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In his book titled, Phoenicians, author Glenn Markoe states that Phoenician culture had its “remnants in contemporary religions practiced around the Mediterranean.” During pagan times, the deity by the name of Astarte, which according to Markoe was “the most important Phoenician goddess”, would be worshiped with public processions. Astarte was one of the most important figures in all of the ancient Mediterranean civilizations, including the Greeks and the Romans. According to author Joscelyn…

The section I read was How the World and Mankind Were Created by Edith Hamilton. It starts off with a brief explanation like the rest of the book does with sources and inside this section a variety of different stories. Chapter III’s context comes mainly from Hesiod, a greek poet with myths about the beginning of everything. The premise of my selected reading discusses how the world and mankind were created. The first story starts off with saying before the gods there was Chaos and unexplainably…

Athena was the goddess of wisdom of war. She was in most of the wars and she was the only woman that fought in battle.The story of how she was born is the craziest she was actually born from Zeus’s forehead it is crazy but it really did happen.It started it out when Zeus had a massive headache which lead to to the coming of Athena. When she came out she was in full armor a tall, and skinny woman and super strong. She was in several battles. Athena was also the greek goddess of reason.She was…

Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and love, she was very beautiful and lured the heart of many gods. Aphrodite loved Adonis, the god of beauty and desire. He too was very beautiful and captured the attention of many goddesses. Adonis was the mortal son of the goddess Myrrha and Cinyras, but he was adopted by the gods. He loved to hunt and spent as much of his time in the forest as he could. The myth of “Aphrodite and Adonis” or “Venus and Adonis” is the most epic love story of all love…

Modern Myth Always with her helmet, armor and sphere Athena was born as the daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her mother was the goddess of wisdom and her father was the king of the gods with the strong blood of the Titans. Zeus, when Metis was conceived with Athena, swallowed Metis along with the child. Zeus’ effort of getting rid of the child didn’t work and Athena was born from Zeus’ head. Athena was born with wisdom from her mother and power from her father. As she grew up she always had victory…

Hestia, the goddess of hearth and home, also known as the forgotten goddess because you will not find her in many stories, but she is still important an important figure in mythology. I think Hestia and I have a lot in common because of her kind nature and love for her family. Kronos and Rhea, the parents of Hestia, are quite opposites. Rhea,her gentle and sweet mother, loves her children and wants to protect them. Kronos, her powerful father, loves power and control. Kronos swallows the…

The Three Brothers Several people have many curiosities about the greek gods and what they did. I have been wondering about Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades the most. These three brothers had to “draw straws” to see who would rule the sky, the underworld, and the water. The luckiest god, Zeus, pick the sky first. Poseidon picked next. He thought that Zeus was dumb for picking the sky because there is nothing there. Poseidon picked the sea. Hades, the unluckiest god, was forced to be the god of the…

Athena Was the Greek virgin goddess of reason intelligent activity arts and literature. Athena was the daughter of Zeus. Athena did not have a mother. Athena was fierce and brave in battle. Athena only took part in wars that defended the state and home from outside enemies. Athena was Zeus favourite child and was allowed to use his weapons including his thunderbolt. Athena holy tree was the olive tree. Athena is the unmarried warrior daughter. Athena mom name was Metis she can turn into…

in the movie, Hercules starts out as baby born amongst the gods atop Mt. Olympus. As part of an evil plot to overthrow Zeus (father of Hercules) and rule Mount Olympus, Hades, god of the underworld, sends out his minions to kidnap baby Hercules so that they would be able to turn him mortal and dispose of him, therefore allowing Hades to carry out his plan without interference from Hercules when he became older. They are successful in kidnapping the child and turning him mortal, but fail to take…

There once was a girl named Rhea. She lived in Greece at the time when burnt offering were still made to the gods of Olympus. Her story has been passed down for generations as a warning for others. The story begins the day that Rhea’s best friend, Olympia, tells her a dangerous secret. Olympia was a demigod and a daughter of Apollo. A demigod is someone who is half god and half mortal. Rhea swore on the river Styx never to tell anyone Olympia’s secret. To swear on the river Styx was a…