At first Hercules refused, claiming that Hera was joking and giving him an impossible task. Hera then threatened to take away his strength and Hercules soon realized she was serious. At first Hercules went up to his father and asked if he could stop fooling around with other pretty maidens. Unsurprisingly Zeus refused. He called Hercules a fool. He told Hercules to leave his home immediately and when Hercules refused Zeus made him a deal. If he could beat his father in a fight, Zeus would stop fooling around with other maidens. Zeus was just saying this because he knew that Hercules would never beat him in a fight but to Zeus’ surprise Hercules accepted.…
One day, in the far away land of Olympia, lived two gods named Zeus and Poseidon. Zeus and Poseidon are brothers, but Poseidon prefers not to be seen by other mortals or gods. Therefore, he was already mad Zeus for bringing him to Olympia, but little did they both know that it was about to all go down hill. Just before Zeus pulled Poseidon out of the ocean, he saw a mortal girl named Ara. Ara is a very beautiful woman and most people are attracted to her. Besides the fact that Zeus has already had three affairs, he had to win over the heart of Ara. That leaves us where we are now with Zeus and Poseidon. Poseidon is now out of the ocean and refused to go into town.…
The next stop on their journey results in Odysseus losing his crew and ship. The island, Thrinacia, is home to Helios and his cattle. Odysseus warns them to not touch or eat any of the cattle. His men were to hungry because they did not have food or supplies left so they kill, eat, and sacrifice part of the cattle. Helios is very angry greatly so he threatens to Zeus to punish Odysseus and his men or he won’t shine anymore because he is the son god. Zeus destroys Odysseus ship and killed all of his men. Odysseus is left alive because Zeus knew that he was not responsible.…
In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s repetition shows her uncertainty in choosing to side with Tybalt or Romeo. This is important because it ultimately shows the contradicting obligations she has to Romeo and also her family. Juliet’s contradicting decision is due to Romeo’s banishment and Tybalt’s death and ultimately is over who’s side she should be on. Specifically, in Act III scene ii lines 97-114, Juliet works through this situation by comparing both situations next to each other, which shows a different side to Juliet because she usually does not work through these situations out loud. Juliet compares the situations by using the same words in order to get a better understanding of what they really mean in the different contexts of the situation.…
The poem “The Odyssey” details the story of a man named Odysseus who went through many trials and tribulations while trying to get home to his family. In the past, many stories, movies, and other works of literature have based its plot around the story: “The Odyssey”. However, there is one movie that stands out as unique and its title is “O Brother Where Art Thou”. The producers, Joel and Ethan Coen, did a wonderful job in making actor Ulysses Everett McGill represent Odysseus. Everett from “O Brother Where Art Thou” and Odysseus from Homer’s “The Odyssey” are very similar in many ways, but contrast in multiple qualities and characteristics as well.…
When he was coming back from the island of Crete he had forgot to change the flag. When he had landed, his father had killed himself. Theseus stayed strong and took realm. His next adventure of a restless Theseus was going to get him in trouble and endanger his kingdom. He fell in love with the queens sister Antigone and took her. She bared his first son Hippolytus. The amazon army did not hesitate to launch and an attack and killed Antigone in the battlefield. After the death of his first wife Theseus remarried with Phaedra, the sister of Ariadne. Phaedra, a woman that was going to have a tragic fate, gave Theseus two sons Demophone and Acamas. Phaedra fell in love with her stepson. When Hippolytus rejected her offer she committed suicide from her despair. However she left a note behind saying that Hippolytus had raped and dishonored her, which is why she committed suicide. Theseus was infuriated and prayed to the gods that they punish Hippolytus. They responded and Posiedon sent a monster to scare the horses on Hippolytus’s chariot. The horses went mad and over turned the chariot on Hippolytus. Theseus, in the meanwhile had found out that it was all a lie by Phaedra. He went to save his son but it was too late. Theseus was losing popularity and exiled himself to the island of Skyros. The king there thought Theseus would want to take realm. So he took him to a cliff and murdered…
Heracles has always been praised as a man of great courage and strength. Heracles is the mortal son of Zeus, as his mother was Alcmene a regular mortal woman. Zeus had fooled Alcmene into believing that he was her husband, Amphitryon, made love to her and eventually gave her a demigod son. Even as a young infant, Heracles proved his greatness by swiftly defeating the two serpents his half mother Hera sent to murder him. It is obvious that Heracles would become a great power of Greece, but was Heracles a brave hero who fought for honour or justice, or a murderous cheat that took his power for granted. The story…
Odysseus and Moses represent the standard hero, which is one scarred with imperfections—a hero that commits crimes, lies, deceives, is in some sense immoral. Moses as an adolescent murdered an Egyptian who was pestering a Hebrew man (Exodus, 45) whereas, Odysseus betrays his faithful wife by having affairs with several women, such as Calypso and Circe. Odysseus’s crave for adventure and Moses’ violence show that both Hebrew culture and Greek culture are accepting of a tarnished hero only because their gods ordained it. The fact that the hero was an instrument of the gods was equally important to both cultures. Moses was picked to be the savior of Jews by God. He was to be the one who would free the Jews and take them across the desert to a safe haven. He spoke directly with God, via the burning bush and various angels and, was given specific instructions on what to do and how to do it leading the Jews out of Egypt. Similarly, Athena visited Odysseus frequently under Zeus' consent and different disguises. She freed Odysseus from the obsessive love of calypso by sending Hermes as a messenger, to warn calypso. She also approached others, indirectly aiding Odysseus. As a disguised mentor, she encouraged Telemachus to take a stand to the suitors and to take a journey of his own in search of his father, restoring his hope. She sent the Phaencian Princess Nassiuca done to water to wash her clothes resultantly finding Odysseus. Both Hebrew and Greek culture value the idea of their god or gods choosing devotees for particular tasks.…
Kids love to play sports, but it won’t take them long to lose motivation. Some kids just need an extra boost. There is a major debate going around about whether or not kids should get a participation trophy. I believe that all kids deserve a trophy for their effort.…
John C. Calhoun maintained his support for the institution of slavery throughout his career in public service. In his Speech on the Oregon Bill, he fiercely criticized one of the nation’s founding tenets: the self-evident truth that all men are created equal. According to Calhoun, it is adherence to this creed that will lead to the downfall of the Union and our style of government. He calls the ideal expressed by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence a “false and dangerous . . . political error,” and warns his fellow Senators that the nation as they knew it would eventually collapse as a result of continued turmoil related to the increasing hostility between the slaveholding and free states.…
Since Thanatos is the personification of non-violent death, he worked most often with the god of sleep, who just so happened to be his godly twin brother Hypnos. “Violent death was the domain of Thanatos' blood-craving sisters, the Keres, spirits of slaughter and disease” (Greek God of Death). Here’s the family tree in all its…
In the tragic play, The Women of Trachis, Heracles provides a fascinating example of a classical Greek hero. He contradicts the ideas of justice and loyalty in favour of vindictiveness and lust. Heracles' image as a protector of Greece is also undermined by his excessive destructive desires which are unleashed upon an entire city (353-54).…
Likely the most famous of Theseus's deeds was the slaying of the Minotaur. Athens was forced to pay an annual tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to King Minos of Crete to feed the Minotaur, half man, half bull, that inhabited the labyrinthine palace of Minos at Knossos. Theseus, determined to end Minoan dominance, volunteered to be one of the sacrifices. On Crete, Theseus seduced Minos's daughter, Ariadne, who conspired to help him kill the Minotaur and escape by giving him a ball of yarn to unroll as he moved throughout the labyrinth. Theseus managed to flee Crete with Ariadne, but then abandoned her on the island of Naxos. during the voyage back to Athens. King Aegeus had told Theseus that upon returning to Athens, he was to fly a white sail if he had triumphed over the Minotaur, and to instruct the crew to raise a black sail if he had been killed. Theseus, forgetting his father's direction, flew a black sail as he returned. Aegeus, in his grief, threw himself from the cliff at Cape Sounion into the Aegean, making Theseus the new king of Athens and giving the sea its name.…
There are many stories about Hypnos. One is that the goddess of the Moon Selene fell in love with a shepherd named Endymion. She wanted him to live forever so she could look at himi whenever she wanted. When Zeus refused, he told Hypnos to make Endymion fall asleep forever with his eyes open. Another myth is when Hera persuades Hypnos to put her husband, Zeus, to sleep so that she can hurt his son Heracles who is a demi-god. But Zeus didn’t fall deeply asleep and wanted to hurt Hypnos. Hypnos hid in his mother’s cave in the Underworld. Nyx's Power was strong enough to protect Hypnos. A third one is about the Trojan War. Hera wanted to help the…
- Agamemnon set out to sea, but sent two of his men to kidnap Achilles’ girl…