‘Mars‛
by Irene Damianidou, 6b
‘Hephaestus‛
by Chara Alopoudi, 6b
Mars (Ares)
was the god of
war.
He didn‛t care much about
justice and due to his violent
character, the other gods
hated him.
Venus was the only one who
liked him.
Hephaestus
was the
god of fire. He was a
very good craftsman
and he protected all
craftsmen, sculptors,
blacksmiths and
volcanoes.
‘Persephone‛
by Nefeli Goufa, 6a
Persephone
was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of
agriculture. She was abducted by Hades, god of the underworld,
infuriating her mother, who made the crops wither and the ground barren.
Zeus tried to bring Persephone back to the world of the living. He gave her
pomegranate seeds and brought her back to earth for one third (1/3) of
the year. It was decided that she would spend four months below earth
with Hades and eight months with her mother. The period in the
underworld was the winter season and the period on earth was the spring.
Legendary creatures
‘Cyclops‛
by Angela Georgousi, 6b
In greek mythology, there was a race of giants with one eye in the
middle of their forehead. Their name,
Cyclops
, literally means
circle-eyed. In Homer‛s epic, Odysseus and his men land on the island
of the Cyclops, on their way home after the Trojan war.
Polyphemus,their leader, captures them and starts eating them. Finally,
they get away thanks to Odysseus.
‘Scylla‛
by Jennifer Muka, 6b
In Greek mythology,
Scylla
was a monster that lived on one side
of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart,
Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow‛s
range, so close that when sailors attempted to avoid Charybdis,
they would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa. Scylla made
her first appearance in Homer‛s Odyssey, where Odysseus and
his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travel.
‘Charybdis‛
by Dimitra Bimpou, 6b
She was a sea monster later rationalised as a whirlpool and considered a
shipping hazard in the strait of Messina.
Charybdis
was believed to live
under a small rock on one side of a narrow channel, opposite Scylla. Three
times a day, she swallowed a huge amount of water, before belching it back
out again, creating whirlpools capable of dragging ships underwater.