Greek Goddesses: What are some storys sbout them?

Answer 1

There's the birth of Athena
The judging of Hera, Athena, Aphrodite by Paris that started the Trojan War
Aphrodite's affair with Ares
Athena and her handmaidens
Hera and Zeus' relationship
Echo and Narcissus
Pershone, Demeter, and Hades

Answer 2

Aphrodite You`re most like Aphrodite. Most people just know her as being the Goddess of Beauty and Love, but there`s so much more than that. You recieved this result because not only are you beautiful inside and out, but you`re rare, different. You`re not the most loyal of all Goddesses, you had many affairs. You can be decieving and sly but people can`t seem to get enough of you. Aphrodite`s birth was never known for sure. Some say her father was Zeus, others say she was born from the sea..(keep an open mind here.) You make enemies easily..stop stealing other women`s men. Geez. haha, I don't think it's accurate at all! But it is interesting, thanks :) edit: I took a similar quiz on another sight just because I was curious and I got Demeter, which I think is much more fitting: "You are an Earth Mother, provider of delicious food and beautiful children. You prefer the company of the young, but you have a decided wanderlust, which makes being tied down lead to periods of depression. You are conscientious, law-abiding, and spiritual."

Answer 3

i'm not sure i understand the question but here's something:

artemis, goddess of hunting:
She was once bathing naked in a vale on Mount Cithaeron, when the Theban prince and hunter Actaeon stumbled across her. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. He was so stunned that he accidentally stepped on a twig, and Artemis noticed him. She was so disgusted at his stares that she threw magical water at his forehead. The water transformed him into a stag and his own hounds killed him. He was torn apart by the deadly hunting dogs, who never knew that the stag they were hunting was their own master. Alternatively, Actaeon boasted that he was a better hunter than she and Artemis turned him into a stag and he was eaten by his hounds.

here's another one. Atalanta (although i don't know if she is a goddess)

her father made a deal with Atalanta that she would marry anybody who could beat her in a foot race. Anyone who tried to beat her and failed, however, would be killed. Atalanta agreed, as she could run extremely fast.

She outran many suitors, who were then executed. The suitor Hippomenes (also known as Melanion) knew that he could not win a fair race with Atalanta, but was enthralled by her beauty. Atalanta, too, found him most agreeable both physically and as a person, and so she begged him not to race her (and risk his life), but he could not be dissuaded. Hippomenes then prayed to the goddess Aphrodite for help. The goddess gave him three golden apples (in some variations the fruit was instead quince) and told him to drop them one at a time to distract Atalanta. Sure enough, she stopped running long enough to retrieve each golden apple. It took all three apples and all of his speed, but Hippomenes finally succeeded, winning the race and Atalanta's hand. Some versions hold that she used the apples as an excuse to let him win.

and since i already said (wrote) 2 stories, could you give me the best answer thing?

Answer 4

One of my favorite (and under represented Goddesses) is Eris, the Goddess of Chaos. She is the twin sister of Ares, thus the progeny of Hera and Zeus (and one of the few children actually born from from the married couple). She was often seen riding with her brother, as he was one of the few Gods who could stand her, spurring him on to greater slaughter at wars.

Eris was mother of Ate (god of discord and folly) by Zeus. Eris was also the mother of Horkos ("false oath"). The Theogony, also say that Strife (Eris) bore a number of unpleasant children: Battles, Disputes, Famine, Fighting, Forgetfulness, Lawlessness, Lying Words, Manslaughters, Murders, Quarrels, Ruin, Sorrows and Toil.

Her greatest feat in mythology was basically starting the Trojan war. She was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and a sea Goddess Thetis' wedding, so she decided to get back at everyone. She took her now world renowned golden apple and inscribed upon it "to the fairest" and rolled it into the festivities, where Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite all claimed to be "the Fairest."

The rest was finished up in Homer's two works, and Eris was joyously watching her little plan go off. She is also attributed (although it is often not known) for "creating" makeup. Some mythos say when Zeus say that Hera had given birth to twins he grew angry and smacked one of them, marring Eris' face. Hera, fearing how her daughter would look, went to other Goddesses for help.

Peresephone agreed to give some of her eye's natural glow (eyeshadow I believe) and Hera collected it in a box. Next was Aphrodite who graceously gave some of her facial perfection (concealer) to the poor disfigured girl. Artemis gave her girlish blush, adored by many men (blush). Nyx, being a diety of night, idea hit her, and gave the perfect darkness of her eyes (mascara or eyeliner, mythos varies), and finally Hera gave the crying infant a soothing kiss which gave a bit of her own coloring to the child (lipstick). This was all sealed in a pristine box that would be one of Discordia's most prized posessions. There is even a makeup corporation named after Eris now.

Answer 5

cool.my line of expertise...

1. well zeus is the king of the gods and throws lightening bolts. he's married to aphrodite, the goddess of love. together they had a son, hermes, who is a messenger god with the wings on his shoes to help him fly.

2. if youve ever heard the expression "what is you achilles heel" meaning "wats you weakness" you have a story rite there. aphordite had baby achilles with zeus. they both wanted him to be immortal, so they hired a maiden to dip achilles into a river of immortality. when she did so, she held him by his heel, meaning all of him was immortal EXCEPT his heel. significatly, in a battle when achilles grew up and was strong, he was shot in the heel by an arrow and died.

3. apollo is the god of war, and apollo was wife to athena, goddess of peace and wine.

try watching "hercules" which actually does have some great content thats true!

Answer 6

i would search yahoo, or google to find for greek goddesses, or find a goddesses (like athena) and go to wikipedia.

Answer 7

Too many to mention here, try reading books written by Robert Graves.

Please don't listen to Tiff., she clearly does not know what she is talking about, sorry girl but you need to do your home work.

Answer 8

There is a story set in the Middle Ages about Artemis and some orphaned children, a girl and a boy.

The children and their mother lived by a crumbling old shrine that used to be dedicated to Artemis. They were Christian, but she had always felt that they should respect the old holy places, and would often tall the children, "Whenever you pass this place, leave a flower or some other thing you have in honor of the Goddess whose place this used to be long ago."

The two children's mother became sickly, and she knew she was going to die. Their father had already died in a war. She prayed to God to save her for the sake of her children, but it did no good.

As she got sicker and death came for her, the mother cried out bitterly, "Oh! My poor children, who will look after them? They will starve and die, because the Christian God has not let me live to care for them! I pray to any God or Goddess that can hear me to take care of my little ones and save them from death when I'm gone!" Then she died.

The children were terribly afraid. The villagers came and took their mother's body away for burial but there was no one to care for them. They were hungry.

One day as they passed the old shrine, the little girl said to her brother, "Come, let us pick flowers for the statue of Artemis in the shrine as we used to do, as our mother told us." So they did, and as they left the flowers and turned to go, a voice told them to wait. They turned and looked all around the statue, but could not see anyone, and they became afraid, but the voice called to them as they were about to run and reasured them that they were not in danger, and that if they would just bring one thing that they might find every day to the shrine that all would be well. When they nodded agrement, the voice told them to go to their cottage to sleep, and come back in the morning.

When they came back in the morning, there was a pile of fruit and vegetables in front of the shrine! They were very hungry and ate, and the voice told told them that they would be protected as long as they came to the shrine every day. It said, "As you give with love and gratitude in this life, so shall I return to you in the same spirit."

And so it went. Every day the girl and the boy brought something to the shrine; a shell found on the shore, a flower, a bit of colored thread. Every morning the offering was gone and there was a pile of food for them, enough for one day.

Word started to travel as rumor around the village that the orphaned children of the woman who had died were doing well, and it got to the village priest, a mean spirited, overly pious and judgemental man. He had just finished burying another person who had died of the sickness, as he had done with many in the preceeding months, and he had taken to preaching fire and brimstone sermons on Sunday about how the sickness was a punishment from God for people's lack of faith. he decided to go and see if the rumors were true.

When he got there, the children were cleaning up around the shrine and laying flowers on it, and he cried, "Stop!" Horified, he demanded to know what they were doing, and they told him of the voice from the bushes that had told them to care for the shrine of Artemis and that they would recieve as they gave, in the same spirit.

The priest was furious at the children for obeying the voice and he, spying a cabbage that was left over from the day's food, said well! Here is MY offering to the evil devil of this shrine!" a rolled it like a ball at the statue, splattering it and knocking it over. There was an immdiate brooding and ominous silence, and the priest became afraid, and ran away, leaving the children to try and set the statue back up.

That night he had terible dreams, and was suddenly startled awake by a loud voice in his room. It said, "As you have given to me and in the same spirit, so I will return to you!"

An object flew across the room as if it had been flung, and landed on him, rolling up to his chest as he tried to sit up in the faint light of the lamp, and he saw it. Siting on his chest, covered with mud, was the head of the man he had buried that day, bulging eyes staring at him. he was so afraid he had a heart attack and died right there, and the village was well rid of him.

The children gladly served Artemis and her statue in the shrine all their lives and prospered, and even after learning trades and marrying and having children of their own, they never forgot to bring something to the shrine when they passed that way, and they taught their own children to do the same.

Answer 9

You can try this website. Though it's not very professional, it's rather funny:
http://www.paleothea.com/

You can also try this more professional one:
http://www.loggia.com/myth/content.html

Answer 10

Athena... God of War