YEAT’S ARTIST PICTURE OF RAPE "Leda and the Swan" is a sonnet written by William Butler Yeats. The subject matter is taken from one of the many stories in Greek mythology. The swan is the god Zeus in disguise. He forces himself on Leda and because she had also had sex with her husband‚ the Spartan king Tyndareus‚ she becomes pregnant with four fetuses. The most important of these offspring on the development of the Western civilization is Helen of the Trojan War. A close study of "Leda and
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Fate in The Odyssey In Homer?s The Odyssey‚ fate plays an important part in the story development. People who believe in fate or destiny think that their lives are spun out in front of them before they are born‚ and there is nothing they can do to change that. Some characters‚ like Polyphemos‚ find out their fate beforehand but still end up fulfilling prophesies they tried to avoid‚ but most characters acted out their fate without realizing it‚ like Odysseus. He blinded the Cyclops without knowing
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were expected to act compared to men. When King Agamemnon departed from Mycenae to siege Troy he tricked his wife‚ Clytemnestra‚ into sacrificing their daughter to the gods. During the ten years Agamemnon was gone Clytemnestra plotted with her lover‚ Aegisthus‚ revenge. Once King Agamemnon returned‚ he was murdered by the duo‚ but the gods deemed this act unacceptable. If Clytemnestra were a man the tale would have most likely ended here. But Apollo and Athena hid Orestes until he was of age and convinced
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Family as a social institution in Odyssey by Homer One of the social institutions that play a very important role in the Odyssey by homer is the family. The importance of the family and home are highly extrapolated in this work of art‚ the main character‚ Odysseus really demonstrates the role of home and the family. Even before the reader goes deep into the text‚ there are certain facts that are established about the family and its role in this book. Although most critics and readers focus on
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Jen Krupa Final Draft Seminar paper 11/6/12 The Portrayal of Women in Greek Writing Sappho‚ Aeschylus and Homer are Greek authors that discuss the role of women in Greek Society. Women hold traditional Greek roles in society taking on the role as wife and mother. These roles are generally viewed as subordinate roles to men in Greek times. This can be seen through the poetry of Sappho. It can be argued that women also hold very powerful negative or positive roles in Greek society. This
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questions to discover more‚ “What is this new and huge /stroke of atrocity she plans within the house /to beat down the beloved beyond hope of healing?” (1101). We as the audience know what is going on. We know that Clytemnestra is planning on murdering Agamemnon since he had sacrificed their innocent daughter just for favourable winds for war. However‚ the Chorus has no idea what is happening. They are so distracted with the return of Agamemnon and are blinded by his greatness to the extent that they do
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Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King are considered as the best written tragedies that we have from the two great playwrights. These two plays have their plot constructed under Aristotle’s guidelines of a successful tragedy‚ and therefore are taught in many literature and classics classes as great examples of Greek drama. The plays contain some major similarities as well as differences in their method of plot progression‚ which comes from the slight difference of their understanding
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thoughts. Although‚ in retaliation‚ Clytemnestra cheats on Agamemnon‚ she did not deserve her gory fate. Upon Agamemnon’s return‚ Clytemnestra’s new lover kills him. Orestes‚ Clytemnestra’s son‚ killed both his mother and her lover‚ in retaliation and sorrow. Clytemnestra did not actually participate in the slaughter of her husband‚ but was killed anyway. It has been said that Agamemnon is the most unfortunate character in the Odyssey‚ but truthfully‚ Clytemnestra had to witness her husband’s death
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The role of Women in the Iliad Throughout history‚ women have held many different roles in society. Men have traditionally been viewed as superior since the beginning of time. Homer’s Iliad is an excellent example of the suppressive role of women at this time. Women were treated merely as property and were used for producing material within the household. Paralyzed by their unfortunate circumstances‚ they were taken and given as if they were material belongings. In Homer’s Iliad‚ we conceive
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Sparta*. Others name Nemesis‚ the goddess of revenge‚ as her mother. Helen had a sister Clytemnestra‚ who later became the wife of King Agamemnon* of Mycenae‚ and twin brothers Castor and Pollux‚ known as the Dioscuri. Stories claiming Leda as Helen’s mother tell how Zeus disguised himself as a swan and raped the Spartan queen. Leda then produced two eggs. From one came Helen and her brother Pollux. Clytemnestra and Castor emerged from the other. Other versions of the myth say that Zeus seduced Nemesis
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