Hylas
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Genealogy
In
Mythology
Heracles
After Heracles killed Theiodamas in battle, he took on Hylas as his arms-bearer and taught him to be a warrior. The poet Theocritus (about 300 BC) wrote about the love between Heracles and Hylas: "We are not the first mortals to see beauty in what is beautiful. No, even Amphitryon's bronze-hearted son, who defeated the savage Nemean lion, loved a boy—charming Hylas, whose hair hung down in curls. And like a father with a dear son, he taught him all the things which had made him a mighty man, and famous."
Argonauts
Heracles took Hylas with him on the
Literature
Or that same daintie lad, which was so deare
To great Alcides, that when as he dyde
He wailed womanlike with many a teare,
And every wood, and every valley wyde
He fild with Hylas name; the Nymphes eke "Hylas" cryde.
Hylas is also mentioned in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II: "Not Hylas was more mourned for of Hercules / Than thou hast been of me since thy exile" (Act I, Scene I, line 142-3).
Oscar Wilde mentions Hylas at least six times in his published works. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 11: "...and gilded a boy that he might serve at the feast as Ganymede or Hylas." In his sonnet, Santa Decca, lamenting the death of gods: "Young Hylas seeks the water-springs no more;"[6] In The Garden of Eros: "There are the flowers which mourning Herakles / Strewed on the tomb of Hylas".[7] In Charmides:
Some woodmen saw him lying by the stream
And marvelled much that any lad so beautiful could seem,
Nor deemed him born of mortals, and one said,
‘It is young Hylas, that false runaway
Who with a Naiad now would make his bed
Forgetting Herakles,’[8]
In Canzonet:
Hylas is dead,
Nor will he e’er divine
Those little red
Rose-petalled lips of thine.[9]
In Ravenna:
Long time I watched, and surely hoped to see
Some goat-foot Pan ...
Or Hylas mirrored in the perfect stream.[10]
And in "De Profundis" Wilde wrote (to Lord Alfred Douglas), "I compare you to Hylas, or Hyacinth, Jonquil or Narcisse, or someone whom the great god of Poetry favoured, and honoured with his love."[11]
Hylas is referred to in Chapter 18 of Charles Kingsley's novel Hypatia, when the Prefect Orontes, rescued by the Goths, is taken for safety into a house largely populated by women, and fancies himself as "A second Hylas".
"Hylas" is a poem by Madison Cawein, including the lines "Hylas, the Argonaut, the lad Beloved of Herakles, was I"[12]
Hylas is the name of one of the two characters in
Hylas is also mentioned in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd: "He called again: the valleys and farthest hills resounded as when the sailors invoked the lost Hylas on the Mysian shore; but no sheep."
Cinema
Hylas is a character in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), played by John Cairney.
Hylas und die Nymphen (Switzerland, 2013) is an 11-minute short, based on the myth: "The body of a young man (Kai Albrecht) floats in a lily pond. Three young female suspects (Annina Euling, Lina Hoppe, Magdalena Neuhaus) are found and interrogated - the nymphs of our generation."[14]
Hylas (USA, 2021) is a four-minute horror short with Benito Borjas-Fitzpatrick as Hylas and Dan O'Reilly as a Naiad.[15]
See also
References
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1213 with scholiaon 1.1207
- ^ Propertius, Elegies 1.20.6
- Fabulae 14
- ^ Scholia, ad Theocritus, Idylls 13.7
- ^ a b Antoninus Liberalis, 26
- ^ Wilde, Oscar (1877). "Santa Decca". Poets' Corner. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Wilde, Oscar (1881). "Poems, by Oscar Wilde". Project Gutenberg. Methuen & Co. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Wilde, Oscar (1881). "Poems, by Oscar Wilde". Project Gutenberg. Methuen & Co. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Wilde, Oscar (1881). "Poems, by Oscar Wilde". Project Gutenberg. Methuen & Co. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Wilde, Oscar (1881). "Poems, by Oscar Wilde". Project Gutenberg. Methuen & Co. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Wilde, Oscar, De Profundis quoted in Harris, Frank (1916). "Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions". Project Gutenberg. self-published. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ Carwein, Madison Julius. "Hylas". Public Domain Poetry. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
- ^ pl:Dialogi#Struktura dzieła
- ^ "Hylas und die Nymphen". IMDb. 2013. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
- ^ "Hylas". IMDb. 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
External links
- Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
- Encyclopædia Britannica on Hylas
- Hylas in the Classical Style by Stefanie E. Dittert, Professor Buttigieg
- Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology on Hylas Archived 2021-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Hylas – via Wikisource. Poem by Florence Earle Coates