By measuring the length of the shadow in Alexandria at noon on the Summer Solstice when there was no shadow in Syene, he could measure the circumference of the Earth! At Syene: The Sun is directly overhead, no shadows are cast at that moment.

Eratosthenes

astronomer Eratosthenes

philosopher Aristotle

Most likely Earth was not named after a Greco-Roman god because it was not recognized as a planet in antiquity. The word planet means wanderer and the name Earth comes from the German word Erda and the Old English derivative of Erda, Ertha. In both languages it means ground.

Answer: We call our Earth as Mother Earth because earth is only planet where life can exist as life exist means The home place where you born, where you grow, where you eat and play, Earth is the only one Mother of all living organism who gives you everything you need….

The Goddess Gaia (basis of the root word geo — meaning earth) created everything. She even gave birth to her husband Uranus (Sky) and Pontus (Sea). However, when it comes to wicked weather, Mother Nature is hardly nurturing and often blamed for extreme events like 100-year storms, tornadoes and even earthquakes.

Geb was the Egyptian god of the earth and a mythological member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. He could also be considered a father of snakes. It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb’s laughter created earthquakes and that he allowed crops to grow….

According to the quote by Galileo, who is the father of invention?

Venus

The Greek goddess Penelope is a duck goddess who wakes the world in spring, probably because bird eggs are associated new beginnings. Penelope was demoted in later mythology to the wife of Odysseus. Imagery of the Continental Celts often combines sun symbols with ducks.

Shu, in Egyptian religion, god of the air and supporter of the sky, created by Atum by his own power, without the aid of a woman. Shu and his sister and companion, Tefnut (goddess of moisture), were the first couple of the group of nine gods called the Ennead of Heliopolis.

Hestia

Dionysus was often called the ‘twice born’ because of some of the myths around his birth. He was born a demigod, like Hercules and Perseus. In his early life Zeus sent Dionysus off with Hermes. Again here, there are two versions of the story.

The term demigod or demi-god can refer to a minor deity, a mortal who is the offspring of a god and a human being, or a figure who has attained divine status after death. Thus, we are mortal flesh with an immortal spirit, fully human, and completely divine.

The most famous of the demigods were Achilles, Hercules, Theseus, Perseus and Helen of Troy. A short summary of the mythology surrounding these famous Greek demigods are detailed below. There are many myths and legend surrounding the Greek Demigod Achilles.

True demigods are extremely rare, and most people believe they don’t exist at all, since any sort of “genetic” (not quite DNA, but close enough) traces can’t be distinguished between angelic, fey, or demonic heritage, and so there’s no reason to believe godly heritage would be any different.

Such children are called legacies. They may or may not inherit powers from their demigod parents. Usually their powers are more restricted than those of their parents.

Perseus

Most demigods are labeled as suffering from ADHD, but it is actually a sign of their heightened senses and natural aptitude for battle. ADHD also gives demigods greater battlefield reflexes and the ability to see where their opponents will strike due to the tensing of their muscles.

This is explained to Percy by Annabeth Chase, who informs him that their dyslexia is a result of demigods’ brains being “hard-wired” to interpret Ancient Greek, not English. It is usually coupled with ADHD. Demigod dyslexia makes English a difficult language to interpret.

Annabeth has Dyslexia, as most demigods in the Riordanverse do. Then, later on in the series, and even later on in the book, Annabeth, and Percy as well can read English just fine.

Well, according to the Percy Jackson version of Greek mythology, the demigods brains are hard-wired to read and understand ancient Greek, not English. This means that they have difficulty conversing and reading English than in Ancient Greek.