Aphrodite

appear in his full glory. Zeus, who had a promised to grant Semele any wish, sadly did so and appeared with his thunderbolts, causing Semele to burn to death. Hera is without a doubt the most beautiful goddess even more than the goddess of love, Aphrodite. Each year Hera bathes in a spring called Kanathos near Corinth where the waters of the spring restore her youth and…

until the very end. In both works, the relationships between the gods and humans expose the frailty of human nature. Throughout the Iliad, Athena helps the Achaeans claim victory over the Trojans. Athena resents the city of Troy because Paris gave Aphrodite the title of being the most beautiful goddess instead of her. Consequently, she…

Behind every fantasy or myth, there is a deeper truth about life which is why, since times immemorial myths have played an immense role in society, often lending them to story-telling that educates the society, about the good and the bad, the right and the wrong. In short, myths have been explaining the natural, social phenomenon since ages, and been handed down from generations through the centuries. Myths are often the medium through which the society tracks the social, cultural and religious…

The Symposium is an ancient philosophical text written by Plato. This text depicts several characters giving their own extemporaneous speeches about Eros. However, the text primarily focuses on Agathon’s and Socrates’s speeches. Agathon suggests that Eros is a young, beautiful god, who has all cardinal virtues. However, Socrates completely disagrees with Agathon. Socrates criticizes Agathon’s speech and then provides his account that Eros is a need in reproduction of beauty, called the ladder of…

So now, let us walk over to the three dimensional artworks of Rome. A Greek Hellenistic type of Aphrodite with Eros was adapted by the Romans to represent imperial women with their infants. As you can see here, we have the “Bust of a Woman”. This fine sculpture echoes the taste that the Romans inspired to have when making portraits of women. Can anyone tell me, what it is that the Romans inspired to create in their sculptures? “They wanted to create realism.” Yes, that is correct, in fact if you…

to the courtship of Helen”. (Bandinelli, Uffizi, Florence). Helen the Queen of Sparta was kidnapped by the Trojan Prince whose name was Paris took her to the kingdom of Troy. “Paris (also known as Alexandros) and taken as his prize for choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess in a competition with Athena and Hera at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis” (Cartwright). Everyone in the kingdom of Sparta was appalled that this tragic event took place upon them. “Helen’s jilted husband Menelaus…

If I was Psyche I would be very depressed at the beginning of my marriage. I would also be depressed because after Aphrodite had played with my heart by making me do crazy tasks for the fake love of her son. But, after me dying and my true love reviving me I would be happy. In a way I would also be satisfied with the fact that I just risen from the dead and my husband…

Interpretive Paper 1 “Thou shall not kill” is a fundamental belief in today’s society, yet during times of war, breaking this commandment is not considered a sin. Instead it is a necessary action to properly serve and protect the country. However, when modern-day soldiers return from battle they generally do not discuss the details of the war to the public. Conversely, in the Iliad, as more people know about a hero’s war story, the more glory he attains. The Iliad’s depiction of war is complex.…

Helen of Troy will always be a notable character from ancient Greek literature. From the moment Homer first spoke of her, certain things about her will be forever more written in stone. She will always be female, the wife of Menalaus, cause of the Trojan War, beautiful, and the daughter of Zeus. These are things that very few orators and authors dare to meddle with and those who do come out perhaps not as well of on the other end of things. There are however, the reactions and the inferences to…

could happen in Athens if we adopted this state of awareness. On a similar point, the contradictory “eye for an eye” ideal seen in Polemarchus’s justice is not good for Athens or Greece as a whole. In the ancient stories of the gods, the goddess Aphrodite blessed the Trojans during our conflict with them just because their prince once awarded her in a beauty contest. Socrates is right to find these flaws of reasoning in arguments such as this one. Why would we, the citizens of Athens, just the…