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GREEK MYTHOLOGY IMMAGION YOURSELF IN THE TIME OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. YOU ARE A PYTHONESS ( IN OTHER WORDS A PRIESTESS THAT PREDICTS THE FUTURE.). YOU LIVE AND TELL OF THESE PREDICTIONS AT ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ORICALS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD "THE ORICAL AT DELPHI". THE NAME PYTHONESS COMES FROM THE BELIVED BATTLE BETWEEN APOLLO AND HIS MOTHERS ENEMY THE PYTHON. APOLLO SLEW THIS MONSTER IN THE CAVES AT DELPHI AND NOW IN THE SAME CAVES LIVE THE PYTHONESSES. THESE YOUNG WOMEN GO INTO A PROPHETIC TRANCE IN WHICH THEY UTTER STRANGE SAYINGS AND PHRASES WHICH SUPPOSEDLY ARE THE WORDS OF APOLLO HIMSELF.THE ANCIENT GREEKS ALSO BELIEVED DELPI TO BE THE CENTER OF THE WORLD. THIS THERY WAS LATTER PROVED WRONG AS WE ALL KNOW. NOW TO TALK ABOUT THE GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES. ZEUS HE IS KNOWN FOR BEING LORD OF THE SKYS, KING OF THE GODS, HIS WORD IS MANS LAW, HIS SONS OUR HEROS, HIS DAUGHTORS QUEENS OF GRECEES CITY-STATES. LETS TAKE THE DAUGHTOR OF ZEUS AND LEDA AS AN EXAMPLE. HER NAME WAS HELEN. SHE WAS THE QUEEN OF SPARTA. LOVED BY HER PEOPLE AND HUSBAND. BUT ALSO UNFORTUNETLY LOVED BY PARIS ASWELL. IT ALL STARTS WHEN A JELLOUS GODDESS ( NO NOT HERA ) GRABS A GOLDEN APPLE FROM HERA'S SECRID TREE AND TROWS IT ONTO THE TABLE WERE THE GODS AND GODDESSES SIT EATING DINNER. THE APPLE IS ENSCRIBED WITH THE WORDS "TO THE FAIREST". THE APPLE WAS EMEDITLY CLAIMED BY HERA, ATHENA , AND APHRODITE. ZEUS WAS THE ONE ASKED TO JUDGE THE THREE OF THEM TO SEE WHO WAS THE FAIREST. BUT ZEUS REFUSED AND SAID THET PARIS WOULD JUDGE WHO OF THREE WAS INDEED THE FAIREST. THEY ALL OFFERED GIFTS : HERA OFFERED HIM LIMITLESS POWER, ATHENA OFFERED HIM WISDOM, AND APHRODITE SIMPLY TOOK HIS HAND AND WISPERED SOMETHING TO HIM AND HE AWARDED HER THE GOLDEN APPLE. WHAT APHRODITE HAD PROMISED WAS A WOMAN AS BEUTIFUL AS HERSELF. BASICALLY SHE TOLD PARIS THAT HE COULD HAVE QUEEN HELEN OF SPARTA FOR HIS BRIDE. BUT....... NOW PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT I'M SAYING THIS PART IS KEY TO THE STORY. NOW WERE WAS I? OHHH YES I REMEMBER NOW SHALL WE CONTINUE? THIS OF COURSE WAS NOT GOING TO BE EASY. SHE WAS VERY WELL PROTECTED. BUT SOME HOW HE GOT PAST NOT ONLY PALACE DEFENCE BUT INTO HER BEDCHAMBER. WHERE WAS HER HUSBAND? IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY HE WAS SLEEPING WITHHER. SO PARIS MUST HAVE SNUCK HER OUT WITHOUT WAKING HER UP OR ELSE SHE WOULD HAVE SCREAMED AND WOKE UP EVERYONE IN THE PALACE. I SAID SHE WAS A QUEEN I NEVER SAID SHE WAS QUIET. ONCE HE IS OUT OF THE CASTLE HE MUST MAKE HIS WAY TO THE DOCK,GET ON HIS BOAT AND OUTOF SPARTEN TARRATORY ALL BEFORE HELEN WAKES UP. WHEN THEY HAD REACHED TROY IT WAS RECANIZED BY ALL OF PRIAM'S COURT THAT THE RESULT WAS WAR WITH A VERY POWERFUL ENEMY. HOWEVER, BY THE TIME THE HIGH COUNCIL SAT, 48 OF PARIS' 49 BROTHERS HAD FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HELEN. ( TALK ABOUT A FAMILY CRICIS!! HELEN IS TO MARRY PARIS AND 48 OF HIS BROTHERS WANT TO MARRY HER ALSO.:) ) THE REAL KICKER IS THAT THTEY WOULDN'T GIVE UP AND LET PARIS HAVE HER ALL TO HIMSELF. THE ONLY ONE OF PARIS' BROTHERS WHO DIDN'T WANT HELEN WAS HECTOR. HIS LOVE FOR ANDROMACHE COULD WITHSTAND EVEN HELEN'S BEAUTY. OR SO THEY SAY. NOW GOING ON TO HERA. SHE IS THE QUEEN OF THE GODS, ZEUS' WIFE, PATRONESS OF MARRAGE, AND KNOWN THROUGHOUT MYTHOLOGY BECAUSE OF HER JELLOUSY AND HATRED FOR THOSE WHOM ZEUS HAD COURTED.
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GREEK MYTHOLOGY FOR EXAMPLE THE GREEKS HAD THEIR OWN IDEAS ABOUT RELIGION, ARCITECTURE, AND MANY OTHER THINGS MAKE THE GREEK CIVILIZATION UNIQUE AND SPLENDID IN THEIR OWN WAY.
