E-Book "The Adventures of Hercules in word and image "
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Heracles (Hercules) is regarded as the greatest hero of Greek mythology and as a demigod. He was the son of Zeus and the earthly king wife Alcmene. In the service of King Eurystheus Heracles twelve heroes accomplished deeds. By Deianira of skilful and with the blood of the centaur Nessus robe soaked Heracles suffered intolerable pain, let burn so, was taken to Mount Olympus and was selected as the wife.
The Trojan War, the long years of bloody conflict between the Greeks called against the Trojans. Precipitating cause of this quarrel, according to legend, the abduction of Helen of Troy, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, by Paris Prince have been made of Troy. In reality it was probably more of a struggle of the Greeks, the purpose of setting on the Dardanelles, on the trade route to the Black Sea. The Trojan War is said to have taken place more than 3100 years ago in the Bronze Age. When the Greeks under King Agamemnon of Mycenae fought his brother Menelaus and Odysseus, Achilles and Ajax. On the side of the Trojans led by Hector, the eldest son of King Priam of Troy, were Paris, Troilus and Aeneas. The Trojan War was only decided in the tenth year of the siege of Troy by a trick of the Greeks in their favor. The Greeks built on the advice of Odysseus, a giant wooden horse, in whose belly the bravest of their heroes hidden. After the alleged withdrawal of the Greeks, the Trojans brought the wooden horse (a "Trojan horse") and with his conqueror in the city. Troy was destroyed by the Greeks, most of its inhabitants were killed or enslaved.
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content of the e-book "The Lusatian culture" by Ernst Probst: The Bronze Age is
over 2000 to 800 BC when the first and longer of the Metal Ages in Europe. During this time, tools, weapons and ornaments made of bronze were made. In some areas of the Bronze Age had a different time period. So they began in southern Germany before about 2300 BC and ended around 800 BC In northern Germany, however, it lasted from about 1600 to 500 BC One of the most important Bronze Age cultures of Central Europe was v. by about 1300 to 500 BC . Lusatian culture. Its distribution area extended in the west to the Saale in central Germany, while in the southern North Bohemia, North Moravia, and the north-western Slovakia included. In the north-west was the southern Brandenburg to the east and formed the present-day Polish province of Posen (Poznan) the border. The distinguished archaeologist between eastern, western, Moravian-Silesian, Upper Silesian-Polish, Silesian and a medium-Lausitz-Saxon group. For the western group reckoned that once, especially in the Lausitz, Brandenburg and Saxony in the southern resident Lausitz-Saxon group. The term "Lusatian culture" in 1880 marked the then acting in Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902). The text of the Lusatian culture comes from the print book "Germany in the Bronze Age" (1996) Science of the Wiesbaden author Ernst Probst old German spelling and corresponds to the standard of knowledge. Other cultures of the Bronze Age from Germany are also in individual publications presented.
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