Greek Myths? Who kidnaps his wife-to-be from a field of flowers?
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Hades kidnaps Persephone. Greek Mythology. She was Demeter's daughter and after the kidnap Demeter went through a depression that the plants stopped growing and got dry. Zeus told Hades to let Persephone be with her mother for 6 months of the year and later Demeter got better.
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In Greek mythology, Eros was the primordial god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. His Roman equivalent was Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love". He was often associated with Aphrodite. Like Dionysus, he was sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, "the liberator".\n\nAccording to tradition, Eros was principally the patron of male love, while Aphrodite ruled mens' love of women. Thus his statue could be found in the palaestras, one of the principal venues for men to associate with their beloveds, and it was to him that the Spartans sacrificed before battle. Meleager records this role in a poem preserved in the Greek Anthology: "The Cyprian queen, a woman, hurls the fire that maddens men for females; but Erôs himself sways the love of males for males\nThroughout Greek thought, there appear to be two sides to the conception of Eros; in the first, he is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force of erotic love but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the first-born Light that is responsible for the coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos. In Hesiod's Theogony, the most famous Greek creation myth, Eros sprang forth from the primordial Chaos together with Gaia, the Earth, and Tartarus, the underworld; according to Aristophanes' play The Birds, he burgeons forth from an egg laid by Night conceived with Darkness. In the Eleusinian Mysteries, he was worshipped as Protogonus, the first-born.\n\nAlternately, later in antiquity, Eros was the son of Aphrodite and either Ares or Hephaestus, or of Porus and Penia, or sometimes of Iris and Zephyrus; this Eros was an attendant to Aphrodite, harnessing the primordial force of love and directing it into mortals, an apt role for the issue of a union between "Love" and either "War" or "Fire." In some myths, he is portrayed as being playful, frequently causing trouble for gods and mortals; in others, he is mindful of the power he wields, sometimes refusing the entreaties of his mother and other gods to interfere in the course of some mortals' lives. In some versions he had brothers named Anteros, the embodiment of unrequited love, and Himerus.\n\nIn art, Eros was usually depicted as a nude winged boy or infant (although this is associated more with Cupid from Roman religion; to the Greeks he was a young man or a teenager), with his bow and arrows in hand. He had two kinds of arrows: one was golden with dove feathers that caused instant love; the other was lead with owl feathers that caused indifference. The poet Sappho described him as "bittersweet" and "cruel" to his victims; he was also unscrupulous, mischievous and charismatic. In his ancient identification with Protogones and Phanes he was adorned represented as a bull, a serpent, a lion, and with the heads of a ram. He is occasionally shown blind or blindfolded.\n\nWorship of Eros was uncommon in early Greece, but eventually became widespread. He was fervently worshipped by a fertility cult in Thespiae, and played an important role in the Eleusinian Mysteries. In Athens, he shared a very popular cult with Aphrodite, and the fourth day of every month was sacred to him.\n\n[edit]\nMyths associated with Eros\nEros, angry at Apollo for making fun of his archery skills, caused him to fall in love with the nymph Daphne, daughter of Ladon, who had scorned him. Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her and was changed into a laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo.\n\nThe story of Cupid and Psyche has a longstanding tradition as a folktale of the ancient Greco-Roman world long before it was put to print; first seen Apuleius' Latin novel, The Golden Ass, this is apparent and an interesting intermingling of character roles. The novel itself is picture-esque Roman style, yet Psyche and Aphrodite retain their
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hmmm...i think the guy up there said everything from wikipedia...but i read the hole story myself a few years ago.king minos(son of zeus and europe),for proving his the son of zeus(and to become king of crete),prayed to poseidon,his uncle,to make a bull get born from the sea,promising that he'll sacrifice the bull to poseidon.but when minos saw the beautiful white bull,he put it in his herd.poseidon,angry,punished minos by giving him a son,with human body and bull head.becuz the minotaur,when he grew up,was eating every servent in the palace,minos ordred to the architect daedalus to make a castle from where nobody cud get out.daedalus invented the labirinth,and the minotaur was locked in.theseus,son of poseidon and etra(that was married with egeus while she had relations with poseidon)came to athens to see his step father,but he finds out that it was the time of the year when the athenian had to pay to king minos 7 girls and 7 boys to be given as food to the minotaur.theseus went too,wanting to kill the monster.but arriving to crete,the daughter of minos,ariadna,got in love with theseus and helped him by giving him a ball of wool and a dagger.theseus killed the minotaur,and folowing the thread they got out of the labirinth.they went back to athens,but king egeus seeing the black sails he thought theseus was death and threw himself in the sea to die.from then the sea got the name of egeum sea from his name.
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odysseus is cunning, very clever, faithful to his wife ( penelope)\nalways caring for his mates \nanything else?
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Family Tree:\nHyperion: Selene's father. Hyperion was one of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia. He married his siter, Theia and by her had three children, Helius, the Greek god of the sun, Eos, the Greek goddess of the dawn, and Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon. Other sources claim that her father was the Titan Pallas, Zeus, or Helios.\n\n\nTheia or Thia: Selene's mother. She married her brother, Hyperion and gave him three children; Helius, Eos and Selene. There are some sources who claim that Selene's mother is Leto, by Zeus. This second opinion may come from mistaking Selene and Helius for Artemis and Apollo, the daughter and son of Leto and Zeus.\n\n\nHelius: Selene's brother and Greek god of the sun. Helius rode his chariot across the sky every day after being summoned by his sister, Eos. His chariot is pulled by four horses - Eos, Pyrois, Aethon and Phlegon as he rises in the east and descends to the west. By Perse he has three daughter - Aeëtes, Circe and Pasiphae. He is also the father of two other daughter; Phaethusa and Lametia and one son, Phaeton, who perished when, given the oppertunity to ride his father's chariot across the sky, was unable to control the horses and fell to his death. Since Helius is able to watch the earth as he passes over, he is often called upon as a witness to events on earth, one being the abduction of Persephone by Hades.\n\n\nEos: Selene's sister and Greek goddess of the dawn. She is the mother of the four winds: Boreas, Eurus, Zephyrus and Notus by Astracus and is also the mother of Phosphorus and the Stars. Every evening she rides her chariot pulled by her horses Lampus and Phaethon to Olympus to announce her brother, Helius' arrival. She travels with her brother as Hermera and announces his arrival in the west as Hespera. After being caught in bed with Ares, Aphrodite set a curse on the dawn goddess, giving her an eternal longing for young mortals. Although she was married to Astracus, she is known to have had relations with Orion, Cephalus and Cleitus. She was also known for abducting Ganymedes and Tithonus, though Ganymedes was taken from her by Zeus. She begged Zeus to grant Tithonus immortality, but forgot to ask for perpetual youth. Tithonus continued to grow old and eventually Eos grew tired of caring for him and locked him away where he turned into a cicada.\n\n\nPandia, Ersa and Nemea: The three daughters of Selene and Zeus. Pandia ("all-bright") is the gpddess of brightness and Ersa ("dew" is the goddess of the dew. The Nemean mountains are named after Nemea to where the lion of Heracles' first labor was taken by Iris.\n\n\n50 Daughters: The 50 daughters that Selene had by Endymion. They represent the 50 lunar months between Olympiads.\n\n\nNarcissus: Considered as one of the most handsome young men is thought by some to be the son of Selene and Endymion while others claim his father to be the river God Cephisus and his mother, the nymph Liriope. He was loved by the nymph Echo whose love was not returned by the beautiful young man. She was one of mnay nymphs who chased Marcissus unsuccessfully. Frustrated, one of the nymphs prayed, "So may he himself love, and not gain the thing he loves" (Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.405) Narcissus beheld his image in a pool and feel so in love with himself that nothing could pull him from his own image, eventually dying from sorrow, unable to find consolation in his love. When the nymphs came to prepare his funeral they could not find his body, only a flower that now bears his name.\n \nDiscription:\n\nSelene is known as the Greek goddess of the moon, and more specifically the full moon, the second member of the triad composed of Artemis (crescent new moon) and Hecate (waning moon). She is commonly described as a beautiful woman with a pale or white face, dressed in flowing white or silver robes and wearing an upturned crescent moon on her head. Some sources claim she also carries
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Eros was not a got actually he was lower level god\nhe was the son of Aphrodite/Venus and Mars/Ares
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Cupid/Eros is the Greco-Roman god of love and sexual desire. In Hesiod's 'Theogony,' Eros is believed to be a contemporary of primeval Chaos, which makes him one of the oldest of all the gods. Eros was responsible for the mating of Gaia (earth) and Uranus (heaven) which led to the creation of the Greek mythical world.\n\nEros is usually depicted as a young winged boy, with his bow and arrows at the ready, to either shoot into the hearts of gods or mortals which would rouse them to desire. His arrows came in two types: golden with dove feathers which aroused love, or leaden arrows which had owl feathers that caused indifference\n\nThe Greeks regarded him as most beautiful and handsome, the most loved and the most loving. They placed statues of him in gymnasiums (as most athletes were thought to be beautiful). He was depicted on every form of utensil, from drinking vessels to oil flasks, usually showing him ready to fire an arrow into the heart of an unsuspecting victim.
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Double post...\n\nOrestes, in Greek mythology, the only son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia. After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes, still a boy, was sent to live in exile. Since it was the duty of the senior male in the house to punish the murderers, Orestes was commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime. With the assistance of Electra and his friend Pylades, who accompanied him in all his adventures, he killed his mother and her lover. After this matricide he was haunted by the Furies (Erinyes) until he reached Athens. He was tried and acquitted by the Areopagus, the tribunal of Athenian judges. Not all the Furies, however, accepted the verdict; and, to win full expiation from his crime, he was told to steal the sacred image of Artemis from Tauris. At Tauris he was reunited with Iphigenia and with her assistance stole the image and safely returned to Greece. It is said that he later married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatized his vengeance and expiation. The story was also used by Sophocles and Euripides.
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Ithaca is where Odysseus is from, The land of the Lotus eaters is where Odysseus and his crew stop and got side tracked by What we would call today weed. Cyclopes Island is the island where they got stuck in the the cave and Odysseus called himself nobody to trick the cyclopes. Circe's island is where Odysseus landed after he lost all his crew to Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla is this 3 headed snake and Khrybdis is a Whirlpool. Circe is a goddess who kept Odysseys on her island for 3 years and only let him leave because Zeus sent Hermes to tell her to let him go.\nI hope this was enough. \nGood Luck
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I'm pretty sure the following is not the one you are referring to but just for the record, in Chinese Mythology, there is one such story.\nIt goes like this;\n\n'There was a lake in China where 7 fairies would come down to bathe themselves. They were the daughters of the Jade Emperor and were in charge of weaving clouds into clothes for the deities, hence they were called the Weaving Maids\n\nOne day, a cowherd happened to chance upon them while they are bathing. He was stunned by their beauty and stole the garments belonging to one of the sisters. Without her fairy raiment, she could not ascend into the heavens and so, she married the Cowherd and lived happily.\n\nFinally, came upon a day when she found her clothes which her husband had stolen and she proceeded to fly back into the heavens for she had missed the times she spent with her sisters.\n\nThe cowherd chased her in vain and begged the heavens to allow the couple to live together. His sincerity touched the crows and they told him to put himself and his child into a basket and they would lift him up into the heavens.\n\nThe Jade Emperor, angered by the impudence of a mere mortal , ordered him to be struck down. The Weaver Maid, seeing her husband and child died, became so sorrowful that the Jade Emperor was so touched by their love, finally relented the husband to become a constellation the Cowherd. The Weaver Maid and the Cowherd constellation would remain divided by the Milky Way the entire year, except on the 7th day of the 7th month of the lunar year, a bridge formed by crows would allow them to reunite.\n\nThis legend also gives the explanation why the birds loses the head feathers, as their head where trodden by the eager lovers\n\nOn that day, many women in the past would pray to the Weaver Maid, wishing that they would too meet their man of their dreams.'
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Heracles, Orpheus, and Hermes.\n\nIn Roman mythology, Aeneas and later Psyche lulled him to sleep with drugged honeycakes.\n\nI guess a good rule of thumb here, don't accept honeycakes from the gods!  lol
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the greeks because cupid was the god of love
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i agree with the question asker, i also think hes a zero. i mean come on! he stays with 2 women (calypso and circe), lies to his men, and thinks highly of himself too much! what kind of a hero cheats on his wife and stays with 2 other women for a long time with the 20 years hes gone, and why does he have to lie to his men and be disloyal, and he worries about his self-image, i mean, he makes himself look good all the time. *something goes wrong* Odysseus: "oops, that was all zeus' fault"
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Sorry to disappoint, Odysseus is a mythical character in two of the Greek poet and story teller, Homer.  He interacted with the Gods and even went to Hades (the land of the dead) in his travels.  He was portrayed in Homer's works "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad"\n\nOther mythical (not real) characters are Hercules and King Arthur.
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WOW I'm learning about odysseus too and what I think is that he would have the same feelings he had when eurylochus(one of his men)said this or something like this:that he had the anger of drawing his sword and cutting his head off and he did not care who was beside him, also he said this"kinsmen or no kinsmen"(which means I think brother)and thats all I remember.
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Just to add more details to the previous (correct) answer.  The king of troy heard a prophesy that his next born child would cause the fall of troy, so, as was commen in those days, he abandoned the newborn in the hills to die in the elements.  But a childless shepherd found him and raised him.\n\nHades inscribed the apple to cause Zues trouble with his wife (Hera) his daughter (Athena) and his mistress (Aphrodite).  And he was the one that decreed that Paris, asleep on this hills near his flock, should make the decision. \n\nHera promised him knowledge, Athena prowess in battle, and Aphrodite the most beautiful woman in the world. He chose the woman.  Unfortunately Helen was married at the time, but she still ran away with Paris.  And it was her husbands armies that took down Troy, fulfilling the prophesy.
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menelaus was the husband of Helen of Troy, the one she ran away from.  he was the king of sparta