Mycenae

the Hydra's poisoned arrows into each of the Merdras heads. Silence, the Merdra is dead. Hercules treks into the cave, through the now murky water and grabs the giant pearl off its diamond stand, using his great strength. Hercules sails back to Mycenae and returns to King Eurystheus with the giant pearl " Very well my cousin. You are free to go," King Eurystheus sighs when he receives the pearl from inside his giant urn. In honor of atoning for his sins and completing his thirteen task, Zeus…

heroes. It all started with Heracles entering a temple, and praying to Apollo. Heracles speaks to him and asks him what he should do to overcome the bad deeds he has done. Heracles is told that he is to do all the wishes of Eurystheus, the king of Mycenae. If he is able to do this, he is then able to become immortal and one of the gods. He must do 12 hard labors that will be so difficult, they will almost be impossible to do. Heracles accepts, and walks to the king to see what the 12 labors that…

superhuman strength. Hera, who was still jealous, drove him mad after his was well into adulthood and he killed his first three children and his first wife. This crime caused him to be sentenced to do “Labors” for his cousin Eurystheus who was the king of Mycenae. Several of these Labors included slaying Hydra, getting the golden apples of Hesperides and at ten more. During one of his many adventures, he fought the River God, Acheloos, over Deanira because of her beauty. Deanira means “destroyer…

Hercules is known courageous acts and his god-like strength. Hercules was the son of an affair, between the Greek god Zeus and a human named Alcmene. Hera, Zeus wife was furious about the affair and hated Hercules because of it. Shortly after Hercules was born, she sent two serpents to his crib, as an act to kill him, but even as a baby he was able to strangle both of the snakes. Hera in her attempts to hurt Hercules, drove him mad, causing him to kill both his wife, Theben Princess Megara, and…

One of the most well-known stories in Greek mythology is the book of Iliad written around the 8th century BCE by Homer. The Trojan War happened during the late Bronze Age, approximately 750 B.C. The Trojan War happened thousand upon thousands of years ago. There were two kingdoms feuding; the town of Troy located in Anatolia and Mycenaean Greece. This conflict went on for about 10 years. What caused this war against the Spartans and the Trojans? According to Historylink101, “the cause of the…

The Trojan War was an epic siege between Greek and Trojan forces that occurred within the Bronze Age, spanning through the 12 and 13 century, approximately 1250 BCE. Homer's Iliad is a poetic version of the events, incorporating historical and mythical aspects into the epic poem. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the 2004 film, supposedly "inspired" by the text of the Iliad, excluded the religious notions of the time period and was instead an over-dramatized war movie that altered historical facts.…

Another major aspect for the Mycenaean trade was the textile industry. Great number of vases, pottery etc. A lot of the good buries in the graves revealed of Mycenae shows that already from the early Mycenaean period the Mycenaean’s had commercial exchange with countries of the East Mediterranean, Egypt and countries of the West. The Mycenaean’s were quite competitive in their trade with the foreign countries…

The constellation Andromeda is a famous constellation of the 88 modern contstellations. It was first discovered by a 2nd century BC Greco-Roman named Ptolemy. It is named after the Greek Princess Andromeda and is seen mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. The Greek myth of the creation of the Andromeda constellation begins with her Mother Queen Cassiopeia of Ethiopia and her Father, Cepheus, an Aethiopian king declaring to allthe land that their daughter was the most beautful creature on the…

Over three thousand years ago, a bloody battle was waged between Greece and he powerful city of Troy. This battle was ignited by the sudden abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta by Prince Paris of Troy. Helen and Paris were star-crossed lovers, in which, nobody could separate them. You could compare them to the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, where the Montagues and Capulets fought, again, sparked by the love of two young lovers. Back in mythological times, Zeus, the father of the gods and god…

Two civilizations that share many similarities and differences are the Romans and Greeks. The Greeks influenced many aspects of the Roman civilization. The Greeks first came to be around 1600 B.C.E. Rome was supposedly founded in 753 B.C.E. The ancient Greek civilization rose to power before Rome was established, and fell at the hands of Rome. Both were powerful in their time, and both left legacies that can still be found today. The Greeks were located in a mountainous peninsula, a…