Heracles

Imagine being abandoned by your father at birth, because your father wanted a son. This was Atalanta. She was a woman hero liked by many, but some people didn’t like that she was a female hero, the neglect that she gave people after she was married, and others thought that her and her husband insulted Zeus and Aphrodite. Though all of these can be overlooked with many positives, because her positives outweigh negatives. One reason that Atalanta wasn’t liked was because she was a female hero…

An example of an actual mythology in the first movie of Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief, is Medusa. In Mythology, Medusa and her two sisters were once very beautiful Gorgons, but were punished by Athena. Athena gave them snakes for hair and Medusa was the only one of the three Gorgons that wasn’t immortal. If anyone looked into Medusa’s eyes, they would be turned to stone. Later on, the demigod Perseus went to the Gorgon's cave and killed Medusa. In the movie, Percy and his friends must find…

Cobras are awful reptiles, who can live in gardens. Indian cobras can become massive creatures, they can eat some of the little animals that help a garden grow. In the print version of a book and a movie, they can differ or be the same. Both of them can be very accurate in telling the story plot. These versions can be quite enjoyable and exciting. However, sometimes the plots of the stories don’t differ that much. In the printed version of Rikki-tikki-tavi the plot takes place in the summer in…

I chose the constellation Draco for the reason that I just love dragons, as well as the myth behind the specific dragon that the constellation represents. That dragon is called Ladon, and he was a more serpent like dragon, with multiple heads, although stories disagree about how many exactly. The constellation is located in the northern sky, and is a circumpolar constellation, meaning it never sets below the horizon for many observers in the north. Hercules defeated Ladon on a quest to retrieve…

Athena Athena's Roman name is Minerva her tiles were godess of war, defender of cities, goddess of work, crafts, healing and health, cunning and plans, refuge and hospitality, eyesight, and maidenhood. Her power was specifically in defense of Athens. Athena's Family Athena’s father is Zeus and her mother is Metis. Poseidon and Hades were her uncles and her aunts are Demeter, Hestia, and Hera. Metis is Athena's mom but Zeus married Hera so Hera is her stepmother and her aunt. Artemis is…

Greek mythology is the body of which myths and teachings that come from the ancient Greeks. Mythology was a part of a Greek’s religion. It concerns the cultural aspects of heroes and Gods. Hercules was the son of Zeus. In Greek mythology, he was born immortal and became mortal. In the book Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece, Hercules was born as young, mortal boy and became immortal within time. Hercules had a horse named, Pegasus which in the movie, followed him around and kept him company…

Hera is the queen of the ancient Greek gods, and is the goddess of marriage and family. She descended from her father Cronus and mother Rhea. Cronus swallowed her at birth along with her sisters, Demeter and Hestia, and her brothers, Poseidon and Hades; however her youngest brother, Zeus, was hidden from this fate and he later helped rescue his siblings. Because of Hera’s natural physical beauty she was forced to marry her brother, Zeus, when he fell in love with her. Many people deemed…

hera (roman name: juno), wife of zeus and queen of the ancient greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family. the daughter of the titans cronus and rhea, hera was swallowed after birth by cronus. her siblings Demeter, hades, Poseidon, and Hestia suffered the same fate. however, rhea managed to save zeus, the youngest brother. later zeus rescued his brothers and sisters by giving cronus a potion that caused him to vomit them up. some stories say that hera…

Story Writing 2 Concept: Love affair Springboard: A story about Zeus and his inability to remain monogamous. Context: Ancient Greece Setting: Greece Backstory: After several failed marriages, Zeus settles on marrying his sister, and goddess of marriage, Hera. They lived a happy life in the year 1200 B.C.E. and had four children together: Eilithya, Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. However, Zeus was still fixated on affairs even though he was married to Hera. He continued to cheat on her throughout…

Hercules is recognized as a hero, however, is he simply a hero as everyone says he is? This paper's intention is to compare the movie “Disney’s Hercules”, to the myth “Hercules”. In the movie “Disney’s Hercules”, Zeus and Hera are Hercules’ parents who love their son. Zeus is buff and has white hair and a beard. Hera has long blond hair, pinkish skin, yet a slim face. After Hercules was born, Zeus gave Hercules a Pegasus named Pegasus. Both Zeus and Hera love Hercules and protected him from…