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NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Initially, Hercules was required to complete ten labors, not twelve.
King Eurystheus decided Hercules' first task would be to bring him the skin of
an invulnerable lion which terrorized the hills around Nemea
Setting out on such a seemingly impossible labor, Hercules came to
a town called Cleonae, where he stayed at the house of a poor workman-for-hire,
Molorchus. When his host offered to sacrifice an animal to pray for a safe lion
hunt, Hercules asked him to wait 30 days. If the hero returned with the lion's
skin, they would sacrifice to Zeus, king of the gods. If Hercules died trying
to kill the lion, Molorchus agreed to sacrifice instead to Hercules, as a hero.
When Hercules got to Nemea and began tracking the terrible lion, he
soon discovered his arrows were useless against the beast. Hercules picked up
his club and went after the lion. Following it to a cave which had two entrances,
Hercules blocked one of the doorways, then approached the fierce lion through
the other. Grasping the lion in his mighty arms, and ignoring its powerful claws,
he held it tightly until he'd choked it to death.
Hercules returned to Cleonae, carrying the dead lion, and found Molorchus
on the 30th day after he'd left for the hunt. Instead of sacrificing to Hercules
as a dead man, Molorchus and Hercules were able to sacrifice together, to Zeus.
When Hercules made it back to Mycenae, Eurystheus was amazed that
the hero had managed such an impossible task. The king became afraid of Hercules,
and forbade him from entering through the gates of the city. Furthermore, Eurystheus
had a large bronze jar made and buried partway in the earth, where he could hide
from Hercules if need be. After that, Eurystheus sent his commands to Hercules
through a herald, refusing to see the powerful hero face to face.
Many times we can identify Hercules in ancient Greek vase paintings
or sculptures simply because he is depicted wearing a lion skin. Ancient writers
disagreed as to whether the skin Hercules wore was that of the Nemean lion, or
one from a different lion, which Hercules was said to have killed when he was
18 years old.
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Heracles. 1. The fight with the Nemean lion. The mountain valley of Nemea, between Cleonae and Phlius, was inhabited by a lion, the offspring of Typhon (or Orthrus) and Echidna. (Hes. Theog. 327; Apollod. ii. 5.1; comp. Aelian, H. A. xii. 7, Serv. ad Aen. viii. 295.) Eurystheus ordered Heracles to bring him the skin of this monster. When Heracles arrived at Cleonac, he was hospitably received by a poor man called Molorchus. This man was on the point of offering up a sacrifice, but Heracles persuaded him to delay it for thirty days until he should return from his fight with the lion, in order that then they might together offer sacrifices to Zeus Soter; but Heracles added, that if he himself should not return, the man should offer a sacrifice to him as a hero. The thirty days passed away, and as Heracles did not return, Molorchus made preparations for the heroic sacrifice; but at that moment Heracles arrived in triumph over the monster, which was slain, and both sacrificed to Zeus Soter. Heracles, after having in vain used his club and arrows against the lion, had blocked up one of the entrances to the den, and entering by the other, he strangled the animal with his own hands. According to Theocritus (xxv. 251, &c.), the contest did not take place in the den, but in the open air, and Heracles is said to have lost a finger in the struggle. (Ptolem. Heph. 2.) He returned to Eurystheus carrying the dead lion on his shoulders; and Eurystheus, frightened at tile gigantic strength of the hero, took to flight, and ordered him in future to deliver the account of his exploits outside the gates of the town. (Diod. iv. 11; Apollod., Theocrit. ll. cc.)
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
The constellation Leo was placed in the sky by Zeus, in honour of Heracles, who had managed to kill the Nemean Lion.
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
(Hebe). Daughter of Zeus and Here, and goddess of eternal youth.
She was represented as the handmaiden of the gods, for whom she pours out their
nectar, and the consort of Heracles after his apotheosis. She was worshipped with
Heracles in Sicyon and Phlius, especially under the name Ganymede or Dia. She
was represented as freeing men from chains and bonds, and her rites were celebrated
with unrestrained merriment. The Romans identified Hebe with Iuventas, the personification
of youthful manhood. As representing the eternal youth of the Roman State, Iuventas
had a chapel on the Capitol in the front court of the Temple of Minerva, and in
later times a temple of her own in the city . It was to Iupiter and Iuventas that
boys offered prayer on the Capitol when they put on the toga virilis, putting
a piece of money into their treasury. Two fine poems in English are suggested
by the myth of Hebe--one the Fall of Hebe, by Thomas Moore, and the other, Hebe,
by James Russell Lowell.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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Ctesius (Ktesios), the protector of property, occurs as a surname of Zeus at Phlyus, and of Hermes (Athen. xi.; Paus. i. 31.2). Ctesius occurs also as a proper name. (Hom. Od. xv. 413.)
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Apesantius (Apesantios), a surname of Zeus, under which he had a temple on mount Apesas near Nemea, where Perseus was said to have first offered sacrifices to him. (Paus. ii. 15.3; Steph. Byz. s. v. Apesas)
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
Son of Phlius, marches with Herakles against Augeas.
River of Phliasia and Sicyon, father of Aegina, of Cleone, of Corcyra, of Harpina, of Nemea, and of Thebe, gives to Sisyphus a spring on Acro-Corinth, father of Ismene, father of Ismenus and Pelagon, pursues Zeus, the ravisher of Aegina, but is driven back by thunderbolts, father of Salamis.
great-grandfather of Pythagoras, opposes Dorians at Phlius, flees to Samos
KELEES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Father of Triptolemus, brother of Celeus, institutes mysteries of Demeter at Celeae, buried at Celeae.
Dysaules (Dusaules), the father of Triptolemus and Eubuleus, and a brother of Celeus. According to a tradition of Phlius, which Pausanias disbelieved, he had been expelled from Eleusis by Ion, and had come to Phlius, where he introduced the Eleusinian mysteries. His tomb was shown at Celeae, which he is said to have named s after his brother Celeus. (Paus. i. 14.2, ii. 14.2)
KLEONES (Ancient city) NEMEA
(Perseus Encyclopedia)
Molorchus : Perseus Project Index
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Opheltes. The son of Lycurgus, king of Nemea. Hypsipyle,
the Lemnian princess, whom her countrywomen had sold into slavery, was nurse to
the infant Opheltes, when the army of Adrastus marched to Nemea, on its way to
Thebes. She undertook to guide the new-comers to a spring; and, for that purpose,
left the child lying on the grass, where a serpent found and killed it. The Argive
leaders slew the serpent and buried the child. Amphiaraus, the famous soothsayer
and warrior, augured ill-luck from this event, and called the child Archemorus
("Fate-beginner"), as indicative of the evils that were to befall the
chieftains. His other name, Opheltes, was derived, according to the mythologists,
from ophis, as he died by the bite of a serpent.
Hypsipyle Hupsipule). Daughter of Thoas of Lemnos. The Lemnian women
had, from jealousy of their Thracian maids, killed all the men of the island;
Hypsipyle alone spared her father Thoas, having been the means of aiding his flight.
When the Argonauts landed at Lemnos and united with the women, Hypsipyle bore
twin sons to Iason-- Euneus, who in Homer figures as king of Lemnos and carries
on trade with the Greeks before Troy; and Thoas (also called Deiphilus and Nebrophonus),
who is sometimes described as a son of Dionysus. When the news of her father's
escape was rumoured among the Lemnian women, Hypsipyle was forced to flee for
her life, and was captured by pirates, who sold her to Lycurgus of Nemea. There,
as the nurse of Opheltes, the infant son of the king, she accidentally caused
his death by a snake, and was exposed to the greatest danger, from which she was
only rescued by the intervention of her sons, who were sent to her aid by Dionysus.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Archemorus (Archemoros), a son of the Nemean king Lycurgus, and Eurydice. His real name was Opheltes, which was said to have been changed into Archemorus, that is, "the Forerunner of death," on the following occasion. When the Seven heroes on their expedition against Thebes stopped at Nemea to take in water, the nurse of the child Opheltes, while shewing the way to the Seven, left the child alone. In the meantime, the child was killed by a dragon, and buried by the Seven. But as Amphiaraus saw in this accident an omen boding destruction to him and his companions, they called the child Archemorus, and instituted the Nemean games in honour of him. (Apollod. iii. 6.4)
KELEES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Daughters of Celeus.
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
Phlias; son of Cisus or of Dionysus, an Argonaut, husband of Chthonophyle, father of Androdamas. Phlious; father of Dameon.
KELEES (Ancient city) NEMEA
King of Eleusis, husband of Metanira, father of Demophon, of Triptolemus and of Saesara, brother of Dysaules, welcomes Demeter at Eleusis, is taught the sacred rites by Demeter, his daughters receive Demeter and celebrate Eleusinian rites.(Perseus Encyclopedia)
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 13/7/2001: 46 for Celeus, 2 for Keleos.
KLEONES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Cleone (Kleone), one of the daughters of Asopus, from-whom the town of Cleonae in Peloponnesus was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. ii. 15 1; Diod. iv. 74)
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Daughter of Asopus, her image.
ORNIES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Orneus, a son of Erechtheus, father of Peteus, and grandfather of Menestheus; from him the town of Orneae was believed to have derived its name. (Hom. Il. ii. 571; Paus. ii. 25.5, x. 35.5)
Son of Erechtheus, father of Peteos.
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
Son of Aras.
KLEONES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Father of Thersander.
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Lycurgus (Lukourgos). A son of Pheres and Periclymene, a brother of Admetus, was
king of the country about Nemea, and married to Eurydice or Amphithea, by whom
he became the father of Opheltes (Apollod. i. 9.14, iii. 6. 4). His tomb was believed
to exist in the grove of the Nemean Zeus. (Paus. ii. 15. 3.)
The Dragon Nemeios was a monstrous dragon (or serpent) that guarded the sacred grove of Zeus at Nemea. When the baby Opheltes was left lying in the grass by his nurse, while directing the army of the Seven Against Thebes to a nearby spring, the Drakon descended upon the babe and slew him. The heroes subsequently founded the Nemeian Games in honour of the child and Nemean Zeus.
KLEONES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Perseus Project index Total results: 5 Moliones, 7 Molionides, 16 Cteatus & (Perseus Encyclopedia: Molionides, Eyrytus & Theraephone, Cteatus & Theronice)
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