DIONYSUS- Mateo López

Hi, I’m Dionysus or in Roman Bacchus, I am the god of the wine and the nature also an inspiration and feature in religious mysteries. I am son of Zeus and Semele. I am a good and gentle with people that honored me, but I gave madness and destruction to those who deserved it. My ability is incredible, when I die and can born again. And this is my story, one day Zeus was mad with semele, my mom, and he killed her but I survive Hera was very mad with and she told to the titans, the titans killed me, they cut me into piece, but Rhea brought me back, from that day I become immortal and also I can bring dead from the underworld. In the winter I die and in the summer I return, bringing festivals, fruits and happiness to my followers.

SOURCES:
http://www.levity.com/mavericks/dionysus.htm
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dionysus.html
http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Dionysus/dionysus.html

Thisbe and Pyramus: a love story

My name is Thisbe and my husband is called Pyramus we are Greek equivalents of Romeo and Juliet, we were young and beautiful and we were in love but our families don’t approve this love. We were neighbors and one day we found a crack in the wall and we whispered some sweet words but we don’t kissed each other so we agree to meet in the middles of the night outside of Babylon. Next morning, when Aurora had put out the stars, and the sun had melted the frost from the grass, we met at the accustomed spot. Then we agreed that next night when all was still to live our dwellings and walk into the fields. We agree that the one who came first would wait in a white mulberry tree. When I arrive a lion was there her jaws reeking with recent slaughter, approaching the fountain to slake her thirst. I fled at the sight, and sought refuge in the hollow of a rock. As I fled I dropped my veil. The lion after drinking at the spring turned to retreat to the woods, and seeing the veil on the ground, tossed and rent it with her bloody mouth. Then came Pyramus and saw the footprints of the lion, then he find my veil and he feel very sorry because he think that he was the caused of my death. He took my veil and he put it in the appointed tree and covered with kisses and with tears. By this time cautiously with a lot of fear I go out of the cave wishing don’t disappoint my lover, when I saw the change color of the mulberries I think I was in the wrong place and I start running then I saw Pyramus in the floor I start yelling, trying that Pyramus respond me. He opened his eyes and closes them again then he saw my veil with the blood and he told me: I follow the death as I was the caused, love and death has joined us, let one tomb contain us, and let the berries let our memorials of our blood, saying this he put me the sword into my breast, our two bodies were buried in one sepulcher, and berries never after return purple again. This was my love story of Pyramus and me Thibes.

Persephone

I’m Persephone Goddes of the underworld. And today I come to tell you my story I am the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the earth and croops. She is responsible for the growth of plants and crops, I always helped her. And my father Zeus.

Pluto was so intense, he wanted to marry me and asked Zeus's my Dad permission todo it. My dad alwais avoided answering Pluto's request, however, knowing that he would never agree. One day, Pluto found me alone in the foresy, he kidnapped me and took my self down to Hades. As we entered Hades, we passed by Cerberus the three-headed dog who guards the doors of the Underworld to keep the dead from leaving ,it was very scary.

When my mom discovered that I was missing, she stopped taking care of the crops and began to search for her beautiful daughter me. The crops died. Eventually, she discovered that I was Pluto's prisoner in Hades. She pleaded with my dad suplicvate to release me. The gods also wanted him to convince Pluto to let me free, because the humans would have nothing to eat they would stay without any crops.

My dad ordered Pluto to free me, as long as she hadn't eaten any food in Hades. Just before he set me free, Pluto tricme and makes me eant some pomegranate seeds from his garden. Because I had eaten from Pluto's garden, I had to spend part of the year in the Underworld and part on earth with my mother.

So, every year when I am in the Underworld, mom is sad and lets the plants die. When I returns to earth, mom is happy and let the plants flower and grow.

by:sara botero villegas
http://www.loggia.com/myth/persephone.html

Hi my name is Midas!!

I was the king of Phrygia. I ordered free Silenus that was sleeping in my vineyard. He was very grateful and so was the god Dionysus who offered me whatever wish I wanted, I liked to be a very rich man so I asked him that anything I touched I converted in gold, that’s why I am known as “Midas touch”. I was very happy so I started to turn almost everything in my palace into gold.

One day I was taking my daughter to her lessons about garden but accidentally I take her of his hand and transform her into a gold statue. I understand know why Dionysus told me if I was sure of this wish, so I went to him and asked him if I could take this magic of. He told me that I needed to wash in the river Pactolus. I washed and the magic was away. Then I started to throw all the things I turned into gold there.

Alejandro Arango L 9a

www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/midas.html

Arachne

I am Arachne; I was a young woman from Lydia, sometimes I was a princess. My story was told throughout ancient Greece and it helped serve as a warning to all mortals to respect the gods. When I was mortal they used me like an art of weaving and the nymphs of the forest abandoned their jobs for looking at me, because I have a lot of talent. I wove beautiful fabrics of delicate designs, and the people began to admire my work. I had been taught by the goddess Athena. Athena was my teacher, but I think that I am better than she is in weaving. and “I have achieved this marvelous skill due to my own talent, hard work, and efforts." Bibliography

1. Nick Pontiks, “Myth Mans Arachne”, Arachne High Myths, http://www.thanasis.com/store/arachne.htm, Novembre 25 of 2007.

isabela giraldo the queen

Europa

Hi! I am Europa, I am an earth woman, daughter of the king Agenor. I had been stolen by Zeus, the supreme ruler, the sky god. It was the day that I call my friends, who where all daghters of nobility and they where of my same age. That day we where gathering for some flowers at the beach and Zeus noticed us, specially me. Zeus appeared to us as a white bull, the most beautiful one, he smelled like flowers. He was so beautiful that all of us rushed to stroke it. That bull laid down in front of me and I slid on his back. Instantly he began to swim rapidly in to the sea from the shore. I saw that Nerids was riding dolphins, Triton blowing his horn, and even Poseidon juoin us, so I realised that that bull must be a god. I pleaded him to pity me. Zeus spoke me and explain me his love. He took me to Crete, an Island, and he promised that my sons woul be famous, and he was right my sons are: Minos I and Rhadamanthus.

sources: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/gg/zeuslover.html

by: Irene Mejia R.

APHRODITE

Hi! I am Aphrodite (Venus), goddess of love and beauty. I was created from the violent acts of Cronos, who took a sickle and cut of the genitals of my father (Uranus) and threw them into the sea, the sperm and the sea mixed into a soft foam, and I emerged from that foam, enchanting anyone who sees me and inciting feelings of love wherever I go. I am a contender in the story of the Golden Apples, when Paris chooses me as the fairest of the three goddesses (the others were Hera and Athena) and I decided to "reward" him by giving him the love of Helen of Troy (something of a mixed blessing that led to the Trojan War). I was a beautiful woman usually accompanied by the god Eros (Love).My attributes include a dove, apple, scallop shell and a mirror. I was married to Hephaestus but I wasn’t satisfied with him so I run to the arms of Ares; god of war. From the affair we had the theory that opposites attract was created, since Ares was the god of war and I was the goddess of love and beauty. I posed naked many times for some paints.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/wiggintonaphrodite/aphrodite.html
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/aphrodite.html
Valeria Moscoso