Demeter

Swales and Mina notice a ship out in the middle of the bay. When the ship arrives to the shore, the people of Whitby notice the captain of the Demeter is tied to the wheel with a crucifix hanging from his hands. Shortly after this ship arrives Lucy starts sleepwalking and making her way into the cemetery nightly. Mina notices that Lucy’s sleepwalking seems to worsen as the nights go on. Mina…

Zeus was the great leader of the Olympian gods. The family of Mount Olympus truly was the most powerful of all the Greek families. Though they were gods, they were full of themselves; arrogant, stubborn, and prime examples of immorality. Since they couldn 't be trusted, they were to be approached with cautiousness. A modern day version of the Olympian gods would be a family with a maximum amount of power. The Greek temple had 12 gods and goddesses. Most gods were in fact full of themselves, but…

In the third century B.C.E., Roman society and cultures were heavily impacted by the Greeks. One of the other major influences that the Greeks had over Romans was religion. The Romans have experienced Greek influence through Greek cities in southern Italy which resulted in the blend of religious influences. This blend resulted in two separate religions, Roman religion and Greek religion, which also had many similarities, and was referred to as the “Greco-Roman” religion. Early forms of Roman…

keeping busy with her errands. Zeus had shared his power with his brothers and sisters, six of his children, and the goddess of love, which created twelve great gods in the hall. From left to right, the gods and goddesses sat as follows: Zeus’s sister Demeter, goddesses of harvest and her daughter, Persephone, Hermes the herald of the gods, Hephaestus god of fire, Aphrodite goddess of love, Ares god of war, Hera, Zeus’s wife and queen, then Zeus, Poseidon god of the seas, Athena goddess of…

Ancient Greece Reading Challenge: 5.2 Required Reading: Ancient Greece: 1. Explain the importance and development of the Greek city-state and the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen: A city-state have city or town that is surrounded by villages and farmland. The city-states in Greek were very independent and they often quarreled. The citizens were strongly patriotic. Many of them participated in public affairs. Only citizens could own land and participated in the government.…

According to author Jonathan Cott, Isis was often identified with a wide variety of Hellenistic and Roman deities, including Artemis or Diana, Demeter or Ceres, and of course Aphrodite or Venus. During the Greco-Roman period her images often incorporated Greco-Roman hairstyles, garments, or attributes. The primary cults of Harpocrates were situated at Pelusium, which is located in the Egyptian…

Infidelity in marriage is viewed as modern in this day and age. The marriage between the gods Aphrodite and Hephaestus could be considered modern due to their countless affairs, resemblance to modern media, similarity to celebrity cheating scandals through pictures and artwork, recent psychologist reasons as to why couples cheat, and their connection to current infidelity statistics. First of all, Aphrodite had countless affairs while being married to Hephaestus. Aphrodite’s well-known affairs…

A/N Sorry for the wait, I had to go to a party plus I just got Overwatch. Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or HoO. Percy I hurtled through the ground faster than a jet, homing in on the power signal of the titans. They seemed to be stationed in Canada, to make it harder for the gods to detect them, but with my current level of power, I could find them on the other side of the world. I grinned because they were all in one place, which would make it much easier to slaughter all of them. I burst out…

Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece Review Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, by Nancy Demand, focuses on the lives of women in that time period. It illustrates how their lives revolved around the oikos and being a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law. The book also conveys the limited evidence of women in Classical Greek medicine. Through the ideas of Demand, which she based upon other scholars’, the lives of women, their treatments in medicine, the risks of…

However it is only the illusion of Tess’ chastity that Angel falls in love with. He even goes as far as calling her ‘Artemis’ and ‘Demeter’. With one of the goddesses being the protector of virgins, it is clear that one of the main reasons Angel cherishes Tess so dearly, is because of this seeming virginity. He idealizes Tess to state of being a innocent, divine being; when in reality…