Aphrodite

“HERMES! TELL ME WHAT YOU DID WITH MY SWORD!” I was filled with rage as I stormed through the entrance of the central palace. As all the other gods and goddesses rolled their eyes, Hermes looked up at me with a calm expression despite my obvious anger, This only made me want to punch him in the face that much more. Yes, Hermes may have freed me from that horrible prison the other gods called a mere jar, but when he made that fake, innocent look I could have cared less. “Now Ares,” he said with…

The basis of influence behind the decisions made by human characters in Homer 's Iliad gives rise to the inquiry of if agency is present among mortal characters, and if so, its scope of influence over their decisions making capabilities. In Book 14, Zeus is seduced by Hera; while Zeus is asleep, Poseidon intervenes with the war and helps to shift the tide of battle in favor of the Achaeans. Human agency, according to how it is defined in the lectures, is “the capacity to act ( . . . ) without…

Pallas Athena was a Greek goddess who was born fully grown with full armor from the head of Zeus. She was Zeus’ favorite child and he trusted her with an aegis that held the head of Medusa and his devastating weapon: the thunderbolt. Athena has a temple dedicated to her in Athens called the Parthenon. She was described as “gray-eyed” and because of her chasteness, Athena was called “Maiden Parthenos”. Athena was known to be the protector of civilized life, goddess of the city, handicrafts and…

Literature: works of creativity written down. In the era between Sumerian Culture and Augustan Roman culture (will be referred to as “The Greece Era” or “The Greek Era” from here on), many works contained the same gods and occasionally refers to the same myths. However, do women in the works correspond in their characters throughout the Greek era or do their characters change throughout the era. One of the earliest works from the Greek era is The Epic of Gilgamesh. This work follows Gilgamesh,…

The second Goddess story I felt inspired to discuss is that of Inanna. Inanna is the Sumerian Goddess of love, fertility and war and Queen of Heaven. She is presented as a dynamic and powerful Goddess. Like many Gods and Goddesses, there are a variety of stories surrounding her origins and existence. She was said to have driven a lion drawn chariot and participated in battle yet was also a sensual, passionate Goddess. Inanna was revered in Sumer, a region in Mesopotamia which is now modern day…

Dionysus My favorite Greek god was Dionysus or Bacchus. He was known as the god of the wine. Dionysus was the son of Zeus and the princess Semele of Thebes. Unfortunately, His mother died because of jealousy of Hera. Zeus snatched Dionysus from Semele and hid him away from Hera. When Dionysus was born, Hermes took him to the nymph of Nysa. They treated Dionysus and taught him to viticulture. Later, he invented the wine and spread it to humans. Therefore, people worshipped him. In the ancient…

The Earliest Heroes Prometheus had given fire to men and had been bound to a rock peek on Causcasus. Io came across him and spoke to him about who he was. Prometheus recognized her and told her his name which she knew of him. They were able to talk easily to each other. Io told him that Zeus was the reason she changed from a princess to a beast. Zeus’s wife, Hera, had been jealous when she realized Zeus was in love with Io. To punish Io, Hera gave her to Argus who changed Io into a beast. Zeus…

Have you ever been in love with someone or wanted to get something so bad that, not matter how difficult it is, you still go after it? Despite the fact that “Oedipus The King” written by Sophocles, Ancient Greece, and “Venus and Adonis” written by Ovid, Greek mythology are two different stories, with two different individuals, Oedipus and Venus, are both driven by their desire and desperation to get what they want. Often, characters in literature show off the relationship between power and…

The story of Venus and Adonis is one of a thwarted seduction by the classical goddess of love. Venus retells the story of her greatest conquest, Mars, the god of war, in lines 95-114 of Venus and Adonis. Mars is the epitome of masculinity and Venus describes his transformation from this pinnacle of war into her personal slave. By telling Adonis of Mars’s transformation, Venus is both boasting and trying to show Adonis there is no shame in succumbing to her feminine wiles. Venus directly…

Hippolyta was born in ancient Athens and commenced her life as a plain-looking girl.She simply lived with her mother at that time. unfortunately, a few months before childbirth Hippolyta’s mother was diagnosed with cancer. Consequently, she barely had a few months to spend quality time with her child because during that time period before she grievously died. Now at this time, the people of Athens didn't have a situation like this, Hippolyta was the first Athen to be a child and not have her own…