Mount St. Helens

The Odyssey “I see destruction for ship and crew. Thought you survive alone(780/645-646).” This is one of the main plots in the Odyssey, by Homer. The Odyssey is about an epic hero named Odysseus, king of Ithaca, tries to get back home after the Trojan war, but it takes twenty years to get back to his palace because of Poseidon, the sea god. Poseidon is mad at Odysseus for not giving thanks for shutting up a suitor. In the story, Odysseus uses his cunningness, smartness, Intelligence…

In Greek Mythology, Pandora was a beautiful woman made by the gods themselves sent down to earth as a punishment for Promethean's theft of fire. Pandora was a cunning, beautiful women, who was as clever as a fox, she was an inspiration for many other characters and left a big mark of Greek culture and even in modern day, Pandora shows up in society and our culture. Pandora was created by Zeus and the other gods to be sent down to earth and marry Prometheus's brother as punishment for…

In Hesiod’s words, Pandora is presented as a wonderful beauty that brings catastrophe to humans and the reason why women are to blame for disasters. Another legendary Greek myth, the Trojan War, was a long, bitter battle fighting for the beautiful Helen, which eventually destroyed the city of Troy according to Homer’s Iliad (translated by Fagles and Knox 633). On the other side of the Eurasian continent, there was the king of the Western Zhou Dynasty of ancient China who fired the warning beacon…

thunder, / I cannot let us battle the Father any longer,/ not for mortal men…’” (8. 490-492) Although Hera wishes to aid the Achaeans in their time of need, she believes that maintaining a positive family dynamic is more important and she returns to Mount Olympus with Athena. These instances of Hector and Hera’s loyalty to their respective families hold true to the ancient Greeks value of loyalty, as shown by The…

name of the war that lasted those long dreaded years was called, the “Trojan War”. “The Trojan War”, was an epic war that lasted ten years between two great nations, the Greeks and the Trojans. The war was started when Paris the son of Troy stolen Helen of Sparta away from her husband, Menelaus, the king of Sparta. After she was taken, Agamemnon took this as an opportunity to take his massive army and to conquer Troy and its’ Allies territory. Soon after, amassing his army, Agamemnon set sail…

prayed to Hera for her protection of their children and family. People would also look to Hera for a good, long and happy marriage. Before she married Zeus, Hera was still known as the queen of the gods. As the queen of the gods her job is to rule over Mount Olympus. Hera’s Roman equivalent is Juno. Both are recognized as the goddess of childbirth, marriage and women, they are also married to their sibling who is the god of all gods. Though Hera spends most of her time cursing Zeus’s…

In every hero's journey, their ordinary selves become extraordinary after they face hardship. In the epic poem, The Odyssey, Homer describes an ordinary man and his crew who goes through a 10-year long journey to reach home while facing many obstacles on the way. One day, a man that goes by the name Odysseus was called upon to go to war called the Trojan War, which lasted 10 brutal years. He then had a plan to build a trojan horse and filled with solders to attack the other side in the night…

The women in the Odyssey play a pivotal role in Odysseus’s journey back home from Troy after the war. His journey was made complicated right from the start when Ajax, a Greek warrior raped King Priam’s daughter Cassandra which enraged the goddess Athena, and she was mainly responsible for Odysseus’s late homecoming. Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus comes across women during his journey who appear in the form of temptresses or seek to destroy him. Athena plays a lead controlling role in the…

In ancient Greek society, the roles of women play a key role. Women were supposed to be loyal and respected, but the men were not held to the same standards. The men could have as many concubines and mistresses as they wanted, but the women had to remain loyal to their husbands. There has been a long history of women being disloyal while their husbands have been at war. The different types of women presented to the readers throughout the poem all add to the different aspects of societal women in…

anecdotes, starting with Proteus. Herodotus introduces Proteus as a reasonably fair king, writing that when Proteus found out that Paris had seduced Helen and then ran off with her and some of Menelaus’ valuables, he sent for Paris to be arrested and took possession of Helen and the other stolen items before forcing Paris to leave Egypt. Despite Helen being in Egypt awaiting her retrieval, the Greeks still destroyed Troy during their search for her. Herodotus states that “[the Trojan’s] utter…