• chthonic deity", making Zagreus literally the "god of pitfalls". Based on this etymology, Karl Kerényi concludes that zagreus was the Greek word for a...
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  • for them to be depicted positively. Zagreus is based on the god of the same name in Greek mythology. Before Zagreus was the protagonist of Hades, the team...
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  • Zagreus, order construction of new Underworld features that can appear in future runs, or obtain or upgrade new weapons. They can also have Zagreus interact...
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  • Zagreus is a god in Greek religion and mythology. Zagreus may also refer to: Zagreus (audio drama), based on the British television series Doctor Who Zagreus...
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  • during Zagreus' escape from the Underworld in Elysium, dispatched after Megaera becomes unable to prevent Zagreus' escape. He chides Zagreus for leaving...
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  • motif of "The Event", and "Zagreus" featuring a primary riff from "Four Lights", among others. Mansoor also confirmed "Zagreus" was inspired by the award-winning...
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  • is fought most times Zagreus travels through the first area of the game, Tartarus, and can be found at the House of Hades. Zagreus is able to pursue a...
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  • period. The game follows Melinoë, Princess of the Underworld and sister to Zagreus, the protagonist of the first game. Melinoë aims to defeat Chronos, the...
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  • is paralleled with another Orphic myth, the birth of Melinoë's brother Zagreus, who was conceived when Zeus, disguised as a serpent, deceived and mated...
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  • that Zagreus has for Dusa. Gayming Mag writer Aimee Hart discussed Dusa as a romance option for Zagreus, appreciating how, once Dusa declined Zagreus' advances...
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    Glacier and Paspal Glacier. The feature is named after the Thracian god Zagreus. Zagreus Ridge is centred at 64°52′50″S 61°49′00″W / 64.88056°S 61.81667°W...
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     ... illfated Zagreus", "Zagreus the horned baby", "Zagreus, the first Dionysos", "Zagreus the ancient Dionysos", and "Dionysos Zagreus". Bacchus was...
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  • She is the game's protagonist, being the sister of Hades protagonist Zagreus and daughter of its antagonist, Hades. She is a witch, and is able to use...
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  • by Zagreus. The Doctor/Zagreus rages through the TARDIS and strikes Charley, but there is a loud explosion, and when they recover the Doctor/Zagreus is...
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  • his girlfriend Marthe. Mersault gets to know the rich invalid Roland Zagreus (Zagreus is a character of Greek mythology) who shows Mersault a way out: "Only...
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    symbolically similar to Near Eastern models. The main story has it that Zagreus, Dionysus' previous incarnation, is the son of Zeus and Persephone. Zeus...
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    the father of Orphic Dionysus-Zagreus. Orphics also described Zagreus as the son of Hades, while also regarding Zagreus as an aspect of Dionysus. The...
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    summaries see Morford, p. 311; Hard, p. 35; March, s.v. Zagreus, p. 788; Grimal, s.v. Zagreus, p. 456; Burkert 1985, pp. 297–298; Guthrie, p. 82; also...
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    after his son, Zagreus, gets past Cerberus. Not to be mistaken with "Varatha, the Eternal Spear" (Βαράθα), one of the "Infernal Arms" Zagreus can choose from...
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  • apparently her husband), or a son of Persephone, identical with Dionysus Zagreus, or a son of Dionysus. During the Greco-Persian Wars, when the Attic countryside...
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  • Doctor proclaims that he does not kill and Zagreus refuses to be Rassilon's puppet. At the end of Zagreus, the Doctor is exiled to the Divergents' universe...
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    game's main character, Zagreus. When Supergiant first began developing Hades, Korb recorded placeholder dialogue for Zagreus, but received the role as...
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    who eats off all the flesh of the corpses, leaving only their bones. Zagreus was considered by some ancient authors as an underworld god.[by whom?]...
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    is 110–130 mm. Papilio zagreus is a palatable Batesian mimic of various Heliconius butterfly species. Papilio zagreus zagreus (Colombia, Venezuela, Amazonas...
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    sacrificed themselves with valor. Mythology portal Ancient Greece portal Zagreus Melinoë Menoeceus Iphigenia Zenobius 2.61 in Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum...
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    the video game Hades. She is a boss and a potential romance partner to Zagreus, the main character. Megaera is one of the three antagonists in the video...
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    Persephone is said to have become by Zeus the mother of Dionysus / Iacchus / Zagreus, and the little-attested Melinoë. In mythology and literature she is often...
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    (2020), an indie rogue-like game developed by Supergiant Games. The player, Zagreus, meets Eurydice and Orpheus, and is given the option of reuniting them...
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    Melinoë Menoetius Minos Moirai Nyx Persephone Pluto Rhadamanthus Thanatos Zagreus Geography Acheron Asphodel Meadows Cocytus Elysium Fortunate Isles Land...
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    Athenagoras, Legatio Pro Christianis 20.2]; Meisner, p. 134. Grimal, s.v. Zagreus, p. 466; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6.155. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.21-23. Hard...
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