The Odyssey: The Story Of Greek Myth

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

Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades and Poseidon all came out fully grown. After the plan was completed Zeus freed the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes. The Cyclopes then forged Zeus’ lightning bolt, Hades’ helmet and Poseidon’s trident. With the help of the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes, Zeus and the Olympians were successful in overthrowing Cronus and the Titans. Zeus then cast the titans into Tartarus. However, Atlas, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Oceanus and Prometheus were not imprisoned.

Cronus was a titan and controlled the world along with the other titans when Zeus was born. Cronus usually swallowed his children after they were born, but Rhea took Zeus to Mount Dicte where he was hidden from Cronus. He then came back to Cronus when he was older and made Cronus regurgitate his brothers and sisters. His brothers were Hades and Poseidon and his sisters were Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. He ended up marrying Hera and had eight children with her. He was infamous for his affairs with other women while married to Hera. He had many children and some of importance were Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes and Dionysus Hercules, Perseus the Muses, the Graces, and Helen of Troy were only a few of his children. He had many children that were gods and he had a few that were heros as

In contrast to the father, the mother had a connection with their children, often leading to an overthrow of the husband. This materialistic love is easily shown in the myth of Demeter and Persephone. “ The joy of Demeter’s eternal lifetime was her daughter, Persephone, whom she had borne to Zeus “ ( Rosenberg Demeter 94). After Persephone was taken away, Demeter became infuriated and even “ withdrew her life sustaining powers,.. she broke the plows, killed oxen, and caused the earth to shrivel” ( Rosenberg Demeter 96). Seen from Demeter’s reaction to the situation, the bond between mother and child was very strong compared to that of the father. When Persephone returns, she takes comfort in her mother rather than her father. Children usually took the mother’s side and went against their father’s will. In the creation myth of the Greeks, there were two generations in which the mother wanted to protect her children from the grasps of the father. Gaea was afraid of what Uranus would do to their fearful children, and sought to protect them ( Rosenberg Creation 86). The wives of Cronus and Uranus both schemed the overthrow of their husbands,

It is important to keep reading, “The Odyssey.” Even though it is 2800, years old, students still need to learn about it. It is important to continue studying “The Odyssey” because is it a moral story, the historical significance is important, and it is essential to study other culture’s mythology.

Gaea, who is also known as the mother of the earth has gotten upset with Zeus after he took over Olympus by defeating the Titans. She decided to make a horrible monster that she would send to attack Zeus and take his place. This monster was called Typhon, who has frightening feature and unimaginable power. Typhon attacked the home of the gods by throwing flaming rocks, hissing, screaming, and spitting fire. The gods were frightened by this creature and fled to Egypt where they were transformed into animals. Athena accused Zeus of cowardliness so Zeus went to go attack the monster. He stuck the beast with a lightning bolt and chased it for quite some distance. He saw the monster was severely injured and decided he would use hand to hand combat.

Born as the youngest in the generation of Titans, Cronus had wanted to obtain power and was envious of his father, the god of the sky, Uranus. His chance finally came to him when his mother, Gaia, the goddess of earth, called upon her children with a request. She had asked them who was brave enough to cast a dreadful punishment on Uranus for a task he had done previously to Gaia. Only Cronus was willing enough to take the quest. Gaia equipped him with a grand, stone sickle and sent him to castrate his father as divine retribution. After completing the burden, Cronus quickly dismissed Uranus and with his sister

Cronus was the youngest of Uranus’ twelve Titan children. Uranus hid his and Gaia’s children in Tartarus because he was afraid of their strength and power. Gaia was uncomfortable with the decision and decided to have one of her children castrate Uranus. Cronus was the only one to step up and take on the task of doing so. Cronus hid from his father’s view and then he struck. “With one mighty blow from the sickle Cronus severed the genitals from Uranus’ body”(“Cronus”).

Titanomachy, also known as the War of the Titans or the Battle of the Titans, was fought between the Titans, who were the older generation gods in greek Greek mythology, and the Olympians, the newer generation, and their allies. Although mythological, this war is one of the most interesting topics and dates back centuries. This epic war was best described in Theogony, a poem by Hesiod, in 700 B.C. It ended with the Olympians defeating, and thus succeeding the Titans to the domain of the universe. The war lasted a total of ten years, consisting of a series of battles fought in Thessaly.

After the glorious victory of the Olympian gods over the Titans, Gaea, the Mother Earth , became very angry with Zeus, the King of the Olympian Gods, because she felt that he had treated her sons, the Titans, unfairly.Gaea therefore unified with Tartarus (the symbol of the depths of the Underworld) to create a devastating monster which was meant to destroy Zeus and take his place. They gave the monster the name

When her first born ,Uranus, decided he was not ready to become a father he became quite troubled. He thought many long days and many long nights to find a solution to his troubles. He finally came to the decision that when Gaia began labor and the children were coming he would start pushing the children back into the womb in which they had come. Also when he became aware of the cyclopes children he came quite angry with Gaia. Another myth is that one of her partners was very ill and worried that when the children would grow up that they would try to overthrow him. He tried to fix this by swallowing the children when they were children. The partner's sister ,Rhea, befriends Gaia and they unite to save the children. They decided that would stab him, and it worked one distracted him while the other came from the behind to stab. There are still many more myths that are believed to have

Cronus was the son of Uranus and Gaia and out of the twelve Titans he was the youngest. His wife was also one of the twelve Titans he married his sister Rhea. Their children were Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Uranus hid Cronus and the rest of his children away in the bowels of the Earth as he was shocked at the sight of them, but in reality he was scared of their great strength and power. Cronus hid from Uranus, and when Uranus came to lay with Gaia, Cronus struck. With one swing from a hook Cronus severed Uranus genitals

Ultimately, she was matriarch to the Titans… Gaia, (Earth), was the mother to Cronus making Khaos his grandmother. Cronus fathered the infamous brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, (among others).

His mother Gaia told the Titans to over throw there father even though he was with her. But no Titan would stand up to their father. But on day Cronus said to his mother, “Mother, I will undertake to do this deed, for I reverence not our father of evil name, for he first thought of doing shameful things.” In order to do this Gaia gave him a adamantine sickle with jagged teeth. And that night as Uranus approached Gaia longing for love, Cronus jumped out of the darkness and castrated Uranus and threw them from the sky into the sea. After that Uranus never really showed himself again because he was ashamed of himself. And the first thing that Cronus did when he became ruler of the Universe was fee his brethren from the pits of Tartarus the Cyclops’s. But after he freed them the power got to him and he changed his mind and in prison them once again. After he cast them away back into the pits of Tartarus the Cyclops’s hated him for the rest of the lives. "CRONUS : Greek Titan King of Heaven, God of Time ; Mythology ; Pictures : KRONOS, SATURN." CRONUS : Greek Titan King of Heaven, God of Time ; Mythology ; Pictures : KRONOS, SATURN. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept.

The first and one of the worst wars in Greek mythology took place on Mount Olympus. The story is about the battle between Typhon and they Olympians. Typhon is the ruler of the mythical monsters. He can take on many forms but mainly he is a “humanoid” form made of the earth. Typhon attacked the mountain to gain control of Olympus and take it away from Zeus. Athena, Zeus, and the goddess of victory Nike stayed to fight Typhon and defend Olympus. After a long hard fight against Typhon and the other monsters, the Olympians managed to defeat them and keep