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    my father. My brothers and I, Hades and Poseidon, drew lots to see who would take his place. I won. After Gaea’s victory over the Titans, she became very angry with me. She felt that I had treated her sons so unfairly. She then teamed up with Tartarus to create a scary looking monster which was meant to kill me and take my place. The monster’s name was Typhoeus (Typhon). He was super strong and I felt worried for my place in Mount Olympus. He then came towards Mount Olympus ready and eager…

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    The signs of the Greek Zodiacs were identified with the twelve groups of stars also known as constellations. They are associated with the four elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. “Zodiac” comes from the greek word meaning “Circle of Animals” the twelve zodiac signs relate to greek mythology because each sign came from a greek myth, They all explain how each group of stars found their way into the heavens. My zodiac sign is a Capricorn, which is a sea god. Its head and half of its body is a…

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    He is a Titan from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He was always evil from the start. He became even more evil when Zeus made him vomit his siblings and threw him into Tartarus. He plans revenge as he gets a half-blood, Luke, to help him escape and destroy western civilization. Luke has a huge hatred to the gods. As Rick Riordan, author of the series, states, Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys (1). Last but not least…

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    as he had all of Zeus’s siblings: Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. But Rhea hid the newborn in a cave on Mount Dicte in Crete. When Zeus grew up, he revolted against Cronus and the other Titans. After defeating them, he banished them to Tartarus. Zeus shortly became ruler, and married his sister Hera. Together they had three children: Ares, Hephaestus, and Eris. Hera was also a very jealous wife because Zeus always cheated on her. Apart from the kids Zeus had with Hera, he had many…

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    Religion, what is religion? We all have different opinions, we also have different religions we believe in. Do you believe in Christianity, do you believe in Hinduism, or do you believe in the Greek religion? No matter what, most of us believe in something. The Greek religion is a religion that has multiple Gods, most religions just have one. The greek religion also has ritual. They also have a after life. Greek religion is a special religion for how many Gods they have, and each God does a…

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    Sisyphus

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    would have to descend back to the Underworld and face his fate. Sisyphus used his cleverness and did not return for many years until dying of old age. For his punishment of deceiving two gods, he was condemned to the lowest region of the Underworld, Tartarus. There he would have to roll a large boulder to the top of a steep hill, but every time he would almost reach the top, the boulder would roll down to the bottom and he would have to start all over…

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    Betrayal is a common theme in many stories and novels along with plays. One always has a motive behind betrayal which has severe consequences one repents. In the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, the main character, betrays one person after another. Amy tan’s novel, The Kitchen God’s Wife, a historical fiction, novel consists of a character named Winnie who’s betrayed by her own loved ones. In the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Luke, the antagonists, betrays the…

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    with Virgil’s Aeneid. When Aeneas reached the divided road that separates Tartarus and Elysium, Aeneas heard “… From the interior, groans; Are heard, and thud of lashes, clanking iron; Dragging chains…” from the interior of Tartarus, where the souls that have done bad deeds when they’re alive being punished accordingly. Since Aeneas was not meant to go there, the Sibyl helped him to understand what’s going on in the Tartarus with a great and much gory details than Homer’s description of…

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    for souls to stay when they are remembered in the land of the living. The second realm is the realm of Hades which is a large realm where Zeus brother Hades rules where souls go to if they are forgotten in the land of the living. The third realm is Tartarus which is a place of torment where the souls that were damned go to. Remembering and respecting the dead was a major part of the afterlife because it provided the dead person with the sunny fields of Elysium. These different ideas do not…

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    God creates and rules over humans, similar to what the Greeks believe, even though their mythology was created by the people on the earth. The first god in the world was the god of Chaos, and out of Chaos came Gaea, the god of the earth, Tartarus, the god of the underworld, and Eros, the god of love. Together they shaped the earth and created more gods and creatures. The God of Christianity has been forever. There are three forms of God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and God Himself. These three…

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