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KERYNIA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
For the third labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the
Hind of Ceryneia. Now, before we go any further, we'll have to answer two questions:
What is a hind? and, Where is Ceryneia?
Ceryneia is a town in Greece, about fifty miles from Eurystheus' palace in Mycenae.
A hind is simply a female red deer.
You'd think it would have been easy for a hero like Hercules to go
shoot a deer and bring it back to Eurystheus, but a few problems made things complicated.
This was a special deer, because it had golden horns and hoofs of bronze. Not
only that, the deer was sacred to the goddess of hunting and the moon, Diana;
she was Diana's special pet. That meant that Hercules could neither kill the deer
nor hurt her. He couldn't risk getting Diana angry at him; he was already in enough
trouble with Hera.
Hercules set out on this adventure, and he hunted the deer for a whole
year. At last, when the deer had become weary with the chase, she looked for a
place to rest on a mountain called Artemisius, and then made her way to the river
Ladon. Realizing that the deer was about to get away, Hercules shot her just as
she was about to cross the stream. He caught the deer, put her on his shoulders
and turned back to Mycenae. As Hercules hurried on his way, he was met by Diana
and Apollo.
Diana was very angry because Hercules tried to kill her sacred animal.
She was about to take the deer away from Hercules, and surely she would have punished
him, but Hercules told her the truth. He said that he had to obey the oracle and
do the labors Eurystheus had given him. Diana let go of her anger and healed the
deer's wound. Hercules carried it alive to Mycenae.
This text is cited July 2004 from Perseus Project URL bellow, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Heracles. 3. The stag of Ceryneia in Arcadia. This animal hand golden antlers and brazen feet. It had been dedicated to Artemis by the nymph Taygete, because the goddess had saved her from the pursuit of Zeus. Heracles was ordered to bring the animal alive to Mycenae. He pursued it in vain for a whole year: at length it fled from Oenoe to mount Artemisium in Argolis, and thence to the river Ladon in Arcadia. Heracles wounded it with an arrow, caught it, and carried it away on his shoulders. While yet in Arcadia, he was met by Apollo and Artemis, who were angry with him for having outraged the animal sacred to Artemis; but Heracles succeeded in soothing their anger, and carried his prey to Mycenae. According to some statements, he killed the stag. (Apollod. ii. 5.3; Diod iv. 13; Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 100, &c.; Ov. Met. ix. 188; Virg. Aen. vi. 803; Pind. Ol. iii. 24, 53; Eurip. Herc. Fur. 378.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ELIKI (Ancient city) EGIALIA
Marries Helice daughter of Selinus and succeeds to kingdom of Aegialus, eponymous ancestral hero of the Ionians, names the people Ionians.
EGHION (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Homagyrius, (Homagurios), i.e. the god of the assembly or league, a surname of Zeus, under which he was worshipped at Aegium, on the northwestern coast of Peloponnesus, where Agamemnon was believed to have assembled the Greek chiefs, to deliberate on the war against Troy. Under this name Zeus was also worshipped, as the protector of the Achaean league. (Paus. vii. 24.1.)
ELIKI (Ancient city) EGIALIA
Son of Damasias, brought from Helice to Elis.
Helice, daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion. The town of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to have derived its name from her. (Paus. vii. 1.2 ; Steph. Byz. s. v.)
NONAKRIS (Ancient city) EGIALIA
Lycaon's wife.
VOURA (Ancient city) DIAKOPTO
Daughter of Ion and Helice.
Bura (Boura), a daughter of Ion, the ancestral hero of the lonians, and Helice, from whom the Achaean town of Bura derived its name. (Paus. vii. 25.5; Steph. Byz. s. v.)
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 22/3/2001: 881 for Nike.
Eurysternos, (Eurusternos), that is, the goddess with a broad chest, is a surname of Ge (Hes. Theog. 117), under which she had a sanctuary on the Crathis near Aegae in Achaia, with a very ancient statue. (Paus. vii. 25.8, v. 14.8.)
STYX (Waterfall) EGIALIA
Charon, a son of Erebos, the aged and dirty ferryman in the lower world, who conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead--though only of those whose bodies were buried--across the rivers of the lower world. (Virg. Aen. vi. 295, &c.; Senec. Herc. fur. 764). For this service he was paid by each shade with an obolus or danace, which coin was placed in the mouth of every dead body previous to its burial. This notion of Charon seems to be of late origin, for it does not occur in any of the early poets of Greece (Paus. x. 28.1; Juven. iii. 267; Eustath. ad Hom.). Charon was represented in the Lesche of Delphi by Polygnotus.
Born of Pallas and Styx, altar of, bronze images of, gilt image, golden figures, figure of gold and ivory, in hand of Athena, in hand of Zeus, in chariot, in or on gables of temples, on crown of Nemesis, on eagles, four dancing figures of Victory at four feet of throne of Zeus, image of Victory on pillar dedicated by Messenians at Olympia, dedicated by Tegeans at Delphi, image of winged Victory, image and temple of Wingless Victory at Athens, cannot fly away.
Bia, the personification of mighty force, is described as the daughter of the Titan Pallas and Styx, and as a sister of Zelos, Cratos, and Nice. (Hesiod. Theog. 385; Aeschyl. Prom. 12)
EGIRA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
In this building at Aegeira is also an old man in the attitude of a mourner, three women taking off their bracelets, and likewise three lads, with a man wearing a breastplate. They say that in a war of the Achaeans this last man fought more bravely than any other soldier of Aegeira, but was killed. His surviving brothers carried home the news of his death, and therefore in mourning for him his sisters are discarding their ornaments, and the natives call the father Sympathes, because even in the statue he is a piteous figure. (Paus. 7.26.9)
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