Helen Prejean

Dionysus My favorite Greek god was Dionysus or Bacchus. He was known as the god of the wine. Dionysus was the son of Zeus and the princess Semele of Thebes. Unfortunately, His mother died because of jealousy of Hera. Zeus snatched Dionysus from Semele and hid him away from Hera. When Dionysus was born, Hermes took him to the nymph of Nysa. They treated Dionysus and taught him to viticulture. Later, he invented the wine and spread it to humans. Therefore, people worshipped him. In the ancient…

mortals, Helen and Clytemnestra, who one day have a great impact on what is now known as southeastern Europe. Though Leda’s rape may be seen as a small incident when compared to occurrences in the world, it results in the Trojan War, Agamemnon’s death and the ultimate formation of the Roman Empire. These events may have happened long after the rape, but they are undeniably connected.…

verbal agreement; Inside of their marriage, deception and backstabbing appear frequently. Opposite of them, Hector and Andromache show true love and care, as their marriage show true love and caring for each other– They truly love each other. Paris and Helen show that how loosely the term love can be used throughout life and how love…

Many of the individuals from greek tales who have encountered moments of overwhelming emotion that caused rash actions have often blamed it on a god. Specifically pertaining to the Helen of Troy and aphrodite. Some say it was Paris’s own jealousy of the king of sparta that warranted him to steal away his wife Helen. Prompting the question, could it be that mortals created the pantheon to be scapegoats for their uncontrollable attributes. By specifically giving the promiscuous and jealous nature…

influential woman, Helen of Troy. These two authors will go on to tell you that Helen is a beautiful lady that is admired and loved or if she is a danger to all and causes disorder all around. To begin, the speaker in Poe and H.D.’s pieces both severely vary, you can certainly tell this by just the titles. Edgar Allen Poe’s poem is entitled as “to Helen,” Poe poses as if he was directly talking to her. Unlike Poe, Doolittle’s title is simply “Helen,” indicating that she is talking about Helen,…

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.…