A new goddess!!!!

If you could be any Greek god or goddess, what kind of qualities would you like to have?
Superhuman strength? Lightning bolts to throw at people? What would you physically look like? Hair full of snakes like Medusa? One huge eye like the Cyclops?

If I could be any Greek goddess I would have the power to change the apperance of people and be able to predict the future of people. It just seems interesting to make up a myth about how a goddess changes the apperance of people as they grow. Greek people made up myths to explain why something occured so wouldn't they have thought of why some people's appearances changed as they grew? I would definitely wonder why. Thats why I want to have the power to be in charge of that. Also I was facinated at the power to predict people's lives. I know it would be useless because I can't stop the present from happening and impossible, I still wish I could predict the future.

I would have wings of course but like a butterfly's. The top of my body would be human and the bottom half would be anything. As a goddess of change in appearance I would be able to change the bottom half of my body to whatever thing I wanted it to be.

Greek monsters!!!

Research about one Greek mythological monster. Summarize your findings and explain on the monster terrorized humans and/or how it got defeated. Include a picture of the monster you chose.

picture from: http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/egypt/E-28sphinx.jpg

research from: www.wikipedia.com

The sphinx was a mythological figure who had a body of a lion and a humans head. The sphinx was a female. According to greek mythology there was only one sphinx who was a demon and a sign of bad luck. She guarded the enterance to the city of Thebes and asked riddles to people trying to go into the city. If they could answer the riddle she let them go but if they couldn't she ate them. No one was able to find the answer and one day a man named Oedipus solved the riddle. The sphinx was so embarrassed that she threw herself off a cliff.

Greek GODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Summarize your findings, then compare and contrast the god or goddess you chose to Hercules. How are their personalities, character traits, and stories similar? How are they different? Include a picture of your god or goddess.

Athena is the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her birth story is really interesting. Zeus heard of a prophesy that the children that Metis bore would become greater than the father. So he decided to swallow her before she could bear any children. But Metis was already pregnant and she gave birth to Athena. Since Metis was inside Zeus, Athena, fully grown, emerged from a crack in Zeus' head that someone made. (The Greek Myths by Robert Graves 8.a, ff.) From the time she was born she was a goddess. She didn't earn her way to become a god because both of her parents were gods.

Her trademarks were an owl, a goatskin breastplate called Aegis , with a helmet, and a shield with Gorgon Medusa's head. She was also accompanied by Nike, the goddess of victory.

source: wikipedia.com

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The similarities between Athena and Hercules is that they are both skillful at war and fighting.

They are both Zeus' children and they also help or fight for what they think is right. But that is the end to their similarities. Athena is totally a goddess while Herculese is just a hero. I think that their personalities would be really different. As a godddess Athena would need to think carefully about everything she did and she is more well rounded at many different things because she is a goddess. Hercules can just think about minor stuff and he isn't good at everything because he is just a person. Hecules fought for his loved one while Athena helped people for good deeds they did and she never had a loved one.