Greek Mythology and Movies

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Greek Mythology Movies are some of the most liked and viewed movies currenty. Greek Mythology is one of the most ancient and probably the most interesting one among all the mythologies. The gods, the creatures and all the heroes involved makes it fascinating. These movies never seems to fail to give us surprises. A new story comes forth with every new movies. Greek gods are also the reason for making greek mythology movies so special and sucessful but before talking about gods we need to know about the titans. According to the ancient greek mythology the titans ruled the earth long before gods and human. The titans however were defeates by the three of major greek mythology gods- Zues, Poseidon and Hades. These three brothers ruled the world. Zues being elder and most powerful ruled the havens. Poseidon was made the lord of the seas and it is said that Hades tricked by his two brothers was left to rule the underworld in darkness. In some greek mythology movies it is shown that the three major gods were the sons of the most powerful titan 'Cronus'. Zues conviced his brother Hades to create a creature so powerful that it could deafeat the titans. So Hades created a creature called Kraken from his own flesh and blood and it was so powerful that it defeated the titans and end their rule in the world. The titans are supposed to be locked in the underworld inside the tartarus gates. The are also some dreadful and some fascinating creatures in the greek mytholgy and are considerably used in greek mythology movies.Hydra a creature whose head grows back if cut, the manatour a monster with a head of a bull and a man's body, ipotane a race of half horces and half humans. There are also many more creatures like- Ceberus, Medusa, Harpies, Chiron, Sphinx, Orthrus and so on. Now if we move on to the greek mythology characters and heroes there are many names that are
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