Heracles

Hercules is known courageous acts and his god-like strength. Hercules was the son of an affair, between the Greek god Zeus and a human named Alcmene. Hera, Zeus wife was furious about the affair and hated Hercules because of it. Shortly after Hercules was born, she sent two serpents to his crib, as an act to kill him, but even as a baby he was able to strangle both of the snakes. Hera in her attempts to hurt Hercules, drove him mad, causing him to kill both his wife, Theben Princess Megara, and…

All of the three books that Ms. Emperors class read were about epic heroes. One story in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology was about Hercules, who was an epic hero who lived in ancient Greece. Beowulf by M.A. Roberts was about a man who was very arrogant and fought many scary creatures. In Dante Alighieri Dante’s Inferno, the main character was actually the author traveling through hell. An epic hero is someone who has a flaw, resurrection, and a restitution and influences the story and society. Every…

Throughout the play Philoctetes is unyielding in his principles who does not progress throughout the play. For years Philoctetes has been segregated and isolated from the rest of society. Since he was left on the island of Lemnos his anger built up for the person responsible of leaving him there to suffer: Odysseus. The story begins with Odysseus speaking to Neoptolemus about what he must say and act when they arrive to the Island which Philoctetes was stranded on. Believing that it is best to…

Brittany Cirnigliaro Professor Allen Comp 1 26 November 2017 Medusa: Beauty Turned to Savage Monster Many tales have been told for centuries about the dreaded and frightening creature that went by the name of Medusa of Gorgon. Over the years this Gorgon creature took the form of a classical Greek mythological woman with serpents for hair who possessed the ability to turn her enemies to stone from a simple glare. Although true, there is much more to this tale including exactly what drove Medusa…

The Iliad is a Greek story of courage and heroism in the most certain dangers of war. Men on both sides fight for honor for their countries and their families. However, even the greatest heroes are still human, and still have flaws that make them human. What makes us human isn’t necessary the physical strength that we may or may not possess, but rather the strength that lies within us. Emotions are both seen as good, or may also seen as detriment to our successes. In Book XXII, Hector stands…

The Oxford Dictionary defines a hero as a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. The example of a hero that they provided was a war hero. I don’t disagree that the people who go off to war are brave and, for the most part honorable, but I do believe that by those standards, very few people today will ever truly earn the title of “hero.” For example, two of the most notable Greek heroes are Odysseus, a famous war hero, and Antigone, a princess who…

A hero can be really anyone. It could be the King of Ithaca, Odysseus from The Odyssey or it could be an autistic boy, from Swindon, Christopher Boone, out of the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Their journeys seem very different and are different in some ways, but they both contain common threads that make them also very similar. Most of the hero’s stories have a common pattern which is also known as “The Monomyth.” An archetype was created that states that a hero’s…

The greatest hero of Greece,was Hercules. The Greeks are much different from the people of 2016, and they valued courage and strength the most, while forgiving him because of their respect for his good deeds. The Greeks valued courage because in their time a common way of living was “survival of the fittest”. When Hercules proved he was courageous and strong to the people by fighting off monsters, he was immediately respected. “Throughout his life Hercules had this perfect confidence that no…

Love, Bravery these are all things that are in this text. In the story Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling the theme is love can make people brave. Throughout the story they show love and bravery. Can you all relate to this because I can. Rikki Tikki is a brave little mongoose in the story. In the text it states, “Then he jumped. His head was lying a little clear of the water jar under the curve of it his teeth just met.” (para.58) This shows the character trait bravery because he…

One of the most well known constellation is "Cancer" also known more commonly as "the crab". I have chosen this stunning pattern of stars because I myself am i cancer as my horoscope and find it quite beautiful even though it is one of the dimmest constellations which can't be seen with the naked eye. But if you were to look for this lovely constellation you would be searching for an upside down Y right next to the constellations of Leo and Gemini. If you want to see this constellation the best…