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Two Centaurs pound Caeneus into the ground with tree trunks; bronze relief from Olympia, Archaeological Museum of Olympia BE 11a (mid–late seventh century BC) [1] In Greek mythology, Caeneus or Kaineus (Ancient Greek: Καινεύς, romanized: Kaineús) was a Lapith hero, ruler of Thessaly, and the father of the Argonaut Coronus.
The Gegenees (from Greek: Γηγενεής Gēgeneēs; Γηγενής Gēgenēs, "earth-born" or "indigenous") were a race of six-armed humanoids [1] who inhabited the same island as the Doliones in the ancient Greek epic Argonautica. [2] They were also called Gegeines.
Eurybarus was a young man but brave, and by divine inspiration happened to be coming from Curetis and encountered the young and handsome Alcyoneus as he was being led from Crisa to the cave of the monster Sybaris on Mount Cirphis to be sacrificed to deliver the Delphians from her menace. Falling in love at first sight with him, and asking why ...
The faun (Latin: Faunus, pronounced [ˈfäu̯nʊs̠]; Ancient Greek: φαῦνος, romanized: phaûnos, pronounced [pʰâu̯nos]) is a half-human and half-goat mythological creature appearing in Greek and Roman mythology. Originally fauns of Roman mythology were ghosts of rustic places, lesser versions of their chief, the god Faunus.
Homo erectus (/ ˌ h oʊ m oʊ ə ˈ r ɛ k t ə s / lit. ' upright man ') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, spanning nearly 2 million years.It is the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and gait, to leave Africa and colonize Asia and Europe, and to wield fire.
In Greek mythology, Nireus (Ancient Greek: Νιρεύς) was a king of the island Syme (according to Diodorus Siculus, [1] also of a part of Cnidia) and one of the Homeric Greeks in the Trojan War. He was the second most handsome man in the Greek camp after Achilles and was physically weak.
Arctus is briefly mentioned by Hesiod, describing the shield of Heracles:. And there was the strife of the Lapith spearmen gathered round the prince Caeneus and Dryas and Peirithöus, with Hopleus, Exadius, Phalereus, and Prolochus, Mopsus the son of Ampyce of Titaresia, a scion of Ares, and Theseus, the son of Aegeus, like unto the deathless gods.
In the Iliad Euphorbus wounded Patroclus before the Achaean hero was killed by Hector, and was then killed by Menelaus in the fight for Patroclus' body. [5] Tzetzes relates that Euphorbus was the second to strike Patroclus with the god Apollo being the first.