Cerberus

According to Greek lore, Hercules was a prideful drunk with a heavy temper. However, he is nonetheless considered ancient Greece’s greatest hero. His great feats of strength and epic victories in battle were what earned him this title, but why give such a moniker to a hero whose personal life told a story of alcoholism and senseless violence? In Mythology, Edith Hamilton unwinds this mystery. The answer lies in the society of the time. While the Greeks were in certain areas (specifically Athens)…

clean the Augean Stables, kill the Stymphalian Birds, capture the Cretan Bull, capture the Horses of Diomedes, take the Girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyte, capture the Cattle of Geryon, take the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, and finally, capture Cerberus. Each of these twelve labors were supposedly nearly impossible to…

Hercules was appointed to perform was to kill a multi-headed, poisonous Hydra, a snake-like creature that grew two heads back if one was severed (“Fast Facts on: Hercules”). Hercules also had to capture the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, Cerberus (“Fast Facts on:…

Hercules, Athena, Dionysus, Hades; everyone from Ancient Greek into todays society has heard of these respectable names. These famous symbols being the Goddess or God of their respectful emotion or achievement (and others). But there is one Goddess who was not as notable as the others were. This Goddess had many great achievements just as any Greek God has, was respected for their kind nature, and helped any person who was drastically in need but had fallen from the top to rock bottom due to a…

2) How does Dante use material from classical mythology and classical literature? Charon, the Furies, and Virgil’s discourse on Fortune egregious examples of Dante’s cultural syncretism. Dante uses the various fantastic and hellish beasts that populate Roman, Greek, Latin, and other classical mythologies to illustrate the guardians of the afterlife that he is attempting to portray to the audience. Charon, the navigator of the River Styx, is called back to do an encore of the job he had done…

Dante’s Inferno has many allegorical connections. With this phenomenon connections it made the text mean something much more tthan just a mans’ journing through hell. For full understaning of what Dnate meant in the Inferno you must have knowledge of the reacurring. The conections he makes to his chritain religion helps to bring light to most of the alligory in the Inferno. This includes symbolism of the journey of a lifetime, Gods’ justice, and the mystery of evil and hell. Dante’s Inferno is…

Based on polytheistic religion, the ancient greeks believed in 13 gods. Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus, Ares, Athena, Hermes, and Hephaestus. I’m going to describe the gods/goddesses, their powers, symbols, one myth about them, and their relationship with other greek gods/goddesses. Let’s hop into it. First and foremost, i’m going to talk about Zeus. Zeus is the king of the gods or ruler of mount olympus and the most powerful of the gods. His power is…

out” (Hammurabi 200). This is reasonable punishment for a minor crime, however the Second Circle of Hell and every circle following grow much greater. “Here they lie through all eternity, themselves like garbage, half-buried in fetid slush, while Cerberus slavers over them as they in life slavered over their food.” (Ciardi 44). Again, punishment is issued in a karmic manner to the gluttons of the Third Circle of Hell. The fourth circle punishes the hoarders and wasters by subjecting them to…

that the body was to be denied, despised, and mortified. The miserable after-death destiny awaiting those who overindulged was reflected in art. In Inferno, Dante made them shiver in the snow, kept away from shelter by the terrible three-headed dog Cerberus.” (Cryer). Christians know that gluttony is a sin, and with the help of Inferno, they make sure they do not commit…

We learned, changed, and took many things from Ancient Greece. We took their art and architecture and changed Greek government so we could put it into our lives. Ancient Greece is different from us, but similar in some ways because the first Christians were Greek and early scripture was written in Greek, not that all of them believed in Christ, but they made inventions we use today, and they were smart to choose their leaders. Geek ancient food there was much different from us today. We now…