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Long Night

A term describing, originally, the Greek god Zeus' habit of darkening the sky when seducing women so that his wife, Hera, wouldn't see. He used this technique in the seduction of Io and Alcmene. It is also present in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.



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