Roman Mythology The great city of Rome, we all know how Rome came to its great fall, but what about how it all began. Greek was very influential on Rome's development and cultures. The Roman have two stories to how their city began. With Rome's various versions of “Romulus and Remus”,the more famous version of how Rome began, this story has everything from Roman culture, wars, and Rome’s very influential way to run a government. The Roman culture has it all, fashion, art, and food.…
forceful benefactress of the Achaeans because of her anger at the Trojans over the judgement of son of Priam, Paris. Additionally, she repeatedly argues with Zeus, over his compassion for the Trojans. In the book four she is saying, “Awesome son of Cronus! What a thing to say! How dare you undo all my hard work. The sweat I seated driving my poor team to raise an army against Priam and his sons! Do it” (4.33-6). In those lines she expresses her anger, and we can also notice that her anger is…
The name’s Hades. I’m sure you’ve all heard about the horrible Hades who nearly destroyed your tiny land by letting angry gods run rampage. No? I’m the one with the fiery blue hair, shark-like teeth, and some would say “sickly yellow eye.” I’m the villain in the movie Hercules. Yep, there ya go! That’s me. Look, I know people don’t think I’m the most charming of fellas. My patience has always run as thin as a strand of hair. I’ll hear people blabbing above me on the streets how awful it was…
heads. Uranus was afraid of the power of his children, and so he hid them in the recesses of the Earth. Gaia was distraught at this, and she offered a golden sickle to her children for which to kill their father. Most of them shied away, but the titan Cronus took it, then waited until it was dark and struck Uranus with the sickle. While Uranus wasn 't killed, he was severely injured. His blood spilled onto the Earth and into the ocean, and new life was born. On the land, Erinyes took to the air,…
Triton was a merman, the sea god and the messenger of Poseidon. Poseidon, the Greek God of the Oceans, and Amphitrite were Triton’s parents. He lived in the sea with his parents, and he was Poseidon’s messenger. Triton had a human head and torso with a fish 's tail. He was often seen with a horn or conch shell that he was blowing. He would blow on his conch shell to calm or raise the waves. The sound that came from the conch shell was terrible. It was so terrible it scared the Giants.…