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Hera convinced this figure to guide the Argonauts past Scylla and Charybdis. In the Iliad, Glaucus declined to fight Diomedes by recalling how Lycurgus drove Dionysus into this figure’s bosom, but was then struck blind by Zeus. This figure parallels Eos in vases depicting a weighing of souls, likely referencing a conflict in the Aethiopis. This “silver-footed” figure summoned the Hecatonchire (15[1])Briareus to intimidate (15[1])a group of gods conspiring against Zeus. This figure seized Zeus’ knees with her left hand and his chin with her right while (*) petitioning him in a scene later painted by Ingres. This figure’s sisters lamented with her in a cave after hearing her scream in Book XVIII (“eighteen”) of the Iliad, which also describes how this shapeshifting nymph and Eurynome raised (10[1])Hephaestus. An extended ekphrasis describes the shield commissioned by this figure. For 10 points, name this Nereid mother of Achilles. (10[1]) ■END■

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