Encyclopedia - Heracles: Encyclopedia - Heracles
In Greek mythology, Heracles, or Heraklês ("glory of Hera", Ηρακλης) was a divine hero, the demigod son of Zeus and Alcmene, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Heracles - Birth And Childhood
A major factor in the well-known tragedies surrounding Heracles stem from the hatred the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, had for him. Heracle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Heracles - Adulthood
He continued to perform feats such as slaying a lion that was preying on the local flocks and defending Thebes against a neighbouring arm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceryneian Hind: Encyclopedia - Ceryneian Hind
The Ceryneian Hind, also called Cerynitis, was an enormous hind sacred to Artemis, the chaste goddess of the hunt and moon. It had golden...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hercules: Encyclopedia - Hercules
Hercules (also known as Alcides) was the name in Roman mythology of the hero Heracles from Greek mythology, the Roman name being a metath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cerberus: Encyclopedia - Cerberus
In Greek mythology, Cerberus or Cerberos (Greek Κέρβερος, Kerberos, demon of the pit), was the hound of Hades—a monstrous thre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athena: Encyclopedia - Athena
Athena, (Greek Ἀθηνά Athēná or Ἀθήνη Athénē; Doric: Ἀσάνα Asána), the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hades: Encyclopedia - Hades
Hades (Greek: ᾍδης - Hadēs or Ἅιδης - Háidēs) ("unseen") means both the ancient Greek abode of the dead and the god of that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia - Hera
In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hêra (World Book «HIHR uh») (Greek Ἥρα or Ἥρη) was the wife and sister ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antor: Encyclopedia - Antor
In Greek mythology, Antor was a friend of Heracles, who went with him to visit Evander. See Virgil X, 779. Other related archivesEvander...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cleodaeus: Encyclopedia - Cleodaeus
In Greek mythology, Cleodaeus was one of the Heracleidae, a grandson of Heracles. He led the third attempt to capture Mycenae and failed....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acherusia: Encyclopedia - Acherusia
In Greek mythology, Acherusia was an underground cavern, through which Heracles dragged Cerberus as one of his Twelve Labors. See also Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abderus: Encyclopedia - Abderus
In Greek mythology, Abderus ("son of battle") was a son of Hermes. To fulfill his Eighth Labor, Heracles brought Abderus and some other y...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegimius: Encyclopedia - Aegimius
Aegimius was the Greek mythological ancestor of the Dorians. He asked Heracles for help in a war against the Lapiths and, in gratitude, o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristomaches: Encyclopedia - Aristomaches
In Greek mythology, Aristomaches was one of the Heracleidae, a great-grandson of Heracles. He led the fourth attempt to capture Mycenae a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aventine Hill: Encyclopedia - Aventine Hill
The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills that ancient Rome was built on. It was a strategic point in controlling trade on the River Ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amyntor: Encyclopedia - Amyntor
In Greek mythology, King Amyntor of the Dolopes was killed by Heracles for not allowing him into his kingdom. Amyntor is also the name of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cacus: Encyclopedia - Cacus
In Greek mythology, Cacus was a fire-breathing monster and the son of Vulcan. He lived in a cave in the Aventine Hill in Italy, the futur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coronus: Encyclopedia - Coronus
In Greek mythology, Coronus was the son of Caeneus. He was one of the Lapiths and was killed by Heracles. Coronus was also the name of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abdera, Spain: Encyclopedia - Abdera, Spain
Abdera was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena), in the di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gigantes: Encyclopedia - Gigantes
In Greek mythology, the Gigantes were a race of giants. They were born of Gaia, who was fertiziled by the blood of Ouranos that resulted ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asteria: Encyclopedia - Asteria
Asteria can refer to: In Greek mythology, Asteria was the sixth killed by Heracles when he came for Hippolyte's girdle. The Amazons (of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Porphyrion: Encyclopedia - Porphyrion
In Greek mythology, Porphyrion was a giant, one of the sons of Uranus and Gaia. He attempted to rape Hera. Hera set him against Dionysus,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antaeus: Encyclopedia - Antaeus
Antaeus in Greek mythology was a giant of Libya, the son of Poseidon and Gaia, and his wife was Tinjis. He was extremely strong as long a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sterope: Encyclopedia - Sterope
In Greek mythology, Sterope was the name of several individuals: Sterope was the daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe. Sterope was the daug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycnus: Encyclopedia - Cycnus
In Greek mythology, four people were known as Cycnus or Cygnus. Most of them ended up being transformed into swans. The most famous Cycnu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abdera, Thrace: Encyclopedia - Abdera, Thrace
Abdera was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos. Its mythical foundation was attributed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cercopes: Encyclopedia - Cercopes
In Greek mythology, the Cercopes were mischievous forest creatures who lived in Thermopylae or on Euboea but roamed the world and might t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bebryces: Encyclopedia - Bebryces
In Greek mythology, the Bebryces were a mythical tribe of people in Bithynia. After their land and King Mygdon was conquered by Heracles ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abdera Spain: Encyclopedia - Abdera Spain
Abdera was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena), in the di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helenus: Encyclopedia - Helenus
In Greek mythology, Helenus was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. During the Trojan War, the Greeks captured Helenus, a pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agrigentum: Encyclopedia - Agrigentum
Agrigentum is an ancient Greek city on the island Sicily, also known as Agrigento, Acragas or Akragas (see also List of traditional Greek...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthrus: Encyclopedia - Orthrus
In Greek mythology, Orthrus (also called Orthros, Orthos, Orthus, Orth and Orphus) was a two-headed dog and the brother of Cerberus. He w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Copreus: Encyclopedia - Copreus
In Greek mythology, Copreus was King Eurystheus' herald. He announced Heracles' Twelve Labors. Copreus was said to be a son of Pelops and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristodemus: Encyclopedia - Aristodemus
For the 5th century BCE Spartan by the same name, see Aristodemus (Spartan). In Greek mythology, Aristodemus was a son of Aristomaches an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cresphontes: Encyclopedia - Cresphontes
In Greek mythology, Cresphontes was a son of Aristomaches and brother of Temenus and Aristodemus. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tiryns: Encyclopedia - Tiryns
Tiryns (in ancient greek Τίρυνς) is a Mycenaean archeological site in the Greek nomos of Argolis in the Peloponnese peninsula, some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abdera Thrace: Encyclopedia - Abdera Thrace
Abdera was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos. Its mythical foundation was attributed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Auge: Encyclopedia - Auge
In Greek mythology, Auge was a princess of Tegea who married Telephus. Telephus was one of the Heraclidae, a son of Heracles and Princess...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antiope Mythology: Encyclopedia - Antiope Mythology
In Greek mythology, there are two people known as Antiope. Antiope (mother of Amphion) and Antiope the Amazon (described below). Antiope ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alastor: Encyclopedia - Alastor
Alastor ("avenger") in Greek mythology, was the personification of familial feuds. He was also associated with sins that pass down from p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1250s Bc: Encyclopedia - 1250s Bc
Centuries: 14th century BC - 13th century BC - 12th century BC Decades: 1300s BC 1290s BC 1280s BC 1270s BC 1260s BC - 1250s BC - 1240s B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geryon: Encyclopedia - Geryon
In Greek mythology, Geryon (Geryones,Geyron), son of Chrysaor and Callirhoe, was a winged giant made from three entire human bodies conjo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia - Medea
In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis (now a territory of modern Georgia), niece of Circe, and later wife ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heracles, Herakles: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heracles, Herakles
Heraclitus Herakleitos (535-475 BC) Greek philosopher from Ephesus, known as "the obscure" because of difficult writing styl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heracles, Herakles: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heracles, Herakles
Heracles Herakles (Greek) Hercules (Latin) (probably from heros free man, cf Latin herus lord of a household; or "renowned throug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Omphale: Encyclopedia Ii - Omphale - Heracles And Omphale
Omphale was daughter of the river Iardanus (also called Iardanes). According to Apollodorus she was the widow of King Tmolus from whom sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Omphale: Encyclopedia Ii - Omphale - Sons Of Heracles In Lydia
It would be expected that accounts should speak of at least one son born to Heracles by Omphale. It might also be expected that such acco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Hercules - The Greek Legend Of Heracles
Heracles was born in Thebes to Queen Alcmene of Tiryns and Zeus (who took the guise of her husband Amphitryon). Heracles was conceived ov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Hercules - The Greek Legend Of Heracles
Heracles was born in the 13th century BC in Thebes to Queen Alcmene of Tiryns and Zeus (who took the guise of her husband Amphitryon). He...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceryneian Hind: Encyclopedia Ii - Ceryneian Hind - The 3rd Labour Of Heracles
Eurystheus was greatly angered to find that Heracles had managed to escape death on the previous two labours, and so decided to spend mor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cerberus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cerberus - Theories Of Origin
The constellation of Pisces was not always associated with two fish, the original sky fish was Piscis Austrinus. It was considered also t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cerberus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cerberus - Heracles' Capturing Of Cerberus
Heracles' final labour was to capture Cerberus. After having been set the task, Heracles went to Eleusis to be initiated into the Eleusin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manto Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Manto Greek Mythology - Daughter Of Tiresias
Manto was the daughter of the prophet Tiresias and mother of Mopsus. During the War of the Epigoni, Manto was brought to Delphi as a war ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera The Nemesis Of Heracles
Hera was the enemy of Heracles, the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece (Ruck and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athena: Encyclopedia Ii - Athena - History
Athena has no Greek etymology, and probably was already a goddess in the Aegean before the coming of the Greeks, although her name is not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Hercules - Origin Of The Legend
The cult of Hercules may have been the first foreign one to be adopted in Rome; his most important shrine, the Ara Maxima, was in the ori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hades: Encyclopedia Ii - Hades - Hades: The Entity
In Greek mythology, Hades (the "unseen"), the god of the underworld, was a son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athena: Encyclopedia Ii - Athena - Episodes
Athena - Erichthonius. According to Apollodorus, Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena but was unsuccessful. His semen fell on the ground...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hades: Encyclopedia Ii - Hades - Hades: The Place
There were several sections of Hades, including the Elysian Fields (contrast the Christian Paradise or Heaven), and Tartarus, (compare th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hades: Encyclopedia Ii - Hades - Usages In The New Testament
The Greek New Testament uses hades several times, with various connotations of bodily decay and the power of death, none of them applicab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Cult
Hera was especially worshipped, as "Argive Hera" (Hera Argeia), at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hades: Encyclopedia Ii - Hades - Other Usages
In Dungeons & Dragons, Hades is one of the seven lower planes of existence. More commonly referred to as the Gray Wastes, the plane i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hades: Encyclopedia Ii - Hades - Other Usages
In Dungeons & Dragons, Hades is one of the seven lower planes of existence. More commonly referred to as the Gray Wastes, the plane i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Etymology And Pre-history
Unlike some Greek gods, such as Zeus and Poseidon, Hera's name is not analyzable as a Greek or Indo-European word. She therefore seems to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera And Children
Hera liked to eat cows. Hera presides over the right arrangements of the marriage and is the archetype of the union in the marriage bed, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera's Jealousies
Hera - Echo. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by incessantly talking. When Hera discov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera
Hera - Cydippe. Cydippe, a priestess of Hera, was on her way to a festival in the goddess' honor. The oxen which was to pull her cart w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nemean Lion: Encyclopedia Ii - Nemean Lion - The Slaying Of The Lion
The first of Heracles' twelve labours was to slay the Nemean Lion and bring back its skin. The lion had been terrorising the area around ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxyrhynchus: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxyrhynchus - Finds
Although the hope of finding all the lost literary works of antiquity at Oxyrhynchus was not realised, many important Greek texts were fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxyrhynchus: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxyrhynchus - History
Oxyrhynchus is about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo, and lies west of the main course of the Nile, on the Bahr Yussef (Canal of Joseph),...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxyrhynchus: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxyrhynchus - Excavation
In 1882 Egypt, while still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, came under effective British rule, and British archaeologists began the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxyrhynchus: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxyrhynchus - The Project Today
Since the 1930s, work on the papyri has continued. For the past twenty years, it has been under the supervision of Professor Peter Parson...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melqart: Encyclopedia Ii - Melqart - Mythology
Athenaeus (392d) summarizes a story by Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 355 BCE) telling how Heracles the son of Zeus by Asteria (= ‘Ashtart ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Frogs: Encyclopedia Ii - The Frogs - The Plot
The Frogs tells the story of how the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring Euripides bac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Herakles: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Herakles
Herakles. See HERACLES   (See also: Herakles , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Hercules: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hercules
Hercules. See HERACLES   (See also: Hercules , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Heraclitus, Herakleitos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heraclitus, Herakleitos
Herakles. See HERACLES   (See also: Heraclitus, Herakleitos , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Herbs: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Herbs
Hercules. See HERACLES   (See also: Herbs , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geryon: Encyclopedia Ii - Geryon - Theft Of The Cattle Of Geryon
Herakles tried to steal the cattle, and killed first Orthrus, then Eurythion. When Geryon arrived, in some versions having been alerted b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philoctetes Sophocles: Encyclopedia Ii - Philoctetes Sophocles - Background
When Heracles was near death (the subject of another play by Sophocles - The Trachiniae), he wished to be burned on a funeral pyre while ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minyans: Encyclopedia Ii - Minyans - Classical Greek Uses Of Minyans
Hellenic Greeks did not always clearly distinguish the Minyans from the Pelasgian cultures that had preceded them. Greek mythographers ga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melqart: Encyclopedia Ii - Melqart - Cult
The historian Herodotus recorded (2.44): In the wish to get the best information that I could on these matters, I made a voyage to Tyre i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Euripides - Works
Euripides - Tragedies of Euripides. Alcestis (438 BCE, second prize) Medea (431 BCE, third prize) Heracleidae (c. 430 BCE) Hippolytus ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ionian Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Ionian Sea - Origin And Myth Of The Eponym Of The Ionian Sea
The eponym of the Ionian Sea (whose name was more often, particularly by Aeschylus, attributed to Io's voyage; previously the Ionian Gulf...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hera: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hera
Heracles Herakles (Greek) Hercules (Latin) (probably from heros free man, cf Latin herus lord of a household; or "renowned throug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James D'arcy: Encyclopedia Ii - James D'arcy - Biography
D'Arcy was brought up in Fulham and fell into acting almost by accident. After completing his education at Christ's Hospital, D'Arcy went...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pillars Of Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Pillars Of Hercules - Mythological Significance
The Pillars of Hercules has its origin in Greek mythology as the Pillars of Heracles. Pillars of Hercules - The creation of the pillars....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - Jason - The Quest For The Golden Fleece
Jason assembled a great group of heroes and a huge ship called the Argo. Together, the heroes were known as the Argonauts. They included ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jason: Encyclopedia Ii - Jason - The Quest For The Golden Fleece
Jason assembled a great group of heroes and a huge ship called the Argo. Together, the heroes were known as the Argonauts. They included ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pillars Of Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Pillars Of Hercules - Mythological Significance
The Pillars of Hercules has its origin in Greek mythology as the Pillars of Heracles. Pillars of Hercules - The creation of the pillars....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thasos: Encyclopedia Ii - Thasos - History
The island was colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines; they founded a temple of Heracles, which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mount Vesuvius: Encyclopedia Ii - Mount Vesuvius - Origin Of The Name
Mount Vesuvius was regarded by the Greeks and Romans as being sacred to the hero and demigod Hercules/Heracles, and the town of Herculane...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes - Hermēs' Offspring
Hermes - Abderus. Abderus was a son of Hermes who was devoured by the Mares of Diomedes. He had gone to the Mares with his friend, Hera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seville: Encyclopedia Ii - Seville - History
Roman Hispalis, in the province of Hispania Baetica, became ʾIšbīliyyah (Arabic أشبيليّة) under the Moors. Though Greeks and R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mount Vesuvius: Encyclopedia Ii - Mount Vesuvius - Origin Of The Name
Mount Vesuvius was regarded by the Greeks and Romans as being sacred to the hero and demigod Hercules/Heracles, and the town of Herculane...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demetrios Iii: Encyclopedia Ii - Demetrios Iii - Possible Dynastic Context
Given that the date 100 BCE is correct, Demetrius III could be tentatively associated with other kings. Coins with elephant crowns were s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Thermopylae: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Thermopylae - Inspiration
The legend of Thermopylae, as told by Herodotus, has it that Sparta consulted the Oracle at Delphi before setting out to meet the Persian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Heracles - Marriage Affairs And Death
Heracles had countless affairs with women. He naturally had a great many children from various women, collectively referred to as the Her...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Heracles - Modern And Ancient Interpretations
Via the Greco-Buddhist culture, Herculean symbolism was transmitted to the far east. An example remains to this day in the Nio guardian d...   » Read the article