Alcmene – Mythopedia
2023年9月25日 · After Alcmene’s husband Amphitryon accidentally killed her father, she accompanied him into exile in Thebes. The lovely Alcmene was seduced by Zeus, who took the form of her husband Amphitryon in order to sleep with her. Alcmene later gave birth to twins: Heracles, whose father was Zeus, and Iphicles, whose father was
Amphitryon - Mythopedia
2023年7月5日 · Amphitryon was a Greek hero from the Argolid—the son of King Alcaeus of Tiryns and the husband of Alcmene. After accidentally killing his father-in-law, Aphitryon was banished and fled to Thebes. There his wife was seduced by Zeus and gave birth to the hero Heracles.
Heracles - Mythopedia
2023年7月14日 · Heracles was the son of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, and a mortal woman named Alcmene. Alcmene was the daughter of Electryon, the king of Mycenae and a son of the hero Perseus. Alcmene’s husband, the hero Amphitryon, was from an important family, too, also tracing his lineage to Perseus through his father, Alcaeus.
Iphicles – Mythopedia
2023年7月5日 · Alcmene, wife of the Argive hero Amphitryon, slept with both her husband and Zeus in a single night. The result was that she conceived two sons by two different fathers: Iphicles, whose father was the mortal Amphitryon, and Heracles, whose father was the god Zeus.
Argus (son of Zeus) – Mythopedia
2023年9月11日 · Argus was the son of Zeus, the ruler of the cosmos, and Niobe, the mortal daughter of Phoroneus (himself an early Argive culture-hero). Niobe was the first of many mortal women whom Zeus took as a lover, and Argus was his first mortal son. The last of Zeus’ lovers was actually a descendant of Argus—Alcmene, mother of Heracles.
Heracles (Play) – Mythopedia
2023年3月6日 · In the prologue, Amphitryon delivers a monologue in which he describes the play’s backstory: he tells of Heracles’ parentage as the son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene (Amphitryon’s wife); of the circumstances that drove the family to leave their homeland in Argos and settle in Thebes; of the Twelve Labors that Heracles agreed to perform ...
Danae - Mythopedia
2023年10月4日 · Danae, daughter of Acrisius, was a princess of Argos who was imprisoned by her own father. After Zeus seduced her as a shower of gold dust, she gave birth to the hero Perseus. Acrisius locked Danae and her child in a chest and threw it into the sea, but they were ultimately rescued by a fisherman in Seriphos.
Geryon – Mythopedia
2023年3月22日 · Geryon was a monster with three heads and three bodies who kept a majestic herd of cattle at the edge of the world. He was ultimately killed by Heracles, who was sent to steal Geryon’s cattle as the tenth of his famous Twelve Labors.
Leto – Mythopedia
2022年12月7日 · Mythology Origins. Leto was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. Though her parentage is clear, her place of birth was a source of debate in antiquity: some sources said she was born on the island of Cos in the southeast Aegean, while others insisted that she came from the mysterious northern land of the Hyperboreans.
Moirae (Fates) - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · But in one tradition, recorded by Antoninus Liberalis, Hera sent the Moirae to help Eileithyia (with whom they were often associated in antiquity). Together, Eileithyia and the Moirae managed to delay the birth of Heracles until they were deceived by one of Alcmene’s handmaids (whom they promptly transformed into a weasel for her troubles).