does not appear to be Greek".

Mythology

According to second-century geographer

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, when

and

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had killed

, the dragon at

, they came to Carmanor in Crete to be purified, and it was in Carmanor's house in

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that Apollo mated with Acacallis, producing the offspring

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and Philander. Carmanor had two sons, according to Pausanias, Euboulus, whose daughter Carme was the mother, by

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, of

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, and the poet Chrysothemis, who was said to have won the victory in the first competition—the singing of a hymn to Apollo—held at the

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at Delphi.Cook
p. 190
Smith
s.v. Chrysothemis

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He had another child with the goddess

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, a daughter also named Chrysothemis, which may refer to known as the attributes of the golden harvest as an agricultural demi-goddess.

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Notes

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Diodorus Siculus Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which su ...

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