Zeus

Zeus

1. Zeus, the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea, was the ruler of Mount Olympus and of the gods that lived there. Being the ruler he controlled law and morals, and this made him the spiritual leader of both gods and men. Zeus was a celestial god, and originally known as a weather god by the Greeks. He has always known to control thunder, lightning and rain.

2. Homer was a poet and a author that wrote to compostions, The Odyssey and The Iliad.

3.The Odyssey is a sequal to The Iliad. The Trojan War has ended after 10 years of fighting and eveyone is traveling home but Odysseus is having all the trouble possible getting home.

4.The Iliad is a prelude to the Odyssey in which the goddess Eris was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, so in revenge she threw a golden apple inscribed “for the fairest” into the banquet hall, knowing it would cause trouble. And 3 of the women goddesses picked the apple up and had to travel to Mount Iliad to see Zeus's son Paris. Who then chose the fairest godess.

5.The Muses were the godessess of art and sciences and Zues's daughters. It was said that there were nine of them and there faces were inscribed in the walls throughout Greeces cities.

6.A. Troy: Odysseus leaves after the Trojan War, which was fought for 10 years.

B. Circe - The beautiful witch goddess transforms Odysseus's men into animals and becomes his lover.

C. Charybdis - This is the whirlpool sea monster that sucks his ships up into the ocean.

D. Aeolis - The wind god. He gave Odysseus a bag of bad winds, which his men opened, sending them off course.

E. Scylla - Odysseus and his men run into this six headed monster, which makes a meal of six of them.