Aphrodite

The Greek Goddess, Athena. She didn’t have a mother. Due to the way of her birth she became the goddess of intelligence and wisdom. Birth of Athena also called the birth of Athena, Athena’s birth. She was born from Zues after he experienced an enormous headache and she sprang fully for his forehead. Athena was the patron of heroic endeavor. She is the virgin patroness of Athens. Athena was goddess of reason, intelligent activity, arts and literature. According to some sources Athena was…

giving it to the humans, and commanded Hephaestus and the other gods to create the first woman, Pandora as his punishment. They were told to make her with beauty and for her to be cunning. Each god helped her by giving her unique gifts and talents, Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo gave her music, Hermes gave…

discord, Eris was not invented to the wedding. Irritated by this exclusion, Eris arrived at the wedding with a golden apple inscribed “kallisti”, for the fairest. Three goddesses - Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite – all claimed for the apple, and Prince Paris of Troy awarded the apple to Aphrodite. Hence, Aphrodite offered Paris the world’s most beautiful woman, Helen. However, Helen was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. As a result, Greece declared war against Troy, and the…

Psyche was youngest and most beautiful daughter of a king and queen. She was so beautiful that her beauty out shown Aphrodite’s. This angered the goddess, who sent her son, Eros the god of love, to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. When Eros saw her, he was enamored with her and accidentally pierced himself with one of his arrows, falling in love instantly. Meanwhile, Psyche, while admired by all, was not truly loved by anyone and ended up being sad and alone. To solve this, she went to…

Long ago, there once lived a beautiful gold-haired goddess named Hedona. Hedona was the youngest daughter of Odeus, the God of Oppression and Ielia, the Goddess of Hope. She was sister to Dytos and Eta. Dytos was the God of Logic, while Eta was the Goddess of Secrecy. Hedona was the Goddess of Time and was able to control the past, present, and the future. She could freeze or fast-forward time if she wanted to, but she had to be aware of the consequences of her own actions, as well as the…

In classical Greek mythology, Phaedra is the daughter of King Minos of Crete and Pasiphaë, and is the wife of Theseus. Due to a divine plan set into motion by Aphrodite, Phaedra falls in love with Hippolytus, Theseus’ son from another marriage, bringing about the destruction of both individuals. These themes of incest, fate, and adultery are all present in Desire Under the Elms. This play can be shown to have been influenced greatly by classical representations of this myth. Desire Under the…

the Ancient Greece religion, a set of stories about the gods, goddesses, heroes and rituals. Greek Mythology consists of the twelve Olympians who were the major deities comprising of Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes and either Hestia or Dionysus (Greekmythologytoday.com, 2017). They came into power by dethroning the Titans who were the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth). During the era of the Olympians, other nymphs and deities…

Zeus was the great leader of the Olympian gods. The family of Mount Olympus truly was the most powerful of all the Greek families. Though they were gods, they were full of themselves; arrogant, stubborn, and prime examples of immorality. Since they couldn 't be trusted, they were to be approached with cautiousness. A modern day version of the Olympian gods would be a family with a maximum amount of power. The Greek temple had 12 gods and goddesses. Most gods were in fact full of themselves, but…

It is my belief that even though very similar, Ancient Greece has a broader and more vivid culture than modern day Greece. Ancient Greece has many great achievements in government, science, philosophy, and the arts that all still influence us today. Religion over the years in Greece has changed. Ancient Greece’s religion was very accustom to their daily life. People in Ancient Greece were very religious. They worshipped the gods that they believed appeared in human form, but had supernatural…

compared to traditional stories. He compares Aphrodite and Phaedra’s reactions as the rejected woman highlighting the…