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The Harpies were the robbers who were believed to have carried off those who disappeared without a trace. Originally, represented ad fair winged maidens, they were later described as ugly, noisome birds with maidens heads. Their names were Aello, Celapeno, and Ocypete. they were also responsible for the sailors who disappeared and young children. The Harpies also stole food.

Written by J. Zimmatore

Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, and arts and crafts. According to the dictionary of mythology, the romans called her minerva. She was adopted by invading greeks when they conquered the city. athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis, daughter of Oceanus. In fear that Metis would bear a son mightier and stronger than himself, Zeus swallowed her. The child of Metis grew inside of Zeus’ head. Athena then sprang out of the forehead of Zeus, in full armor, shield, and spear. Athena then created the olive tree, which the Athenians preferred to salt spring produced by Posiedon. Athena was also the goddess of arts and crafts and upon her breast plate, she wears the Aegis and the head of Medusa. According to modern scholars, she was the protective goddess of the citadel of Athens from Mycenaean times.

Written by J. Zimmatore

Echo was a beautiful nymph an immortal maiden who was a favorite of  athemis. A nymph of the forest passionate,talkative,and loving. She was one of the nymph’s with phom pan who fell in love.

Narcissus is vain and self-centered all the girls and nymph’s were taken with narcissus beauty.his parent’s are cephisus and leripoe. he is the handsome son son the river god.narcissus was spellbound by his own reflection and altimately died of self-love. He died next to a flower the flower was called narcissus flower.

Written by D. Evans

Medusa wanted  athena’s palace. she was once a beautiful maiden but turned into a monster.she was a tragic and mad woman. Medusa was the best known of the three gorgon’s . a ugly creator with writhing snakes for was hair .perseus ,son of zeus ,was sent to fetch the head of medusa perseus rescued andromed by producing medusa’s head and turning his foe’s to stone .medusa was killed by the brave hero Perseus.

Written by D. Evans

Persephone was a goddess in Ancient Greece. Her parents were Zeus, God of the sky, and Demeter, Goddess of harvest. One day, Persephone was playing in the meadow with her friends. She saw a big patch of wildflowers, and left her friends behind to go pick some for her mother. Suddenly, the Earth cracked open and Hades came out on his golden chariot. As soon as he saw Persephone, he fell in love and He picked her up and dropped her in his chariot. While Persephone screamed for help, Hades went back to the Underworld.

Persephone’s friends looked all over for her, but couldn’t find her anywhere. They told Demeter that Persephone was missing.  Demeter searched the whole earth for her daughter but couldn’t find her.   Finally, Demeter sat by a lake and cried.  A water nymph that had seen Hades and Persephone, told Demeter what happened.  Demeter grew so mad at the earth for keeping her daughter under ground that she created a huge wind that destroyed all the living plants on earth.  She made the whole earth frozen and as hard as rock.  After a year still nothing grew on earth.

Zeus saw that the earth was dying, so he told Hermes to travel the world and bring Persephone back, so the earth would be green again.  Hermes quickly traveled to Hades’ kingdom.  He told Hades Zeus’ message.  Hades finally agreed to let Persephone go.   Before Persephone left though, he offered her pomegranate seeds, and she only ate three.  Then, Hermes took Persephone to Demeter.  Demeter burst into tears when she saw Persephone. The earth immediately grew green again.  While they were walking, Demeter asked Persephone if she had eaten any food in the underworld.  Persephone told her that she’d only eaten three pomegranate seeds.  Demeter began to cry and told Persephone that if she had eaten three pomegranate seeds she would have to stay in the underworld with Hades for three months every year.

Persephone sadly went to Hades’ kingdom for three months every year.  During these three months, Demeter would make the earth cold and snowy.  These three months are called winter.  When Persephone came back to her mother, the earth became green again, and that is called spring.  Then summer, which is the happiest time for Persephone and Demeter.  After is fall, when Demeter is getting ready for her daughter to leave her once again.  Then, in winter, Persephone goes back to Hades.  Persephone is the creator of the seasons.

Written by E. Okin

Asclepius is the God of medicine and healing.  He is said to be the son of Apollo and a mortal woman named Cornis.  While Cornis with pregnant with Asclepius, she fell in love with another mortal.  Apollo soon found out and told his sister Artemis to kill Cornis, which Artemis did.  Apollo felt guilty for killing his unborn child so he cut open Cornis’ womb and took out baby Asclepius.  Apollo gave Asclepius to Chiron, a centaur famous for his skills in medicine.  Chiron then became Asclepius’s mentor.

Asclepius became better and better at healing as he grew up.  Chiron also taught him the use of drugs and incantations.  It is said that Athena gave Asclepius a bottle filled with the blood of a Goron.  A Goron is a mythical female monster with snakes for hair, wings, claws and eyes that could turn people to stone.   The blood from the left side of a Goron could kill a mortal, but the blood from the right side could bring someone back to life.

Asclepius continued healing and bringing people back to life.  This outraged Hades because he had thought that the dead souls belonged to him.  Zeus was angry too because Asclepius was working against nature.  Zeus decided to punish Asclepius for his wrong doings and killed him with a fiery lightening bolt.  However, Zeus decided to turn Asclepius into a constellation because of the great service he did for humanity.  Asclepius now lives forever in the sky.

Written by E. Okin

Bellerophon and Pegasus are a duo of greatness. Bellerophon was forced to flee his home when he accidentally killed a person there. As he ran, he was accused of seducing a queen, which he did not do. Eventually, as he kept running, he got to a king, (a different one) who happened to be the father of the queen. Obviously, as a father, the king was not pleased that Bellerophon had tried to seduce his daughter, and he wanted revenge. In talking to Belleraphon, the king devised a plan. He would send him on a journey to kill Chimera, a lion, goat, snake beast that was practically a death machine. However, Bellerophon, after consulting a wise man, found and tamed Pegasus. With him, the two flew over to Chimera and slayed it.

The two are, in various sources, overall very respected. They are like the victorious leaders, well not really. But they slew Chimera.

Some brands that have Pegasus as their symbol are Mobil, and Pegasus tires. Plus, a sewing brand. They use Pegasus most likely because he is a very elegant,  amazing creature. As for Bellerophon, there is a vision development company that is named after him.

Written by: E.Schwartz

The Cyclops is described in a bunch of different ways. However, it is usually centered around a big, hairy, one eyed creature that eats people. Some say one foot has four toes and the other has three. According to Hesiod, a Greek poet, the sons of Uranus and Gaea were Cyclopes, or that’s where they started. As for their personality, many of them were brutal, mean, and not exactly the sharpest knife. In the book The Odyssey, the Cyclops’ role is to Odysseus in a way because all he does is keep the crew away from home, and kill a couple in doing so.

Polyphemus, a famous, possibly the most famous Cyclops, was the son of Poseidon and Thoosa. In the previous paragraph, it talks about the Odyssey’s Cyclops. Well that is Polyphemus. When Odysseus’s crew come to his island, he traps them in his cave, intending on eating them. He eats a couple, and eventually gets blinded by Odysseus, but he did scare the Ithaca right out of the crew.

Written by: E. Schwartz

Demeter is the goddess of Harvest.  She is a gentle woman, and has a daughter named Persephone, which she loves greatly. One of her most famous tales are about when Persephone got kidnapped, and therefore, Demeter searched all over the world to find her. One day, she came upon the kingdom of King Celeus, where she heard a baby crying. A nursemaid called out to her, and she went in and cared for the child, prince Demo.

One night, she sighed and thought, ‘How can mortals bear to be parted from their loved ones by death? This must not happen to the young Prince.’ So she laid him on the hearth every night, and on the last night, she was just placing him there when his mother, the queen, burst in and grabbed him. All Demeter could do was shake her head at the woman’s’ foolishness. Finally, she went back to Mount Olympus, crying to Zeus as he eventually told her where Persephone was, in Hades hands. Enraged, Demeter rushed to the underworld, taking her daughter back. But it was too late. Persephone had eaten three seeds from a pomegranate, the food of the underworld, and therefore had to live for three months with Hades, and the rest of the year with Demeter. So when Persephone is with Hades for three months in the winter, and that’s winter, with no harvest. It’s hard for the mortals on earth, but when Persephone is reunited with her mother, Demeter expresses her joy by giving plenty of harvest down on earth. This is one of the more commonly told myths, involving Persephone, Demeter, Zeus, and some other more popular gods/goddess.

Demeter was the child of Rhea and Cronus, one of the children that were thrown up from their fathers’ stomach. Her brother, Zeus, fathered Persephone.  She never gave up her daughter for marriage, and when Hades abducted her, she had no choice but to allow her to marry. Persephone could have had different, more brighter husbands, such as Apollo, but Demeter decided to keep her with her.

Because Demeter has Persephone, and because she is the goddess of harvest, mortals pray to Demeter when their children are sick because Demeter understands everything about life. This is how important Demeter is to the world.

Written by E. Lee