Transcript Gods and Monsters tb

Tiffany Bautista
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Nymph daughter of Poseidon and Gaia
Believed she was the goddess of tides
Flooded lands for Poseidon’s kingdom
Zeus turned her into a monster because she had gotten too much
land for her father’s kingdom
She swallows huge amounts of water and belches them out, three
times a day
Represents the three high – low tides of the day
She lives in a cave at the side of the Strait of Messina, next to
Scylla
Has a mouth for a face, and her arms and legs are flippers
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"So with much lamenting we [Odysseus and his
men] rowed on and into the strait…fiendish
Charybdis sucked the salt water in. When she
spewed it forth, she seethed and swirled through
all her depths like a cauldron set on a great fire,
and overhead the spray fell down on the tops of
the two rocks… We had looked her way with the
fear of death upon us; and at that moment
Scylla snatched up from inside my ship the six of
my crew who were the strongest of arm and
sturdiest."
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She is the nymph daughter of Titan
Atlas
Symbolized to be the force that diverts
men from their goals
Lived on the island of Ogygia
Became smitten with Odysseus
Took Odysseus as a lover and granted
him immortality if he stayed with her
Imprisoned Odysseus so he wouldn’t go
back to his wife
Odysseus was a prisoner with her for 7
years
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She had two children with Odysseus
Athena complained to Zeus about Odysseus
being captured
Zeus sent a messenger, Hermes, to persuade
Calypso to let Odysseus go
She was scared of Zeus’s powers and allowed
Odysseus to go home
Helped Odysseus build a boat and provided
him with food, wine, and good winds
"I'm not here because I enjoy crossing the
desolate sea," said Hermes. "I bring a
message from Zeus: Send Odysseus home.“
"You jealous gods! Can't you bear to see one of
us keep a mortal of her own?" cried Calypso.
"Oh very well, there's no arguing with Zeus.
Hermes rose to take his leave. "And next time,
do God's bidding with a better grace."
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They are the daughters of Achelous, the river
god
Beautiful creatures that lured sailors with
their voices
Caused shipwrecks, drowned sailors, and ate
them
Used to be handmaidens to Persephone
Had wings to protect and find Persephone
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When they failed, DemeterPersephone’s mother, cursed
them
The song eternally calls for
Persephone’s return
Personified to be the danger
of listening to peers or to
others rather than listening to
your conscience
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‘“Come this way, honored Odysseus, great glory
of the Achaeans, and stay your ship, so that you
can listen here to our singing; for no one else has
ever sailed past this place in his black ship until
he has listened to the honey-sweet voice that
issues from our lips; then goes on…Over all the
generous earth we know everything that
happens.” So they sang, in sweet utterance, and
the heart within me desired to listen, and I
signaled my companions to set me free…
straightway fastened me with even more
lashings and squeezed me together.”
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 "CHARYBDIS : Whirlpool Monster | Greek Mythology,
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"Calypso and Odysseus." Greek Myths Greek
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<http://www.greekmythsgreekmythology.com/calypso-odysseusgreek-myth/>.
"SIRENS : Bird-Women Monsters | Greek Mythology,
Seirenes, W/ Pictures."SIRENS : Bird-Women Monsters
| Greek Mythology, Seirenes, W/ Pictures. N.p., n.d.
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<http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Seirenes.html>.
 "Sirens." Sirens. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
<http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/S
irens/sirens.html
 "The Sirens - Mythology's Original Temptresses." The
Sirens - Mythology's Original Temptresses. N.p., n.d.
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