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- In Gr**** mythology, King Polydectes /ˌpɒlɪˈdɛktiːz/ (Gr****: Πολυδέκτης) was the ruler of the island of Seriphos. Polydectes was the son of either Magnes...
- brother of Dictys was Polydectes ("he who receives/welcomes many"), the king of the island. When ****us was grown, Polydectes came to lust for the beautiful...
- Polydectes (Gr****: Πολυδέκτης; reigned from c. 835 to c. 805 BC) was king of Sparta and a member of the Eurypontid dynasty. He was succeeded by king Eunomus...
- from Deinosuchus, discovered in neighboring Sampson County, was named Polydectes biturgidus by Edward Drinker Cope in 1869. In 1903, at Willow Cr****, Montana...
- hero ****us, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus because Polydectes wanted to marry ****us's mother. The gods were well aware...
- killing Medusa, the hero used winged sandals to transport her head to King Polydectes. As he was flying over Egypt, some of her blood fell to the ground, which...
- four men in Gr**** mythology. Dictys, a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos, both being the sons of Magnes and a Naiad, or of Peristhenes...
- ****us turning King Polydectes to stone with the head of Medusa....
- According to Apollodorus' version of their story, ****us was ordered by Polydectes (his enemy) to bring back the head of Medusa. So guided by Hermes and...
- Damastor. By the latter she became the mother of the fisherman Dictys and Polydectes, king of Seriphos. Otherwise, these two sons were called the children...