Dwarfs, gnomes are mysterious characters fairy tales. Where did they come from? Where do they live? What do they do? When a child for the first time hears about these tiny little men, he is talking about curiosity: maybe they really are?
The story about dwarfs is also at Ovid in the fourteenth book "Metamorphosis". True, this is not so much a story about dwarfs, how much about the adventures of Eney, one of the defenders of Troy.
Eney Saved the Trojans who survived in the war: put on his ships and brought them to Sicily. In Sicily, he wanted to go down to the underground kingdom and meet there with the shadow of his father, talk to him and hear the prophecy of his future. On the opposite way, the winds brought the ships of Eney to one of the islands of the Napletipan Gulf, where Kerkops lived.
Here, on the oars passed by the skills and greedy charibda of Tevkrov Court; And already from the priestly Assonia were close when they were attributed to the coast of Libyan wind. In his heart and the house accepted there, Enaia Sidonka ...(TEVKROV COURT - Ships of the Trojans, past Sillas and greedy charibda - along the messinsky strait, separating the Appeenss Peninsula from Sicily.)
The one that the spouse-Frigian's spouse could not be sailing and on a high fire, which was seemed to be for the victim, fell on the sword: herself deceived, others deceived.
(In his heart and in the house, Anya Sidonka was accepted there - Queen of Libyan Carthage Didon loved Eney and became his wife, and when he left - allegedly, he was a voice over, she was so hard worried about separation that she committed the life, burned on Kostina.)
... Hipotade he left the kingdom, the earth, where sulfur smokes, and the rocks of the daughters of Aheloy - singer Siren, - and the ship, devoid of Cordchego, brought to Inarima, then to the knife, then to Pycuses ...(Hipotade he left the kingdom - the city of the hair in Greece. Inarima, Karkovyeia, Pycuza - Islands in the Naples of the Mediterranean Sea, named by the names of the tribes who lived on them. Apparently, Kerkops lived on one of these islands. It's not clear what happened with a caravan Enea Ships - For some reason, Ovid says only about one "ship devoid of feed." "The rocks of the daughters of Aheloy" is Scylla and Charibda.)
The ancillary parent of the gods, angry with the deceptions of Kerkopov, on violation of the oaths, to the insidious crimes, these people turned the ugly animals, - so that they were with a person, but together and similar: he cut them together; lowered and shoved them nostrils; I wondered my face, Starikovskie attached wrinkles and, entirely, covering them with red-haired wool, settled in these places; Previously speech the ability taken away from their languages, worn to perfidure: complaints only express to them with a creaking screenshot.
Ancient sources say they were very annoyed to the Greeks, and Hercules killed many of them. Zeus turned the remaining Kerkop in the monkeys and settled in Pycus (island near Sicily). According to the highest intent, they had to tease the giants.
Ovid did not tell us anything about the giants: who they are, where they, why and how long they had to tease, to which consequences were the actions of Kerkopov. And most importantly - why did you need to tease the giants? And how to calm them then?
Ovid did not tell us about the sins of Kerkopov: whom and how did they deceive? What oaths they brought the gods? What were the consequences of these deceptions? And yet: whom Kerkops complained?
Maybe they still exist, tease giants and complain?
Author - Boris Roklenko
Source - Springzhizni.ru.