Athena is the goddess of war and wisdom. Athena is not so good with Poseidon for many reasons. Annabeth is the mortal daughter of Athena, in Percy jackson & the Olympians series.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Poseidon
Poseidon is the god of sea and earthquakes. He is very similar to his brother, Zeus, in the case of women. He got many children from mortal women and goddesses. The “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” book series is based on the mortal son of Poseidon, Percy Jackson. Those are top selling books in all over the world. He is very similar to Zeus in shape and appearance.
He had a love affair with Medusa in the temple of Athena and then Athena transformed the Medusa in to a monstrous creature. Poseidon and Athena had a contest to win the city Athens and Poseidon lost the contest. So he is not very good with Athena. Athena relieved her anger from poor Medusa. Then Medusa also got angry with Poseidon.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Hades
Hades is the god of Underworld and brother of Zeus. As he is the king of the underworld and dead, he looks so gloomy and scary. After defeating the Titans from Titanomachy, the war between gods and Titans, Hades got the unseen realm, the underworld to rule. However he is not happy with what he got after doing so much in the Titanomachy. So he is angry with the other gods in the Olympus.
Hades duty is to maintain the balance between life and dead. His wife is Persephone, who was tricked by Hades and get into the Underworld. Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and is the Queen of the underworld. But she is not bad as Hades.
Hera
Hera is the wife of Zeus and, of course, the queen of Olympus. She is the goddess of marriage, women and birth. She hates the Hercules, the mortal son of Zeus and mortal women, Alcmene. She also betrayed the Zeus and tried to rule the Olympus but always unsuccessful. Her most famous son is Ares, the god of the war.
Zeus
Zeus is the king of the gods. Hera is his wife. All the immortal and mortal sons and daughters of Zeus can be found at following site. http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/ZeusFamily.html. The greatest weakness of Zeus is he is getting very sensitive when it comes to love and romance. Most of his mistakes and faults are done because of his this weakness. Zeus has 2 brothers, Poseidon and Hades. He is the god of sky, thundering and lightening. He has a the most powerful weapon in the universe, i.e. the lightening bolt. His mother and father were titans, Rhea and Cronus.Zeus became the king of the Olympus after killing his own father, Cronus, and freeing his siblings from the Cronus.