#their encyclopedia sections and some of the comments they add can be erroneous
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Mildly annoying thing about theoi.com:
Sometimes the comments they add just do not make sense, or are straight up false. For example, they identify Epaphus with Zagreus:
The explanation they have given is that both Zagreus and Epaphus were identified with Osiris. But this Epaphus is actually the son of Io, as Hyginus clearly states. Not of Persephone or Semele.
Besides, Dionysus is called Liber in Hyginus' Fabulae. And the name Epaphus is given to multiple figures in this work. I know this Epaphus' story is similar to that of Dionysus/Zagreus, but that isn't enough of a connection to claim that Epaphus is Zagreus, especially when Hyginus himself contradicts this claim.
Another example. On Artemis' page, they claim that Artemis killed Coronis as a retaliation for Apollo killing Orion.
I didn't find anything that backs this up in the work they have cited as the source. So really, I wonder where they got it from...
#don't get me wrong theoi.com is a great place to start#they do provide proper sources for the claims most of the times#but not always...#their encyclopedia sections and some of the comments they add can be erroneous#so...always do more reasearch on your own too#mine
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