Prometheus And Io Analysis

Prometheus And Io

Zeus falls in love with a girl named Io, and he proceeds to send her a message exclaiming that love. Unfortunately, Zeus’s wife, Hera, finds out about his love for Io. Zeus tries to save Io from the wrath of Hera by wrapping the Earth in a thick cloud, but he still fails to save her. In a jealous rage, Hera turns Io into a heifer and hands her over to Argus. Even though Zeus can’t be with Io anymore, he still sends Hermes to kill Argus, allowing Io to have her freedom once more. Eventually, Zeus delivers on his promise of turning her back into a human being, and she ends up gives birth to another one of Zeus’s sons, Epaphus.

Europa

Similarly to Io, Europa is the love interest of Zeus, but unlike Io, Europa is
For example, in the tale of “Prometheus and Io”, Zeus pulls a sweet princess away from her happiness to only make her more miserable in the end. Io even gives the reader proof of this in saying that she was once very happy, until she was turned into “A beast, a starving beast, That frenzied runs with clumpy leaps and bounds. Oh, shame…” Another example of Zeus ruining a poor human’s life is when he helps Hades kidnap Persephone in “Flower-Myths”. Hades, the ruler of the underworld, is madly in love with a girl named Persephone, and in order to make her vulnerable enough to be captured, Zeus, “called it (narcissus) into being to help his brother, the lord of the dark underworld…”. Unfortunately, Persephone falls for Zeus’s trick, and she is dragged down to the underworld. In conclusion, Zeus can be a rather kind and helpful god, but he can also be a very foolish god that ruins the lives of innocent people. Although, the reader would have to see to an extent that Zeus is not the most direct cause of some of that aforementioned suffering, for Hera and the other gods play a part in this cruelness as