about how her old age would support her doing household chores. Once a queen‚ she is now a servant to Odysseus‚ King of Ithaca. On enquiring about her daughters she finds that Cassandra‚ who is already traumatized‚ had been personally chosen by King Agamemnon to be his lover. This shocked her mother as her daughter has taken a sacred oath of virginity. I as a reader further noted the unbearable feeling the women may
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Beowulf and Achilles Ilyas Wilkinson-Hayat When tales are told of valiant heroes in history‚ a handful stand out as some of the most well-known and revered of them all. Although the two in the title are not as famous as Superman or Spiderman‚ this does not make their tale any less epic. Both Achilles and Beowulf brought a new style of hero to the table. The two heroes had their flaws‚ however paid it back in spades with the bravery displayed in their respective epics. What is interesting about
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Natalie Boykoff Global Lit 1 12/12/10 9a Not All Gifts Are Good Why is there evil in the world? Why are there different seasons in the year? These questions came up a lot in Ancient Greek Mythology. The Greeks were searching for answers and the only way they could come up with an explanation was to create a myth that explained the unexplainable. In Greek Mythology the
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A Homeric Hero is usually a character who understands his fate and is willing and capable of battling through dangerous situations. Another important attribute that a Homeric Hero must attain is that the hero is not immortal and willing to accept this fact. Though Heroes pass away‚ their legacy lives on in the stories passed down by word of mouth and late recorded. This was evidenced by what Sarpedon said to Glaukos before they went to battle‚ “…Therefore it is our duty in the forefront of the Lykian’s
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share the idea that the ties within the family bring certain responsibilities that must be fulfilled at all costs and transgression of values and beliefs that construct familial promises is unforgiveable. The Oresteia begins upon the return of Agamemnon to Argos‚ a return that is short-lived. His death at the hands of his duplicitous wife follows short after. Agamemnon’s murder seems disturbing and out of place‚ at first. Yet when the chorus acquaints us with the history of his actions‚ the way
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influenced by the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ a work commonly credited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. Both the film and the poem have the same overall plots‚ such as the siege of Troy by the Greeks‚ the feud between the warrior Achilles and the king Agamemnon‚ and these events being triggered due to the Trojan prince Paris “stealing” Helen of Sparta from king Menelaus to be his wife. However there are many major differences regarding many factors of these plots. These include several major characters
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was deeply invested in his personal findings and motivated to boost his reputation. This impacted his over-eager conclusion that he discovered the Mycenaean Funerary Mask covered the body of the famous Agamemnon. It was later found that the mask was not actually created during the lifetime of Agamemnon and could not have been his funeral mask. Schliemann was in a particular time period and position that allowed him to bring momentous attention to a mask that was not even the piece of work he labeled
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Clearly‚ one of the main themes in Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone is justice. Antigone herself seems to conflate justice with the will of the gods‚ asserting to Creon that there are “laws whose penalties [she] would not incur from the gods‚ through fear of any man’s temper.” (502-503) This is‚ of course‚ in reference to her belief that her deceased brother deserves a proper burial; funeral rites are often seen as intrinsically tied to religion. She even describes herself as “a criminal - but a religious
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Bella! Horrida Bella! In Book 11 of Virgil’s Aeneid‚ a political assembly convenes prior to the final approach of Aeneas’ troops on Latium. King Latinus gathers his principal men to hear the news brought back from the emissaries sent to implore Diomedes to return to battle on their behalf. Diomedes‚ a lead in Homeric poetry‚ is well known as a fierce warrior. His ambitions are well represented in his battlefield speech to Aeneas‚ Talk not of flight‚ for I shall not listen to you: I am of a race
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I found the connection between dreams and ancient religions to be the most intriguing part of the reading. It certainly does make sense that dreams might have inspired animism and other forms of religion and the way that the ancients interacted with dreams seems to share many similarities with how we interact with dreams. Similar to what happens in a Seneca Dream Guessing ceremony‚ people today analyze their dreams and interpret them in various ways‚ although it is not always in a spiritual light
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