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Cercyon

Κερκυών). Son of Poseidon or of Hephaestus. A cruel tyrant at Eleusis, who put to death his daughter Alopé and killed all strangers whom he overcame in wrestling. He was, in the end, conquered and slain by Theseus (q.v.).

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