Greek fairy tales: excerpts from heroic stories

The following is an excerpt from Hercules:

The king of McKitterick, Erik Tron, who belongs to Argos, is the son of Poerxiusi, and his daughter alcmene is a stunning beauty. Elektron married her to her cousin Amphitryon. At this time, for the sake of the throne, Elektron's brother Patriarus led the island tribe Tafors to invade. They killed the son of King Elektron, took the cattle, and later gave them to King Pollock Seenos of Eris. Therefore, King Elk proposed to Anfield that he could not marry his daughter unless he retaken the cattle from the Tufts and avenged his sons. Amphitryon found cows in the countryside of Eris, redeemed them, and returned to mckenney to give them to Elktai. At this time, King Elektronin was preparing to send troops to attack Putreraus and Tafors, so he entrusted his kingdom and daughter to Amphitryon. Amphitryon swore to him that he wouldn't marry his daughter alcmene until his triumphant return.

Just as Amphitryon handed the cow to the king, a cow suddenly went crazy. Amphitryon raised a stick to hit the cow. As a result, the stick bounced back from the horn and hit the king on the head, and Elktron was killed on the spot. Therefore, King Steni Ras of Argos seized this excuse and expelled Amphitryon from mckenney. Amphitryon and alcmene fled to the end of Thebes together, and the king of Thebes, Creon, cleared his sins, but alcmene still insisted that Amphitryon avenge her brothers before agreeing to marry him. Therefore, Amphitryon asked Creon to help him conquer Poutrait Uz and Tafoss. Creon agreed with him, but asked him to get rid of an evil fox that no one could chase. It is said that Hera let the evil fox eat one person every month to avenge the Sphinx. Amphitryon went to Athens to borrow a flying hound from fallows, the son of Russian news, and promised to give him a heavy trophy after conquering Tufts. But the hounds can't catch up with the evil fox. As a result, Zeus turned both animals into stones before letting Amphitryon finish the task given to him by Creon. Amphitryon led an army to attack Tafoss, but it could not be captured for a long time, because it was doomed that Tafoss would not fall as long as Patria Ruth was still there. A golden hair on Patrice's head determines his life. Because his daughter Cometto fell in love with Amphitryon, she used Putras' deadly golden hair when she slept at night, and as a result, Putras really died. However, after Amphitryon captured the city of Tafoss, he killed Comato and returned home with many trophies. Zeus once received an Oracle that he had to get the help of a mortal to defeat Titan, so he was determined to have a son of chinese odyssey. Because he coveted alcmene's beauty for a long time, just before Amphitryon's triumph, he became Amphitryon and came to alcmene's side. That night, he ordered the sun god to go out to patrol after he finished, and then he slept with alcmene for three days and nights. After Amphitryon came back, he was not particularly warmly welcomed by alcmene.

She knew all the details when she was told that he had conquered Tafoss. He was confused, so he went to consult tiresias the next day. The blind prophet told him the unfortunate thing truthfully. In a rage, he decided to burn alcmene. However, just as alcmene was placed on the woodpile and just lit, it rained cats and dogs and put out the firewood. Facing the majesty of the gods, Amphitryon finally chose to compromise. After alcmene became pregnant, when she was in labor, Hera, who was jealous, made her difficult to give birth and deliberately tortured her. After seven days and seven nights of pain, alcmene was very weak. Reluctantly, she stretched out her hands and cried out to the goddess of childbirth and the three midwives. Eridiya, the goddess of childbirth, did come, but she had been bought by Hera, just to torture alcmene cruelly.

The goddess of childbirth sat on the altar in front of the door, listening to alcmene's painful cries. She put her right leg on her left leg, crossed her fingers on her knees, and whispered a spell in her mouth to prevent alcmene from giving birth to the baby. Alcmene was in great pain, cursing the ungrateful Zeus, but it was useless. The harsh cry moved the stone. In alcmene, there was a clever maid named Galantis with golden hair. She is diligent and very popular with the hostess. When alcmene was in pain, Galantis saw the goddess of childbirth sitting firmly on the altar, her fingers crossed on her knees, and she knew it was the goddess. With a brainwave, she went up to the goddess of childbirth and said, "No matter who you are, congratulations to my mistress. Her prayer came true and she was born! " Hearing this, the goddess of childbirth was shocked and involuntarily released her clenched hands. At this time, Hercules was born. Galantis couldn't help laughing when she saw that the goddess had been cheated. The goddess was furious and grabbed Galantis by the hair and dragged her to the ground. She struggled to think, and the fierce goddess held her down. Then, her arm gradually became an animal's front leg, until finally it became a weasel with golden fur. Because she helped the woman cheat the goddess in labor, the goddess punished her and was born out of her mouth. Alcmene has given birth to twins Hercules and Evy Cox. Hercules' father is Zeus, and Iphickles' father is Ann Fittler.

Hercules was born as Artemis. Later, the priestess of Pythia in Delphi renamed him Heracles, meaning "the one cursed by Hera" and "the one who made great contributions to Hera's persecution". After Hercules was born, alcmene was worried that his son would be murdered by Hera, so he put him in a basket, covered with a little straw, and threw it into the field outside the palace. As it happens, Athena and Hera walked by here at this moment. After seeing this beautiful child, Athena liked it very much and sympathized with him, so she suggested that Hera feed some milk to the hungry child. Who knows, when Hera picked up the baby to feed him, the hungry child greedily sucked Hera's nipple, which made Hera very painful. Hera angrily threw the child to the ground. At this time, Athena sympathetically picked up the child, brought it back to the city and gave it to Queen alcmene to raise. As soon as alcmene saw the child, he recognized it as his own son and immediately held him in his arms. Heracles left this mortal fetus after sucking Hera's milk. But Hera soon knew who the child who had suckled her was and that he had returned to the palace. She regretted not revenging the child and got rid of him, so she sent two terrible poisonous snakes to climb into the palace and kill him.

Late at night, the palace was immersed in a sweet sleep. Neither the sleeping maid nor the mother found two poisonous snakes swimming in through the open door. They climbed into the baby's cradle and wrapped around his neck. After the child was awakened, he looked up and looked around, feeling his neck uncomfortable. He showed the power of ecstasy, grabbed a snake in each hand and squeezed it hard, and both snakes were killed. Alcmene was awakened by the child's crying, ran barefoot and shouted for help, only to find that two big snakes died in his son's hands. After hearing the cry for help, the nobles of Thebes royal family rushed into the inner room armed to the teeth, and King Amphitryon rushed in with a sword. When he learned what had happened, he was pleasantly surprised and proud of his son's divine power. Amphitryon thinks this is an omen. The child is a gift from God, so he loves the child very much. The next day, he called tiresias, a blind diviner in Thebes, and asked him to predict the future for his children. Tiresias was a man endowed with prophetic ability by Zeus. He publicly predicted that when the child grew up, he would kill many monsters on land and in the sea and defeat giants. After all kinds of hardships, he will enjoy the immortal life of God and win the love of the goddess of youth, Herb. The following excerpt is from theseus's story:

King Egers of Athens had no sons. He was very afraid of his brother pallas. pallas had fifty sons and was hostile to him. He was afraid that they would plot against him and wanted to remarry quietly without telling his wife and have a son to inherit the throne. He went to Delphi to ask the Oracle, and the Oracle said, "Don't loosen the bottleneck of the bottle until you return to Athens." Iggers didn't understand what this meant, so he turned to Rosen and asked his friend Petrus, king of Rosen. Obviously, Petrus understood the hidden meaning of this Oracle: it turned out that an Oracle had instructed him that his daughter would give birth to a famous son, although she had no luck in marriage. So he tricked iggers into an island, got him drunk with wine, and asked his daughter Etla to stay with him at night. Afterwards, Egers knew that Pethrus's daughter was sleeping with him, and he guessed that she was pregnant. When he was leaving, he put a sword and a pair of stumbling shoes under a boulder by the sea, and said to Etla, "If the gods bless us and give us a son, please bring him up quietly and don't let anyone know who the father is. When the child grows up and can move this stone, you ask him to take out the sword and stumbling shoes under the stone and let him come to Athens with these tokens! " Later, Etla gave birth to a son, who was named theseus because the token was placed in a hidden place.

Theseus grew up under the care of his grandfather Petrus. He told people all over the world that he was Poseidon's son, because the Trollonian people respected Poseidon very much and regarded him as the patron saint of the city. Every season, the first harvest was sacrificed to him, and a trident was cast on their coins to commemorate him. Therefore, Petrus thinks it is an honor to have such a grandson. Theseus and Hercules are related by blood, and their mother is a cousin. When theseus was five years old, Hercules came to visit his grandfather, and theseus had dinner with the great hero. Hercules untied the lion's skin and put it aside at dinner. All the other children were scared away when they saw the lion skin. Only theseus was not afraid at all. He took an axe from his servant and bravely pounced on the lion's skin. He really wants to fight the beast! Ever since he met Hercules, he has worshipped this hero and imagined that he would make achievements like him in the future.

When theseus came of age, according to the custom at that time, he went to Delphi to give some of his hair to God. Therefore, there is a place named after him, called Teseya. Just like abate described in the second chapter of Homer's Iliad, theseus only shaved off the top of his head, so this hairstyle is also called Tess.

This hairstyle of abate people is not imitated by Arabs or Mispas, but because this nation is militant and often has close combat. They are good at rushing into enemy lines and hand-to-hand combat. In order not to let the enemy catch their hair, they shaved it like this. It is said that Alexander ordered Macedonian soldiers to shave all their beards in order to avoid being caught by the enemy.

Theseus is not only handsome, strong and brave, but also calm, witty and strong-willed. One day, his mother took him to a rock by the sea, told him his true life story, and asked him to take out a sword and stumbling shoes that could prove his identity to his father and take them to Athens. Theseus effortlessly lifted the boulder aside, took out his sword, tripped over his shoes, and prepared to go to Athens to inherit his father's footsteps. At that time, the land from the Peloponnesus to Athens was full of robbers. Although some robbers were once subdued by Hercules, after Hercules served Queen Umpar, these brutal robbers became rampant again. Therefore, theseus's mother and grandfather repeatedly asked theseus to go by sea, but he didn't want to. He thinks that Hercules can travel around the world, destroy gangsters and villains on land and at sea, but escape from fighting, which is an unbearable shame. It would be a shame for his beloved father if he sneaked in from the sea like a fugitive and only showed his identity to his father with a pair of shoes and a sword that was not stained with blood, instead of showing his noble origin through heroic acts. He won't hurt any good people for no reason, just want to punish those gangsters who endanger the people. So he packed his bags, with firm determination, chose the land and bravely embarked on a journey to Athens.