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Chapter 97 Monsters like Medusa

He is portrayed as a victim, stated as a builder of an altar and imagined as a man who devours himself; these are his roles in comedy, and his tragic ending is often the subject of tragedy; Talia Papapadopolo comments on Hercules' madness as a drama of 'Euripides greater than all his other works'.*Literary Museum*

In the fields of art and literature, Hercules was portrayed as a very strong, medium-high male; he most often used bows and arrows, and wooden sticks were also his favorite weapons. Pottery paintings demonstrated Hercules' unprecedented popularity, and his battle with the Nemeaian lion was depicted hundreds of times.

There were also myths and beliefs about Hercules in Etruscans in ancient Rome, and to the Romans, marveling at the ‘mehercule’ is as familiar to the ‘herakleis’ as the Greeks.

Hercules in Italy was regarded as a god of businessmen and traders, and others worshipped him because of his natural luck and ability to avoid danger.

When he was declared by the Dorians as the ancestor of his king, Hercules gained his highest social prestige. This gave the Dorians a more reasonable reason for migrating to the Peloponnese.

Xuros, the hero of a certain clan of the Dorians, was regarded as a son of Hercules, and became a descendant of Hercules or Hercules (all descendants of Hercules, especially of Xuros; other descendants of Hercules include Macaria, Lemus, Manto, Biarlo, Trepolemos and Telforth).

These Hercules conquered the Peloponnese kingdoms of Mycenae, Sparta and Argos, and they claimed that, according to legend, they obtained the right from their ancestors to rule these countries. This was often called the "invasion of the Dorians". The kings of Lydia and later Macedonia became descendants of Hercules for the same reason.

Other earliest generations of heroes, such as Perseus, Diocalion, Theseus and Bellerofon, all had similar characteristics to Hercules. Like him, they all independently completed extraordinary achievements that were close to fairy tales, such as killing monsters like Kamara and Medusa. Bellerofon's adventures were more ordinary, similar to Hercules and Theseus. Heroes became zodiac signs after their death, which was also a common theme in the early hero traditions, such as Perseus and Bellerofon.

The only existing epic of the Hellenistic civilization period, Apollonios (epic poet, scholar, director of the Alexander Library) recorded the journey of Jason and Argo heroes to search for the golden wool in the mysterious country of Korkis.

In "The Legend of the Argo Ship", Jason was ordered to be King Perlias, who was once predicted that a man wearing only one slipper would become his Nemesis.

The epic begins when Jason lost a slipper in the river and came to Perlias's court. Basically all participants, including Hercules, are the next generation heroes. They and Jason set out on the Argo to find the Golden Wool.

The heroes of this generation also include Theseus, who are setting out to Crete to get rid of Minotaurus; Atalanta, the legendary heroine; and Mele Agras, a series of epics that can be compared with "Iliad" and "Odyssey" that describe him. Pinda, Apollonios and Apollodolos have tried their best to complete the roster of all Argo heroes.

Although Apollonios completed his work in the 3rd century BC, the Argo hero story was formed earlier than the Odyssey, because Odysseus showed that he was very familiar with Jason's adventures (Odysseus's journey was partially coincident with Jason).

In ancient times, these adventures were believed to be based on Greek trade and colonial behaviors against the Black Sea.

At that time, some local legends were also popular for a series of literary subjects, such as the story of Medea, which was often quoted by tragic poetry.

Between the time of the Argo hero and the Trojan War, there was a generation known for its horrific crimes. These crimes included what Atreus and Tiers did in Argos.

Behind these myths is actually the weakening of rights of the Atreus dynasty (one of the two special heroic dynasties of the Labudakos dynasty) and the transformation of its dominance model from inheritance to sovereignty.

The twin brothers Atreus and Tierses and their descendants played an important role in the decay of Mycenae's rule.

Thebes epic collection depicts the stories that took place in Cadmos, the builder of Thebes, and the kings Laius and Oedipus, who followed; it also records a series of stories about the seven generals who eventually attacked Thebes and their later heroes.

The early epics related to Oedipus describe that when he discovered that Eocaste was actually his mother, he continued his rule in Thebes. He remarried a wife and continued her descendants with her, which was very different from some subsequent tragedies (such as Oedipus of Sophocles) and later myths.

Greek mythology reached the ** in the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. The Trojan War and its subsequent periods.

In Homer's works, the story of the Trojan War has been established and laid, and then it is divided into several themes in more detail (especially in the field of Greek drama).

In ancient Roman culture, the Romans were particularly interested in the Trojan War because of the story of the hero Aeneas: Aeneas was a Trojan hero who set out from Troy and finally discovered the city that later became Rome.

Virgil also mentioned this in his Aeneid (the famous Trojan incident is recorded in the second book of the Aeneid). In addition, there are two pseudo-chronics written in Latin using the signatures of Dictis and Dales.

The "Troy Siege Series" describes the outbreak of the war and the series of people and events that triggered the early stages of the war: Eris, the Golden Apple that caused the dispute, Paris's judgment and the abduction of Helen, and the sacrifice of Iphegnea in Avelida.

In order to rescue Helen, the Greeks formed a huge expedition under the leadership of Menelaus' brother, the king of Mycenae, and Agamemnon, while the Trojans refused to return Helen.

The epic "Iliad" begins in the tenth year of the war, focusing on the rebellion between Agamemnon and Achilles, the most brave warrior among the Greeks, and the deaths of Agamemnon's nephew Patroclus and Priamus' eldest son Hector in the subsequent battle.

After Hector's death, Troy was joined by two foreign alliances: the Amazon queen Pentecileya and the Ethiopian king Mennon; at the same time, the dawn goddess Eoss also joined the camp.

Achilles successfully eliminated the two human foreign alliances mentioned above, but he himself was shot in the ankle by Paris, because his ankle was the only part of his body that could be damaged by human weapons.

Finally, with the help of Athena, the Greeks built a Trojan horse. Ignoring Priames's daughter Cassandra's warning, the Trojans were deceived by Sinon and dragged the Trojan into the city of Trojan as Athena's offerings; while Raocon, who proposed to destroy the Trojan, was bitten to death by the sea snake.

At night, Greek soldiers in the Trojan horses opened the city gate and waited for the soldiers outside the city to rush in. Troy was tragically looted, Priamos and his remaining son were brutally killed; Troy women became slaves to Greek cities.
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