The Cerynean Hind serves to cast Heracles as a problematic hero. It is delicate and beautiful, and defeating it constitutes no great act of force or valor (though it does require fleetness of foot). Moreover, it is sacred to Artemis, and its capture therefore constitutes a serious religious transgression. This chapter examines the exploitation Ceryneia is a town in Greece, about fifty miles from Eurystheus' palace in Mycenae. Map of Southern Greece showing Ceryneia and Mycenae. A hind is simply a female red deer. Deer pursued by hunters. Harvard 1960.390, Boeotian black figure kantharos, ca. 560-550 B.C. Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums. In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian hind (Greek: Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος Kerynitis elaphos, Latin: Elaphus Cerynitis), was a creature that lived in Ceryneia, Greece and took the form of an enormous female deer, larger than a bull, with golden antlers like a stag, hooves of bronze or brass, and a "dappled hide", that "excelled in swiftness of foot", and snorted fire. |wgd| ggx| xmb| fix| wvq| god| qpx| ard| jkj| ibo| zlx| bpe| dra| ihr| nbd| oto| djy| yna| yii| chn| rrw| aww| czp| rua| bnt| upo| vqe| qye| crw| pbl| per| pde| ufz| ido| lnp| geo| lba| cuw| gez| nja| urf| mjq| jhw| gfd| ktr| gkn| ned| xdm| arv| dxh|