We studied some Greek myths, now it's your turn. In your own words, tell us about a myth that has caused an impression on you.
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Well the greek culture is something that in school we have talk, but it is different in english because the names changes or well there are others that I've never see, but for no so much time I like this kind of legends are things that for me are really good.
ReplyDeletebye miss
Erika Vásquez 4toB
Erika, your comment must be a Greek myth.
ReplyDeletehi miss,
ReplyDeleteI'm very excited about Greek mythology because I haven´t studied it before but I think it is very interesting because it is quite complex, full of gods, monsters, wars and meddling gods.
features of Greek mythology I really admire are that the gods seem perfectly to humans and they express their fellings .as well as the capacity to create all these features conplex as the creation of human beings and their gods . For example the Greeks believed that the gods had chosen Mount Olympus, in a region of Greece called Thessaly, as his residence. At Olympus, the gods formed a society.
the leyend that have impressed me most is the one about Narcissus.
Narcissus was the son of Cephissus and Liríope.he was very beautiful but her parents didn´t alow him looked in a mirror because when he was born, his parents consulted the future of their son a fortune-teller and he told them that he would have a long life if he didn´t looked in a mirror. one day he looked to himself in the waters of a lake for the first time and immediately he fell in love with that image. So intensive was the love he had to himself that he became insensitive to the world and led him to death watching himself.
I admire this legend because it shows in a amazing way one of the great problems of personality . it shows us what we really are inside, selfish. besides the main theme that is the self-centeredness.
ytalia lavalle
form 4 b sec.
Hello Miss,
ReplyDeleteI am going to talk about a Greek Myth of Theseus and a minotaur. This myth begins with a king called Minos, he hated the athenians, so decided to kill them, a minotaur was in charge to do that. Athens's King, Aegeus received the notice and he was so angry. He told his son, Theseus, about the problem, and Theseus went to kill the minotaur(half bull and half man). Later, Ariadne, who was King Mino`s daughter, fell in love with Theseus and decided to help him. Finally, Theseus killed the minotaur and could help the athenians.
I chose this mynth because is a love story, Ariadne forgot her family and did everything to help Theseus. I consider Theseus was an excellent hero and king, he always protected Athens and was courageous and adventurer.
Claudia Lopez
Form 4A
Hello miss,
ReplyDeleteI must said that i really like this topic, I´m really interested in greek mythology.
The myth i choose its about Daphne and Apollo.
It all started when Eros, the god of love, shot Apollo in his heart with a golden arrow and he immediatly felt in love with the nymph Daphne.
The only problem was that Daphne decided to be pure for all her life.
One day Apollo was in the forest when he heard Daphne singing, when she notice that Apollo was there, she tried to escsape, but Apollo followed her through the forest, when he finally got closer, Daphne ask her father Peneus, the god of the rivers, to help her.
The god listened her prays and he turned her daughter in a laurel tree.
Apollo was shocked, and very sad, because he really loved her,he wrote a lot of poems about her, and with the leaves of the laurel he made crowns, only the winners of the Olympic games could use it. But after that, the romans made crowns with laurel leaves too, but in this case, only the Cesar could use it .
This is my favourite myth, and its also very well-know.
Valeria Vinatea
Form 4A
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ReplyDeleteHi miss,
ReplyDeleteOkay, so we are supposed to choose a Greek myth, but since I´ve been kind of obsessed with Greek mythology since the beginning of the year, it’s a bit hard
Anyway, so I chose Orpheus’s and Eurydice’s myth because of two reasons. The first one is that when I read about it, it made me feel really sad for him and my first reaction was to hate Hades. It was later that I discovered that he had had it very hard on his own. It also made me mad with Orpheus for not being able to wait a little bit longer. It makes me realize that Greek gods and characters are really like us: Free to make their own decisions, not perfect because they made mistakes and they had ambitions as well as human race nowadays. They show many of the actual humanity problems.
The second one was that, when I was studying music, my teacher told us about this Mozart opera inspired in Greek mythology. When he put the video, I discovered it was Orpheus’s myth and instantly fell in love with it.
So here goes the myth:
Orpheus was the son of Apollo (in other versions, he was an orphan or the son of Oeagrus) and the muse Calliope. He was known as “the father of songs” in many versions of the myth and as the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes.
Apollo was really fond of him, so he gave him a lyre and taught him how to play it. His mother taught him how to make verses for singing.
Everybody was fascinated with his ability. He was able to make them feel peaceful and happy.
Eurydice fell in love with him and they got married.
One day, Eurydice was peacefully promenading with Orpheus, and was bitten by a serpent and died. Orpheus was really devastated and so he started playing mournful and really sad songs. The nymphs and gods advised him to go to Hades to try to get his wife back. He managed to get to Hades, using his music to soften the heart of monsters, dead spirits, and even the furies.
He succeeded in making Cerberus fall asleep so he could trespass the doors to Hades.
When he got there, he persuaded Hades and Persephone to let him take Eurydice back to earth with his music. Hades put only one condition: he would make Eurydice follow him to earth but he couldn’t turn around to check on her until she was bathed with sunlight.
Despite being anxious, Orpheus didn’t turn around to confirm that she was following him, not even when they were close to monsters.
Towards the end, when Eurydice was almost completely bathed by sun, he couldn’t resist anymore and turned around and se evaporated for good this time because she still had a foot on Hades.
This is it. It is really sad but a lot of things in life are sad. I don’t blame him for not being able to resist or having doubts on Hades. At least, he remained faithful until he died.
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteI must say that the course development is really excellent and that this new topic (Greek myths) is something that really calls my attention.
Greek mythology is a variety of stories and legends from the ancient Greek in most of the cases about their gods, their origins, their nature and the significance of their rituals. Furthermore, Greek mythology has been a big influence for occidental culture. Lots of poets and artists have found inspiration on it since ancient times to modern times and have discovered many meanings about the traditional greek topics.
When I first saw that we had to post a comment about a Greek myth we liked I stayed thinking for a long time it was like.. now what am I going to write about? There are a looooot of things, and how can I choose one? Fortunately, I began to remember every story that I was told when I was little and at last, I decided to comment about Medusa and the Gorgons.
The gorgons were Esteno, Euriale and Medusa. The first one was considered the most aggressive from the three of them. She had an extraordinary physic and physical force as well. On the other side, the second one had the ability to cure anything. Coming back to Medusa, she was the only one from her sisters who was mortal. At first, she was very pretty but to her bad luck, Poseidon got involved with her and this made Athenea angry. In consequence, Medusa was turned into a horrible being with snakes instead of hair, a body covered with dragon scales, boar tusks into her mouth, hands made of bronze and wings of gold. The worst of all was that if someone tried to look straight into her eyes, they turned to stone.
Meanwhile, Perseus, who was a mortal hero and son of Danae, was being guied by Hermes and Athenea, went to look for Medusa in order to cut her head. In his way to the gorgons, he passed through the Greas. They were three ugly virgins who shared one eye and one tooth. Perseus fight with them and forced them to tell him where Medusa was living, the Greas didn’t had any opportunity to hide him that information because he had taken the eye and the tooth, which were something really various for them.
After that, Perseus continues his trip to find the gorgons, when he arrives he decided to attack the three of them without being noticed as he knew that he would became a statue if he saw into their eyes. The fight was not easy for him but fortunately he had the chance to cut Medusas head and did it without any hesitation.
Once he came back, he gave Medusa’s head to Athenea because her blood was the only one which could make death people alive again.
This myth was really really interesting for me because it make me appreciate influence of gods in mortal’s life and how they combined every action they do with a meaning for gods.
I do believe leraning about greek myths would be a unique experience, thanks for everything miss.
Take care,
Melissa (:
All your myths are very interesting. It is true, Greek culture is extremely rich and compelling.
ReplyDeleteGreek Myths… they are completely amazing! I used to watch “The storyteller” in channel 2 when I was little and there, I learned about a lot of stories, legends and myths. I was fascinated with that program and I also fell in love with Greek Mythology, however, I didn’t search for more myths.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, there are three Greek myths that I still remember which are: Orpheus and Eurydice (with it I realized the unexpected ends), Dédalo & Icaro (sometimes I wish I could fly like them) and Perseus and the Gorgon. But the one which impacted me was the last one. I was really scared (considering the age that I had, I think I was 7) because of Medusa, the gorgon, I also had a nightmare in which I could saw her appalling face and her poisonous snakes that she had as hair. Fortunately, it doesn’t scare me anymore.
The story begins with King Acrisio of Argus; who had a daughter called Danae. He wanted a son so he offered sacrifices to gods and many things but he was desperate to know if he would have it or not so he decided to ask to the Oracle. When he was there, they told him that he would have a grandson from Danae but someday this son would kill him.
To avoid this fate, he imprisoned her in a bronze chamber where she could hardly escape. She was alone with no more but darkness and silence. It was terrible; she only had a little window where the light could enter. One day, when she was looking the light, it became into a shower of golden rain; it was Zeus who had a son with Danae. This son was called Perseus. Years were passing until the king knew what had happened. He didn’t kill Perseus, instead of it; he put them in a wooden chest and had it thrown into the Aegean Sea.
Everybody thought that the ocean would kill them, but Zeus was great and saved the child and Danae. They floated and floated, day after day until it reached the shore of the island of Seriphos. There, a fisherman called Dyctis found them and he told Danae that he was Polydectes’ brother and they could live with him. By the time Perseus reached adulthood, he realized that Polydectes wanted to force his mother to marry him, although Polydectes knew he could never have his way as long as her son protected her, so he devised a plan for getting Perseus out of the way.
Polydectes ordered Perseus to bring him the head of Medusa. Of course, it wouldn’t have been easy; Medusa lived in at the end of the world, beyond the ocean, in the kingdom of Night and anyone who looked directly on her eyes was immediately turned to stone. However, as soon as Athenea knew this, she decided to cooperate, after all she was his half-sister. She gave Perseus a polished shield so that he could see Medusas’ reflection; Hermes gave him his winged sandals and the nymphs provided him an invisibility cap, a bag to carry the head and a sword with a diamond edge. With all this objects, he went in search of Medusa and finally he could complete his task. When he came back, Polydectes didn’t believe him that Medusas’ head was inside the bag so Perseus took it out and showed to Polydectes turning them into stone.
I was really impressed with this myth, but there’s something that I’m missing…oh yeah, the Oracle! I thought that they lived happily ever after, but the funny thing about this is that when Perseus was playing in the Olympic Games, he threw a discus so far and strong that this hit an old man. For my surprise, it was Acrisio and this shows that the Oracle is never wrong.
What I like most about this myth is how Perseus fought bravely against Medusa and how in that way he could prevent the wedding. Polydectes was a tyrant!
Hi Miss, the Greek myth which impresed me the most was the myth of Arachne and Athenea. The story begin when Arachne ,Idmon´s daughter ,was very famous and well known for having a great skill at weaving and embroidery.
ReplyDeleteAccording to legend, the nymphs of the field came to admire her beautiful work. Her prestige and popularity grow so much that it was thought he was a disciple of Athenea (goddess of wisdom and spinners).
Arachne was so skilful and beautiful, but had a major flaw: he was too proud. She wanted her art to be great on its own merit and would not owe their skilled to anybody .So in a moment of unconsciousness, she challenged the goddess, who of course accepted. First, she appeared to the young in the form of an old woman and warned her to behave better with the goddess and to have modesty. However, Arachne, proud and insolent disregarded the old woman’s advice and replied her with insults.
Athenea was furious, so she show herself to the Arachne and the competition started. In the tapestry of the goddess, were magically embroidered the twelve major Olympian Gods in all their grandeur and majesty. Also, she showed Arachne four episodes where she illustrated the terrible human losses suffered by defying the Gods. Arachne depicted the disgraceful affair of the gods, like Zeus and Europa, Zeus and Danae, among many others. The work was perfect, but Athenea angered because she consider this as an insult to the gods,so she took his lance, broke the wonderful tapestry and gave a blow to Arachne. Without understanding it, Arachne felt totally humiliated and dishonored, consequently she became crazy and hanged herself.
However, Athenea instead of let her die, she turned Arachne into a spider, to continue weaving for ever.
To sum up all this myth, this is the origin of spiders according to the Greeks.
Bye Miss, I hope you enjoy it!
Sara Fernández
Form 5
Miss Monica
ReplyDeleteSorry the comment before Sara's is mine. Andrea Jara
Form 5 "A"
hi miss, the greek myth that i like alot since i was a child is Theus and the minotaur.
ReplyDeleteThe Minotaur was the son of Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete.
Queen Pasiphae slept with a bull sent by Zeus, and gave birth to Minotaur, a creature half man and half bull. King Minos was embarrassed, but did not want to kill the Minotaur, so he hid the monster in the Labyrinth constructed by Daedalus at the Minoan Palace of Knossos.
According to the myth, Minos was imprisoning his enemies in the Labyrinth so that the Minotaur could eat them. The labyrinth was such a complicated construction that no one could ever find the way out alive.
Son of Minos, Androgeus, went to Athens to participate to the Panathenaic Games, but he was killed during the Marathon by the bull that impregnated his mother Pasiphae. Minos was infuriated, and demanded Aegeus the king of Athens to send seven men and women every year to the Minotaur to advert the plague caused by the death of Androgeus.
The third year, Theseus, son of Aegeus decided to be one of the seven young men that would go to Crete, in order to kill the Minotaur and end the human sacrifices to the monster. King Aegeus tried to make him change his mind but Theseus was determined to slay the Minotaur.
Theseus promised his father that he would put up white sails coming back from Crete, allowing him to know in advance that he was coming back alive. The boat would return with the black sails if Theseus was killed.
Theseus kills the Minotaur. Theseus announced to King Minos that he was going to kill the Monster, but Minos knew that even if he did manage to kill the Minotaur, Theseus would never be able to exit the Labyrinth.
Theseus met Princess Ariadne, daughter of King Minos, who fell madly in love with him and decided to help Theseus. She gave him a thread and told him to unravel it as he would penetrate deeper and deeper into the Labyrinth, so that he knows the way out when he kills the monster.
Theseus followed her suggestion and entered the labyrinth with the thread. Theseus managed to kill the Minotaur and save the Athenians, and with Ariadne’s thread he managed to retrace his way out.
Theseus took Princess Ariadne with him and left Crete sailing happily back to Athens.
bye miss,
Hellen Bardales
Form 5"A"
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteWell I do think that Greek myths are fascinating and amazing, I love them.
I decided to write about Aracne myth.
In Lidia, was born a little girl called Aracne. As time passed, she became a waving student of Athena, Goddess of wisdom surprisingly she was really good at that.
But she was so conceited of her skill that she began to claim that she was the best weaver, including Athena.
Then, Athena decided to give her an opportunity to redeem, so Athenea assume the form of an old woman warning Aracne not to offend the deities. But she just scoffed and wished for a waving contest, so she could prove her skill.
Athena wove scene of her victory over Poseidon. Aracne wove 21 episodes of the infidelity of the deities, including Zeus, Athenas' father, being unfaithful with Leda, Europa, etc.
Athena admited that Aracne's work was perfect, but she was so angry with her disrespectful choise of subjects that displays the failings of the deities, that she lost her temper and destroyed Aracne's work striking with her shuttle.
Athena struck Aracne with her staff and changed her into a spider.
This myth suggests that the origin of waving is the imitation of the spiders.
I hope you enjoyed it.
See you,
Karla Keiko
5th A.
Hi miss!
ReplyDeleteThe greek myth that I enjoy the most was the one that explined the origin of the seasons. I heard it in a Social studie class and I found that it explained it in a very human an greek way.
It was a human way because the mother (the godness) felt hurt because her daugther was not with her but with a man (Hades) that she did't loved, and it is in greek way because the human beings (the godness controled the weather) and the rest of the godness depended on her feelings for the weather of the day, and the development of their activities.
That's all for now.
Bye, miss.
Carla Márquez
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteI believe I must begin telling you that the topic about Greek myths is so fascinating for me as I've always been interested in them. I really know a lot about them and it was hard for me to choose just one, I mean, if I could I would talk about lots of them because Greek mythology has great influence in art, literature and culture and it continues to be patrimony of the world. There a lot of artists that have use this topic as their inspiration.
Anyway, after thinking a lot, I decided to talk about Achilles' heel, the main reason I choose is becausethe message I found in it which is that nobody is perfect and everybody has a weakness for more imposible it might sound as, it can be physical or emotionally but it will lead to a downfall if we are always presuming.
Well, this myth is about Achilles, son of the king Peleo and nymph of the sea, Tetis. When he was born, she tried to make her son inmortal so she bath him in the Estinga river because for them it was the limit between the world of the alive and of the death but she makes a great mistake as she baths him taking him from the heel.
Time after that, they called Aquiles from the court of Licomedes because a fortune-teller said that they would not conquer Troya if he didn't help but when Tetis heard this she was afraid for her son so she hide him as a woman.
During this time, he fell in love with the daughter of Licomedes and they had a son call Neptolomeo. However, his happiness didn't last longerbecause Ulises discover him and they went together to conquer Troya.
There, he had an ememy, his name was Hector who tried to killed Achilles but he confused and killed Patrocolo, Achilles bestfriend. In revanche, Achilles killed him.
But that was not the end because Paris, the brother of Hector was really mad at Achilles for killing his brother so he tried to kill him but he realized nothing he did was enough but someone informed him that he had a weakness ant that it was his heel, so he through an arrow there and kill him.
As the life of Achilles was written bye Esquilo who was dramatist, all his life was tragedy and there were more when he went to the battle of Troya.
All in all, it's been real fun to write about a Grek myth and I believed that as I, more girls have enjoy it because is something we have always been interested in, that our teacher of spanish literature always tell about in amzing tells and that television always shows.
Thaks for teaching us a little bit about it too and making us understand much more about it and in english.
See you next class (:
Estefanía Sarco
Form IV "A"
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteI have to say I really like greek mithology, and it is interesting how greek people tried to explain the origin of the world and the adventures of their big variety of Gods through the legends.
I am going to tell the story about the golden apple. To start, the golden apple is a very important element in various fairy tales, but I am going to talk about the Greek one.
Thetis was getting married with Peleus, and she invited all the Gods, except for Eris, who was left out of the guest list. This was not surprise because she always wanted to ruin the wedding as she hate love. But she went anyway and brought with her one shiny golden apple, “the apple of discord”.
Eris threw the apple into the room, between Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena. On the apple was inscribed “to the fairest”. The three wanted the apple, so went to Zeus and told him to delegate the question to someone else.
The poor one who was choosen was Paris, a mortal. Zeus explained the situation to him. How could he decide which of the most beautiful women he would ever see were the most gorgeous? But he had to make a decision. To win each one offered him a gift. Hera, the queen of the Gods, offered power. Athena offered great wisdom and luck in battle. Finally Aphrodite told him two things: he would have the best body and that he could have the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris decided to go with Aphrodite.
So he choose Helen, who was the most beautiful woman in the world, but unfortunately she was married to a king. He rape Helen, and they fell in love. The rape began the Trojan War. With Athena and Hera against him for not choosing them, was easier for the king to win. At the end, Paris was found dead.
I hope you enjoy it.
Yuriko Aquino.
Form 4 "A"
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ReplyDeleteHi miss,
ReplyDeleteI like Greek Mythology as my friends. The fantasy of them caught my attention a lot. One of the stories I love is one you didn´t tell us. I read it by my own.
It is about Semele, a mortal princess. She was the only mortal who was mother of a god, Dionysus. Semele was one of the many lovers of Zeus and Hera was jealous of her. Hera was so mad that she killed her, shortly before Dionysus birth. When Dionysus grew up and knew what had happened, he went to the underworld to rescue his mother to live with him in Mount Olympus.
I relly like this story because it showes the love that a child can have for his or her mother, although never meet her. Also, that jealousy can make you make crazy things.
Lucía Larenas
4° B
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteI was reading about the greek mythology, when I saw something about Narcissus and I immediately remember about his story, here is the myth of Echo and Narcissus.
Echo was a very talkative nymph and because of this Zeus used Echo to distract his wife, Hera, so he could be with other nymphs. When Hera discovered that echo was helping Zeus with his infidelity, Echo's punish was that she could not start a conversation again but she only could repeat the words which other person had said.
Echo was so sad that she went to live to the countryside.
Narcissus, son of Nymph Leiriope and god Cephisus,was very handsome and vain. His mother, Leiriope, concerned about his future went to consult the oracle Teiresias who told her that Narcissus would live to old age, as long as he never knew himself so Leiriope never show his son a mirrow.
One day when Narcissus was out hunting, Echo saw him and immediately fell in love with him so she started to followed him. When Narcissus finally heard her footsteps he shouted "Who's there?", Echo repeat "Who's there?" This way continue, until finally Echo showed herself and rushed to embrace the handsome boy. He pulled her away and told her to get lost.
Echo,heartbroken, withered away and eventually she turned to stone and only her voice remained today haunting the mountains.
One of Narcissus' rejected suitors prayed to the gods that Narcissus could feel the pain of the unreturned love. One day, Narcissus bent low to take a drink in a pool and he saw himself reflect in it. For hours he stay there admiring that man and trying to touch him. Finally he realized he was that man but he was tortured because he know he could never possess the object of his infatuation. He suffered more than all the persons that he had rejected.
Unable to stand the agony, he nailed a dagger in his heart and died, saying a last goodbye to his reflected image. Where his blood soaked the earth flowered the white narcissus flower with its red corollary.
I hope you'll like the story as much as I like.
See you next class, miss.
Gabriela Lores
Form V
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteHow are you? Hope you're fine. Well miss, let me tell you that after falling in love with Shakespeare quotes and Milton's personality, I must say that I'm more than fascinated with Greek Mythology :)
So, after hearing all the myths you've told us in class, I asked me what I could write about because Greek Mythology is wide and complex. So, I began to look for one, and the one I found is very common to hear it nowadays so it's even more interesting!
It talks about Achilles and he's story. In Greek Mythology, Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War and the most important warrior in the Illiad. He was the son of the nymph Tethis and Peleus. It is said that one day one day Tethis put Achilles by the side of the chimney in order to burn all the mortal parts of her son’s body. All of a sudden, Alchilles was braced from Tethis arms by Peleus, his father, and he stayed only with his son’s heel. Tethis was full of anger, so she decided to abandon her child and husband. Then, Peleus tried to replace Alchille’s hell by with that of a giant called Damisus, known by his rapidity.
Moreover, Achilles started a new life living with Patroclus on a field, where he was taught how to survive and fight. Achilles has an important part in the Trojan War and in one of the battles, his friend, Patroclus died because of the Prince Hector.
The day Achilles found out the truth, he swore he will take revenge someday. For this reason, he killed Hector and tied his body to a car and stared to drag him all around Troja.
The powerful Achilles, who seemed to be invincible, finally was defeated by the Trojan prince Paris, when he trough a poisonous arrow directly to his left heel which got his life to an end.
This makes reference to the everyday expression “Achille’s heel” which has managed to allude to the only weakness of a person. Furthermore, the union between Achilles and Patroclus alludes to the real friendship or love.
It was interesting to share our myths as we learn more about these unique stories that will remain in everyone’s heart and brains. Thank you miss for this opportunity.
Lots of kisses,
Bárbara Málaga ♥
Form IV B
Since I was little I always used to dream about being a greek god or being Afrodita. I used to play with my friends that I was one.
ReplyDeleteThe myth I love the most is Medusa's myth. She was the daughter of Phorkys and Keto(children of Gaia (Earth) and Okeanos (Ocean). Medusa was the only mortal out of the three(Sthenno and Euryale). She was ones very beautiful and lived at the north were the sun didn't shine. She asked asked the Goddess Athena for permission to visit the south but she refused. Medusa very angry dared to say that Athena won't gave her the permission because she was jealous of her beauty. Athenas punished her by turning her hair into snakes and cursing her by making her so ugly that who ever lookes at her eyes would turn into stone.
Majo rivas plata
Form 4 "b"
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteI believe, I must say that I have always been interested in greek mithology. Nowadays, there is a movie called, "Percy Jackson, and the Lighting Thief". I really enjoy it, because I think is very interesting how they could have, diferent gods, for every subject, like love, wisdom, war, etc.
Well, after hearing the myth you told us in class, I had a lot of enthusiasm when I saw this, so I started looking for a good story with which I identify myself sometimes.
This is the story about the daughter of Idmon, Aracne. This girl was very, very talented doing fabrics with her own hands. Although she had a great fault, she was too proud. She thought she didn't need the help of anybody, that is why in a moment of madness she decided to challenge the goddess, Athenea, who accepted.
Athenea, was very bright, so she decided to disguise herself as an old lady, who told Aracne, not to mess with the goddess, but she didn't care, Athenea show that it really was her, and decided to keep the challenge.
So the challenge began, each one of them had to do a fabric with their own hands, with out help.
The goddess began doing 5 fabrics. One of them was of the 12 most important Gods of the Olympus, and the other 4 where about, humans that challenge gods, and they defeat.
While Aracne was representing the dishonourable affaire of the gods, for example, Zeus and Europe, or Zeus and Danae, among many more. Her work was neat, and perfect, but Athenea got angry, by the insult done to the gods, so she took her lance and broke the wonderful masterpiece Aracne had done, she also slapped her so hard, that she felt humiliated and dishonoured that she got mad that she hang herself.
I identify, this story with myself, because I feel that sometimes, I think I'm capable of doing everything by myself, and that's not true, because you can always use, the help of somebody.
Best Wishes
Andrea Chávez
Form IV "A"
hi miss, i´m very exited about the greek mithology, and most because we have to choose one. I like this:"Daedalus and Icarus".
ReplyDeleteThis is about Daedalus that was trying to escape punishment after killing his nephew Talos. He escaped from the king of Athens and travelled to Crete where King Minos welcomed him. He built wonderful buildings for King Minos and created a labyrinth below the city. King Minos was pleased with the labyrinth but he did not want anyone to know the way in or out. He decided that he would imprison Daedalus and Icarus to protect his secret.
They soon got fed up and decided to try and escape again. Daedalus made frames and fastened feathers to them. They learned to fly and prepared to escape. Daedalus told Icarus not to go high, to keep right away from the sun.
They climbed up onto the windowsill,and started to fly and soared away into the clouds. They went up and down, twisted and turned. Icarus got so excited that he left his father. he went higher and higher. His father shouted for him to come down.
Well I think you are going to like it. Kisses, see you later!
Gretell
5to "A"
The myth that has caused an impression on me is "Jason and the golden fleece"
ReplyDeleteThis story starts in a country called Thessaly where a king lived with his two children: Phrixus and Helle. Their stepmother didn't like them so she made a plan against them. She took advantage of the fact that they had had no rain for a very long time and she asked the King to send to the Oracle at Delphi for advice. He did so, but she intercepted the messengers on the way back and told them what to say. The messengers told the King that in order for the rains to return, Phrixus and Helle must be sacrificed. The king was very upset but said that it must be done.
The King led his children to the altar but just before they got there the golden ram told them to get on his back and flew away with them. He flew and flew with the children on his back. They were very tired so the ram told them to hang on. Phrixus held on but his sister was so tired and she felt asleep, and felt into the sea. They landed near the Black sea and the poor ram died. The people of Colchis were so proud of what the ram had done so they stripped the golden fleece off it and hung that in a tree with a dragon to protect it. It stayed there for many years until a boy called Jason went to fetch it back home.
Jason was a boy who should have been King but his Uncle took his throne but when he grew up he decided to go back and face his uncle. He told Jason that he would give the throne back if Jason goes after the Golden Fleece. Jason didn't think it twice so he started the journey with a group of shipmates that are known as the argonauts.
Jason had to face a series of challenges meted out by King Aeetes but when he had to fight against the soldiers the king got mad because the soldiers were killing each other and he told Jason that he will never have the golden fleece.
The next day Jason told Medea (Aeetes's daughter) that he had fallen in love with her. It was no problem at all for the Goddess of Love to arrange that Medea be stricken with passion for Jason the moment she first saw him. And it was a good thing for Jason because he would have the golden fleece. They went to the three where the golden fleece was and Medea, using an incantation made that the dragon felt asleep and Jason took the golden fleece.
They came back home but Jason abandoned Medea for another princess. Medea, that was so angry, killed Jason's wife and their children.
I really liked this myth because it was an unexpected ending. I hope you like it.
Pamela Sanchez
5° A
Myth of the galaxy formation
ReplyDeleteIs thought to be Hera, the wife of Zeus the god of gods, which gave rise to the Milky Way galaxy. Zeus was very adventurous and loved to have different women, so that he never kept faith with his wife. In one of these adventures, Zeus was united with Alcmene in the absence of her husband. The god was posed as the absent, and as the woman he loved chose to be with her in one night last long, so ordered it, the sun came out when I had to have. After the husband of Alcmene, Amphitryon, he returned and joined her. In both junctions Alcmene became pregnant. Zeus was the son of Heracles and the son of Amphitryon was Iphicles. Heracles was from its inception, the favorite of Zeus to Hera which responded with anger and jealousy, it does not bear the thought of another woman's son was so dear to her divine husband. Thus, the goddess decided to complicate the birth of Heracles who was 10 months in the womb. And besides, she is responsible for the hero had to suffer the Twelve Labours and as a baby of eight months, Hera sent two serpents to kill him terrible, no clutch the child learned to defend himself without problems. However, there was a condition that would be immortal if only Heracles sucked in and that Hera was not going to happen with the consent of the goddess. About this story there are two versions. First, it is believed that Hermes, the messenger of the gods, took the child to where Hera while she slept and put it in your breast milk to suckle divine. When Hera woke up and discovered in her breast Heracles withdrew it abruptly and continued flowing milk, spread throughout the world and formed the Milky Way. The other version says that Hera was with Athena walking through the field when they saw the child resting on the grass. The goddess Athena convinced that breastfeeding, it was very beautiful. Hera agreed, but Heracles quickly sucked the milk with such violence that struck the goddess. Hera him away from her breast milk vigorously and continued to flow until it formed the Milky Way.
Camila Valle
From 4 A
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteGreek myth is very interesting, i actually don't know a lot of, but i've read some myths and people have told me also. The greek myth which cause me more than impression i can say that was tenderness was the myth of psyque:
Psyque was a princess who was very very beautiful and because of that her suitors were afraid and Afrodita was jealous from her, so she order her son Eros to kill her, but Eros felt in love with her. One day Psyque fell asleep in the grass and when she woe up, she was in a casttle and every night, Eros go to the casttle to pass time with her, because he couldn't see her at day because of her beauty. One day she woke up beacuse she wanted to see him and she discovered he was very hundsome but suddenly he also woke uo and saw her and he got annoyed and left her. She was very sorry about that and he forgive her and fall in love again and they got married and Afrodita no long more jealous from her.
Alejandra Maldonado
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteWell, to begin with I must say that I don't like Mythology at all, only some characters and some myths. The one that attract my attention was when I saw the movie Percy Jackson and the lightning thief, she was Medusa, so I began to search about her a little more. Here it is.
Phorcys and Ceto were monsters and they had three children: Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale, they all were girls, the Gordon sisters. But she was not only terrific, she was also beautiful, so one day she said that she was even more beautiful than Athena.
Athena, in fact, got angry and declared that anyone who looks at Medusa would turn into a statue.
There were other versions of Medusa's myth, like the one that Medusa and Poseidon lay together in Athena's temple and when she realised that, she inmediately said that Medusa would have, instead of hair, snakes and a horrible face that when people saw it, they would turn into stone.
Well, that's all for now. I hope you liked it.
See you,
Laura Fukunaga (;
Form IV B
Hi miss Monica
ReplyDeleteI've been reading a lot of myths but the most impressed for me was Aracne.
The myth tells of a girl named Aracne who had a wonderful ability to make tissues, the tissues were so beautiful that nymphs admired her work, but Aracne was very vain and proud for her talent.
Aracne thought her talent was singular so she did not need anyone's help. One day she unconsciously challenging the goddess of wisdom and spinning, Athena, to make the most beautiful tissue .next day, the goddess becomes old woman and asks modesty, but she insults, at that time goddess unleashes her fury and begins the competition.
Athena in the tapestry shows the majesty of the gods while Aracne shows her disgraceful affair
Palas gets angry and destroys. Aracne felt humiliated and dishonored so she decides to hang himself.
Athena prevents her death, turning it into a spider for eternity.
Hope you like it
See you,
Pamela Chahua
Form V
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteWell last week we were told a myth about Penelope and Ulises in the class of Miss Ruth. I found it very interested so I'm going to talk about it. The story begins when Ulises went to the war of Troya. He was the only one that had an ability of the arrow. He married Penelope and then they had a children. Twenty years before Ulises didn't return to Itaca, where Penelope was. As it is a shame when a woman is not married. Her family started to search some men. But she refused that proposal and she said that she will get married with the one that had the same ability of Ulises. So she made a contest. One day Ulises returned, nobody recognised him because he was too old. Only the dog. Fortunately he returned the same day of the contest and he did it. So he married her. She was amazed because nobody had that ability. The day of the honey moon she wanted to prove that that man was Ulises. So they had a secret so that day she asked about it ans he knew it. She was very happy because she finally found Ulises. Some people says that the name of Penelope means fidelity
Alba Lucia Galarza
Hi miss
ReplyDeleteHere is my favorite myth, Narcissus
The story of a young Greek boy who fell in love with his own reflection.
Narcissus was a beautiful looking boy and many young ladies fell in love with him including the nymph; Echo.
Echo had upset the Queen of the Gods; Hera. As a punishment Hera made Echo unable to speak except to repeat the last three words of the person she was talking to.
Echo fell in love with Narcissus but could never tell him how she felt. Narcissus teased her and she ran away with tears pouring down her face. Aphrodite, the goddess of love saw what happened and decided to punish Narcissus. As he came to a pool of water Narcissus saw his reflection and fell in love with the vision he saw...it was of course his own reflection.
Narcissus watched his own reflection, every time he tried to touch the face of the vision he loved it broke up on the shimmering surface of the water. Narcissus stopped eating, lost his beautiful looks and pined for his love. Eventually he faded away and died.
Aphrodite took pity Narcissus and she transformed him into a flower, that's why nowadays we can find Narcissus flower next to lakes and rivers.
Lorena Romero
Form V"A"
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteI love greek mithology, so i'm bery excited about this new topic.They're really interesting , creative ,and it also allow us to know in what they believed and how the lived.
The leyend that I found most interesting is that one about Cronus, Zeus father.
I won't put the whole leyend , but i'll go a little summary. Cronus was son of Uranus, but he was jelous of the power his father had, so when Gea , Cronus sister, told him and the rest of the titans her plan to kill their that , Cronus was the only one who agreed. He killed his father , and Uranus swore to take revenge.
So he and Gea predicted that one of his children will replace him, when Cronus knew this he ate his children when they were born, when his sixth child was about to born Rea asked for help to Gea , so as soon as the child was born they hide him , so he can beat this father.
And he did it. When he grew up , her mother , Rea gave him a poison that will make him "throw up all his brothers and sisters, and also kill him."
Of course they are different versions of the leyend, but that one is the most usual , or the one I've read. It's amazing how much creativity there is in each one of them. As I said before , literature is one of few ways to know about cultures and countries in the past.
Hope you enjoy it
See you next class
Alexandra Cánepa(:
Form IV B
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteI must write about a greek myth, so I was searching about them and I found one that really got my attention. This is dethronement of Cronus. And is interesting because this explain the origin of the Silver age, where the 7 brothers of the Olympus, are the ones who reign in peace.
Another reason is that, we can appreciate how the ambitious of Cronus to have all the power, made him commit a cruel act as eating his own sons, just because he didn’t want to share his authority or even be dethroned by his heirs.
So here is it:
Cronus, the titan, was the son of Mother Earth Gaia and Uranus. He got married with his sister Rhea and they both started the golden age when Cronus took the place of Uranos and castrated him.
Gaia then predicted that his reign would come to an end by the hand of one of his sons. So after this, Cronus ate every single child Rhea gave to him.
Rhea got mad at him and when the last of his sons, Zeus, was about to be born; she begged Gaia and Uranus to make a plan to save him. She gave birth to Zeus in Crete, where he was raised by the Kourets and instead of the baby, she gave Cronus a rock wrapped in clothes which he ate thinking he was eating the last of his sons.
Zeus was hanged by a tree so Cronus wouldn’t find him as he was suspended between earth, sea, and heaven. He grew up, and when he could, he ripped open Cronus belly and took out all his brothers and sisters. He slashed Cronus in thousands of pieces and he took them all to tartarus, the land that is even deeper than the Hades
Zeus then established Mount Olympus as the base of his reign. Poseidon (lord of seas, storms and horses) took the seas and was sent to be the King of Hades.
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteI believe I must begin telling you that the topic about Greek myths is just amazing! I have to say I really like Greek mythology, because I found so interesting the way in which they write their myths and also how they describe all the adventures of their Gods.
I cannot continue without saying the importance of them and how much they have contributed in art, literature and culture. Well, after a big search I found the myth that captured all my attention (but I got to tell you that it was a little bit difficult because all of them were just so interesting!). I decided to talk about “The Odyssey”.
The story begins with a fight between the gods. Athene asks why Odysseus is kept prisoner by Calypso. Zeus answers, "Because he blinded Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, and Poseidon keeps a grudge against him." Knowing this, Athena goes to Ithaka and finds the house of Odysseus full of men who wants to marry Penelope. The gods hold a meeting and decide to send Odysseus home again. Hermes is dispatched to Calypso's island and he gives her the message from Zeus. Odysseus builds a raft and travels through stormy seas until he is cast ashore on the island of Phaeacia, and falls asleep in the bush.
He is awakened and comes forward to find the King's daughter, Nausicaa. She gives him food and clothes and leads him to the city. He enters to the palace of the King Alcinous, who receives him hospitably and promises him a safe-conduct to his own country. The King asks him his name. "I am Odysseus", he answers and tells the king the long story of his adventures: The Lotus-Eaters and the dramatic tale of Cyclops the Goggle-eye, and the marvellous escape from his cave. The next day he describes how he visited the Island of the Winds and the kingdom of the dead, in where he talked with the souls of ancient heroes and women of old days.
After leaving the kingdom of the dead, he told him how he passed the isle of the Sirens and also how he managed to pass between Scylla and Charybdis.
Afterwards Odysseus enters to his house. The old Argos hears his master's voice and pricks up his ears and dies of joy; he is the first who recognize Odysseus.
Penelope asks questions to Odysseus but she does not recognize him. Then they talk, and his wife asks him to interpret a dream, and tells him of a plan she had in order to put an end to the wooing. She would set them in a shooting match.
Penelope brings down her husband's great bow and the quiver full of arrows. Telemachus sets up a long row of axes in the floor, each one with an opening in the blade. She promises to marry the one who can string the bow and shoot through the axes. While they are trying to string the bow, Odysseus goes outside and reveals himself to the drover and swineherd who promise to stand by him. They return to the hall and find that no-one could string the bow. Odysseus asks if he may try and with the greatest of ease he strings the bow, and shoots the first arrow through the holes.
She sets a little trap for him in order to know if he was Odysseus. She tells the maids to lay him a bed on his old bed-stead outside the door of the chief room. He says "Who has moved my-bed! That could hardly be done, for the bedpost was a tree rooted in the ground!" Then his wife is convinced and falls into his arms.
I choose this myth because I think that if we want something, in spite of the obstacles, we have to keep trying until we reach it like Odysseus did it. This myth also show us the loyalty that Penelope had for his husband because she really love him and also it show us that our dog will always be faithful to us even though time goes on.
Silvana Carretero S.
Form V
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteToday, I'm going to talk about the myth of Hermaphroditus.
First of all, I think I should explain why I picked this strange myth to tell. Well, the thing is, I've always been interested in greek myths since I was a little girl and I read the version for kids or when I took a course of concentration and memory and they gave me greek myths to read. But my interest in this one specifically comes from the language class. I believe we were talking about greek and latin literature, when I saw his name in a list of gods and semigods and I became curious.
That's why when I read that we needed to write a greek myth I decided to satisfy my curiosity and let other people know the story of Hermaphroditus.
Before I start, you need to know that Hermaphroditus was actually a god, since he was son of Hermes and Aphrodite, but he was raised by nymphs because his mother was married with Hephaestus and Hermes couldn't take care of him either. He was born really beautiful and he soon grew up into a good-looking young man.
Anyway, the story begins when one day, Hermaphroditus decided to travel through Greek lands. In his way, he was so hot that he went to a close lake to refresh himself.
Salmacis, a young and erotic nymph who lived in that lake, was so attracted to him that she tried to seduce him, but Hermaphroditus rejected her.
A few days later, the heat became almost unbearable so he went to the same lake and, after looking around if Salmacis was there, he undressed and took a bath.
Salmacis, who was hidden, suddenly jumped over him and began to cover him with kisses and caresses. He tried to oppose and Salmacis begged the gods to never let them be appart and to transform them in one person. Her pleadings were heard and they both became one person with both sexes. In turn, Hermaphroditus asked his parents (Hermes and Aphrodite) to make anyone who bathed in that lake have the same luck as him and be converted into a being with two sexes.
And that's the story of Hermaphroditus. Hope you liked it!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI'm going to tell Narcissus myth.
Narcissus was a very beautiful young man.Lot of girls fell in love of him. One of these was the nymph Echo.
Nymphs were very happy creatures. Unfortunately, Echo had upset Hera, the queen of Goddesses.As punishment Hera made Echo unable to speak, she could only say the last three words that the person she was talking to, said.
Echo was in love of Narcissus but she wasn't able to said how she felt. Narcissus in his vanity mocked Echo. She felt really sad and started to run away with tears pouring down her face.
The goddess Aphrodite saw the pain in Echo an decided to punished Narcissus by making him fell in love of the reflection he saw on the lake, that was himself. Narcissus tried to touch the reflection but he could never get to that person, he stopped eating, he lost his good look
and pined for his love.Until,he eventually died.
Aphrodite was sad for him an decided to make a flower grown in his place at the bank of the lake.
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteWell, to tell you the truth i haven't read to many greek myths but the one which impressed me the most was "The Myth of Orpheus And Euridyce"
Th myth talks about a man called Orpheus (son of Apollo), who was the best musician in the world. He played the lyre in a way so armonic and so melodic that everyone and everything could become alive.
On day,he met Eurydice, a nymph, and immediately he felt in love with her. But the god Aristaeus saw Eurydice's beauty and desired it, and he did not care that she was in love with another. She started to run from him and suddenly she stepped on a poisonous snake. The venom of its bite killed her at once and her spirit was taken to the Underworld.
Orpheus was inconsolable and really sad, and the only thing he did was play his lyre. He played so sad melodies that all the gods and nymphs encouraged him to descend to the underworld. Facing Hades and his Queen Persephone (they were in the underworld) he played for them some melodies at the loss of his love. They get extremely impressed and moved from his songs that finally Orpheus managed to convince them to give him the opportunity to return Eurydice to the world of the living, but they warned him the following: Eurydice would follow him until he reach the sunlight of the world and once she entered there she would become a normal woman again ,but if Orpheus doubted, if he looked back to see her, she would stay in the underworld forever.
Then he began to walk to the sunlight but almost at the end of the journey,he started to believe that Hades had lied to him,that Eurydice was not behind him; so he turn back to see her. He saw Eurydice, but only for a moment as her shade was disappearing quickly. Orpheus lost forever Eurypides.
Then, Orpheus tried to enter again to the underworld to bring Eurypides, but the gods told him that it would be imposible. He became the most sad man in the world and finally he died.
This myth really moved me and ,even, it made me cry because Orpheus died of love.
Well, I think it's all for now, see you tomorrow.
Vanessa Vidal Gómez
5to Sec B
Hi Miss Monica!
ReplyDeleteWell, in fact, there are many Greek myths that impressed me and liked also, but as I can see, there have already been told, so here is one that got my attention when I heard its the connotation: The Pandora’s box, which is described as something mysterious; and also I thought of the trio of female Mexican singers.
To start with, it is told that Pandora was the first woman formed out by Zeus as a “gift ” to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus who had been before assigned to give gifts to animals, including the human being, for what he stole fire from heaven and gave it to him.
Gods endowed Pandora with beauty, cunning and many other virtues. Then, they delivered her to Epimetheus, who had been already advertised by his brother of not receiving any gifts of gods, because he didn’t trust Zeus and his gifts, but instead he fell in love and took her as his wife.
Until then, humanity had been living happily in the world, but one day Pandora discovered one box, from which she had a big curiosity on it.
In fact, it was one of the gifts Epimetheus and Prometheus hadn’t reached to distribute. She opened pithos (Pandora’s Box) and released every human misfortune: illness, madness, envy, sadness, poverty, crime, etc. and these were delivered to all the world. When she hurried to close the box, it was already late, and everything had come out, except one thing that lay in the background confused, this was hope.
Since then, even many evils things we have to face appeared, hope never entirely leaves us.
Personally, I think that the end is most impacting than the rest of the story.
What the story points out is the fact that if hope hadn’t existed, evil would have ruled our souls. Hope is that light in the dark, from which we can expect that will rule the whole darkness.
Samantha Acuna C
Form V ‘B’
Well my favorite is Greek history ... is that the Odisea is a long story but gives a brief summary ..
ReplyDeleteeverything begins in the Trojan War for millions of years ago ... when a warrior named Odisea went to war ... leaving his beloved wife and son ... his wife named Penelope decided what was necessary to wait years and years passed and did not return and while there were many men around her, woo her but she only wanted one and that was Odiseo, to spend as much time decided to assume that he is dead when he got if tissue but she would not accept so during the day she was weaving and tissue broke free night .... They spent 20 years and still did not appear in the meantime many suitors ... until one day he appeared much older shabby but loving it as much or more following as soon as I can keep the other woman during the war, but he loved his wife and always was going to want so the look and found, Penelope could not believe that was because many men had crazy to marry her, so she thought that was what was going to ask him something only They both knew and no one else, and that's how she realized that her beloved Odiseo never died back.
I love this myth because it talks about loyalty today is not as common as many years ..
maria paula mejia garcia
Miss Monica (:
ReplyDeleteI'm going to tell you Herakles myth.
Herakles was born to a mortal woman but was Zeus’s son. To protect his son, Zeus gave him the gift of great strength. Hera (Zeus' wife) was jealous and plotted revenge for his birth. Herakles grew into a tall strong man. He married and had three sons. He led a very settled peaceful life with his family but Hera's plot involved him having a dreadful dream. In that dream he killed his family.
Herakles was devastated. Finally he went to the Oracle to ask the gods what he had to do. He went as a slave to serve King Eurystheus who set him twelve labours which would free him from the burden of his family's death. If he completes all of the tasks he would once again be a free man. Herakles was a strong, powerful slave and the King did not want to lose him.
King Eurystheus set Herakles the task of killing the lion of Nemea. To everyone's amazement Herakles came out of it alive.
Eurystheus was quite angry that Herakles had been successful and he set him another task straight away: to catch the Golden Hind of Cerynia. He was successful once again.
The third labour was to kill the nine headed hydra. Many had tried this and been killed but Herakles was successful again.
The fourth labour was to capture the wild boar of Mount Erymanthus. Herakles killed it and after tying its feet together dragged it back to the King.
King Eurystheus was determined to make them the last task impossible.
His final task was to bring back the three headed hound that guarded Hades:Cerebus.
This was frightening because people that went into Hades did not usually come out. Herakles did return and so having completed his labours was released. He lived a peaceful life until he died of old age and then he was taken by Zeus to live as an immortal on Mount Olympus.
I hope you like it ;)
Kisses,
Priscilla Quesada.
Form 4 "A"
Hi miss,
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you, that when I saw that we had to write about Greek myths I was very excited, because for me Greek myths are really interesting, as they talked about different topics but using Gods, and all the mythological figures that are so amazing.
Having to choose only one myth to talk about was a little bit difficult as, while I continued searching the net I found more and more myths that I liked, besides the ones that I already knew. However, I finally decided about one: the Psyche myth.
I chose this myth, first of all because I love romantic stuff, but also because it shows that when you wish someone malice, or when you have a lot of jealousy for that person, sometimes it turns out that this person it's going to be happier than you; as the case of Psyche that instead marrying a monster, she marries the most beautiful young God (Eros).
Okay, now the myth. Psyche was one of the three daughters of an otherwise unknown king. All the three sisters were very beautiful, but Psyche's beauty was beyond description. Her beauty was so extraordinary, that even Aphrodite was very jealous of her. This is why she sent Eros (God of love); to make Psyche fall in love with an unworthy man, but an oracle said that she must married a monster on the top of a mountain. When Eros saw her, was so dazzled with her beauty that accidentally he fall and pierced his foot with one of his narrows, falling in love with Psyche.
Psyche then was first exposed, and then carried by the wind that took her to a valley where she fell asleep. When she woke up she found out that she was in a castle. Eros, instead of obeying Aphrodite, he went every night to visit her, until he asked her to married him, but with one condition: she couldn’t saw his face. Psyche accepted and everything was going fine, until one day she asked Eros if she could visit her sisters. But devoured by the envy, they planted in her heart the seeds of suspicion, saying that her husband should be a horrible monster to hide from her.
Following the advices dictated by jealousy that her two sisters gave her, Psyche managed to know who her lover was. Bar instead of finding a monster, she found out the most beautiful young God, and as Eros she fall immediately in love with her. But she moved and a drop of hot oil woke him up, deserting her of his loves as she didn’t kept her promise.
At a beginning she though in suicide, but then she went looking for Eros love everywhere, followed by the anger of Aphrodite and obligated by the Goddess to undergo four terrible tests. However, after several complications the lovers could reunite, and Psyche was reconciled with Aphrodite and made immortal.
See you tomorrow.
Kisses,
Claudia Carretero
Form V "B"
Hi miss :)
ReplyDeleteI've read about three greek myths but the one I really liked was Narcissus & Echo that explains the origin of homosexual people and echo.
One day Juno, Zeus first wife, discovered that a nymph called Echo was covering Zeus so Juno wouldn't find out Zeus was cheating on her with the other nymphs.
She got very angry and damned her to to never say a word again by herself but to repeat every last word she heard.
One day Echo met Narcissus, a very handsome and conceited young man, and she fells inlove with him. She used to follow him everywhere so closely. One he discovered her and he realised that she always repeated the last word he said.
That day Echo went out of her hidding place to hug and kiss him. Narcissus panic and rejected her, he prefered to die before loving her.
He kept going throw the forest until one day he was thirsty and he leaned over the mirror of a lake to drink. He was surprised to see a beutiful face and he got closer trying to kiss him but he couldn't and he started to cry when he realised that it was his own reflexion.
He was so sad that he got sick and a little after he died.
Echo was consumed by her pain until she kept only her voice and that's what we always hear on the mountains.
I hope you liked it I really did :)
Mara ♥
Hi miss,
ReplyDeletewell the truh it's that I really like this topic is really interesting that there are fascinating stories.
The one I chose was "Pandora's box"
According to the myth Zeus wanted vengeance because Epimetheus carried the burning torch back to man
So Zeus, set Hephaestos the task of creating a clay woman. Hephaestos worked and worked on that and finally he did it. Athene liked the clay figure so she gave life into it. Many goodness gave her qualities as beauty, persuation, charm and deceive.
He named her Pandora and sent her as a gift to Epimetheus. Epimetheus knew that Zeus was angry so he warned to his brother, Prometheus, that he must not receive any gift from Zeus, but he didn’t listen at him. When Prometheus saw her he fell in love because of her beauty and he married her. For their wedding Zeus gave her a beautiful box but with one condition, that was that she never opened it.
They were very happy, but Pandora wanted to know what was in the box, but she couldn’t opened it, because she was never alone. But one day when everyone was out she opened the box, letting that every bad thing scape and go all around the world, so as fast as she could, she close the box ,keeping only the hope inside
I hope you liked it
Claudia Ordoñez
5to sec "B"
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteWell, first of all, I’m excited because each day I’m learning more about Greek culture and a lot of interesting things that I actually ignore about it. And now, I’m going to write about Pandora’s myth, which is one of my favourite ones.
Here I go.
Pandora was the first woman on earth. Hefesto , (the God of fire) created her with the same appeareance of the immortal, with the Goddess of knowledge, Atenea, who helped him. Zeus told them to create her to punish humanity, because Prometeo stole the divine fire to give it to mortal people. Each God gave Pandora a quality like beauty, grace, persuasion & manual hability, between other things; but Hermes put in her heart the Lie & Fallacy.
Everything started when Zeus gave Pandora a jar, and she needed to give it to Epimeteo (Prometeo’s brother).This jar had all the bad things of the world, and nobody was allowed to open it. However, Pandora (who had an enormous curiosity) didn’t obey Zeus’ order & she opened the jar. In that moment, all the ills of the world escaped and they started to live between humans. Pandora, scared because of the impact, closed the jar and only one element couldn’t escape. That element was the Hope.
In accordance to another tradition, the jar had all the good things of the world & Zeus gave it to Pandora the first time he saw her, and the last thing that was inside was the Hope, that’s why humans never knew about it.
Epimeteo was Prometeo, Atlante & Menecio’s brother, Japeto & Clímene’s son. He was a titan (the first generation of Gods, progeny of Gea & Urano). When Prometeo fooled Zeus & stole the sacred fire, he was sure he must have a punishment. This is why Epimeteo was forbidden of receiving gifts from Zeus, but the first time he saw Pandora he couldn’t contain himself. So, Epimeteo is the guilty of every misfortune on earth.
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Ana Claudia.
Hi Miss
ReplyDeleteWell, one of the myths I like the most is "Echo and Narcissus". Because it is interesting how Greek thought the echo was created.
"Echo and Narcissus"
Echo was a beautiful nyphm, who lived on the forest. She was fond of talking, with her attractive chat she entertain a lot of persons, one of them was Hera, wife of Zeus. In the moments Hera was distracted, Zeus cheated her. Hera punished Eco in the inability to speak and she can only repeat the last part of the sentence she listen. Echo ashame of this, got out of the forest and she hid in a cave. At the same time, Narcissus, was a beautiful boy but he had a problem, when he was born a soothsayer predictes him that if he see his reflex it was going to be his end, so his mother took care he never look in front a mirror.
One day Narcissus was taking a walk in the forest, when Echo saw him and she got in love with him. In one oportunity he relized that someone was following him, it was Echo. He tried to talk with her but she can always repeat the last things he said, so she look after the help of his friends, the animals. The animals let Narcissus understand that Echo was in love with him, but he just laught and he mocked of her and her love.
Echo went running to her cave, and there she suffer a lot. But Nemesis, who had saw all the things Echo passed through, made Narcissus to be thirsty in one of his daily walks. So he went to a river and there he saw his reflex. He was so in love of this image that he got into the river and he died drowned.
I hope you like it. Best wishes
Fabiola Revolledo
4th A
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ReplyDeleteThanks.
In otther matters, I really liked your comments, they were well written and also I loved the way you integrated them to your own lives.
ReplyDeleteGREEK MYTHOLOGY
ReplyDeleteGreek mythology consists of a set of legends that come from the religion of this ancient civilization of the eastern Mediterranean, the Greeks.
The Legend of Icarus
Icarus is sometimes known as the inventor of the woodwork. He is the son of Daedalus, the genius of antiquity Ariadne showed how Theseus could find his way in the labyrinth of Minos, where he was the Minotaur (monster bull's body and head man).
With this help, Theseus was able to kill the Minotaur, so the king and father of the monster Minos, Daedalus annoying locked with her son in the maze.
With the intention to escape, Daedalus built wings for himself and his son. The wax adhered to the shoulders of Icarus and then into hers and began the flight that would take them to freedom. The father had warned his young and reckless son not to fly too high nor too low.
Notwithstanding the warnings of his father, Icarus fascinated by the wonder of flight at air rose desobediendo Daedalus who could not stop it. In addition, Icarus felt he owned the world and wanted to go higher still. He went to too much sun and heat had melted the wax holding his wings, so he lost them. The unhappy and reckless young man ended up plunging into the sea, where he died. Therefore, since this sea was known as The Sea of Icaria.
In other versions, which eliminates the element of fantasy, it tells how Daedalus had killed his nephew Talo, so he had to flee from Athens. Icarus also banished had gone in search of his father, but sank in the waters of Samos, so that the sea was a name derived from his, as in the original legend.
It is also said that Icarus and his father had fled from Crete in two sailboats invented by Daedalus, but the young man he could not control the sails and capsized or rather that when it came to the island of Icaria, was launched to land awkwardly and drowned.
The legend was strong for a long time and even showed an alleged tomb of Icarus in place of the Aegean, as it was said that on the islands of Amber had two columns that Daedalus had built one in honor of his son and another behalf of himself. It also said that Daedalus had represented in a sculpture the sad fate of his son in the temple doors at Cumae, dedicated to Apollo.
I chose this myth because I liked the message. Which is that one should not be carried away by emotions, that parents sometimes have the experience, that's why they give us some advices, but sometimes children do not listen.
Karla Blanco Nogich 4 A
well i really like greek mythology because is very interesting! and the stories are fantastic.
ReplyDeletethe myth y chose is about eco and narcizo.
eco was a nymph and hera was jealous of her because zeus was in love with her so she made that eco could only say the last part of her words.
then she fell in love with narcizo but as he didnt liked her she stops eating and taking care of herself and sshe dissapears in the air so now we only hear her voice wich we call eco
well i think this is a really known myth but i liked it so much beacause is romantic but at the same time melancholic.
mafer chia
4 A
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all sorry for my delay. Well I read a lot of Greek mythologies by my own, but one of them called my attention a lot.
It’s about Pandora, the first woman according to the myth. Prometheus had stolen the fire divine to give it to men, so Zeus orders the creation of Pandora to punish the human race. Hephaestus, the God of fire, modeled Pandora like the inmortals. Each God gave to Pandora a quality like beauty, persuasion, etc.
On the Olympus there was a jar which contained all the evils. Pandora looked and opened it, so all the evils flooded the land. When she closed the jar, the only quality that kept on was the hope, that’s why the humans didn’t receive that quality.
Of that myth came the expression “Open Pandora’s box”. We can said that Pandora and Eve, the first woman according to the Catholic religion, are the same because both of them are considered the bane of the humanity.
There are other versions, in which they said that Zeus gave to Pandora the jar that contains all the evils. She had to give it to Epimeteo in his wedding day but she opened it, so all the goods escaped. When Prometeo stole the fire divine he was sure that he are going to have a punishment. That’s why he prohibited his brother (Epimeteo) to receive any gifts of Zeus. But Epimeteo couldn’t bear the beauty of Pandora so he accepted her gift. That’s why they considered him the bane of the humanity.
Well, I choose it because it is very interesting and because it is a different version of a story that we already know that is Adam and Eve, in which they said too that Eve bane the humanity.
I hope you like it,
Best wishes,
Arlette Tardillo
Form IV
His miss,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all i wanted to say that i really like greek myths because it is about gods, and mythological monsters, and other wonderful things!
Well the myth that i choose was "Minotaur's myth" It starts when Androgeno, Minos King's son, was the favorite son because he was an athletic man who could overcome anyone that fight with and so he went to some games in honor of the Goddess Athenas and, as always he won but he died because Athenas town can't withstand his victory. Then when Minos king knew that he swore to remove all athenian.
Minos King put a maze and every year 7 ladies and 7 men, all both athenians, travelled until Creta and went in to the maze for being eaten by a Minotaur, half human and half bull.
Three years later, the son of the king from that time, Theseus volunteered for going to the maze, previously planned kill the monster and set free all athenian who were still there.
When Theseus was preparing to leave town, Ariadna one of Minos King daughters decided to helped him because of his courage, and she gave him a knife and a lead for kill the monster and find the way back leaving the lead carefully in all the way.
Finally, he kills the Minotaur and took all the people that where there out.
I think this myth is very popular but is kind of funny and that's why i chose it.
Best wishes.
Lorena Blossiers 4 B
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteSorry for the delay, but I really think we could send it until today ( before our Literature class).
I would talk about Artemisa
Well, I start...
According to the tradition, Artemisa in Demeter’s daughter however she is more consider Apolo’s sister, for that reason, she would be Leto and Zeus, daughter.
Apolo is the Art and Divination God, while Demeter is the Fertility’s God.
Artemisa was the firstborn, so she helped Apolo to come to the world.
Artmesia and Apolo were good hunters, so when they fighted with a dragon, they could kill it.
But the most memorable situacion was when they killed Niobe’s siblings, so Artemisa was responsible for the maidens and Apolo for the men.
The giant Ticio, tried to abuse of Artemisa so, tht’s why he was killed by Apolo.
Artemisa had plenty of satisfaction, and one of them was that he loved kill pregnant women, with her arrows, she was vervindictive.
Plenty of her success was in Giant’s fights, where se faced Gration, Aloadas, Bufago, Crion and Caliso (Zeus’ wife).
She was the protector of the Amazons, who was the hunters they were free, if we talked about men,as Artemisa.
She was as the moon, while his brother who was the personification of the sun. However, some other people classified her as the Beast’s God, since she killed Tauris
Her myth was expanded for all the Greek regions as Arcadia, Elide, Laconia, and some other places.
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Desire
Form IV
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteWell you've been teaching us greek mitology so I'm goig to tell you a greek story I've read.
Prometheus was a hero, son of Titans who was cheating. Prometheus stole a spark from the eternal fire to give light to men and give them heat. Zeus, enraged, ordered his son Hephaestus to chain Prometheus to the top of a cliff, where every day would a vulture to tear the guts in the midst of terrible pain, and where every day the bowels of Prometheus reborn again.
Men, then holders of the light of eternal fire, they were very happy, which bothered Zeus, so he ordered the goldsmiths of Olympus to build a formidable case that would provide a dowry to marry her to Epimetheus Pandora (also son of Titans).
According to the offer of Zeus, Epimetheus and Pandora would live among men, in an atmosphere of infinite happiness, on condition that he never opened the box containing treasures incomprehensible to men. Zeus was confident that the ineffable feminine curiosity would push to open Pandora's box, which presumably occurred, releasing no treasure, but all evils such as death, plague, famine and war, until then unknown to men, Jove's avenging of humanity by using the fire from the gods. At the bottom of the box would only hope, with which men consoled.
I thought this was a very interesting myth, that's why I post it here.. I wish you like this myth as me.
See you next class miss Monica!
kisses,
Yurandi Quino.
4.B
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteWell my favourite Greek myth is Medusa versus Perseus.
He was Zeus' son and according to the prophecy, he was going to kill his grandfather, so he shut his mother, Danae, in prision but Zeus got in and got her pregnant. When his grandfather discovered it, he put Danae and Perseus in a chest and threw them to the sea. They were saved by Polidectes. Perseus did not like him but he fell in love with his mother.
Years past by and Perseus became a very strong warrior. His mom was going to marry Polidectes but he wanted her to wait until he come back with a very nice gift, Medusa's head.
Zeus helped him to find the way to the end of the world, were Medusa lived, and other gods gave him a shield, a sword and a helm of invinsibility.
He knew that with one look Medusa could turn him into stone, so he used the shield to look through and the helm to got in without be seen. After he fought with Medusa's sisters, he got to her and cut her head off. Then he took the head to Polydectes and turned him into stone.
He saved his mother and then he got married to Andromeda, another goddess.
I really like this myth and Theseus versus the Mynotaurus. I will tell you that myth in another time.
See you next class!
Veralucia Espinoza
Hi Miss,
ReplyDeleteGreek mythology is one of my favorite themes in literature,in the last slide you mension some of the gods but my favorite was not included, so in this oportunity I decided to talk about him.
Poseidon
Sea god, son of the Titan Cronus and Rhea titánide, and brother of Zeus and Hades, he was the responsable of all the troubles at the sea
He was the husband of Amphitrite, one of the Nereids, who bore him a son, Triton.However, he had numerous other love affairs, especially with nymphs of springs and fountains, and fathered several children famous for their savagery and cruelty, among them the giant Orion and the Cyclops Polyphemus. Poseidon and the Gorgon Medusa were the parents of Pegasus, the famous winged horse.
He plays an important role in many Greek myths and legends. For example he competed unsuccessfully with Athena, goddess of wisdom, for the control of Athens. Another thing he did was when Apollo, god of the sun, and he decided to help Laomedon, king of Troy, to built the city wall, he refused to pay the agreed wage, in consecuence he sent a terrible sea monster that devastated the land.
Finally, he is represented as a bearded and majestic figure holding a trident in a chariot drawn by sea creatures.
I hope that in class we can talk more about greek mitology because i find it surprising
see you in class,
Elluz Sánchez
Jane Austen she was an idealist woman who always wrote about women life and history which in that time women were not having a good one. they were very strict and for every bad action there is a punishment. Henry and Eliza is not an exception. This is an history of a girl who was took by Sir George and Lady Harcourt, her life was full of happiness until she turn eighteen and Eliza was accused of stealing a banknote of 50£,For that her benefactors turned her out of doors. She felt so lonely but she stilled knew she was a very wise girl. She went to her friend Sarah Wilson to ask for a family, Mrs. Wilson asked The Duchess who was glad to received Eliza. Eliza made a good impression and when She meet Laddy Harrie , she thought Eliza and her could be like sisters but then her fiancé fall in love with Eliza. Henry and Eliza escaped and went to France, the Duchess sent armed men to murder them. Henry and Eliza had 2 kids but her Henry was killed and Eliza was poor, but soon enough captured. She like a mother was afraid if she escaped this action would hurt her child, so she took her closed out and put it down so her children wouldn’t hurt theirselves. After she made it she found lady Harcourt and Sir George. Lady Harcourt realized that Eliza was her daughter and she left Eliza because Sir George wanted a Boy.
ReplyDeleteEliza was a perfect kid then she was punished for making a mistake, she fall in love with Prohibited man, so she was “guilty” of that too. Then she was left by her parent because she was NOT A MAN. With this we realized that women were having a rough time and in that time women had to get married sonner and with a rich boy.
Majo Rivas Plata
4"b"