According to Greek mythology, Zeus wanted Heracles to rule the land of Perseus in Mycenae and Tiryns. However, after the death of Heracles, these cities fell into the hands of the descendants of Pelops and, during the Trojan War, Agamemnon reigned in Mycenae. The Greeks held as historical fact the
The Dacians were an Indo-European people who occupied a territory located between the Carpathians, the Danube and the Black Sea, the historically attested limits being to the west the plain of Pannonia, to the north the Carpathians of Ukraine and Slovakia, to the east beyond the Dniester (Tyras) and
Unless otherwise specified, dates on this page are all assumed to be BC. Cyrus II († 529 BC), known as Cyrus the Great, is the founder of the Persian Empire, successor to the Median Empire. He belongs to the Achaemenid dynasty. Birth legends Great Achaemenid Kings * Cyrus II (-559(-550?)/-529(-53
the culture of Koban The ancestors of the Scythian peoples are represented, in the Bronze Age, by the cultures of the frame tombs (between Danube and Volga) and Andronovo (between Volga and Amu-Darya), genetically linked to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic complex. kurgans that the majority of archa
The Avars are a proto-Mongol people of nomadic horsemen led by a Khâgan, sometimes identified with the Ruanruan, who threatened China in the 3rd century. They are from Tartary, from the family of the Huns. In the 5th century, Chö-louen, khan of the Jouan Jouan, founded a nomadic empire from Korea t
Attila Attila was the king of the Huns - a people originating from the steppes who had settled in the Danubian plain - and reigned according to Roman historiography from 434 to 453. The following years 435-440, under the reign of Bleda, were marked by the triumph of the Huns against the Eastern Em
Lucius Artorius Castus is the name of a Roman knight who left the island of Brittany with an army of Breton legionnaires to march on a region long assimilated to Armorica to quell an uprising there. For a long time it was considered that these events occurred around 184 and the career of Artorius Ca
Archimedes of Syracuse (from the Greek Arkhimêdês), born in Syracuse in 287 BC. AD and died in Syracuse in 212 BC. J.-C.), is a great Greek scientist from Sicily (Major Greece) of Antiquity, physicist, mathematician and engineer. The life of Archimedes is little known, we do not know for example if
r Ambrosius Aurelianus (Emrys Wledic in modern Welsh) is a Breton warlord of the High Middle Ages on whom we have only few elements, all close to legend. He appears in the sources as active from 460 to 480. He galvanized and organized the defense of the Breton troops against the Saxon invasion in
The Alans are a Scythian people, probably originating from Ossetia, the Alans (Latin [H] Alani - Greek Alanoi) are nomadic horsemen related to the Sarmatians of Kyrgyzstan and very close to the Iazyges, Roxolans and Taïfales. Origin Their first mention is due to the ancient Jewish historian Flavius
Speaking Indo-European like the Medes, they had entered Iran at the same time as them at the end of the second millennium. They settled in the 9th century in the country of Parsua, south and south-west of Lake Urmiah, then moved south-east to occupy the mountains of Fars. The Persians, like the Med
The Thracians were an Indo-European (Thraco-Illyrian) people whose members shared a set of beliefs, a way of life and spoke the same language with variations and dialects. Their civilization, still little known, flourished from the 3rd millennium to the 3rd century BC. J-C. Their culture, oral, made
We will endeavor here to restore what was undoubtedly the authentic figure of these Scandinavian navigators who so defrayed the history of the West between 800 and 1050 approximately. For many reasons, some obvious, the Scandinavians were probably, from the beginning, great sailors and shrewd trade
In Norse mythology, the Vanes represent a race of gods who for a time fought with the Aesir. This war ended with a truce and the exchange of some deities. The Vanes sent Njord, Freyr and Freyja, and the Aesir sent them the simpleton Hoenir and Mimir. The Vanes, angry at this unbalanced exchange, dec
Valkyija:“She who chooses the dead”. The notion of valkyrie, directly linked to that of death and destiny, has undergone a significant evolution over time, and its Odinic figure, chosen by Richard Wagner, only represents its latest avatar. There is perhaps at the origin the idea of Goddess-Mother
In Norse mythology, the Valhöll (or Walhalla, Valhalla, Valhalle), abode of the slain, is the place where brave warriors are brought. It is on the battlefields that the warrior maidens, the Valkyries, seek and collect men in order to bring them back to Ásgard, where Odin awaits them to prepare them
Unclear etymology. Initially:a giant. Contrary to an idea spread by romanticism, the troll is not a more or less prankish dwarf or elf. He is a frightful evil giant (the Church will equate him with the devil:May the devil take you will say troll hafi thik, May the troll possess you) and sometimes m
This name literally means Thunder (thundaraz). Also called Vingthôrr or Hlôrridi or, more surprisingly, Asa-Thôrr, Thôrr of the Ases. Perhaps the âss inn allmâttki, the all-powerful Ase, of texts with a visibly Christian resonance. Continental version of his name:Donar. Thor (Þórr in Old Norse) o
Relation by marriage. Goddess ase. Goddess and wife of Thorr, we do not know her own myth and her name (Relation by marriage) would reinforce the banality of the character. However, to justify the skaldic kenning who calls gold the hair of Sif, Snorri tells us that Loki, after having maliciously cu
Twilight of the Supreme Powersin Norse mythology, Ragnarök (literally Consummation of the Fate of the Powers) is the battle of the end of the world, the fate from which the gods cannot escape, the destruction of Ásgard and the renewal of the world. This confrontation which will take place on the pl
The invasion of Poland is often presented as a simple German military walk. But this is not the case. The Poles were defeated for a number of reasons but in any case they fought and often heroically. One such case is the battle at Yordanov which took place between September 1 and 3, 1939 between
Does the name of Alexandria Bucéfala (or Bucéfala to dry, or Bucephalia) ring a bell? It was a city that Alexander the Great founded in 326 BC. on the west bank of the river Hydaspes and which he named after his prized horse, the famous Bucephalus, who had just died in battle at the age of thirty (a
The Prussian Army during the 42 years of Fredericks rule, was the most perfect military machine in the world. The Prussian monarch himself was also the initiator of the new military doctrine of his army, which he retrieved from ancient Greek history, of which he was a fan. Before setting out on
The Battle of Vertier was the catalytic conflict that sealed the freedom of Haitian slave rebels. It was a conflict between the desperate and the force that Napoleon sent to re-enslave them. Haitian slaves revolted against white plantation owners and their men. Gradually the British and the Spani