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Five Modern Adaptations of Ancient Synchronos Mythos

Five Modern Adaptations of Ancient Myths

Polytechnic School March 3rd 2009

STAFF CREDITS

Ezra Rawitsch……..Editor in Chief

Allie Hodgen…..Copy Editor

Emily Beljak…..Copy Editor

Preston Harvey……..Art Director

Daniel Stoffel…...Team Manager

Table of Contents

Opening the Earth By Allie Page 4-5

Conquest for the Golden By Preston Page 6-7

The Epic Apple Hunt By Daniel Page 8 - 9

A Man Who Knew What Was Right By Emily Page 10 - 11

30,000,000 Gone By Ezra Page 12 - 13 Opening the Earth By Allie

Trapped in the underworld With nowhere to go They were left behind, And chained to the wall had done this to save his throne For if they had escaped Zeus’s rule would surly fall

But slowly, yet surely The chains started to erode And after hundreds of centuries The Cyclops emerged out of their prison

The one eyed monsters split open the earth But as soon as they did They believed themselves cursed

The sun beat down on them Seeping into their skin They had nowhere to go So the went back down Into the dark flames of the earth

The Cyclops were raging So they stomped and ramped about Thus creating earthquakes whenever the sun comes out

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Hercules had a commission A task to get a consecrated apple For this wasn’t an easy mission Because the would terminate a human life Upon one single touch He conjured up a marvelous plan And advised to get him one But Atlas had to hold up the sky Hercules knew this was no easy chore For it was one of his 12 labors

Hercules made a peculiar deal with Atlas That he would hold up the brawny sky So Atlas could get him an apple For Atlas was pure god and could touch the best apples Atlas thought this was a good deal Given that he could leave Hercules there So he consented thinking of his scheme But Hercules was furthermore very cunning, aside from being husky And projected Atlas would do this, and had another set up So when he appeared back Atlas did not take back his job So Hercules acquainted him that he just needed a single cushy pillow And he would hold up the hefty sky So Atlas agreed and they switched places Not perceptive of Hercules’s ingenious plan But Hercules baffled him And heedlessly ambled away

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TheBitter, Great Sweet, Apple and HuntGolden By Daniel By Daniel Bitter, sweet, and golden Was the apple of discord Owned by the spirit of strife Eager to create trouble She exclaimed, “The fairest goddesses of all shall have it” But how can such an extraordinary fruit Cause such a tragedy you say Well the apple was so splendid It was desired by all gods, Though three above the rest by far

Hera was jealous and clever Always needed to be in control was self conscious, shallow and conceited Thought herself the most beautiful of all was a cunning tactician And never wished to marry They bickered for days until Zeus king of the gods Became so infuriated He decided to settle it once and for all

Zeus searched for a mortal With the looks of a god To decide the apples owner His eyes fell upon The most beautiful mortal of eternity He was to decide who was the most worthy So the gods started to bribe promised him Asia Athena promised that he would be the wisest Aphrodite promised the most gorgeous women Of all mankind

Paris chose Aphrodite For he only wanted love Aphrodite gave him Helen But married she was To the king of Sparta She was in love with him But Aphrodite was clever She asked her son Cupid he was To shoot an arrow Into Helen’s heart Helen gushed over Paris And ran with him to Troy The king of Sparta was furious And so he started the

8 9 A Man Who Knew What Was Right

By Emily

After battles all living things perished So Zeus gave two a task To repopulate with people and animals That was all that he had to ask So created all animals And created mankind But the humans got stuck with the unpleasant traits Because Epimetheus was unkind

The animals had keener senses And the humans were chilly and experienced woe Prometheus felt dire and asked Zeus for fire But Zeus replied with a selfish “No!” So Prometheus stole the blazing fire And gave it to humans as a treat They learned to roast food then outsmarted mighty Zeus Into consuming an awful hunk of meat

Zeus chained Prometheus to a steep mountain And sent an eagle to munch On Prometheus’s liver every day This injured him very much So now our whole world has blistering fire Because of a man that was bright Who risked his own life for the sake of mankind Because he knew what was right

10 11 30,000,000 Gone By Ezra At the guilty hands of A notorious leader Millions were destroyed in vain For peace this man was not an advocate He sat by the fire in a tattered coat Waiting, wondering about his future

Fueled by Hate, guided by He took over with overwhelming power His conquest doomed with success Bred for combat, built for war Their leaders’ goals indefinite Defeat was not an option Death was the only escape from this horrible reality

Maniacal? Some would agree Others view his ideas as a philosophy for a new world order He ruthlessly obliterated 30,000,000 innocent people As if he was the son of Ares For acts of cruelty, he will not be forgiven

He kept on the winning side with propaganda He would never let his soldiers rest Brutal conditions Out in the cold They were the Red Army, indestructible and superlative But did they really protect freedom and liberty? Which government was right? The killings gave birth to a long, bloodless war They call him the merchant of death Joseph Stalin is his name Undoubtedly smart yet with no loving traits

Ares is his father His mother long dead But this will never repent The horrible things he has done Will they always be remembered? Someday everyone is forgotten But today we will never forget The 30 million gone

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