Dionysus

Hello my name is Dionysus

Hello my name is Dionysus or Bacchus, most recognized for being the god of wine. I represent not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. I am mostly represented by grapes. I have a very dual nature. I’m the son of the ruler of the world, Zeus. After my death from the titans I have been wondering all around the world taking my cult every were. I am the only one who has achieved in bringing someone from the underworld to life. The fortunate one was Thanatos.
It was I who granted Midas the power to turn whatever he touched into gold, then was kind enough to take the power back when it proved inconvenient.

SOURCES

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/GG/othergod.html#Dionysus
http://www.mythweb.com/gods/Dionysus.html

(Mateo Trujillo)

°°Sisyphus°°

Hi, my name is Sisyphus!

You must remember me, as the founder and king of Corinth, or Ephyra as it was called in those days. Also people didn’t like me because I used to trick them, kidnap them, and many other things that they didn’t like, but I had fun doing them. My greatest victory came at the end of my life when the god Hades came to claim me personally for the kingdom of the dead.
I didn’t have a very good reputation, because I was remembered as the king that kept Death locked up in a closet at my house for many a day. Finally, I released Death and I was ordered summarily to report to the Underworld zone of Tartarus for his eternal assignment. But I had another trick up my sleeve. I simply told my wife not to bury me and then I complained to Persephone, the Queen of the Dead, that I had not been accorded the proper funeral honors. Then she saw that I must be given leave to journey back topside and put things right. I came back to the earth and stayed for a long while. But later on, Hades came back and hauled me down for committing a crime against the gods. So I got punished for the rest of eternity. My job was to roll a great rock to the top of a hill, and every time I reached the top, the rock rolled back down again.
All though I thought I was very intelligent to trick Death, at the end I was caught and my punishment was worst than what I could imagine.

Sources:

"Sisyphus", http://www.mythweb.com/today/today02.html, November 25, 2007.

Isabel Echeverri A.

Hello, My name is Midas

MIDAS:

Hello, my name is Midas. I am a very kind king who ruled Anatolia, I helped an old satyr one day and Dionysus gave me one wish because it was his son. My wish was that everything I touched had to be turned into gold. So it happened, and I started to try it on my flowers. It happily worked, but then I started to have trouble eating and I turned my lovely daughter into a big statue of gold. I started to hate it and soon my whole kingdom was going to be turned into gold. Then, I knew I had to do something so I begged Dyonisus to change everything back and to take away my power. Dyonisus did it for pity but he turned me into a poor guy, however I felt rich for what I had, my family.





Hey, at the top there is a picture of me.



Sources:
http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/mythology/midas.html
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/kingmidas.htm

(Esteban Saavedra)

Hi, my name is Zeus!

You might know me as the powerful ruler of the sky, controller of rain and cloud, and master of lightning. I overthrew my father, Cronus, and took over everything, giving the sea to my brother Poseidon and the underworld to my brother Hades.

I have sort of a bad reputation as a womanizer. I mean, I love my wife, Hera, but there are just so many beautiful women on earth, that I can’t help being a little bit unfaithful from time to time.

I’m really a nice guy, but please, don’t make me angry unless you want to see a heck of a storm. I have a bit of a short temper, and I really hate to be tricked. No one is more powerful than me…. except maybe Fate. But until she catches up to me, I’ll keep living the life of the most famous Greek God ever to live on Mount Olympus!


This is me, last year after Hera tricked me and stole Io away!



Source: Strait, Marlyse. "The Greek Gods and Their Creation" Zeus. 1998.

(Ms. Yates)

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