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

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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

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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

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