Not everyone has the same idea in mind about punishment‚ and nor did other countries from other times. The following books: The Iliad‚ The Odyssey‚ and The Hebrew Bible‚ entitling instances of cheating‚ kidnapping and murder‚ insulting and their punishment. Very rarely would you get away with something unseen because the Gods saw everything‚ and they could do just about anything known on earth to mankind or even to each other. Anything was punishable whatever time ear it was‚ and the Gods would cease
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I am Ales Hero! I know that I am the strongest and attractive man here. With a few years behind me‚ I have become wise and handsome. In public I must painstakingly compose myself in the certain manner that we are required to do so. Tonight is a different story! I shall show everyone who I truly am! I am a warrior‚ a lover‚ and a leader! Tonight‚ I will show every man and woman in this room who the real hero is‚ and that is Ales Hero! This symposium is the best even of the year for us men. The experiences
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Zeus supports Agamemnon not only as a king‚ but also as a father‚ and reprimands the deeds of both Clytemnestra and Helen; Zeus determines what is right and wrong. This can be seen in the vulture imagery; “Like vultures robbed of their young‚ / the agony sends them frenzied‚ / soaring high from the nest‚ round and / round they wheel‚ they row their wings
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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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spell cast by the House of Atreus. It all began with the king‚ “Agamemnon” killing his own fleshing blood‚ Iphigenia. Because Agamemnon killed Iphigenia‚ Clytemnestra who was the mother of Iphigenia and the wife of Agamemnon grew quite heated and at the moment wanted to take her husband’s life. In addition to that‚ Agamemnon cheated on Clytemnestra by bringing Cassandra‚ the princess of Troy when he made his triumphant return from the Trojan War. However‚ this wasn’t a happy return for Agamemnon but
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him in the river Styx‚ and forgot to immerse his heel as well. Agamemnon- Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae. He is the husband of Clytemnestra and brother to Menelaus.
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6) A. Clytemnestra / Vengeful B. “She proclaimed…’Here likes my husband dead‚ struck down justly by my hand‚’...It was his blood that stained her dress and face and she was glad.” (Hamilton 356) C. Ten years had passed since the start of the Trojan war‚ but Agamemnon’s murder of his daughter had not been forgotten. Ever since the fateful day when the king of Mycenae had his own child slain to appease Artemis‚ his wife had waited to take her vengeance. She had taken a lover and all the people of the
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And the Aigisthos and Clytemnestra are examples of the evolution of the domed tholos tombs. There are nine Tholos which is outside the walls of Mycenae. The tholos at Delphi is formed within‚ build at 380 BC. The Treasury of Atreus is the largest and the best preserved Tholos tomb
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Lesson 1-Personal Response Agamemnon I believe that Agamemnon is a protagonist character with selfish intentions in the play‚ Agamemnon. Although‚ he does make a few errors in his period of ruling. Overall‚ I believe he is a hubris person as he holds great pride in himself‚ his actions and his decisions. I believe that his intentions of his actions are only meant for his own benefit and that he believes no one else’s value should be more than his value. He has very little effect but‚ a very important
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Leda can see all the good things that will happen to her children and the good that they will do‚ but with that she is also able to see the bad. One of her two daughters‚ Clytemnestras‚ was known for some unlikeable traits. She killed her husband after he returned from the 10 year Trojan war. Clytemnestras’ kids decided to get revenge for their father’s death and killed their mother. Another example of forseeing the future in a negative way would be the events that Helen caused. She cheated
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