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    Aegean Sea Analysis

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    The Inseption of Tides As Athens stretches her arms around the growing empire, two gods overextend their love for something small but charming. In the Aegean Sea, Poseidon and Aphrodite just welcomed two beautiful twin babies, however they were conjoined. The right side of the baby is name Iris. She is beautiful just like her mother, with her hair blonde like the blazing sun awakening in the early morning, burning with intesity. She also has striking eyes that are greener than grass, and…

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    Both the Enuma Elish and From the Theogony have a powerful hero in Marduk and Zeus, but, while From the Theogony asserts that Zeus acts heroically because he is innately a hero, the Enuma Elish asserts that Marduk is a hero as a result of his heroic actions without needing purely heroic motivation. A key difference that shows how the myths treat the cause and effect relation of being a hero and heroic actions is how Marduk and Zeus assume the role of the hero in their stories. In the Enuma Elish…

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    “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” takes place in modern day New York, in a world where Greek Gods rule the world from Mt Olympus. The star of the story Percy Jackson is just like your average teenager other than the fact that he is dyslectic and has a case of ADHD. Little does he know that he is actually the son of Poseidon, and also a demigod. In a matter of hours, his world will be turned upside down as he has to accept the responsibility to stop Zeus and Poseidon from going to war with…

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    In the beginning, there was only Chaos. Out of Chaos, Gaia was born. She was one of the many primordial deities. Gaia was the goddess of the earth and mother of many of the first-generation gods. She is also the great mother of all creation and life. Gaia is the mother and wife of Ouranos, the sky. The titans were the children of Ouranos and Gaia. One of these children, was the titan Kronos. He was husband of his sister Rheia, and father of Zeus and other deities. Like father like son, both…

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    House Of Hades

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    The book that I read was The House of Hades. The author is Rick Riordan. It is the 4th book in the Heroes of Olympus series. But it starts off from where the Percy Jackson series ended, so it is technically the 9th book. This book or series is played off from Greek and Roman mythology. This specific book was published in October 8, 2013. Currently, the 10th book is now out. The intended audience for this book are teenagers. The genre is fantasy adventure. But since this is the 9th book…

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    Thief Summary In the Myth Of Cronus,Cronus is known as the youngest of the Titans and the god of time. Uranus,Cronus’ father,was embarrassed by the way his children looked (cyclops). To put an end to his embarrassment,Uranus put all of his monstrous children in a pit under the earth. Both the Cronus myth and The Lightning Thief share a similar theme of fate and prophecy because in both stories a figure is getting a prophecy. I think that the theme in the Cronus myth was fate and prophecy.…

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    Kerberos Essay

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    INTRODUCTION Kerberos is a compound network authentication system that was initiated by MIT in 1989. In Greek tradition, Kerberos was a wild three-headed dog that controlled the passageway to the underworld (Hades). Kerberos shielded that only the deceased, not living humans, pass into Hades. In our world, Kerberos is a system that handle powerful data encryption algorithms ahead with message digest algorithms to guarantee data confidentiality and integrity in the time of the authentication…

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    Essay On The Parthenon

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    The Parthenon was a temple built to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, and was served as a place of worship for the Greeks. It was placed in the highest point on Acropolis of Athens so that it could be seen from far away and close to the gods. Athena was a daughter of Zeus and the Titan Metis. Zeus fell in love with Metis and she became pregnant. An oracle predicted that Metis would have a girl first and later a boy, and the boy would be powerful enough to overthrow Zeus when he grew up. In fear of…

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    In the history of the Greek culture, myths emerged to explain the unexplainable. Some of the myths that came about were about monsters, and one monster is the Minotaur. Son of Queen Pasiphae of Krete and an actual bull, the Minotaur came into this world. His mother Queen Pasiphae shut him in the Cnossian Labyrinth, with the only food source being the bodies of youths and maidens that the Athenians were obliged to send as tribute. Asterion, the birth name of the Minotaur, means “starry one” that…

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    Apollo My Greek God Essay

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    My Greek god is Apollo. Apollo is famous for defeating the python at Delphi, allowing him to establish the famous oracle. Apollo came from Zeus and Leto. The Greeks worshiped him because he was the god of music, truth, and the sun moving across the sky. It will be important to learn about Apollo because he has some great myths and some great interesting story. Apollo was born on the island of Delos. In Apollos, early life he drank from ambrosia which said it turned him from baby to man. Apollo…

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