Apollo

Hi guys! I’m sorry about not uploading this Thursday. I’ve got so many things to do during the weekend, so I hadn’t the opportunity to post this weekend so that’s why I’m doing it now. I’m looking through the Internet and I found a Greek God so interesting. He is Apollo. It says that Apollo is the God of music and he is associated with light. I didn’t know that Apollo was a God; I just knew that there is a satellite that it’s called that way. In deep research, according to ancienhistory.about.com, “Apollo is a many-talented Greek god of prophecy, music, intellectual pursuits, healing, plague, and sometimes, the sun. Writers often contrast the cerebral, beardless young Apollo with his half-brother, the hedonistic Dionysus, god of wine. Leto (Latona) and Zeus (Jupiter) are the parents of the versatile god Apollo and his twin sister Artemis (Diana), the virgin hunter. He is depicted as a beardless young man. His attributes are the tripod, omphalos, lyre, bow and arrows, laurel, hawk, raven or crow, swan, fawn, roe, snake, mouse, grasshopper, and griffin.” (ancienthistory.about.com) So guys, if you didn’t know anything about Apollo, the Greek god, this information may be useful to you. Thanks for reading this information and I’ll post next week.

Bibliography Gill, N.S. About.com. n.d. 22 September 2011 .

Achilles

This time, I will talk about Achilles. I don’t know a lot of this character, but in some countries, it refers Achilles as a part of the body, which is the Achilles heel. There is something that some people told me about him, that his only weakness was his ankle. So, here is some information about him. “Achilles was a half-divine hero, being the son of the sea nymph Thetis and king Peleus of Thessaly.

He was educated by the wise centaur Cheiron and was described as extremely handsome but also very emotional. He was almost immortal since his mother had dipped him into the river Styx as a baby. Holding the child by its heel when putting it in the water, Thetis made Achilles' whole body except the heel immortal. He had a son, Neoptolemus, with the Skyrian princess Deidameia, who met her when he was hidden in the Palace of the king Likomidis on the island on Skyros. “When the war against Troy was ignited by the kidnapping of Helen, Thetis learnt by an oracle that her son would not come back alive if he joined Agamemnon. The oracle had said that he would either die young and glorious, or reach old age in obscurity.”(in2greece, 2011).

I didn’t know a lot of this information, but is good to be informed all the time. Being mortal and becoming a god, it has to be interesting. There are other characters like him, for example Hercules, who was mortal and became a god, but I’ll post something about him other time.

Congratulations to Mexico who is celebrating the Independence Day!

Bibliography

Sandels, V.E.K. in2greece.com. n.d. 15 September 2011 .

Poseidon, God of Sea.

Welcome again to this blog in which we talk about Greek’s myth. I’ve been talking about Cronus, the father of Zeus, hades, Poseidon and many other gods, and also Zeus, who is the actual god in charge of everything. Now, in this post, I will talk about Poseidon. Brief information, Poseidon is the god of the sea, and is characterize by his trident.

Poseidon is the god of sea and water generally. He was the son of Cronus and Rhea, so he was one of the children who Cronus ate. He is also brother of Zeus, the actual chief god and Hades, god of the underworld. “When the three brothers deposed their father, the kingdom of the sea fell by lot to Poseidon.”(EncyclopediaBritannica2011). His best weapon was the trident. It can also be represented as a “long handled fish spear”. (EncyclopediaBritannica2011)

“Poseidon was also the god of earthquake, and many of his oldest places of worship in Greece were inland” (EncyclopediaBritannica2011). This information may imply that Poseidon has powers that affect the earth and the earthquakes that it may be instead tsunamis.

“He was, in addition, closely associated with horses. He was the father of the winged horse Pegasus by the winged monster Medusa. Most scholars agree that Poseidon was brought to Greece as the god of the earliest Hellenes, who also introduced the first horses to the country." (Encyclopedia Britannica2011)

It seems that Poseidon also has a greedy personality, according to Skyler Raine in his online article, which he said, "Poseidon is depicted as one greedy, vengeful deity who used his powers to inflict damage on his enemies."(Raine2009).

Well, this information expresses basic information about Poseidon, also a curios fact about him.

I think that Poseidon is a terrific god and a very good representation of a good brother. There is a movie that talks about this kind of information, for example, the Greek gods, the Olympus and demigods. This movie is called “Percy Jackson and the lighting thief”, I watched it movie 3 times and I suggest you to watch this movie.

I’ll post next week information of a god, maybe Hades, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.

Bibliography

Raine, Skyler. www.associatedcontent.com. 9 July 2009. 1 September 2011 .

"Poseidon." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 01 Sep. 2011. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/471736/Poseidon>.