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Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study
The Mouse's Petition
The Caterpillar
Washing-Day
This line and the lines following reference Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in which Cadmus plants dragon’s teeth that then become half-formed men who fight and kill each other (McCarthy and Kraft 75). This myth has Greek origins, in which the hero Kadmos killed a dragon, the child of Ares, in order to draw water from a well. Athena then directed him to sow the dragon’s teeth, which, as mentioned before, sprang up as warriors who killed each other. As punishment for killing the dragon, Ares made him perform service for a span of time, after which Athena gave him Thebes to govern (Atsma).
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June 3, 2007