Word: apollodorus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret is more closely related to biochemistry or to mumbo-jumbo, the bird man is in interesting company: the sixth labor of Hercules was to rid the Arcadian city of Stymphalus of its rasping birds. "When Hercules was at a loss how to drive the birds away," writes Apollodorus, "Athena gave him brazen castanets ... By clashing these, he scared the birds. They could not abide the sound...
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