Myths

 Gods family tree  Venus and Adonis - Characters  The Trojan Horse - Characters  Bacchus and Ariadne - National Gallery version - Characters  Diana myth - Diana

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Tías, king of Syria, had a daughter, Myrrh. He said

that not even the proper goddess of the beauty was so beautiful as she. The goddess Venus, in revenge, stimulated to Myrrh to love her father, unconsciously of her acts, they love to each other. Finally, when her father realized who was his lover, he chased her to kill her. Myrrh, ask for protection to the gods, who, to protect her, turned her into the tree that, for her is called "myrrh". Nine months after, from the tree the most beautiful child arose. Adonis. Venus took him and delivered him to Persefone, the goddess of the hells. When Adonis grew, Venus wanted to recover him, but Persefone was not consenting it, for that Zeus had to control. His decision was that Adonis had to live a few months with Venus and others with Persefone, but Adonis lived close to Venus always that he could. Adonis was keen on hunt, he died because of the wound of a wild boar. When Venus arrived near to Adonis, he was agonizing. Of each of his drops from blood, close to Venus's tears

Venus:

She is born of the foam that the testicles cut of Uranus form in the sea. She symbolizes the sexual attraction, possesses a girdle that makes her irresistible to men and to gods. To punish her pride, she is delivered in marriage, to Hefesto, the most deformed god of the Olympus. Her, infidelities are frequent with gods and mortal, especially, with Plough. She appears often in foreign legends, in spite of having own legends.

Adonis:

He was a young man of dazzling beauty. Fruit of the incestuous loves of Myrrh with her, father. The father, on having found out about the deception tried to kill her. To avoid it, the gods transformed the girl into a tree of myrrh. Of this tree Adonis was born. Aphrodite and Persephone were disputed to the beautiful youth. Finally Zeus passed that Adonis had to pass four months with Aphrodite, four months with Persephone and last four months of the year, free. Adonis decided to pass his free months with Aphrodite.

 The Greek forces that besieged Troy for ten years could not overcome the high walls that were defending her. Ulysses proposed the Greek chiefs to construct an enormous horse of wood in which belly the most courageous Greek heroes had to fit. The Greek fleet would retire to the nearby island of “Tenedos”, after burning the camp in order that the Trojans it were noticing and working out entrusted to the field. A Greek, pretending to be fugitive, he would stay out and would tell to the Trojans that this horse is dedicated to the goddess Atenea, enemy of the Trojans.

Under Ulysses’s instructions, the horse was constructed by Epeo, the best carpenter of the camp. It had a scuttle hidden in the right flank and in the left-handed had the phrase engraved: “With the grateful hope of a sure return to their houses after an absence of nine years, the Greeks dedicate this offering to Atenea ". The Trojan, were big believers of the gods, fell down in the deception. They accepted it for offer to the gods, ignoring that it was a ploy of the Greeks to penetrate their walls. Inside the horse a select group of soldiers was hiding. The horse was of such a size that the Trojans had to knock down part of the walls of their city. Once introduced the horse in Troy, the secret soldiers in it opened the doors of the city, after which the invading force entered and destroyed it.

ULYSSES Famous Greek hero. He, takes part in the war of Troy, like we see in the Iliad and he is the indisputable protagonist of the Odyssey. Where Homero us reports the eventful return to Ithaca of Odysseus, once finished the Trojan War. In Rome he received Ulysses name.

Bacchus and Ariadne 

Ariadne has been left on the island of Naxos, deserted by her lover Theseus, whose ship sails away to the far left. She is discovered on the shore by the god Bacchus, leading a procession of revellers in a chariot drawn by two cheetahs. Bacchus is depicted in mid-air as he leaps out of the chariot to protect Ariadne from these beasts. In the sky above the figure of Ariadne is her crown, which Bacchus has thrown into the sky and it then becomes the constellation Corona.

The National Gallery version 

Bacchus, god of wine, emerges with his followers from the landscape to the right. Falling in love with Ariadne on sight, he leaps from his chariot, drawn by two cheetahs, towards her. Ariadne had been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance. The picture shows her initial fear of Bacchus, but he raised her to heaven and turned her into a constellation, represented by the stars above her head.

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Ariadne: was a goddess of the fertility of Crete, " the first divine personage of the Greek mythology in being immediately recognized in Crete ", once it had begun the archaeology. It was specially adored in Naxos, Delos, Cyprus and Athens.

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Theseus: was a mythical king of Athens, son of Etra and The Aegean Sea, though according to another tradition his father was Poseidon, the god of the sea, who would have violated Etra in Atenea's temple. The Aegean Sea, which had not had descent with his other wives.

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Dioniso or Bacchus: is the god of the wine, inspirator of the ritual madness and the ecstasy.

Semele and Zeus 

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SÉMELE Daughter of Cadmus, king of Tebas and Harmony. Mother of Dionysus. She died fulminated by a beam when appeared her lover, Zeus; in front her with all his brilliance. Later Dionysus extracted her of the Hades and took her with him to the Olympus under the name of Tione. ZEUS Son of Cronos and Rea. He is the god more important, shows the father's title of the gods and governs the universe. He is armed with the thunder and the beam. His mansion is in the high of the mount Olympus. He is the husband of his sister Hera, who governs together with him. But before, he has had other wives and his loving frenzies are innumerable. He has a numerous offspring of his unions with goddesses and mortal. Someone of his children are: Atenea, Plough, Perséfone, Apollo, Artemisa, the Muses, the Graces and Heracles, between others. As supreme god appears in numerous myths already