The Age Of Zeus is about a paramilitary group trying to overthrow the new world government, which consists of 12 people who have been genetically engineered by “Zeus” who is really a biomedical engineer named Xander Landsman to have powers resembling those of the 12 Olympians. The paramilitary group fittingly called themselves The Titans were created by Xander's father to combat these Olympians using high tech armor and weapons that allow them to fight people who can control the weather or can throw cars. Eventually the Titans end up eliminating all of the Olympians all tho Zeus accidentally fries Demeter and Hera, along with himself, after the final confrontation with his father who at this point is going by the name Cronus. The main protagonist of the story is Sam Akehurst A.K.A Tethys, she is a former detective who was invited …show more content…
I disagree quite a bit with this because with enough force and planning you can prevent pretty much anything from happening including an armed uprising as is used in this book. An example force being used to prevent a situation like the one in the book is the U.S civil war which altho it took a little while was eventually ended unconditionally do to the superior force of the Union army. but in this book there is only five people who are even a quarter as strong as the Olympians, who at the end of the book proceeds to try to charge the most powerful people on the planet, which somehow works when really they should have been immediately destroyed by any of the 11 super powerful people or the menagerie of mutated animals that protect them. Another example of something being dealt with through enough force is the burning oil fields in kuwait which were put out by literally flooding the area with tons of seawater, something the people responsible for lighting the fires expected to take years only took months, do to the amount of effort put into stopping the
She tricked Cronus to eat a magic herb. Cronus threw up the stone and the children. Zeus other siblings are, the boys or the gods are Hades and Poseidon. Zeus’ sisters or the goddess’ are Hestia.Demeter,and Hera. After that Cronus surrendered and fled. The Titans and and sons revolted. The titans were Prometheus and Epimetheus. Zeus also freed Gaea’s sons from Tartarus. The cyclops made weapons. Zeus had his lightning bolts. Poseidon has his trident. Hades has his cape of invisibility. The Titans lost, they were sent to Tartarus and they are guarded by a monster. Atlas the strongest titan holde the sky up forever. Gaea is angry. Typhor dies, Echidna and gos fled. Zeus turned and threw lightning bolts. The Cyclops built a palace. Which is later name Mt.
I chose to write about Zeus for my independent project. By the time my paper is written and finished, I can only hope to have discovered more and more information about him than at the beginning of this essay. Some things I do want to remember and learn about him are what made him so great, is he the Greek God’s leader, and what did he accomplish? When somebody speaks about Greek mythology, it seems as though everyone wants to talk about Zeus. Another thing that I hear very often when Zeus is mentioned is the fact that he controls/carries the lightning bolt. That is Zeus’s symbol. I have for a long while been itching to take in more about him yet never thought to consider his history until today.
The war went on for years and all the men of the Golden Age were killed. Zeus saved all of his brothers and sisters from Kronos and he built Olympus, which was a palace of the gods. Zeus married Hera, his sister, and they had many children. Soon, the world was filled with many gods.
The story provides gritty, graphic detail of life and combat in Fifth Century BC Greece. It fleshes out the history of the actual event at Thermopylae as recorded by Herodotus, and gives the reader a true feel for what it must have been like to fight as a Spartan hoplite in a phalanx against the Persians. Connection between your book and the field of history/social studies This book shows a battle between free men and slaves, many against few, and they both fight for different reasons. King Leonidas of Sparta fights for freedom and his country, on the contrary King Xerxes of Persia fights for individual power and slavery trying to cement his name in the
Fifth-century Athens refers to the Greek city-state of Athens in the period of roughly 480 BC-404 BC. This was a period of Athenian political hegemony, economic growth and cultural flourishing formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens or The Age of Pericles. The period began in 480 BC when an Athenian-led coalition of city-states, known as the Delian League, defeated the Persians at Salamis. As the fifth century wore on, what started as an alliance of independent city-states gradually became an Athenian empire. Eventually, Athens abandoned the pretense of parity among its allies and relocated the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens, where it funded the building of the AthenianAcropolis. With its enemies
Once Zeus was fully grown he returned to his father’s realm and with the help of his mother, hoodwinked Cronus to drink an emetic that made him disgorge his children (Leadbetter). It was these children: Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera and Demeter who helped Zeus wage the Titan war against Cronus. The women titans refused to help Cronus defeat the Olympians and even a few male titans helped aid the Olympians. After ten years of battles, the Olympians were able to banish the Titans into the Underworld (Titanomachy). It was after this war that Zeus seized the throne and divided the sky, the underworld, and the sea amongst him and his brothers. (Hades: the underworld, Poseidon: the sea, and Zeus: the sky.)
Zeus was the child of the Titans, Cronus and Rhea, and was the youngest of all his siblings. Cronus , Zeus’ father, had been warned that one of his children would overthrow him. Cronus knew the consequences, for he had overthrown his father, Uranus. To prevent this from
her to give him the baby so he could swallow it. She hid Zeus in a
The titans overthrow their father Uranos with their mother’s help, but before Uranos can be banished into Tartarus, he prophesizes that his son Cronos would be overthrown by his own children. In fear of his father’s curse, Cronos swallows his offspring as soon as they are born. To protect her youngest child, his wife Rhea hides Zeus and gives Cronos a rock instead of her son. Over the years, Zeus develops a plan to save his siblings and end Cronos’ tyranny, ultimately freeing them. As a result, the Titanomachy–a war between gods and titans–ensues, with the outcome of the gods’ victory and the establishment of the new era with Zeus as king of the gods.
“The supreme deity of Greek mythology has his lusty, tempestuous story recast in engaging fashion by Stone”(ProQuest). Zeus was thought of as the father of gods and men. While he did not make them, he protected them, and therefore was considered a father to them. He ruled over the sky and air, and controlled everything that happened in his domains from his throne on Mount Olympus. To gain his throne, he overthrew his father, Cronos, with the help of his siblings, and then dividing up the realms between him and his two elder brothers. Zeus became lord of the sky and rain, Poseidon took the title lord of the sea, and Hades became ruler of the underworld. He then banished his father to the shadowy Tartarus in the underworld. Zeus was the most
However when Zeus was born Rhea took a stone and wrapped it in clothe and Kronos swallowed it. Zeus grew up away from his father and when he grew up he wanted revenge on his father. Zeus was victorious in the battle against the Titans, the Titanomachy. Metis, the daughter of the Titan Okeanos, “Oceans”, made and served Kronos a drink to make him throw up Zeus’ brothers and sisters, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia, they joined forces with Zeus.
Whenever Zeus grew up he decided to go back and try to help save his siblings and overthrow his father Cronus. Zeus went back and pretended to want to be a servant for Cronus. Once Zeus was officially a servant of Cronus he gave him a mixture to make him throw up. This resulted in Cronus regurgitating the rest of Zeus’ siblings. Once Zeus had his siblings back they decided to make war. Their goal was to overthrow their father.
We later won the war, and when we did I locked some of the Titans in Tartarus, the dungeon of torment. I was very kind to the titans that remained neutral during the war .The only one to get away was my father, Cronus, because he ran away at the end of the
Powerful Military During the eighth and seventh century B.C., in ancient Greece, numerous armed forces were battling for control of area and force. Grim fights and dependable wars left
Zeus was known for a number of things, but his love affairs was one of the numerous things he was famous for. Zeus was the king of all the gods, he was known for the god of the skies, weather, fate and laws. Out of all of his lovers he had over the years, his first was known as Aphrodite. She was the goddess of beauty and was followed by Zeus when she first emerged from the great sea, but she managed to escape him. It did not take much time for Zeus’ wife Hera to realize that their marriage was falling into the deep end. Zeus had a deep lust which then made Hera’s jealousy fester. (Summary 1).