Body Paragraph one: In the myth daedalus the greeks believed that what goes around comes around. This is shown on page 136 Daedalus pushes his nephew Talos off the athena temple, and Talos gets turned into a bird. Then Talos in revenge leads icarus Daedalus's son into the sun killing him. What goes around comes around means that whatever you do, good or bad, will come back to you, this is also known as carma. This happens to daedalus when as his nephew in revenge leads daedalus's son into the sun.
Body paragraph two: The myth of Phaethon or the son of Apollo, the sun god, shows the belief that you don't have to be better than everyone. This is seen on page 64 when Ephius said “do you visit your father?” Phaeton never had. But he could not bear to tell Ephius. This lead him to his father who swore on the river styx that he would do anything he …show more content…
This is shown throughout the first couple pages. in these pages whenever Orpheus plays his music he entrances people with it. They literally follow him around as shown on page 75 when it reads “When he played in the fields, animals followed him, sheep and cows and goats. And not only the tame animals but the wild ones too---the shy deer, and the wolves, and bears… Nor did the bears and wolves think of eating the sheep until the music had stopped.” This paragraph shows that musicians are extremely powerful, so powerful in fact that they can stop nature itself from continuing its natural process. Orpheus himself can also make people lose track of time as seen on page 75 when it reads “They knew the fish would come up from the depths of the sea to hear and sit on their tails and listen as he played, making it easy to catch them. But they were not caught, for as soon as Orpheus began to play, the fisherman forgot all about their nets and sat on deck and listened with their mouths open just like the
Body paragraph two: The myth of Phaethon or the son of Apollo, the sun god, shows the belief that you don't have to be better than everyone. This is seen on page 64 when Ephius said “do you visit your father?” Phaeton never had. But he could not bear to tell Ephius. This lead him to his father who swore on the river styx that he would do anything he …show more content…
This is shown throughout the first couple pages. in these pages whenever Orpheus plays his music he entrances people with it. They literally follow him around as shown on page 75 when it reads “When he played in the fields, animals followed him, sheep and cows and goats. And not only the tame animals but the wild ones too---the shy deer, and the wolves, and bears… Nor did the bears and wolves think of eating the sheep until the music had stopped.” This paragraph shows that musicians are extremely powerful, so powerful in fact that they can stop nature itself from continuing its natural process. Orpheus himself can also make people lose track of time as seen on page 75 when it reads “They knew the fish would come up from the depths of the sea to hear and sit on their tails and listen as he played, making it easy to catch them. But they were not caught, for as soon as Orpheus began to play, the fisherman forgot all about their nets and sat on deck and listened with their mouths open just like the