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Greetings!
Here's where we ask for YOUR participation...
each month we'll showcase a different "Legendary" subject
and we want YOU to choose who YOU believe is a Legend
in that subject!
What we need, is pics, information and any pertinent URL's
about the person you choose.
This month we showcase "Legends of Myth"!
For an example, we showcased who we believe are "Legends"...
now you go ahead and submit who YOU believe was/is a Legend
in the literary field!
Submit all the information you find, and ONE(1) picture, if available.
*Remember, these are YOUR opinions, who you think are Legends.
Prometheus
PROMETHEUS was the Titan god of forethought
and crafty counsel who was entrusted with the
task of moulding mankind out of clay. His attempts
to better the lives of his creation brought him
into direct conflict with Zeus. Firstly he tricked
the gods out of the best portion of the
sacrificial feast, acquiring the meat for the
feasting of man. Then, when Zeus withheld fire,
he stole it from heaven and delivered it to
mortal kind hidden inside a fennel-stalk. As
punishment for these rebellious acts, Zeus
ordered the creation of Pandora (the first woman)
as a means to deliver misfortune into the house
of man, or to cheat mankind of the company of
good spirits. Prometheus meanwhile, was arrested
and bound to a stake on Mount Kaukasos where an
eagle was set to feed upon his ever-regenerating
liver (or heart). Generations later the great
hero Herakles came and released the old benefactor
of mankind from his torture. Prometheus was loosely
identified in cult and myth with the fire-god
Hephaistos and the giant Tityos.
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submitted by Dravarh
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Sir Lancelot
In the Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot
(Lancelot du Lac, or Lancelot of the Lake;
also Launcelot) is one of the Knights of
the Round Table. In most of the French prose
romances and works, he is characterized as the
greatest and most trusted of Arthur's knights,
and plays a part in many of Arthur's victories
but Arthur's eventual downfall is also brought
about in part by Lancelot, whose affair with
Arthur's wife Guinevere destroys the unity
of Arthur's court.
Lancelot is a popular character, and has been
the subject of many poems, stories, plays, and
films as a famous figure in the Arthurian cycle
of romances. To the great majority of English
readers the name of no knight of King Arthur's
court is so familiar as is that of Sir Lancelot.
The mention of Arthur and the Round Table at
once brings him to mind to moderns as the most
valiant member of that brotherhood and the
secret lover of the Queen. Lancelot, however,
is not an original member of the cycle, and the
development of his story is still a source of
considerable disagreement between scholars.
According to legend Lancelot's father is
King Ban of Benoic and his mother is named Elaine;
his illegitimate half-brother is Hector de Maris.
King Bors is his uncle, and Sir Bors and Sir Lionel
are his cousins. With the Fisher King's
daughter Elaine, he becomes the father of Galahad
(in some sources, Galahad is also Lancelot's own
baptismal name). His home is the castle Joyous Guard.
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