Hades

=I am Hades, The god of the underworld,death and wealth =


 * I am Hades, the god of the underworld,death and wealth. I am married to my niece Persephone. My brothers are: Zeus and Posiedon. my sisters are: Hestia and Demeter. my parents are Cronos and Rhea. Zeus, Posiedon and I all defeated our dad Cronos to rule over the world. I have no Festivals. No one worships me because i am the god of the underworld. I really dont have much friends because no one live in the underworld but some of my friends are, Thanatos, Hecate, Persephone,Hypnos and my brothers and sisters. my symbols are: Cerberus,Helm of Darkness,death, and the Underworld. **



My Hercules Essay
Hercules was a demi-god. He was the son of the god Zeus and a mortal Alcmene. He had unremarkable strength from the day he was born; this was part of his godlike status. Hercules in the myth had twelve labors of penance. In the Disney version of Hercules, he had to become a true hero to return to his father Zeus on Olympus. These stories of Hercules are completely different, but similar in their own way. Hercules in the myth had to overcome a long penance for killing his wife and kids. In the Disney version, Hercules was an average hero, he killed beasts (e.g. Hydra, Erymanthian boar, Nemean Lion). In the myth these are some of his twelve labors.

Hercules is the son of Zeus, a god and Alcmene a mortal (in the Disney version he is the son of Zeus and Hera). Hera, in the myth, who is Zeus’s wife got mad at Zeus for having a child with a mortal. Hera sent two snakes down to Hercules in his crib to kill him, but Hercules had this unknown strength and strangled the snakes (in the Disney version it’s Hades henchmen who turn into the snakes). In the Disney movie Hercules destroyed a temple by accident and the townspeople called him a freak and he wanted to know where he got his strength from. He went to the temple of Zeus to ask about his strength and about who he was. Zeus turned himself into the statue of himself to talk to his son. Zeus said to Hercules “if you want to become a god again, you must become a true hero to return to me and your family”.

Hercules in the myth had killed his wife and two kids and had to overcome a long penance. He went to his cousin Eurystheus, the king of Mycenae. There Eurystheus assigned twelve tasks known as the twelve labors. In the movie, all of these labors are tasks for Hercules to become a true hero. The first labor was to kill the Nemean Lion. The second labor was to kill the Hydra. His third labor was to capture the sacred animal to Artemis, the Cerynitian hind. The fourth labor was to kill the Erymanthian Boar. The fifth labor was to clean the Augean Stables which haven’t been cleaned for thirty years. The sixth labor was to kill the man eating Stymphalian birds. The seventh labor was to capture the Cretan Bull. The eighth labor was to kill the man-eating Mares of Diomedes. The ninth labor was to capture the belt of the queen of the Amazon. The tenth was to steal the Cattle of Geryon. The eleventh labor was to retrieve Apples of the Hesperides. The twelfth and final labor was to capture the underworld guardian Cerberus and bring him to Eurystheus.

Hercules had godlike abilities. Hercules had unremarkable strength that only a god could have. Because he was the son of Zeus, he had this strength. He used his strength in his labors. In the Disney movie, Hercules didn’t know were he got this strength so he went to the temple of Zeus to see who he was. When Hercules found out that he was the son of Zeus, he knew that this strength was from the gods. On Hercules eleventh labor, he showed his strength by holding up the heavens while Atlas got the Apples of the Hesperides. Another of his godlike abilities was his wisdom of battle tactics. On his second labor, when Hercules cut off one of the heads of the Hydra, two more grew in its place. What Hercules did was to burn the place where the Hydra’s head was so that it wouldn’t grow back.

Hercules had accomplished all of his labors. He died of the poison of the Hydra. Because he was a demi-god and that he had accomplished all of his labors, he became a god on Olympus but he wasn’t a full god. Because his mother was a mortal, some of his soul went into the Underworld in the garden of heroes. On Olympus he had a goddess as a wife. The myth and movie are very similar, but there are a few differences.

My Work Cited page

Coolidge, Olivia E. //Phaethon: Son of Apollo//. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices Timeless Themes, 2000. Print Skidmore, Joel. "Hercules: The Labors of Hercules from Greek Mythology." //Mythweb.com// (1997): n. pag. Web. 28 May 2010. .

//Disney's Hercules//. Dir. Ron Clemente and John Musker." Walt Disney Pictures: 1997, Film.

Edgar Ph. D., Frank. "The Youth of Hercules ." //Greek and Roman Mythology//. New York: Dover, 1994. Print.

Edgar Ph. D., Frank. "The Youth of Hercules: Part one." //Greek and Roman Mythology//. New York: Dover, 1994. Print.

Edgar Ph. D., Frank. "The Youth of Hercules: Part Two." //Greek and Roman Mythology//. New York: Dover, 1994. Print.

Edgar Ph. D., Frank. "The Youth of Hercules: Part three." //Greek and Roman Mythology//. New York: Dover, 1994. Print.

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