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Talk:Erigone (daughter of Icarius)

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Shouldn't the article indicate the the Ovidian and Hyginian tales conflict? The one has a virgin suicide, and the other has a memorial metamorphosis. It's true, of course, that there is a loose "young woman/virgin" language play, but it's likely that Ovid was either working from a separate set of tales or that the tragedians were adapting. Given Euripedes's Bacchae, it's likely that there was a very rich "Dionysus and women" cultic lore that probably remained out of popular religion.

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