Callisto

His desire as a burning flame is so powerful that captured Callisto without her agreement. This irresponsible behavior of Jupiter as a God causes such a pain of Callisto that turns her into animal figure of a bear. She regrets her beauty that cause this pain, “A crowd of lovers own my beauty’s charm; my beauty was the cause of all my harms” (57). Her beauty eventually…

But somehow, Zeus transformed himself to take form of Artemis and managed to seduced and impregnate her. Callisto gave birth to Arcas but was turned in a bear by either Hera out of jealousy or Artemis because she betrayed her. Sixteen years later while still a bear, she encounters Arcas. He thought she was a normal bear so he took out his spear but before he…

Hera is the daughter of Kronus and Rhea, sister and also wife of Zeus. She was the reigning queen of Heaven and Olympus in the Greek pantheon. Despite her turbulent marriage to Zeus and attempted murder of her own son, she was the protector of marriage and childbirth. The symbols associated with Hera are the scepter, the cuckoo, and the pomegranate. Other common Hellenic images portraying Hera a beautiful woman, wearing a crown, in a chariot, pulled by two peacocks. The Ancient Greeks…

Hera Hera was a wife, mother, sister and lastly a queen.She loved animals and was kind to married women.Hera may have been jealous more than one but she made it through. Hera was the wife and sister of Zeus, she loved the animals peacock and the cow.The god Hera especially protected married women. Her least favorite god was Hercules she tried to destroy him at every move. For example she meet with the amazons and convinced them to dislike Hercules. Zeus, being king of the gods, eventually…

If one were to google ‘rape in mythology’, the first link to come up is “List of rape victims from ancient history and mythology” on Wikipedia. Of the sixteen listed references of rape in mythology in the article, nine are of Greek origin. While Wikipedia is not necessarily known for it’s accuracy, there are multiple sites that confirm this trend, exemplifying the relative multitude of rape stories in Greek mythology. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ‘rape’ as, ”Unlawful sexual activity…

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discovering four new “stars” orbiting Jupiter and the phases of Venus. In 1609 he built his first telescope improving the Dutch telescope, and made other observations about the moon’s surface other stars in the Milky Way. The four new moons were called Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io. When he showed his findings to the Grand Duke, Cosimo II de Medici, they were named “Galilean stars” in honoring of him. Galileo invented the first pendulum. He started researching it while watching lamps…

the entire solar system. Which also has an icy surface with saltwater oceans, but is kept liquid by a liquid iron core instead of tidal heating. It also has a very thin atmosphere. The last of the four Galilean moons is Callisto. Which is the fourth moon away from Jupiter. Callisto also has an icy surface with salt water below. The water likely contains ammonia and salts, which keep…

Europa is on of the most recognizable moons in our solar system. This moon is the sixth (6th) closest to Jupiter and the fourth (4th) smallest of the Galilean moons ("Moons of Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," n.d.). When this moon was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, he decided to name it after Europa, meaning or daughter of the King of Tyre. Over the last forty (40) years, there have been multiple spacecraft that have raised speculation that Europa has internal convection due…

ocean. She married her own brother and gave birth to the river gods, known as the Nile and Alpheus. Tethys was the mother of many and because of that she was not worshipped seriously. “According to a myth, Hera did not appreciate that Arcas and Callisto were turned into constellations by being turned into Ursa Minor and Ursa Major” (Karas 1). So Hera went to Tethys and asked for some help and Tethys. Tethys banned them from being being able to come to earth or passed the horizon so they were…