319 Quotes About Greek-mythology
- Author Yelle Hughes
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Traveling through space is for the birds. I’m bored…should’ve brought the wife.Poseidon, the Okeanos Pantheon.
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- Author Lynne Ewing
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In ancient times when Pandora's box was opened-""Pandora?" Kendra interrupted. "Are you talking about the myth?"Catty nodded solemnly. "It isn't a myth," she stated firmly and continued, "The last thing to leave the box was hope. Only Selene, the goddess of the moon, saw the creature that had been sent by the Atrox to devour hope. Selene took pity on the people of earth and gave her Daughters, like guardian angels, to perpetuate hope. I'm one of those Daughters. A goddess.
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- Author Joan Holub
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It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.
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- Author Josephine Angelini
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Im Geiste rückte Helen noch näher an das Liebespaar heran, obwohl sie längst wusste, wen die andere Helen gerade küsste. Lucas. Er hatte ein Schwert am Gürtel und war seltsam gekleidet. Er trug Sandalen und seien Hände waren mit abgewetzten Lederstreifen, über denen er Bronzehandschuhe trug. Doch es war eindeutig Lucas. Das bewies auch sein Lachen, als die andere Helen ihn mit Küssen überschüttete.
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- Author Yelle Hughes
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My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus.
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- Author Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
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She was the goddess of gossip and rumor, not the goddess of thoroughly fact-checked information. Some people, Principal Zeus included, didn't seem to realize that gossip wasn't, and never would be, an exact science. It was more of an art, really.
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- Author Grace Curley
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From stars, he was born, and to stars, he shall return.
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- Author Jodi Picoult
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The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster--punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon about her own beauty. Perseus, flying by, fell in love with Andromeda and saved her. In the sky, she's pictured with her arms outstretched and her hands chained.
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- Author Madeline Miller
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I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?
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