D 'aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin. D’aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. New York: Delacorte Press, 1962.Print
In this book there were many stories about all the different gods and goddesses. One of the stories was about a goddess named Aphrodite. Aphrodite was the goddess of love. Nobody knew where Aphrodite came from, she was the only Olympian who did not have a mother or father. One story about a god that I read was about Cronus, Cronus grew up to be stronger than his father. So when Cronus’ wife Rhea had a baby Cronus swallowed the baby, because he didn’t want his child to be stronger than him. Cronus swallowed five children total. But, Rhea wanted to have a child, so she went to mother earth and asked if she could help her and …show more content…
The main characters are Demeter, Persephone, Pluto and Zeus. In the story, Demeter Goddess of Harvest had a baby named Persephone. Unfortunately, she was not the only one who loved Persephone; her brother Pluto also loved Persephone. One day, Pluto came from the underworld and took Persephone in his golden chariot. He took her to the underworld, where he was king, the beautiful; child of sunshine, Persephone became the queen of the kingdom of dead. When Demeter noticed she was missing she dressed up as an old woman and searched for Persephone. Demeter’s grief was so strong; that she had a feeling her heart would break. After searching even more for Persephone, Demeter met some village women, and they felt sorry for her. The women decided to take Demeter to the king; the king recognized the goddess and welcomed her into his home. He asked why she was so sad, the king 's oldest son overheard them talking, (About Demeter’s Story) he told Demeter he saw them flying in a golden chariot, fly down into the earth and then disappear. Demeter was sure that chariot had to be Pluto’s. Demeter’s grief had turned into anger and the earth grew colder as her anger grew. When Zeus found out he was worried the people would die soon, so he summoned her to Mount Olympus. Zeus sent a messenger to Pluto to bring back Persephone back immediately, and then made a deal with Demeter. Zeus deal was that she could live with Demeter if Persephone hadn’t …show more content…
The main characters were Percy, Grover, and Annabeth. The movie took place at Percy’s apartment, Camp Half Blood, Medusa 's Garden, 2 different Museums, the woods, the land of the Dead, Empire State Building, at school, the pool, Mount Olympus and the Lotus Casino. In the movie somebody steals Zeus’ lightning bolt, everyone thinks Percy stole it. Percy’s class has a subsitute teacher and they go to a Greek Museum. At the museum there were greek words, but percy saw and read them clearly. Then his substitute teacher, tells him to go outside of the room and talks to him. She asked him when the lightning bolt was and Percy did not know. She attacked him, until the guy who was giving his class a tour came in and saved him. His best friend Grover and his mom took him to a place called camp half blood. Saddly, on the way a mentor took his mom away. At camp half blood Percy found out he is Poseidon 's son and Hades ' tells him to bring the lightning bolt to him and he will give Percy’s mom to him. Percy meets a kid named Luke, who chooses him to be on his team for capture the flag, percy gets a big cut and goes to the water. The water healed him and he got the flag. He was cut by Annabeth the daughter of Athena. Percy wants find his mom, Grover and Annabeth come along. Luke tells them what they have to do to get in and out of the underworld, and gives them a map along with a shield. Percy and his