Oracle

Frank Miller’s 300 is both a graphic novel and a film adaptation by Zach Snyder. Both serve as a story telling of the famed battle of the pass at Thermopylae previously told by Herodotus. It tells of the Spartan King Leonidas bravely leading 300 Spartan warriors against the very large Persian army. Frank Miller details the story of the strong but grossly outnumbered Spartans, the story’s obvious underdog. The Persian army according to history was in the recent business of acquiring land by force…

Thebes beg King Oedipus to save them from the plague. Oedipus has previously dealt with the monstrous Sphinx, so they thought he could somehow end this plague. Oedipus sent his brother in-law Creon to the Oracle of Delphi to get help from Apollo. Later Creon comes back and reports that the oracle said,“ Find for me the king’s murderer.” Oedipus seeks info about who killed Laius, so Oedipus welcomes prophet Tiresias to the palace. Tiresias tells Oedipus that he is the wound, the cause of the…

Oedipus Rex, Sophocles wanted to portray this tragedy of where Oedipus would grow older and kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus actual parents (Laius and Jocasta) heard the oracle, they sent Oedipus to another place so that way the oracle wouldn’t come true, but it was Oedipus fate to fulfill that oracle. No matter what choices would have been made, the prophecy eventually would have came true. Oedipus exemplifies the theme of fate v. free will because Oedipus…

things, so understanding the preceding events is critical in understanding who is responsible for the tragedy. Before the play begins, King Laius of Thebes and his wife Jocasta abandon their son Oedipus and leave him for dead after an oracle tells them their son is fated to kill his…

interesting when compared to other movies that give the same feeling this one goes about it in a completely unique way. Something else that intrigued about this film was the scene with the Oracle (1:13:07). The Oracle tells Neo not to worry about the vase and then after he breaks it and asks her how she knew, The Oracle says “Oh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?” I found this…

strive to foil the prophecy that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother. However, their individual actions are futile because fate is unstoppable. When Oedipus learns of his fate from the Oracle, he “heard and fled... [to] where…

destroyed. After this Sacred War, the Pythian Games developed to include athletic competition, quadrennial games. Previously, the Pythian Games had consisted of music competitions, but the site grew to be very prosperous as athletics, arts, and the oracle drew crowds to the slopes of Parnassus. From the 7th century BCE, the local economy thrived as these activities continued to entice crowds to Delphi. Due to the sanctuary's isolation from the large urban centers of Greece, lodging and…

did not want that come true so as soon as each one was born he ate them. Cronus ate his kids before they can grow up and kill his. He drank mustard and wine which made him throw up the kids and they battled their father and the other titans. The oracle told “Percy that he would go West and face the God that turned on him. Explain quote “Percy that he…

Perseus Perseus was a great hero born of Denae and Zeus. The story of Perseus is that one day King Acrisius visited an oracle because he only had a daughter and he wanted a son. The oracle told him hat his daughter, Denae, would have a son, but the catch was that the son would kill King Acrisius. Acrisius grew angry and locked Denae in a tower with no way for anyone to reach her. One day Zeus saw her from Mount Olympus and visited her. He then made Denae pregnant with her baby boy. They…

In Oedipus Rex, the eponymous character attempts to thwart an oracle and in doing so unleashes tragedies far worse than he could have imagined. The suffering that King Oedipus unleashes upon the city of Thebes, Jocasta, and ultimately himself helps establish the play’s tragic vision about the inevitability of fate as well as the negative consequences that arise when one tries to outwit the gods and their oracles. When applied to Oedipus, Northrop Frye’s statement, “tragic heroes are so much the…