Zeus, God and in fact, the ruler of the universe. He and his children were legends of Greek Mythology but not many children smile at the thought of receiving a book about it, so I will share what I know about Zeus to get more children interested in Greek Mythology! Zeus' children include Hercules, Athena, Hermes and Cupid. Most of Zeus' children take after him so they are brave, strong, wise and best of all; immortal! If you had the gift of immortality you would live forever, so in theory immortality was very important to Zeus because ruler of the universe is a full time job and if he was not there chaos might strike. Zeus kept his youthful looks by drinking nectar and eating ambrosia, the special food for the gods, but if a mortal (people like you and me who don't live forever) ate ambrosia or nectar, they would become immortal! Zeus had a bucket full of thunderbolts that would never run out because of its magic. If anyone upset Zeus, he would hurl a mighty thunderbolt at them. Zeus created storms with his thunderbolts. With the help of his brother Poseidon he created storms at sea. I hope you like my post about Zeus and I also hope that this will help more children be interested in Greek Mythology!
By Naomi Amarasingham-Young
Hi Naomi,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your description about Zeus and I find greek mythology very interesting too.
:) Courtney
Great piece Naomi! Greek & Roman mythology is fascinating. (Those fickle immortals.) Look forward to reading more blogs on the subject. Niranjali
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