Erinyes

until it is absolutely necessary (first in creating the tribunal and then in reserving her vote unless the vote ended in a stalemate) and providing valid reasoning behind her eventual choice, Athena provides an idea of justice better than that of the Erinyes and Apollo. (transition) As a result of these efforts, Athena secured a satisfactory resolution for everybody in the end and helped avoid a tragic ending to the…

Every character in Aeschylus's Oresteia is concerned with the notion of justice. The trilogy repeatedly emphasizes a fundamental concept of justice: revenge. It is a really simple but powerfully emotional basis for justice, associating retribution with family, emotions and honor. The Oresteia explores whether the revenge ethic is adequate as a legitimate basis for justice. It depicts the flaws of the practice of personal vendetta: the cyclical nature of blood crimes and the lack of a clear…

the Oracle of Apollo. Orestes was pursued by Erinyes, chthonic deities of vengeance who drove men crazy because of patricide, matricide, betrayal of parents and family, murder, manslaughter, the breaking of oaths and crimes…

Role of women in ancient Greek mythology Name Institution Introduction Myths serve two key functions: 1) to answer the kind of awkward questions normally asked by children like ‘How was the world made? Who was the first person to live in the world? Where do the souls of the dead go?’ 2) To account for a community’s customs and rituals as well as to provide a justification to the existence of a social system. In ancient Greece, myths featuring monsters, heroes and heroines as well as gods…

The allegories I have chosen are The Furies, or the Erinyes. The Furies are ministers of Hades. They follow his orders, or go off on their own to punish crimes that juries and judges can not. Punishments likely mean torture, physical and mental. There are three Furies, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto. Each one presides over a certain offense. Tisiphone presides over sins caused over hatred and anger. Megaera presides over sins crated with envy, and Alecto deals with crimes from lust and ambition.…

The section I read was How the World and Mankind Were Created by Edith Hamilton. It starts off with a brief explanation like the rest of the book does with sources and inside this section a variety of different stories. Chapter III’s context comes mainly from Hesiod, a greek poet with myths about the beginning of everything. The premise of my selected reading discusses how the world and mankind were created. The first story starts off with saying before the gods there was Chaos and unexplainably…

referred to as Kore. Her Latin name translates to Proserpina which means "destructive slayer". Persephone's parents are Zeus and Demeter. Persephone had two children with Zeus who were named Zagreus and Melinoe and one child with Hades which was Erinyes. Hades, God of the Underworld and brother of Zeus, fell utterly in love with Persephone which resulted in his quest to make her his wife. Hades knew…

Uranus the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father. Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and…

Myths serve to represent a culture's ideologies, and as they are passed down, they evolve to keep up with changing values, because they are only relevant if an audience holds the same values as those that appear in the myth. Therefore, Disney could not make a movie in which the Greek hero Heracles murders his first wife and children-part of the original Greek myth, rather the movie had a 'happily ever after' ending more suitable to an American audience. While the Greeks tended to have a negative…

Beginning of Creation In the beginning of creation there was chaos, Chaos was the chasm that first existed. The Greek word "chaos" (χάος) means emptiness. From the void arose Erebus primordial god of darkness and Nyx primordial goddess of the night. Then Eros primordial god of love appeared. However in some myths Eros is also considered as a son of Aphrodite not Chaos. From love, together Nyx and Erebus gave birth to Aether primordial god of the upper atmosphere, Hemera primordial goddess of…