Greek mythology and architecture

By Emma L.

Pegasus

Pegasus was a beautiful white horse that could fly .it was the offspring of

medusa .Pegasus helped the hero Bellerophon to kill the

Chimera.

Griffin

The griffin was a combination of a lion and an eagle.it had the body of a lion and the head,wings and talons of an eagle.Griffins were said to have lived in northern Greece

where they guarded a huge treasure.

Medusa

Medusa was a Greek monster called a gorgon.She had the face of a woman but had snakes for hair.Anyone who looked in her eyes would be turned to stone.She had once been a

beautiful woman but was turned into a gorgon as a punishment from the goddess Athena.

Cerberus

Cerberus is a three headed dog that has snake tails.Cerberus guarded the underworld,which is where the Greeks believed people went when they died.He would not allow anyone who died to go back to the world

of the living.

Kraken

Kraken is a legendary sea monster said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland.

Scylla

Scylla was a terrible sea monster with 12long tentacle legs and six dog like heads.She guarded one side of the

Strait of Messina while her counterpart Charibdis guarded the other side.

The Strait of Messina

The Strait of Messina is the narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the western tip of of Calabria in the south of Italy .It connects the Tyrrhenian Sea to the north with the Lonian Sea to the south ,within

the central Mediterranean.

Typhon

Typhoon was perhaps the scariest and most powerful monster.

Sirens

Sirens were sea nymphs that lured sailors to crash on the rocks of their island with their songs.Once a sailor heard the song ,he could not resist.Odysseus encountered the sirens in his

adventures on the Odyssey.He had his men put wax in their ears so they could not hear the song then he tied himself to the ship so he could hear the song and not get captured.

Pericles

A leader and statesman during the golden age of Greece.he helped democracy to flourish and led great building projects in Athens that

still survive today.

Hercules is born part1

Hercules was a demigod which means half God half

human.his father was Zues ,and his mother was

Alcmene ,a beautiful human princess.

Hercules is born part 2Even as a baby Hercules was very

strong.When the goddess Hera Zeus's wife found out about him she wanted to kill him.She snuck two large snakes into his crib,however baby Hercules grabbed the snakes by their necks and strangled

them with his bare hands.

Hercules growing up

Hercules's mother ,Alcmene,tried to raise him like a normal kid .he went to school like regular mortal children and learned subjects like math and reading however one day he got mad and hit

his music teacher on the head with his lyre and killed him by accident.

Hercules growing up Hercules went to live in the hills

where he worked as a cattle herder.He enjoyed the outdoors.One

day a massive lion attacked his herd.Hercules Hercules killed the

lion with his bare hands.

Hercules is tricked

Hercules married a princess named Megaera. They had a family and we're

living a happy life.This made the goddess Hera angry .She tricked Hercules into

thinking that his family was a bunch of snakes .Hercules killed the snakes only to realize they were his wife and kids.He was

very sad and riddled with guilt.

The oracle of Delphi

Hercules wanted to get rid of the