Heracles was sent to capture the Cretan Bull as one of his twelve labors. The Cretan Bull was a dangerous beast that was ravaging the island of Crete. After defeating the bull in combat, Heracles brought it back alive.
8. Ι ι
αι ει
ια ιε ἀεί
αἰαῖ
Αἶα
Αἰαία
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Eëa was a mythological island, the home of the
sorceress Circe. In Homer's Odyssey, Circe was
renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs.
She invited Odysseus' crew to a feast of familiar food,
but using her magical potions, she turned them all into
swine.
9. Eëa was
Let´s complete the word with two consonants:
Χαίρε
Hello!
rho, ρώ [r] [r] chi, χι [H]
10. Let´s read some words with different combinations :
Ῥεία Ῥέα
Χαρά χείρ χρεία
χρέα ἔχει ῥα ἀέρι
ἄρα
Rhea Ῥέα, is the Titaness daughter
of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky
god Uranus, and sister and wife to
Chronos. She is the mother of the
Olympian goddesses and gods
11. Letter Name Sound Ancient Modern
Α α alpha, άλφα [a] [aː] [a]
Β β beta, βήτα [b] [v]
Γ γ gamma, γάμμα [ɡ] [ɣ] ~ [ʝ]
Δ δ delta, δέλτα [d] [ð]
Ε ε epsilon, έψιλον [e] [e]
Maybe we should start from the very beginning.
Let’s have a look at the alphabet letters in groups of
five.
18. Εε
βε γε δεβεβα
Βαδε
Δαγαγε γεβαδε
δεῖ βία
ἰδέα βίε
ἰδέα
any conception existing in the mind
as a result of mental understanding,
awareness, or activity
19. Name Sound Ancient Modern
Ζ ζ zeta, ζήτα [ds] [z]
Η η eta, ήτα [ɛː] [i]
Θ θ theta, θήτα [tʰ] [θ]
Ι ι iota, ιώτα [i] [i]
Κ κ kappa, κάππα [k] [k]
23. Η η
Ηα ηε ηα
δη βη γη ζη
δαζη
γηζε
βεβηγα
γεγηδα
ζῆν
῞Ηβη
24. ῞Ηβη
Hēbē (/ˈhiːbi/is the goddess of youth.She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera.Hebe was
the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and
ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles.
Jacques Louis Dubois - Hebe
Herakles received Hebe in marriage
upon his ascension to Olympos, a
wedding which reconciled the hero with
Hebe's mother Hera.
Heracles & Hebe, Athenian red-figure
pyxis
C5th B.C., University of Pennsylvania
Museum
25. Hera/Ἥρα
Hera Campana. Marble, Roman
copy of an hellenistic original,
2nd century AD (?)
is the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in
Greek mythology. Her chief function was as the
goddess of women and marriage. The cow, lion and
the peacock were considered sacred to her. Hera's
mother is Rhea and her father Chronus.
Hera is the stepmother and enemy of Heracles, who
was named "Hera-famous"in her honor.
Ἀργεία
(Argéia) '(She) of Argos‘ is one of her epithets.
30. ᾿Ερύθεια
Erytheia, the "red island" of the sunset.
Heracles was required to travel to Erytheia, in
order to obtain the Cattle of Geryon (Γηρυόνου
βόες) as his tenth labour. On the way there, he
crossed the Libyan desert and became so
frustrated at the heat that he shot an arrow at
Helios, the Sun. Helios "in admiration of his
courage" gave Heracles the golden chariot he
used to sail across the sea from west to east
each night. Heracles used it to reach Erytheia,
Late Greek writers identified Erytheia with
southern Spain.
32. Κ κ
Κα κε κι κη
ἐκ καί εκεῖ
κακία δέκα
ἔκηδε εἴκει
κάθιζε καθήκει
καθαγίζε
κακία
CC Malingering
“Hercules between vice and virtue”,
Emmanuel Benner.
33. κακία
KAKIA was the spirit (daimona) of vice and moral badness. She was depicted as a
vain, plump and heavily made-up woman dressed in revealing clothes. Her opposite
number was Arete (Virtue). The goddesses of virtue and vice. When Heracles was a
young man they offered him a choice in life and he chose the path of valour.
ἀρετή
35. Λ λ
Λα λε λη λι
λάβη ἔλθε
ἄγγελε
ἕλκει λαλιά
ἔλεγε καλεῖ
λάλαζε
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Ἄτλας
36. was the Titan who held up the sky.
Herakles sought his assistance in his
quest to recover the Apples of the
Hesperides. He slew the Drakon which
tormented the Titan and took upon
himself the weight of the heavens,
while Atlas recovered the apples for
him. Subsequently Herakles tricked the
Titan into retaking the heavens upon his
shoulders.
Ἄτλας
Lee Lawrie's colossal bronze Atlas,
Rockefeller Center, New York.
38. Μ μ
μα με μι μη
μαγία μέγα
μάζα μάλα
μαλακία εἰμί
μάθημα
μέθη Μαῖα
Μεγάρα
39. Μεγάρα
Mosaic depicting the madness of Heracles ,3rd-4th century CE
(National Archaeology Museum of Lisbon, Portugal).
When Hercules grew up and had become a great warrior, he married Megara. They
had two children. Hercules and Megara were very happy, but life didn't turn out
for them the way it does in the movie. Hera sent a fit of madness to Hercules that
put him into such a rage,that he murdered Megara and the children. When
Hercules regained his senses and saw the horrible thing that he had done, he
asked the god Apollo to rid him of this pollution. Apollo commanded the hero to do
certain tasks as a punishment for his wrongs, so that the evil might be cleansed
from his spirit.
42. Ἀλκμήνη
She was the wife of Amphitryon.She
is, however, better known as the
mother of Heracles whose father
was the god Zeus. While
Amphitryon was at war, Zeus visited
Alcmene disguised as Amphitryon.
Extending one night into three, Zeus
slept with Alcmene , thereby
conceiving Heracles. When
Amphitryon finally returned to
Thebes, Alcmene told him that he
had come the night before and slept
with her; he learned from Tiresias
what Zeus had done.
45. ERYX was a king of the Sicilian town of
Eryx, a son of either the god Poseidon or
Aphrodite and the hero Boutes. When
Herakles was herding the cattle of Geryon
across the island, he stole the finest bull
from the herd and challenged the hero to
a wrestling or boxing match when he
came to fetch it. Eryx lost his life in the
contest.
51. Π π
πῖ ἐπί
ἀπό πᾶν
πάππε πόθεν
παλαιά πάλιν
πέμπε πενία
πίνακα πλέον
Ἑσπερίδες
Detail of The Twelve Labours mosaic (3rd century).
National Archeological Museum, Madrid
52. The nymphs of the evening and golden
light of sunset. The Garden of the
Hesperides is Hera's orchard in the
west(near the Atlas mountains in North
Africa), They were entrusted with the care
of the tree of the golden apples which was
first presented to the goddess Hera by Gaia
(Earth) on her wedding day. They were
assisted in their task by a hundred-headed
guardian drakon named Ladon. Herakles
was sent to fetch the apples as his
Eleventh Labour , and upon slaying the
serpent, stole the precious fruit.
The Garden of the Hesperides by
Frederick, Lord Leighton, 1892.
Ἑσπερίδες
54. Ρρ
ἄρα πάρα πρό
περί ῥίνη ῥημα
ῥᾴδια ῥόδον
ἄγροι ἄγορα
ἱερεῖον ῥάβδον
ῥόπαλον
Δηϊάνειρα
Edmund Dulac, Herakles and
Deyanira, 1935
55. Deianira was a wife of Heracles and, in late Classical accounts, his unwitting
murderer, killing him with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus.
Abduction (Nessus and Deianeira), Pablo Picasso
58. Nessus was a centaur, who carried
Deianeira across the river Evenus, but,
wishing to run away with her, he was slot
by Heracles with a poisoned arrow, which
afterwards became the cause of Heracles'
own death. The dying centaur called
Deianeira out to take his blood with her,
as it was a sure means for preserving the
love of her husband.
Ἡρακλῆς
Νέσσος
The Death of the Centaur Nessus,
Luca Giordano, Prado Museum
60. Ττ
τε τις τίνα
στο τρίς τόπος
τέλος τακτικός
τίθημι τεκόντες
τέτταρες τρία
στρατηγικός
Κρὴς ταῦρος
61. Heracles was sent to capture the bull
by Eurystheus as his seventh task. He
sailed to Crete, whereupon the King,
Minos, gave him permission to take
the bull away as it had been
wreaking havoc on Crete.
Heracles captured the bull, and then
shipped it to Eurystheus in Tiryns.
The bull later broke loose and
wandered into Marathon, becoming
known as the "Marathonian Bull".
Detail of The Twelve Labours mosaic (3rd century).
National Archeological Museum, Madrid
64. Granted rule of the Argolid by Zeus through Hera's trickery. Cousin
of Heracles who assigned him his Labors,on the orders of the
Delphic oracle and as a punishment for killing his wife and children
in a fit of madness. In art Eurystheus is depicted as a coward,
hiding fearfully in a great jar when Heracles delivers e.g. the
Erymanthian boar.
Εὐρυσθεύς
65. Letter Name Sound Ancient Modern
Φ φ phi, φι [pʰ] [f]
Χ χ chi, χι [kʰ] [x] ~ [ç]
Ψ ψ psi, ψι [ps] [ps]
Ω ω omega, ωμέγα [ɔː] [o]
68. Iphicles The half maternal twin
brother of Heracles, being the
son of Alcmene and her human
husband Amphitryon, whereas
Heracles was her son by Zeus.
Iphicles Saved from a Serpent by his Brother Hercules
Ἰφικλῆς
71. AKELOIOS (or Achelous) was a River-God of Aitolia in central
Greece. He was often represented as the god of fresh water.
He once competed with Herakles in a contest for the hand of
the Aitolian princess Deianeira. In their wrestling contest,
Herakles tore of the god's horn, out of which was made a
cornucopia or horn of plenty.
74. ψυχομαχία
psychomachy
conflict of the soul
After killing his music tutor Linus
with a lyre, Hercules was sent to take care
of cattle on a mountain by Amphitryon.
Here, according to an allegorical
parable, "The Choice of Heracles",
invented by the sophist Prodicus (ca. 400
BCE), he was visited by two nymphs -
Pleasure and Virtue - who offered him a
choice between a pleasant and easy life or
a severe but glorious life. he chose the
latter.
Herakles Between Virtue And Vice
Emmanuel Michel Benner
77. Heracles was required to travel to Erytheia, in Southern Spain
in order to obtain the Cattle of Geryon (Γηρυόνου βόες) as his
tenth labour. Geryon was a giant with one body and three
heads
78. Thanks to Ana Ovando, because her method to read
Greek easily has been a great help for this presentation
Mercedes Casuso
Quesada
Departamento de
Griego