+ All Categories
Home > Education > Ro 8. mares of diomedes-SFTLOH Travel Guide

Ro 8. mares of diomedes-SFTLOH Travel Guide

Date post: 22-Jan-2017
Category:
Upload: laboursofhercules
View: 36 times
Download: 3 times
Share this document with a friend
1
13 ERASMUS+ KA2 Searching for the Labours of Hercules 2014-1-TR01-KA201-012990 Lampon (the Shining), Xanthos (the Yellow) and Deinos (the Terrible) and whom he kept tethered to a bronze manger. Hercules and his companions went to the manger were the four mares were kept and killed the servants of the king in charge with the stables. He then cut the chains of the horses and drove them to the shore of the sea where his ship was anchored. However, king Diomedes soon found out that his mares were stolen by Hercules and Romania: Steal the Mares of Diomedes He defeated the Bistones, by killing Diomedes and many of the warriors, forcing the rest to run away. When he returned to where he had left Abderos, he found him dead, eaten by the mares. Saddened by the event, Hercules burried him and founded the city of Abdera, to the memory of his loyal friend. Diomedes was fed to his mares who thus were calmed down by Hercules. He then went back to Mycenae with the tamed Hercules was assigned a new labour by king Eurysteus, after finishing his seventh job with the Cretan Bull: to bring to Mycenae the four mares of the Thracian king Diomedes. They were wild horses who would not be fed on plants. Hercules gathered some volunteers and set off on his journey to the kingdom of the Bistones, where Diomedes ruled. These Thracians inhabited a territory lying north and north – east of Peloponnese. Hercules set sail across the Aegean to reach that far away realm. Hercules was sure that king Diomedes would not
Transcript
Page 1: Ro 8. mares of diomedes-SFTLOH Travel Guide

13 ERASMUS+ KA2Searching for the Labours of Hercules

2014-1-TR01-KA201-012990

Romania: Steal the Mares of Diomedes

Lampon (the Shining), Xanthos (the Yellow) and Deinos (the Terrible) and whom he kept tethered to a bronze manger.

Hercules and his companions went to the manger were the four mares were kept and killed the servants of the king in charge with the stables. He then cut the chains of the horses and drove them to the shore of the sea where his ship was anchored. However, king Diomedes soon found out that his mares were stolen by Hercules and with an army of Bistones went to rescue the horses.

Hercules entrusted the guardianship of the mares to his companion Abderos and went to fight Diomedes and his men in arms.

He defeated the Bistones, by killing Diomedes and many of the warriors, forcing the rest to run away. When he returned to where he had left Abderos, he found him dead, eaten by the mares.

Saddened by the event, Hercules burried him and founded the city of Abdera, to the memory of his loyal friend. Diomedes was fed to his mares who thus were calmed down by Hercules.

He then went back to Mycenae with the tamed horses. But king Eurystheus set the mares free. They wandered up Mount Olympus, falling prey to wild beasts.

Hercules was assigned a new labour by king Eurysteus, after finishing his seventh job with the Cretan Bull: to bring to Mycenae the four mares of the Thracian king Diomedes. They were wild horses who would not be fed on plants.

Hercules gathered some volunteers and set off on his journey to the kingdom of the Bistones, where Diomedes ruled. These Thracians inhabited a territory lying north and north – east of Peloponnese. Hercules set sail across the Aegean to reach that far away realm.

Hercules was sure that king Diomedes would not gladly hand over his precious wild horses without a good fight. But Hercules did not know that the mares were so wild because they eat man meat.

Diomedes was famed to be the son of Ares, the god of war.

These four uncontrollable mares were Podargos (the Swift),

Recommended