Greek myth attempts to explain the origins of the world, and details the lives and adventures of a wide variety of , heroines, and mythological creatures. These accounts initially were disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition; today the. Greek myths are known primarily from Greek literature.
The oldest known Greek literary sources, Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on events surrounding the Trojan War. Two poems by Homer's near contemporary Hesiod, the Theosophy and the Works and Days, contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices.Myths also are preserved in the Homeric Hymns, in fragments of epic poems of the Epic Cycle, in lyric poems, in the works of the tragedians of the fifth century BC, in writings of scholars and poets of the Hellenistic Age and in texts from the time of the Roman Empire by writers such as Plutarch and Pausanias.
Greek mythology has exerted an extensive influence on the culture, the arts, and the literature of Western civilization and remains part of Western heritage and language. Poets and artists from ancient times to the present have derived inspiration from Greek mythology and have discovered contemporary significance and relevance in these mythological themes.
Olympian Gods Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Aris, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis,Hephaestus
Titans Gaea, Uranus, Cronus, Rhea, Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Mnemosyne, Themis, Iapetus, Coeus, Crius,Phoebe, Thea, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Metis
Other Gods Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, Eros, Hebe, Eris, Helios, Thanatos, Pan, Nemesis, The Graces, The Muses, The Erinnyes, The Fates
Myths The Creation, The Creation II, Creation of Man by Prometheus, Zeus's Lovers, Birth of Athena, The Wanderings of Dionysus, Theseus Adventures
Creatures Cyclopes, Hecatoncheires, Giants, Ash Tree Nymphs, Typhoeus, Cerberus, Sirens, Centaur, Medusa,Argus Panoptes, Chimaera, Echidna, Gorgons, Pegasus, Chrysaor
Figures Epaphus, The Pleiades, Pontus, Nereus, Doris, Nereids, Amphitrite, Triton, Teiresias, Minos, Rhadamanthus
Good day every one!
Guess what! This is
my first time in blogging something but I’m also looking forward on it! Will my
blog is all about Greek Mythology, okay let’s beguine. First I ask myself what should
be my topic? and the first topic came up to my mind is all about MANGA a Japanese
comics to be honest but I just decided that I’ll just prefer Greek mythology
because now a day’s only our generation are more expose on Japanese comics,
will I preferred Greek mythology because almost or I say it all of us know what
is Greek mythology was and many people can share their knowledge about it and I’m
excited to read your comments. Here are some of mythical stories I watch
already: Hercules, Troy, Helen of Troy, Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the
Titans, Immortals, Jason and the Argonauts, and Percy Jackson some of this I already
forgot and I know that there are still a lot of mythical stories that I still didn't know and I’m excited to know it.
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I already
read the book of The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan it also has a series named the
Son of Neptune, The Demigods Diaries, The Lost Hero, and The Mark of Athena.
The
Lost Hero by Rick Riordan was the
#1 New York Times bestsellers
#1 USA Today bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller
#1 Indie bound bestseller
#1 UK bestseller
Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus
holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best
friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a
boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no
idea—except that everything seems very wrong.
Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on?
Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god.
Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on?
Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god.
Richard
Russell "Rick" Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson
& the Olympians series.
He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery
series for adults and
helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of
essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He helped develop the ten
books in The 39 Clues series,
published by Scholastic Corporation, and wrote the first book in the series, The Maze of Bones. He recently completed a trilogy that
focuses onEgyptian mythology, The Kane
Chronicles, and is working on The Heroes of Olympus, which is the sequel to the Percy Jackson series and focuses on Greek and
Roman mythology.
Riordan has created many successful book series. The multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults follows the fast-paced adventures of an erudite Texan private eye. Riordan also helped create the children's book series The 39 Clues; he authored several of its books, including The Maze of Bones, which topped the New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008. His Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features a twelve-year-old who discovers he is the modern-day son of anancient Greek god. Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film rights and released a feature film February 12, 2010. Following the success of Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan created The Kane Chronicles, which features a modern-day Egyptian pantheon and two new sibling protagonists. Its first book, The Red Pyramid, was released May 4, 2010; the sequel, The Throne Of Fire, was released May 3, 2011. The third book in the Kane Chronicles, The Serpent's Shadow, was released May 1, 2012. Riordan also created a sequel series to the Percy Jackson books, The Heroes of Olympus. Its first book, The Lost Hero, was released in the U.S. October 12, 2010; the sequel, The Son of Neptune, was released October 4, 2011. Riordan expanded both series simultaneously. He has completed The Kane Chronicles, a trilogy, and continues to write The Heroes of Olympus, which will have five books. Riordan plans to publish another series based on Norse mythology in 2015.
The San Diego Comic-Con International 2010 featured Riordan as a guest. Rick
Riordan lives in San Antonio with his wife and their two sons Patrick and
Haley, who inspired his Percy Jackson series.
Rick Riordan's son told him that The Lost Hero, the first in the author's new Heroes of Olympus series, was his best book yet, even better than break-out sensation Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He was absolutely right. In May, I said The Red Pyramid, the first in new Egyptian series The Kane Chronicles was Riordan's best book yet. I loved the way he had come into his own as an author with a distinguished voice all his own. Unlike with PJ, you weren't comparing things to other popular series such as Harry Potter. This was a Rick Riordan book. It was HIM. I'll say the same thing about The Lost Hero. Riordan has really become a talented storyteller.
this story is the best for all ages, how the story keeps you excited every time you turn to the next page your mind always says what would happen to the three of them if they continue to their journey, and the time they discover new friend and new enemy, and the time they discover their friend Festus an iron dragon that keeps them company.When the boy named Jason who lost his memory found her sister that also been lost when the time his father abandon them and the time Jason know that his father was the God Jupiter, and his girl friend piper found out that her mother was Aphrodite and Leo also found out that his father was Hephaestus and they found Festus at Camp Half-Blood.
It's been so great in reading books like this and my imaginations are working good and one thing also, how about try to reading Nancy Drew and it's series, it was amazing because you can experience being a detective for a while, just read it and enjoy! but still I'm a number one fan of a MANGA series.... Sayonara! God Bless.....
