Myrmidons

Myth of Ovide on the repopulation of Égine

Héra, queen of the gods, will make kill all the human inhabitants of Égine of Peste because the island was named in the honor of the one of the amantes of Zeus. The king Éaque, wire of Zeus and target of the ire of Héra like his mother, requested his father to repopulate the island. Since the ants of the island had not been touched by the plague, Zeus transformed them into people, Myrmidons. They are as wild and robust as ants and very honest with their chief. They carry the armor Brun E due to their origins.

After one nondefinite period of time, Éaque exiled its two sons, Pélée and Télamon to have killed their half-brother, Phocos. Shovelful went in Phthie; a group of Myrmidons will follow it. The son of Shovelful, Achilles, will take them along to Troy to fight there in the Trojan War. They are described as honest servants of Achilles in the majority of the accounts of the war, of Homère to the Film Troy .

Another tradition maintains that Myrmidons do not have any fantastic origin, but are quite simply the descendants of Myrmidon, noble a Thessalie N married to Peisidice, the girl of Éole, king de Thessalie. Myrmidon was the father of Actor and Antiphus; the first invited Pélée to remain in Thessalie.

Myrmidons modern

Myrmidons of the Greek Antiquité were known for their fidelity with their chief. In preindustrial Europe the word myrmidon took many the connotations now associated with the word Robot . The Oxford English Dictionary , indicates that later it meant hired ruffian (about rough with pledges ).

Myrmidons in literature

In The Adventures off Peregrine Pickle of the Scottish writer Tobias Smollett, the crew of the Garnison of the commodore Trunnion is called Myrmidons due to their wild honesty.
In the Comic of Grant Morrison The Invisibles , the human ones serving Archon and which was subjected to modifications are called Myrmidons .
In Chonchu , a Manhwa, the Mirmidons (spelled in a slightly different way), is a known warlike tribe for their force and spirit. They are wild warriors who are delighted to fight.
In Shade' S Children , a novel of Garth Nix, Extraterrestres turn into to human children soldiers without heart called Myrmidons .
In The Languages off CAM of Jack Vance, humanity is artificially divided into three Caste S by imposing linguistic and cultural barriers; the warlike caste is made call the Myrmidons .
In Hercules, My Shipmate of Robert Graves Myrmidons are often mentioned because the novel tells the history of Jason and the Argonautes.
They are mentioned twice in the comic Wonder Woman , the first time when Wonder Woman travels at the mythological past and the second at the time of the mini-series Artémis/Requiem, where one sees that they are servants in the Greek Enfers, supervising deaths.
They are mentioned in the second part of the novel of Jan Morris, Hav off the Myrmidons .

Myrmidons in the video games

The term of Myrmidon is often used in the plays PC and video, particularly in the roleplays. It is a title often given to the classes of character and to the enemies, and sometimes even the name of a tool or conveys.

Myrmidons various

the Royal Navy had several ships called HMS Myrmidon .
There exists a species of butterfly called Colias myrmidone .
The Myrmidons is the name adopted in 1865 by a private dining society of the Merton College of Oxford. It is perhaps oldest of the Université of Oxford. max Beerbohm was member; the club called Junta in its novel Zuleika Dobson is probably founded on The Myrmidons . Other famous members are Lord Randolph Churchill and Andrew Irvine.

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