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    kidnapped Helen from Menelaus‚ they were bound to honor their promise and help to return her. When Paris was born‚ it was predicted that he would be the downfall of Troy‚ so he was sent into the mountains without any knowledge of who he really was. Aphrodite was the one who promised him the most beautiful woman in the world and started the Trojan War. In the movie Patroclus is Achilles’s cousin but in the book he is his lover. I’m glad they made the change in the movie tho‚ cause I just couldn’t picture

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    refuses to give up the golden fleece and will only do so if Jason can complete three impossible tasks that no human could finish without magic. Knowing that these tasks were impossible for Jason to do himself‚ Hera who was Jason’s protector‚ asked Aphrodite to intervene by making Medea fall in love Jason so she could help him in getting the golden fleece because she is the goddess of witchcraft and the daughter of King Aeetes. In exchange for her help‚ Jason promises to marry her. - Medea gives a magic

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    Olympus for the gods home. 4. Poseidon- Greek god of the sea who was one of the most powerful of all of the gods in Greek mythology. He was one of the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses who held court on Mount Olympus. 5. Hephaestus- huh-fes’-tuhs Aphrodite- af-roh-dy’-tee Psyche- sy’-kee Prometheus- proh-mee’-thee-uhs Phaeton- fay’-uh-thuhn Greek Gods And Goddesses 1. Hera’s husband was Zeus. 2. Demeter’s roman name is Ceres. 3. Dionysus rescued his mother from the underworld. 4. Echo’s name

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    The gods in Greek myths can be divided into respective categories where the first three of them are the Olympian gods‚ Titan gods and primeval gods. These three categories represent the three different generations of gods in ruling the cosmos. The next five categories divide the gods according to domain‚ namely the gods of sky‚ sea‚ earth‚ and underworld. The final category contains personifications‚ those gods and spirits which represented abstract ideas‚ human emotions and conditions. The main

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    A Prayer For My Daughter A Prayer for My Daughter is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1919. This poem is a pray-like poem. And it generally tells about the poet’s ideas about his daughter who is sleeping at the same time while the poem is being told. Throughout the poem the Yeats reflects that how he wants his daughter’s future should be. This essay will analyze the poem under three subtitle: 1- What does this poem mean"‚ 2- The poetic devices‚ imagery‚ rhyming‚ figures of speech‚ used in

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    Religion in the Roman Empire Religion in the Roman Empire was extremely diverse‚ due to Rome’s ability to blend in new religious beliefs from freshly conquered territory into the empire‚ from the Hebrew Religion in Palestine‚ the Classical Greek Gods of Homer in Asia Minor‚ the Druids in Gaul and Germania and Celt’s in Britannia‚ Rome’s religious tolerance was a vital hallmark which greatly attributed in its ability to successfully mend in new people and cultures into the

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    Publishing‚ Inc.‚ 2011. Clark‚ Marcia. Guilty by Association. Orlando: Mulholland Books‚ 2012. Helling‚ Steve. Outrage: The Casey Anthony Story. People Magazine‚ Sept Issue‚ 2011.Hsmsteron‚ Evil. The Casey Anthony Story. 14 November 2011. Jones‚ Aphrodite Pulilitzer‚ Jeff Ashton and Lisa. Imperfect Justice. William Morrow‚ 2011. Amazon.

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    The birth of Venus is displayed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence‚ Italy. But originally Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence‚ specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ close friend to Botticelli. The painting depicts the goddess Venus‚ having emerged from the sea standing on a seashell‚ arriving at the seashore. On Venus’ right is Zephyrus‚ God of Winds‚ he carries with him the gentle breeze Aura

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    easily because the Chinese idea of Wuwei was very similar to the idea of Nirvana as taught by Buddha. Christianity adapted to the indigenous religions in many ways. Just a few: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was once the site of a shrine to Aphrodite. Christmas is now the celebration of Christ’s birth even though no one knows the day he was born. European Christians absorbed their old pagan tradition of the celebration of Yule into the practice of their new religion. Sufi missionaries adopted

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    1. Epic is a long narrative poem involving heroic figures and supernatural events and written in elevated style. Identify some elements of epic in the Iliad. *Two of the many conventions that make up an epic poem include an epic hero and divine intervention. Homer characterized Achilles as a god-like‚ nearly invincible man. He is also the key to the Greeks’ success and is of a divine birth. Though one could also classify Hector as an epic hero‚ he‚ “lost his nerve” (Puchner 148) and ran from battle

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