Zanclus
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title:
Zanclus
text:
Zanclus is the legendary first king of the Sicilian city of Messina. He is mentioned in an etiological passage by Diodorus of Sicily, and has become a symbol of Messina. In modern Italian, the form is given as Zanclo. Gegenus is recorded as the father of Zanclus. Diodorus writes of Zanclus as the supposed eponym of "Zancle". The giant Orion is said to have helped Zanclus in building the city and the harbor. Zanclus has been identified with the male "Grifone" figure of Messina's traditional Mata
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclus
date created:
2005-06-04T23:58:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T21:17:14Z
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