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In Greek mythology, Balius ("Dappled") and Xanthus ("Blonde") were two immortal horses, the offspring of the harpy Podarge and the West wind, Zephyros (lat. Zephyrus); following another tradition, their father was Zeus. // Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ...
In Greek mythology, Harpies (robbers) were first beautiful winged women: Hesiod (Theogony) calls them as two lovely-haired creatures. ...
In Greek mythology, Podarge (fleet-foot) referred to several different beings. ...
Zephyr and Hyakinth; Attic red figure cup from Tarquinia, circa 480 BCE. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. ...
Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ...
Note: Balius and Xanthus are the Latin forms of the Greek names Balios and Xanthos. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
The horses of Achilles
Zeus gave the two horses to King Peleus of Phtia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis. Peleus consigns Achilles to Chirons care, white-ground lekythos by the Edimburg Painter, ca. ...
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Peleus later gave the horses to his son Achilles who took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War. The Wrath of Achilles, by François-Léon Benouville (1821-1859) (Musée Fabre) In Greek mythology, Achilles, also Akhilleus or Achilleus (Ancient Greek ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homers Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War...
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Book XVI of the Illiad tells us that Achilles had a third horse, Pedasos (maybe "Footer", maybe "Captive"), which was yoked as a "trace horse", along with Xanthus and Balios. Achilles had captured Pedasos when he took the city of Eetion. Pedasos was mortal, but he could keep up with the divine horses. Sarpedon, prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed Patroclus.
Achilles' comrade-in-arms Patroclus used to feed and groom the horses. In the Iliad, it is told how, when Patroclus was killed in battle, Xanthus and Balius stood motionless on the field of battle, and wept. A cup depicting Achilles bandaging Patroklos arm, by Sosias. ...
The Iliad (Ancient Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) is, along with the Odyssey, one of the two major Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. ...
When Xanthus was rebuked by the grieving Achilles for allowing Patroclus to be slain, Hera granted Xanthus human speech which broke Divine law, saying that a god had killed Patroclus, and that a god would soon kill Achilles too. After this, the Erinyes struck the horse dumb. In Greek mythology the Erinyes or Eumenides (the Romans called them the Furies) were female personifications of vengeance. ...
The horse of Diomedes Another Xanthus, not to be confused with the horse mentioned above, was one of the horses of Diomedes of Thracia, who fed these animals on human flesh.
The capture of these horses was the eighth of the Twelve Labors of Heracles. Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) In Greek mythology, Heracles, or Herakles (glory of Hera, á¼Ïα + κλÎος, )(Etruscan Hercle) was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, stepson of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus. ...
Other names - Balios
- Xanthius
- Xanthos
- Roan Beauty
- Charger
See also A cup depicting Achilles bandaging Patroklos arm, by Sosias. ...
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References - Iliad XVI, 149, 467; XIX, 400.
- [1]- Balios and Xanthos in the ancient works
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