APOLLO Sydney's Tragic Hero

Improved Essays
APOLLO SYDNEY faced life head on. He wore his tragedies as his armor, not the shackles that were destined to hold him down. Soot covered his ivory skin as he laid under one of the many training pods used for the mechanics. Ever since his mother, Diana Sydney, stepped down as Chancellor, Apollo had changed his lifestyle. He no longer just lounged around Alpha Station every day, prowling around to find some desperate girl to sleep with the Chancellor's heartthrob of a son. Now Apollo spent his days getting his hands dirty when ever there was a problem with anything on the Ark.

That was exactly how Apollo met Raven Reyes, the fiery and headstrong zero-g mechanic who had a very slight heart murmur. Apollo was the one who got

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The Trials of Apollo is a fiction book about a Greek god named Apollo who lost his godly powers because he unintentionally started a war between gods and demigods Therefore, the Greek god Zeus took his powers away as punishment. The book starts in upper Manhattan, where Apollo is dropped from the sky and hits a garbage can where he meets Meg a demigod. What happens next is a series of events that helps the reader understand their own trials and tribulations. Everyone has two sides to them, or hidden agendas. In the book a Roman “god” named Nero has two sides “the beast” and Nero.…

    • 409 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    How would you feel if you were once a Greek god, who was stripped of his powers by his father;Zeus, and was sent down to the mortal world where you have replaced another human? What do you think you would do? Well, in The Trials of Apollo - Hidden Oracle, by Rick Riordan, the god Apollo, was sent down to Earth, stripped of his powers because Zeus thought he did something bad. Apollo has had this happen to him before so he knows that he needs to serve a demigod for a year or so in order to regain his trust from his father. He meets a girl called Meg, who is a daughter of Demeter, at least Apollo thought.…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Apollo himself embodied the moderate behavior he espoused. He became the most intellectual and spiritual of the Olympian gods, second in esteem only to Zeus, his father. His thoughtful restraint set him apart from many of the other Olympian gods, who were impetuous and volatile. Gods and men stood in awe of Apollo, respecting and envying his ability to control his emotions and determine his responses.” (57) Tyler is a Christian, and gets almost all of his inspiration for the songs he writes from God.…

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Apollo has been called "The most Greek of all the gods". He is thought of as a beautiful figure in Greek poetry, depicted with long tangleless hair and a face of the beardless youth. He's treated as the master musician, the archer god, the god of light, the speaker of truth, and the healer. He's sought out by the people as an Oracle, the common folk looking towards him to know their prophecies and predict their futures. Apollo at Delphi was a purely beneficial power, since he guided the people to have a glance at the God's wills.…

    • 191 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Cassandra Jackson had no idea that her life would change forever after she took her son swimming. Her 10 year-old son Johnny stated that he was tired after swimming. Cassandra did not think that it was anything wrong. She had no idea that her son was slowly drowning. Johnny took a nap, and his mother checked on him later.…

    • 217 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He challenges her to “ask [herself] who finds [her] so attractive” and goes on to tell her himself (l. 707). Apollo begins by affirming that he is not a caveman, nor is he a shepherd boy (l. 708). He continues to tell Daphne who he…

    • 769 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Aristotle's Tragic Hero

    • 1227 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Aristotelian is referring to the Greek philosopher Aristotle or his philosophy (Webster Online Dictionary). According to Dunn (2006), Aristotle was born in 384 B.C.E. in Stagira. After his father’s death, Aristotle spent 20 years in Athens attending and teaching at Plato’s Academy. Plato and Aristotle highly respected each other; however, they often debated many beliefs and theories (Dunn, 2006). Dunn (2006) also noted, Aristotle traveled back to Athens and opened his own school when he was 49, called the Lyceum, writing and teaching his philosophy (Dunn, 2006).…

    • 1227 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Troy Maxson: Good, Bad or Tragic Hero? In August Wilson’s play Fences the protagonist, Troy Maxson, is widely considered to be one of the greatest characters of the American stage (Shmoop Editorial Team). He is a very complex man and leaves one wondering is he good, bad or simply a tragic hero? This is not an easy question to answer on the surface, but, reading and analyzing the play points toward the latter. Troy is quite simply bad at being good.…

    • 1457 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The God Apollo was sent down to earth in the after math of the Titan War because Zeus the King of the Gods (also Apollo's father) had to blame another God other than himself. Apollo was sent down in the body of Lester Papadopoulos who had acne and was not handsome. Apollo was devastated by both characteristics. After all, he is the God of vanity. In the first book, Apollo meets a little girl who turns out to be a demigod named Megan McCarthy .…

    • 306 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Can you assess justice and how you forage for it? Oedipus Rex, the King of Thebes, was in sought for the truth of his crimes. He perceived justice was never on his side because Apollo and the other gods never wanted him to receive equity. He presumed he was an honorable man that was failed by the justice system. However, the audience is ambivalent about the way he was in quest for his honesty and his apprehension of the precise definition of justice.…

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout the poem, Aeneas receives lots of decisions from both of his parents. Then I ask, should the hero not make his own way? In classical literature, there are two kinds of heroes: the hero-hero, and the tragic hero. In the Aeneid, Turnus is the hero-hero, and Aeneas is the tragic hero. The tone of the Aeneid is heroic, not tragic.…

    • 1047 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Mike Tyson Tragic Heroes

    • 230 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Tragic Heroes Why is it that some of the greatest athletes ruin their career when they are just starting to do amazing things in the sport? I would call these athletes tragic heroes. My example of a tragic hero would be Mike Tyson. On November 22, 1986, Mike Tyson made his debut for a world title as a professional boxer, and he would show everyone why he was going to be the next great boxer with a second round TKO. Just as everything was going Tysons way, he started his tragic fall by making poor decisions.…

    • 230 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Who is the tragic hero of Antigone? When the word. ‘Tragic hero’ is mentioned, many individuals visualize a tragic hero as a character whom plays the role of both a victim and as a hero of a plot of the story. Occacionately, others view a tragic hero as someone who derives from being a main hero, or main character, to being the compassionate victim.…

    • 885 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In life, “we [can] do everything right, act on the best information available, and with the best of intentions, yet still commit unspeakable horrors” (“The Tragic Hero in Greek Drama”). Aristotle created a definition of a tragic hero based on Sophocles’ characters in the tragedies Antigone and Oedipus the King. His definition, known as the Aristotelian tragic hero, has specific requirements the character must possess. Creon is the character that best exemplifies Aristotle’s tragic hero because of his virtue, his hubris, and his realization of his fate; however, others may argue that Antigone is a better example of a tragic hero because of her virtue and her hamartia, but in fact, Creon displays more qualities of a tragic hero Aristotle has…

    • 1172 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Oedipus As A Tragic Hero

    • 1493 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Virginia Boggs Mrs. Meng ENGL 201-D36 LUO 12 December 2014 Oedipus: The Tragic Hero Aristotle’s definition of the tragic hero is one that combines specific qualities. One is that the main person in the tragedy must be of superior status. Another quality is that the main character must be a person that is well liked by other characters in the play and the audience. The main person in the tragedy will also have flaws that not only bring him down but also other people around him.…

    • 1493 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays