. The Open court. ing of Peleusis the beginning of the Trojan war, for Eris, the goddess of quarrel,the only deity that was not invited, rolls into the assembly a goldenapple with the inscription, To the fairest. Hera, Athene, andAphrodite contend for the prize, and Paris, the shepherd of MountIda and son of King Priam, is appointed by Zeus as judge. Heraoffers him fame, Athene wisdom, and Aphrodite the most beautifulwoman on earth. Paris decides in favor of Aphrodite who helpshim to abduct Helen, Queen of King Menelaus of Lacedaemon, whichbecomes the cause of the Trojan war. HERAKLES. The her
. The Open court. ing of Peleusis the beginning of the Trojan war, for Eris, the goddess of quarrel,the only deity that was not invited, rolls into the assembly a goldenapple with the inscription, To the fairest. Hera, Athene, andAphrodite contend for the prize, and Paris, the shepherd of MountIda and son of King Priam, is appointed by Zeus as judge. Heraoffers him fame, Athene wisdom, and Aphrodite the most beautifulwoman on earth. Paris decides in favor of Aphrodite who helpshim to abduct Helen, Queen of King Menelaus of Lacedaemon, whichbecomes the cause of the Trojan war. HERAKLES. The hero-myths of Greece are specialised forms of the worshipof Zeus in his sons as saviours of mankind. All heroes are children ) A .^=^^t\ M i^M^^ J ^vWir^n^0,\/ \^ 1 )A\=f4s^^^Jv X^Jh. \/w^M^^^^&^-^ W/r ////ij l^\ r^ifS^^^^K^ 1 \ili i///(/li i ^^=<i^f^^~\A A i \ 1 1// / //lll\ /// (^^ ^^ ^^^1 \ \ r Ii(\w4L^ r^ -•/! ^1 tu. pp^ Herakles Strangles the Two Snakes Sent by Hera TO Kill Him. (Fresco of Herculaneum.). Herakles Descending IntoTHE Belly of the Leviathan.^Vase-picture. (j5. Z>., I., p. 663.) of the common father of all gods and men, and foremost amongthem is Herakles, the liberator of Prometheus, a son of Zeus andAlkmene, Queen of Argos. 1 Behind Herakles stands his mother, Alkmene ; Amphitryon, his step father. King of Argos,draws his sword to help the child; the tutor of the children holds the frightened Iphides, thestepbrother of Herakles, in his arms. 2 This vase-picture (which should be compared with the vase-picture of Jason rescued byAthena from the jaws of the dragon v, infra) was formerly believed to represent Jasons strug-gle with the dragon, but is now interpreted as depicting a parallel to the Perseus legend preservedby Hellanikos (Ap. Schol. Iliad., Y. 146), who relates that Herakles in delivering Hesione, thedaughter of King Laomedon of Troy, descended into a dragon and slew him by severing his in-testines, a task that cost him three days labor, during w
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