Polythemus

POLYTHEMUS

Hi my name is Polythemus, I’m a Cyclop and I live on the island Youra, my parents are Poseidon and Thoosa (a nymph). At Youra my home is a cave and when I find out that Odysseus and his men were hiding inside it I sealed it with a huge rock….I was hungry so I ate some of Odysseus men. Also I had a talk with Odysseus, I asked for his name and he told me that was “None”.The evil Odysseus was planning to escape so they got me drunk and they put a sharp pole that they made into my eye and made me blind, I confused and suffering a lot of pain removed the entrance stone and I tried to catch the escaping men but Odysseus had foreseen this so they all tied themselves under a sheep, so I only felt the animals as they left the cave. I tried to take revenge but when I told to the other Cyclops that None tried to kill me they didn’t believed….so I threw huge rocks into the sea hopping that I will hit Odysseus’ ship. By: Estefanía Gómez Mejía. By: Estefaníia Gómez Mejía 9B

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http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/polyphemus.htm. November 24 2007

prometheus

JUAN CAMILO PEREZ PROMETHEUS I’m Prometheus a titan known for my intelligence and also because I stole fire from Zeus to give it to the humans for their use. I played a trick to Zeus because I though he would never realized it. It all star because my task was to create human shape with clay. My attempts to better my creations lives broth me into conflict wit Zeus. I tried to trick Zeus with a sacrificed acquiring the meat for the feasting of man the Zeus with anger and looking for revenged he create Pandora the firsts women as a means to deliver misfortune into the house of man meanwhile i was arrested and attached to the Mount Kaukasos where an eagle was tasked to feed with my liver that regenerates every day for the eternity the then great hero Herakles came and release me form my eternal torture

http://img.timezone.com/img/articles/cjrml0001/Prometheus

Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th-7th B.C.
Hesiod, Works & Days - Greek Epic C8th-7th B.C.

Hi, My Name is Phaeton

I am not a god, but I am a son of one. My father is Helios the god of the sun and my mother is Clymene. She is not a god either, we are mortals.

I lived my whole life with my mother which is why I met my father when I was older and I discovered my dad was a god. When I discovered this, I asked him if I could go visit him to ask him for a favor and he said yes immediately.

When I got to my father's house and asked him if I could ride his chariot, he told me I could but that I had to be careful with the horses because they were very strong. I was so excited that I ignored that warning and the horses went out of control when I stepped in the chariot! I was destroying everything, and when I got near the Earth, Zeus threw a lightning bolt to stop me and it killed me when it touched me.

Sources

• http://www.loggia.com/myth/galleryphaethon.html
• http://www.loggia.com/myth/phaethon.html
• http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=PHAETON
• http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg45/gg45-70144.0.html

Susana Pava

Hades the god of the Underworld

My name is Hades, the lord of the dead and ruler of the nether world. I am the son of Cronus and Rhea. I had three brothers, and my father Cronus divided the world among each other, I was given the underworld, while my brothers Zeus and Poseidon took the upper world and the sea respectively. For a while Hades ruled the underworld together with Persephone, whom he had kidnap from the upper world, but Zeus ordered him to release Persephone back into the care of her mother Demeter.
I sit on a throne made of ebony, and I carry a scepter. I also have a helmet, it was a present by the Cyclopes, which can make me invisible. I rule the dead, assisted by various (demonic) helpers, such as Thanatos (Hypnos, sleep), the ferryman Charon, and the hound Cerberus (three- headed watchdog). My strength is to reach with the wealth of earth, especially precious metals. My weakness is Persephone. My symbol is scepter.

By: Martin Trujillo

Sources: http://tqnyc.net/nyc040746/olympian_gods/hades2.htm

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hades.html

Sisyphus

My Roman and my Greek names are both Sisyphus; I am the son of the king Aeolus of Thessaly and Enarete. I am also the first king that Corinth had. I have 1 son called Glaucus. I am the god of navigation and commerce. My only ability is my imperative strength and my capability to perseverate. The story that I am most famous for is the following. I don’t really know why but Persephone thinks that I am ambitious and selfish. He didn’t like me even a little. The issue was that before I died I told my wife that when I die she was not to offer the usual sacrifice. When I died, in the underworld, I persuaded Persephone, the queen of the underworld that my wife was betraying me and she allowed me to go to the upper world to tell my wife to perform her duty. I tricked them and later I refused to go back to the underworld. In consequence Hermes carried me back to the underworld and as a punishment the gods condemned me to carry a giant rock up trough a hill but when I arrived to the top it rolled down the hill again, making this job an eternal task. Thank you.

By: Rafael Marulanda 9B

Hi… My name is Europa

I am a mortal women who long time ago Zeus fell in love. The story says that Zeus transform into a white bull and take me to the island of Crete. In this Island Zeus got me pregnant with three sons. There names were Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. Zeus was so in love with that he gave me three priceless presents. The first one was Talos, a magical man made of bronze, who served like a guard in Crete. The second was Lealaps, a dog who was really good at hunting. And the last present Zeus gave me was a javelin that always hit its target. But I am important because I gave the name of Europe to the continent. I know that you are asking what the role of the white bull is. At the end of the story this beautiful white bull became the constellation of Taurus.

Sources:
Joel Skidmore, Mythweb, http://www.mythweb.com/index.html. November 22 2007.

Mythography, http://www.loggia.com/myth/myth.html. November 22, 2007.

Welcome to in2Greece!, http://www.in2greece.com/english/index.htm, 22 Nov. 07

Camila Arias

Icarus & Daedalus

Hi, my name is Icarus and i'm best known for the kid who died for not paying attention to my father Daedalus. My father and I were slaves in the castle of the king of Knossos, located in Crete. He once did a laberynth for the king in which we were trapped, so he was a great inventor and build a par of wings made of string and wax because he was a great inventor.

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Once the wings were done he told me to try them but never to fly very high because the sun could melt the wings. When I was high flying I totally forgot my father's advise because of my excietement, so the sun melted my wings and I fell to the sea and died drowned.

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This is me flying towards the sun minutes before I fell to the ocean.

Sources: http://www.verticalpool.com/icarusmyth.html

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