The 3 intrepid brothers fought against Cronus and at last locked him at the underworld. Zeus is the personification of sky‚ Poseidon is the personification of ocean‚ Hades is the personification of hell‚ Hera is the personification of marriage‚ Demeter is the personification of agriculture‚ and Hestia is the personification of warmth. After Zeus married Hera‚ he also married other goddesses which he was fond of. Apollo‚ the god of medicine‚ Athena‚ the god of wisdom
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the many women Zeus fell in love with” (Hamilton 27). As the wife of Zeus‚ Hera witnessed her husband consistently having affairs with other women. Even being the protector of married women‚ Hera never forgot a face and children of mistresses were often
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Hercules is this great hero who is going around the world killing and cleaning the world of monsters and evilness. However‚ the original myth tells us that due to the fact that while Hercules was under a spell from Hera (Hercules father’s (Zeus) wife) he kills his wife and children. Once Hercules realizes what he has done‚ he asks Apollo for forgiveness and because Apollo likes him‚ he sends Hercules to serve Eurystheus‚ King of Tiryns. It is King Eurystheus who assigns Hercules ten labours
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Pandora was given a box or a jar‚ called “pithos” in Greek. Gods told her that the box contained special gifts from them but she was not allowed to open the box ever. Then Hermes took her to Epimetheus‚ brother of Prometheus‚ to be his wife. Prometheus had advised Epimetheus not to accept anything from the Gods‚ but he saw Pandora and was astonished by her beauty‚ thus he accepted her right away. Pandora was trying to tame her curiosity‚ but at the end she could not hold herself anymore; she opened
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Decalogue/Ten Commandments: RULES Violation of these laws in an offense to God No punishment is specified therefore all punishments are possible Lex Talionis: compensation of kind (eye for an eye) Genesis: The beginning Exodus: The road out Theogony Aetiology: set of causes – on the seventh day god rested = sabbath Covenant: An agreement made Abraham – covenant w/ him and his children – exclusive sign: circumcision Noah – covenant w/ him and every living thing – inclusive sign: rainbow
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In Works and Days‚ Hesiod depicts a mystical story of punishment when Zeus decides to create a beautiful woman named Pandora to punish Prometheus for stealing fire. He then gave Pandora a jar containing misery and turmoil and sends her to Epimetheus who is Prometheus’s cousin where he accepts her and she swiftly releases evil upon man. Yet Elpis the spirit of hope stays in the jar. Elpis was in the jar of turmoil which leads the audience to the suggestion that Elpis is also an evil “for earth is
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ash tree and named him Ask‚ and then they took the elm tree and named her‚ Embla. In the Grecian version‚ the titan Prometheus‚ using water and earth created man in the likeness of the immortal gods on mount Olympus. The differences in both tales are interesting‚ the Greek version the king of the gods‚ Zeus‚ did not want humans to be created in the first place and punishes Prometheus for giving man fire. The Norse
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the product of the original spirit of the clan society and it is also the earliest European literary form. At the beginning‚ it was passed down from generation to generation though word of mouth; later‚ it was recorded in Homer’s epic and Hesiod’s Theogony and many other ancient Greek poetry‚ drama‚ history and philosophy‚ all of these were reorganized as the ancient Greek mythology. What is more‚ the Greek mythology was divided into two parts‚ the story of Gods and the legend of heroes. However‚ Greek
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Olympians‚ the main Greek gods. The Titans—who include such notables as Ocean‚ Mnemosyne (Memory)‚ and Prometheus‚ mankind’s benefactor—rule the universe until Zeus and their other children conquer them. The term “Olympians” comes from Mount Olympus‚ the gods’ mystical home‚ which is conceived as a high mountaintop but is really a magical place that exists on a heavenly plane—not the heavens (which Zeus alone rules)‚ earth‚ sea‚ nor underworld. Shared by all the gods‚ Olympus is perfect. Rain never
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While all texts originate from the imagination of their composer‚ they also explore and address the issues of their contexts. This is clearly the case with Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) which draws upon galvanism and the industrial movement and Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1992) which has been heavily influenced by Thatcherism and Reagonomics. Despite there being over 150 years between their compositions both these texts explore several common themes such as mankind’s loss
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