![]() ![]() As the land continued in torment, the Thebans once a month would set out one of the citizen's children for it, for otherwise it would have seized many of them. But despite Amphitryon's attempts, it was fated that no one would subdue this Fox. "A wild Fox was creating havoc in the land. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : These writers have taken the story from the Epic Cycle." But they say a certain Kephalos (Cephalus), the son of Deion, an Athenian, who owned a Hound which no beast ever escaped, had accidentally killed his wife Prokris (Procris), and being purified of the homicide by the Kadmeans (Cadmeans), hunted the Fox with his Hound, and when they had overtaken it both Hound and Fox were turned into stones near Teumessos (Teumessus). was sent by the gods to punish the descendants of Kadmos (Cadmus), and that the Thebans therefore excluded those of the house of Kadmos from the kingship. Homerica, The Epigoni Frag 2 (from Photius, Lexicon s.v. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. The dog overtook the fox, but Zeus changed both animals into a stone, which was shown in the neighbourhood of Thebes. When the Teumessian fox was sent as a punishment to the Thebans, to which they had to sacrifice a boy every month, and when Creon had requested Amphitryon to deliver the city of the monster fox, Cephalus sent out the dog Laelaps against the fox. Procris had received this extremely swift animal as a present, either from Artemis or Minos, and afterwards left it to her husband Cephalus. the storm-wind, which is personified in the legend of the dog of Procris which bore this name. Lailaps may be the same as the Golden Hound which was set to guard the infant Zeus in Krete. The neverending chase was also commemorated amongst the stars as the trailing constellations Canis Major and Minor. ![]() However, the fox was destined never to be caught, and so Zeus-faced with the paradox of an uncatchable fox being chased by an inescapable hound-turned the pair to stone. Kephalos set the hound on the trail of the Teumessian Fox, a monstrous beast ravaging the countryside of Thebes. ![]() It was first given to Europa of Krete (Crete) by Zeus and then passed down to Minos, Prokris (Procris), and finally the hero Kephalos (Cephalus). LAILAPS (Laelaps) was a magical dog which was destined to always catch its quarry. ![]()
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