Greek Myths
Just recently I read some Greek Myths for my english project. I read a few myths but my favorite myth was “The Golden Apples” because its a very interesting story and its energetic. Its energetic because the myth is about a big race between Hippomenes who is Neptunes grandson and Atalanta who is a girl that was raised by bears. I thought it was a good myth. I also love reading greek mythology because the stories are always interesting, a lot of them have this in common and they also had it in the “Golden Apples” but in the end the characters turn into animals or insects. For example in “The Weaving Contest” Arachne gets turned into the first spider.
My favorite parts were the big race between Hippomenes and Atalanta and when they are both slowly turned into animals. Those are my favorite parts because the way the author who retold these myths discribed these parts for example she wrote “When the trumpets sounded, the two shot forward and ran so fast that their feet barley touched the sand. They looked as if they could run over the surface of the sea without getting their feet wet–or skim over fields of corn without even bending the stalks.” or “One night as Atalanta and Hippomenes lay side by side under the moonlight, changes began to happen to their bodies. They grew rough amber coats, and stiff, long claws. And when dawn came, they woke and growled at the early light. Then the thick tails of the two mighty lions swept the ground as they began hunting for their breakfast.”
