Helen Herron Taft

Characters of Mythology A. Paris / insolent B. “The ties between guest and host were strong. Each was bound to help and never harm the other… shamed the hand that gave him food, stealing away a woman.” (Hamilton 257) C. Although he was entitled to Helen by Aphrodite, she had already been wedded to another man. The god of beauty had no other choice but to grant Paris his wish. The way that he had taken the wife of Menelaus, however, was cowardly and dishonored the sacred ties between host and…

with his best friend Helen when they were younger. He took off his helmet and lay it in the ground and continue thinking about the promise that he made to her on the night before he left to become a soldier. He was 16 years old when he made that oath that he will come back once he become a famous soldier just like Achilles. Now at the age of 24, that dream is still far from reality. Not far away, he heard people running and screaming away from the town. He…

The constellation Andromeda is a famous constellation of the 88 modern contstellations. It was first discovered by a 2nd century BC Greco-Roman named Ptolemy. It is named after the Greek Princess Andromeda and is seen mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. The Greek myth of the creation of the Andromeda constellation begins with her Mother Queen Cassiopeia of Ethiopia and her Father, Cepheus, an Aethiopian king declaring to allthe land that their daughter was the most beautful creature on the…

Aeschylus’s Agamemnon is a very powerful piece of literature. It has several commanding themes, such as Justice and Judgment, Fate and Free Will, and several ties to gender equality. Gender equality is repeated brought into our eyes through the use of the character Clytemnestra. At many points in Agamemnon, we hear characters utter stereotyped and irrational views on women. The women in this story are known to be cheaters, murderers, and liars. We first learn about Clytemnestra when the Watchman…

the plot point establishes that physical beauty was kept to some esteem. Further, Helen, for how important a character she is in developing the plot of The Trojan War (after all, there would be no war without Helen) she is barely developed as a character beyond being "the fairest of her sex"(48). Helen is a trophy, an object of desire, a motivational tool for an army of men. Like a pin-up from 1940s America, Helen epitomizes feminine desirability. How does she do that? She 's beautiful.…

What kind of man is he? Why is Helen unhappy by his actions? How do her actions lead to the results of The Illiad. Paris’ role in the Trojan conflict was that he started it by taking Helen. He took Helen from Menelaos when him and Hektor were told by Priam to go make peace with the Greeks. While Hektor was talking and making peace with the Greeks, Paris snuck off and took Helen. He took Helen because when Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite were fight over who was the…

drugging everyone, Helen has the power to mess with their memory, making them believe a story about Odysseus and the Trojan War that is questionable. She is also the only one capable of understanding the omen of the eagle who ripping apart the goose. Menelaus, the King of Sparta, cannot translate the omen: “The warlord fell to thinking— / how to read the omen rightly, how to reply?” (Pg. 324 ll. 188-189). This talent is a characteristic that could support the theory that Helen is Zeus’s daughter…

In the transition from oral poetry to Herodotus’ written Histories, Herodotus kept many of the story telling narrative forms, most notably the habit of telling a story within the larger work, which is a device he uses more than Homer did. Herodotus presents his Histories as a series of tales explaining the circumstances leading to the Persian War. In the opening statement of his Histories, Herodotus states that the reason he had conducted and composed this research was “in the hope of thereby…

Athena’s’ actions that she takes against the Trojans perhaps play the biggest role in their defeat. Many times throughout the Iliad the Trojans call out for help from Zeus only for their prayers to fall on deaf ears because of his wife’s hatred of them. Perhaps Hector would have avoided death by the hand of Achilles if Athena had not disguised herself as his ally. Without Hector fighting on the side of the Trojans they had no chance against the forces of Agamemnon and his great army. Athena’s…

Trojan War. The reason the Achaeans and Greeks were battling it out like schoolboys was over a girl, Helen of troy, formerly the bride of Menelaus, who had run away with the prince of troy, Paris, who was granted the love of the most beautiful woman at the time by Aphrodite, the goddess of love, on the condition the he declared her the paramount goddess. He did, and thus he was awarded the love of Helen. Menelaus declares war on the state of Troy because his wife left for another man, thus we…