1 / 28

Hercules

Hercules. The Great Heroes before the Trojan War. Speaker: 陳永安 Instructor: 簡士捷老師. A story of a man . Mortal  immortal. Hercules Ἡρακλῆς = Hē ra [Hera]+ kleos [ glory ] . Son of: Zeus + Alcmene Signature: lion skin + club Know as: S trength Courage I ngenuity

karik
Download Presentation

Hercules

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Hercules The Great Heroes before the Trojan War Speaker: 陳永安 Instructor: 簡士捷老師

  2. A story of a man Mortal  immortal

  3. HerculesἩρακλῆς=Hēra[Hera]+kleos[glory] Son of: Zeus + Alcmene Signature: lion skin+club Know as: Strength Courage Ingenuity sexual prowess with both sex Play with kids Greatest Greek hero

  4. Worship • As a hero • with a chthonic libation • As a god • upon an altar

  5. Controversy: Hero or god!? Odysseus encounters Heracles in Hades: Critics And next I caught a glimpse of powerful Heracles— His ghost I mean: the man himself delights in the grand feasts of the deathless gods on high... Around him cries of the dead rang out like cries of birds scattering left and right in horror as on he came like night... • Ancient critics: • interrupts the vivid and complete description • Friedrich Solmsen: • "once people knew of Heracles' admission to Olympus, they would not tolerate his presence in the underworld"

  6. Timeline The twelve tasks • Birth and childhood • Youth • Labours of Hercules • Further adventures • Omphale • Hylas • Rescue of Prometheus • Heracles’ Constellation • Laomedon of Troy • Death • Slay the Nemean Lion. • Slay the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra. • Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis. • Capture the Erymanthian Boar. • Clean the Augean stables in a single day. • Slay the Stymphalian Birds. • Capture the Cretan Bull. • Steal the Mares of Diomedes. • Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. • Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon. • Steal the apples of the Hesperides (He had the help of Atlas to pick them after Hercules had slain Ladon). • Capture and bring back Cerberus.

  7. Birth and childhood Son of Zeus + Alcmene Breast-feeding by Hera[plot by Athena] Poison snakes

  8. Youth Kill his music tutor Visit two nymphs pleasure / virtue Married a princess Megara Got mad by Hera’s curse Killed his own child Start his atonement [12 tasks]

  9. Slay the Nemean Lion Inpenetratable skin Killed by his own hand 1

  10. Slay the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra Poison blood 2

  11. Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis. Catch Golden hind for Eurystheus Yet Apollo and Artemis were unhappy So tricked Eurystheus and released Hind infront of him and blemEurystheus of acting too slow faild to catch the hind 3

  12. Capture the Erymanthian Boar Fast gigantic boar Trapped it with the trap hidden in the snow 4

  13. Clean the Augean stables in a single day Uncleaned for over 30 years have over 1000 cattles Make holes and draw river to clean it 5

  14. Slay the Stymphalian Birds Man eating birds with copper like feather The bell give by Athena, frightened all birds fly into the sky And shoot them down and the rest never return 6

  15. Capture the Cretan Bull Cretan king deceived Poseidon Mad white cow can blow fire and make lots of disaster 7

  16. Steal the Mares of Diomedes Man eating horse Podagros「迅疾」 Lampon「閃耀」 Xanthos「金黃」 Deinos「恐怖」 Roger LancelynGreen : claimed the horses were used in Trojan War 8

  17. To fetch Hippolyta's girdle of gold Queen of amazons 9

  18. Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon Geryon: Giant had three bodies that were connected by one waist 10

  19. To fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides Prometheus told Hercules his predicament, Hercules saved Prometheus. In turn, Prometheus told Hercules that Atlas, has the apple Tricked Atlas get the apple. 11

  20. To bring Cerberus from Tartarus. Tartarus= hell Cerberus = 3head dog + snake as tail Cerberus guard the hells gate. Poison saliva 12

  21. Further adventures King Eurytusof Oechalia break the promise and got killed Make Iole his wife TakedIphitus as best friend yet been killed due to Hera cursed again

  22. Omphale Due to Iphitus’s death Hercules served the Omphale for three years as a slave and lover Hercules start to like woman’s clothes

  23. Hylas Fall in love with the prince Hylas And save many heroin's Yet Hylas was kidnapped and Hercules heart torn apart and sent lots of time find him

  24. Rescue of Prometheus Saved while in the task fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides

  25. Laomedon of Troy Before Trojan war: Helping the Troy killed a sea monster Yet the king lied to him At the Trojan war: Hercules killed all his sons and robbed Troy

  26. Death Deianderia: Hercules wife Nessus try to abduct Deianeria and get killed by Hercules Nessus tricked Deianeria that his poison blood actually can restore a man’s love Many years later rumor + Nessus blood killed Hurcules by a poison cloth.

  27. Thanks for your attention

  28. 分工表

More Related