Greek Gods essays

Greek Gods essays When you think of Greek Mythology, you think of Zeus, probably, or Hercules (which is Roman). Well, there is A LOT more to it than just him. I mean a lot, a lot. There are dozens upon dozens of gods. But not all of them are worth mentioning, but most are. Because I cant make this very long, I have cut it down to the main three gods: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. But, I will start out by telling how the world was created and the gods were born, according to Greek Mythology. It all started with Chaos. It was dark, nothing was around. Out of the darkness came Erebus, which is the unknowable place where death dwells, and Night. It was still dark, when out of nowhere came Love, which brought order. Love brought Light and Day with it. With Light and Day, Gaea, the earth, was born. Gaea gave birth to Uranus, which became the heavens. They mated and produced 3 Cyclopes, 3 Hecatoncheires (beings with 100 pairs of arms, all equally strong), and the 12 Titans. Gaea didnt like Uranus, he was a bad husband and a bad father. So she conspired against him. None of her children, the Titans, would help her, except Cronus. Cronus was the youngest Titan of them all. He attacked him when he was sleeping and castrated him. The blood from Uranus created the Giants, Ash Tree Nymphs, and the Erinnyes. Cronus took over for his father and imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires in Tartarus (Tartarus is the ultimate prison, worse than the Underworld, where there is no way you are getting out unless you are released.) He married his sister Rhea and all the Titans had many children during his reign. He was told one of his kids would overthrow him when they got older. So, to keep the from happening, he swallowed each of his children, except one. Rhea took her sixth child, Zeus, and hid him in the land of Crete. She then took a stone, wrapped it in a cloth and presented it to Cronus, which he then swallowed, thinking...

Epicyon - Facts and Figures

Epicyon - Facts and Figures Name: Epicyon (Greek for more than a dog); pronounced EPP-ih-SIGH-on Habitat: Plains of North America Historical Epoch: Middle-Late Miocene (15-5 million years ago) Size and Weight: About five feet long and 200-300 pounds Diet: Meat Distinguishing Characteristics: Large size; quadrupedal posture; big-cat-like head About Epicyon Possibly the largest prehistoric dog that ever lived, Epicyon was a true canid, belonging to the same general family as wolves, hyenas and modern dogs- and was thus a different beast altogether from the non-canid creodont mammals (typified by the giant Sarkastodon) that ruled the North American plains for millions of years before the Miocene epoch. The largest species of Epicyon weighed in the neighborhood of 200 to 300 pounds- as much as, or more than, a full-grown humanand it possessed unusually powerful jaws and teeth, which made its head look more like that of a big cat than a dog or wolf. However, paleontologists dont know much about Epicyons feeding habits:  this megafauna mammal  may have hunted alone or in packs, and it may even have subsisted exclusively on already-dead carcasses, like  a modern hyena. Epicyon is known by three species, all of which were discovered in western North America in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. The lightest variant, Epicyon saevus, was named by the famous American paleontologist Joseph Leidy, and for a time was classified as a species of Aelurodon; adults only weighed about 100 pounds fully grown. E. haydeni was also named by Leidy, and has been synonymized not only with Aelurodon, but with the even more obscure Osteoborus and Tephrocyon as well; this was the largest Epicyon species, weighing more than 300 pounds. The most recent addition to the Epicyon family, E. aelurodontoides, was discovered in Kansas in 1999; you can tell by its species name that it was also close kin to Aelurodon!