Hermes. Ancient Greek god of boundaries, roads, merchants, and thieves Hermes (; Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is a deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Hermes is considered the herald of the gods, as well as the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves,[1] merchants, and orators.[2][3] He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide" — a conductor of souls into the afterlife.[4][5] His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster, the tortoise, satchel or pouch, talaria (winged sandals), and winged helmet or simple petasos, as well as the palm tree, goat, the number four, several kinds of fish, and incense.[9] However, his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating and carvings of the other gods.[10] His attributes had previously influenced the earlier Etruscan god Turms, a name borrowed from the Greek "herma".[11]
Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 24. Scroll 24 The assembly [agôn] now broke up and the people went their ways each to his own ship.
There they made ready their supper, and then bethought them of the blessed boon of sleep; but Achilles still wept for thinking of his dear comrade, and sleep, before whom all things bow, could take no hold upon him. This way and that did he turn as he yearned after the might and manfulness of Patroklos; he thought of all they had done together, and all they had gone through both on the field of battle and on the waves of the weary sea. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 23. Scroll 23 Thus did they make their moan throughout the city, while the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship.
But Achilles would not let the Myrmidons go, and spoke to his brave comrades saying, "Myrmidons, famed horsemen and my own trusted friends, not yet, I say, let us unyoke, but with horse and chariot draw near to the body and mourn Patroklos, in due honor to the dead. When we have had full comfort of lamentation we will unyoke our horses and take supper all of us here. " Hecuba. Spouse of king Priam in Greek mythology Parentage[edit] According to Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars, the emperor Tiberius pestered scholars with obscure questions about ancient mythology, with one of his favorites being "Who was Hecuba's mother?
"[12] Myths[edit] Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 22. Scroll 22 Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements, while the Achaeans with their shields laid upon their shoulders drew close up to the walls.
But stern fate bade Hektor stay where he was before Ilion and the Scaean gates. Scamander. Water deity in Greek mythology Water, or the Fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis by Auguste Couder, 1819.
Scamander , Skamandros (Ancient Greek: Σκάμανδρος), Xanthos (Ξάνθος), was the name of a river god in Greek mythology. Etymology[edit] Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 21. Scroll 21 Now when they came to the ford of the full-flowing river Xanthos, begotten of immortal Zeus, Achilles cut their forces in two: one half he chased over the plain towards the city by the same way that the Achaeans had taken when fleeing panic-stricken on the preceding day with Hektor in full triumph; this way did they flee pell-mell, and Hera sent down a thick mist in front of them to stay them.
The other half were hemmed in by the deep silver-eddying stream, and fell into it with a great uproar. The waters resounded, and the banks rang again, as they swam hither and thither with loud cries amid the whirling eddies. Zeus. Name The Chariot of Zeus, from an 1879 Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church.
The god's name in the nominative is Ζεύς Zeús /zdeús/. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 20. Scroll 20 Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O son of Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while the Trojans over against them armed upon the rise of the plain.
Meanwhile Zeus from the top of many-delled Olympus, bade Themis gather the gods in council, whereon she went about and called them to the house of Zeus. There was not a river absent except Okeanos, nor a single one of the nymphs that haunt fair groves, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass. Balius and Xanthus. Mythology[edit] Poseidon gave the two horses to King Peleus of Phthia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis.
Peleus later gave the horses to his son Achilles who took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War. At Iliad 17.474-8, Automedon, Achilles' charioteer, states that only Patroclus was able to fully control these horses. Briseis. Greek mythological character Brisēís (; Ancient Greek: Βρισηΐς, pronounced [brisɛːís]) ("daughter of Briseus"), also known as Hippodámeia (Ἱπποδάμεια, [hippodámeːa]),[2] is a significant character in the Iliad.
Her role as a status symbol is at the heart of the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that initiates the plot of Homer's epic. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 19. Scroll 19 Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hastening from the streams of Okeanos, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armor that the god had given her. She found her son fallen about the body of Patroklos and weeping bitterly. Many also of his followers were weeping round him, but when the goddess came among them she clasped his hand in her own, saying, "My son, grieve as we may we must let this man lie, for it is by heaven's will that he has fallen; now, therefore, accept from Hephaistos this rich and goodly armor, which no man has ever yet borne upon his shoulders.
" Shield of Achilles. The shield's design as interpreted by Angelo Monticelli, from Le Costume Ancien ou Moderne, ca. 1820. The shield of Achilles is the shield that Achilles uses in his fight with Hector, famously described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–608 of Homer's Iliad. The intricately detailed imagery on the shield has inspired many different interpretations of its significance, with no definitive answer. Hephaestus. Greek god of blacksmiths As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos.[1] Hephaestus' symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.
Etymology[edit] Hephaestus is probably associated with the Linear B (Mycenaean Greek) inscription 𐀀𐀞𐀂𐀴𐀍, A-pa-i-ti-jo, found at Knossos. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 18. Scroll 18 Thus then did they fight as it were a flaming fire. Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilokhos, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too surely true. "Alas," said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart, "why are the Achaeans again scouring the plain and flocking towards the ships?
Heaven grant the gods be not now bringing that sorrow upon me of which my mother Thetis spoke, saying that while I was yet alive the bravest of the Myrmidons should fall before the Trojans, and see the light of the sun no longer. I fear the brave son of Menoitios has fallen through his own daring and yet I bade him return to the ships as soon as he had driven back those that were bringing fire against them, and not join battle with Hektor. " Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 17. Euphorbus. Sarpedon. Myrmidons. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 16. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 15. Poseidon. Seduction. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 14. Polydamas. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 13. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 12. Nestor. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 11. Thracians. Dolon. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 10. Patroclus. Phoenix. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 9. File:Iliad VIII 245-253 in cod F205, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, late 5c or early 6c.jpg.
Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 8. Ajax the Great. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 7. Astyanax. Andromache. Glaucus. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 6. Ares. Hector. Aeneas. Diomedes. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 5. Pandarus. Hera. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 4. Aphrodite. Ares. Helen of Troy. Hector. Menelaus. Paris. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 3. Sortie. Priam. Thersites. Rout. Athena. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 2. Homer, The Iliad, Scroll 1. Zeus. Thetis. Odysseus.
Briseis. Myrmidons. Achilles. Agamemnon. Chryseis. Apollo. Chryses of Troy. Greeks. In medias res. Muses. Invocation. File:Beginning Iliad.svg.