Odysseus (in ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεύς / Odusseús, in Latin Ulixes, then by deformation Ulysses) is one of the most famous heroes of Greek mythology. King of Ithaca, son of Laertes and Anticleia, he is married to Penelope, of whom he has a son, Telemachus. He is renowned for his mètis, this cunning int
In Greek mythology, Patroclus (in ancient Greek Pátroklos or Patroklễs, literally “the glory (kléos) of the father (patếr)”) is one of the Greek warriors of the Trojan War, mainly described in the Iliad. Homeric Elements Before the war Son of Menoetios, he was sent by his father to Phthia, where he
Ancient tribe of Thessaly, descendant of Aeaque, son of Zeus and Aegina. The Myrmidons (in ancient Greek Myrmidónes) are a mythical people of Greece. They are created by Zeus from ants (μύρμηξ / mýrmex means “ant”) to repopulate the island of Aegina where his son, Aeacus, was born (this island had
Menelaus (in ancient Greek Menelaos, power of the people) is one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War and the king of Sparta. Son of Atreus and Erope, younger brother of Agamemnon, he is the husband of Helen, whom Paris abducts to Troy, thus leading the expedition of the Greek leaders to take her b
The Atrides (in ancient Greek hoi Atreídai) are the descendants of Atreus, in Greek mythology. This house was cursed by the gods because it was founded in the blood of Atreus twin brother, Thyestes, and its destiny was marked by murder, parricide, infanticide and incest. Only Apollo will interrupt
In Greek mythology, Hector (in ancient Greek Héktôr) is a Trojan hero of the Trojan War. Son of King Priam and Hecuba, he is the brother of Paris, the husband of Andromache and the father of Astyanax. Priam, unable to fight due to his age, makes him the general-in-chief of the Trojans. He is the mo
In Greek mythology, Briseis (in ancient Greek Briseís), is a young Trojan woman, originally from the city of Lyrnessos, kidnapped during the Trojan War by Achilles, after having killed her three brothers and her husband, King Mynes of Lyrnessos. Her real name is Hippodamia (Hippodámeia), Briseis b
In Greek mythology, Ajax (in ancient Greek Aías Telamốnios), son of Telamon (king of Salamis) and Periboea, is a hero of the Trojan War. He should not be confused with his namesake Ajax son of Oïlée. In front of Troy He is nicknamed Ajax the Great because of his tall stature, but also to distinguis
In Greek mythology, Ajax (in ancient Greek Aias Oïlễos), son of Oïlée (king of Locride), is a hero of the Trojan War. He should not be confused with Ajax son of Telamon. Ajax is counted among Helens suitors before the Trojan War. He is sometimes referred to as Ajax the Little, due to his differenc
The Achaeans (in ancient Greek Akhaioí) were one of the first Indo-European peoples to invade Greece in the 2nd millennium BC. BC, driving out the first inhabitants, the Pelasgians thanks to their military supremacy (use of the sword instead of the dagger, use of bronze). Argolis becomes their stro
Agamemnon (in ancient Greek Agamemnôn, “immutable, stubborn”), one of the heroes of the Trojan War, son of King Atreus of Mycenae (or Argos) and Queen Erope, and brother of Menelaus. Other sources make him the son of Pleisthenes (the son or father of Atreus), who is said to have been the first husba
The Thuringian League is formed among the Germans of the North Sea. Constituted after 453, it took over the original lands of the Alamanni confederation when the latter migrated south. The disappearance of the Hunnic Empire in this area restores an authority specific to the peoples of the Warnes and
The term Teutons (from Proto-Germanic Þeudanōs, from which the German word Deutsch, German, also derives, as well as the French adjective tudesque[1]) refers to Germanic peoples who could be different and whose generic name means our people. This word can designate either a people who emigrated from
Probably pushed by other migrant peoples, the Suevi left the eastern bank of the Elbe in the 1st century BC. They form a disparate people made up of different tribes including those of the Quades, Marcomanni and Semmons. Their route to the southwest brought them to the outskirts of Gaul under their
The Skires were a Germanic people originally established in Masuria, not far from present-day Lithuania. With the Bastarnes (another Germanic people), part of them emigrated towards the south around 230 A.D. and the two peoples settled on the shores of the Black Sea. After concluding a peace pact wi
The Saxons are a Germanic people, ethnolinguistically attached to the Westic branch. They are first mentioned by the Egyptian astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century CE. He then locates their lands in Jutland, and what roughly corresponds to present-day Schleswig-Holstein from
The Quades (Latin m. quadi) are a West Germanic people, perhaps of Germano-Celtic origin, known in particular thanks to the Roman historian Tacitus. The Suevi have long been confused with the Quadi, due to a confusion with the term Swabian. In reality, the Quades are above all to be compared to the
The Heruli are a Germanic people belonging to the ostic group, or group of so-called eastern Germans, from Scandinavia, such as the Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, and Gepids among others. Little known, the Heruli appear as a minor people but were often reported in the Gothic raids and in particular on
The Gepids are a Germanic people of the Ostic branch, close to the Goths, who settled in the lower Vistula, then in central Europe (Carpathian basin, 269-670) during the High Middle Ages. The Gepids are mentioned for the first time by a Latin source during the year 269. At this time, they threaten
The Franks are a Germanic people appearing in the form of a confederation of tribes at the time of the Great Invasions. Some of them play a central role in the history of France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany from their settlement in Roman Gaul. The Franks appear at the beginning of the firs
The Spanish Influence radically reconfigured the human population more than any other event following the Black Death of 1347-52, which reduced the population of the Old Continent by a third. It did not leave, as the name suggests, from the Iberian Peninsula, but most likely from the US Midwest.
In 1745 Europe was again in flames for 5 years already, from one end to the other. The cause was the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48), Austrias war of survival against France and its German allies and (at intervals) Prussia. The French had decided to finish off the Habsburgs from the imperia
The history of the Jewish people begins with Abraham . The first patriarch was born about 1813 BC. in the city of Ur Kassdim , in Caldea . Aware that idolatry was the fruit of the human mind and imagination, from an early age he set out in search of a true god. According to tradition Abraha
Since the appearance of the battle tank on the battlefields, the question of increasing their agility and flexibility has been raised. Gradually the tanks got more powerful engines, guns and armours. At the same time, the doctrine of tank cooperation with aviation began to develop. In the 1930s