Greek Heros and Heroines
Hercules
● son of zeus
hercules had to fight two snakes
● Most kids would be scared but not hercules
● He killed both of them with his bare hands
Where do we see this name today
● its the name of a movie
Admetus
● he was a kind man
● he let apollo guard his sheep
● this was not a hard labor
● as time went by apollo began to like admetus
● they became good friends
Where do we see this name today?
● Admetus is a type of cat
Apollo
god of the sun,archery,music, and poetry
Why was he important?
When someone died suddenly, he was said to have been struck down by one of Apollo's arrows.
As god of music, Apollo is often dedicated playing the lyre.
He did not invent this instrument, however but was given it by Hermes.
where do we see his name today?
there is a theater called the apollo theater
Ares
his power was
the god of war
why he was important?
Ares was bested by hercules in battle.
he almost died when he was stuffed in a jar by two giants
there was a hero that wounded him
in the Trojan war
he received scant sympathy from his father Zeus
where we see his name today?
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