Zeus

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…

Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Cronus was afraid that one of his children would out rule him one day, so for that reason he swallowed all of his children except for Zeus. He would have swallowed Zeus too but Rhea kept it a secret that he was born. She gave birth to him in a cave on Mount Dicte. She gave Cronus a stone wrapped in baby clothes in his place. Cronus swallowed the stone believing that it was Zeus. Soon after that Cronus was killed by Zeus and all the children that he…

Long ago, in Mount Olympus there were two gods named Poseidon (the god of water) and Glacia (the goddess of ice). One day, Zeus came up with a contest! That contest was set up to see who are the most creative and helpful gods/goddesses. All the gods and goddesses started competing, but Poseidon and Glacia in particular were extremely competitive. They worried that they were too similar, and that one of them would lose to the other. “I’m Way better than you!” Glacia says. “No!I’m better!”…

situation. “Have you seen the humans recently Zeus? They have stopped praying, and the seem to be very unhappy.” Said Athene. “Yes, I have seen them, Athene, and I think we need to check up on the old king.” “ The old king? In the village of Crete?” Off Zeus went to a small village on the island of Crete where the old king lived. When Zeus had just started…

Typhon and Zeus had a battle that shook the world. Typhon’s parents created him to destroy Zeus and take his place. He eventually attacked the house of the gods but they all fled to Egypt. Athena, Zeus’s daughter called him a coward for fleeing Olympus, so Zeus returned to Olympus to fight Typhon. Zeus severely injured Typhon and chased him to a mountain in Syria. Seeing that Typhon was wounded, he decided to attack him up close. Typhon soon had Zeus trapped in his tentacles. Typhon took Zeus to…

Ares is the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war, in contrast to his sister the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.Ares is the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent and untamed aspect…

portrayed, their significance on humanity, and how it has come to be and the impact on their generation. Zeus, being one of the most powerful Olympian gods, has a vast leadership on humankind alone. Known as “the best and greatest of the gods,” given in the Homeric Hymns to Zeus, the epithet describes various characteristics that exhibit his impact on the polis. In the Theogany, Hesiod expresses Gaia, Zeus and the other Olympians during the Titanomachy involving the importance of resurrecting…

a crime. However, a greater amount of the time the gods cruelty is not justified as they are doing it for their own revenge against someone or just for the sake of themselves. In the Myths of Zeus disciplining those who wronged him and Hera punishing the women Zeus had affairs with proves the thesis. Zeus, the ruler of the Olympians, liked his world perfect and exactly how he wanted it. He did not enjoy when someone…

encounters throughout his lifetime, from which legends were formed. His first known tale was of the Titanomachy, which established his ability to foresee the future, and his family connections to Iapetus (his father) and his siblings. As well, “When Zeus and the Olympian gods rebelled against the Titans, Prometheus sided with the gods and thus won their favor” (“Prometheus” Myths Encyclopedia). So, when after the war most of the Titans were imprisoned in Tartaros, Prometheus was an exception…

Prometheus was a Titan God who sided with Zeus in the war of the Titans and hence was not imprisoned in mount Tatarus. After Prometheus moulded man from clay Athena breathed life into man. Prometheus loved man and thought them his favourite creation, and because of this he made man stand upright as only the gods had done before. Here we understand that Prometheus was beginning to form what we known to be creation man in the image of a God. However, Zeus strongly disliked man and because of this…