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• Poet Jane Mead, author of The Lord and the General Din of the World, reads at 4:15 p.m.
Tuesday, May 30, in Room 265 Park Hall. Mead was educated at Vassar College, Syracuse
University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, she lives in a cottage that
looks out over the prairie between Hills, Iowa, and Iowa City, where she raises hunting dogs
and teaches private poetry workshops. The Lord and the General Din of the World, pub
lished by the newly established Sarabande Books, was selected by Philip Levine as the
1995 winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Sarabande Books is located in Louis
ville, Ky„ and is undertaking a difficult task in today’s marketplace... publishing serious litera
ture. The reading is free and open to the public.
• Amy Tan speaks Wednesday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Tate Center. Tickets are $3 for
UGA students and $5 for non-students. Her lecture is titled "Ghosts & Yappie Dogs: The
Serendipity of Fiction.”
• Eudora Welty Film and Fiction Festival May 1-4 in Jackson, Miss., features too many au
thors to list them ail, but here are some: recent Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford, Lewis
Nordan, Will Campbell, Rick Bass, Clyde Edgerton. Call 601-948-2357 for more information.
• The Cooperative Arts Union (CAU) will hold open meetings every other Wednesday at
Dogwood Cafe at 8 p.m. The next meeting will be Wednesday, April 24. The CAU invites
artists of all media (writers, performers, visual artists, etc.). For more info, call 549-2004.
• Book Peddlers in Beechwood Shopping Center has Children’s Story Time every Saturday
and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Judy Long
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■ Little-Known Heroes ■
of Classical Mythology
Merope: A massive crab with seven heads (some accounts say 50; others say one), killed by Heracles on
his second labor. As soon as one head was cut off, another would grow in its place, causing Heracles to turn
and run hastily in the other direction. While giving chase, the crab was distracted by hecklers, and later died of
scurvy.
Pericurgus: One of the nine muses. Legend holds that she could play any musical instrument except the
bugle.
Galatea: A mortal feared by Zeus, because his waist size was greater than his height. Locked upon with
favor by wisdom goddess Athena, and later torn apart by hounds.
Once, Crossipus set out to visit the Gods atop Mt. Olympus. During his journey, he stopped at the home
of Jadon, who provided him cornbread and pointed out a good spot in the woods for him to sleep. When
Crossipus reached Olympus, he told the Gods of Jadon's unparalleled kindness. Zeus, in particular, was
moved when he heard this, and decreed that the men would be changed into constellations and given time off
work. Soon, both were fired.
Ideis: The blind seer of Thrace, a man troubled by Harpies. His brothers-in-law Zeles and Calais at
tempted to deliver him from the Harpies, but lacked adequate postage.
Dictys: A fisherman from the isle of Seriphus who discovered Danae and Perseus in a chest, befriended
them, and later put them back in the chest.
Machaon: A famous physician; son of Asclepius. In order to medically examine the giant Poiybotes,
commissioned the building of a 300-ft. stethoscope.
Chione: A daughter of Daedalion, loved and visited by Apollo and Hermes on the same night, leading to
an unpleasant legal dispute. Separate mythological accounts have her killed by Artemis, changed into a hawk
by Artemis, changed into Artemis by an owl, and contracting polio in Austria.
Idmon: A prophet who lived on the isle of Crete. He foretold that the quest for the Golden Fleece would be
successful, but would seem ridiculous in retrospect. Also promised Idmon'that he would be spared the wrath
of the Cyclops, especially if he was buying the drinks.
Raenae: A favorite of Hera. He is bestowed with magic apples, said to have the power to turn a tortoise
into a ram, and then gradually back into a tortoise.
Lycius: A name for Apollo as the killer of wolves. Apollo was an expert hunter, arid once cleared Athens
of raccoons in just under 12 hours.
Stegilus: A cruel and impious king of Thrace. He questioned the immortality of Dionysus, opposed his
worship, and in turn was driven mad by goats. Some stories claim that in his delirium he mistook his son for
a bag of acorns, and planted him in a thick mulch.
A Lithuanian came once to Poseidon and complained that he had no money to marry off his daughter.
Poseidon felt sympathy for the poor man, and chose not cleave him with his golden trident. Instead, he gave
the man a silk robe and some money, so that he might cut a fine figure at the wedding. The beggar took
everything, went straight to an inn, and began drinking vermouth. Some hours later, a group of villagers found
the drunkard lying on a bench, impeisonating a partridge. They took the rest of the money and the silk robe,
and brought jt back to Poseidon. This angered the Earth Shaker, and after a few violent strokes, only a hair
piece remained of the group. In this way, man came to know the gift of algae.
Lyconedes: Son of Theseus and Parthenope. Once dressed as a woman to escape fighting in the Trojan
war, and later did so for the amusement ol visitors.
Phronulus: An Argonaut fabled for his keen eyesight, it is said that he could see through the trunk of a
tree, after boring a large hole in it. Also, could distinguish objects nine miles away, but would not say what
they were.
Cherybides: The daughter of Poseidon and Gaea, she stole the oxen of Heracles. Zeus threw her into the
sea, where she landed unharmed atop some sharp rocks. In subsequent myths, Cherybides appears as: 1) a
dangerous whirlpool off the coast of Italy, 2) the oxen of Heracles and 3) sharp rocks. All of these things later
proved fatal to Odysseus.
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sense of well-
being and openness.
April 24, 1996 FLAGPOLE