Achilles is the quintessentially heroic subject of Homer's great poem of adventure and war,theIliad. Achilles was thegreatest of the warriorsfamed for his swiftness on the Greek (Achaean) side during theTrojan War, directly competing with Troy's warrior heroHector. Achilles is perhaps most famous...
Example: The Greek hero of the Iliad, Achilles, seems to be a far less admirable character than the Trojan hero, Hector, whom Achilles slays at the climax of the epic. Even the king of the gods, Zeus, is unhappy that the better man will lose, but it is the fate of Hector to die...
and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by Paris; after ten years the Greeks (via the Trojan Horse) achieved final victory and burned Troy to the ground; "the story of the Trojan War is told in Homer's Iliad...
HADES & THE HERO ORPHEUSWhen Orpheus came to the underworld seeking the return of his dead love Eurydike (Eurydice), Haides and Persephone were moved by his pleas and agreed to let her return.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 14 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "When ...
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In Galatia she was chiefly worshipped at Pessinus, where her sacred image was believed to have fallen from heaven (Herodian, i. 35). King Midas I. built a temple to her, and introduced festive solemnities, and subsequently a more magnificent one was erected by one of the Attali. Her ...
theGods（十二主神）YourZeus(宙斯):thegodofthesky.Hera(赫拉):thegoddessofmarriageandchildbirth.Poseidon(波塞冬):thegodofthesea,protector.Hades(哈迪斯):thegodthedeadandwealth.Hestia(赫斯提亚):thegoddessoftheHearth(灶台).Ares(阿瑞斯):thegodofwar.Hermes(赫尔墨斯):thegodofthievesandcommerce.Hephaestus(...
two epic poems attributed to the famed Greek poet Homer (the first being “The Iliad”), Homer recounts how legendary Greek king and heroOdysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, was shipwrecked on a mythicalisland of Ogygiaduring the course of his wanderings after the fall of Troy...
Ovid, Heroides 4. 35 ff (trans. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "Should Juno yield me him who is at once her brother and lord." Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41. 263 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : ...
Eum. 9; Herod. ii. 170.) After the birth of Apollo, his mother not being able to nurse him, Themis gave him nectar and ambrosia; and by his birth the island of Delos became sacred, so that henceforth it was not lawful for any human being to be born or to die on the island; ...