Greek Myths

In the beginning, it all started with the gods and goddesses Cronus (God of the Sky) and Rhea (Goddess of the Earth). They met and got married. While they were married they produced six offspring. These offspring would turn out to be some of the most famous in mythology. The offspring consisted

In many versions of this myth, it is said that as Persephone was about to leave the underworld with Hermes, Hades tricked her into eating several pomegranate seeds. By eating the pomegranate, which is the food of the underworld, Persephone was forced to return to Hades for several months during the year.

Other names Demeter was known as are Ceres, Sito, and Thesmophoros. Daughter of Cronus and Rhea, her siblings included Zeus, Poseidon, Hestia, Hades, and Hera. Along with her siblings, when Demeter was born, in order for Cronus to protect his power, he swallowed his children. Demeter was full grown by the time she was spit back out by her father. Demeter, and her brother, Zeus, gave birth to Persephone, who became queen of the Underworld. Her other children included Despoina, Arion, Plutus, Philomelus, Eubuleus, Chrysothemis, and Amphitheus I.

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Greek mythology is commonly mistaken by those unfamiliar with it as a religious subject. Instead, they are a set of stories about Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines that serve to entertain and give an explanation of how the world came to be. It’s apparent that the world wasn’t like the way it is currently from the beginning, but the myths do give us an idea of how things were like. As Edith Hamilton once said, “ But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them.” This gives us an idea that traces of that time are found in the stories as we read "Mythology" by Hamilton and "Black Ships Before Troy" by Sutcliff which is where we will be able to

Persephone was the daughter of the Greek god, Zeus, and goddess, Demeter. She was beautiful and happy. One day, as she was picking flowers in her field, her uncle, Hades, saw her and instantly fell in love with her. Hades decided to kidnap Persephone and took her to the underworld, where he was the god. He locked her in the Hall of Hades, where Persephone wept endlessly. There is a legend that says that if you eat anything in Hades’ lair, you can never leave. Persephone didn’t want to risk being stuck in hell for the rest of her life, so she didn’t eat. This lasted for a week, until she could no longer bear the hunger; Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds - and life in the underworld began to feel permanent.

These giants where monstrous and strong beast. They gave birth to three cyclopses or one eyed giants. They also gave birth to three beast that had 100 hands and 50 heads. These beasts where known collectively as the Hecatoncheires. Gaia and Uranus also gave birth to Titans. These Titans ruled the world after the giants where imprisoned in Tartarus. These twelve Titans then paired up with each other and gave birth to many children. The most famous children are the children of Cronos and Rhea. These children are the rulers of Olympus today with Zeus and his many siblings. These many children went to fight each other for

In Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Persephone’s fate has an effect of her mother’s actions. She was known as a young women who did not know what she expected out of life and was unsure of her capabilities within life. Due to Persephone eating the pomegranate seeds, it protected the promise to spend one third of each year with Hades, in which she would live with him, taking the role of his consort and the other two thirds of each year with Demeter, her mother. This also allowed Persephone to be worshiped as the queen in the Underworld and as the maiden, having the task of guiding the living that continued to visit the Underworld. In addition, Persephone knew the religion of the Greeks, learning about the beginning of Christianity and their Eleusinian Mysteries. Because of her return to the Underworld, the Greeks were able to encounter the renewal of afterlife.

Persephone, the goddess of spring growth, was abducted by Hades and taken down to the underworld where she was crowned queen of the underworld. When Persephone was gone the green fields of flowers turned to ice and the world had become lifeless. Demeter, her mother, searched the world for her but she refused to eat any of Earth’s fruit until she met her daughter. When the world was in a famine and the whole race of men would die, Zeus finally agreed to let Persephone met her mother. Demeter was so happy to meet her daughter, however, when she found out that Persephone had eaten Hades’ pomegranate seed she was immediately put back in her grief. When Persephone ate the seed, she promised to return back to the Underworld every year for six months.

People these days customarily and even times longer ago seem to fixate on the outcome rather than how a particular situation it came to be which can be either a good or lamentable thing. According to novel Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of The Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin, the gods of the book seemed to play an enormous part in a day to day lives for themselves, but what about the mortals who have no good interactions with the gods or heroes whatsoever? Their erudition is destitute of because they had no conception what was transpiring at Mount Olympus and possibly just thought the arbitrary gift of fire or the one failed endeavor in sun elevating was just a fluke both of which, resulted in gargantuan

She is siblings with Zeus and all the gods that I have previously mentioned so is also from the same parents as the rest of them. (The next myth is about Demeter and Hades which is the reason that Hades paragraph is so short.) Once Hades saw Demeter’s daughter Persephone and decided to kidnap her to be his bride. This made Demeter weep so much that all the crops stopped growing and the world became very cold. eventually Zeus had to intervene and and forced Hades to allow Persephone to return to the overworld but not until Hades tricked Persephone into eating a fruit that causes anyone that eats it to return to the underworld eventually. And because of that Persephone goes to the underworld for half the year creating fall and winter and when she returns for the other half of the year Demeter rejoices and the seasons of spring and summer

For thousands of years, there have been cultures from every part of the world that have come up with myths and legends. From werewolves and Bigfoot to Zeus and the Greek Gods, man has come up with almost everything imaginable. Each of these myths have been created for their own rationalizations. Some people came up with these myths due to the lack of entertainment that was available in the world they were familiar with, while others came up with them to explain why the world looked the way it does, or to explain how some things came to be. For whatever reason people made up with these stories, everyone can agree on one thing: many of these stories were undoubtedly scary to those who were listening to the stories or reading them. One character

Atlas and Prometheus were the sons of Iapetus. Atlas held the world upon his shoulders and Prometheus “was the savior of mankind” (18).

“Good luck is destined only for ambitious and assertive people. And that is what you are, Felix. Now, you can have the talisman – this golden pomegranate. Inside the pomegranate, contains five magical seeds, bound to bring good luck and fortune to anyone who possesses it.”

Greek mythology is the culmination of myths and teaching that began in Ancient Greek. These myths are diverse in the stories that they tell ranging from their gods, their heroes and the nature of the world. They also reveal much about their religious beliefs and practices during Ancient Greece. Today modern scholars study these myths in an attempt to better understand the religious and political practices of Ancient Greece and its civilization of way back when.