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    does not have a story of her own, she just simply appears and many stories of other Gods and Goddesses. She is known also as the “Chief of the Goddesses” she was the most influential and widely revered of all the greek goddesses. She originated from Rhea her mother a titaness, and Cronus her father the Titan of the Harvest. Her siblings include her sisters; Demeter the goddess of agriculture, fertility & harvest. Hera the goddess of marriage, women, childbirth and family. As well as her brothers Zeus;

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    her husband (and brother), Zeus, created (greekgodsandgoddesses.net). She is infamously known for her actions caused by jealousy. These acts of jealousy were a factor of her marriage (greekmythology.com). Hera was born to the parents of Cronus and Rhea. Cronus killed his father, Oranos, to become the king of gods. While Oranos was dying, he prophesied, saying, “You murder me now, and steal my throne-but one of your own sons will dethrone you, for crime begets

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    Amulius, and sent to prison. To make sure that there would be no retaliation, Amulius murdered Numitor’s sons and forced his daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a vestal virgin. But the god of war, Mars, became obsessed by her beauty and had his way with her while she slept. Rhea Silvia gave birth to twin boys, Romulus and Remus, as a result. Amulius in a rage, threw Rhea Silvia into the Tiber river. Servants took pity on the twins, so they were then put on the river in a reed basket, instead of being

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    ride one hot day to get some ice cream. This is were the tragedies take place. The boy in the ice cream truck, Roger Whipple, lures them back to his house and kills them. So in a way, the title heat is very important because this lets us know why Rhea and Rhoda are going there in the first place, and lets us know more about the two characters better as a whole. This is better for our knowledge rather then just going into the

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    we will be hitting on the origin of Hades, the division of power between the three brothers, and what people thought of Hades as a deity overall (GreekMythology.com). First off the origin of Hades himself. So his parents Cronus and Rhea had three boys, but as Rhea had the children Cronus ate them for he feared that once they were older they would

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    their time. However, mother figures have a notably significant role in Greek mythology. Mothers in Greek mythology are usually depicted as women who would do anything for their children. In the story of “Gaea and her Children” and “Rhea and Cronus,” Both Gaea and Rhea gave their children the tools they needed to murder their fathers after the evil acts they committed. Demeter is willing to let the earth, and everyone living on it, suffer until her daughter is returned to her in the myth, “Demeter

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    Rain-god and Zeus the Thunderer. The names Zeus had were indicated which force was considered most by Ancient Greece, in Greece it didn’t rain a lot so rain was a scares that’s why they gave Zeus those names. Zeus is the six child of Titans Cronus and Rhea Cronus the ruler of Titans and supreme god at

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    kids from her husband while he eats them to be powerful. In both the myth of Cronus and the novel The Lightning Thief, Percy struggles to find the thief of the master lightning bolt to set his mother free from the underworld and in the myth Cronus Rhea struggles to save her kids from her selfish husband who thinks about himself. In the myth of Cronus, a mother struggles to save her children from her husband Cronus who only thought about himself. The myth states that,”She asked her parents Uranus

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    In the beginnings only Chaos existed, then from there on Gaea, the earth mother, came into existence. Then she willed for a man to accompany her, and then Ouranos suddenly appeared. They got married and had twelve kids, the titans. Then she had kids again but they were ugly! She loved them, the problem was Ouranos did not. He got mad and threw them in the depths of tartarus. When Gaea herd she stopped dead and threw a temper tantrum. Then she could not bottle up her feelings any more. She

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    Zeus was the king of all the gods and man. Zeus was completely powerful, the most high, and ruler of order. Zeus has ruled over the heavens and upper regions of Earth. His father was Cronos, the Titan-king, and his mother was Rhea. Zeus is married to his sister Hera, queen of all the gods and also the goddess of women and marriage. He is a brother of Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. The major foe of Zeus was his father Kronos who tried to eat him at birth. Also included are the Titans

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