Greetings fans of Greek and Roman mythology! After having recently written about the Olympians Zeus, Hera, and Demeter, I would now like to take a break from the Olympian gods and move on to Medusa. Medusa, who lived in the Land of the Hyperboreans with her immortal sisters Stheno and Euryale, was the only mortal Gorgon. A Gorgon was variously pictured as either a hideous or beautiful woman who had venemous, writhing serpents for hair, possibly the lower body of a reptile, and claws or hands made of bronze; her gaze would turn people to stone (but only if those undergoing petrifaction had gazed upon her as well).
Even though Stheno and Euryale could not die, Medusa could; in fact, she was eventually decapitated by the hero Perseus, the son of Zeus and Danae. More of Perseus in a later post. She was the mother of both Pegasus, the winged horse (there was a second winged horse in mythology as well, named Arion, whose color was black vs. the white of Pegasus, and who was owned by the hero Adrastus; for a time, Bellerophon controlled Pegasus by means of the golden bridle of Athena), and Chrysaor, the golden giant; but of her children were born from her neck when it was severed by Perseus's extremely sharp sword that he had received as a present from the gods.
Medusa was once a very beautiful woman with long, flowing tresses that shone like gold in the sun. One day, however, she made the mistake of kissing Poseidon in the temple of Athena; Athena didn't like that sort of thing going on in her temple, so in her rage she transformed Medusa into a Gorgon, the worst sort of punishment for a woman with such beautiful hair: not only would her hair now be unruly and not able to be combed, but she would always have a bad hair day!
The name "Medusa" means "ruling female wisdom." A "Medusa" was once worshiped by the Amazons as a serpent goddess, some time before the legend of the Greek Medusa began. Her sisters' names meant the following: Stheno (forceful) and Euryale (far-roaming). Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa were all the daughters of the marine deities Phorcys and Ceto.
**Mythology Book Corner**: My recommendation this post is Book IV in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, entitled The Battle of the Labyrinth. The Minotaur, another horrible monster like Medusa, was half-man, half-bull; he, of course, lived within the confines of the labyrinth in Greek mythology, which was designed by Daedalus. Watch out for a future post just on the Minotaur!!
Please stay tuned for my next blog post which will discuss the god Poseidon.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Demeter, Goddess of the Earth
Greetings fans of Greek and Roman mythology! After having recently written about the twins Zeus and Hera, I would now like to continue with their sister Demeter (Roman Ceres, root of our word "cereal"). Demeter, coming from the Greek word meter: "mother," was the goddess of the Earth. Her forerunner was Gaia, the original Mother Earth (it was Gaia and Ouranos, the Sky God, who gave birth to twelve Titans, including Cronus and Rhea, the mother of Demeter, not to mention the three Cyclopes: Brontes, Steropes, and Arges; and the three Hecatoncheires, or 100-handed ones: Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges).
Most of the stories centering around Demeter included her mystery cult (the Eleusinian Mysteries) and her daughter Persephone (Roman: Proserpina), the Goddess of Spring. Demeter loved Persephone very much, but one day she went missing. Demeter, unaware that her brother Hades (you'll recall that the original six Olympians, all children of Cronus and Rhea, were Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Hades, Poseidon, and Hestia) had kidnapped Persephone and taken her down to the Underworld to be his wife, became very sad because she missed her daughter so much. Due to her absence, Demeter forgot about her duties towards the Earth, the life on which began to slowly die. People had never experienced death and cold prior to this capture of Persephone, and were bewildered about what to do.
Zeus, when he saw people beginning to starve because they had no food (no one had learned the art of storing up food or really even harvesting it because it was always the growing season), was very upset because he knew that soon all the humans would die, and that no one would be left to worship him! Secondary in Zeus's mind was the fact that Persephone was his daughter as well. So he got together with Demeter, and they engaged Hecate, the original ruler of the Underworld (she had 3 bodies and 3 heads: a lion, dog, and mare; she was between 90 to 105 feet tall, and was the original master of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the Underworld) to help find the lost Persephone. Hecate forced Helios, the god of the sun (Apollo was the god of the light of the sun, but Helios was the god who drove the chariot of the sun) to tell her what had happened to Persephone (Helios, of course, would see everything that happens on Earth below).
Helios told Hecate who told Demeter and Zeus that Hades had kidnapped Persephone in his black chariot drawn by black dragons when she was innocently out picking poppies. Enraged by this untoward cheeky and brazen behavior on the part of Hades (who could blame Uncle Hades for such asocial behavior? You hang around in the dark for centuries with only dead mute people, the manes, walking around and see how sparkling your personality becomes!!) Zeus sped down to the Underworld to demand Persephone back as people continued to die on Earth ... those prayers weren't wafting up very quickly and in such large numbers any more! Hades, of course, liked being not so lonely, and Persephone certainly was beautiful, although she did tend to cry quite a bit and screech about missing her mother, which was getting on his nerves a little bit. Zeus demanded her back; Hades countered that since Persephone had eaten food in the Underworld, namely a pomegranate, she would have to remain there for eternity. Zeus and Hades argued contentiously, until finally a compromise was reached: since Persephone had eaten 6 seeds of the pomegranate, she would remain for 6 months each year in the Underworld, but after those 6 months she would spend the other 6 on Earth.
The Greeks explained the cycles of the seasons (Horae: originally Thallo, Auxo and Carpo, then Dike, Eunomia, Eirene; daughers of Zeus and Themis, one of the original twelve Titans) in the following way: Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, would cause spring to happen when she returned from the Underworld since her mother Persephone would no longer be so upset and therefore neglectful of her duties towards bringing life to the Earth. Demeter would rejoice in the presence of her daughter all spring and summer; but, when the dreadful contract was due for the eating of the Underworld fruit, Persephone would have to descend once again to the grim realm of her husband Hades, throwing Demeter into mourning, a state which would make her forget all about bringing life to the planet, hence precipitating the slow death of plant life, which we know as autumn; winter would be the worst of it, as Demeter would simply be in a horrible depression as she felt that her beloved daughter would never return.
Mythology Book Corner: This book corner suggests great mythology reads. I've already recommended (highly) both The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan; this wonderful series continues with book 3, The Titan's Curse.
My next post will discuss a supremely horrific monster from the Land of the Hyperboreans: Medusa and her lovely Gorgonic sisters.
Most of the stories centering around Demeter included her mystery cult (the Eleusinian Mysteries) and her daughter Persephone (Roman: Proserpina), the Goddess of Spring. Demeter loved Persephone very much, but one day she went missing. Demeter, unaware that her brother Hades (you'll recall that the original six Olympians, all children of Cronus and Rhea, were Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Hades, Poseidon, and Hestia) had kidnapped Persephone and taken her down to the Underworld to be his wife, became very sad because she missed her daughter so much. Due to her absence, Demeter forgot about her duties towards the Earth, the life on which began to slowly die. People had never experienced death and cold prior to this capture of Persephone, and were bewildered about what to do.
Zeus, when he saw people beginning to starve because they had no food (no one had learned the art of storing up food or really even harvesting it because it was always the growing season), was very upset because he knew that soon all the humans would die, and that no one would be left to worship him! Secondary in Zeus's mind was the fact that Persephone was his daughter as well. So he got together with Demeter, and they engaged Hecate, the original ruler of the Underworld (she had 3 bodies and 3 heads: a lion, dog, and mare; she was between 90 to 105 feet tall, and was the original master of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the Underworld) to help find the lost Persephone. Hecate forced Helios, the god of the sun (Apollo was the god of the light of the sun, but Helios was the god who drove the chariot of the sun) to tell her what had happened to Persephone (Helios, of course, would see everything that happens on Earth below).
Helios told Hecate who told Demeter and Zeus that Hades had kidnapped Persephone in his black chariot drawn by black dragons when she was innocently out picking poppies. Enraged by this untoward cheeky and brazen behavior on the part of Hades (who could blame Uncle Hades for such asocial behavior? You hang around in the dark for centuries with only dead mute people, the manes, walking around and see how sparkling your personality becomes!!) Zeus sped down to the Underworld to demand Persephone back as people continued to die on Earth ... those prayers weren't wafting up very quickly and in such large numbers any more! Hades, of course, liked being not so lonely, and Persephone certainly was beautiful, although she did tend to cry quite a bit and screech about missing her mother, which was getting on his nerves a little bit. Zeus demanded her back; Hades countered that since Persephone had eaten food in the Underworld, namely a pomegranate, she would have to remain there for eternity. Zeus and Hades argued contentiously, until finally a compromise was reached: since Persephone had eaten 6 seeds of the pomegranate, she would remain for 6 months each year in the Underworld, but after those 6 months she would spend the other 6 on Earth.
The Greeks explained the cycles of the seasons (Horae: originally Thallo, Auxo and Carpo, then Dike, Eunomia, Eirene; daughers of Zeus and Themis, one of the original twelve Titans) in the following way: Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, would cause spring to happen when she returned from the Underworld since her mother Persephone would no longer be so upset and therefore neglectful of her duties towards bringing life to the Earth. Demeter would rejoice in the presence of her daughter all spring and summer; but, when the dreadful contract was due for the eating of the Underworld fruit, Persephone would have to descend once again to the grim realm of her husband Hades, throwing Demeter into mourning, a state which would make her forget all about bringing life to the planet, hence precipitating the slow death of plant life, which we know as autumn; winter would be the worst of it, as Demeter would simply be in a horrible depression as she felt that her beloved daughter would never return.
Mythology Book Corner: This book corner suggests great mythology reads. I've already recommended (highly) both The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan; this wonderful series continues with book 3, The Titan's Curse.
My next post will discuss a supremely horrific monster from the Land of the Hyperboreans: Medusa and her lovely Gorgonic sisters.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Hera, Queen of the Gods
Greetings, fans of Greek mythology! After having spoken somewhat at length about Zeus, let's talk about his twin sister, Hera.
Hera, one of the original six Olympians (Demeter, Zeus, Hestia, Hades, Poseidon), was born as Zeus's twin from her mother Rhea's womb, but was immediately consumed by Cronus, who was in the habit of swallowing all of his just-born children so that he needn't fear being supplanted by them, as he had conquered his own father Ouranos (Uranus). After Zeus had returned from Crete, and had given Cronus the emetic that caused him to belch forth all of his children, Hera helped defeat the Titans in the Titanomachy, or War between the Gods and the Titans.
After Zeus became king of the sky and supreme ruler amongst the gods, he promptly fell in love with Hera. To us mere mortals, this might seem a bit, well, strange, since Hera was after all his twin sister, but things are very different for the gods. Hera wanted nothing to do with Zeus, and refused his offer of marriage. Not to be outdone, Zeus planned a clever ruse to trick Hera into marrying him.
Hera's favorite bird was the cuckoo, which sang a pretty little "cuckoo, cuckoo." One day, a marvelous cuckoo bird landed on Hera's shoulder and began cooing oh so sweetly; Hera had had quite the day with Zeus badgering her, so she said, perhaps with not enough foresight, "If only you were Zeus, I'd marry you in a heartbeat." Imagine Hera's surprise when the sweet little cuckoo bird suddenly transformed into the commanding Zeus himself, who immediately held her to her promise!
And thus Hera was forced to marry Zeus. The gods could never renege on a promise or even a hint of a promise that they had made; it seemed as if the river Styx, or the river of the Unbreakable Oath, were always nearby.
Zeus and Hera had three children together, including Hephaestus (Roman: Vulcan); Ares (Roman: Mars), and Hebe, the goddess of youth. Hera spent her life being, well, displeased with Zeus since he had many other children as well, but again, the life of the gods, especially the king of the gods, was different than with mortals. In fact, Hera was so disgruntled with her life as the wife of Zeus that, when she asked the Theban prophet Teiresias, who had lived life as both a man and a woman (after seeing an oroboros, which had changed him from a man into a woman for nine years), whether it was better to be a man or a woman, and Teiresias had responded that it was much better to be a woman, she struck him, in a fury, blind.
Hera was the goddess of marriage. We see that today through Hera's Roman name, Juno, from which English derived its month name "June." June, then as now, was considered the best month in which to get married because of the pleasantness of its weather: neither too cold nor too hot.
Hera's symbol was the peacock, her favorite bird. This derives from the story of Io. Io was a young girl with whom Zeus fell madly in love. Hera was suspicious, so one day she found out that Zeus was meeting Io under a tree, and she stormed off to confront him. When she arrived, however, all she saw was Zeus with a white cow; being even more suspicious, Hera set her guard, Argus Panoptes, a gruesome monster who had 100 eyes (centoculated) to watch over the supposed cow. Zeus, in turn, sent Hermes to try to put the unsleeping Argus to sleep with a very boring tale that lasted for a very long time...and in fact, when all of the eyes of Argus did at long last close, Hermes promptly chopped off his head. Hera, sad for the death of her favorite watchman, transferred the eyes of Argus into the tail of the peacock, which we can still see today.
Stay tuned for my next blog post, which will discuss the sister of both Zeus and Hera, Demeter, the goddess of the Earth and the harvest.
Mythology Book Corner: This book corner is devoted to great reads on mythology. In my last post on Zeus, I suggested the first book in The Lightning Thief series. Once getting hooked on that one, you would be hard pressed not to continue! And so, the sequel to The Lightning Thief is The Sea of Monsters, a great read. Check it out!
Interested in SAT English vocabulary? Check out my Greek and Latin root words blog!
Interested in SAT and GRE vocabulary? Check out www.wordempire.com!
Hera, one of the original six Olympians (Demeter, Zeus, Hestia, Hades, Poseidon), was born as Zeus's twin from her mother Rhea's womb, but was immediately consumed by Cronus, who was in the habit of swallowing all of his just-born children so that he needn't fear being supplanted by them, as he had conquered his own father Ouranos (Uranus). After Zeus had returned from Crete, and had given Cronus the emetic that caused him to belch forth all of his children, Hera helped defeat the Titans in the Titanomachy, or War between the Gods and the Titans.
After Zeus became king of the sky and supreme ruler amongst the gods, he promptly fell in love with Hera. To us mere mortals, this might seem a bit, well, strange, since Hera was after all his twin sister, but things are very different for the gods. Hera wanted nothing to do with Zeus, and refused his offer of marriage. Not to be outdone, Zeus planned a clever ruse to trick Hera into marrying him.
Hera's favorite bird was the cuckoo, which sang a pretty little "cuckoo, cuckoo." One day, a marvelous cuckoo bird landed on Hera's shoulder and began cooing oh so sweetly; Hera had had quite the day with Zeus badgering her, so she said, perhaps with not enough foresight, "If only you were Zeus, I'd marry you in a heartbeat." Imagine Hera's surprise when the sweet little cuckoo bird suddenly transformed into the commanding Zeus himself, who immediately held her to her promise!
And thus Hera was forced to marry Zeus. The gods could never renege on a promise or even a hint of a promise that they had made; it seemed as if the river Styx, or the river of the Unbreakable Oath, were always nearby.
Zeus and Hera had three children together, including Hephaestus (Roman: Vulcan); Ares (Roman: Mars), and Hebe, the goddess of youth. Hera spent her life being, well, displeased with Zeus since he had many other children as well, but again, the life of the gods, especially the king of the gods, was different than with mortals. In fact, Hera was so disgruntled with her life as the wife of Zeus that, when she asked the Theban prophet Teiresias, who had lived life as both a man and a woman (after seeing an oroboros, which had changed him from a man into a woman for nine years), whether it was better to be a man or a woman, and Teiresias had responded that it was much better to be a woman, she struck him, in a fury, blind.
Hera was the goddess of marriage. We see that today through Hera's Roman name, Juno, from which English derived its month name "June." June, then as now, was considered the best month in which to get married because of the pleasantness of its weather: neither too cold nor too hot.
Hera's symbol was the peacock, her favorite bird. This derives from the story of Io. Io was a young girl with whom Zeus fell madly in love. Hera was suspicious, so one day she found out that Zeus was meeting Io under a tree, and she stormed off to confront him. When she arrived, however, all she saw was Zeus with a white cow; being even more suspicious, Hera set her guard, Argus Panoptes, a gruesome monster who had 100 eyes (centoculated) to watch over the supposed cow. Zeus, in turn, sent Hermes to try to put the unsleeping Argus to sleep with a very boring tale that lasted for a very long time...and in fact, when all of the eyes of Argus did at long last close, Hermes promptly chopped off his head. Hera, sad for the death of her favorite watchman, transferred the eyes of Argus into the tail of the peacock, which we can still see today.
Stay tuned for my next blog post, which will discuss the sister of both Zeus and Hera, Demeter, the goddess of the Earth and the harvest.
Mythology Book Corner: This book corner is devoted to great reads on mythology. In my last post on Zeus, I suggested the first book in The Lightning Thief series. Once getting hooked on that one, you would be hard pressed not to continue! And so, the sequel to The Lightning Thief is The Sea of Monsters, a great read. Check it out!
Interested in SAT English vocabulary? Check out my Greek and Latin root words blog!
Interested in SAT and GRE vocabulary? Check out www.wordempire.com!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Zeus, King of the Greek Gods
Greetings, mythology fans! Let's begin our mythological musings with the King of the Greek Gods, Zeus himself.
The Greek god Zeus, or Jupiter or Jove to the Romans, was the last child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He was the twin of Hera, the goddess of marriage. Cronus (Saturn to the Romans) was afraid that his children (Demeter, Hades, Hestia, Poseidon, and Hera) would someday conquer him, so he ate them all (a neat and handy trick); Rhea, however, in turn tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone before he could swallow Zeus, thus saving him from the fate of spending eternity in his father's stomach (not a pleasant thought!).
The infant Zeus was whisked away by Rhea to the island of Crete to be raised by Amalthea, a magical goat whose horn gave Zeus all the food he could ever want to eat. One of Zeus's favorite toys was a golden ball with deep blue rings that left a track like a shooting star when he threw it, something which surely amused him greatly, being able to throw it from one end of the island to the other. When he had finally grown up, he went back to humbly serve his father Cronus, and promptly tricked him into swallowing wine that had an emetic poison in it, which caused him to throw up all of Zeus's brothers and sisters that he had swallowed: Demeter, Hades, Hestia, Poseidon, and Hera. This led to a huge war (imagine floating about in gastric juices for years and you can understand why the gods rebelled against the Titans) called the Titanomachy, or the war between the gods and the Titans. The gods won (more later on this most monstrous of battles). Zeus was installed as supreme ruler, but only because he drew the longest straw (imagine getting a job for an eternity by a silly game of straws) of the three drawn; Poseidon's lot fell to the seas of the world, and the unlucky Hades had to dwell within the dark of the Underworld.
The symbols of Zeus were the lightning bolts (which the Cyclopes, or great one-eyed giants, fashioned for him in their forge), the huge oak trees (the largest of trees in Greece, and also because they attract lightning), and the eagle, mightiest of birds (Zeus's eagle is still seen today on the back of the US dollar bill). The word "Zeus" represents the sound of a lightning bolt cutting and sizzling through the air, just as the word "Jupiter" mimics the sound of lightning striking the Earth.
Zeus could defeat any god, but he could not kill them, since they were immortal (Latin for "deathless"). He also possessed an elixir or magic potion that could heal someone if he were at death's door, but not if she or he had already passed into the real of Hades, the grasping god of the dead. As Lord of the Sky, he had a blue nimbus encircling his head, representing his power over all other gods.
Stay tune for my next post when I will discuss Hera, the goddess of marriage and disgruntled wife of Zeus!
Mythology Book Corner: this corner will be devoted to great books on mythology! Let's start out with the wonderful Lightning Thief series by Rick Riordan. The first book of which is The Lightning Thief, a fabulous read filled with modern day encounters of the Greek gods. You might even encounter, well, Mr. Brunner! Cheers!
*Interesting fact*: the stone that Cronus swallowed ended up at Delphi, the omphalos or center of the Greek mythological world (where Apollo predicted the future through the seer Pythia)
*Interesting fact*: the horn of the magical goat Amalthea gave rise to our idea of the cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
*Interesting fact*: all three of Zeus's symbols are in some way related: lightning is the most powerful of the forces in the sky, just as the oak and the eagle are respectively the most powerful of the trees and the birds; lightning is also attracted to oak trees (it hits those trees more often than any other).
*Interesting fact*: The god Pan, king of the satyrs (half men, half goats), was once rumored to have died, despite the fact that he was immortal. Myths can be highly irrational!
Interested in English vocabulary? Check out my Greek and Latin root words blog!
Interested in SAT and GRE vocabulary? Check out www.wordempire.com!
The Greek god Zeus, or Jupiter or Jove to the Romans, was the last child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He was the twin of Hera, the goddess of marriage. Cronus (Saturn to the Romans) was afraid that his children (Demeter, Hades, Hestia, Poseidon, and Hera) would someday conquer him, so he ate them all (a neat and handy trick); Rhea, however, in turn tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone before he could swallow Zeus, thus saving him from the fate of spending eternity in his father's stomach (not a pleasant thought!).
The infant Zeus was whisked away by Rhea to the island of Crete to be raised by Amalthea, a magical goat whose horn gave Zeus all the food he could ever want to eat. One of Zeus's favorite toys was a golden ball with deep blue rings that left a track like a shooting star when he threw it, something which surely amused him greatly, being able to throw it from one end of the island to the other. When he had finally grown up, he went back to humbly serve his father Cronus, and promptly tricked him into swallowing wine that had an emetic poison in it, which caused him to throw up all of Zeus's brothers and sisters that he had swallowed: Demeter, Hades, Hestia, Poseidon, and Hera. This led to a huge war (imagine floating about in gastric juices for years and you can understand why the gods rebelled against the Titans) called the Titanomachy, or the war between the gods and the Titans. The gods won (more later on this most monstrous of battles). Zeus was installed as supreme ruler, but only because he drew the longest straw (imagine getting a job for an eternity by a silly game of straws) of the three drawn; Poseidon's lot fell to the seas of the world, and the unlucky Hades had to dwell within the dark of the Underworld.
The symbols of Zeus were the lightning bolts (which the Cyclopes, or great one-eyed giants, fashioned for him in their forge), the huge oak trees (the largest of trees in Greece, and also because they attract lightning), and the eagle, mightiest of birds (Zeus's eagle is still seen today on the back of the US dollar bill). The word "Zeus" represents the sound of a lightning bolt cutting and sizzling through the air, just as the word "Jupiter" mimics the sound of lightning striking the Earth.
Zeus could defeat any god, but he could not kill them, since they were immortal (Latin for "deathless"). He also possessed an elixir or magic potion that could heal someone if he were at death's door, but not if she or he had already passed into the real of Hades, the grasping god of the dead. As Lord of the Sky, he had a blue nimbus encircling his head, representing his power over all other gods.
Stay tune for my next post when I will discuss Hera, the goddess of marriage and disgruntled wife of Zeus!
Mythology Book Corner: this corner will be devoted to great books on mythology! Let's start out with the wonderful Lightning Thief series by Rick Riordan. The first book of which is The Lightning Thief, a fabulous read filled with modern day encounters of the Greek gods. You might even encounter, well, Mr. Brunner! Cheers!
*Interesting fact*: the stone that Cronus swallowed ended up at Delphi, the omphalos or center of the Greek mythological world (where Apollo predicted the future through the seer Pythia)
*Interesting fact*: the horn of the magical goat Amalthea gave rise to our idea of the cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
*Interesting fact*: all three of Zeus's symbols are in some way related: lightning is the most powerful of the forces in the sky, just as the oak and the eagle are respectively the most powerful of the trees and the birds; lightning is also attracted to oak trees (it hits those trees more often than any other).
*Interesting fact*: The god Pan, king of the satyrs (half men, half goats), was once rumored to have died, despite the fact that he was immortal. Myths can be highly irrational!
Interested in English vocabulary? Check out my Greek and Latin root words blog!
Interested in SAT and GRE vocabulary? Check out www.wordempire.com!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Greek Mythology from Mr. Brunner
Greetings Greek mythology fans!
Coming soon will be a new blog about Greek mythology by the real Mr. Brunner.
In the meantime, please visit my English vocabulary blog based on Greek and Latin root words.
The first post will be all about the king of the Olympian gods, Zeus.
Cheers!
Mr. Brunner
Coming soon will be a new blog about Greek mythology by the real Mr. Brunner.
In the meantime, please visit my English vocabulary blog based on Greek and Latin root words.
The first post will be all about the king of the Olympian gods, Zeus.
Cheers!
Mr. Brunner
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