Ajax Short Story

Hercules was child born in a small village who was very strong. He was loved by both his parents and by all the village, because he was very generous with his ability. As he got older he kept growing even stronger. He did many odd jobs around the village to earn his living. One day a strange and terrifying roar came from the forest outside the village. The roars did not stop, but continued for several days. When the villagers realized the sound would not stop and could even be a threat, it was decided that Hercules, as the strongest man in the village should go to investigate, as he would be at the least risk. Hercules went, though he was very afraid. When he found the source of the roaring, he discovered it was a wounded lion. The lion was wounded, but was very clearly still mobile and all the more dangerous for being hurt. Hercules crept up on the lion from behind and strangled it. He brought back the head as a trophy to show the villagers. They all admired Hercules's courage as well as his strength. Many more similar incidents occurred and Hercules grew more and more confident until he became far too prideful and began to lose respect. He did not understand why, and when he contemplated his loss of popularity he

Poseidon is hit and goes down, so he thought. Out of nowhere the floor under Zeus crumbles into a blackhole of water under him. Poseidon from above him starts to smirk. Hades is missing the attention, he throws his mighty trident at his brother. Poseidon moves as swiftly and quickly as the wind but the trident was faster, and cuts his cheek. Poseidon, fures and hurt, he charges at Hades with his mighty trident.

Zeus immediately started to become furious and his face started to become red. The Gods didn't know what they did wrong but Zeus suddenly began throwing his lightning bolts at the Gods. One after the other, Zeus would strike them right on their rear ends. During this temper tantrum Zeus was having, he missed the Gods more than hitting them. Ounce Zeus calmed down and realized he was overreacting, he took a moment to see what he did the the humans and all the trees and stuff like that. Instead of seeing mostly all Green, he saw flames of the fire he started. The humans houses were burning down, and everything was destroyed. Zeus almost started crying because he felt bad for what he had done. From that day on ,Zeus never threw lightning bolts again but, sometimes while its raining out and it's all gloomy, Zeus sometimes throws a couple lightning strikes thinking that if anything would catch on fire, the rain would put it

Sitting high atop Mount Olympus, the gods and goddesses of Greece were engaged in a heated battle of words. Poseidon swore that Zeus had taken his triton, but Zeus held to his opinion that Poseidon was in possession of his lightning bolt. "If YOU don't return my lightning bolt I'll wage war with you, puny sea god!"

The supreme ruler and king of gods, Zeus, is often mentioned as Jupiter and the sender of thunder, lightning, rain, and wind (Britannica.com). “Zeus was the first of the gods and a very imposing figure. Often referred to as ‘the father of gods and men,’ he is a sky god who controls lightning.” (Britannica.com) Although the god is labeled most powerful and the mightiest of all, he is not perfect. Zeus is known for his promiscuous action. Often times he fell in love with one woman after the other and attempted to disguise his infidelity from his wife. Zeus left no woman behind in his crazy love-life, the god married and had children with his sister, Hera and. Hera was not Zeus’ only siblings. He also had two brothers, Poseidon and Hades and another sister named Hestia. His parents are known as Cronus and Rhea. Zeus was not just handed the title “god of the sky,” instead him and his two brothers drew lots. The sea was given to Poseidon, the underworld to Hades, and Zeus was named lord of the sky, rain god, and cloud gatherer. The eagle is considered sacred to this god. Zeus also treasures the oak tree. It is often told that the gods will was revealed by the rustling of the oak tree. (Hamilton 27)

T. shows the theme of relationship of man to God when he prayed to Athena to retrieve her help, and as a reward of doing all good she appears to help his cry. “…

Right after Zeus left the Evil Cyclops arrived. His eye was red and filled with rage just like a burning fire. He was as high as a mountain and had dark skin and his eye was filled with rage. Hercules looked at him, and started running towards him, he punched the Cyclops but it had no effect on him. The Cyclops who had barely noticed Hercules had all of his attention on Hercules now.

One day while in class his music master, “Linus” was teaching Hercules how to play the lyre. Hercules became frustrated and banged the lyre on Linus's head, instantly killing him. Hercules was astonished and he had done. He no idea of the powerful strength he truly had.

Zeus replied, "if I help you and your son, it won't turn out good. Right now both you and your son are angry and you guys aren't thinking straight. I will not help you guys so you can can harm innocent people."

The Titans were an amazing team, but Legend 27’s team was better. He jumped over anybody in his way to make a shot. When an opponent tried to score, he jumped high and blocked it. Nobody could stop Legend 27. The crowd loved him and cheered every time he scored. The game finished with a score of 120-3. Legend 27 had won the National championship! After the game was finished and everybody was leaving, Legend 27 walked over to the disguised Hera and thanked her for help. “I hope to see you again soon,” Legend 27 said to the beautiful goddess. She smiled back at him and disappeared. Two days after Legend 27’s win, he went out with his team to celebrate their win. They were having a nice dinner when suddenly a tall god appeared in front of the team. Zeus was visiting Legend 27, and he wasn’t happy. “Legend 27, come forward,” Zeus spoke. His voice was loud and deep, shaking the tables around him. Legend 27 slowly stood and walked to Zeus. He noticed Zeus’s angry expression, but couldn’t think of anything he could have done to anger a god. “Hello, mighty Zeus,” Legend 27 said to Zeus, trying to hide any nervousness. He bowed to Zeus and put on a

When Hera found out about Zeus’ dirty deeds, she convinced Semele to ask Zeus for proof of his true nature. Zeus agreed and presented himself to her in his true form, Zeus’ true glory however burned Semele alive. (ML 301) This myth is a prime example of Zeus’ human tendencies of acting like a common man as he gives in to his more primitive needs and cheats on Hera with Semele.

The next day he spent the hole day walking up the mountain. The next day he spent half of the day walking up the mountain, when he reached the top he decided that he would get for the other half day and get a good nights rest. He woke up during the night and found one hundred rattlesnakes on and around him close by his fire staying warm for the night. Ajax killed all of the snakes and went back to sleep. In the morning, he woke up and walked over to the one hundred foot tall door. He looked at the lock, put the key in, turned it, and opened it. He walked in and the room was about four hundred feet long, two hundred feet wide, and one hundred feet tall, and it was full of gold jewelry and pirate coins. He was thinking that everyone that had been in there before had to have just barged in, so he quietly snuck in and climbed up the door and walked on the beams on the roof watching down on the floor looking for the golden jaguar. After about an hour looking for the golden jaguar, Ajax saw him sleeping on top of the tallest mountain of gold. Ajax jumped off of the roof beams and and missed the top of the mountain, when he walked to the top the golden jaguar wasn't there! Ajax got his mallet out and ready and walked around the room for hours without any sign of the golden jaguar. Ajax started thinking, if he could walk on top of the roof so could the jaguar. He climbed up to the beams on the roof again

To start the match Zeus, the God of all the Gods, explains to the crowd about the wrestling match. The two competitor were warming up for the most important match of the year. Zeus was also going to be the referee. He started the match and Athanasios did not get off to a good start. The opponent had taken him down. Hydromis, Athanasois’s biggest fan, was very nervous and wanted one of her closest

Hera, wife of Zeus, decided to get revenge on Zeus because he knocked up Alceme with a kid and poisoned Hercules with madness. One day the madness overcame Hercules and he butchered his entire family. After coming into sanity he realized what he has done and rushes to kill himself but is stopped by his good friend Theseus who convinces him that this

Zeus came down from Mount Olympus as an old wise man and tried talking with Hector. Zeus told Hector, “if you don’t stop I will turn you into a flower.” Well Hector didn’t like this news. Hector finally listened to Zeus, he