Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Athena

Athena's Birth

Athena is the goddess of wisdom, battle, crafts and plans. Athena is a child of Zeus. She is the brother of Ares and her symbol of power is the owl.She lives in a palace called Athens.

Athena's birth
Athena was born from Zeus's head. Zeus was suffering from a terrible headache and ordered Hephaestus to crack open his head, then Athena rose in full battle armor. She became Zeus's favourite child and Zeus let Athena use all his weapons including his prized weapon the lightningbolt!

Athena and Medusa
Back when Medusa was pretty, Poseidon and Medusa had a date in Athena's temple. When
Athena found out about this she turned Medusa into a monster that was so ugly that whenever someone looks directly into her eyes they turn to stone.
The Fight Over Athens
The fight over Athens began when Athena and Poisidon both wanted Athens so they had a competion.The competion was that they had to make a gift for Athens and the people of Athens would decide who had the better gift and whoever had the better gift would be given Athens.When the two olypians faced off.
Poisidon gave them a neverending trade of water but it was salty.Athena gave them the first olive tree. The people of Athens gave Athena Athens.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Here are some links to different gods and goddesses:
Roman Greek
Apollo Apollo
Bacchus Dionysus
Ceres Demeter
Cupid Eros
Diana Artemis
Juno Hera
Jupiter Zeus
Mars Ares
Mercury Hermes
Minerva Athena
Neptune Poseidon
Pluto Hades
Proserpina Persephone
Saturn Cronus
Uranus Ouranos
Venus Aphrodite
Vesta Hestia
Vulcan Hephaestus
Here is another site about Greek gods that i'm sure you will enjoy: http://www.crystalinks.com/olympians.html

Apollo


Apollo is the god of medicine, music and drives the sun. His only sibling is Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt. His father is Zeus and his mother is Hera. He wears armor made of fire when he is in battle and his weapon of choice is the bow and arrow.