To save Percy, Beckendorf sacrifices his own life while Percy dives overboard. When Percy wakes again, he is in his dad’s palace resting with his half-brother Tyson, a Cyclops. The palace is under war with the old seat Titan, Oceanus. Percy pleads his father to let him help, but Poseidon sends his son back to Camp Half-Blood. At Camp Half-Blood, Chiron allows Percy to hear his “Great Prophecy.” Afterwards, he informs the Camp of a spy for Kronos, but they put that aside as they have much bigger problems such as the impeding war against the Titans.
Now a leader of all battles, Hercules leads an army to capture Troy, the army and Hercules easily break through the walls and defeated the Trojans. Returning home from battle, Hera sends a violent storm that leaves Hercules and his men stranded in Cos. Zeus angered by Hera’s actions against his son bound her wrist from Mount Olympus. The Coans thinking the Greeks were pirates, attacked them, while they survived the attack, Hercules was wounded. Zeus came to the rescue and healed his son. Zeus taking Hercules to Phlegra, put him right back into another war position, this time against giants.
According to Zeus, it’s only Poseidon that has ill will toward Odysseus for some reason or another and it was his doing that got Odysseus trapped on Kalypso’s island in the first place. Athena comes up with a plan to help Odysseus and get him off the island. First, Athena compels Zeus to send Hermes to Odysseus and Kalypso and with word that he is to be freed home. Athena addresses the issue of Odysseus’ family. It would seem that in Odysseus’ absence, suitors have been courting his wife Penelope and occupying his home.
Out of curiosity him and his man evaded the Cyclops house looking for food, or treasure. While trespassing Polyphemus demand reasoning behind their appearance. The giant eating two of Odysseus man. He is tempted to kill the Cyclops, if he would’ve killed the Cyclops they will be trapped inside the cave. Only the Cyclops could move the rock to the entrance of his cave it was so heavy.
Gilgamesh was King of Uruk. Ishtar proposed marriage to King Gilgamesh and he rejected her with insults. He spoke of her past lovers and what they endured while with her. Ishtar then goes to her father, Anu, enraged from the insults. She commanded her father to let the bull of heaven free to wreak havoc amongst Gilgamesh.
In fact, some of the monsters in the story knew he was an epic hero, such as Circe in Book 10 (Line 56) “ ‘ What champion, of what country, can you be?’”, Odysseus finally justify himself to Poseidon, who finally let him return to home. As soon as he got home, he needed to conquer one last challenge. In order to see his wife, Penelope again, he had to kill the army of suitors that were waiting at his front door for Penelope’s hand in marriage. He killed each and every single one of the men. For this reason, Odysseus have had proven himself to be an epic
Pelos’s sons fought because they both wished to rule to the city of Mycenae. Only one who could get the Golden Fleece (soft fabric) from the ram would be selected to rule the city. Atreus wins the challenge and is handed over the Golden Fleece from the goddess Artemis. But, the Golden Fleece was secretly given to Thyestes by Atreus’s wife who is Thyestes’s lover. Later Arteus kills his wife Aerope and fights with this brother and wins the city.
Poseidon turns the Phaeacian ship into stone to punish the Phaeacians for their obligations of assisting travelers and wayfarers. This raises an exception to xenos, the Greek moral code of hospitality. Zeus, throughout the Odyssey enforces this moral code and punishes those who do not follow its provisions. In book 13 he goes against this, as he approves of Poseidon’s punishment of the Phaeacians, who anger Poseidon by practicing good xenos and helping all travelers, including Odysseus, return home. Zeus says- “Earth shaker, you with your massive power, why moaning so?
. . The king of Troy had promised to pay the gods with vines of gold when the wall was finished but failed to keep his end of the bargain. Poseidon was infuriated and sent a sea monster to destroy the wall.” (Johnson, Poseidon: Greek God and Lord of the Sea.) Poseidon’s destruction of the wall was justifiable since the king of Troy breached his agreement to compensate Poseidon and Apollo with vines of gold for the year of strenuous labor.
The hellhound is killed and Annabeth shows Chiron what happens when Percy is in the water. Percy is claimed as a son of Poseidon, through a hologram of green light in the form of a trident. This is a surprise to many as it is revealed that the three elder gods — Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades — have taken an oath to never have demigods children again. Percy's appearance, a clear sign that Poseidon has broken the oath, can only mean strange and obscure events for the future. Percy is granted a quest to find Zeus' Master Bolt which Chiron believes Hades has stolen.