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PHYLLIS
Phyllis is a character in Greek mythology. Daughter of Lycurgus, King of Thrace, she married Demophon, King of Athens and son of Theseus, while he stopped in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan war.

Demophon, duty bound to Greece, returns home to help his father, leaving Phyllis behind. She sends him away with a coffin with the sacrament of Rhea, asking him to open it only when he has given up hope of returning to her. From here, the story diverges. In one version, Phyllis commits suicide by hanging herself from a tree. Where she is buried, an almond tree grows, which blossoms when Demophoon returns to her. In a second version of the story, Demophoon opens the caskets and accidentally falls on his own sword.

This story most notably appears in Book II of Ovid's epistolary epic, the Heroides, and also appears in the work of Callimachus.

The Nine Ways is derived from the story of Phyllis, who is said to have returned nine times to the shores to wait for Demophon's return.




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IRIS
Iris has three main meanings, related by their derivation from the French word for rainbow:


-Iris (mythology), a messenger of the gods in Greek mythology, identified with the rainbow

-Iris (anatomy), the sphincter around the pupil of the eye, named after the colors in human and animal eyes

-Iris (plant), a genus of flowering plants, named after the rainbow






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