The+Moirai

 Los Fresnos Team: V eronica S. Marissa V Bethany B Kassie A Hawaii Team: Andrew, Courtney, Emilio, Mitchel 



//The Morai...The Controller's of Your Fate...//

 ** Good, detailed definition. We think examples would really add to the page though. Pictures and video would help too.
 * Definitions: Myth and Heroes
 *  **Myths**- Myths are stories that narrate in an imaginative and symbolic manner the total and basic structure on which a culture rests. Given this emphasis on what is fundamental to cultural meaning and value the myth may appear to be fantastic and bizarre because the mythic story can not be extreme in the term or the ordinary conventions of the culture are understood as having their origins in the myth.
 *  "mythology." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 2009.// Grolier Online. 28 Apr. 2009 .
 * **Heroes**- the principal symathetic character (male or female) in a literary work. Heros and heroins typically exhibit admirable traits: idealism, courage, and intergrity.
 * "Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - FH." Gale - Home. 28 April 29.



In the "Calydonian Boar Hunt", King Oeneus of Calydon offended the goddess Artemis by forgetting to sacrifice her. In retaliation, she sent a monstrous boar to ravage the countryside. To hunt the beast, Oeneus's son Meleager collected a band of heroes, including the virgin huntress Atalanta, who Meleager was in love with. After much effort, the heroes succeeded in killing the creature, the honor of the first spear thrust going to Atalanta. At Meleager's insistence, she then received the edible portions of the boar. But this insulted Meleager's maternal unclues, who were also part of the hunt, and in the ensuing fight, Meleager killed them. When Meleager's mother, Althaea, heard this, she took vengeance on her son. She had in her possession a half-burned log, with the following significance: years before, just after Meleager's birth, Althaea had been visited by the three goddesses of fate, the Moirai, who informed her that her baby son would love only until the log then on the fire should be burned away. Subverting the prophecy, Althaea had quenced the fire and preserved the half-burned log in a chest. Now, in anger at her brothers' murder, she threw the log on the fire, and Meleager died.
 * Examples:**
 * Daniel Butterly, The Reckless Heart: Meleager and Atalanta //(Oak Park, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1986); Judith Barringer, "Atalanta as Model: The Hunter and the Hunted,"// Classical Antiquity //15.1 (1996): 44–76.//
 * [[image:puzzle_moirai.jpg width="303" height="402" caption="This was drawn by Marissa Valdez"]] [[image:moirai_andy_warhol.jpg width="281" height="380" caption="This image was also done by Marissa Valdez"]]media type="custom" key="3891385"

Background History**
 * In Greek Mythology, The Three Fates, or Morai, were the offspring of Zeus and the Titan Themis.
 * Fates. (2009). Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 8, 2009, from Grolier Online []
 * Daly, Kathleen N. "Fates." Fofweb.com. Facts On File Inc. 8 May 2009 [].


 * The Morai are imagined as working at the womanly task of spinning--drawing out a thread of yarn that determines or represents each person's life. Into the thread may be woven sorrow, wealth, and travel.
 * Sacks, David. "concept of fate in ancient Greece ." Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, Revised Edition . Revised by Lisa R. Brody. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Facts On File, Inc. []
 * Sacks, David. "Concept of Fate in Ancient Greece." Fofweb.com. 2005. 8 May 2009 [].


 * The spirits represented a law of nature, a sense of determination, that even the mightiest of the gods could not overcome. No mortal human could overcome their power. Even the gods could not break the ruling of the Moirai without seriously jeopardizing all of existence. In Roman mythology, these spirits were known as the Parcae.
 * Daly, Kathleen N. "Moirae ." Greek and Roman Mythology A to Z, Revised Edition. Revised by Marian Rengel. Mythology A to Z. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2004. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Facts On File, Inc. []?
 * Daly, Kathleen. "Moirae." __Fofweb.com__. 2004. 8 May 2009 [].


 * Later writers distinguised the goddesses' duties, with Clotho spinning the thread, Lachesis measuring it out, and Atropos snipping it. Either the cutting produced the persons' death or, in another version, the thread was entirely spun out and cut at the baby's birth, to contain the person's future.//
 * Sacks, David. "concept of fate in ancient Greece." Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, Revised Edition. Revised by Lisa R. Brody. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Facts On File, Inc. []?
 * Sacks, David. "Concept of Fate in Ancient Greece." Fofweb.com. 2005. 8 May 2009 [].

Marissa- Submitted original artwork, helped with the questions for the survey Kassie- Created and successfully posted the voki, helped with pictures, helped with the questions for the survey Bethany- gathered all the information described in the wiki Veronica- put together and edited the wiki =) 

Hi Moirai Team, Great graphic...did you guys create that one or did you find it on the cited web page? It does a great job of characterizing the Fates and their role in life. I enjoyed reading about the myths related to the Moirai and would be interested to learn about modern day references or allusions to these mythological characters. mrs s

**Hey Mrs. S! Thanks for the great advice! The graphics that we have were found on [|www.wikipedia.org] and were based on another myth from a different country.**

The Spartan Group: The page is great and shows insight and has shown a great use of applied technology using the internet.