ANCIENT GREEK GOD PAN

Hi, my name is Pan. I am the god of shepherds and of music. Im the son of Hermes and a nymph.

I was born with the legs and horns of a goat, which caused my own mother to abandone me. One of my loves, a nymph, ran away from me and she was transformed into a reed, which inspired me to invent the reed, a wind musical instrument.

I am considered to be the cause of the sudden fear that sometimes comes for no reason, especially in lonely places. I was the only god who has died and never returned.

Felipe V 10 A

IRENE TRUJILLO PERSEPHONE

Hi, my name is Persephone, in the Greek mythology I was the daughter of Demeter (goddess of agriculture) and Zeus (god of the gods, and the sky). At the time I was an adolescent, Hades (god of the underworld) fell in love with me, wanting me to marry him. Although my father Zeus agreed with the wedding, Demeter, my mother didn’t accept it. So, Hades caught me while I was looking for flowers in the forest and led me to his kingdom. When my mother went out in search of me, she never found me and remained very sad for a long period of time. All the plants died and hunger devastated the land. For this motive, my dad Zeus sends his messenger Hermes to look for me at the underworld. Hades obviously didn’t agreed with returning me back home, so he gave me just before leaving the underworld a bunch of seeds called pomegranate. I ate them and return to the underworld forever. Then, my father and Hades ended up reaching an agreement; I would spend half of the year in his world, and half with my mother. Finally everyone accepted and agreed with that solution. Is for this reason, that for the half of the year everything blooms, for the rest of it, when I return to the underworld, the winter arrives, there’s a lot of rain and ice. And that’s how the seasons were created, I became the queen of the underworld and goddess of innocence.

MICROSOFT STUDEND CON ENCARTA 2007

http://embrujando.iespana.es/persefone.htm

Phyramus and Thisbe


I am Phyramus the handsomest youth, and I am Thisbe the fairest maiden. We both lived in Babylonia, where Semiramis reigned, and we are also neighbors. Our love was greater than anyone’s, but our parents didn`t want us together. For our fortune, there was a crack in the wall that separated our houses, through which we tried to tell us our feelings by tender messages. Our love was so big that we could not resist anymore leaving separated, that’s why we decided to escape, where our parents could not find us. We agreed in leaving our houses at night, and meet at the tomb of Ninus, the one who arrives first, should wait for the other at the foot of a certain tree, a mulberry tree next to a small lake. I waited until all my family was asleep, and then I covered my head with a veil so that none recognized me. I arrived first than Phyramus, so I had to wait for him. I saw a very big lion, coming out of the trees, with his bloody mouth. I hided in the hollow of a rock. But I didn’t notice that I had dropped my veil.
When the lion finished drinking in the small lake, he saw my veil and he started to play with it, living it with blood. When I Phyramus came, I saw the lion steps and the veil with blood. I thought it was Thisbe`s blood, so I started to blame my self for not being there on time to safe her. So I also decided to die to be with my lover. I took my sword and plunged it in my heart. My blood that dropped into the earth, reached inside the tree roots transforming the white mulberries into red. When I Thisbe, noticed that the tree had changed its color, I recognized my lover. I started to cry, I was very sad I didn’t knew what to do. I looked at his sword and I decided it was time to be together, so I plunged it into my breast. Our bodies were buried in one sepulchre, and the tree ever after had purple berries.

Maria paulina Arango B.

Carlos Paraga.”Pyramus and Thisbe” .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe. November/28/2007.

Eros and Psyche

Eugenia Robledo

I’m the Greek god of love, son of Aphrodite and my roman name is cupid. Psyche is A mortal princess whose Aphrodite is jealous of, but who was chosen by me to be his bride. My mom Aphrodite call’s me, to shoot one of my arrows, which poisoned immortal and mortal alike with love, at Psyche, while she was sleeping. Accidentally I poked myself with the poisoned arrow. I gets in love with Psyche and Aphrodite was very mad at me, because of not obey her orders. One day i awoke very angry because Psyche by the pressure of her sister thinks that I was a monster, and she goes to prove that with a candle. By mistake Psyche let a drop of candle liquid in my face so that’s why I go very mad. Finally I forgave Psyche we go to live together. Psyche became the goddess of the soul.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

EROS. mythweb.com. date accessed nov 25, 2007

Sisyphus - Camila Jaramillo 10a

SISYPHUS

My name is Sisyphus; I am founder and king of Corinth. I am considered as a clever and rebellious hero in Greek mythology although I was punished for doing some things. First I cheat some of the Gods by steeling some secrets, then I was accused of the disappearance of Egina and later I almost die, fortunately I returned to earth and prove my wife chastity. I was chastised by working on the underworld with Ades, but I didn’t like it so I kept Ades on a closet for one day. I was reported by this action so I was punished on Tartamus for eternity. My punishment was rolling a rock uphill and then watched it roll down again.

Andrea Teuber. (1998). The Myth of Sisyphus. Retrieved November 26, 2007 from http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/sisyphus1.html

Joel Skidmore. (1993). Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Sisyphus. Retrieved November 26, 2007 from http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/sisyphus.html

Camila Jaramillo Salazar 10a

POSEIDON Juan Pablo Valencia H.

My name is Poseidon and I am known as the god of sea, god of earthquakes and the god of horses. I was one of the six siblings that divided the power of the world and in the division I became the ruler of sea.
I am someone that does things depending on my temperament. When I am in a good mood I create new lands in the water and calm the sea, but when I am in a bad mood I strike the ground with a trident and cause earthquakes and ship wrecks.
I have a story that involves me and the goddess of war, Athena fighting for the city of Athens. Finally Athena won by giving the olive people of Athens the olive tree. In my anger over that decision, I flooded the attic plain. However, Athena and I worked together by combining our powers. Later I used my powers of earthquakes, water, and horses to inflict fear and punishment on people as revenge.
Finally I was the one who helped the Greeks during the Trojan War. I am an essential character in the study of Greek mythology.

SOURCES

www.pantheon.org/articles/p/poseidon.html AuthorPaige Sellers

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC063035/poseidon.jpg&imgrefurl

Laura arbelaez- Orpheus and Eurydice

This is a story of beauty and tragedy. Orpheus was the best musician that ever lived. His music was said to be so beautiful that it would soothe animals. He married to Eurydice. Aristaeus tried to violate her and while she was trying to scape she fell and was biten by a snake and died. Orpheus was so sad that he decided to go for her to the underworld. Hades would return Eurydice to Orpheus, but warned him very carefully: Eurydice would follow him into the light of the world and once she entered the sunlight she would be changed from a shade back to a woman. But if Orpheus looked back to see her, she would be lost to him forever. He could not resist and she disappear forever. The rest of his life he spend it playing songs that called for death.

Laura Arbelaez 10-A