Nemesis: The Greek God Of Revenge And Retribution

There are many myths about Hera, but one very important one is called “The Judgment of Paris”. One day Eris gave Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena a golden apple with words on it that say “to the fairest”. So the three started fighting over which one of them is the fairest. They decided to let a human decide who was the fairest. This human was Paris, the king of Troy’s son. Every goddess tried to bribe Paris. Hera offered him power, Athena offered him wisdom, and Aphrodite offered him the most beautiful woman in the world, which, at that time was the queen of Sparta, Helena. Paris chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess from the three goddesses. When Paris went to get Helena from the king, the people of Troy were not happy, so, the Trojan War

She was born in an interesting way. Zeus knew that if Metis had a son, there were chances the son would be stronger than him. So he tricked her into becoming a fly and he swallowed her to eliminate the threat of having children. Metis inside of Zeus was pregnant with Athena. Over time Zeus got terrible headaches and begged Hephaestus to open up his head.

His affair with a woman named Leto led to the birth of the twins Apollo and Artemis. Hera being the jealous wife she was, forced Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth, for Hera had stopped her from gaining shelter on land or at sea. The only place she could go was to the isle of Delos in the middle of the Aegean Sea, for Delos was a floating island. This would be one of many of Hera’s revenges on her husband’s affairs. Zeus used many different disguises to seduce women. When he seduced the Spartan queen Leda, he transformed himself into a beautiful swan, and from the egg which Leda produced, two sets of twins were born. They were Polydeuces and Castor and Clytemnestra and Helen of Troy. He also visited princess Danae as a shower of gold, and from this, the hero Perseus was born. He kidnapped the Phoenician princess Europa, disguised as a bull, then carried her on his back to the island of Crete where she had three sons. They were Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon. These were just some of his many children. Zeus had many Temples and festivals in his honor, the most famous was Olympia, the magnificent "Temple of Zeus", which held the gold and ivory statue of the enthroned Zeus, which was sculpted by Phidias. It was later to become one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". Also the Olympic Games and many other numerous festivals throughout Greece were held in

Helen of Sparta’s portrayals in many different accounts of mythology and history are extremely dissimilar. Helen was said to be the daughter of Zeus and Leda (Queen of Sparta), and was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Helen was abducted by Paris of Troy and when Menelaus came to retrieve Helen, the Trojan war began. In “The Odyssey”, Helen is shown as living happily with Menelaus after he brought her back from Sparta. She is portrayed as an intelligent person who sees things for what they truly are, but is mostly reserved to wifely duties. In “Trojan Women” by Euripides, Helen is shown as a person who was used by the gods as a reward for Paris with nothing else in mind. However, she fights vehemently for her own innocence in the

Hera was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was born on the riverbanks of Imbrasons, under a willow tree. When Hera and her siblings were born Cornos her father, thought one of his children was going to kill him, so he swallowed all of them. Including Hera. Later on when Zeus was born and grew up he killed Cronos, and freed his brothers and sisters.

First off the origin of Hades himself. So his parents Cronus and Rhea had three boys, but as Rhea had the children Cronus ate them for he feared that once they were older they would

However, a majority of Homer 's audience would know that the real reason Helen was the cause of the Trojan war is because she has an affair with Paris. After Paris captured Helen and brought her back to Troy, Helen fell in love with Paris. This abduction of Helen ignited the start of the Trojan war. In the epic, Helen is described as being as “striking as Artemis with her golden shafts” (Od. 4.136) and is very hospitable towards Telemachus. Helens beauty as well as her affair with Paris have deemed her to be a seductress. Helen’s role as a temptress is crucial, because she is the reason why Odysseus left Ithaca to fight in the Trojan war. Menelaus reminisces about the Trojan Horse and mentions Helen being the “voice of all our long-lost wives” (Od. 4.313) since she was imitating the voices of Greek soldiers’ wives. Helen did not intentionally try to keep Odysseus away from Ithaca, but she catalyzed the events that caused Odysseus to stay away for ten years. Helen being a temptress is vital, because she is the reason that Odysseus is on his quest to return home.

In the time of ancient Greeks many people believed in certain Gods and Goddesses and their mythological stories. Among the many gods and goddesses there was Athena, Goddess of wisdom, crafts, and war. Also there was Apollo, God of the sun, music, healing, prophecy, and poetry. Apollo’s twin sister Artemis Goddess of hunting and archery. Then there’s Poseidon, God of the ocean and brother to the most powerful God of them all, the God of all Gods, Zeus. However, there was only one specific God that mortals and even Gods feared, the brother of Poseidon and Zeus. He was the ruler of the underworld and the dead; he went by the name of Hades.

After Medusa's affair with Poseidon she got pregnant with two children, Pegasus a winged horse, and Chrysaor, he of the Golden sword. They were sprang from Medusa's neck when Perseus cut her head. This myth of Medusa and Perseus is one of the most famous ones. Perseus was the

Helen of Troy- A beautiful woman who was the princes of Troy. Men would fight for her constantly. However, one day a man by the name of Perseus captured her and married her.

To begin the story, she is the cause of the entire Trojan war that had men fighting in a bloodbath for nine years. All the misfortune, struggling and killing resulted over the hand of a gorgeous mortal, and Helen had no intention of stopping it, proving her with a wicked mind. Later on, when Telemachus arrives at Pylos, the first thing she says leads to him weeping. “I cannot help saying what I think. Never yet have I seen either man or woman so like somebody else (indeed when I look at him I hardly know what to think) as this young man is like Telemachus, whom Odysseus left as a baby behind him, when you Achaeans went to Troy with battle in your hearts, on account of my most shameless self.”

Eurycleia is well informed about palace intrigues and serves as confidante to her masters 12) Helen-(heh-len) Helen is the daughter of Zeus and Leda. In some stories, she is referred to as the most beautiful woman in the world. She was taken by Paris of Troy from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. Her abduction is what ultimately started the Trojan War.

Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera of whom they both hated him. Zeus and Ares had many conflicts that involved the war. Ares was a rebellious child and that would irritate Zeus, but that did not stop Ares from acting against his father. He

Helen, the fairest woman on earth, was already married. Her husband, Menealus, was the king of Sparta. Paris, under Aphrodite's protection, sailed to Sparta, won Helen's love, and carried her off to Troy. Menelaus had to go to battle against Troy to defend his honor and retake Helen as his wife. Thus a combination of Eris's temper; Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite's jealousy; and Helen's beauty caused the war.

She is the mother of famous twin star, Pollux and Castor. Also, she bore Helen, the most beautiful mortal on Earth causing the great Trojan War. Leda appeared in one of Zeus’s affair, which the story is named “Leda and the swan”.