Artemis

disturbing anyone but it was against the law so he was arrested. This leads us to examine street vending or peddling. As an established street vendor, the man in the poem finds himself caught between two desires: earning a living and abiding by the law (Artemis). This was illegal so by him doing this he had to face the consequences of his actions each…

message about the power of God to all believers. St Paul then went to Ephesus on his second journey, a place of the goddess Artemis and cults. When Paul first arrived he went to the synagogue. There were many Jewish people. The people in Ephesus normally had no trouble accepting another god but Paul really upset the people and their beliefs. Pauls message was that the goddess Artemis was not a god at all and to follow one God. Ephesus is a significant location in the life of the early church…

Zeus headache was getting worse and worse. He screams with agony, that the entire world could hear his cry. All the Olympians came to see the issue of their leader. The god Hephaistos, comes in with his an axe and hits Zeus in the head, splitting his skull open. Out sprung the mighty Athena in full armor. Greek myths were created to explain the world around them. Most of the myths are about the greek gods and goddesses. In these stories, not only are the gods in power but so were the…

Book nine of the Iliad reveals a crucial resolution of conflict between Agamemnon and Achilleus. However, the resolution has become a failure in spite of the king sending ambassadors who are close to the heart of Achilleus. The Greeks experience serious blows upon several defeats and unsuccessful attempts to subdue the Trojans. It happens as what has been prayed for by Achilleus and his divine mother – Thetis. Zeus has taken side with Achilleus by strengthening the army of the Trojans in order…

Hippolytus is a virgin and embraces a life of chastity. As such, he worships Artemis, the goddess who represents virginity, and reveres her over the other gods and goddesses, especially Aphrodite. His act of hubris is refusing to honour Aphrodite while reviling what she represents- romantic love, marriage and carnal pleasure. For…

Discovering Witches Ancient legends say that there was once a woman who wanted to become a witch, so she went to the river where she waited until midnight. At that time, the devil came out of the water and asked her why she was sitting there. The woman replied that she wanted to be made a witch, so the devil told her the necessary condition. She had to dance with him during each full moon (“Mythology in Romania”). The legend has it that the woman was accepted and became a witch, just by dancing…

period during Ancient Ionia. It is unique for its oracle room, hidden behind a forest of columns at its eastern front. This large temple was dedicated to Apollo. Didyma means, “twin” and it was referred to Apollo and Artemis who were twins. Apollo’s temple was in Didyma while Artemis’ was in Miletus. Many believed that the temple had been there since the second millennium BC. Pausanias said the temple was constructed before Greek colonization. Darius I of Persia destroyed the temple…

King Eurystheus gave Hercules a series of 12 difficult and dangerous tasks known as the Twelve Labors of Hercules. These tasks which were his most famous feats. Hercules first task was to kill the Nemean Lion, a beast that could not be killed by any weapon. Hercules strangled the beast and made a cloak out of its skin. For his second task he had to kill the Lernaean Hydra, a creature with nine heads. One of the beast's heads could not be killed and the others grew back when cut off. Hercules…

specific deer had golden horns, and was cherished by the goddess of hunt, Artemis. Accomplishing this labor was intensely difficult. Before he killed it, he hunted it for an entire year. He finally made the ambitious decision to kill it on the banks of River Ladon in Arcada.”Taking careful aim with his bow, he fired an arrow between the tendons and bones of the two forelegs, pinning it down without drawing blood.” Artemis was bothered, but luckily, Hercules ditched her acrimony by pouring the…

There is a difference between religion and mythology. Religion is a set of practices based on the belief of non-human beings monitoring actions and myths are stories that matter within a specific community or communities. There are two kinds of religion, evolutionary and revealed. The Greeks had an evolutionary religion where the totality of things were feared by a social group and had no specific origin. Myth can be divided into three categories, the first being divine, which explains the…