Helen of Troy - Mythopedia
2022年12月8日 · On the stage, Helen has inspired works from Richard Strauss’ opera The Egyptian Helen (1928) to Jacob M. Appel’s Helen of Sparta (2008). Helen has also enjoyed wide appeal in film and television. She is a central character in the 1956 film Helen of Troy, the 1971 film The Trojan Women (an adaptation of a tragedy by Euripides), the 2003 ...
Menelaus – Mythopedia
2023年7月12日 · Menelaus was a prominent leader during the Trojan War, though he was not typically described as one of the greatest of the Greek warriors. When the Greeks finally sacked Troy, Menelaus was on the verge of killing Helen for her treachery, but he ultimately spared her. After sailing back home to Sparta, Menelaus and Helen resumed their married life.
Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) - Mythopedia
2023年5月21日 · Theseus hoped to make Helen his wife as soon as she came of age. But Castor and Pollux invaded Athens and brought Helen home to Sparta. According to the standard tradition, Theseus left Athens soon after abducting Helen to help his friend Pirithous on a reckless mission to abduct another daughter of Zeus: the Underworld goddess Persephone.
Hermione – Mythopedia
2023年9月19日 · Hermione was a Greek princess from Sparta, the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and the infamous Helen, who instigated the Trojan War. According to some accounts, Menelaus promised Hermione to Neoptolemus , the son of Achilles , as a reward for taking part in the sack of Troy.
Agamemnon - Mythopedia
2023年7月12日 · All traditions agreed that Agamemnon’s brother was Menelaus, who later became famous for his rather embarrassing marriage to Helen of Troy. In some traditions, he also had another brother named Pleisthenes and a sister named Anaxibia, Astyoche, or Cydragora. Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, the daughter of King Tyndareus of Sparta.
Odysseus - Mythopedia
2023年4月28日 · The group was headed by Helen’s husband, Menelaus, and the crafty Odysseus. This attempt at diplomacy did not go well. The Trojans refused to return Helen, and one of the Trojan elders even tried to have Menelaus and Odysseus assassinated. After making their escape, Menelaus and Odysseus reported the disappointing results to the rest of the ...
Penelope - Mythopedia
2022年12月8日 · However, there was an obscure variant in which Penelope’s father was called Icadius rather than Icarius and hailed from the island of Cephalonia rather than Sparta (Aristotle, Poetics 1671b). ↩; Apollodorus, Library 3.10.6. ↩; Scholia on Homer’s Odyssey 15.16. ↩; Pherecydes, FHG 1 F 90 (cited in the scholia on Homer’s Odyssey 15.16 ...
Clytemnestra – Mythopedia
2023年8月18日 · Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, was the wife of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae. She and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon when he returned home from the Trojan War, but were later killed in turn by Orestes, Agamemnon and …
Iphigenia in Aulis - Mythopedia
2023年6月7日 · Iphigenia’s story is part of the larger myth of the Trojan War, which broke out when the Trojan prince Paris carried off Helen, a Greek queen from Sparta. The Greeks assembled a vast army to sail to Troy and bring her back. The myth of Iphigenia’s sacrifice was adapted many times throughout antiquity.
Achilles - Mythopedia
2023年7月31日 · Outside of the Black Sea, Achilles had sanctuaries and temples on the island of Astypalaea in the Sporades; in Elis; in Phthia, Achilles’ homeland in northern Greece; in Sparta; and throughout southern Italy in Tarentum, Locri, and Croton. Pop Culture. Achilles and his myth have had a very prolific afterlife in modern pop culture.