Zeus

=Zeus =

Hi my name is Zeus. My symbols are the color white, an eagle, and a lightning bolt. I am the ruler of all gods and the god of the sky. I have one of the famous myth called the Creation Myth. That myth is when my mother Rhea saves me from my dad Cronus because my dad was eatting all my brothers and sisters because he was afrid of getting over thrown. My wife is Queen Hera.





=== Hercules is a very strong demi-god that killed his wife and children because Hera put a spell on him, because of that he had to do twelve Labors. The twelve Labors were not easy for Hercules he struggled but managed to complete his tasks. The twelve labors in the movie were like just having a hero in town because nobody made him do it. He struggled a little in the movie to. Hercules at his birth strangled to serpents with each hand as a baby, but the serpents got in his crib by Hera his stepmother. In the movie Hades makes two workers Pain and Panic turn into the serpents but the little baby Hercules strangled them and threw them across the town. Hercules got along with Hades in his story and good relationships with the other gods but his stepmother Hera wanted to kill Hercules and watch him suffer a lot. In the movie Hera is nice to him and Hades wants him killed. Hades is the one making all the monsters to come after Hercules and kill him. Hercules at his birth did lots of amazing things like killed those serpents, showed people his strength as a baby etc. Hercules grew up not knowing that he had a father that was immortal, his father was Zeus. He got stronger and stronger until he got to a adult. In the movie Hercules he strangles to serpents and was let on the side of the rode and two parents went and took care of him. When he was a boy he destroyed a town but he didn’t mean it because he can’t control his === ===strength. So he went to the temple of Zeus and found out that he is the son of Zeus, Zeus told him to go to Phil and he will train you. At night Hercules got a spell cast on him and killed his wife and children so that’s why he had to do the twelve labors. The 1st Labor is he had to slay The Nemean Lion, Hercules as to concord to kill the lion. He defeated the lion and wore his skin. The 2nd Labor he had to slay The Lernean Hydra; he killed the 9 headed snakes. He defeated him by burning their open cut. The 3rd labor he had to capture The Golden Hide of Artims. The 4th labor he had to capture the [|Erymanthian Boar]. The 5th Labor he had to clean [|Augean] stables. The 6th Labor he had to slay the [|Stymphalian Birds]. The 7th labor he had to capture the [|Cretan Bull]. The 8th Labor he had to steal the [|Mares of Diomedes.] The 9th Labor he had to obtain the Girdle of the [|Amazon Queen]. The 10th Labor he had to obtain the Cattle of the Monster [|Geryon]. The 11th Labor he had to steal the Apples of the [|Hesperides.] The 12th Labor he had to capture and bring back [|Cerberus]. In the movie Hercules didn’t have to do the labor he just fought the battles because people though that he was a hero. Hercules had to do the Labor for a reason. ===
 * In Hercules life he didn’t get along with his stepmother Hera. She was very mean to Hercules. Hera was the one to cause Hercules to kill his family because she put a spell on him. For Hercules actions he had to do 12 labors to make up for what he had done. He had a good relationship with Hades even no that they really didn’t talk to each other. Zeus had a good relationship with Zeus because Zeus was the one to favor him. Also Zeus is his father. In the movie Hercules had a good relationship with Hera because she was very nice to Hercules because she cared about him and was his real mother not stepmother. Hades was trying to kill Hercules so Hercules ended up not having a good relationship with Hades. Hades was jealous of Hercules **.  At the ended of the twelve labors Hercules dies an ignoble death. Hercules was remembered after he died. People made temples about him myths, books, and movies about him. In the movie Hercules at the end he stayed on earth and people remembered.

Work Cited Anthology Coolidge, Olivia. "Phaeton: Son of Apollo." //Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices Timeless Themes.// New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000. Print.

Film //Disney's Hercules//. Dir Ron Clemente and John Musker.’’ Walt Disney Pictures: 1997, Film. Encyclopedia or Reference Work Edgar, Ph. D., Frank. "The Youth of Hercules.” //Greek and Roman Mythology.// New York: Dover, 1994. Print. On-line Journal (website) Skidmore, Joel. "Hercules: The Labors of Hercules from Greek Mythology." //Mythweb.com// (1997): Web. 27 May 2010. .