Apollo Theater

In Greek mythology there a many different aspects which are emphasized through its literature, such as beauty, love, power, respect, loss and many more. The aspect of death is heavily pronounced aspect of beings, Gods and Goddesses. This characteristic of death is referred to in both “physical death and internal death” and is used in many contexts. This is evident I the Greek literature such as the poem Helen, by Hilda Doolittle, which is a short poem which describes Greece's reaction to Helen,…

edge when they were winning the war. The practice of asking for favors was a widespread tactic used with great avail. Three instrumental occasions in which a favor is asked in The Iliad are between, Chryses and Apollo, Thetis and Zeus, and Thetis and Hephaestus. Chryses was the priest of Apollo residing the town of Chryse. His town was raided and pillaged by the Greek soldiers on their way to Troy. Subsequent to the incursion his daughter, Chryseis, was taken as loot by the Greeks’ commander…

interventions of Jove, Apollo and the rest of the gods, can be explained by using human behavior, good vs evil, sense of right and wrong, and other human traits. The story is focused around the Achilles’ behavior and how his actions or lack thereof determine the activities conducted by his comrades the Achaeans, the Trojans, the gods and the outcome of the war. In the introduction, Book I, Homer sets the stage in the middle of the War and first introduces the intervention of Apollo. Homer…

into them (36). What Polyphemus did is wrong, and Odysseus and his men did what is right, to correct the situation. Book one of the Iliad details Apollo’s priest coming to buy back his daughter from Agamemnon, but the king refuses, and consequently Apollo sets a plague on the Greeks until the priest’s daughter is returned (2-14). The Iliad and the Odyssey both contain wrongs done that are righted, and Hesiod outlines what happens when right and wrongs are done. Hesiod says that evil falls upon…

powerful beings that stand on the shoulders of mortals and commanding them at will. Who deemed them rulers of the land? Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is a collection of mythological stories carrying the same trend- transformations. In the stories of “Daphne and Apollo” and “The Rape of Proserpine” a God has turned a mortal into a new physical form due to pettiness or protection from another god. In both instances, the gods at fault were told no or simply embarrassed and resulted to child-like tantrums…

In the Odyssey, Homer discusses various topics significant for the Greeks of that era such as hospitality, devotion to gods, faithfulness to one’s spouse, or determination to return home. On the other hand, Virgil’s Aeneid is focused on war and ancient Roman values such as pietas, which stands for loyalty or devotion, or gravitas, which is one’s ability to speak with authority. Furthermore, Sophocles’s play Antigone deals with a character that has to choose between the contradicting laws of the…

But meanwhile Apollo protects Hector’s body and the other gods start to agree with Apollo’s attempt to save Hector’s body. Apollo says “No, you gods; your desire is to help this cursed Achilles within whose breast there are no feelings of justice, nor can his mind be bent, but his purposes are fierce, like a lion who when…

She is the sister of Apollo, the god of music (Atsma). Leto was chased from Mount Olympus by Hera, Zeus’s wife, because Hera was jealous that Leto was having Zeus’s twins. Leto eventually found herself on the island of Delos where she gave birth to Artemis and Apollo. Artemis had been born one day before Apollo; as soon as Artemis was born she helped deliver Apollo making her the goddess of childbirth (Artemis Encyclopedia). At the age of three…

The Iliad; “the first great book about the suffering and loss of war”, stated by Rachel Bespaloff in On the Iliad. “Its subject is war; its characters are men in battle and women whose fate depends on the outcome.” One may ask why does Homer writes about this and why it is so gruesome like. It’s to catch the human eye, with in-depth descriptions and brutality which is nearly a copy of what everyday life on this planet is today. There’s always murder, battles, and war occurring for food,…

In this unit we focused on the story of King Lear, one of Shakespeare 's many plays. King Lear is based on a real story that was written in the year 1135 from a book called History of the King of Britain. King Lear was based on a Celtic legend. The name Lear in Celtic means the Celtic God of the sea. He is similar to the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon. They both have the same characteristics such as moody and tempestuous. In this play, Shakespeare uses different types of imagery. According to…