Фессал
Mortal man
A character named in Homer's Iliad. The English introduction is not yet available.
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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
“Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.”
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Father · Sources
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
Il. 2.679
Brother · Sources
Братство или сестринство выведено из общего родителя: Геракл. Матери и отцы, не указанные в источнике, не предполагаются.
that dwelt in Rhodes sundered in three divisions—in Lindos and Ialysus and Cameirus, white with chalk. These were led by TlepolemusTlTl, famed for his spear, he that was born to mighty Heraclesby Astyocheia, whom he had led forth out of Ephyre from the river Selleïs,
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
for all he was so tall and mighty and lordly, thrust him from them; and he gave ground and was made to reel. So these toiled in the mighty conflict, but TlepolemusTlTl, son of Heracles, a valiant man and tall, was roused by resistless fate against godlike Sarpedon
.
Il. 2.658 · Il. 2.679 · Il. 5.628 · Il. 5.638–639
Son · Sources
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
Il. 2.678–679
Son · Sources
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
Il. 2.678–679
Grandfather · Sources
Происхождение выведено по цепочке родителей: Зевс → Геракл → Фессал.
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
And so suffered monstrous Hadeseven as the rest a bitter arrow, when this same man, the son of Zeus
that beareth the aegis, smote him in Pylos amid the dead, and gave him over to pains. But he went to the house of Zeus
and to high Olympus with grief at heart, pierced through with pains;
howbeit mine own father rageth with evil mind, cruel that he is, ever froward, a thwarter of my purposes; neither hath he any memory of this, that full often I saved his son when he was fordone by reason of EurystheusEuEu' tasks. For verily he would make lament toward heaven and from heaven would Zeussend me forth to succour him. Had I but known all this in wisdom of my heart when EurystheusEuEu sent him forth to the house of Hades
the Warder, to bring from out of Erebus the hound of loathed Hades
, then had he not escaped the sheer-falling waters of Styx.
Il. 2.679 · Il. 5.396 · Il. 8.363–365 · Il. 14.266 · Il. 14.324
Grandmother · Sources
Происхождение выведено по цепочке родителей: Алкмена → Геракл → Фессал.
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
who bare Perseus, pre-eminent above all warriors; nor of the daughter of far-famed PhoenixPhPh, that bare me MinosMiMi and godlike RhadamanthysRhRh; nor of Semele
, nor of AlcmeneAlAl in Thebes, and she brought forth Heracles
, her son stout of heart,
Il. 2.679 · Il. 14.324
Great-grandfather · Sources
Происхождение выведено по цепочке родителей: Кронос → Зевс → Геракл → Фессал.
one king, to whom the son of crooked-counselling Cronoshath vouchsafed the sceptre and judgments, that he may take counsel for his people. Thus masterfully did he range through the host, and they hasted back to the place of gathering from their ships and huts with noise, as when a wave of the loud-resounding sea
and the mother fluttered around them, wailing for her dear little ones; howbeit he coiled himself and caught her by the wing as she screamed about him. But when he had devoured the sparrow's little ones and the mother with them, the god, who had brought him to the light, made him to be unseen; for the son of crooked-counselling Cronosturned him to stone;
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
Il. 2.205–206 · Il. 2.319 · Il. 2.679 · Il. 4.75 · Il. 5.396 · Il. 8.363–365 · Il. 9.37 · Il. 9.171 · Il. 9.236 · Il. 9.419 · Il. 9.502 · Il. 9.686 · Il. 10.71 · Il. 14.266 · Il. 14.324 · Il. 15.187 · Il. 16.431 · Il. 18.293
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Great-grandmother · Sources
Происхождение выведено по цепочке родителей: Рея → Зевс → Геракл → Фессал.
Howbeit he was a weakling, and but few people followed with him. And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of EurypylusEuEu, and the Calydnian isles, these again were led by PheidippusPhPh and AntiphusAnAn, the two sons of king Thessalus, son of Heracles.
And so suffered monstrous Hadeseven as the rest a bitter arrow, when this same man, the son of Zeus
that beareth the aegis, smote him in Pylos amid the dead, and gave him over to pains. But he went to the house of Zeus
and to high Olympus with grief at heart, pierced through with pains;
howbeit mine own father rageth with evil mind, cruel that he is, ever froward, a thwarter of my purposes; neither hath he any memory of this, that full often I saved his son when he was fordone by reason of EurystheusEuEu' tasks. For verily he would make lament toward heaven and from heaven would Zeussend me forth to succour him. Had I but known all this in wisdom of my heart when EurystheusEuEu sent him forth to the house of Hades
the Warder, to bring from out of Erebus the hound of loathed Hades
, then had he not escaped the sheer-falling waters of Styx.
Il. 2.679 · Il. 5.396 · Il. 8.363–365 · Il. 14.266 · Il. 14.324 · Il. 15.187
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