‘The capture of Cerberus‛
by Zaharias Lampropoulos, 6b and Kostas Daskalakis, 6a
The twelfth and final labour was the capture of the
multi-headed hound that guarded the gates of the underworld.
With three heads, snakes coming out of its skin and the tail of
a serpent,
Cerberus
(Kerberos) was the most difficult of the
labours.
Fun Time
A)
Here is a list of the twelve Olympian gods. Circle the ones that are mentioned in our
issue.
Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Demeter, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Aphrodite, Hestia and
Hephaestus.
B)
We have only mentioned three labours of Hercules in our issue. What follows is a jumbled
list of the rest. Can you help us match them?
1. The Nemean
a. Hydra
2. The Lernaean
b. Geryon
3. The Erymanthian
c. stables
4. The Augean
d. lion
5. The Cretan
e. of king Diomedes
6. Hippolyte‛s
f. Hesperides
7. The cattle of
g. bull
8. The mares
h. boar
9. The golden apples of
i. belt
C)
As an epilogue to this issue we have chosen a poem by Nefeli Goufa, pupil of the 6th
grade. Who is it about?
________‛s poem
by Nefeli Goufa, 6a
THANK YOU FOR READING!
________ was a young girl
who wanted to be as free as a bird.
But Hades decided
to take ________ away from her mother,
away from her friends
and her lovely garden.
Her mother cried very hard
and Zeus tried to bring ________ back,
but Hades was smart enough
to understand that something was going on.
So Zeus and Hades made a deal,
nine months in the underworld with him
and three months on earth
to bring the spring.
KEY:
A) Hestia and Hermes
B)1-d, 2-a, 3-h, 4-c, 5-g, 6-i, 7-b, 8-e, 9-f
C) Persephone