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    In Greek mythology Pandora was the first woman‚ bestowed upon humankind by Zeus as a punishment for Prometheus’ theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people‚ she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life; wife of Epimetheus. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to make a mixture of earth and water and from it to create a woman as beautiful as a goddess. When she was ready‚ Athena adorned her and taught her how to weave‚ while Aphrodite

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    Charon’s Cosmology Charon’s Cosmology What does the poem mainly discuss? Death. The poet uses an allusion of Charon to discuss about death. What does the poet mean by “swift‚ cold‚ and deep” in the last line? What is swift‚ cold‚ and deep? The River Styx. This poem is about death. The last line can also be interpreted as the description of death. Death is like a river. River of no return Death Death is swift. What does it mean? You don’t know when you’re going to die. It might happen so

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    Paper IV Connecting to the Hero: An Overall Analysis of an Attic black-figure Hydria depicting Herakles’ Exploits Ancient Greek vases attract us not only for their significant aesthetic and narrative appeals‚ but also for their value as bridges connecting today’s viewers to the ancient Greek world‚ an advanced civilization richly influenced by myths. My museum object‚ a late sixth century black-figured hydria that depicts the beginning and the end of exploits of the hero Herakles‚ is reflective

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    Frankenstein‚ which is Prometheus‚ an Ancient Greek myth. In the first paragraph‚ there is a brief summary of the story of Prometheus. The wise Titan is considered to have brought knowledge and enlightenment to mankind when he brought fire down to earth. However‚ to accomplish this task‚ Prometheus had to go against Zeus and steal fire from the God of Mount Olympus. Due to this misconduct against Zeus‚ who wanted to keep fire in order to punish Prometheus and the humans‚ he sentences Prometheus to infinite

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    against the king‚ Agamemnon. In Judeo-Christian society this would have been viewed as morally wrong for public shaming for someone who speaks the truth. In the case of Prometheus and ZeusPrometheus was doing his job as creator of the humans to give them fire back and make sure they are able to survive. Zeus focused more on that Prometheus defied him rather than and punished all those involved because the gods did not focus on intention rather they believed in a rigid set of

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    Vesta 5. Hera‚ Poseidon‚ Athena‚ Aphrodite‚ Ares‚ Hephaestus 6. Priests and priestesses in the sacred grove interpreted rustling of the oak leaves 7. The breastplate of Zeus was the aegis and had Medusa’s face on it. Zeus’s tree was the oak tree and his bird was the eagle. 8. Hera is the wife and younger sister of Zeus 9. She was often cruel. She got jealous often‚ especially of Zeus’s affairs and would get revenge on whoever it happened to be. 10. Poseidon and Hades. Poseidon ruled the

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    place‚ event‚ or literary work. These allusions are typically used by an author who intends to make a powerful point without the need to explain it. Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein provides many examples of allusion ’s. She connects the story of “Prometheus”‚ Coleridge ’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ and Milton ’s Paradise Lost to her own novel to convey the critical points of the meaning behind the story. Not only does Mary Shelley make use of the mythological symbolism‚ but includes biblical allusions

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    Greek art is art that originated in ancient Greece. Greek art was the start of western classical art in the classical‚ geometric‚ and archaic periods. In those periods five forms of art was mastered and created. Greek arts five forms were sculpture‚ painting‚ jewelry‚ pottery‚ and architecture. Many pieces of Greek art like vases and paintings have scenes of a statute like woman or gods surrounding the same woman. The Greek people and gods called this woman Pandora. Pandora was a woman that was born

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    Titans and Giants as the bad. Sometimes Gods or Goddesses will become evil too. Greek mythology started out from nothing to almost everything. Greek mythology had become fully developed by about the 700s BC. Three classic collections of myths‚ Theogony by the poet Hesiod and the lliad‚ and the Odyssey by the poet Homer. Most of the these myths are believed in by many people and those people also worship the Gods and Goddesses of Olympus.

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    created the Titans. The Greek God’s created all the living beings on Earth because they were bored and had nothing else to do. Unlike God it did not take seven days to create all. The Greek God’s would just think of something and it would happen. Prometheus was given the task to mold the animals from clay and Epimetheus gave them their unique abilities. In the Bible‚ whatever Adam called the animal was what it was named. With humans however‚ it took many tries for mankind to be created and with both

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