Olympias In Ancient Greece

Olympias sat watching from the clouds at the little specks of color wandering around. She loved watching humans go about their everyday actions, buying things from the market, children playing, adults talking, Olympias loved it all. The people of Athens brought joy to Olympias heart. People at the time never seemed to rush or worry about whether they would be late for work or how much time they had left to play. Everyone was always joyful and happy, no one knew about time. But they soon would, and Olympias knew this. There was no such thing as the sun or moon, it was never light nor was it dark. This would seem to be odd to people now, but in Ancient Greece, no one knew better. They had never heard of anything called time, or the sun and moon. …show more content…
Olympias ruled time, she was the goddess of time and beauty. She had just awoken the people as they bustled out in their usual routine. Zeus had tried to convince Olympias to the give people some sort light to see, but Olympias was determined to keep things the same. The people loved the way things were and Olympias had no plans of changing and disrupting their systems. She had been consistently traveling to Athens and completing her second job; providing knowledge to those who need it most. As Olympias traveled down more and more she began to realize how happy the people were without any time or light. She had originally been considering giving them the gift of light and darkness, but after she saw how happy they were, her mind …show more content…
The clock was gone which meant the entire worlds time could be at risk. Olympias began lifting cloud after cloud, running to the forest to ask the nymphs, asking gods and goddesses, but the clock was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly Olympias realized something strange as she ran through the crowded town looking for the clock. The people weren’t moving. She looked up at the sky, no birds were flying. She walked over to a child skipping stones, the stone was frozen mid air. The child was frozen, holding their hand out to skip the rock. No one was moving at all except for Olympias who was fearfully scrambling looking for any signs of movement. But just as soon as it happened time resumed. The child frozen skipping the stone, skipped the stone across the pavement like nothing happened. The people who were shopping at the market, grabbed their onions and left merrily like nothing happened. It all seemed peculiar to Olympias, but she assumed it was maybe a hallucination being that she was so nervous looking for the