Greek Mythology

Lenya · 06-27-2005, 06:19 AM

Share your thoughts. What's your favourite story, person, god ect?

I love the way Zeus has a thing on with practically every important woman in Greek Mytology. Its hilarious, but rather disgusting.

Grey_Wolf · 06-27-2005, 08:23 AM

My favourite story is Hercules and his twelve assignments.

Lenya · 06-28-2005, 07:39 AM

What exactly was the 12 tasks? I know there was the one where he had to get an golden apple & one in which he and Atlas tried to trick each other into supporting the sky. And one with a lion (pulling the sun, or am I making that up?). And I know that Hercules didn't slay Medusa, as too many people believe. Perseus did. Oh, Perseus rocks

Grey_Wolf · 06-28-2005, 12:55 PM

According to a mythological dictionairy I have the list of accomplishments are as follows:

1. The Hunt For the Nemeian Lion.
2. The Fight With the Hydra.
3. The Capture of the Erymathian Boar.
4. The Capture of Cherynia's Deer.
5. The Rescue of An Arcadian Neiad From the Flesheating Stymphalic Birds.
6. The Cleaning of Augias' Stables.
7. The Capture of A Fearsome Bull And It's Consequent Release On Crete.
8. The Escape From the Flesheating Horses of Diomedes,
9. The Theft of Hippolyta's Girdle.
10. The Fetching of the Giant Geryon's Cattle.
11. The Creation of the Gibraltar Sound and the Rock Formations.
12. The Capture of the Deathhound Cherberos.

And there you have it.

inked · 06-28-2005, 05:49 PM

An interesting reference site: http://www.theoi.com/Kronos/Apotheothenai.html

Enjoy!

Grey_Wolf · 06-29-2005, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by inked

An interesting reference site: http://www.theoi.com/Kronos/Apotheothenai.html

Enjoy!

Nice site!

Very interesting.

Lenya · 06-30-2005, 11:12 AM

Hey thanx for the list! Now I know too

Though I ought have remembered about the Hydra & Cherberos. I wouldn't like to fight that Hydra - mean creature.

Lief Erikson · 06-30-2005, 12:47 PM

The Odyssey may be my favorite Greek story. It's very, very tough to say though, really.

Grey_Wolf · 06-30-2005, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenya

Hey thanx for the list! Now I know too

Though I ought have remembered about the Hydra & Cherberos. I wouldn't like to fight that Hydra - mean creature.

You're welcome. I wouldn't want to encounter those flesheating horses either.

Lenya · 07-01-2005, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

You're welcome. I wouldn't want to encounter those flesheating horses either.

Can't remember hearing their story.
My favourite story is about Hades and Persephone

06-27-2005, 06:19 AM	#1
Lenya Elentári Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: South Africa Posts: 727	Greek Mythology Share your thoughts. What's your favourite story, person, god ect? I love the way Zeus has a thing on with practically every important woman in Greek Mytology. Its hilarious, but rather disgusting.

06-28-2005, 12:55 PM	#4
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	According to a mythological dictionairy I have the list of accomplishments are as follows: 1. The Hunt For the Nemeian Lion. 2. The Fight With the Hydra. 3. The Capture of the Erymathian Boar. 4. The Capture of Cherynia's Deer. 5. The Rescue of An Arcadian Neiad From the Flesheating Stymphalic Birds. 6. The Cleaning of Augias' Stables. 7. The Capture of A Fearsome Bull And It's Consequent Release On Crete. 8. The Escape From the Flesheating Horses of Diomedes, 9. The Theft of Hippolyta's Girdle. 10. The Fetching of the Giant Geryon's Cattle. 11. The Creation of the Gibraltar Sound and the Rock Formations. 12. The Capture of the Deathhound Cherberos. And there you have it. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 06-28-2005 at 01:04 PM.

06-28-2005, 05:49 PM	#5
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	An interesting reference site: http://www.theoi.com/Kronos/Apotheothenai.html Enjoy! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

06-30-2005, 12:47 PM	#8
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	The Odyssey may be my favorite Greek story. It's very, very tough to say though, really. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

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06-27-2005, 08:23 AM	#2
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	My favourite story is Hercules and his twelve assignments.

06-28-2005, 07:39 AM	#3
Lenya Elentári Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: South Africa Posts: 727	What exactly was the 12 tasks? I know there was the one where he had to get an golden apple & one in which he and Atlas tried to trick each other into supporting the sky. And one with a lion (pulling the sun, or am I making that up?). And I know that Hercules didn't slay Medusa, as too many people believe. Perseus did. Oh, Perseus rocks

06-30-2005, 11:12 AM	#7
Lenya Elentári Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: South Africa Posts: 727	Hey thanx for the list! Now I know too Though I ought have remembered about the Hydra & Cherberos. I wouldn't like to fight that Hydra - mean creature.