Nhu Nguyen Period 6th Mythology Project PART TWO: Stories of Love and Adventure I. Cupid and Psyche 1. “Psyche excelled her sisters so greatly that beside them she seemed a very goddess consorting with mere mortals” (121). 2. Venus wants Cupid to use his power and make Psyche fall madly in love with the vilest and most despicable creature there is in the whole world (122). 3. Cupid fell in love with Psyche the moment they first met (122). 4. The Zephyr carried Psyche from the
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Women’s life in Ancient Greece through Euripides Electra Electra is one of the most prominent female figures in Ancient Greek literature as all three of the renowned tragedians‚ Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides have written their own respective plays centered around this one woman. I read the play of Electra written by Euripides. If the play was written by a woman it would be totally different. I even checked out some info about the other versions of Electra and they portray the
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The epic of the Trojan War have two names that stand out even more than of its protagonists: Homer and Heinrich Schliemann. Homer‚ the greatest poet of all time‚ compiled stories of an oral tradition that sang the heroic deeds of a war that pitted the city of Troy with a coalition of Greek States to the 8th century BC. A war that happened five centuries before and that was the last heroic deed of a powerful civilization whose track would disappear from history soon after until little more than one
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the swan and the loss of innocence through Leda. ’Leda and the Swan’ is based off Greek mythology when Zeus disguises himself as a swan and rapes Leda‚ resulting in the birth of two demi-gods‚ Helen and Pollux and two mortal children‚ Castor and Clytemnestra. The swan also metaphorically represents the power of Britain while Leda represents the vulnerability of Ireland. Throughout the entire poem Yeats conveys this image of godly power and imagery through the act of rape carried out by the swan. The
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transition from a tribal and blood kinship oriented society which stood by the feudal class and decentralization into a very authentic culture based one. A key example of this is through the character of Orestis son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. The story says that Clytemnestra killed her husband Agamemnon because of many crimes that he committed leaving Orestis with the difficulty of either avenging his father’s death which would mean spilling kindred blood or leaving any hopes of justice to spare his
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The Libation Bearers and Hamlet Many of Shakespeare’s plays draw from classical Greek themes‚ plot and metaphors. The tragedies of Sophocles‚ Aeschylus‚ Euripides and Homer have themes like royal murders‚ assassinations by near relatives‚ the supernatural‚ ghostly visits‚ and vengeful spirits of the dead- themes which reappear in Shakespeare’s tragedies with a difference. Shakespeare’s tragic hero Hamlet and Aeschylus’s Orestes have a great deal in common. Both the plays are set in a time when
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Mythology is the study of myths‚ and throughout the ages there have been plenty of myths‚ from Egyptian mythology to Greek to Norse to new age religion. Mythology helps to explain our world around us. Usually from mythology comes religions‚ and all religions have gods. Each culture has a religion and each religion has gods that explain every aspect of life in the mortal world. One of the best known gods from all mythology is the Greek god Zeus. Zeus has a long history full of devious plots‚ vicious
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The Trojan War pitted a loose alliance of independent Greek kings against the city of *Troy (in what today is northwest Turkey) and her allies in Asia Minor. It is said to have begun with an insult to the goddess Eris ("Strife" or "Discord"). When the Greek hero *Peleus married the minor sea-goddess *Thetis‚ all of the gods were invited to the wedding except Eris. Angry at this‚ she placed on the banquet table a golden apple inscribed with the words: "For the fairest." Immediately strife broke out
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Iris‚ passes away during the debacle. As a man of over seventy-one years old‚ he should have honored his wife and lived out the rest of his life in peace. Like a Agamemnon though‚ he was enticed by a younger woman. As Agamemnon says of Briseis‚ "Clytemnestra (the wife of Agamemnon) is not as good as she is‚ neither in face nor figure‚" so thinks Coleman Silk of Faunia Farley‚ the thirty-four year old woman whom
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------------------------------------------------- Electra complex From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Electra complex: Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon‚ byFrederic Leighton‚ c.1869 In Neo-Freudian psychology‚ the Electra complex‚ as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung‚ is a child’s psychosexual competition with his/her mother for possession of his/her father. In the course of her psychosexual development‚ the complex is the girl’s phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity‚ a boy’s analogous
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