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In much the same way, the Athenians honoured their patron Eurystheus although he was originally from Argos. Thus one finds that Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, was treated as a deity at Delphi although his only association with Delphi was his burial there. On their deaths, the heroes became patrons and guardians of the cities wherein they were interred, even though it was not their birthplace, for the soul, in the opinion of the Greeks, never abandoned the corpse rather, it resided within it at the spot in which it had been buried. To further enhance their divine origins, the heroes often boasted of kinship with the deities by maintaining that they were offspring of the marriages of gods and mortals.
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Some mortals became deified heroes in Greek mythology and were given many attributes of gods in whose image they were created. Demigods and Heros - Achilles - Aegisthus - Agamemnon - Ajax the Locrian - Ajax the Telamonian - Alcestis - Amphiaraos - Amphitrite - Antigone - Atalanta - Belerophon - Cadmus - Clytemnestra - Daedalus - Danae - Dioscuri - Electra - Europa - Eurydice - Ganymede - Hector - Hecuba - Helen - Heracles - Hippolytus - Icarus - Io - Iphigenia - Jason - Leda - Menelaus - Minos - Nestor - Niobe - Odysseus - Oedipus - Orestes - Medea - Orpheus - Paris - Pasiphae - Pelops - Penelope - Perseus - Phaedra - Phaethon - Phrixus - Priam - Telemachus - Theseus - Triptolemus Demigods and Heros