Today I read Book 9 of the “Odyssey” by Homer and the article “Persephone‚ Queen of the Underworld” by greeka.com. The two are similar in the sense that both Persephone and Odysseus make trips down to the underworld. consequently‚ While there they both experience dreaded conflict. Odysseus coped with trouble as he realized that his mother had departed from the Earth and is now merely a shadow in the underworld. Meanwhile‚ Persephone was ripped away from her mother‚ Demeter‚ by the horrid man‚ Hades
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The Underworld In “Underworld” by Don DeLillo the main character was Cotter Martin‚ although he wasn’t addressed by his name through the course of the passage‚ in the end it was relevant to the way the passage was written. The main idea of the passage was to express the ideas and actions that went through the mind of Cotter as he went through his first journey that led him to getting out of school. Throughout the play the main character‚ Cotter was influenced negatively by other adolescents of his
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story? It is quite obvious in the epics of both Aeneus and Odysseus that the idea of fate and duty plays a huge role. The difference we see between the two is which is more important and how each epic allows these two ideas to unfold. In Virgil’s Aeneid‚ Aeneus is driven by the prophecy that he will leave a legacy that will go on to found the greatest and most powerful empire the world will ever know. Aeneus’s journey is filled with trials and tribulations; some are purposefully placed in front of
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THE ROMAN UNDERWORLD The Romans were greatly influenced by the Greeks in religion. Their religious views did not change drastically; however‚ Romans did believe that life was “the spirit’s death‚” and that the soul was freed after healing the earth. In addition‚ the names of all the Greek gods and goddesses were changed to those of a Roman background. For example‚ the Greek god Zeus‚ who was ruler of the sky and the gods‚ evolved into Jupiter‚ who held the same responsibilities. The same went for
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The Aeneid Catherine J. Troy was sacked by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Aeneas‚ a Trojan himself‚ wandered the sea for seven years with his fellow Trojans in attempt to found a new city‚ but something fails each time they try. The Trojan Fleet got caught in a storm sent by Juno‚ the queen of the gods. Their travels lead them to a shipwreck in Carthage‚ a city in North Africa. Juno hates Aeneas because she knows that the city of Rome that he will found will one day destroy her beloved city of
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Emotional Women” In reading the Aeneid I took a particular interest in the relationship that develops between Aeneas and Dido and how this relationship highlights the desires and roles that each gender may have had in this time period. For example it seems the male desire is to seek his kingdom while the female role seems to secure a partner. Dido and Aeneas in Book Four resemble the relationship that we see between Odysseus and Calypso in Book Five of the Odyssey. The departure of the two men in
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The Aeneid Courtesy of Sparknotes: Study Questions 1. How negatively does Aeneas’s abandonment of Dido reflect on his character? Though Aeneas cannot resist the will of the gods or fate‚ which demands that he leave Carthage‚ the manner in which he leaves Dido is not beyond contempt. We know from other passages that Aeneas is not a character without compassion‚ yet if Aeneas feels genuine sympathy for the lover he is about to abandon‚ he fails to express it well. He speaks formally and tersely
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homeland of America to the Spanish and British‚ or the Israeli people who refused to give land back to the Palestinians who fled their homeland back in 1948. Why do we allow such treatment of the original inhabitants of lands? Some may say‚ like in the Aeneid‚ that it is the divine right for a group of people to take ownership of land‚ and others use ethnicity or religion to devalue a group of people in order to take ownership. When Aeneas first arrives in Italy to establish his city he immediately went
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2014 The Ultimate Underworld Experience We all try to imagine what will happen to us‚ once we leave this life here on Earth. Countless of people believe that we will either go to heaven or hell‚ many believe that we may come back as another figure‚ and some believe in a place known as “The Underworld.” The Underworld is roughly similar to the Christian “hell.” Unlike the Underworld‚ we cannot go visit hell and then come back to Earth; don’t we wish we could! The Underworld is a place “under the
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Descent into the Underworld DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD . Narratives the world over tell of descents into the underworld. Many traditions include myths connected with journeys to the "otherworld" undertaken by both human and suprahuman beings. Experiences of such journeys are especially common in the shamanistic traditions‚ but they are also found in association with various ecstatic religious phenomena and various heroic and visionary contexts within a great number
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