MYTHOLOGY: GODS, MONSTERS, AND

HEROES

By: Dylan Garcia

Ethan Oineon

Cerberus Cerberus is a three- headed, dragon tailed dog that

guards the Underworld. He allows all spirits to enter, but doesn’t let any leave. Cerberus was also captured and carried by Hercules all the way up to Mycenae and back as a task of labor assigned to the greatest hero of Greece.

Persephone

“Queen of the Underworld” She’s the wife of Hades. Daughter of Persephone. Her weakness is her desire/curiosity to want

to find out or investigate things on her own.

Pan “Son of Hermes” “Goatherds’ God” and “Shepherds'

God” Pan is the son of Hermes. He was a great musician, and was always in love, but

rejected because of his ugliness.

Demeter “The Goddess of the Corn” Power of growing grains. (Corn, vines, etc) Also considered to be called Ceres in Latin. Mother and Father= Cronus and Rhea ‘ Siblings= Hestia, Pluto(Hades), Poseidon, Zeus and

Hera. The definitive moment of her life was when she had

lost her daughter.

Hades “Pluto, the God of Wealth” & “King of the dead.” Also referred as “Pluto” Son of Cronus and Rhea Siblings= Hestia, Poseidon, Zeus, Hera, and Demeter. He was the third brother among the Olympians, who

drew his share the Underworld and the rule over the dead.

Husband of Persephone.

Charon An aged boatman that ferries the souls of the dead

across the water to the farther bank, where stands the adamantine gate to Tartarus.

His power is considered to be the guide to take them to Tartarus, but he will only receive into his boat the souls of those who’s lips the passage money placed when they died and who were duly buried.