In Greek Mythology What Did The Grey Sisters Share?
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The Graiai shared one eye and one tooth.
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One of the basic themes in ancient greek tragedy is that the life threads of human beings are controlled by the gods.\nHecabe ~ Antigone: importance of burial; centrality of family relationships\nAntigone: personal/family relationships (Polyneices as brother) cross with social/political relationships (Polyneices as enemy of city). \nWomen as victims - Antigone, Polyxena, Hecabe (though n.b. context of male/male violence)\nMale antagonists - Creon, Polymestor\nMale victims of female violence: Polymestor, Heracles - in the latter case, the female is a goddess. \nfriendship vs enmity, loyalty vs betrayal in Heracles-Philoctetes, Greeks-Philoctetes\nethics\nlove\nloss\npride\nabuse of power
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The Harpies were sisters of Iris, daughters of Electra and Thaumas. Hesiod (Theogony) calls them two "lovely-haired" creatures.\n\nPhineas, a king of Thrace, had the gift of prophesy. Zeus, angry that Phineas revealed too much, punished him by putting him on an island with a buffet of food which he could never eat. The Harpies always arrived and stole the food out of his hands right before he could satisfy his hunger. This continued until the arrival of Jason and the Argonauts. The Boreads, who also could fly, succeeded in driving the Harpies away but did not kill them, as a request from the goddess of the rainbow, Iris, who promised that Phineas would not be bothered by the Harpies again. Thankful for their help, Phineas told the Argonauts how to pass the Symplegades. (Ovid XIII, 710; Virgil III, 211, 245).\n\nThe basic version of this myth, as it was retold, added details not found in earlier versions: namely, that the Harpies did not just take the food away but befouled it so it was inedible. They were soon thought as spreaders of filth and disease, gaining their more famous monstrous appearance as well.\n\nIn this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus. They were vicious, cruel and violent. They lived on Strophades. They were usually seen as the personifications of the destructive nature of wind. The Harpies in this tradition, now thought of as four sisters instead of the original two, were: Aello ("storm swift"), Celaeno ("the dark") — also known as Podarge ("fleet-foot") — and Ocypete ("the swift wing").\n\nAeneas encountered Harpies on the Strophades as they repeatedly made off with the feast the Trojans were setting. Celaeno cursed them, saying the Trojans will be so hungry they will eat their tables before they reach the end of their journey. The Trojans fled in fear.
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The Seven Sisters is the name for the undulating cliffs between Cuckmere Have and Birling Gap. They are thought to have been formed by glacier meltwater at the end of the last Ice Age: the meltwater carved steep sided valleys, which were then truncated by sea erosion into the cliffs we see today. The original Seven Sisters are the Pleiades, a group of seven stars which Greek mythology portrayed as sisters. There are in fact now only six Pleiades, one having exploded in antiquity, and from the approach to Cuckmere Haven there seem to be only six humps on the Seven Sisters too. But there are in fact seven: one is hidden from view from this angle.\n\n\nhttp://www.walkingclub.org.uk/book_2/walk_28.shtml
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Basic Story:\nSome say there are two Eroses, the elder who is the early god, and the other who is the eternally young son of Aphrodite. The "elder" Eros was the cause of the birth of the race of immortal gods and goddesses. The "younger" Eros is the one depicted as a winged boy, the son of Aphrodite, considered to be both the most beautiful and the youngest of the gods. \nBut even in this form, kids grown up. Problems ensue when Eros (called Cupid in this story) falls in love with Psyche. His radiance is such that for her own safety, he insists that she must never look upon his face, and he only visits her at night. At first, she's cool with this, but her sisters and family insist that her husband must be a grotesque and dangerous monster. Finally, to shut them up, one night she lights a lamp and sees his glorious beauty, which doesn't blast her but does make her tremble so hard she shakes the lamp. A few drops of hot oil dribble on her beloved, burning him, and he flies away from her in physical pain compounded by the pain of knowing she doubted him. \nHis mom, Aphrodite, is angry over the injury and over the concealed relationship. While Cupid recovers, Aphrodite hopes to get Psyche out of the way permanently by making life extraordinarily difficult for her daughter-in-law. This takes the form of various potentially deadly tasks such as dropping by to get some beauty lotion from Persephone in the Underworld, and, while you're out, Psyche, could you pick up some bottled water from the River of the Dead (the Styx)? \nBut Cupid eventually recovers, comes to her rescue, and they marry. As is appropriate, the God of Love gets a happy-ever-after. \nSome Major Temple Sites:\nHe had a sanctuary on Mount Helion
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This is one intrepretation of the MYTH...\n\nThe ancient Greek explanation for the presence of suffering among men may not be quite as familiar to us and is the subject of a painting by Saj called Pandora's Box. Pandora, the first woman, was created to punish Prometheus, a god who championed the cause of mortal man against the wishes of Zeus, ruler of the gods. Pandora was presented to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, accompanied by a sealed jar, or box. Insatiable curiosity led Pandora to open the box and release a shower of misery on mankind, the apple of Prometheus's eye. Thus Pandora turned out to be the source of all evil for man, as was Eve, according to the story of original sin.
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Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill. She was the favorite child of Zeus. She had sprung fully grown out of her father's head. Her mother was Metis, goddess of wisdom and Zeus' first wife. In fear that Metis would bear a son mightier than himself. Zeus swallowed her and she began to make a robe and helmet for her daughter. The hammering of the helmet caused Zeus great pain in the form of headaches and he cried out in agony. Skilled Hephaestus ran to his father and split his skull open and from it emerged Athena, fully grown and wearing her mother's robe and helmet. She is the virgin mother of Erichthnonius. \n\nAthena and her uncle Poseidon were both very fond of a certain city in Greece. Both of them claimed the city and it was decided that the one that could give the finest gift should have it. Leading a procession of citizens, the two gods mounted the Acropolis. Poseidon struck the side of the cliff with his trident and a spring welled up. The people marveled, but the water was as salty as Poseidon's sea and it was not very useful. Athena's gift was an olive tree, which was better because it gave the people food, oil and wood. Athena named her city Athens. \n\nAthena's companion was the goddess of victory, Nike, and her usual attribute is the owl. Athena possessed the Aegis.
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I think they should continue with the Greek/Roman God tradition. I'd put my vote for Hera (in greek) Juno (in Roman). She might as well have one.
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Fairies, wizards, witches, creatures like shrek (can't think of the mythological name!), Dragons, goblins, unicorns, mermaids and mermans, pegasus, satyr, phoenix, firebird, wyvern, gargoyles and pixies!!\n\n I just had to add this little bit, at the college/ tafe that i am at my nickname is Pixie!!
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actually, they are  sisters..
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Do you mean "Artemis"? She is the ancient Greek goddess of the moon, hunting, wild animals, women and children, childbirth, chastity and youth. When the Romans adopted her as their own goddess, they renamed her "Dian" or "Diana". Is that what you mean by a "synonym"? She is also sometimes known as "Phoebe".\n\nCheck out the link below...
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Because in Greek mythology Gaya is " mother Earth "
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(The river god, Alphaeus, pursued the nymph Arethusa; she begged the goddess Artemis for help and was turned into a fountain which flowed to Suracuse under the sea ; the two waters, River-Alphaeus and Fountain-Arethusa, rose in Ortygia where they mixed.\n\nARETHUSA\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOne of the nymphs of the fountains, who attracted the ardor of Alpheios, the river god, who pursued her with such persistence that she had to turn to Artemis, who caused the stream that Arethusa represented to flow underground, thus eluding the river god.
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I answered one similar question a while ago; here is the link to it: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApZTaIbDNP7rMLb5Y.7gcWLsy6IX?qid=20061102230235AAwm2AO\n\nBasically if you want just general information, then wikipedia is nice place to start ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_mythology ). The key book to this mythology would be Kalevala ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala , it also has full online versions; links to those you can find from my previous answer or that wikipedia page). If you have some specific questions, you should try to google it. If it fails, you can mail me and I may be able to give you a source.\n\nOh, it's hard to e-mail you, because you don't allow contact via e-mail in your profile.
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well most of the gods are a relation. Hades would be an uncle ares a brother.
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Zeus and Hera, king and queen.
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WEB SITES ON GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Greek_and_Roman_Mythology.htm\n\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.