The legend of heroes in Greece generally includes deified historical events and ancient stories about the struggle between human beings and nature, such as the stories of Poerxiusi and theseus, the achievements of Herakles, the legend of Argo ship, the legend of heroes, the Trojan War, Odysseus, Agamemnon and his son, Thebes, etc. , are vivid and attractive fairy tales. At the same time, because these legends are related to some places or history in Greece, and even some characters may be historical figures, this further strengthens the appeal of their stories and makes them widely circulated. The legend of heroes is very rich, here we only focus on a few main characters and briefly summarize their contents.
1. The story of Prometheus. According to legend, mankind experienced five times at the beginning of creation. In the Bronze Age (the third generation), mankind offended the gods and asked Zeus to order the destruction of mankind. He sent down floods, destroying all living things on the earth except Ducarion, the son of Prometheus, and his wife. They built a big box according to their father's will, and when the flood came, they escaped the disaster in the box. Later, Zeus was moved by their narrow escape, and restored human beings to the earth according to their requirements, but he asked human beings to make sacrifices to the gods frequently. When human beings are overwhelmed by many sacrifices, they demand to reduce their offerings. Prometheus sided with mankind and decided to cheat Zeus once. He divided the slaughtered animals into two parts, one was edible beef wrapped in cowhide and the other was bones wrapped in butter. He asked Zeus to choose the chosen part as a sacrifice. Zeus took a fancy to butter, but when he opened it, it was full of bones. To this end, he lost his temper and took the flame from the world. Prometheus, as the protector of mankind, secretly stole the fire from Olympus, returned it to the world, and taught mankind to use fire. This brought him great disaster. Zeus then asked his son Hephaestus to create a beautiful woman Pandora for Prometheus' younger brother. After their combination, Pandora brought all disasters, epidemics and disasters to the world. Zeus also sent someone to nail Prometheus to the cliff of Caucasus Mountain and let the eagle peck his liver every day. But strangely, at night, his liver grew well again, so he lived for thousands of years, until Hercules Herakles bravely saved him, which made Prometheus free. This story shows that Prometheus is not afraid of God's power to steal fire for mankind and is the savior of mankind. His behavior exceeded the power of God, so he became the only rebel god among the gods who hated tyranny, fought for justice and sacrificed himself for his ideals. The ancient Greeks often held torch competitions to commemorate him. The torch relay in modern sports originated in ancient Silla. "The Fire of Prometheus" has now become synonymous with fighting evil forces and achieving noble achievements.
2. Achievements of Herakles. Herakles is the son of Zeus and alcmene. Legend has it that on the day when Herakles was born, Zeus announced to the gods that a hero was born on that day, and he would become the descendant and ruler of Poerxiusi. Hera was very angry after hearing this. She used a trick to make Poerxiusi's grandson Eurystheus be born early and become the ruler of Poerxiusi family. Zeus was forced to sign a treaty with Hera when he learned that his son would not be ruled by Eurystheus all his life, but he must complete the twelve tasks given to him by Ozinus. Herakles was persecuted by Hera after he was born in Thebes. She sent two big snakes to eat the baby in the robe, but she didn't want the baby to argue with the doctor. She strangled the snake with both hands, which surprised the adults. Later, alcmene's husband, Amphitryon, taught him to drive and had people give him culture and music lessons. Let him learn to play with knives and swords. Later, he was sent to Cattell Mountain for grazing and grew up there. /kloc-when he was 0/8 years old, he returned to Thebes, where the king of Thebes defeated the OkManos people and married his daughter Mokangla. Then he was sent by Eurystheus to complete the 12 mission. Hercules trained some magical powers since he was a child. With the help of powerful power and goddess Athena, he failed to live up to the expectations of his mother and adoptive father Zeus, and finally achieved 12. He killed the lion in Nemea; Slaughter Lerner's water snake; Captured the wild boar that invaded Mount Arumantos in arcadia; Captured red deer in Mount Kergenia; The strange bird that killed Lake Sting Falisse; Give the belt of Amazon Queen Hippolyta to Eurystheus's daughter Admotte; Cleaning stables in Augeas, Phobos Apollo; A tame Crete bull; What defeated diomedes; Take away the cows of three giant revolutionary Weng and set up two stone pillars; Get the golden apples of the Hesperides sisters; The watchdog race in hades, burroughs, was subdued. While completing these 12 achievements, he also overcame many terrible things and difficulties. After that, he stopped serving in Eurystheus. When he returned to Thebes, he first divorced Megara because he thought the marriage was not God's will. Then he came to Ocalia and proposed to Iole, the king's daughter, but the king refused. He also killed the king's son, Evy Toth, and was punished for marrying Queen Ampal to Rudy for three years. In the meantime, he captured Kirkpus and killed the robber Julius. Three years later, he sailed with Argo's hero and took part in the hunting in Kaludon. Later, he made an expedition to Troy, killed King laomedon and his son (except Priam) and went to Pilars, and also won. When he was in Kaludon, he married Diane Nella, daughter of King Eunice of Kaludon. Once, he and his wife went to see their friend Ceyx. When they crossed the river, he asked Nessus, the centaur, to carry his wife across the river. Nereus fell in love with Diane Nella and tried to keep it for himself, but the hero shot him to death with a poisonous arrow. Before he died, he asked Diana to collect his blood. If her husband changed his mind, it would make him change his mind. Later, the hero really conquered Auritos, king of Okalia, and captured his daughter Iole. Because Herakles's wife heard that the king was going to marry Iole, thinking that her husband would change his mind, she asked someone to give her husband a dress stained with centaur blood. After the hero put on this dress, his whole body caught fire, and his pain was unbearable, and he was finally burned to death. In order to revive him, Zeus took him to Olympus and became a member of the gods.
3. The story of theseus. Aegos, the son of Attica Pantheon, was in power in Athens for many years. He was very sad because he had no children. Later, he got the will of God and told it to Peters in Trozen. Petrus learned from this that Eiges's son would become a great hero in Athens, so he married his daughter, Etra. Etla gave birth to a son named theseus (also known as the son of Poseidon). After theseus was born, Egos returned to Athens. Before he left, he put a sword and a pair of stumbling shoes under a boulder and asked his wife to tell her son that when he grew up, he could move the boulder and take out the sword, he would come to Athens to find his father. Theseus lived in his grandfather's home for sixteen years and was educated by Long Xing Centauri. When he grew up, his mother, Etla, asked him to take out his sword and stumbling shoes from under a huge stone, and Jing took them to Athens to find his father. Theseus chose a difficult land route. He killed Perifortus, the son and robber of Hephaestus, near Epicurus. In the isthmus, kill Sinnis, the pine thief; Kill Robles Kay Long Xing at the junction of Megara and Attica; He also killed Kelkun and Damastes. After arriving in Athens, Medea, another wife of Egos, tried every means to prevent their father and son from knowing each other. Later, theseus suddenly pulled out a sword at the party and asked his father to recognize his son. After the father and son got to know each other, Medea fled to Corcas with her son. Theseus became the heir to the throne. In Attica, there are many heroic deeds about theseus, the most famous of which is that he killed Minos cattle. Legend has it that the son of Minos, king of Crete Island, came to Athens to take part in a sports competition. After winning the game, he was killed by his competitors. Minos asked the Athenians to make compensation for his son's death, so he asked the Athenians to send seven pairs of virgins to Minotaur, a monster with a cow's head every year. So the Athenians hated this strange cow very much. Theseus went to Crete to get rid of these strange cows. As soon as he arrived here, he caught the king's attention. The king's daughter Ariadne also fell in love with theseus. She gave the hero a sword and a ball of thread. When theseus was sent to the maze where the monster lived as a virgin, he killed Minotaur with his sword and walked out of the maze with the thread. He also saved other boys and girls. Afterwards, the hero took Ariadne away and was forced to leave her on Naxos Island, making her Dionysus's wife. Theseus completed the task and returned to Athens happily, but he forgot his father's agreement with him before he left, that is, to hang a white sail of victory and a failed black sails. His boat hung an ink sail. When Egos saw Theseus' ship in the distance on the coast, he thought his son was dead and committed suicide by jumping into the sea in despair. When theseus reached the shore, he was very sad to hear that his father had died. He held a grand funeral for his father. Later, people called the sea where Egers was buried the Aegean Sea. After theseus became king, he unified Attica, divided the Athenians into three classes and organized the Pan-Athena Festival. He also joined Herakles in the expedition of Argo Ship Heroes and the hunting of Kaludon. He also married Antiop, the queen of Amazon, and married her. When the Amazon invaded Attica, theseus and his wife fought side by side. Until Antiope died in battle, the Amazons reconciled with the Yadea people. Theseus finally died at the hands of King Luco Medus of Subia. He is known as the national hero and founder of Athens. There was also a king of theseus in Greek history, but he may be a historical figure.
4. Argo the legend of heroes. According to legend, Kratos built the city of Yorkos in Te Saglia Bay a long time ago. After Kratos' death, his son, Iud's son, became the king of this city, but later pelias, the half-brother of Iud's son, usurped the throne. Soon, the son of Ed had a beautiful son. He was worried that his son would be assassinated by pelias, so he sent his son to Peron Mountain to be fed by Kay Long Xing Centauri. Kay Long Xing named his child Jason. Jason is clever and witty, and has learned a set of skills. When he grew up, he returned to Yorkos. When he came to the city square, he wore leopard skin on his shoulders, shoes on his right foot, shackles on his left foot and a pistol in his hand. At this moment, pelias was passing by. He was shocked when he saw the young man, because God had warned him that a man wearing shoes would threaten his life. When he knew that this man was Jason, the son of Ed, he came up with a plan. Jason decided to take back the throne after being reunited with the son of his father, Ed. But when he went to pelias, pelias asked him to finish his career of seizing golden fleece first, and then let him come back as the regent. Jason didn't know the difficulties and obstacles, so he accepted it. In fact, golden fleece, who once saved Frederic Sotheby's life, has offered it as a sacrifice to Zeus. Now placed in Korkas, the land of Aedes mosquitoes, the sheepskin is guarded by dragons and hung in the sacred forest of Eya. It's hard for anyone to get it. When the news of Jason's voyage came out, heroes from all over Greece came to cheer, and heroes such as Herakles and theseus also gathered here. With the help of Athena, Argos, the son of ares Toth, built a luxurious ship for the heroes, named "Argos Ship", and they started their expedition on the Argos ship. The hero's journey is full of difficulties, and temptation, death, demons and dangers all threaten the hero's fleet. Not far from Greece, they came to Lemnos Island in the northern Aegean Sea, which is an island of women and men. After the hero landed, he was warmly welcomed by women. The joyful banquet made the heroes unhappy, and Herakles was very angry. He called on the heroes to move forward quickly. Later, the heroes came to Dorian's land again. In Cameroonian city, Hylas was dragged into the bottom of the river by the goddess of water, and Herakles and Plufimus also fell behind. The hero's fleet came to Bitinia, where Polder Yukos wrestled with the king and was killed by him. In the city of Salmid Sotheby's in Suresia, the old man Finius, who was helped by the hero, pointed out the route that the fleet should take and the know-how to cross the rocks, which enabled the fleet to successfully break through the customs. Heroes also passed through Aouzong and Ares Island, defeated the strange birds in Lake Sting Falisse, and persuaded the sons of friso to join the team. After several days of sailing, Argo finally arrived in Korkas. King Aeetes and his family warmly received the heroes who came, but when the first-class heroes said that they were going to take golden fleece, the king was very angry. He thought that these people must have come to help friso's son win the throne, so he came up with a clever plan to make Jason surrender two fire-breathing bronze-hoofed cows, put them on the sacred ground of Ares, and sow the dragon's teeth. After Longya lands, many soldiers will grow up. As long as they are killed, they can get golden fleece. In fact, he tried to kill Jason. However, Jason got help from the goddess Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, which made the king's daughter Medea fall in love with the handsome Jason. Medea is very clever and knows magic. When she learned that her father had sent Jason to be a magical cow, she tried her best to help. Finally, all the soldiers were killed by Jason. The king broke the contract afterwards and still refused to hand over golden fleece. Under the magic of Medea, Jason killed the dragon guarding golden fleece and regained golden fleece. On the way back to Greece, the heroes were chased by King Ides's men, and Medea personally killed his brother Aphrodite to show his loyalty to Al, thus stopping Ides's pursuit. On the way back to China, they also went through hardships, overcame storms and storms, and broke through the intrusion of monsters. When they finally arrived in Athens, they were exhausted. Afterwards, Jason gave golden fleece to King pelias, but the king failed to keep his promise, and Jason decided to take revenge. He asked Medea, who later became his wife, to give him advice. Medea used magic to get pelias's daughters to kill their father. Therefore, Jason and Medea were driven out of Athens by pelias's son Adelstos. They came to Corinth and were met by King Creon. They gave birth to two sons, and their lives were happy and peaceful, but the goddess of fate quickly broke this peace, and Jason soon fell in love with the king's daughter Crousaz. Medea saved him many times, but Jason insisted on marrying Crousaz. On their wedding day, Medea gave the bride a beautiful and poisonous dress. The bride was poisoned soon after wearing it, and the king was poisoned to save his daughter. Medea killed her child in front of Jason, and then drove away in a dragon car. After Jason was alone, he was finally crushed to death by Argo's wreck.
5. The legend of the Trojan War. The Legend of the Trojan War is based on the Trojan War that happened at the turn of BC 13 and BC 12. It vividly describes the fierce fighting between the legendary heroes of Greece and Troy, in which the gods of Olympus played a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war, the happiness or misfortune of the heroes, and the likes and dislikes of fate. This legend named after Homer's epic has become the most grand, vivid and complete long story in ancient Greek myths and legends. Legend has it that when peleus, the hero of Te Saglia, married thetis, he invited the gods to the wedding banquet, but forgot Eris, the goddess of dispute. In order to get revenge, she secretly dropped a golden apple, which read "For the most beautiful goddess". Athena, Hera and Aphrodite all wanted apples after seeing them. They argued endlessly, and Zeus let Paris, the prince of Troy, rule. Paris gave the golden apple to Aphrodite, the beautiful god, because she promised to give him the most beautiful woman Helen. Athena and Hera were very angry and decided to disaster Troy. At this time, Aphrodite was helping Paris build a ship and encouraging him to come to Sparta. The king of Sparta was Menelaus, who was the younger brother of Agamemnon, king of Mysia, and the husband of beautiful Helen. When he went to Crete, Paris took Helen and the king's treasure. This matter was soon told to Menelaus by the goddess Iriz. When Menelaus knew this, he flew into a rage. He soon consulted with his brother Agamemnon, and they decided to punish Troy. So they began to visit heroes from all walks of life in Greece and encouraged them to take part in the expedition. Later, King Argos, diomedes, Palamedes, King Idomenius of Crete, Philok Tethys and Odysseus all joined in. But the prophet predicted that it would be difficult for Greece to accomplish the great cause without Achilles participating in these expeditions. But Achilles was hidden by her mother, which Odysseus designed before inviting the hero out. The Greeks set out from Orly with100000 people and 1 186 boats. However, God doomed their expedition to be very difficult, and it was bound to besiege Troy for nine years, and it was not until the tenth year that they occupied the city. Before the war, Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia was killed, but Aphrodite saved her. After the war, both sides fought to the death. Nine years of decisive battle, or a draw, all sides suffered heavy casualties. The Greek hero Paramedes also died of Odysseus' false accusation. In that battle, Hecktor on the Trojan side was unusually brave, while Achilles on the Greek side was outstanding. He also captured Seyis, the daughter of Clerides, the Apollo priest facing Troy, and captured briseis. The two female slaves were owned by Agamemnon and Achilles respectively. Later, when Apollo learned that the Greeks had taken away his priest's daughter, he sent a plague as punishment. Greek heroes asked Agamemnon to return the slave girl to Apollo as soon as possible, but Agamemnon refused. Achilles called a people's congress, with the help of the prophet, unanimously passed the decision to let Agamemnon return Luc Seyis, and set up a sacrifice of one hundred cows for Apollo. Agamemnon was forced to agree to this decision, but in revenge, he took briseis, the slave of Achilles. Achilles was furious and decided to quit the game. The Trojans began to launch a fierce attack on the Greeks. Hecktor was invincible and fought all the way, which made the Greeks run away. Agamemnon had no choice but to let Ajax and Odysseus negotiate with Achilles. He decided to return briseis to Achilles and promised to give him the Trojan daughter as his wife after victory. But Achilles was unmoved. He only said: When the Trojans burned Greek warships and attacked his ships and camps, they would not go to Hecktor. Agamemnon was still on pins and needles when the verdict came out. He had no choice but to go into battle himself, but God had doomed him to be injured and the Trojans would break through the fortress gate, so in any case, the Greek army could not move forward. At this time, Achilles was very unhappy when he saw several Greek heroes being hanged. His good friend Patroclus asked to put on Achilles' armor to frighten the enemy, and Achilles quickly agreed. However, the unfortunate fate still hangs over the Greeks. Patrocx, eager to kill Hecktor, was knocked down from behind by Apollo. At this time, the Trojan hero Ophir Persia shot from behind, and Hecktor also shot, finally ending the life of the Greek hero. He also took Achilles' helmet. When Achilles learned that his friend had died, he decided to forget his hatred for Agamemnon, avenge his friend and let Hecktor pay for his life. The Greek army re-entered the war from Achilles with high momentum. Hephaestus, the god of forging, recreated a suit of armor and weapons for the hero. He put on new clothes and fought the Trojans, and soon the Trojans were losing ground. He led an army to the gates of Troy to fight to the death with Hecktor. However, Hecktor is no match for Achilles. After his death, the Greeks clapped their hands and cheered as if celebrating victory. All the people put a bullet through his body. Later, Achilles didn't feel wronged. He hung Hecktor's body behind his chariot and ran three times around the grave. The gods were very dissatisfied with this situation, and Apollo was even more angry. They asked Hermes to help King Priam rescue his son Hecktor, and Troy held a grand funeral for him. Later, in the battle with Paris, the prince of Troy, Achilles was shot in the heel by Paris' arrow because of Apollo's guidance and fell to the ground and died. In the tenth year, the Greeks adopted Odysseus' suggestion of outwitting Troy, built a wooden horse, hid the Greek hero in it, put it at the gate of the city, and the army pretended to retreat. When the Trojans thought that the Greeks had really left, they let their guard down. They came to the gate and saw a huge wooden horse. They were curious and dragged it into the city. No matter how laocoon, the priest of Apollo, persuaded him, he failed to stop the soldiers' curiosity. That night, while the Trojans were sleeping, the Greek soldiers of Troy climbed out one by one. Due to internal and external attack, the Greeks unexpectedly captured Troy. On the way back to Greece, although the Greeks got a lot of trophies and took Helen back, they also paid a huge price. In addition to the heroes who died in battle, Agamemnon also lost his beloved female prisoner Pluck Sina. Their ship was hit by a storm again, killing and injuring many people, and little Ajax was buried at the bottom of the sea; Agamemnon also suffered a series of misfortunes after returning to China, which produced some legends. Odysseus lost contact with the fleet, first stayed on the island, and then went through all the hardships, went to Forgotten Island, defeated Cyclops, experienced the danger of cannibals, and visited Hades; After driving through the witch island, I was tempted by the goddess and finally returned to my hometown where I left for more than 20 years to reunite with my wife and children. Odysseus' adventure story later became a famous fragment in Greek legend, which was written by Homer in the long poem Odyssey.
6. The legend of Thebes. After he succeeded to the throne of Thebes, Laos visited Lops and lived there for a long time, but later he robbed Lops's son, which made Lops very angry. He cursed that Laos was killed by his own son. Laos, the king of Thebes, had no children for a long time. He went to Delphi to ask. Apollo's priestess told him that he would have a son soon, but this son would kill him. Soon, Thebes' wife, Jocasta, gave birth to a son. In order to avoid disaster, Laos asked a slave to abandon the child in the wilderness. The slave took pity on the child and gave him to a shepherd in Polopus, king of Corinth. The shepherd handed him over to the king again. It happened that the king had no queen, so he adopted him as his adopted son and named him Oedipus. When he grew up, he heard that the king was not his real father, so he asked his parents, who told him not to listen to other people's nonsense. So he went to the temple of Delphi to ask, and the priest told him that his fate was terrible and he would kill his mother. When he decided that the Polos were his biological parents, he decided to leave Corinth. He wandered around. Once, at a fork in the road, he had a conflict with some people. He killed an old man and his servant, only one slave hid, and Oedipus came to Thebes. At this time, Thebes was suffering from two disasters: first, the terrible Sphinx threatened Thebes; Second, King Laos was killed. Oedipus decided to help Thebes. He first came to Si Qian the Sphinx, a monster with a lion's head and two huge wings. The sphinx asked him: What uses four feet in the morning, two feet at noon and three feet at night? Oedipus immediately said it was human, because people crawled when they were young, walked on two feet when they were middle-aged, and relied on crutches when they were old, that is, three feet. After listening to Oedipus' explanation, the Sphinx jumped from the rock into the sea. Back in Thebes, Oedipus was known as the king of Thebes. He married Jocasta, the wife of Laos, and gave birth to two sons and two daughters, namely Eteocles and Polonius, antigone and Ismas. During his reign, the country was peaceful and the people were safe. Until one year, the plague in Thebes continued, and someone went to the temple to ask. Apollo told me that in order to save this disaster, the murderer of Laos must be driven out of Thebes. Oedipus knew it and decided to pursue it himself. Unfortunately, the investigation finally focused on himself. In front of the witness, he finally understood that his behavior should be warned by God, that is, killing his father and marrying his mother. He was at a loss in despair and found that his mother, his wife Jocasta, had committed suicide. He painfully blinded his eyes with acupuncture and left Thebes with his daughter antigone. During their wanderings, they got help from King theseus of Athens. Later, because the two sons fought for the throne and fought with each other by force, Oedipus was very painful. He didn't want to see his sons kill each other and finally commit suicide. Later, both his sons died in battle, and their uncle Creon seized the throne. After Creon came to power, he first held a grand funeral for Eteocles and his soldiers guarding the city of Tebai, but threw Polenko and his Argos hero who besieged Thebes into the wilderness and refused to be buried. He thought that these people violated the dogma, and he ordered that anyone who wanted to bury them should be put to death. Antigone saw that his brother Polenc's body was about to be swallowed up by wild animals, so he decided to risk his life to bury his brother. So Creon captured her and forced her to confess, but antigone thought that she was carrying out a sacred dogma, and death could not scare her. Creon's son, antigone's fiance, Meng Hai, learned of this incident and stood on antigone's side to uphold justice. Creon threatened to bury antigone alive, and finally antigone committed suicide to avoid Creon's torture. At the same time, Creon received instructions from God from the Prophet Tiresias, saying that if he buried antigone alive and insulted Polenkos, he would violate the sacred dogma and be punished by God. Creon finally got scared. He came to the grave for antigone, but it was too late. Antigone was dead, and Hammond was lying on the body crying. When he saw his father coming, he drew his sword and committed suicide. Creon's wife heard that her son had died and committed suicide in despair. Creon was the only one left in the whole palace. Ten years later, Argos's children who cheered for Bolenke avenged their father and besieged the city of Tebai. Thanks to the participation of the great hero alcmaeon, they had a pleasant journey and quickly attacked the city of Tebai, driving the Thebes out of the country. Ter Sandroos, the son of Polanks, rebuilt Thebes and gave birth to Thebes.