The legend of Lamia - The curse of a Queen

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In the mythology, Lamia is known to steal and kill children as she was malevolent. But what is behind this malevolence? Researchers have mentioned that Lamia was cursed by Hera who destroyed all the children of the latter. The curse was due to the fact that Lamia was caught red-handed with Zeus the husband of Hera, romancing in bed. Lamia was also cursed to be unable to close her eyes as Hera wants her to suffer the deaths of her children time and again. Fair enough, Zeus pitied Lamia and allow her to remove her eyes so that she can be peaceful. Before being curse, Lamia used to be the Queen of Libya. Lamia was the daughter of Belus...

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• Assisted by: Lydi D Thomson-Smith (Editor), Lydia D. Thomson-Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: FastBook Publishing
• Languages: English
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• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9786130147341
• ISBN: 978-613-0-14734-1
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