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| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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They were proverbial as liars, cheats, and accomplished knaves (' weapons, during the time he was the penitent servant of Omphale . He punished them by tying them to a pole he slung over his shoulder with their faces pointing downwards, the only way they appear on Greek vases. The sight of Heracles' dark-tanned butt set them all to laughing, so that Heracles let them go free. In another myth, designed to explain their name ("tail-men" in Greek), Zeus changed the Cercopes into monkeys (from this we have the genus '' Cercopithecus ''). In still another myth, Zeus turned them to stone for trying to deceive even him, the stone was shown to visitors to Thermopylae. FURTHER READING
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