Agamemnon

I arrived at camp half blood weak and scared and do not no where I am at.I was going on a trip and we had a car wreck and I walked to this born.It was camp half blood and they took me in and seid I was a god.I am the son of ares because I am fearless never lost a fight and I am the god of war. My 1st proof of evidence is that Ares is my father is that I like to fight like my father.Ares likes watching his family fight.There’s nothing like watching your relative fight,I always say. It means…

In the transition from oral poetry to Herodotus’ written Histories, Herodotus kept many of the story telling narrative forms, most notably the habit of telling a story within the larger work, which is a device he uses more than Homer did. Herodotus presents his Histories as a series of tales explaining the circumstances leading to the Persian War. In the opening statement of his Histories, Herodotus states that the reason he had conducted and composed this research was “in the hope of thereby…

Aristophanes’ was a bold and a strong, sexual, and very opinionated man which he had reflected in his comedy play, “Lysistrata”. This comedy was quite the hit with many Athenian men for the simple fact that Lysistrata is a woman who was able to annihilate the Peloponnesian War with the help of women from different city-states, including Sparta. The Peloponnesian War that was between Athens and Sparta had begun over jealousy of each other’s power in Greece and had lasted from 431 to 404 BC.…

Ana De La Cruz ID 65515 SWK 420 10/14//2017 Extra Point MEDEA I was recently invited to assist at an event, the performance of MEDEA that Arte Boricua presented at Steppenwolf theater’s 1700, directed by Julio Ramos. The play opens with the assassination of a woman who had committed infanticide, killing two of her own children. The following acts take place in the afterworld, where the woman confronts the decisions she made, and, eventually, her assassins. The play was in Spanish with English…

Castor and Polydeuces, my beloved, divine brothers, how I long for you. The war has adjourned and Troy has been burned to the ground and I despair that my brothers are no longer of this realm and now spend their days between Mt. Olympus and Hades, even now the two of you are inseparable. I have always admired and envied your bond and yearned for the same between Clytemnestra and I and now I am even more alone than ever. Did the King of the Heavens know of the events he’d set off, I wonder?…

In Sophocles Electra one might find many different aspects of human experience, mainly because there are many different things at play. Love, lust, betrayal, fidelity, hope, morality and finally the experience which stands out most Revenge. Ah yes revenge, a very powerful human experience that controls and over comes many of the main characters that are found in the texts we read. Not only do we find this in the texts we read but also in our everyday life, everyday people, politician or…

According to Greek mythology, Helen is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Helen is the daughter of the Greek god Zeus. Helen is kidnapped by the Trojans from Greece, this begins the the Trojan War. In these poems both writers Edgar Allan Poe and Hilda Doolittle try to convey and contrast Helen’s beauty and how it affects Greece. To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe, takes a positive approach to what her beauty represents while Helen by Hilda Doolittle, approaches her beauty negatively.…

play, Agamemnon, through his language which displayed a society with a very influential religious discourse that lacked specific guidelines. He establishes the immense impact of religion through the main character, Agamemnon, when he sacrifices her daughter in the play; "And ill, to smite my child, my household’s love and pride! To stain with virgin blood a father’s hands, and slay My daughter, by the altar’s side!” (Aeschylus 251-253). Aeschylus does this in order to show that Agamemnon, the…

In the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, there are multiple characters that have questionable morals. But Aeschylus does give us one reliable person amidst the chaotic setting, and her name is Cassandra. She is easily the most trustworthy person in the play. Cassandra was a lady from the ruling house in Troy. When Agamemnon’s Greek forces took control of the city, she was taken back to Argos as a symbol of triumph over her home. Out of all the main characters she remains the most truthful, but…

The Aeneid is bursting with violent acts from the beginning to the end. The main character, Aeneas, faces conflict from both humans and gods. Aeneas is a Trojan hero and prince who embodies pietas, or driven by duty, honor, and devotion, which makes him an example of an ideal Roman citizen. Aeneas was determined to be a successful founder of Rome, but he faced complications along the journey. In each conflict, Aeneas dealt with fighting and violence; therefore, Rome was founded on violent…