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=Cercyon= Cercyon was the son of [|Poseidon]. Cercyon was king of Elusis. Cercon was a very strong man and he took advantage of this. He would wrestle Greek by-passers to their deaths. Incentive for these people was that if they beat Cercyon they also won his kingdom. Nobody could beat him until [|Theseus] came, beat Cercyon, and won his kingdom.


 * Melvin Udell**

Jack Nicholson portrays Melvin Udell, an insular, unpleasant man with obsessive compulsive disorder in this Academy Award-winning film. His disorder is gently poked fun at, but not cruelly so, as we watch Melvin evolve from an uncaring antisocial stooge to a warm and loving man.

=Erysichthon= by James HunterErysichthon was the son of Triopas. He was an arrogant and impious man who dared to fell timber in the sacred grove of [|Demeter]. As punishment, Ceres sent Famine to dwell in Erysichthon's entrails, so that he was continuously tormented by an insatiable hunger. He ate up all the food in sight, and sold all his possessions to buy more; still he was not satisfied. Finally he sold his own daughter. She appealed to [|Poseidon], who had taken her virginity, for assistance, and Poseidon granted her the power to change into any shape she wished, thus enabling her to escape her new master. Her father discovered her ability and sold her many times thereafter. Even this was not enough to assuage his raging hunger, however, and he eventually began to gnaw upon his own limbs, continuing his desperate quest for food until he had consumed himself entirely.