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Hylas is referred to in Chapter 18 of Charles Kingsley's novel Hypatia, when the Prefect Orontes, rescued by the Goths, is taken for safety into a house largely populated by women, and fancies himself as "A second Hylas". "Hylas" is a poem by Madison Cawein, including the lines "Hylas, the Argonaut, the lad Beloved of Herakles, was I" [12]
Hercules, holding Hyllus, and Deianira meet the centaur Nessus, who will attempt to rape Deianira when he helps her to cross the river. In Greek mythology, Hyllus (/ ˈ h ɪ l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ὕλλος, Hyllos) or Hyllas (Ὕλλᾱς, Hyllas) was a son of Heracles and Deianira [1] [2] and the husband of Iole.
Heracles was the greatest of Hellenic chthonic heroes, but unlike other Greek heroes, no tomb was identified as his. Heracles was both hero and god, as Pindar says heros theos ; at the same festival sacrifice was made to him, first as a hero, with a chthonic libation , and then as a god, upon an altar: thus he embodies the closest Greek ...
aided Heracles during his eighth labour and was killed by the Mares of Diomedes: Abia: Ἀβία nursemaid of Glenus, a son of Heracles: Abrasax: Ἀβρασάξ name of a divine being in the Greek Magical Papyri [1] Abrota: Ἀβρώτη wife of Nisos, king of Megara: Acallaris: Ἀκαλλαρίδος daughter of Eumedes: Acamas: Ἀκάμας
Heracles took child-hostages so that their relatives would help him search for Hylas and he later settled them at Trachis. Polyphemus founded a city now named after the river (1.1345–47). The inhabitants of Cius to this day "ask after Hylas" and they still maintain close relations with Trachis (1.1354–57).
Theiodamas, king of the Dryopes, father of Hylas [2] by the nymph Menodice, daughter of Orion. [3] The Bibliotheca and Apollonius Rhodius relate of him that one day when he was working the land with a plough pulled by two bulls, he encountered Heracles. The latter, being short of food at the moment, slaughtered one of Theiodamas' bulls and ...
Baby Hercules strangling a snake sent to kill him in his cradle (Roman marble, 2nd century CE, in the Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy). The Latin name Hercules was borrowed through Etruscan, where it is represented variously as Heracle, Hercle, and other forms. Hercules was a favorite subject for Etruscan art, and appears often on bronze mirrors.
Hylas and the Nymphs is an 1896 oil painting by John William Waterhouse. The painting depicts a moment from the Greek and Roman legend of the tragic youth Hylas , based on accounts by Ovid and other ancient writers, in which the enraptured Hylas is abducted by Naiads (female water nymphs ) while seeking drinking water.