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Cleopatra ( grc, Κλεοπάτρα ''Kleopatra''; "Glory of the father") in
Greek mythology
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was the name of two Danaides, that means of two of altogether 50 daughters of Danaus, who had born his numerous daughters with different women. Each of the two Cleopatras married – like all their sisters – one of the 50 sons of Danaus’ twin brother Aegyptus. One Cleopatra, whose mother was a hamadryad ( Atlantia or Phoebe), married Agenor, and the other Cleopatra, the daughter of the naiad
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*Polyxo, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.
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, married
Hermus
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* Hermus, god of the river Hermus (modern Gediz river) located in the Aegean region of Lydia (modern Turkey). Like most of the rive ...
.Apollodorus, ''Library'' 2.1.5.7; but according to another tradition by
Hyginus
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(''fabulae'' 170) a Danaid Cleopatra was the wife of Aegyptus’ son Menalces. Like all Danaides – except
Hypermnestra
Hypermnestra ( grc, Ὑπερμνήστρα, ''Hypermnēstra''), in Greek mythology, was a Libyan princess as one of the 50 Danaids the daughter of King Danaus, son of King Belus of Egypt. Her mother was Elephantis and full sister to Gorgophone ...
– both Cleopatras killed their husbands in the wedding night.
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Samson Eitrem (28 December 1872 – 8 July 1966) was a Norwegian philologist, an expert in ancient literature, religion and magic.
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