Gaia

Before the poem opens, there is an account of how the city of Thebes was founded. It is called “The Theban Legend”. As with all legends, the first occurrence is explained in order to provide an explanation for all subsequent events. This is the role that is served by all mythologies and legends. Seeing as this precedes the poem, it is a telling precursor that provides an explanation as to why the events unfold in the way that they do. The legend begins with the guidance of an oracle – the one…

without knowing they were gods. Orion grew into a great hunter. He fell in love with Artemis, the moon goddess. Enamored with each other, Artemis started lacking in her duties. This angered her brother Apollo, he told Gaia that Orion and Artemis were sacrificing too many animals. Angered Gaia sent Scorpius the scorpion to attack. Orion fought Scorpius and in the end they both perished. Zeus placed Orion in the winter sky, where he watches from above (Western Washington University). This story…

To begin, both Hesiod and Homer establish a cosmology and cosmogony centered around the idea that the Gods both created and currently control the kosmos. In Hesiod’s, Theogony, he addresses the origins of the world and asserts that it began when to Gaia and Ouranos gave birth to the Titans. Through the rise of Kronos, Zeus, and countless other Greek Gods, the world was shaped into how it came to be. Homer further develops an opinion on the Gods in his work, The Illiad. He claims that the Gods…

with the word ‘productive’ as it pertains to her being a major symbol of fertility and her birth story helps strengthen that, due to how she emerged from the seafoam, a resultant of the bodily fluids from the sexual intercourse between Ouranos and Gaia. Medusa, as previously mentioned, was able to create life, the red coral formed from the combination of seaweed and blood coming to mind, and so there are some similarities shared between these two myths. And so, the disconnect between these…

“Poseidon is the god of the sea and rivers, creator of storms and floods, and the bringer of earthquakes and destruction”(theoi). Poseidon was given the sea to rule by his siblings. He is known as either Poseidon or Neptune and is the god of the sea. “Poseidon is commonly depicted in art as bearded with his trident, fashioned by the cyclopes and with which he would create earthquakes” (cartwright). Poseidon is a god with a lot of children and a violent family background, a lot of conflicts, and…

The novel begins by introducing the main character, Eunice Williams. She a is a young girl living in a puritan, English town, in Massachusetts. Based in the early 1700’s, there is a war between the English and the French, in which the Native Americans from the north are aiding the French. Eunice has three brothers, two older and one younger, and two older sisters. Her father is the reverend of the town, and her mother stays at home. The town fears that the Native Americans will come and raid the…

The Greco-Roman pantheon and the Norse pantheon are extremely similar to one another with similar roles. From Thor to Jupiter to Odin to Hephaestus, the gods in the pantheons. The “trickster” archetype is common throughout both even though it has a more obvious presence in the Norse Pantheon. The honorable warrior and thunder lord archetypes are almost explicitly the same since honorable warriors were at the height of both societies. The main goddesses in both are also extremely similar in their…

Berea was located in Southwestern Macedonia. The established date of the city is unknown, but Berea has been surrendered to the Romans after the Battle of Pydna (168 B.C.). Moreover, it is the first Macedonian city that surrendered to the Roman Empire. During the reign of Diocletian (284-305 A.D.), Berea became one of the two capitals of Roman Empire. At the entrance of Berea, there was sign that quoted Acts 17:11 and says, “The Word of God is a power, neither Hell nor sin gainsay; fruit and…

Have you ever wondered why a storm rolls in, or why any natural phenomena related to the sky occurs? Have you ever wondered about how it would be like when everyone believed the Gods were in charge of everything that happened, such as; if there was a storm, it was their fault, or if there was thunder and lightning, it was their fault? Back in the era of mythology, these were a couple of their beliefs. One God that was really important was Zeus, the God of the sky. Whenever there was a…

The antidote for climate change Everyone knows that there are four seasons in a year, but have we ever imagined that there will be only three of them left in the future, and our future generations may not be able to experience the bone-chilling weather in winter? Winter will be gone in the future on account of the impacts of climate change. Climate change is a disastrous problem for mankind as Naomi Klein stresses in her book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate Change, which is…