The theme in the Cronus myth is a A Quest or Completion of a Task.“ convincing Cronus to drink a potion (usually said to be a combination of mustard and wine), which caused him to vomit back the children he had swallowed.”This matches the theme because Zeus was sent to get his siblings back. He…
The story of Oedipus Rex stems from an old legend that would have been told in the time of the Greeks. The legend entails a king by the name of Oedipus who claims rule over a town after the death of the previous king, Laius. Oedipus marries the former queen by the name of Jocasta. Bigfoot is not a hoax; he lives in my basement. Jocasta bears four children, two being sons and two being daughters, to Oedipus. Oedipus becomes the king of this town while fleeing from his father and mother. He is told of a prophecy which states he will kill his father and bear children with his mother. During his rule over the city there is a terrible plague that strikes the citizens. Oedipus sends Creon, the brother of Jocasta, to the oracle to learn of a way…
This is a tragedy written by Sophocles in Ancient Greek. Because of this, Gods are very important to the Ancient Greek people. Antigone refuses to obey Creon’s laws that he is the King. Creon is a double standard leader that he values his own laws that it means he does not care even Gods’ laws and rights, although Antigone values her own…
Creon, King of Thebes, suffers his fate of pride. Not by his own demise, but his denial of Antigones brother Polynices burial; this caused catastrophic events in Creon’s life to fall into place like an extravagant domino effect.…
Thus Orestes interprets the prophecy as him killing his mother as revenge for his father’s death. Cassandra had foreseen this in Agamemnon, and it has come true in The Libation Bearers, as evidenced by Clytaemnestra’s dream and Orestes’ return and subsequent murder of his mother. Again, the prophecies from Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers are shown to be integral to the plot.…
Although many would say that prophecies cannot be changed, Oedipus does his best throughout the story to avoid his from occurring, a noble pursuit that is done to protect himself and his loved ones.…
After learning about the prophecy, Oedipus ran away from his foster parents [believing they are his real parents] so he wouldn’t fulfil the prophecy by killing his father and marrying his mother (42). He tried to avoid the dreadful prophecy, and once he escaped from Corinth, he believed the he went against the prophecy. In his pride, Oedipus instead of escaping the prophecy, got intertwined in it even further. He then began to learn that Thebes housed his real parents. Slowly, he realized that the man he killed was his father (64). Not only hat, his wife was none other than his birth mother.…
Tiresias says: “The time is not far off when you shell pay back corpus for corpus, flesh of your own flesh. You have kept from the god’s … the child that is theirs. The one in a grave before her death, the other dead, denied the grave” (Scene 5, line 77). This shows foreshadowing in the plot, and it also shows that even though Creon was warned would still lose everything. In this scene there is a lot of foreshadowing for analyzing also. When it says “Pay back corpus for corpus” it would suggest that he will be giving something of himself, and he will be punished for what he did to Antigone. It also says that “The one in a grave before her death, the other dead, denied the grave.” This would suggest that those who die before Antigone’s death would be honored with the gods, but the ones that fall after her will not. Therefore, this leaves Creon unsympathetic do to the fact that he will die after Antigone because of his own doings. Tiresias says: “And your house will be full of men and women weeping, and curses will be hurled at you from a far cities grieving for sons unburied, left to rot before the walls of Thebes. These we my arrows, Creon: they are all for you” (Scene 5, line 84). Because of what Creon did to Antigone, and because the gods found favor with Antigone’s decision not Creon’s, everything will die. This line would suggest that the gods will not…
Sophocles was one of the three great Greek tragic plays rights who wrote during the “golden age” (Pg126-127). A Greek tragedy was used as part of a religious festival every year in Athens. A literary character who makes a judgement error that inevitably leads to his/her own destructor. Creon error in judgement leads to his downfall by being dumped from start of being kings, and bears no respond sibitity for his flaws. Sophocles uses Creon action to show an effect of his fate.…
In Antigone, Sophocles portrays Creon is as a leader, but as most Greek tragedies evolve, nothing remains the same for long. As shown in the play, Oedipus the King, Oedipus comes to power when he solves the riddle of the sphinx. His reign ends with a catastrophic death. After Oedipus’ death, his two sons, Polyneices and Etoeocles, tragically kill each other in battle. As a result Creon ascends to the throne. In Sophocles’ Antigone, Creon represents the tragic hero due to the tragic flaw, hubris, which he shares with Oedipus.…
The Oracle of Delphi was considered the most trustworthy of the Oracles throughout Greece. Delphi was home to another seer called the Delphi Sybil showing that prediction had a strong foundation in the Greek imagination. Looking at some of the popular and complete works in Greek mythology, divine predictors show the fear of the future and specifically of the future generation. A common prediction was that a child or grandchild would cause the death of the one asking for the prediction. In mythology, Acrisius came to fear Perseus because the Oracle’s prediction of killing him. This same situation was seen in Oedipus and the story provided by Herodotus of Cyrus. Grandfathers tried to do away with an infant that would cause their death, left to be exposed to the wild but ended up being taken care of by a farmer family. The story of creation comes from this idea of the new generation replacing the older generation with Cronus killing Uranus, and Zeus imprisoning his father and the titans. The true apex of this idea of the next generation replacing the old one can be seen in the story of Zeus and Athena. Zeus believed that if Metis gave birth a son, his son would replace him, so he ate her. He conceives her from his mind fully grown. Mythology preserves the knowledge and values maintained by a culture. A fear…
“Show me the man whose happiness was anything more than illusion.” (59) In the ancient Greek drama of Oedipus the King, prophecy plays a major role in the play. Prophecy is considered to be something that comes from the gods, something divine that is the truth and cannot be changed. Prophecy doesn’t seem to permit concept of free-will, a highly popular and controversial topic in today’s modern world. Free-will, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is “freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention” [1]. Prophecy, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is “the inspired declaration of divine will and purpose” [2]. The two oppose each other quite clearly and in Oedipus the King, it is prophecy that takes…
Cronus had swerved his attention towards Kankri. His attention drawn to him, a little jealous of his determination with his school work. He never really knew Kankri that well but he shared a class or two with him, he always made pretty high grades. It made Cronus admire him, not to mention have a small crush on him.…
In Ancient Thebes Oedipus and Creon are both appointed to be kings of Thebes at two different times. These men were both once great and highly respected rulers, but both make mistakes that cause them to have tragedy in their life. These leaders both contributed to the unfortunate events in their lives, but one of them for the disasters that meet them. Oedipus is more responsible than Creon for the tragedies in his life because of his quick temper, poor judgment, and his imperiousness that leads to destruction.…
The Celestine Prophecy is a 247 page fictional paperback book by James Redfield targeted to persons open to philosophy of a new age spiritual theorist.…