Opheltes

Greek mythology

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Hypsipyle

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    …was acting as nurse to Opheltes, the king’s infant son, she left her charge in order to help the Seven Against Thebes find water; in her absence the child was bitten by a snake and died. (The seer Amphiaraus saw that this episode portended the failure of the expedition of…

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