Answer | Crossword Clue |
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ALCESTIS | Wife of Admetus, who died in his stead. |
ALCESTIS | Wife of Admetus; she died in his stead. |
TUT | King who died in his late teens |
arguses | (in the Odyssey) Odysseus' faithful dog, who recognized his master after twenty years and immediately died |
argus | (in the Odyssey) Odysseus' faithful dog, who recognized his master after twenty years and immediately died |
bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |