The mythical hero in Greek mythology. Legendary heroes of Greek myths

From the marriages of the Olympic gods with mortals were born heroes. They were endowed with a huge force and superhuman opportunities, but did not possess immortality. Heroes had to fulfill the will of the gods on Earth, to contribute to the life of people order and justice. With the help of his divine parents, the heroes committed all sorts of exploits. Heroes were highly revered, the legends were transmitted from generation to generation.

Hercules

The son of Zeus and Alcmen (daughters of the Miktensky king of the electron and wife of the Tirinf Tsar Amphitrion) was born in Argos. On that day, when he had to be born, Zeus gave an oath that his descendant born on this day would receive power over the micheen and neighboring lands. In advance, hated baby Gera did so that the birth of Alcmen was detained, and Nikippa, the wife of the Mycena Tsar Sfenel, gave birth on this day - her son Eurysfea was the great-grandfather of Zeus and, thus, received power over the mixes.

Hercules was born two months later (at birth he received the name alkid). His father wanted him to become the strongest of people, and Hercules really possessed a huge force. Having learned about his birth, jealous Gera sent two huge snakes so that they strangle the newborn. However, the infiled baby himself grabbed the snakes for the neck and strangled them. When Hercules had children, Hera lowered at him madness, and he killed them, after which he retired to exile. The Delphic Oracle, to which Hercules appealed for advice, ordered him twelve years to serve Eurischey and make twelve feats, after which he would receive immortality.

Hercules made twelve exploits: he killed a Nemoye Lion, the Lerneal nine-headed hydra, caught the Kerine Lan, killed Eriman's Vepry, cleared the stables of the king of Tsar Avgiya, he was driven by Steamfali birds, caught, tamed and led the Cretan Bull in Mycena, led to Eurispius Kony Diomeda, got the tsaritsa belt Amazons of the Ippolites, delivered in Mycena from the island of the eryphic of Gerion's cows, pulled out gold apples hesperid, led from the kingdom of Aida the Guard of the Underworld of Cerber.

Eurysfee ordered Hercules to cleanse from the manure of the stables of the king of Eldida Avgius, the son of Helios. Avgi had a huge directing courtyard, in his herd there were more than five hundred bulls. Hercules did the holes in two opposite walls of the cattle courtyard and let the water of two rivers and Pinos (Penos), which took all the manure and washed stall. It was the fifth feat of Hercules. The expression "Augiyev Stables" is used when they want to say about bringing the order of something very dirty, complex and confusing.

Achilles

Achilles, one of the greatest heroes of the Trojan War, was the son of King Mirmidonian Pelia and the marine goddess Fetold. Peel gave Achilla to the upbringing of Mudrome Centaur Chiron. The hero rose mighty, learned to own the weapon perfectly, as well as playing the kifare and sing. The fate was predetermined that Achilles should die under Troy. Fetis knew about it and, wanting to save the Son, hid him on the island of Skyros. There, disguised in a female dress, he lived among the daughters of Tsar Licken. When Priest Calhas predicted that without the participation of Achille, the Greeks would suffer under the Troy failure, the Ahasey leaders led by Odyssey went to Skiros. Having introduced himself as a merchant, cunning Odyssey decomposed the goods: women's decorations and weapons.

Odyssey ordered his companions to play alarm. Frightened girls rushed to run, and Ahill grabbed the weapon and rushed towards the enemy. The identified Achille willingly agree to take part in the Trojan War. Together with him rides his faithful friend Patrole. Peel gives the son of the armor, received by him as a gift from the gods at the wedding with a fetide, a spear, presented by Centaur Chiron, and horses he received from Poseidon. During the long siege, Troy Achill exhibits unparalleled courage and valor.

When the Greeks could not take the city storm, they began to conquer nearby cities and the islands that were allies of Troy. In Fouves, Achille captured the wonderful Brisade, but when Agamemenon took off his prisoner, he refused to participate in battles. Even when the Trojans began to win the victory, Achilles, despite all the perspective, to promise Agamemnon to return to him by Brisade, to give his wife one of his daughters and give her rich dowry for her, does not change his decision. But the Trojans broke into the Mal Greek and set fire to one of their ships. Then Achille agreed to give Patrole his armor and allowed him to enter into battle. Patrole is dying, combat Hector, who helps God Apollo helps.

Upon learning of the death of a friend, Achille reconciled with Agamemnon and again entered into battle with the Trojans, closed in the armor, found for him by Hephaest at the request of Fetold. From the hand of Achilla, a lot of Trojan heroes died. In a duel with Hector, he won, fighting him with a spear and avenge the death of Patrole. But for a short time he lived after this and himhill himself. As was drawn by fate, he dies from the arrows of Paris, which the Apollo directs: the arrow gets the hero in the heel, he cannot move, and the second arrow Paris sends him to his chest.

According to one of the versions of the myths about Achille, his mother Fetidid, wanting to make his son Immortal, bathd him in the waters of styx. At the same time, she kept the child for the heel, and only the heel remained vulnerable - Paris's arrow fell into it. "Achilles Fifth" and means a weak, vulnerable place.

Perseus

At Acricia, the king of Argos was the daughter of a given unearthly beauty. Oracle predicted that the king would die from the hand of the son of Danai. Having learned about this, acrivia built deeply under the ground over bronze and stone and sharpened his daughter there. But Zeus who loved let's give, penetrated the dungeon in the form of a golden rain. Danai had a son - Perseus. Together with his mother, he was placed in a large wooden chest and threw in the sea. The waves knocked the box to the island of Serphos, where the prisoners found shelter from the locals.

Perseus grew, it was a young man with a slender figure and golden hair, beautiful, like Apollo. Tsar Polydt fell in love with Danae, who hated him. Perseus stood up for the mother, and to destroy the hero, the king ordered him to kill the terrible Gorgon Medusa. On the head of the gorgon instead of hair, poisonous snakes were smoking, and anyone who looked at her immediately turned into a stone. Athena gave the Ponder the copper shield, so brilliant that everything was reflected in it as in the mirror, and Hermes are his sharp sword.

After a long path, Perseus reached a gloomy country where the grain lived in which there was only one eye and one tooth. He selected her eyes and tooth and agreed to return them only after the grain indicated his way to Gorgon Jelocation. From Nif, the hero received as a gift a helmet of the sickper of the underground kingdom of Aida, who did invisible anyone who put him, sandals with wings, with which it was possible to quickly move through the air, and a magic bag. In order not to turn into a stone, Perseus cut off the head of Gorgon Medusz, looking at its reflection in a brilliant shield, this Athena, and put it in a wonderful bag. For the fact that the Great Atlas refused to accept him in his house, Perseus showed him the head of the jellyfish gorgon, and the body of atlas turned into a mountain, beard and hair - in the forest, hands and shoulders - in high rocks. Since then, the Atlas Mountain supports the Heavenly Code with all its constellations.

In the kingdom of Kefi Persei, the king's daughter was saved - the beautiful Andromeda, chained to the rock and the monster given to the ruins. Perseus killed the monster and married Andromeda. Then he freed his mother and turned a halfdhect into stone. As she predicted Oracle, Perseus killed his grandfather: during the sports competition, he threw the bronze disk and accidentally hit the head of old acrycia, striking him to death.

Odysseus

Odyssey, the king of the island of Ithaca, was distinguished by the mind, cunning and dexterity. He took part in the Trojan War, and it was he who suggested the Greeks to make a huge wooden horse, hide in it the best warriors and leave it at the walls of Troy. The trick of Odyssey succeeded, thanks to which the Greeks managed to master the Troy (hence the expression "Trojan horse" and "Dara Danaytsev" - to designate the gift made for the death of the enemy). It was difficult to be the path of Odyssey to their homeland, to the Itha, often he was subjected to mortal danger, but thanks to the help of the gods and his own mind overcomed all obstacles. He fell to the terrible one-eyed cyclop polyfe, which ate his six satellites. Odyssey drove out the polyfem, his only eye was scruulous, and then together with the remaining satellites, the cunning was able to get out of his cave.

The magician of Kirk turned his companions in pigs, and Odyssey miraculously managed to avoid the same fate, and then save his comrades. He managed to safely sail past the island of sweet-haired Siren, who put the sailors with their wonderful singing and split their ships about the rock, - Odyssey shook his satellites with the wax, and told himself tightly tied to the mast. His ship sailed between the monsters of Szillla and Charibda. Odyssey was the only one escaped when Zeus, angry with his companions, eating the sacred cows of God Helios, threw the lightning into their ship. For a few days of Odyssey, clinging to the mast, wore around the sea. Seven years he tried in captivity in Nymph Calypso. His raft, on which he sailed from Calypso, sink at Piddon angry at Odyssey, and he miraculously survived.

After the shipwreck Odyssey was on the island of Feeques Kerkira (Corfu), where he found him sleeping, the daughter of Tsar Alkinoa. She gave herdyssey clothes, fed him and led him to the city. The hero was struck by the beauty and wealth of the city, the palace of the king and gardens. Odyssey told Alkino and Queen Argenet about his participation in the Trojan War and about all the adventures, troubles and adversity, which he had to survive later, and asked them to send him to his homeland. The Feicians were equipped with a ship, put the rich gifts for Odyssey there, staged a farewell feast and sent a hero to Ithaca. For many years, the faithful wife Odyssey Penelope was waiting for him. Returning to Itak, by anyone, not recognized by Odyssey discovered numerous grooms demanding that his wife would marry. Penelope suggested them to fall into the shooting of Luke who belonged to her husband, but none of them managed to even pull the tet. Odyssey took onions and interrupted all the grooms. He opened Penelope and again began to reign on Ithaka.

Orpheus

Son of the river god Eager and Music Kallopa, Great singer. As the myths tell, Orpheus gave songs about love and peace, about freedom and order. When he sang, wild animals were grained, the fights stretched out each other, the kings became merciful, the dikari began to live according to the laws. His beloved wife, Eurydice, died from the bite of a poisonous snake. Gorky mourned Orpheus his loss. He decided to descend into the gloomy kingdom of the dead souls in search of his beloved. With his singing, he fascinated the guard of Kerber, Aida himself and Persephone.

Aid agreed to return Eurydice, provided that the Orpheus follows himself for Hermes along the underground kingdom and will not look at Eurydice, going back, until he enters his house. But, alas, Orpheus could not stand and turned around to take a look at Eurydice, and she again, already forever, turned into a shadow. Orpheus did not wish to marry with another woman. Four years after the death of Evridiki, frantic vakhanki sent by God Dionis, who spoke on the Orpheus for not reading him, was confused by the singer. His head and kifara they threw in the sea. The sea picked them up and suffered, and the crystrons still sounded for a long time. The waves carried a terrible cargo to the shores of Lesbos. This island in memory of ORFEE is taken by the cradle of Greek music and arts.

TEXE

Tereus had two fathers - King Athens Age and God Poseidon. Efra, the mother of the hero, was the daughter of Tsar Pytfhey. She brought his son, and when he grew up and matured, he gave him the sword of Egea, with whom Tereksa and went to Athens. On the way, he made various exploits. So, he fell into the house of the famous robber of the procrus, from which no man left alive. The progress put the traveler on his bed on him and, if he was not placed on him, the legs cut off him, and if the bed was great, he pulled the unfortunate. Teskey managed to kill the procrus. When the Athenians once again sent the king Minos Dan. - Seven young men and seven girls intended for the congregation of the monster Minotaur, - Teshesya voluntarily went to Crete among them.

There, with the help of His Ariadna, the daughter of Minoa and Pacifia, who lived in the Minotaurus who lived in the Mabyrintha. The hero burned the bottom of the ships of Christians so that they could not catch up with him, and on their ship went on the road. Together with the Teshem left Crete and having loved him Ariadne. On the way, they stuck to the island of Naxos. There, the Teshe appeared in the dream of God Dionysis and ordered to sail from the island without Ariadna, as she was intended to be his wife, Dionysus. Testa, waking up, quickly went on the road, leaving Ariadna (according to another version, Teshen himself did not want to carry Ariadna to Athens and left her at Naxos).

Dionysis took Ariadna to the island of Lemnos, where their wedding took place. Testa, distressed by the fact that he had to part with Ariadna, forgot to change the sails (the ship went out of Athens under black sails, which, by agreement with Egem, should have changed on white if he could beat the minotaur and get to get out of the labyrinth), And Age, who decided that the son was killed, in despair rushed into the sea, which became known as Aegean. After death, Egea Teshesy became the king of Athens. He made a lot of other feats, but the gods were angry with his bold actions, and they turned away from him. In addition, in the absence of Tereus, Dioskurs overthrew him from the throne in Athens, and he had to go to the exile. He sailed to the island of Skiros, where his father once owned the lands. However, Tsar Skirosa Licked did not want to give way to the land of the earth and the hero killed insidiously, encountered him from the rock.

Jason

Jason, the famous leader of the Argonauts, the greatness of the god of the winds of Eol, was the son of the Eson, the king of Iola, and the polymedia. Eson Schurd from the throne of his brother Peneli, Son Poseidon and Tiro. Eson, fearing, as if the peli did not destroy his son Jason, said that the child died immediately after birth, and he himself gave him to the upbringing of Centaur Chiron. Here Jason mastered the skill of possession of the weapon, in addition, Chiron taught him the art of healing. When Jason turned twenty years old, he returned to Iola. On the way, the young man lost one of the sandals, and Pelia was predicted that he would die from the hands of a person who came from the mountains, who will have only one leg. Seeing Jason, who came to demand that the throne would be returned to his father, the pelia was scared, but decided to smear and promised to give the power of Eson, after Jason brings him from Kolkhid Golden Fleece.

With the help of the goddess Athens, Argo's ship was built, and Jason, along with many Greek heroes, went from Iola's way. They had to face many dangers and temptations. With the help of his honey, the daughter of the Kolkhidsky king Eeta, Jason kidnapped Runo and fled. Medea and Medea with him. To detain the chase, she committed a crime: killed her brother and scattered pieces of his body into the sea, realizing that his father would bring them to bury her son. Argonauts stuck to the island of Fatequetsev Kerkira (Corfu).

King Alkina welcomed them welcomed them, and they expected to relax on the island after a long and complete danger of the path. But the next day, the Fleet of Colchidians appeared near the island, who demanded them back to them. A little bit broke through the battle, and Alkina decided to give med to Claws, if she is not a jamon wife. Having learned about this, Jason and Medea at night made a wedding rite, and the next day Jason poured the owners of the island and the Colchis, that Medea is his spouse. Alkina decided that Medea should stay with her husband, and the Colchiids had to return home with anything.

When Jason, after many difficulties and adventures, returned to Iola to Pelia with the Golden Runa, I learned that he killed his father and brother. Pelia refused to fulfill his promise. Then the Mesha's magician advised Pestic's daughters to cut the father's body into pieces and cook in the boiler to return his youth. So died cunning pecils, but in Iola his son Akanet, who expelled Jason and Medea.

Thanks to them with exceptional joy, we recognize the names and feats of Hercules, Edipa, Tekes, Achille, Odyssey or hetero. In the "death of heroes", recently edited by Turner, Carlos Garcia Gual tells about the death of 25 heroes. This is a Lapidaric book: she speaks of her turning and, above all, how they died, about the beginning of their glory as an immortal. And although no hero copes with his fate, they all participate in their superhuman acts: there are those who are looking for fame in the battle, others - in conquests, others - travel and adventures, and there are those who already prefer to defend their community . His family.

Ajax - the name of the two participants of the Trojan War; Both fought under the Troy as Elena's hand applicants. In "Iliad", they often appear hand in hand and compared with two mighty lions or bulls.

Bellorofont. - One of the main heroes of the older generation, the son of the Corinthian Tsar Level (on other sources, God of Poseidon), Sisif's grandson. The initial name of the BellerFonfield - Hippon.

Heroes, except for Orpheus, do not sing: They are angry and remember the epic, tragedy and Greek lyrics. Carlos Garcia Guala announces that Andrei young in battle is the vital part of the warrior-hero's profile and, nevertheless, does not turn out heroic death. It is not enough to be brave, you can notice between its pages. There are several cases of heroes that deserve "beautiful death." Paphos manages the life and death of heroes over the hills, glory. From this strange state of the tragedy, it extracts its raw material: the hero suffers from a hybrid, which extols the triumphs and strengthens the character, but also immobilizes the hero in the face of inevitable agony.

Hector - One of the main characters of the Trojan War. The hero was the son of Heekba and Priama - Troy Tsar. According to legend, he killed the first Greek, which pulled into the land of Troy.

Hercules - National hero of the Greeks. Son of Zeus and the death woman of Alcmena. Gifted by powerful force, performed the hardest work on Earth and made great feats. Having redeemed his sins, ascended to Olympus and reached immortality.

Thus, Garcia Gaal reveals a fragile and ambivalent state of heroes. On the one hand, the force in the hands, and on the other - the sealed fate. Only the gods know the exact moment of death. That day deep sorrow. Patrolery crying abundantly Achilles. Hector, horses tamer and murderer of men, argues his father after the desecration of his corpse.

Achilles killed by an arrow running Paris. Peter Paul Rubens and his workshop "Death of Achilles". Talent, Humanism and the vision of Professor Garcia Guala is so wide that he recreates myths and death of heroes from the most traditional versions of those who are more anecdotic. Stories about mythical heroes are not always extracted from primary sources, in some cases the author refers to the late texts.

Diomed. - Son of the Etolian king Tidea and the daughter of Adrasta Dapil. Together with Adraist, he took part in the campaign and ruin of FIV. As one of the grooms, Elena Diomed fought subsequently under Troray, heading the militia on 80 ships.

Meleagr - Hero of Etolia, son of the Calidon king Oynaja and Alfia, the spouse Cleopatra. Participant of the argonauts. The greatest fame to Meleagru was involved in the Kalidon hunt.

Accounting for their death is unusual: the Oedip is dying, according to the version of Sofokla, the victims of expulsion, blind and unhappy, to contemplate the death of Yokasta, his wife and mother. Hercules dies, rushing to the fire of Lam, after putting on Tuni, who sent him his dear Actra with the blood of the Kentupus. Perseus dies, moving his head Gorgona to himself. Orpheus, which is sent to Aid in search of Euridic, succumbed to bakhans. Jason was crushed by the mast Argo ship and died instantly. Alkmeon dies from family intrigues. Testa, the hero of Athenian democracy, reaches his appointment, stumbling and falling out of the ravine.

Meneli. - Tsar Sparta, son of atreya and aircraft, Elena's husband, younger brother Agamemnon. Meneli, with the help of Agamemnon, gathered friendly kings to Ilion's campaign, and he himself put sixty ships.

Odysseus "Angry", the king of Islands Islands, the son of Laerta and Antiklei, Husband Penelope. Odyssey is the famous hero of the Trojan War, also famous for its wanders and adventures.

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Sisif suffers from one of the three endless sentences of the gods: to forever shive the stone to the mountain to see how he falls again and again. Belerafont falls from the mountain Pegasus, his winged horse, in an attempt to join the assembly of the gods and comes to his death.

On the other hand, the heteric world is experiencing blood, tears and smells of death. In Iliad, there is no song that does not speak about the death of some kind of warrior. Myth says that Agamemenon, the king of Mycene, Brother Meal, Helm Helen, sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia before you go to Ilion. In this scene, his wife, cliques, will take part. Together with Egisto, he plotted the murder of Agamemnon with a double-edged ax. The tragic story of this family ends with the death of the cliques from the hands of his son, vengeful oriest.

Orpheus - The famous singer of Thracians, the son of the river god Eager and Music Kallopia, spouse Nymph Eurydiki, who brought the trees and rocks.

Patrokl - The son of one of the argonauts of the gene, relative and the associate of Achille in the Trojan War. Being a boy, he killed his comrade while playing the bone, for this his father sent him to Pelle in the Fthia, where he was raised with Achille.

Achilles dies, according to each version, ambushed, arrow or spear. His fate differs from the fate of other heroes who come to the Trojan War. The son of Titanide Tetis and mortal peads, he knows that when he goes to Troy, his death will be safe. He is a cruel, angry and majestic warrior, who decides to go to war, because Glory will be great, and he knows that his glory will make him immortal.

Garcia Gaul is seduced by the death of hetero. He is the heir to Priama, loves his wife Andromaha; Love your son, Astinact; He loves his community and fulfills its duty to protect the land of Troy. Homer sings his death with the same glory as the victory of Ellini. The Trojan Hero is dying, pierced by a spear in battle with a veil, and unfortunately, his body stretches between stones. However, despite the damage, his corpse never loses beauty. Gods love him and support him even in death.

Peel - Son of the Eginsky king Eak and Endida, spouse Antigona. For the murder of his pylon brother of Fock, who defeated Pelia in athletic exercises, he was expelled by his father and retired to the Fthia.

Pelop. - King and National Hero of Frigia, and then Peloponnese. The son of Tantalla and Nymphs of Evrianssa. Pelop grew on Olympus in the society of the gods and was a pet's favorite.

Trojan War - Short Retelling

Thus, Garcia Gual chooses the death of heroes and considers them with special care. As a mature fruit, which refuses to fall, the author dedicates several pages to three heroines of the Greek World: Cliqueness, Cassandra and Antigone. All three were punished for the display of insomnia and for freedom of women.

Come from Greece, Rome or any other culture, myths inhabit our lives. From cinemas to comics passing through literature. Cover: "Gods and heroes of Greek mythology." The action takes place in a long time, in Greece and regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea. And we will find the following characters: the gods of Olympus and heroes.

Perseus - Son Zeus and Danai, daughter of the Argos Tsar Akrismia. The winner of Medusa Gorgon and the Savior Andromeda from the draws of the dragon.

Talphibium - Vestnik, Spartan, together with Evurybat, he was heating at Agamemnon, fulfilling his instructions. Talphibians together with Odyssey and Menelham collected the army on the Trojan War.

Tevkr. - The son of Teamamon and the daughter of the Trojan Tsar Hesians. The best arrow of onion in the Greek troops under Troy, where from his hands fell over thirty defenders of orone.

The book is open by the author's prologue, which refers to the appeals and validity of the myths. Recall that the myth is a traditional story telling about the unusual events committed by the characters of Divine or heroic nature. For the people who have conceived them turn out to be sacred narratives, since they are part of their religion, the system of values \u200b\u200band beliefs offered by some models of behavior.

It should be noted that the myth can perform different functions: explain the appearance of certain elements; answer the main questions about the functioning of a person and the surrounding world and in this sense to ensure peace of mind in the face of existence; And finally, legalize some social structures and actions.

TEXE- Son of the Athens Tsar Eney and Efer. He became famous for a number of features, like Hercules; Abducted with Peyryman Elena.

Trofonium - Initially, a chtonic deity is identical with Zeus underground. According to common belief, Trofonius was the son of Apollo or Zeus, Brother Agameda, the pet goddess of the earth - Demeters.

Foronee- Founder of the Argos State, the Son of the River God of Inach and Gamadryad Melia. He was honored as a national hero; Sacrifice was committed on his grave.

Frasmed - Son of the Pilos Tsar Nestor, who arrived with his father and brother Antilich under Ilion. He commanded fifteen ships and took part in many battles.

Oedipus - Son of Finnish king Laya and okasts. Killed his father and married her mother, not talking about it. When the crime opened, the okasta hanged himself, and Oedip himself blinded himself. He died, pursued by Eriniami.

Aeneas - The son of Angeis and Aphrodite, relatives of Priama, the hero of the Trojan War. Enei is like Achilla in the Greeks - the son of an excellent goddess, lovers of the gods; In the battles they defended Aphrodite and Apollo.

Jason "The son of Ayson, on behalf of Pelish, went from Fessels for the golden rune to Collid, for which the argonauts campaign equipment.

Kronos.In ancient Greek mythology, was one of the titans born from the marriage of the god of the sky uranium and the goddess of the earth of Gay. He succumbed to mother's persuasion and slept her father Uranus to stop the infinite birth of his children.

In order to avoid repeating the fate of the Father, Kronos began to swallow all his offspring. But in the end, his wife could not stand this attitude towards their offspring and gave him to swallow the stone instead of the newborn.

Reya hid the Son, Zeus, on the island of Crete, where he grew up, fed by the Divine Goat Amalfiah. He was guarded by the jackets - the warriors who drowned the crying of Zeus to shields to the shields so that the Kronos did not hear.

Mattering, Zeus overthrew his father from the throne, made him to deprive his brothers and sisters from the womb and after a long war took his place on the bright Olympus, among the monitor of the gods. So the Kronos was punished for his betrayal.

In Roman mythology, Kronos (HROOS - "time") is known as Saturn - a symbol of an inexorable time. In ancient Rome, God Kronos was dedicated to the festivities - Saturnalia, during which all rich people changed their servants with duties and began fun, accompanied by abundant recovery. In Roman mythology, Kronos (HROOS - "time") is known as Saturn - a symbol of an inexorable time. In ancient Rome, God Kronos was dedicated to the festivities - Saturnalia, during which all rich people changed their servants with duties and began fun, accompanied by abundant recovery.

Reia ("Ρέα), in the ancient myth-making Greek goddess, one of the titanide, daughter of uranium and gay, the spouse of the Kronos and the mother of the Olympic deities: Zeus, Aida, Poseidon, Gesty, Demeters and Gera (Gesiod, Theogony, 135). Kronos, afraid, that he will deprive the power of any of his children, devoured them immediately after birth. Reya on the advice of parents saved Zeus. Instead of the born his son, she put a squeezed stone, which Kronos and swallowed, and his son in secret from Father Ray sent to Crete, Dicks. When Zeus was groaned, Ray attached a son Vinolrypie to Kronosu and he was able to notice a vomit in the Father's Cup, freeing his brothers and sisters. According to one of the names of the myth, Reia deceived the Kronos and at the birth of Poseidon. She hid her son among grazing sheep, and Kronosa gave to swallow the foal, referring to the fact that it was His she gave birth (Pausania, VIII 8, 2).

The cult of Rei was considered one of the most ancients, but was not very common in Greece itself. In Crete and in Malaya Asia, she was mixed with the Asian goddess of nature and fertility Kibely and the worship of her came to a more prominent plan. Specially in Crete was localized by a legend of the birth of Zeus in the grotto of Mount Ida, who enjoyed special reverence, which is proved by a large number of initiations, partly very ancient, in it found. In Crete showed the Tomb of Zeus. Rei's priests were called Curett here and were sneezed with Coribanti, the priests of the Great Frigian Mother Kibel. It entrusted to the conservation of the baby Zeus; Studging weapons, the jackets drove his crying so that Kronos could not hear the child. Reia was depicted in the matrous type, usually with the crown from urban walls on the head, or in a bedspread, mostly sitting on the throne, near which lions dedicated to her. Her attribute was Timpan (an ancient musical shock tool, predecessor Litavr). In the period of late Antiquity, Reia was identified with the Frigian Great Mother of the Gods and received the name of Rei-Kibel, whose cult was distinguished by an orgiastic character.

Zeus, Diy ("Light Heaven"), in Greek mythology, the Supreme Divine, the son of Titans of Kronos and Rei. Almighty Father of the Gods, Lord of Winds and Clouds, Rain, Thunder and Lightning Squeezer's Storms and Hurricanes, but could also calm the forces of nature and clean the sky from clouds. Kronos, afraid to be overthrown with his children, swallowed all the older brothers and sisters of Zeus immediately after their birth, but the Ray of the younger son filed a stone wrapped in a diaper, and the baby secretly was taken out and raised on the island of Crete.

Immull Zeus sought to pay with his father. His first spouse, a wise of methda ("thought"), the daughter of the ocean, advised to give the father of the potion, from which he will take off all swallowed children. Okole Hypoded their Kronos, Zeus and brothers divided the world among themselves. Zeus chose the sky, aid - the underground kingdom of the dead, and Poseidon - the sea. Earth and Mount Olympus, where the name of the gods was located, decided to consider common. Over time, the world of Olympians is changing and not so cruel. Ore, daughter Zeus from the femis, his second wife, made gods and people order, and Harites, daughters from Evrinoma, the former Lady of Olympus, - joy and grace; The goddess Mnemosina gave birth to Zeus 9 muses. Thus, in human society, the law, science, art and norms of morality took their place. Zeus was also the father of the famous heroes - Hercules, Dioskurov, Perseya, Sardonon, the glorious kings and wise men - Minos, Radamanfa and Eak. True, Zeus's love ties both with mortal women and with immortal goddesses, the most important to many myths, caused a constant antagonism between him and his third wife of the hero, the goddess of the legitimate marriage. Some children of Zeus, born out of marriage, such as Hercules, goddess brutally pursued. In Roman mythology Zeusus corresponds to Almighty Jupiter.

Hera (Hera), in the Greek mythology of the queen of the gods, the goddess of the air, the patroness of the family and marriage. Gera, the eldest daughter of the Kronos and Rei, brought up in the house of the ocean and the Theth, sister and the wife of Zeus, with whom she, on the self-leaking, 300 years old lived in secret marriage, until he announced her openly with his wife and queen of the gods. Zeus honors her highly and informs her his plans, although he keeps it with the case within its subject position. Gera, Mother Ares, Geba, Hephaesta, Ilfii. It is distinguished by power, cruelty and jealous temper. In particular, Iliad Gera deals with welders, stubbornness and jealousy - the character traits that have passed into oriada probably from the oldest songs that glorified Hercules. Gera hates and pursues Hercules, like all the favorites and children of Zeus from other goddesses, nymph and mortal women. When Hercules returned on a ship from Troy, she, with the help of a dream of Sleep Hydnos, whipped Zeus and, through her raised, the storms almost destroyed the hero. In the punishment Zeus tied a cunning goddess with strong gold chains to Efira and brought two heavy anvil to her feet. But it does not prevent the goddess to constantly resort to tricks when she needs to achieve something from Zeus, against whom she cannot do anything.

In the struggle for Ilion, she patronizes with his beloved aheitsam; Ahasey city of Argos, Mycenae, Sparta - her favorite location; She hates the Trojans for the court of Paris. Marriage of Gera with Zeus, who had originally natural importance - the relationship between heaven and the earth is then attributed to the civilian institution of marriage. As the only legitimate wife in Olympus, Hera is the patroner of marriages and childbirth. She was dedicated to a granacious apple, a symbol of married love, and a cuckoo, herald of spring, pores of love. In addition, her birds were considered Peacock and Crow.

The main place of its cult was Argos, where her colossal statue was stood made by a policlet of gold and ivory, and where every five years in honor of her was celebrated so-called helee. In addition to Argos, Hera was also honored in Mixes, Corinth, Sparta, Samos, Payments, Sikion and other cities. Art represents a gerier in the form of a high, slim woman, with a majestic posture, a mature beauty, a rounded face, wearing an important expression, beautiful forehead, dense hair, big, strongly opened "violence" eyes. Its a remarkable image of it was mentioned above the statue of the polyclet in Argos: here Hera sat on the throne with the crown on his head, with a grenade apple in one hand, with a scepter to another; At the top of the scepter - cuckoo. Above Long Hiton, who left uncovered only neck and hands, reserved Himathy, accused around the mill. In Roman mythology, the heer corresponds to Junon.

Demetra (Δημήτηρ), in the Greek mythology, the goddess of fertility and agriculture, civilian device and marriage, the daughter of Kronos and Rei, sister and the spouse of Zeus, from which she gave birth to Persephone (Gesiod, Theogony, 453, 912-914). One of the most revered Olympic deities. The ancient chtonic origin of Demers was witnessed by her name (literally, the "earth-mother"). Cult appeals to Demeter: Chloe ("Greens", "Sowing"), Carpofor ("Podriznica of Fruits"), Fesmofor ("Lawlist", "Organizer"), Sieve ("Bread", "Flour") indicate the demeter functions as Goddess fertility. She is a benevolent to people of the goddess, a wonderful eye of the colors of ripe wheat, assistant in peasant works (Homer, Iliad, V 499-501). It fills the agriculture barns with reserves (Gesiod, Opp. 300, 465). Demmere appeal to the grain to come out full and in order to be a Pahot. Demetra taught people in Pakhote and sowing, having combined in a holy marriage on three times plowed in the island of Crete with the Cretan God of Agriculture by Yasay, and the fruit of this marriage was Plutos - God of wealth and abundance (Gesiod, Theogony, 969-974).

Gestiya.- Bogming Virgin of the home hearth, the eldest daughter of the Kronos and Rei, the patron of the restless fire, uniting the gods and people. Gesti never answered courtship. Her hands asked Apollo and Poseidon, but she swore forever to remain a virgin. One day a drunken god of gardens and fields Priap tried to escape her, sleeping, at the holiday, where all the gods were present. However, at that moment, when the patron siest of the Sweistance and Sensual pleasures, Priap prepared to make his black business, shouted loudly, the price was woken up, he called on the aid of the gods, and the approaches appealed to the fence.

Poseidon, in the ancient Greek mythology, the god of the underwater kingdom. Poseidon was considered the Lord of the Seas and Oceans. The underwater king was born from the marriage of the goddess of the land of Rii and Titan of Kronos and immediately after birth was with his brothers and sisters swallowed by the Father, who was afraid that they would take power from him over the world. All of them freed them later Zeus.

Poseidon died in the underwater palace, among the armor of the gods obedient him. Among them was his son Triton, Neread, Amphitrite sisters and many others. The god of the seas was equal to the beauty of Zeus himself. By sea, he moved on the chariot, which was pronounced wonderful horses.

With the help of the magic trident, Poseidon ruled the marine puchin: if the sea was a storm, then it was worth it to stretch the trident, as the begging sea calmed down.

The ancient Greeks very much read this deity and to achieve his location, brought underwater lord a lot of victims, throwing them into the sea. It was very important for the residents of Greece, as their well-being depended on whether trading ships pass by the sea. Therefore, before going out into the sea, travelers threw the victim to Poseidon. In Roman mythology, it corresponds to Neptune.

Aid, Gades, Pluto ("Invisible", "terrible"), in the Greek mythology, the God of the Kingdom of the Dead, as well as the kingdom itself. Son of the Kronos and Rei, Brother Zeus, Poseidon, Gera, Demeters and Gesti. In the section of the world after the overthrow of the father Zeus, Zeus took himself the sky, Poseidon - the sea, and Aid - the underground kingdom; The earth brothers agreed to rule together. The second name of Aida was Poladagmon ("Recipient of the Darrass"), which is associated with countless shadows of the dead, living in his possessions.

The messenger of Gotmes gods translated the souls of the dead to the Ferry Kharon, who was transported through the underground river Styx only those who could pay for crossing. The entrance to the underground kingdom of the dead guarded the three-headed dog Kerber (Cerber), who did not allow anyone to return to the world of living.

Like the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks were believed that the kingdom of the dead is located in the depths of the Earth, and the entrance to it - in the extreme West (West, the sunset is the symbols of dying), behind the river Ocean, washing the Earth. The most popular Aid myth is connected with the abduction of Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and the goddess of fertility Demeters. Zeus promised him his beauty-daughter, without asking the consent of her mother. When Aid by force led the bride, Demeter from grief almost lost the reason, I forgot about my duties, and the land covered hunger.

The argument of Aida and Dememors about the fate of Persephone allowed Zeus. For two thirds of the year, she is obliged to spend with his mother and one third - with her husband. So an alternation of the seasons arose. Once, Aid fell in love with Nymph Mintu or mint, which was associated with the water of the kingdom of the dead. Having learned about this, Persephone in the rustling of jealousy turned the nymph into a fragrant plant.

The heroes of Greek myths and legends were not immortal as their gods. But they were not and simple mortals. Most of them led their origin from the gods. Their great feats and accomplishments that were imprinted in the myths and famous artistic creations give us an idea of \u200b\u200bthe views of the ancient Greeks. So what was famous for the most famous Greek heroes. Tell me below ...

The king of the island of Itaca and the favorite of the goddess Athens, was known for the extraordinary mind and courage, although no less - with his cunning and slyness. About his return from Troy to the Motherland and Adventures during these wanders narrates "Odyssey" of Homer. At first, the strong storm nailed the ships of Odyssey to the shores of Thrace, where wild kikons killed 72 of his companion. In Libya, he blinded the cyclopa of the Polyfem, the son of Poshondon himself. After many tests, the hero hit Ey Island, where he lived in the magician Kirk. Splasing past the island of Sweet Siren, Odyssey ordered himself to tie himself to the mast, so as not to be seduced by their magic singing. He safely passed through a narrow strait between the hexagon Szillo, devouring all the living, and Charibda, absorbing everyone in his whirlpool, and went out into the open sea. But lightning struck his ship, and all his companions died. Saved only Odyssey. The sea threw it to the island of Ohigiya, at which seven years he kept Nymph Calypso. Finally, after nine years of dangerous wanderings, Odyssey returned to Itha. T Amp Together with his son Telemach, he interrupted the grooms, precipitated his faithful wife Penelope and the state missing his condition, and began to edit it again.

Hercules (Romans - Hercules), the most nice and mighty of all Greek heroes, the son of Zeus and the death female of Alcmen. Forced to serve the Mikansky king by Eurisfei, he made twelve famous exploits. For example, killed a nine-round hydraulic hydraulic hydraulic hydraulic hydraulic hydraulic hydraulic hydroelectric time, strangled the invulnerable Nemoy Lion and dressed in his skin, erected on the shores of the Strait separating Europe from Africa, two stone pillar (Hercules pillars - the ancient name of the Gibraltar Strait), supported heavenly The arch, while Titan Atlant mined him miraculous gold apples guarded by nymph hesperdami. For these and other great feats of Athena, after death, herakla attributed to Olympus, and Zeus gave him eternal life.

, the son of Zeus and the Argos Tsarevna Danai, went to the country of Gorgon - the winged monsters covered with scales. Instead of hair on their heads, poisonous snakes were wriggled, and a terrible look turned into a stone of anyone who dared to see them. Perseus flawed Gorgon Medusa and married the daughter of the Ethiopian king Andromeda, which was saved from the sea monster, meaning people. The former groom, who organized a conspiracy, he turned into a stone, showing a severe head of jellyfish.

, Son of the Fessensky Tsar Pelia and Maritime Nymphs Fetis, one of the main characters of the Trojan War. The mother dipped him in the sacred waters of stycles, why his body became invulnerable, with the exception of the heel, for which the mother kept him, lowering in styx. In the battle for Troy Achille was killed by the son of the Trojan Tsar Paris, the arrow of which Apollo, who helped the Trojans, sent him to his heel - the only vulnerable place (hence the expression "Achilles Fifth").

, the son of the Fessensky Tsar Eson, went with satellites in the distant colchid on the Black Sea to get a guarded dragon with the skin of the magic sheep - Golden Fleece. Among the 50 Argonauts participants in the campaign on the Argo ship were Hercules, the pepper Orpheus and the twins of the Daizkura (sons of Zeus) - Castor and Paldhevk.
After numerous adventures, the argonauts delivered a fleece to Ellad. Jathson married the daughter of the Kolkhidsky king, the wizard of the copper, and they had two boys. When a few years later, Jason decided to marry the daughter of the Corinthian king Creus, Medea killed a rival, and then his own children. Jathsone died under the wreckage of the dilapidated ship "Argo".

Oedipus, Son of the FVAN king Laya. Odip's father was predicted death from the hands of his own son, so Lai ordered a child to eat wild beasts. But the slave sorry and saved it. Junior Oedip received the prediction of the Delphic oracle that he would kill his father and marries his own mother. Fastened by this, Oedip left his adoptive parents and went to West. On the road in a random quarrel, he killed a noble elder. But he met the way to the hair, he met the Sphinx, who erased the road and asked the travelers a riddle: "Who goes on four legs in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening on three?". Those who could not answer the monster devoured. The EDIP solved the riddle: "A man: he crawls on all fours, adults walks straight, and in old age rests on a stick." Crushed by this answer, Sphinx rushed into the abyss. The grateful fivans chose Edipa their king and gave him a widow of King Iokast. When it turned out that the old man killed on the road is his father Tsar Lai, and Iokasta - his mother, edid in despair blinded himself, and Iokasta cumshots of suicide.

, Son Poseidon, also made a lot of glorious affairs. On the way to Athens killed six monsters and robbers. In the Knos Maze destroyed the Minotaur and found an outlet from there with the help of a tangle of threads, which gave him the daughter of the Kratsky king Ariadne. I also worshed as the creator of the Athenian state.

Ancient Greece is one of the richest sources of myths about the gods, ordinary people and
mortal heroes that defended them. For many centuries, these stories were created
poets, historians and simply "eyewitnesses" of the legendary feats of unreasonable heroes,
having the forces of demigods.

1

Special honor among the heroes was famous for Hercules, son of Zeus and mortal woman
Alcmena. The most famous myths from all can be considered a cycle of 12 exp.
Which alone made the son of Zeus, being in the service of Tsar Eurisfay. Even
In the heavenly constellation you can see the constellation of Hercules.

2

Achille is one of the most brave Greek heroes who made a campaign against
Troy under the leadership of Agamemnon. Stories about him are always full of courage and
courage. No wonder he is one of the key figures in the writings "Iliad", where he
It is reserved more honorable than any other warrior.

3

It was described not only as a smart and brave king, but also as
Magnificent speaker. He was the main key figure in the "Odyssey" story.
His adventures and return to Wife Penelope found echoes in the hearts
of many people.

4

Perseus was an equally key figure in ancient Greek mythology. It
Describes like the winner of the monster of the gorgon of jellyfish, and the savior of the beautiful
Tsarevna Andromeda.

Terese can be called the most famous character of all Greek mythology. It
More often than everyone appears not only in "Iliad" but also in Odyssey.

6

Jason - the leader of the Argonauts of the golden rune of the golden rune in Collid.
This task was given to him his brother of his father Peliyem to destroy him, but it
brought him eternal glory.

7

Hector in ancient Greek mythology appears before us not only by Tsarevich
Troy, but also a great commander who died from Achilla's hands. It is put on a par with
Many heroes of that time.

8

Ergin is the son of Poseidon, and one of the argonauts, which went for the Golden Room.

9

Talay is another of the argonauts. Honest, fair, smart and reliable -
This was described by Homer in his "Odyssey."

10

Orpheus was not as much as a hero as a singer and a musician. However, it
The image can be "meeting" in many pictures of that time.

Heroes

Antique mythology

Achilles
Hector
Hercules
Odysseus
Orpheus
Perseus
TEXE
Oedipus
Aeneas
Jason

Achilles -
in Greek mythology, one of the greatest heroes,
the son of Tsar Pelia and the marine goddess Fetis.
Have a son from a beautiful fetide wanted Zeus and Poseidon,
but Titan Prometheus warned them,
that the child will surpass the grandeur of his father.
And the gods prudently arranged marriage fetis with mortals.
Love for Achillu, as well as the desire to make it invulnerable and
give immortality forced the fetid to bathe a child in the Styx River,
because of the Aid, the country of the dead.
As Fetida was forced to keep her son for the heel, t
about this part of the body remains defenseless.
Mentor Achilla was Centaur Chiron, who fed him
the insides of Lviv, Bear and Wild Vepray, taught the game on kifare and singing.
Ahill grew up fearless warrior, but his immortal mother, knowing,
that participation in the campaign against Troy will bring the son of death,
dressed him with a girl and hid among women in the palace of King Lik.
When the leaders of the Greeks became aware of the prediction of the priest of Calkhanta,
the grandson of Apollo, which without Achilla campaign on three is doomed to failure,
they sent to him in the helica Odyssey.
Arriving to the king under the guise of a merchant, Odyssey laid out before the gathered
women's decorations interspersed with weapons.
The inhabitants of the palace began to consider jewelry,
but suddenly, by the sign of Odyssey, alarm rang out -
the girls in frightened, and the hero grabbed the sword, giving out her head.
After the exposure of Achillu Will-Neils had to sail into Troy,
where he soon dismissed with the leader of the Greeks Agamemnon.
According to one of the versions of the myth, it happened because
wanting to provide a Greek fleet
favorable wind, Agamemnon secretly from the hero,
under the pretext of marriage with Achille, called in Avlud
his daughter infection and brought her sacrifices the goddess Artemis.
The angry Achill retired to his tent, refusing to fight.
However, the death of his faithful friend and twigracy Patrole
from the hand of the Trojan hecker forced
Achilla to immediate action.
Having received a gift from the god-blacksmith Gefesta Armor,
Achilleought the heptery hit the spear and twelve days
miped over his body near the grave of Patrole.
Only Fetis was able to convince the Son to give the remains of hector to Trojans
to carry out the funeral rite -
the sacred debt of alive in relation to the dead.
Returning to the field of Brahi, Achilles spread enemies with hundreds.
But his own life came to an end.
Strela Paris, acknowledged by Apollo,
caused Achille a mortal wound in the heel,
the only vulnerable place on the hero's body.
So died valiant and arrogant Achilles,
the ideal of the great commander of antiquity of Alexander Macedonian.

1. Sharing Achilla
Pompeo Batoni, 1770

2. Ahill in Licked
Pompeo Batoni, 1745

3. Agamemnona Achilles
Jean Auguste Dominic Engr
1801, Louvre, Paris

4. Bankinger chiron returns the body
Achilla his mother fetide
Pompeo Batoni, 1770

Hector -
in ancient Greek mythology, one of the main characters of the Trojan war.
The hero was the son of Heekba and Priama - Troy Tsar.
Hector had 49 brothers and sisters, but he was famous among the sons of Priama
with its strength and courage. According to legend, Hector struck the first Greek to death,
troy pulled to Earth, - Dressing.
The hero was especially famous for the ninth year of the Trojan War,
calling to Ajax Telavonid.
Hector promised his enemy not to desecrate his bodies
in the event of a defeat and not to remove the armor and demanded the same from Ajax.
After a long struggle, they decided to stop the fight and in the sign
mutual respect was exchanged gifts.
Hector hoped to defeat the Greeks, despite the prediction of Cassandra.
It was under his leadership that the Trojans broke into the fortified camp of the Ahaseians,
they approached the military fleet and even managed to set fire to one of the ships.
The legends also describes the hector battle with the Greek Patrokl.
The hero defeated his opponent and took off his armor of Achille.
Gods took a very active participation in the war. They were divided into two camps
and everyone helped with their pets.
Hector patronized Apollo himself.
When Patrole died, Achilles, obsessed with revenge for his death,
tied the defeated dead hepotor to his chariot and
dragged him with the wolf around the walls of the Troy, but the hero's body did not touch either the Tlen,
neither birds, as Apollo defeated him in gratitude for
that Hector has repeatedly helped him in life.
Based on this circumstance, the ancient Greeks concluded that
that Hector was the son of Apollo.
According to the myths, Apollo on the Board of the gods persuaded Zeus
give the body of hector to the Trojans,
to be buried with honor.
The Supreme God ordered Achillu to give the body of his deceased to his father.
Since, according to legend, the grave of Hecter was in the philas,
the researchers suggested that the image of the hero has a Besotia origin.
Hector was a very revered hero in ancient Greece,
which proves the fact of its image
on antique vases and in antique plastic.
Usually they were depicted by the scenes of the goodbye heaker with his wife Androma,
battle with Achille and many other episodes.

1.Androme at the body of hector
Jacques Louis David.
1783, Louvre, Paris

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Hercules -
in ancient Greek mythology, the greatest of heroes,
son of Zeus and the death woman of Alcmena.
Zeus was needed a death hero for victory over the giants,
and he decided to give birth to Hercules.
The best mentors taught Hercules to various arts, fight, archery.
Zeus wanted Hercules to become the ruler of mycken or tyaringfield, key fortresses at the approaches to Argos,
but jealous ger upset his plans.
She struck Hercules madness, in whose seizure he killed
wife and three of their sons.
In the redeeming of rigid guilt, the hero was supposed to serve the twelve years to serve Euryfia,
tirinf and Mycken's king, after which he was granted immortality.
The most famous cycle of legends about the twelve exploits of Hercules.
The first feat was the mining of the skins of the Nemoye Lion,
which Hercules had to strangle with bare hands.
By defeating Lion, the hero was highlighted his skin and wore as a trophy.
The next feat was the victory over the hydra, the sacred nine-liter snake of the gera.
Crank dwells in a swamp near Lerny, not far from Argos.
The difficulty was that instead of the severed hero of the head at the hydra
immediately we grew up two new ones.
With the help of his nephew, Iolai Hercules mastered the fierce Lerneysian hydra -
the young man made a neck of each chopped hero of the head.
True, the feat was not counted by Eurisfey, as the nephew helped Hercules.
The next feat was not so bloody.
Hercules should be caught by the Kerine Lan, the sacred animal of Artemis.
Then hero caught the Ehristan Vepry, who devastated the field of Arkadia.
At the same time, the wise wise centaur chiron was killed.
The fifth feat was the cleaning of Auggium stables from manure,
that the hero did in one day, sending the water in their nearest river.
The last of the feats committed by Hercules on Peloponnese was
exile of witness birds with pointed iron feathers.
Ominous birds were frightened by copper cracks,
manufactured by Hephaeste and granted heraklo
the goddess of Athena is favorable to him.
The seventh feat was the capture of the fierce bull, which Minos, King Crete,
i refused to sacrifice the god of the sea Poseidon.
The bull coincided with the wife of Minos of Pacifay, who gave birth to a minotaur, a man with a bullish head.
The eighth feat Hercules made in Frakia,
where he subdued his power of the King Diomedan's mobilitsa.
The remaining four feathers were different.
Eurysfee ordered Hercules to extract the tsaritsa tsaritsa militant Amazons of the Ippolites.
Then hero kidnapped and delivered the cows of the three-headed giant Gerion in the mixes.
After that, Hercules brought the Golden Apples Heperisphey, for what he had to
to strangle the giant Antea and deceive the Atlanta holding the sky at his shoulders.
The last feat of Hercules - a trip to the kingdom of the dead - was the most crowded.
With the assistance of the queen of the underground world Persephone hero was able to withdraw from there
and to deliver to Tirinf three-headed PSA Kerbera (Cerber), the guardian of the underworld.
The end of Hercules was terrible.
The hero was killed in terrible flour, putting his shirt that his wife was acting,
according to the advice of the Hercules of Kentaur Nessa,
i was reoccupied by the poisonous blood of this receiving a half-half-one.
When the hero from the last strength climbed the burial bonfire,
from heaven struck the crimping lightning and
Zeus accepted his son in the premium of immortal.
Some senses of Hercules are immortalized in the names of constellations.
For example, the constellation of a lion - in memory of the Nemoye Lion,
cancer constellation reminds of huge cancer carcina,
sent hero to help the Lerneysian hydra.
In Roman mythology, Hercules corresponds to Hercules.

1.Geracle and Kerber
Boris Varyazho, 1988

2.Geracks and hydra
Gustave Moro, 1876

3. Rogerkuls at the crossroad
Pompeo Batoni, 1745

4.Geracle and Omfala
Francois Lemoan, OK.1725

ODYSSEUS -
"Angry", "angry" (Ulysses). In Greek mythology, the king of Islands Islands,
one of the leaders of the Ahetseians in the Trojan War.
He is famous for his hetrummy, dexterity and amazing adventures.
Brave Odyssey was sometimes considered the son of Sisif, who was seduced by Antiqule
even before marriage with Laerta,
and according to some versions, Odyssey - the grandson of Avtolik, the "oath and the thief", the son of God Gepmes,
inherited their mind, practicality and enterprise.
Agamemenon, the leader of the Greeks, laid great hopes for the ingenuity and mind of Odyssey.
Together with the wise nestor, Odyssey was instructed to persuade the Great Warrior
Achilla to take part in the Trojan war on the side of the Greeks,
and when their fleet stuck in Avlida, it was Odyssey to deceive convinced his wife
Agamemnon Climer let go in Avloud infigivity
under the pretext of its marriage with Achille.
In reality, Iphigenia was sacrificed to Artemis,
which otherwise did not agree
provide a passing wind with Greek ships.
This Odyssey occurred to the head with a Trojan horse, which brought the Ahetis victory.
Greeks pretended to removed the siege from the city, and went out into the sea,
leaving on the shore of a huge hollow horse,
within the body of which hid a squad of warriors under the leadership of Odyssey.
Trojans, rejoicing the care of the Ahetseians, dragged the horse to the city.
They decided to present the statue as a gift of Athena and provide the city by the patronage of the gods.
At night, armed ahaeis was poured through the secret door from the horse,
ched the guard and opened the Troy gate.
From here an ancient saying: "Fear of the Ahetsev (Danaytsev), gifts bringing", and
the expression "Trojan horse".
Troy fell, but the cruel massacre committed by the Greeks,
caused the strongest wrath of gods, especially Athens,
after all, the favorite of the gods Cassandra raped into her sanctuary.
Odyssey's wanders were the favorite history of the Greeks and Romans,
who called him Ulyv.
From Troy Odyssey took a course on Frakia,
where lost a lot of people in battle with kicks.
The storm attributed it to the land of lotuses ("feeding lotus"),
whose food forced the aliens to forget about the Motherland.
Later, Odyssey fell in possession of cyclops (Kiklopov),
once the prisoner of one-eyed polyfem, the son of Poseidon.
However, Odyssey and his companions managed to avoid imminent death.
On the island of the Lord of the winds of Eol Odyssey received a gift - fur,
filled with associated winds
but curious seawozes unleashed fur and winds scattered in all directions,
stop blowing in the passing direction.
Then Odyssey's ships were attacked by lednigons, a tribe of giant-cannibals,
but the hero was able to get to the island of Ey, the ownership of the magician of the Circeda (Kirki).
With the help of Hermes, Odyssey was able to make the wizard return
human appearance to members of his team,
which she turned into pigs.
Next, on the advice of Kirk, he visits the underground kingdom of the dead,
where the shadow of the blind priest Tiresia warns the brave odyssey
about future hazards.
Leaving the island, the ship Odyssey sailed past the coast,
where sweet-haired sirens with their wonderful singing
wrapped sailors on sharp rocks.
The hero ordered the satellites to shook the ears with wax, but to tie themselves to the mast. Happily passed by the wandering cliffs of plankats,
Odysseus lost six people who dragged and devoured hexagonace (Scylla).
On the island of Trinacia, as predicted by Tires, hungry travelers
we were seduced by the fat flocks of the Sun of Helios.
In the punishment, these sailors died from a storm by Zeus at the request of Helios.
The remaining alive Odyssey was almost swallowed by the monstrous whirlpool by Charibda.
Exhausted from exhaustion, he was nailed to the island of Kalipso's sorceress,
which went out and offered to marry.
But even the prospect of immortality did not tempt Odyssey,
rushed to his homeland, and after seven years the gods made
loving a nymph release a traveler.
After the next shipwreck of Odyssey, with the help of Athena, taking the form
begging the old man, returned home, where the wife of Penelope was waiting for him for many years.
Besieged by noble grooms, she pulled the time, declaring that he would marry
when finished weave Sanov for his father-in-law Laert.
However, at night Penelope flashed woven the day.
When the servants revealed her secret, she agreed to marry
who can tighten the theater of the combat onion belonging to Odyssey.
The test ended up an unknown beggar old man who dropping her rubbish,
it turned out to be a powerful Odyssey.
After twenty years of separation, the hero embraced his faithful Penelope,
which Athena before the meeting awarded a rare beauty.
According to some versions of the myth, Odyssey, unrecognized, fell from hand of Telegen,
his Son from Cyrcese (Kirk), in others -
peacefully soil while old age.

1.Dussia in the Cyclopa Polyfem Cave
Jacob Yordans, 1630

2.Dissing and sirens
John William Waterhouse, 1891

3. Tsyyrcea and Odyssey
John William Waterhouse 1891

4. Benellop, waiting for Odyssey
John William Waterhouse, 1890

ORPHEUS -
in ancient Greek mythology, the hero and traveler.
Orpheus was the son of the Thracian river god Eagra and Music Kallopa.
He was known as a talented singer and musician.
Orpheus took part in the campaign of argonauts, his game on the forming
and he reassured the prayers and helped the rowers of the Argo ship.
The hero married the beautiful Eurydique and, when she suddenly died of snake bite,
followed her in the afterlife.
The guard of the otherworldly, evil dog Cerber,
Persephone and aid were enchanted by the magical music of the young man.
Aid promised to return Eurydich on landprints, provided that
that Orpheus will not look at his wife until he enters his house.
Orpheus could not restrain and looked at Eurydice,
as a result, she was forever remained in the kingdom of the dead.
Orpheus did not apply with due respect to Dionysus, but read Helios,
which was called Apollo.
Dionysis decided to adhere to the young man and laughed at him Menad,
who confused the musician and thrown into the river.
Parts of his body were collected by muses that mourned the death of a wonderful young man.
The head of Orpheus floated along the GBR River and was found by the nymphs,
then he got to the island of Lesbos, where Apollo received her.
The shadow of the musician fell into Aid, where the spouses reunited.

1. Defend and Eurydica
Frederick Leighton, 1864

2.Infins and head of Orpheus
John Waterhouse, 1900

PERSEUS -
in the Greek mythology, the ancestor of Hercules, the son of Zeus and Danai,
the daughter of the Argos Tsar Akrismia.
In the hope of preventing the execution of the prophecy about the death of acrycia from the hand of grandson,
Let's sharpened in the Copper Terem, but the Almighty Zeus penetrates there,
wrapped with the golden rain, and shook the Persea.
Frightened acrossa planted mother with a child
in a wooden box and dropped it into the sea.
However, Zeus helped his beloved and son safely
get to the island serift.
Mattered Perseus was sent by the local ruler of Polydekt,
i loved you give, on the wanted ridge of jellyfish,
a look turns all living in stone.
Fortunately for the hero, Athena hated Medusa and, according to one of myths,
from jealousy, the once perfect gorgon was awarded with deadly beauty.
Athena taught Perseus, how to do.
First, the young man, following the advice of the goddess, went to the old woman gram,
who had one eye and one tooth on three.
Cunning takes the eye and tooth, Perseus returned to their graise in exchange
to indicate the path to the nymphs who gave him the invisibility cap,
winged sandals and bag for jellyfish.
Perseus flew to the Western Territory of Light, in the cave Gorgon, and
looking at the reflection of death jellyfish in his copper shield, cut off her head.
Putting it in the bag, he was twisted in the invisible hat,
unnoticed by snore-haired sisters of the monsters.
On the way home, Persei saved from the marine monster Beauty Andromed
and married her.
Then hero went to Argos, but across,
having learned about the arrival of the grandson, fled in Larisa.
And yet he did not leave destiny - during the festivities in Larisa,
participating in competitions, Perseus threw a heavy bronze disk,
he hit the head acrycia and struck him to death.
Magnifying the grief of a loose hero did not wish to rule in Argos
and moved to Tirinf.
After the death of Persea and Andromeda, the goddess Athena won spouses to heaven, turning them into constellations.

1. Prey and Andromeda
Peter Paul Rubens, 1639

2. With the head of the Gorgona
Eduard Bern-Jones, 1887

TEXE -
("Strong"), in Greek mythology hero, son of the Athens Tsar Egea and Euphra.
Childless Age got the advice from Delphic Oracle - going out of the guests not to untie
his fur with wine before returning home. Aegea did not solve the prediction, but the Tressen king Pitfea,
with which he stayed, I realized that Egei was destined to conceive the hero. He drank the guest and laid in bed
with her daughter Efroy. On the same night, Poseidon came with her.
So it was born with Testa, the Great Hero, the son of two fathers.
Before removing from Euphra, Age led her to Boulder, under which he hid his sword and sandals.
If the Son is born, he said, let him grow, purses,
and when will be able to move the stone,
then send it to me. Teskey grew up, and Efra opened his birth's mystery.
The young man easily pulled the sword and sandals, and on the way to Athens dealt
with the robber in Sinis and Krommionon pig.
Tesove was able to defeat the monstrous minotaurus, a person,
only with the help of the Ariadna, who gave him the princess, who gave him a guide thread.
In Athens, Teshesy found out that the throne of Egea claimed fifty sons of his cousin Raft,
and Aege himself fell under the power of Medele's wizard,
abandoned by Jason, who hoped that the throne would get her son honey.
Teskey hid his origin, but Medea, knowing who he is
asked Egea to file a stranger a bowl with poison.
Tereus saved the fact that his father recognized his sword, which hero cut meat.
The following feats of Testa committed at the benefit of Athens.
He dealt with the sons of the dental and marathon
by bull, reversible fields, defeated the human Minotaurus.
The monster who lived in a labyrinte was given to the excitement of young Athenians
like an atoning victim for the death of the royal son in Athens.
When Teshen caused to fight with Minotaur, his old father came to despair.
They agreed that if the Terex would escape death, then returning home,
clear sail with black on white.
From the labyrinth of the Testa, killing the monster, it was released thanks to his daughter Minos Ariadne who had loved his daughter,
following the thread tied at the entrance (traveling "Thread Ariadna").
Then Teshesy and Ariadne secretly fled to the island of Naxos.
Here Teshen left Tsarevna and fate punished him.
Returning home, Teskey forgot to change the sail as a victory.
Father Terese Age, having seen a black cloth, rushed from the cliff in the sea.
Testa made another number of exploits. He captured the Queen of Amazons Ippolitis,
which gave him the Son of Ippolit, gave a shelter of the outrun Edipa and his daughter Antigonia.
True, the Tereus was not among the argonauts;
at that time, he helped the king of lapiphs with a pourith
kidnap the master of Aida Persefon.
For this, the gods decided forever to leave the brave in Aida,
but Tereus saved Hercules.
However, the grief was again knocked in his house when the second wife, Fedra,
his son of Ippolita was placed, which was silent in horror about her passion.
Humiliated Fedra hanged himself
in a suicide note, accusing the stepper in an attempt to disaggregate it.
The young man was expelled from the city,
and he died before his father found out the truth.
At the old age of the years, Teshesy Dreeko kidnapped the twelve-year-old daughter Zeus Elena,
stating that only she deserves his wife,
but the brothers Elena, Dioskurs, rescued sister, and expelled the Teasy.
The hero died on the island of Skirov from the hand of the local king, which,
fearing still mighty Teane, pushed guest from the rock.

1. Tsey and Minotaur
Vase 450g. BC.

2.These
with Ariad and Fedra
B. Gennari, 1702

3. Tsey and Efera.
Love de la Hir, 1640

OEDIPUS -
descendant of cadma, from the genus of Labdakids, the son of the FVAN king Laya and okasta, or epicastics,
the hero of the Greek folk tales and tragedies, in view of which
it is very difficult to imagine the myth about the EDIPE in its original form.
According to the most common legend, Oracle predicted Laa
about the birth of a son who will kill him himself
he marries his own mother and take the whole house of Labdakids with shame.
Therefore, when the son was born, her parents, pushing his legs
and tied them together (why they were swollen),
sent it to Kieferon, where Edipa found a shepherd,
sheltered boy and brought it then to Sikion
or Corinth, to the king polybeta, who raised the shepherd, as his own son.
Having received one day on the feast reproach in doubtfulness,
EDIP appealed for clarification
to Oracle and received the Council from him - to beware of the otceubide and healing.
As a result, Oedip, who considered Polyba with his father, left Sikion.
On the road, he met Laya, he started a quarrel with him and in passing
killed him and his retinue.
At this time, the Foust was devastated by the Sphinx monster,
asked for several years in a row
each riddle and marriage to everyone who did not guess her.
Edipa managed to unravel this riddle
(what creature in the morning walks on four legs, at noon on two,
and in the evening on three? The answer is a person)
as a result, the Sphinx rushed from the cliff and died.
In grateful to deliverance to the country from a continuous disaster FVan citizens
made Edipa their king and gave him to his wife widow Laya, Iocasta -
his own mother.
Soon the double crime committed by Oedipo by ignorance has opened
and the EDIP in despair is scrunting his eyes, and the okast deprived himself life.
According to the ancient legend (Homer, Odyssey, XI, 271 and next)
EDIP remained to reign in the philas and died,
persted with Eriniami.
Sophokl talks about the end of the life of Edipa otherwise:
when Oedip's crimes opened, the fivans with the sons of Edipa:
Eteokl and Policon, headed by the elderly and the blind king from FIV,
and he, accompanied by his faithful daughter Antigona, went to the town of Colon
(in Attics), where in the sanctuary of Erinia,
who finally, thanks to the intervention of Apollo, humbled their anger,
cumshot his full suffering life.
The memory of him was considered sacred, and his grave was one of the attic palladiums.
As an active person, the Oedip is derived in the tragedies of the Sofokla "King Edip" and
"Oedip in Colon" (both tragedies are in poetic Russian translation
D. S. Merezhkovsky, St. Petersburg, 1902),
in the tragedy of Euripid "Phoenicianki"
(poecost. Russian translation I. Annensky, "MP God", 1898, No. 4)
and in the tragedy of Seneki "ODIP".
There were a lot of other poetic works engaged in destiny Edip.

1. Sycklibris Sigmund Freud.
The exlebris depicts the king Edip, talking to the Sphinx.

2.Odip and Sphinx
Zh.O. Engr

3.Dip and Sphinx, 1864
Gustave Moro.

4. EDIP, 1888
Gustave Moro.

AENEAS -
in the Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Handsive-shepherd Ankhis and Aphrodites (Venus),
the Troy Defense Member during the Trojan war, the sorry hero.
Brave warrior, Eney participated in decisive fights with Achille and escaped death
only due to the intercession of his Divine Mother.
After the fall of the ruined Troy, he left the burning city at the fall of the gods
and with the old man,
women's Crese and Minor Son Asking (Jul),
capturing the images of the Trojan gods,
accompanied by satellites at twenty ships went to search for a new homeland.
Having survived a number of adventures and a terrible storm, he reached the Italian city of Kuma,
and then hit the lacies, an area in central Italy.
The local king was ready to give for Eney (on the path of widowed) his daughter
and provide him with land for the founding of the city.
Waning in the duel of the tour, the leader of the warlike tribe of the rutulas
and the applicant on the hand of lavinia,
Eney settled in Italy, who became the succession of the Glory of Troy.
His son of Aska (Yul) was considered the progenitor of the genus Yuliyev,
including the famous emperors Julia Caesar and August.

1. Inventor, giving Eneja Armor, made by volcano, 1748
Pompeo Batoni

2. Meccution, which appeared by Eneu (fresco), 1757
Giovanni Battista Typolo

3. Enea with Garindi
Francois Pierin, 1647

Jason -
("Healer"), in the Greek mythology, the greatness of the god of the winds of Eol, the son of Tsar Iola Eson and the polymedia.
Hero, leader of argonauts.
When the pelia is supervised his brother Eson from the throne, he who fears the life of the Son,
i gave it under the guardian of the wise centaur of Hiron, who lived in the Fessenian forests.
The Delphic Oracle predicted Pelia that his man was destroyed in one sandal.
This explains the fear of the king, when the induced Jason returned to the city,
lost on the road Sandalia.
Pelia decided to get rid of the hung threat and promised to admit Jason to the heir if he risking his life would benefit in Colchis the golden fleece.
Jason and his team on the ship "Argo", having experienced many adventures, returned with a wonderful man's homeland.
With his success - victory over the dragon and formidable warriors,
expressed from his teeth -
they were largely obliged by the Kolkhida princess copper, since Eros,
at the request of Athens and Gera, patronized Jasone,
love to the hero in the heart of the girl's heart.
Upon returning to IOLK, Argonauts found out
that the peli killed the father of Jason and all his relatives.
According to one of the versions, the peli dies from Char Medele, whose name is "insidious".
On the other, Yason has come to the exile, ten years happily lived with Medea
and they had three children.
Then hero married the prince of the head; in
medeza Medea ruined her and killed her sons from Jason.
Years passed. The older hero threw his days until once wandered on the berth,
where the famous "Argo" stood.
Suddenly rotten from time mast ship lifted
and he collapsed on Jason, fallen after.

1. Syagra and Medea
John William Waterhouse, 1890

2. Anone and Medea
Gustave Moro, 1865