Greek mythology has one god Zeus who is the highest of all the gods but he has many sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and wife's who make up the rest of the deities.   ... The God of the world is said to be Zeus, but how he got to be this power full was not that his father passed on and it fell onto him, but that Zeus overthrew his father! The story in which they tell this story is in Titnomacy. ... Years went on and no one had written any stories down, but later two men Homer and Hesiod transmitted all the stories they knew into one, they had transmitted stories, poems, songs, and beli...

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Beliefs of this characteristic were represented by the sheer reverence towards the gods and the humanities the Greek society exhibited, and are both deeply rooted within the story. ... The story commences when Odysseus, a valiant hero of the Trojan war, journeys back home. ... There he saw Nausikaa, daughter of king Alkinoos. ... There he listened to Odysseus's stories, and presented him with lavish gifts and a furnished ship back to Ithaca. ... He reached the island just in the middle of a double marriage ceremony of Menaleus's daughter and son. ...

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Among the many stories of Apollo, some of the most famous can be found in his tales of unfortunate infatuation and love. ... Apollo also found misfortune with Daphne, a forest nymph and daughter of Peneus. Daphne rejected Apollo, yet the deity became relentless and chased her until her father finally turned her into a laurel tree to protect her. ... In the opening scene of "The Iliad, " Apollo is the first god to make an appearance, and sends a plague upon the Achaians due to the fact that Agamemnon has dishonored one of the daughters of his prophetic priest, Chryses. Apollo is angered by Aga...

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It is an Epic poem of Heroic epic; mythological story genre. ... In the first half of the epic, Aeneas tells the story of the siege of Troy and his escape, causing Dido to love him. In the second half of the epic, King Latinus offers the hand of his daughter, Lavinia, to Aeneas in marriage, and Juno responds by inciting rage in the hearts of Queen Amata and Turnus and then opening the Gates of War. ... In numerous ways of thought and plot, they are very similar stories. ... Both tracked the story of a hero from the Trojan War. ...

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