Crete

A child’s imagination is a beautiful thing; the possibilities of what they can be when they grow up are limitless. If you were to ask my five-year-old self, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” the answer would’ve undoubtedly been a veterinarian. My passion for animals was sparked at a young age, and I was fortunate enough to have grown up surrounded by them. I spent days at my grandparents’ farm helping grandpa do chores and sneaking the horses extra sugar cubes at every opportunity, then…

Much like Katniss Everdeen of Suzanne Collins’s acclaimed novel, The Hunger Games, Theseus, a well known Greek hero, offered to be one of the tributes of a situation that could potentially end his life. In his case, Theseus voyaged on a quest to the Labyrinth to slay the Minotaur and free the other tributes. All four heroes in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology show traits and features that display their unworthiness to named a hero. Nevertheless, these heroes also exhibit extremely admirable qualities.…

The Importance of Suffering The Aeneid by Virgil is an epic story about a man's struggles and adventures to found Rome. Aeneas, son of Anchises and Venus, is the protagonist throughout The Aeneid. Throughout this epic there is many books that tell the story about how Aeneas finds and founds his new homeland after Troy, his original homeland, is destroyed. Throughout his adventure he ends up in Carthage. Little does he know there would be an impactful woman by the name of Dido. Dido, the…

Artists for Young Adults 3). Like her father she only gives the audience what she thinks they can handle. In her Hunger Games series, she is inspired by the stories of Theseus and Spartacus. “Even as a kid, I could appreciate how ruthless this was…Crete was sending a very clear message: 'Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.' And the thing is, it was allowed; the parents sat by powerless to stop it” (Authors and Artists for Young Adults 11). Collins…

The House of the Vettii offers the world a view into an intriguing period of life in ancient Pompeii. By analyzing themes such as punishment and divine dominion over mortals, within six Greek mythology based panel paintings in the House of the Vettii’s better insights into relations between the sexes is gained. Even in the male dominated society of the first century BC punishment is more about power than gender because it was imposed by both male and female. Pompeii is a small to medium-sized…

Trojan War. More specifically, it is about Achilles’ conflict with Agamemnon. The Greeks claimed to be heralded from Mycenaeans; this is definitely true. Mycenaeans were the earliest Greek-speaking peoples in the region, as opposed to the Minoans of Crete, and the civilizations from the Cyclades speaking their own languages. Homer was born into the Dark Age of Greece, a few hundred years after the bronze age Mycenaeans. Dark Age Greeks stumbled upon the ruins of Mycenaean cities and palaces, and…

disagree as which color the Priest-King is, and so Shaw created explanations for both scenarios. If the body was red, it would be likely that lilies were white, which would actually be a more accurate representation of the flowers that were found on Crete. If the body were white, that could signify an exceptional male figure. This has been seen before in Minoan art. Shaw also questions the use of the crown which is normally only seen on sphinxes or priestesses. Due to the Tell ab-Dab’a painting…

I became a Christian in 2008 while serving in the United States Navy stationed overseas in Greece. I always wanted to teach kids in some way either elementary or middle school, but never knew what topics I wanted to teach. While in Greece I met a really wonderful family with six children and started to help the parents out anywhere I could. Within the year there I helped out teaching the Sunday school lessons for the children there. I had a very fun and amazing time helping those kids out and…

with Aloysia Weber (1761-1839). In fear that his son would abandon his musical career for live, Leopold promptly demanded his wife and son to return to Paris. Due to the success of Mozart’s Italian opera seria Idomeneo re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete) and his exploitation by the courts, in 1781 Mozart soon returned to Vienna to live in a house rented for him by friends. That same year he married Constanze Weber (1763-1842). During his marriage to Weber, poverty and illness continually…

“That is was fated for him, powerful though he was, / To be overthrown by his child, through the scheming of Zeus” (Hes. Theogony. ll. 468 – 469). Before their last child Zeus was born, Rhea managed to save him by “hiding him away on the island of Crete, and fed Cronos a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes” (Theoi 1). Cronos thought that this stone was the last of his children to be born, however later realized he was fooled. When Zeus grew up, he exerted his power and commanded Cronos to vomit…