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What was the link between the Egyptian queen Ahhotep -- who was the mother of Ahmose and wife of Sekenenre Taaken -- and Io the Aegean princess of the Argolid?
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Where do lernaean hydras live?
The Lernaean Hydra lived in the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, hence forth the name 'Lernaean Hydra.'
What has the author Eberhard Zangger written?
Eberhard Zangger has written: 'Zukunft der Vergangenheit' -- subject(s): Antiquities, Archaeological geology, Archaeology, Forecasting 'The geoarchaeology of the Argolid' -- subject(s): Archaeological geology, Geology, Stratigraphic Geology
Did the Argos conquer Sparta?
SpartaLord no! Quite the opposite, a spartan force under the command of Leonidas' older half'brother Cleomenes I razed the Argolid force to the ground, wiping them from the main stage. Thebes conquered Sparta after Xerxes I's invasion of 480 BC The Theban's did not 'conquer' Sparta, nobody did. They defeated them in the Battle of Leuctra, 371 BC (109 years after the Persians failed invasion). Led by Epaminondas, he tactically for the first time ever changed his phalanx. He turned his Phanlanx's weakest point (left side) into it's strongest, allowing his 'stronger' phalanx to clash with Spartan's strong point and a 50 men deep, his phalanx crushed the Spartan's strongest right side. He also staggered the advance of his right phalanx and in doing so by the time his 'strongest' point had broken through and routed the Spartan's strong point his remaining phalanx had advanced to clash with Spartan's, only that the Spartan's were left with no strong point and as the phalanx was broken it failed.This was the first, last and only time the Spartan's were defeated at full strength and ulitimately led to the entire Spartan demise.
What does hydra symbolize?
Generically, Hydra are small, simple, fresh-water animals that can reproduce asexually by budding or sexually by producing sperm and eggs. They have tube-like bodies and a number of tentacles that contain stinging cells called cnidocytes that they use to catch their prey. They have radial symmetry. Hydras are predatory animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria and the class Hydrazoa. They are related to such things as jellyfish and coral.Specifically, THE Lernean Hydra was a serpent-like creature from Greek Mythology. It was an ancient water beast that possessed many heads and poisoned breath. It lived in the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, the site of the myth of Danaids. It was yet another offspring of Echidna and Typhoon, the children of Gaia, the goddess of Earth. Heracles, sometimes called Hercules, tried to slay the beast, but found that every time that he cut off one of it's heads, two more grew in it's place. Realizing this, his nephew told him to scorch the neck stumps with a burning firebrand after he cut off each head. Hercules tried this with every one of the heads, and eventually succeeded in destroying the monster.Also, Hydra is also one of Pluto's moons (named after the mythological beast).
Why does the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia want to be the Republic of Macedonia?
"For many reasons. Citizens of this country feel as real descendants of the ancient Macedonian kingdom's population , they should keep their nameThe current population of this country are mostly Slavic , like those in the Kingdom of Macedon . About 33% are Albanian, and among the rest 66% Turks, Bulgarian and other people. The reason there are no greeks & it is right next to the modern Greece is that the regions of Dyktiki and kentriki Makedonia were originaly Macedonian , but in 1913 it was annexed and all of it's inhabitants brutally massacred without mercy .However , Greece has not apologised , given the land back , or even admitted the land was Macedonian . In fact , They still demand Macedonia changes its name to something not associated to the region of their homeland they lost."-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->>>>> I'm leaving the previous edit as it is and comment on it below, so you can better understand the problem.1.slavs entered the European territory and more specific the Balkan peninsula in the early 6th century AD. nearly a thousand years after Alexander the Great lived and died.2.Ancient Macedonian kings identified themselves as Greeks attested many times in ancient scripts. Two of the most vigorous examples:Alexander I ( great-grandfather of Alexander the Great ) the night before the battle of Marathon, as quoted by Thucydides,Philip II ( father of alexander the great ) called for the corinthian panhellenic council to fight united against Persians, in which the defeated (!) city-states voted(!) for the participation or in this war, with the Spartans the only state that declined, as noted by Strabo,Philip II also freed the defeated Athenians he had kept as slaves after those wars, having remorses against enslaving his compatriots. as noted by Strabo,the most Macedonian kings participated in Olympic and other athletic events in which only Greeks were allowed to, after proving their Greek origins to the qualified council call "hellanodikai",Strabo also wrote about the origin of Macedonians that came from Argos in the Peloponnese, thus the name "Argolid" (Argead) dynasty in which Alexander the great was part of3. The ancient Macedonian kingdom, during the time of Philip II's rule, conquered all the places that he passed through, but DIDN'T acquire any land now occupied by the newly formed state of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The parts belonging to ancient Macedonia outside of the historical area of Greece constitutes less than 4% dispersed between Albania, FYROM and Bulgaria, which can easily be verified on a map of the ancient kingdom compared to the modern Slavic state. The land on which the Former Yugoslav Republic created its newly founded state contains ancient Dardania and Paeonia. They were separate kingdoms which only paid tribute to the king of Macedon as conquered kingdoms and who only paid tribute until the end of Alexander the Great's reign.4. After the death of Alexander the Great, there followed a state of decline for the kingdom he left behind. Centuries afterwards, the declining kingdom fell into the hands of the intruding Romans. The Roman empire settles in the greek area and begins to adopt everything Greeks for their empire due to the admiration of Greek civilisation With the elevation of the Greeks to the Eastern Roman empire, the Byzantine Empire was born, (also know as the Empire of the Greeks). Macedonia is subject to the Byzantines till 15th century AD. Greeks have lived in the area now for more millennia. Ottoman Turks conquer the empire, but also the Bulgarian and Slavic hordes to the north that had entered the area from the 6th century AD. With the open administrative units created by the Ottomans, the Greeks were forced to live alongside the Bulgarian, Slavic and Turkish people that had relentlessly tried to invade Greece. The Ottomans having slaughtered many Greeks through the invasion brought in Jews fleeing from Spain to alter the demographics of Greece and weaken the ethnic balance. The Balkan wars saw the Greeks liberate themselves against the Ottoman Turks and fought off the Bulgarians and Slavs who wanted to stake their claim over the lands freed from the Turks due to its strategic value. Ports, valleys and big cities meant economic incline for a country. Slavs needed to forge their way to the sea instead of being landlocked in the peninsula.Greece liberated their land and their people that had been occupied and subjugated by foreigners. The agenda by foreign interests to acquire the historic land of Macedonia continues in reinvented form.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Historical Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsulaModern Macedonia is a Greek province corresponding almost entirely to the ancient Greek kingdom on the northern Greek peninsula.There is an unbroken record of people with a Greek ethnic consciousness, language and cultural identity, continuously inhabiting the land of historical Macedonia from the present to ancient times.The state known as the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia is a newly founded nation of Bulgarians, Slavs, Albanians, Turks and Shutka people to the north of historical Macedonia on land that was in ancient times named Paeonia to the south and Dardania to the north. It's culture, history, land and historical ethnic identity of its population are unrelated to the historical Greek kingdom of ancient Macedonia.The state knows as the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia was a province of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia named Vardar Banovina, whose communist regime renamed the province by the historical name of Macedonia, to lay claim to the strategic land of northern Greece and forge for itself a path to the Aegean Sea.
What is the name of a many-headed monster?
There are several multi-headed creatures from mythology, though usually they are freaks of nature than actual species. Referring to individual monsters from Greek mythology there is the head-sprouting Hydra, the three-headed Chimera, the three headed dog Cerberus, two-headed ogres, the Nemean Lion, Ladon the hundred-headed dragon, the Hecatonchires (50-headed giant offspring of Uranus). Many other cultures have tales of multi-headed creatures, with dogs, snakes and dragons a common theme. Hinduism has many gods and beasts with multiple heads.
Timeline of major events in ancient Greece?
The three most significant events in Greece in the 5th century BCE are: A/ The first Persian - Greek war at 490 BCE - Persian leader Darius I who was defeated by the Greeks at the battle of Marathon by the army of the Athenians and Plataeans under the leadership of Miltiades. B/ The second Persian - Greek war at 480 BCE - Persian leader Xerxes who had three battles with the Greeks at Artemisium an inconclusive battle at sea, the battle of Thermopylae where the Greeks were defeated and the battle of Salamis where the Persian fleet was destroyed. These two events stopped the expansion of the Persian Empire to the west and most probably made possible the future developments in the area that lead to the modern civilization. C/ Then Pericles becomes the ruler of Athens and reconstructs the Acropolis of Athens and Parthenon is build [447 - 438 BCE]. Philosophy, science, technology, arts and education reach new hights. Then a long 30 years war took place [431 - 404 BCE] between Sparta and Athens and their allies in the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas [Sicily and South Italy]. This war is known as the Peloponnesian war that left both ruling cities [Athens and Sparta] weak and unable to defeat the new coming powers of Greece the Makedonians.
Where to hydra and other cnidarians live?
Hydra is a genus of simple, fresh-water animals possessing bilateral symmetry. Hydras are predatory animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria and the class Hydrozoa. They can be found in most unpolluted freshwater ponds, lakes and streams in the temperate and tropical regions by gently sweeping a collecting net through weedy areas. They are usually a few millimeters long and are best studied with a microscope. Biologists are especially interested in hydras due to their regenerative ability. Hydras appear to be unique among animals in that they do not undergo senescence (aging).Hydra is a small animal with a body length ranging from 1 mm to 20 mm when fully extended. It has a tubular body secured by a simple adhesive foot called the basal disc. Gland cells in the basal disc secrete a sticky fluid that allows for its adhesive properties. At the free end of the body is a mouth opening surrounded by one to twelve thin, mobile tentacles. Each tentacle, or cnida (plural: cnidae), is clothed with highly specialised stinging cells called cnidocytes. Cnidocytes contain specialized structures called nematocysts which look like miniature light bulbs with a coiled thread inside. At the narrow outer edge of the cnidocyte is a short trigger hair. Upon contact with prey, the contents of the nematocyst are explosively discharged, firing a dart-like thread containing neurotoxins into whatever triggered the release. To humans, this poses a nuisance at worst; however, to some prey, this strike can be paralyzing.Hydras mainly feed on small aquatic invertebrates such as Daphnia and Cyclops. All species of Hydra exist in a mutual relationship with various types of unicellular algae. The Hydra affords the algae protection from predators and in return, phoyosynthetic products from the algae are beneficial as a food source to the Hydra .Hydra is a genus of simple, fresh-water animals possessing radial symmetry. Hydras are predatory animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria and the class Hydrozoa. They can be found in most unpolluted freshwater ponds, lakes and streams in the temperate and tropical regions by gently sweeping a collecting net through weedy areas. They are usually a few millimeters long and are best studied with a microscope. Biologists are especially interested in hydras due to their regenerative ability. Hydras appear to be unique among animals in that they do not undergo senescence (aging).Hydra is a small animal with a body length ranging from 1 mm to 20 mm when fully extended. It has a tubular body secured by a simple adhesive foot called the basal disc. Gland cells in the basal disc secrete a sticky fluid that allows for its adhesive properties. At the free end of the body is a mouth opening surrounded by one to twelve thin, mobile tentacles. Each tentacle, or cnida (plural: cnidae), is clothed with highly specialised stinging cells called cnidocytes. Cnidocytes contain specialized structures called nematocysts which look like miniature light bulbs with a coiled thread inside. At the narrow outer edge of the cnidocyte is a short trigger hair. Upon contact with prey, the contents of the nematocyst are explosively discharged, firing a dart-like thread containing neurotoxins into whatever triggered the release. To humans, this poses a nuisance at worst; however, to some prey, this strike can be paralyzing.Hydras mainly feed on small aquatic invertebrates such as Daphnia and Cyclops. All species of Hydra exist in a mutual relationship with various types of unicellular algae. The Hydra affords the algae protection from predators and in return, phoyosynthetic products from the algae are beneficial as a food source to the Hydra .
