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

EroS aNd PsycHe!

I was the youngest and most beautiful daughter of the king. I was so beautiful that the other humans were praying to me instead of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. Aphrodite was so jealous of me that she ordered his son, Eros to use his golden arrows to cause me to fall in love with the ugliest creature in the world. When Eros find me he was admired by my beauty and because of that he accidentally prick himself with one of his golden arrows and he failed in love with me.
When I got sleep a gentle wind lifted me and let me in a beautiful place that had a golden palace. Eros was my husband and he was a gentle lover but he didn’t let me look at him so I was only in the dark night with him.
One day I was feeling a little lonely so I asked my husband to be allowed to bring my sisters for a visit. My husband allows me and he send the wind to bring my sisters. When they saw how beautiful my new home was and how sweet was my husband with me they get jealous and told me that husband was some kind of monster, and that, was the reason of why he didn’t let me saw him. They suggested that I should hide a lantern and a knife near our bed, so that I could look to see if he was definitely a monster, and cut off his head. That night when my husband seeped I took a lamp and when I raised it, I saw that my husband was not a monster but Eros! I was so admired by he’s beauty that I forget he had told me I couldn’t look at him. When he woke up he surprised me with the lamp looking at him and he went so mad that he ran and flew off.
I was desperate because I wanted him back but no god wanted to help me so I went to the temple of Aphrodite and prayed for help. Aphrodite responded by giving me a series of tasks to do. Tasks that Aphrodite believed I was going to die on.
The first task I was helped by a group of ants that made all the work for me. The second task I was helped by a tree that told me how to give Aphrodite what she wanted without getting killed. The third task I was helped by an eagle that bridged me what I needed. And my last Task was to go to the underworld and bring Aphrodite a piece of beauty of Persephone in a golden box.
Persephone didn’t have any problem to give me a piece of her beauty to Aphrodite but when I was going back with the golden box I was so curios that I opened it and I immediately fall unconscious. Eros could no longer restrain the love he feel for me. He went as fast as he could were I was and woke me up. He told me that I need to give the box to Aphrodite and that he would take care of the rest.
When I end with my last task my dear Eros took me to the heavens and he spoke of his love for me so eloquently Zeus was moved to grant him his wish. Zeus gave me a cup of ambrosia, the drink of immortality. Zeus then joined our eternal marriage. Later we had a daughter, who was named Pleasure and we lived happy ever after.

By: daniela Jaramillo

Hera (Juno)

Hi, I am Hera, also known as Juno. I am Zeus wife and sister; my parents are Rhea and Cronus. I am so jealous of all those girls Zeus has affairs with, so I hate them and their sons. I love playing tricks in all those girls and their sons. Argos is my all-time favorite city, and they are under my custody. I am the goddess protector of marriage, especially of married woman. I am also the protector of heroes and I inspire heroic achievements. I am the queen of the Olympians and I take many forms, but usually I am birds. After some time I became the chief deity of war. I am also the goddess of birth and my worship is older than Zeus.

Skidmore, Joel. “Hera”. http://www.mythweb.com/gods/Hera.html November, 26 2007

Lindemans, Micha F. “Hera” http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hera.html November, 26 2007

BY: MANUELA ECHEVERRY

HADES

Hi I am Hades the god of the underworld and the god of wealth due to the precious metals mined on earth (That’s why they some times call me “The rich one”). I am also called often Dis. When Zeus overthrew our father Cronus, me and my brothers (Zeus and Poseidon) started seeing how we would share the world. I ended up being the god of the underworld because I had the worst draw. I am one of the six Olympians and my mother is Rhea. I’m also the god of the death, but not of death it self. I mean of all the death people. I rarely leave the underworld. Everyone that dies go to the underworld but only the most evil are punished. I am a very greedy god and I am really concerned about increasing my subjects. I am also unpitying and terrible but I’m not capricious. In the underworld the Erinnyes are welcome. When people arrive my territory, once there they cannot leave my domain with the exception of some such as Herakles. My wife is called Persephone which I abducted. The narcissus and the cypress are sacred to me.
I have a helmet which makes me invisible. I appear in stories such as in the called “The abduction of Persephone”, in “Hades in the Iliad” and in “Hades in the Odyssey”.

BY: ISABEL LONDOÑO MARULANDA 9A

I, the monstrous medusa, the terror of Greek mythology. I was the mean woman who became a monster. Also was one of the gorgon (terrible) sisters. My freezing look made people in stones, and I was the only one in my family that was half mortal. I wasn’t such evil, and horrible. I was a beautiful woman, but one day the lord of the sea called Poseidon raped me in Antennae’s temple and then I got pregnant. Antennae with such anger, punished me to become as my sisters so suddenly the beauty of my hair turned into snakes and my face so horrible that one look made the observers in stones. Other tell that Aphrodite was jealous of my hair that she turned my hair into snakes.

While I was pregnant, Percious, which had worked in team with antennae, and Hermes killed me. When the blood star coming out of my neck, Presious used my head to save Andromeda and kill Polidectes. Then he offered the head to antennae, and so antennae used it as a symbol on her shield.

Pamela Van Den Enden U.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa

My name is Pygmalion

Hi my name is Pygmalion and I love to create sculptures. One of my best escultures was named Galatea and it was so perfect that I ended up in love with her. One night I started dreaming that Galatea was alive so I began to touch her all around her body and when I waked up I found Aprhodite and she told me that I was in real love. So she converted the statue in a real person and I married her. Then I had 2 sons with Galatea.

Eduardo Salazar A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion

PiSeIdOn

Poseidon

Hi im Poseidon the god of sea, son of Cronos and Rea. I lived in a castle of gold in the deep sea. I traveled in a carriage pulled by white horses of crimes and gold helmets. Always accompanied by my trident. I refused to Thetas to learn of the prophecy that if I learned this I can be more important than my father. I move around shell shell-shaped chariot pulled by horses marine and accompanied by a procession of deities of water, especially nereida and tritons. Im also accompanied my wife, nereida Anfitrite After fighting the Titans and the Giants; I get to be the god of water, especially the sea. I had mastery of the elements of the sea, to storms, huge waves.

I was impetuous, for being like these I became ambitious, which caused me many fights with the other gods. I had numerous offspring extra marital but generally engendered malicious and monstrous beings. The tritons were my sons, half man, half fish, with fins and body covered with scales.


http://usuarios.lycos.es/nubeazul8/newpage9.html

Orpheus and Eurydice

Hi I am Orpheus, the best musician that ever lived, I love Eurydic, she was a Dryad, we married and had a perfect life, and we love each other. Eurydice expend a lot of her time playing in the fields, until one day that she trod on a deadly snake and died.
After this my friends thought that I most died because I was so unhappy, I diden't eat or even drink. Then I went to visit Hades, the god of the underworld, and plead for her life, I charmed the ferry man, Charon into corssing the river Styx, I charm Hades and he told me that Eurydice could follow me out of the underworld, but if I don't look back and look at her. I was doing very well, all way to Charon and very carefully, but I was just to arrived ad I looked back at her!. After this Eurydice was pulled back again for ever!
I LOST MY TRUE LOVE FOREVER!!!

Bibliography
http://www.paleothea.com/Myths/Orpheus.html
Valeria Aponte R.

Narcissus

Narcissus

Hi my name is Narcissus I am a beautiful guy. When I born Tiresias told my parents that I would live to a old age if I did not look at myself. All the nymphs and girls fell in love with me but I did never care about them. A nymph called Echo and she get so upset when I reject her that she get into a lonely spot a she faded until there was only a plaintive whisper. The goddess Nemesis got very mad when she heard all the rejected girls prayers. For vengeance she made me look at my self in a lake and i fell in love with myself and I felt to the lake and I die.

Souces:
Uright, Morgan. "Narcissus". http://www.pantheon.org/articles/n/narcissus.html. November 26, 2007

By: Rafael Villegas 9A

ACHILLES

Hi my name is Achilles, I am the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid Thetis, I am most known by the Trojan war, I was the best fighter ever, I lead the war in troy, in this war I became a hero for Greeks, also I am known by my fighting skills, after my death my armor was supposed to be given to the all mightiest warrior in the Trojan War. In my life I only had one son called Pyrrhus. I was educated at the Chiron School For Heroes. I was one of the last offspring of a god coupling with a mortal, gods try to became me inmortal, my life was interface by gods.

Ernesto Munarriz

ProMetheUs-Protector and benefactor of MAN!!!

I am Prometheus, and I am the son of Iapetus and Clymene. My name means “forethought”, and I am one of the Titans or Gods of the Olympus. Long time ago I made a beautiful piece of art, it was the first man. I used clay and I put pieces of other creatures to create him. As a good father, I taught him many things so he could live and learn how to work alone. Later, I realized that he was not going to be able to advance without the fire, so took the fire from Zeus and gave it to him. This gift could not be taken away from him because he was mortal, so Zeus decided to take revenge on me. He asked Kratos and Bia, his servants, to take me to Mount Caucasus where I was suposed to be all the eternity. He also asked Hephaestus to create the same creature but this time also with its opposites, it was the first woman. Finally I was so lucky that Heracles released me from that ugly place in Caucasus.

My soul is going to be always happy because people still remember me as the protector and benefactor of man!

WARNER, John. “PROMETHEUS”. PROMETHEUS. http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/promethe.htm. November 20/2007.

HUNT M, John. “The titans”. Greek Mythology Gods. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/GG/titan.htm. November 23/2007.

“PROMETHEUS”. Prometheus: Greek Titan God. http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html. November 25/2007.

BY: Daniela Diaz

I am Phaeton, and I am the son of Helios (the god of the sun) and the nymph Clymene. My name means “The Shining One”. My friends laughed at the idea that my father was the god of the sun, but I decided to ask my mother if it was true. She said it was true, and so I started a journey to meet my father. Once I arrived, I was amazed by the great power he had, especially the chariot of the sun. I asked him to let me ride it for one day, but he didn’t let me do it because it was a dangerous and extremely hard thing to do, and the only one who could do it was him. After begging and begging, he finally let me do it and he took me to the place where the chariot was. I jumped into the chariot and started riding it, but as I rode, I lost total control, causing the horses to run out of their course and coming too close to the earth, threatening to burn it. Zeus saw what I was doing, and he realized that the earth was in a great danger, so he killed me with one of his thunders. However, the Ethiopians were burned, and that’s why their skins are black.

Sources:

Phaeton In Myth. http://www.loggia.com/myth/phaethon.html. November 23, 2007.

Phaeton. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/bulf/bulf04.htm. November 23, 2007.

Micha F. Lindemans. “Phaeton”. Encyclopedia Mythica. http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/phaeton.html. November 23, 2007.

By Camila Pardo Uribe

Hi my name is Achilles

I am the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid Thetis, I am most known by the Trojan war, I was the best fighter ever, I lead the war in troy, in this war I became a hero for Greeks, also I am known by my fighting skills, after my death my armor was supposed to be given to the all mightiest warrior in the Trojan War. In my life I only had one son called Pyrrhus. I was educated at the Chiron School For Heroes
I was not a god I was one of the last offspring of a god coupling with a mortal. The goddess tried to make me immortal and my life was ordained by prophesy and constant interference from the gods.

Sources:
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Achilles.html

http://thanasis.com/achilles.htm

http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=ACHILLES



Ernesto Munárriz

Pandora

Hi I am Pandora; I am the goddess of curiosity. I was named Pandora because it means “All-Gifted”, because each god had given me the power by which I would be greater than men. I was given to Epimetheus. Zeus gave me a box, telling me that I should not open it, no matter what. But because I am the goddess of curiosity, I couldn’t resist to not knowing what was in the box, so I open it. When I open it, all evil that was captured in the box escaped and spread all over the earth, except one little thing that was in the bottom of the box: hope. That’s why they say: where there’s life, there’s hope. Because of the incident with the box, I am blamed for all of the world’s problems.

· http://thanasis.com/modern/pandora.htm

· http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=PANDORA

· http://www.ballpoint.org/greekgods/pandora.htm

Paulina Salazar Villegas

Daedalus and its disobedient son, Icarus

Hy, my names is Icarus. My father, Daedalus was a great inventor and builder, but he was a slave. So my father invented two pairs of wings made up of wax and string so he and I, his son, could escape from the palace of Knossos in Crete and from the Labyrinth my father had build for Minos, the king of Crete. He told me not to fly to close too the sun because the wax would melt and I would fall. But I didn’t pay attention because I felt to good to flew alone with no help. I flew near the sun and fell to the sea and drown to death.

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

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/icarus.html
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/daedalus.html

http://monroelab.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Daedalus-and-icarus.jpg

Made by: Miguel Lozano Salazar

Bellerophon

Hi, my name is Bellerophon I’m a greek hero from Corinth. I am known for capturing Pegasus and killing the chimera. I’m the son of King Glaucus who was a skilled equestrian that thought me how to ride at a young age. With the help of a golden bridle given by Athena I was able to capture Pegasus while he drank from a pond. With the help of pegasus I was able to kill the chimera and free the people who lived near by. I was married to king iobate´s daughter. One day when I was king I wanted to go to the mount Olympus to visit the gods. Zeus grew displeased because of it and sent a fly to sting Pegasus, he shook me off and I fell to the ground. Athena saved my life, but Pegasus was gone. I searched for a long time for him but he never returned.

Name: Bellerophon
Ralm: hero-earth
Abilities: riding wild horses, skilled warrior
Story most famous for: killing the chimera

By: $ergio $affon

Bellerophon. Encyclopedia Mythica. Retrieved November 24, 2007, from Encyclopedia Mythica Online.<http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/bellerophon.html>

Polyphemus

Hello my name is Polyphemus, in son of Poseidon, lord of the seas and Thoosa a nymph. I am a Cyclops or in Greek Kuklops wich means round eye, I am a mythical semi-human monster with huge proportions, I have a single eye at the centre of my forehead, people usually call me a one-eyed giant. I live in a remote island, part of Sicily, I lived in caves and I eat meat of whatever animal including humans and also I keep goats and sheep’s. I am very solitary. I was part of a history of Homer the odyssey.

Bibliography

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/polyphemus.html

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Polyphemus2.html

Daniel Gomez

Atalanta

Biography

Hello, am the goddess of Atalanta. I was abandoned at birth by my father who wanted a son, he left me in a mountain later when I was born, later I was rescued by an bear and later I was servant by some hunters. During by growing I was a hunter and also I was a very recognized foot race winner, and none one could beat me. Except one day that the goddess of love let some apples on the race course, these were magical and I could not resist them, so I neded to stop and pick them up, and that way washow y lost the contes.

Bibliography

• Joel Skidmore."Encyclopedia od greek mythology". www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/atalanta.html. Thursday, 22 of 2007.
• Microsoft Corporation. "Atalanta". Microsoft encarta 2007. Thursday, 22 of 2007

By: Isabela Londoño Rivas

· Greek art has four forms: architecture, sculpture, painting and pottery paint.

· Architecture is based on different types of houses, temples, tombs and their structure. Each age it changes it forms of architecture, each time more modern and creative.

· Sculptures are people made on limestone, marble and bronze. Statues of gods, important people and monuments.

· Although we know so little about paintings, they where pants about their culture, traditions and symbols painted on walls, caves and tombs.

· Painted pottery was very important because we know very much about they culture by pottery because if it breaks it would be easy to reform it.

Sisyphus, the autobiography

Hello, I’m Sisyphus, son of Aeolus and Enarete. I was the founder and the king of the city of Corinth. I liked to be evil and bad with all people, when Thanatos, the god of death came for me to take me to the underworld I refused, I even started to tell secrets about the gods. Hades discovered me and got very mad at me, he gave me a punishment. What I had to do was to roll a huge rock uphill, and then when I reached the top, look at it rolling down again, I had to keep doing this for all eternity.

By: David Jaramillo

Greek Architecture

The greeks houses passed through many stages. first they where small with wooden walls. then they start building them bigger with stone walls. Then they build paved roads, bridges and dams. Then they pass to temples for gods.

www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/greekarch.htm

They have three main columns. The Doric, Ionic and the Corinthian.

http://onocampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/proyects/webunits/greecerome/greecearch1.html

The rich and pour people houses where very different. Both where constructed with mud bricks ans stone, but the main difference was that rich people house was bigger, with more rooms and had a courtyard in the middle of the house.

http://onocampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/proyects/webunits/greecerome/greecearch1.html

The first structures where very simple they where mostly circular and rectangular shaped. They used mud bricks and they only had one room, very rarely two rooms.

http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/greek.htm

Some of the common materials of Greek architecture where wood, and baked bricks, limestone and marble, terracotta, and metals. Specially bronze.

http://upge.wn.com/?t=ancientgreece/index12.txt

By: Alejandro Arango

Daniel Gómez

Hi, my name is Zeus!

You might know me as the powerful ruler of the sky, controller of rain and cloud, and master of lightning. I overthrew my father, Cronus, and took over everything, giving the sea to my brother Poseidon and the underworld to my brother Hades.

I have sort of a bad reputation as a womanizer. I mean, I love my wife, Hera, but there are just so many beautiful women on earth, that I can’t help being a little bit unfaithful from time to time.

I’m really a nice guy, but please, don’t make me angry unless you want to see a heck of a storm. I have a bit of a short temper, and I really hate to be tricked. No one is more powerful than me…. except maybe Fate. But until she catches up to me, I’ll keep living the life of the most famous Greek God ever to live on Mount Olympus!


This is me, last year after Hera tricked me and stole Io away!



Source: Strait, Marlyse. "The Greek Gods and Their Creation" Zeus. 1998.

(Ms. Yates)

ANCIENT GREECE POLITICS

ANCIENT GREECE POLITICS

CITY-STATES: The ancient Greece civilization was divided into city states, below you can look at a political map of ancient Greece. These city states were self governing, each one independent from each other. Three of the most powerful governing city-states were Athens, Sparta, and Corinth. These city-states had a different style of life, some were war-like and others were traders, each city-state developed differently and separately.


ARISTOCRACY: At the beginning of the Greek civilization the city-states were aristocratic, meaning that the best one rules everybody. Usually the power was shared among a group of men that came from noble families. After some time, people revolted and dictator came, in these years they were called tyrants. This type of government was mainly developed in Sparta and in Corinth.

DEMOCRACY: democracy is the type of government that says that the city-states were ruled by the people. This type of government was developed mostly by Athens. Democracy was invented by the Greek people. Democracy still is part of Greece; with no single ruler Greece had a big group of people which came together and voted to make decisions about the city-states. In the picture is the community that rules with democracy.


WOMEN: in ancient greece, woman had very few interaction with politics, they usually had no chance to vote and their role in politics was very few. Women could not be owners of properties, they say that women had a big influence in the political life of men. In the picture there is a sad greek woman, because she wanted to be involved in politics but she couldn’t.


· MILITARS: the city-state known as Sparta, was the most war-like state, so it had very strict military rules, such as that the citizen began its military service at the age of 20, remaining in the army until the age of 60. Most of the life of warriors was spent in military training, and they were not aloud to do trading or business.

BY:SARA BOTERO, DAVID JARAMILLO, LUIS ALEJANDRO BELASCO, RAFAEL VILLEGAS

Greeks sports

- Greeks were the first that do the Olympics games every 4 years.

- Sports played an important role in ancient Greece.

-Boxing, weightlifting and pentathlon were the sports played in the Olympics in ancient Greece.

-The best athletes go to Olympics games in ancient Greece.

- The winners receive a wreath of laurel or olive leaves to wear in their heads.

- When winners recive their price they shout out their names, their family, and the city
they lived.

- Boxing was the same as todays boxing.

Sources
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Ernesto Munarriz, Dario Maya, Eduardo Salazar.

ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION

Ancient Greeks were polytheistic ( believed in many gods).

Greek gods lived in the mount olympus.

Greeks made sacrifices to their gods


Greeks city states are protected by a patron god.

Greeks recorded their miths in long epic poems.
by: Sergio Saffon, Isabela Giraldo, Isabela Londoño Rivas

Ancient Greek Architecture

Ancient Greek Architecture

Thanks to the influence of religion in Greece, their architecture is the most beautiful and had the biggest temples. They had also political purposes and were used for celebrating their pride or success in war.

They developed 3 architectural systems called orders. The first one is the Doric style that is sturdy and flat at the top. It was mostly used in mainland Greece and in the colonies in southern Italy and Sicily. An example is the Parthenon which is a temple of Athena Panthenos (Greek Goddess).

The second order is the Ionic style which is more thin and elegant. The top is decorated with a volute and it was find in eastern Greece and in the islands. An example is Erechtheum which is a temple from the middle classical period of Greek art and architecture.

The third is the Corinthian style which is often seen in Roman Temples. Its top is very elaborated and decorated with acanthus leaves. It is the latest; it arrived in the middle of the 4th century B.C. The oldest example is found in the temple of Apollo at Bassae.

Ancient Greek temples were the most important because they honored Gods. These same classical forms are still seen in churches today.

BY: DANIELA DIAZ SOTO AND ISABEL LONDOÑO MARULANDA 9A

Greek Sports

- We have already seen that the ancient Greeks were very good artists and actors. However, this is not all that they did well. Keep reading to find out about sports and athletes in ancient Greece.
- The ancient Greeks were huge sports fans. Every four years, the Olympic Games were held in the staduim at Olympia. The best athletes in Greece competed in different events that were a part of religious life. The games began with a sacrifice to the gods . Because the games were religious, anyone who was caught cheating during the games was never allowed to compete again because cheating was considered disrespectful to the gods.
-Many of the games played in the Olympic Games of ancient Greece are still included in the Olympics of today. Three of these games are boxing, pentathlon and weightlifting.
-Boxing was much the same in ancient Greece as it is today. Boxers padded their hands in cloth and fought until one of them was knocked out. The pentathalon was made up of five different events: javelin throwing, wrestling, running, and long jumping. All of these events are still included in the Olympics today. One event from the ancient Greek Olympics that is too dangerous to be included in the games today is chariot racing.
- The winners of events in the Olympic Games received a wreath of laurel or olive leaves to wear on their heads. When they received their wreaths, the winners would shout out their names, their family, and the city where they lived.”

Ancient Greek Fashion

• Everyone use typically sleeveless tunics, the difference between men and women was that women tunics were ankle length and man were shorter.







• Inside the house Greeks wore barefoot, and outside they wore sandals.





• Colors more comonly used were violet, white, green, and grey.





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  During the summer season they wore clothes made from linen.

Jewelry was very popular, both men and women use bracelets, necklaces and things on their hair. But by the fourth century the men trends had ended.

by: irene mejia, valeria moscoso, valeria aponte and daniela jaramillo