Greek mythology

Achilles is a very interesting hero, he has a lot of pride and ignorance, but all that adds up and enables Achilles to be the most lethal warrior in all of ancient Greek, especially against the romans. Achilles is said to be one of the greatest warriors not only in the Greek mythology but in generally history, and no one hero can get that praise without having their own special trait. The distinctive trait that separates Achilles from any hero including Beowulf is his pride. Pride is everything…

Draco is a constellation that is seen in the Northern Skies. He was first documented by a Greek astronomer by the name of Ptolemy in the second century. In Latin Draco means Dragon and the constellation is a presentation of the dragon Ladon that is the guardian of a garden with the help of the Hesperides in Greek Mythology (http://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/draco-constellation/). The constellation is also said to flip as the year goes on. During the summer seasons it will…

Women have had a long history of being inferior to men. The inequality of genders can be traced all the way back to Greek mythology. Both Hesiod’s Theogony and Homer’s Odyssey demonstrate the Greek’s early thoughts on this issue. Homer and Hesiod would agree that women are deplorable creatures and marriage usually leads to suffering. Hesiod spares no detail of his despise while describing the creation of women in Theogony. He claims that the sole reason for the female was to punish men. They…

her Greek and Roman equivalents. The concepts of interpretatio Graeca and the deity Mater Matuta are exclusively analysed along the lines of space, time, function, iconography and ritual. Through source criticism of literacy and archeological evidence, this article investigates the extent to which the phenomenon of intercultural translation applies in relation to interpretatio Graeca. Methodology: 239 words This article focuses on a comparative study of Mater Matuta, and her Roman and Greek…

What are the Gods and Godesses role in these epics? There are so many gods in Greek mythology that it can become very confusing, but each one have there own special attributes that make them unique and each one have a different role specifically in the epic. The Greek society in the Iliad placed a lot of emphasis on the gods to the extent that the success of the warriors and kings during the wars depended more on the role played by the gods and goddesses. It's because of these superhuman…

Greek Civilization: Greek achievement in history, art, literature and philosophy has always been impecabble and have contributed largely in setting up the norms for the entire World. In Greek histories, poetry, ceramics, teracotta and literary works, a lot of homosexual accounts have been found to exist. According to Classical Philosophers (480 BCE), the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is an classic example of same-sex love in Greek Mythology ( Crompton, 2003, p 2). In Homer’s epic…

Chronos, the god of time, was the father of the most famous Greek god Zeus. Chronos is one of the most powerful gods in Greek mythology. Chronos was a titan and he was one of the original gods( Atsma). Chronos was a very interesting god who I think people don't really even know about. Chronos also had a lot of cool powers that I think people should know about. I will tell you a lot about the character I think is now my favorite Greek god. Chronos is a very cool god who should really have a movie…

Ancient Greeks believed in many gods, who lived at the top of Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. They believed that their gods, who were immortal, had the power to control everything, and that means their lives too. In general, the relations between people and gods were friendly most of the times, but the gods delivered some punishment to people who showed offensive behavior. All the Greek myths defined these gods’ lives and actions, and most of the stories are about how they interacted…

the foundation of every religion. Greek mythology teachings say that man was created out of dirt and life was breathed into man, Taoism asserts that two natural forces create man, and the Maori myth believes that the G-d of the trees created humans. These myths teach us a lot about their religions, and their outlooks on life. Although these myths may seem to be completely unrelated to each other, they happen to have many similarities. The Greek Mythology myth of the creation of man has…

money is stolen by a one-eyed man played by John Goodman, a reference to the Cyclops whichOdysseus meets. Once the third member is recovered and the three friends are again together andon their way home, they disguise themselves as the Soggy Bottom Boys, a folk group whose hitsong “Man of Constant Sorrow”. These are two more references to the original story in that Odysseus himself returns to Ithaca disguised as a beggar, much like the folk of the dust bowl era,and his name, Odysseus, has been…