Gorgon

Crayen, Paw, and the Stones The hero was born from a grapefruit seed his name is Crayen. His mother, Persephone, queen of the underworld, ate the grapefruit seed and after a shimmer of Cesium fell into a deep sleep for six days. After she awoke she was pregnant with her first and only child. When Crayen was born it shook the whole world and the underworld. After six days of being an infant, Crayen turned into a preteen. Persephone gave her son a gift on this day, she gave him Paw, the puppy of…

so let’s take a closer look at the popular Percy Jackson series. In the book, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, the quest plotline, perfect hero archetype, and the good vs. evil theme have been modernized from the myth “Danaüs, Perseus, and the Gorgon” by Edgar Parin D'aulaires. Devising the quest plotline was the heroes protecting their mother, help from gods (and goddesses), they kill the same monster, and the evil suitor is killed similarly. The perfect hero archetype the heroes have also…

Victory and Loss Conditions PERSEUS Victory= Retuning peace to his homeland Loss= Destruction of Argos Challenges and Strategies 1. Build up Stamina to overcome the looming battle ahead 2. Acquire more provisions to last you until you reach the Gorgon lair. 3. Scavenge for scorpion venom to coat your weapons with, possibly, to weaken your future foe, Medusa. Strategies for building up your stamina 1. Attack nearby scorpions, thus training, to…

The Permian Mass Extinction Introduction There are five major extinctions in history: the Late Devonian, the Ordovician-Silurian, the Permian-Triassic, the Triassic-Jurassic, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary. Known as the Big Five, these extinctions exceeded all others in size and destruction, each killing more than 60% of species from that period. Each one acted as a bottleneck, allowing the survival of only a fraction of the organisms that had been thriving before, from which evolution and life…

In this quarter, we learned about Greek and Roman civilization, and we were told that the Roman adapted their gods and goddesses from the Greek mythology. For this report, we have decided to do a comparison between a deity in Greek mythology and Roman mythology. In this case, we chose to do a research about Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, and her Roman counterpart, Minerva. They shared many similar aspects, though they are distinct from one another. The differences and similarities we…

husband, but people are appalled at the suggestion. Even though she strives to fit in, not even Ellen’s family can hide the fact that they want her out of their lives, and she realizes that she does not want to be a part of their society either. “‘The Gorgon... [fastened her] eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness... it's a miserable little country!’" ( ) Being immersed in the elite allows Ellen to see New York’s many imperfections, and realize that for her needs,…

Everyone associates a hero in a cape saving someone from a dangerous situation, right? Well, in this circumstance, this hero is wearing a cloth, winged sandals and an invisibility helmet going to save his mother from marrying. I believe that Perseus is the hero because he had to perform a nearly impossible task despite knowing it was in hopes that he would be killed, with a little help he brought back medusa’s head to the king and finally he killed the king. He didn’t do this just for him, he…

In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, motifs profoundly help characterize certain characters throughout the novel. Motifs help connect certain descriptions and attitudes from a certain item to a character or theme. In the novel, the motif “stone” is used to characterize the Monseigneur. The motif helps connects the idea that the Monseigneur has a heart of stone. Like many of other members of the aristocracy in France, he treats others that are lower than him horribly…

Supernatural Women: Manipulation and Subtlety as Women's Weapon Against Patriarchy Women have oft been compared to supernatural beings, and indeed many of the magical and ethereal beings in literature are women, or at least female presenting – witches, gorgons, sirens, faeries, the female oni and yōkai, onryō, and yūrei. In Fumiko Enchi's Masks, the women in it plot out an elaborate revenge plot against the men in their life who have done them wrong, using what was implied to be a supernatural…

Why are there so many similarities in a lot of the stories told in today’s world? Are all stories connected in some way or another? Well, a majority of the stories that are written and told in the current world are connected to older myths from Greek or Norse mythology. One example of the connection between current day literature and older myths would be found between Perseus and Prince Caspian. Perseus of Greek Mythology and Prince Caspian of the Chronicles of Narnia share a mythological…