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Uranus |
In this myth , Uranus marries Goea and together they have twelve children. Uranus sent six of them to the underworld and ate some of them . |
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Cronos |
Cronos was the god of the sky, he marries Rhea. They have six children together. Rhea decides to go to Gaea to hide her new baby Zeus because Cronos ate her other children. Rhea uses a tricks Cronos with a rock and pretends its her baby and later Zeus poisoned Cronos and he threw up all his childeren and lost his power. |
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Zeus |
Zeus was the ruler of all gods and he marries his sister Hera. Zeus was the one who freed the monsters and cyclopes in the underworld. Ten years later he won the war of the titans. |
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Prometheus |
Prometheus was the one who created all living things. He was afraid man would give the gods the best food for sacrifices and not have food. Also, Prometheus tricked Zeus with the meat , the trick/choices between both meats were : 1. rich organs hidden in an ox stomach and 2. white fat meat hidden with bones. Zeus ended up choosing the white meat which was the bad one so he took Prometheus fire away and sent him away with eternity of torture. |
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Pandora |
In the Pandora myth , Hephaestus created a beautiful women.Hermes named that beautiful women Pandora. Pandora was given a jar and she opens up the sealed jar and when she does that evils ,sorrows , and sicknesses came out of it. Hope never came out of the jar , it only got stuck under the lord. |
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Demeter |
In the Demeter myth, Demeter was a mother to Presphone. Demeter planted plants. Her daughter was taken away from her and she could only get her back if the daughter didnt eat anything and in the end she ate 6 pomogranete seeds and she only got to see her mom or 6 months. |
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Daedalus |
In the Daedalus myth , Daedalus son did not listen to his dad about the wings so Icarus the son died. There was also a girl in the myth and her name was Athena and she taught men the arts like laws of nature and inventions. She was also Daedalus's favorite mortal. |
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Pysche/Eros |
In the myth Pysche, Pysche was a very beautiful girl. Aphrodite was very jealous of her beauty so she tried to make her fall in love with a monster. Although that plan did not work , instead Aphrodites son fell in love with her. |
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Narcissus and Eros |
In the myth of Narcissus and Eros , Narcissus was the most beautiful boy who was lost in the woods. He wanted to love somebody as beautiful as him. He was very self centered and he looked into the river one day and fell in love with himself. |
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Orpheus |
In the myth Orpheus, he had a father that was a thracian king and his mother was the muse calliope. Orpheus grew up to be a poet and many people and even trees began to follow him everywhere. He ended up marrying a girl named Eurydice but she died because a snake bit her around her whole body. |
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Midas |
In the myth Midas, Midas loved gold . One morning he yelled out that he hated the king A polo because he was jealous that he rose in a garden charot and Midas did not . Midas also had a wish that when he touched everything it would turn to gold and the king made that wish come true and it taught Midas a lesson. |
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Theseus |
In the myth Theseus, he was the son of a king. He had several dreams that came true because of this seagull that gave him a riddle. This myth also had connections/similarities to the movie hunger games. |
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Perseus |
In the myth Perseus, the king Acrisics has a daughter who is ready to have a husband but he is afraid that if his daughter marries his son in law then he will try to take his daughters throne. |
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Medusa |
In the myth Medusa, Medusa was a very beautiful girl and all she ever talked about was herself. Athena got upset she only talked about herself. She also got upset because Medusa said she was prettier than Athena and so Athena made Medusa's hair turn into snakes as well as her body and whoever looked at her they would turn t |
