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History, Mythology

Stymphalian birds

Mythology
Mainland
Peloponnese
Korinthia
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In Greek mythology, the Stymphalian birds were man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and were pets of Ares, the god of war. Furthermore, their dung was highly toxic. They had migrated to a lake in Arcadia to escape a pack of wolves, and bred quickly and took over the countryside, destroying local crops, fruit trees and townspeople.

The Sixth Labour of Heracles

After cleaning the Augean Stables, Eurystheus sent Heracles to defeat the Stymphalian birds. Heracles could not go too far into the swamp, for it would not support his weight. Athena, noticing the hero's plight, gave Heracles a rattle which Hephaestus had made especially for the occasion. Heracles shook the rattle and frightened the birds into the air. Heracles then shot many of them down with his poisoned arrows. The rest flew far away, never to plague the marshes again. Heracles then brought some of the birds he had killed to Eurystheus, who then sent Heracles to capture the Cretan Bull. The surviving birds made a new home on an island in the Euxine Sea. The Argonauts would later encounter them there.

source: wikipedia

Ελληνικά

Οι Στυμφαλίδες όρνιθες, δηλαδή τα «πουλιά της Στυμφαλίας», ήταν ανθρωποφάγα πουλιά με χάλκινα ράμφη, νύχια και φτερά, των οποίων η εξόντωση ήταν ο έκτος άθλος του Ηρακλή.

Οι Στυμφαλίδες όρνιθες διώχθηκαν από τους λύκους από μια χαράδρα κοντά στον Ορχομενό της Αρκαδίας και είχαν καταφύγει στη λίμνη Στυμφαλία της ορεινής Κορινθίας, συνιστώντας απειλή για τους ανθρώπους, τα κοπάδια και τις σοδειές. Ο Ηρακλής δεν γνώριζε πώς να τις κάνει να βγουν από την πυκνή βλάστηση της λίμνης, αλλά η θεά Αθηνά του έδωσε κρόταλα από χαλκό σφυρηλατημένα στο εργαστήρι του Ηφαίστου, τα οποία κροτάλισε ο ήρωας από ένα ύψωμα δίπλα στη λίμνη. Με τον τρόπο αυτό τα πουλιά ξεσηκώθηκαν τρομαγμένα και ο Ηρακλής πέτυχε μερικά στον αέρα με τα βέλη του.

 

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