Deianira

Both Odysseus and Telemachus play extremely pivotal and important roles in Homer’s The Odyssey. The phrase “like father like son” can easily describe the similarities between Odysseus and Telemachus’s characters. However, no human beings are exactly alike as both characters also share a great number of differences. So although Odysseus and Telemachus are both similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, they differ in craftiness and arrogance which reflect Ancient Greek values. Both Odysseus and Telemachus are similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, which reflects the Greek values of Arete. Odysseus is already known as a Greek hero throughout the book, due to his heroics in the Trojan war, but his heroic abilities are still displayed in The Odyssey. This is especially true during book 10, when Odysseus is forced to go head to head with the Kyklops in order for him and his men to escape. Odysseus heroic mind is able to get the Kyklops drunk by saying “try some wine. Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men. Taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried under our planks. I meant it for an offering if you would help us home.” (9.377-381). This scene displays Odysseus’s heroic qualities because it is a great example of Odysseus being able to think through tough situations. Instead of surrendering himself or any of his men Odysseus is able to escape by manipulating the Kyklops.This trait is similar to the Greek value of Arete. This situation…

Flames burning out from the flesh, in agony, roar of agony burst out for the first time from the strongest warrior. The life of Herakles, the son of the God Zeus and Alcmene, the heroic life as a mortal ended. The hero who fought through all the most extreme evil descended at home by the act of her beguiled wife, Deianira. It was not an indefectible monster that led to his death, but just a minute decision in his life. The arrogance of Herakles triggered the whole thing. After marrying his…

have never heard of the myth of Heracles death. In Greek mythology the poetic and graphic representation do not necessarily represent each other, but appreciating a Greek vase with a particular literary work in mind enhance experience. The vase paint doesn’t always tell you the whole story, but it helps picture what is actually going on in that one moment that is painted on the vase This myth is about the events that lead to the death of Heracles. He first heard the name of the women that would…

Throughout his life Hercules had many great adventures, one involving a centaur was fatal for his health. He was crossing a river with his new wife Deianira when a centaur tried capturing her. Hercules killed the beast, but not before the centaur gave Deianira some of his blood that he claimed was a love potion. Later in their lives, Hercules was on an adventure and a rumor went around that Hercules loved someone else. Deianira tried to use the love potion to renew Hercules’ devotion to her, but…

You thought you knew all about Hercules From the Disney story books? The legend of Hercules is different from the story books. Zeus, Hercules father, did not have Hercules by his own wife. He actually impregnated Alcmene, the wife of Amphitryon ("The Life and Times of Hercules"). When Zeus' wife Hera found out about this, she was very angry. She vowed to take revenge on the child. So Hera tries to kill the child by sending snakes into his crib. But being a god, Hercules survived by strangling…

He married a second time to Deianira. She got cream from a Centaur that was supposed to make whoever uses it falls in love with them forever. The cream was actually poison, but Deianira didn't know this. She put it on a cloak and gave it to Hercules. When he put it on he was in terrible pain. The pain just got worse when he tried to take the cloak off. Hercules chose death over this terrible pain. He was burning alive when Zeus said that he had endured enough pain. Hera got Hercules and…

flourishing feature until the very last line. Both Conacher and Winnington-Ingram wrote scholarly interpretations of the play. Winnington-Ingram first addresses Zeus’ carelessness for his children and credits him with the destruction of his own son. He, as well, mentions Lichas’s stories of Heracles’ destruction of Oechalia. He touches on the fact that the first story attributes much more of the blame to Zeus, while the second hands more blame to lust. He also mentions that: One thing is clear:…

different myths into one character. The Three Fates, or Moerae, did in fact cut the threads of life but Disney combined them with the sisters of the Gorgons, or the Graeae. These sisters shared an eye and a tooth and were extremely old and had the gifts of prophesy of past, present and future(Greek Mythology Link). The last character I would like to compare is the Centaur, Nessus. In the movie, he tries to rape Megara until Hercules heroically comes to the rescue and defeats him by running him…

prosperity, or misguidance. The nature of Zeus is often conveyed through a judiciary sense. In the Greek Tragedies Women of Trachis, Medea, & Hippolytus, Zeus partakes in the imposition of justice that is presented and is observed to be the determiner of fate for some of the characters in the plays. In the Women of Trachis, Zeus is more than just a deity to the characters. Rather, he is the parent to the heroic Heracles and is therefore closely tied to the story by blood. In the play, it is…

Some heroes, such as Perseus, “live happily ever after” (Hamilton 206-207), like he did with Andromeda, but for others, love is the most difficult trial of all. Atalanta’s romance is tragic for her, as “She declare[s] that she would marry whoever could beat her in a foot race, knowing well that there was no such man alive” (Hamilton 249), at least without trickery. A clever man named Melanion challenges her to a race, but drops three irresistible golden apples along the course so she would be…