Role added by 24601 on June 7, 2019. Bucephalus, Alexander the Great 's horse, was said to be descended from these mares. Back to Top Make Suggestion. Those murders on Eufaula Avenue helped set all that in motion. Seneca: In the tragedy Hercules Mad (first century BCE or first century CE), Heracles capture of Cerberus is described in detail. 2022 Wasai LLC. Later, Heracles used an arrow dipped in the Hydra's poisonous blood to kill the centaur Nessus; and Nessus's tainted blood was applied to the Tunic of Nessus, by which the centaur had his posthumous revenge. Heracles' second labour was to slay the Lernaean Hydra, which Hera had raised with the sole purpose of slaying Heracles. The tenth labour was to obtain the Cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon. Capture and Bring Back Cerberus. When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it (this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians), but the Earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the goddess for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind. When Heracles finally left the mortal world, it was party time at the palace. Here is where Alabama took a bloody turn, something so shocking at the time that it led to two Congressional investigations. When Heracles saw them, he thought Hippolyta had been plotting such treachery all along and had never meant to hand over the belt, so he killed her, took the belt and returned to Eurystheus. Full Time position. For ourselves we say, No compromise no unification but a white mans rule, a white mans civilization, and a white mans government, or ruin and extermination!. Didnt you hear them say? the man answered. Somewhere between 800 and a thousand Black men stood exposed in the street. After capturing Cerberus, Heracles bound him in chains and dragged him out of the Underworld. The epithet trikranos, three-headed, was sometimes used for Cerberus. Its a problem Eufaula recently encountered ahead of the World War I centennial. (2022, December 1). Afterwards, Heracles went to the Oracle of Delphi to atone, where he prayed to the god Apollo for guidance. Keep it in the family was always Zeuss motto. Like me, Forte didnt know about the Eufaula election massacre until he saw something about it on the internet. [9] Others say that he shot arrows at it, eventually shooting it in the unarmored mouth. At the other end is a tanning salon called Lasting Impressions. None of the 30 men Williford arrested were convicted. Manfred Mayrhofer, Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wrterbuch des Altindischen, 4 vols. [31] In other versions, it was Persephone, Hades queen, who delivered Cerberus to him.[32]. Heracles then had to herd the cattle back to Eurystheus. In his labours, Heracles was sometimes accompanied by a male companion (an eromenos), according to Licymnius[citation needed] and others, such as Iolaus, his nephew. One editorial all but calls for a race war. About 20 miles northwest of Eufaula, theres a roadside marker memorializing the attack in Spring Hill that killed Keils son, put there in 1979. There were two congressional investigations that produced official reports and included hundreds of pages of sworn testimony from witnesses on all sides. The night before the election, Keils met the Black voters in rallies outside of town and implored them to endure any insults they would hear and to not return any curses. Now it might be assumed that Eurystheus was always supposed to become king of Mycenae and Tiryns, for after all he was the son of King Sthenelus, who ruled both kingdoms. Even before Eurystheus was born though, Zeus had made plans for his own son to become king, rather than the son of Sthenelus. The antebellum mansions there, including the Shorter Mansion here, look like wedding cakes, but the road sounds more like a big city. He was also notoriously cowardly, hiding in storage jars whenever Heracles brought back whichever creature assigned. According to Euripides' play Herakles, it is at this point after his labours are completed and he is returning home to meet his wife and family that he is driven mad and kills them, after which he is exiled from Thebes and leaves to Athens. Also, it refers to Keils as a scalawag., The only marker memorializing the 1874 murders is in Comer, Ala., near where Willie Keils, son of Elias Keils, died protecting ballots from a mob. He then chased the hind on foot for a full year through Greece, Thrace, Istria, and the land of the Hyperboreans. But were not willing to go backwards anymore.. A policeman searched them and as the men began to vote, a man named Harrison Hart rode up on a horse. When Heracles grew up, he had to serve Eurystheus In the median of that busy road was once a massacre. Pindar: The fifth-century BCE poet Pindar apparently represented Cerberus with one hundred heads (see above). Celebration or Feast Day: Unknown at present, Good/Evil Rating: Unknown at present The two companions had been imprisoned by Hades for attempting to kidnap Persephone. D r. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is one of history's greatest moments. Yes, there is history in Eufaula. It fits the Hollywood idea of what a small Southern town is supposed to look like, so much so that the producers of that Sweet Home Alabama movie took some footage here years ago, although they shot the scenes with Reese Witherspoon across the river, in Georgia. Lycus called the land Heraclea. According to Hesiod, Cerberus had a cruel trick to help him with this task: On those who go in he fawns with his tail and both his ears, but suffers them not to go out back again, but keeps watch and devours whomsoever he catches going out of the gates of strong Hades and awful Persephone. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. He asked what time it was. Around the corner, theres a memorial to a fish, but nothing for what happened here. Heraclitus: Homeric Problems. Lines of old oak trees form a natural canopy over the road. The Roman poet Virgil wrote that, upon hearing Orpheus music, Cerberus stood agape and his triple jaws forgot to bark.[34] Thus, Cerberus was once again subdued by an extraordinary mortal. And its an event the state subsidizes. She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on Heracles. Wielding a harvesting sickle (according to some early vase-paintings), a sword or his famed club, Heracles engaged the Hydra in combat. He ordered Hercules to perform 12 labors for the Mycenaen king Eurystheus. By some accounts, the fourth labour was to bring the fearsome Erymanthian Boar back to Eurystheus alive (there is no single definitive telling of the labours). And on Twitter. It was in that time that children of Confederates built monuments and mythology not history, but an elaborate deception. All you need to do is to pick up a list of Alabama governors and look at which counties they are from, he says. As the eighth of his labours Heracles was sent by King Eurystheus to steal the Mares from Diomedes. After a long search, Heracles awoke one night and laid eyes on the elusive hind, which was only visible due to the glint of moonlight on its antlers. The White League had recently taken root in Louisiana and Mississippi, and its influence was spreading across the South. Name: Eurystheus Working in tandem, Heracles cut off each head and Iolaus cauterized the open stumps. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005. (Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmire@al.com). When the presidential election of 1876 ended in a virtual tie, Democrats had the political leverage to negotiate a compromise withdraw union troops from the South and the Republicans could keep the presidency. Do we sell Eurystheus graphic novels, books, video or role-playing games (RPG)? The seventh labour, also categorised as the first of the Non-Peloponneisan labours,[13] was to capture the Cretan Bull, father of the Minotaur. The Monday before Election Day, he led about 400 Black men toward town to vote. Around 80 were wounded most of them Black, but not all. In Roman versions of the narrative, Heracles drove the cattle over the Aventine Hill on the future site of Rome. See Susan Woodford and Jeffrey Spier, Kerberos, in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Vol. Unaware that the mares were man-eating and uncontrollable, Heracles left them in the charge of his favored companion, Abderus, while he left to fight Diomedes. 31 Fowler; Euphorion, frag. I told them that although they might carry sticks, they should not carry any other weapons, Frazer told investigators I instructed them to stand in a body until they got a chance to vote.. Finally, Athena, noticing the hero's plight, told Heracles to use one of the lion's own claws to skin the pelt. Please do not copy without permission. But turn your head, look out the passenger side window, and you can see the same 15-second clip Hollywood came here for 20 years ago. As he puts it, not everybody cried when Union troops marched up Dexter Avenue toward the capitol. WebEurystheus was the son of Sthenelus, and as such, the grandson of Perseus. [27], In some variations, Heracles, either at the start or at the end of this task, meets Antaeus, who was invincible as long as he touched his mother, Gaia, the Earth. The Black crowd split and fled in opposite directions down the street, and each way about a dozen or more white gunmen chased after them, firing as they went. King, the inconvenient King, puts some demands on us to change our ways." However, this tale contradicts the tradition that Chiron later taught Achilles. After killing King Mygdon, Heracles gave much of the land to his friend Lycus. The crew then set off for Themiscyra, where Hippolyta lived. [3], Having tried to kill Heracles ever since he was born, Hera induced a madness in him that made him kill his wife and children. That day he told the men not to bring weapons, he would later tell investigators in one of two Congressional inquiries into what happened that day in Eufaula. Laurie White, PT does not participate in Zocdoc to offer online booking at this time. He possessed an immense wealth of herds, and King Eurystheus imposed upon the Greek hero Heracles the task of clearing out all of Augeass stables unaided in one day. When Heracles finally left the mortal world, it was party time at the palace. So its poetic justice that Eurystheus was eventually killed in battle by the descendents of Heracles, who took his head home to Hercs grieving mum Alcmena. She brightened up at once and used it as a pincushion. Griffiths, Alan H. Cerberus. In The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed., edited by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow, 300. Fall in, Company A! to worship the King, the Lord of hosts . He was well suited to this task: in most traditions, Cerberus was a gigantic hound with three heads and a mane of snakes. In 1973, the legendary bass swallowed a strawberry jelly worm in Lake Eufaula and thereafter lived in a bait shop live tank until his death in 1980. Eurystheus set two more tasks (fetching the Golden Apples of Hesperides and capturing Cerberus), which Heracles also performed, bringing the total number of tasks to twelve. But it demonstrates, perhaps as clearly as anything weve seen, history is not a granite soldier on a pedestal nor so much bric-a-brac in a pretty old house. According to Frazer and other witnesses, there was a dispute about whether one young Black man was old enough to vote. Virgil: There is a reference to Orpheus subduing Cerberus with his music in Book 4 of the Georgics (ca. When I returned from Eufaula, I reached out to Doug Purcell, a retired historic preservationist who, until a few years ago, led the Historic Chattahoochee Commission. Typically, about 1,500 people visit from across the southeast. An initiative through 2022, State of Denial will explore the connections between Alabamas past and present and how they might affect our future. WebLaurie White, PT is a Physical Therapist in Eufaula, AL. Or, you can find them upstairs, in one of those wedding cake houses in Eufaula. Frazer, who was also a Methodist minister, had spent two weeks canvassing support among the sharecroppers around Eufaula, back when cotton farmers still loaded their crops onto boats. Living Status (Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmire@al.com). A federal grand jury called witnesses. Examples: JUPITER, JUP, JUPI. Strabo, Geography: A late first-century BCE geographical treatise and an important source for many local Greek myths, institutions, and religious practices from antiquity. Sophocles: Cerberus is mentioned as the guard dog of the Underworld in the tragedies Women of Trachis (420s BCE) and Oedipus at Colonus (401 BCE). This trend became more prominent in the Renaissance. I drove to Eufaula, just to make sure there wasnt something there to mark the spot. The tale of the centaurs sometimes appears in other parts of the twelve labours, as does the freeing of Prometheus. I never heard of any of this. Ogden, Daniel. Homer, Iliad 5.39597; Panyassis, frag. KING5.com is the official website for KING-TV, your trusted source for breaking news, weather and sports in Seattle, WA. Hercules (Vol. Since then, hes been active in the NAACP and has taken an interest in the citys history, especially the citys Confederate monument that, he says, his family has hated as long as he can remember. Among a larger crowd of white men still standing near the polling boxes, there were cheers. [16] Some versions of the myth say that the mares also expelled fire when they breathed. Type: legendary mortal He tried to count the dead but had trouble sorting them from the injured, some of whom were already being carted off on wagons. When a witness identified Comer as a leader of the militia, a state grand jury charged the witness with perjury. Parents:Sthenelus (father)Other Relatives:Hercules (cousin) WebLocal News and Information for Seattle, Washington and surrounding areas. According to Diodorus of Sicily, there were still other versions in which Heracles was able to rescue neither Theseus nor Pirithous (Library of History 4.63.4). His opponent in the 1874 election wrote a song about him, which I wont quote because it uses the n-word a lot, but it makes clear why Keils had fallen out of favor: He protected Black voters, he let one Black defendant work as a doorman in his court, and, the thing they couldnt forgive, he let Black people serve on juries in judgment of white defendants. The rifles had come from an armory provided for the towns protection by the United States government. Physical Characteristics Accessed on 13 Jan. 2023. Heracles persuaded Atlas to get the three golden Apples for him by offering to hold up the heavens in his place for a little while. Appearance and Abilities. In J. K. Rowlings Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (1997), the three-headed dog Fluffy was inspired by Cerberus. I think not, but I will look in my dictionary to see, Daggett said before fetching the book. Today were going back to an old South, but not that one. Cerberum domat Hercules ("Hercules Tames Cerberus"), etching by Antonio Tempesta (1606). His crime: Naming one of the men he saw leading the White League militia Braxton Bragg Comer. In the 1960s Barbour County marketed itself as the Home of Governors. Five were from here, although the county has sometimes claimed Lurleen Wallace, a Tuscaloosa native, as a sixth. Not to embarrass those with family ties to the murderers, but to honor the bravery of those new citizens who died trying to vote. Kapach, A. In school, I had two years of what I was told was Alabama history. Hercules has to kill an evil lion that lives in the valley of Nemea. The mares madness was attributed to their unnatural diet which consisted of the flesh[15] of unsuspecting guests or strangers to the island. WebEurystheus definition, a king of Mycenae and cousin of Hercules, upon whom he imposed 12 labors. In fact, there are lots of monuments and markers on Broad, between the Confederate hospital at one end and the spot where the town surrendered to Union troops at the other. Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History: A work of universal history, covering events from the creation of the cosmos to Diodorus own time (mid-first century BCE). Heracles shook the rattle and frightened the birds into the air. Very well I have writs! Williford said. This bloody episode marked the end of Republican domination in Barbour County, it says. It is generally accepted that the tale was meant to show Heracles as being the recipient of Chiron's surrendered immortality. Heracles rode the cup to Erytheia; Heracles in the cup was a favorite motif on black-figure pottery. Stesichorus: The sixth-century CE poet Stesichorus wrote a poem called Cerberus, which unfortunately has not survived. H. R. Fairclough. The details of the struggle are explicit in the Bibliotheca (2.5.2): realizing that he could not defeat the Hydra in this way, Heracles called on his nephew Iolaus for help. They showed him a telegram from Daggett the first telegram ever received in Spring Hills new telegraph station relaying orders from Montgomery not to interfere. Ruck and Staples[6] assert that there is no one way to interpret the labours, but that six were located in the Peloponnese, culminating with the rededication of Olympia. I have 15 or 20 subpoenas. At least twice ahead of that election, Keils wrote the U.S. Bailey is a historian and author of Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags, an account of Black Republican officeholders during Reconstruction. According to Hesiod, the earliest author to give a description of him (in the eighth or seventh century BCE), Cerberus had fifty heads. Its impossible to know what might have happened in some alternate universe, where the Eufaula Election Massacre never occurred. (Ive now read all of it, which I used to build the narrative above.). One version states that a stray arrow hit Chiron as well. A separate tradition (e.g. Just copy the text in the box below. The son of King Stheneleus and Nicippe, he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, the Both Nicippe and Alcmene, Heracles' mother, were pregnant. I had a lady out of Virginia who told me exactly where it was, and thats how I found it.. I asked him why theres no monument for the massacre. When the man tried to vote the Republican ticket, the officials there objected and some white Democrats took the young man around the corner into an alley. But all were white. Theres something important I want to show you. History is something more complicated. [6] Pindar, writing in the fifth century BCE, gave Cerberus one hundred heads. WebPoor Hercules! As they survive, the labours of Heracles are not recounted in any single place, but must be reassembled from many sources. The giant Cacus, who lived there, stole some of the cattle as Heracles slept, making the cattle walk backwards so that they left no trail, a repetition of the trick of the young Hermes. He says there are a lot of Black people in his town who are still nervous talking about such things. There also seems to have been an early version of the myth in which Heracles needed to fight Hades for Cerberus. Not a monument. He carried Cerberus out of the Underworld through a cavern entrance in the Peloponnese and brought it to Eurystheus, who again fled into his pithos. Frank Tieri, Mark Texeira It might be the most consequential thing that ever happened in this town. Deep in the U.S. Senate report on Alabamas political unrest are a handful of local newspaper clips, evidence of the great reversion happening here through 1877. Eurystheus then warned him that the tasks would become increasingly difficult. Furthermore, their dung was highly toxic. Pholus had only one jar of wine, a gift from Dionysus to all the centaurs on Mount Erymanthos. As his twelfth and final labor, Heracles was sent to fetch Cerberus from the Underworld. They had migrated to Lake Stymphalia in Arcadia, where they bred quickly and took over the countryside, destroying local crops, fruit trees, and townspeople. It was during this period of time that Heracles was tasked with performing his legendary Twelve Labors; 12 acts of impossible heroism, that shaped him into the iconic hero most recognize his name for. Eurystheus Passers-by walk near the 20-foot-high bronze sculpture "The Embrace," a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, in the Boston Common, Jan. 10, 2023, in Boston. (Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmire@al.com). Alarmed, the women set off on horseback to confront Heracles. In the most familiar version of the myth, Heracles presented himself before Hades and asked to borrow Cerberus. [14] The bull had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls. The marshal couldnt see who fired the shot, but he heard a white man shout what sounded like orders. Heracles killed Antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him in a bear hug.[28]. However, Herodorus (c. 400 BC) disputed this and denied Heracles ever sailed with the Argonauts. Appearance and Abilities. He attacked Heracles at the River Anthemus, but was slain by one of Heracles' poisoned arrows. When he finally reached the court of Eurystheus, the cattle were sacrificed to Hera. In some versions he was even more terrifying, with fifty or even one hundred heads. According to Hesiod, the earliest author to give a description of While in the Underworld, Heracles met Theseus and Pirithous. While searching for the lion, Heracles fletched some arrows to use against it, not knowing that its golden fur was impenetrable. Another version claims that he met Molorchos, a shepherd who had lost his son to the lion, saying that if he came back within 30 days, a ram would be sacrificed to Zeus. Irises:No Eyes At All About twice as many died that day in Eufaula and Alabama history textbooks neglect any mention of it. Eurystheus' daughter Admete wanted the Belt of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, a gift from her father Ares. WebA boar is basically a huge wild pig that is bad tempered and dangerous because it has long, sharp tusks coming out of its mouth. Probably 99.9 percent of the people living in Eufaula have no recollection is the wrong word because they werent here at that time but they just dont know it, Purcell says. But all agreed hundreds of shots were fired. [21] Roger Lancelyn Green states in his Tales of the Greek Heroes that the mares descendants were used in the Trojan War, and survived even to the time of Alexander the Great. In the fullest account in the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus,[23] Heracles had to go to the island of Erytheia in the far west (sometimes identified with the Hesperides, or with the island which forms the city of Cdiz) to get the cattle. There were different accounts of how Heracles ultimately captured Cerberus. Eurystheus even had a large bronze jar made for him in which to hide from Heracles if need be. Although delighted to be given the task of killing off his rival by devising the impossibly hard Labors Of Heracles, any display of heroics would fill him with dread. They dont have any idea when the Confederate monument was erected and how it relates back to the 1901 constitution and Jim Crow law.. They did not understand that wine needs to be tempered with water, became drunk, and attacked Heracles. [2] Bruce Lincoln, a professor of religion at the University of Chicago, has suggested a connection with Garmr, one of Hels guard dogs in Norse mythology. Comer went on to become a U.S. In one version, Heracles brought a number of volunteers to help him capture the giant horses. Cerberus and his siblings were all multi-headed; in some accounts, their parents, Typhoeus and Echidna, were multi-headed as well. Reconstruction is essentially until recently, at least an overlooked period in Alabama history, he says. A Black man named Milas Lawrence said to the young man, God damn you, are you going to vote the Democratic ticket?. Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement updated 7/1/2022). Eufaula, Ala., is a city that markets its history to tourists, and is a town replete with historical markers and monuments. Editors: Peter J. Allen, Chas Saunders. Marital Status Instead, he showed Williford a telegram with orders from Montgomery. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. In 1876 two years after white Democrats took control of the county only 10 Black voters cast ballots in Eufaula. Eurystheus was the son of Sthenelus, and as such, the grandson of Perseus. He succeeded his father to the throne of Mycenae, at Tiryns, and became the Great King of Mycenae. He was fated to be Hercules ' hated rival from birth and cousin. Outside of film, Cerberus is a summon in the video game Final Fantasy VIII. Having scared the horses onto the high ground of a knoll, Heracles quickly dug a trench through the peninsula, filling it with water and thus flooding the low-lying plain. Pholus was curious why the arrows caused so much death. Heracles was told to serve Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, for ten years. Reality (Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmire@al.com). William Jelks, another Barbour County man. Heracles snuck up behind the bull and then used his hands to throttle it (stopping before it was killed), and then shipped it back to Tiryns. [18] After overpowering Diomedes men, Heracles broke the chains that tethered the horses and drove the mares down to sea. 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