The Poseidon Adventure

Odysseus as a leader is genius because of his idea for troy. The idea of giving them a horse for a peace treaty but then end up attacking troy from the inside out is remarkable. Odysseus as a leader is amazing he has the power to think of ideas no other men can do. His leadership is great he actually convinced an entire army of troops to get in a giant horse and swaddle right into troy. He also is a bad leader. The reason behind this because in the book when Odysseus and his men are the cave…

Dionysus was the god of fertility and wine. Wine has played a very important role in the ancient Greek times. He created wine and spread the art of viticulture. Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, and he was the only god with a mortal parent. Dionysus and his followers could not be bound by fetters. Dionysus was a god known for his light heart and always offered his help to anyone in need. The symbols of Dionysus were the Thyrsos, the flute, and the wine barrels. He is a very important god…

Juana was walking down the warm, sandy beach of La Paz on a beautiful Saturday evening. She looked at the ocean as the sun began the set and saw a strange man on a small fishing boat. Puzzled Juana called out to the strange man, “ Sir, it is getting late! The ocean tends to be rough at night!” The strange man looked at her and said, “ I am a professional everything will be fine!” Juana knew how the seas were at night and wanted to warn the man of the danger he is getting himself into. Juana saw…

defender of cities, goddess of work, crafts, healing and health, cunning and plans, refuge and hospitality, eyesight, and maidenhood. Her power was specifically in defense of Athens. Athena's Family Athena’s father is Zeus and her mother is Metis. Poseidon and Hades were her uncles and her aunts are Demeter, Hestia, and Hera. Metis is Athena's mom but Zeus married Hera so Hera is her stepmother and her aunt. Artemis is Athena's half sister and her half brother is Hermes. The goddess athena…

The journey that Odysseus goes on improves his character by all of his experiences that shaped him into the person he is now. Book 9, the cyclops changed him because of the aptitude that he had to use to escape safely. Book 5, the nymph and the shipwreck taught him to be more careful about his surroundings. Book 11 the underworld made him judicious and unpretentious because of the talk he had with the dead. These journeys and experiences that he went through helped him shape into a person who is…

In 365 days, you learn 365 lessons. Everyday you learn a lesson, and lot’s of those lessons can be found in Greek Mythology. In Greek Mythology some important lessons are, being too prideful is dangerous, listen when you are given advice and lying is bad. The moral taught or lesson learned in the myth “Arachne” by Olivia Coolidge was that being too prideful is dangerous because it could get you into trouble. For example “-she became angry instead of frightened and an evil thought came into her…

health, and their after life. The Greeks didn't worship just one God, they worshipped the good god's and respected the bad gods. II. The god of all gods (so to speak) was Cronus. Cronus was overthrown by his son Zeus with help from his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Once dad was out of the picture, the brothers literally drew straws to see who would take over their dad's job. Zeus won and became the ruler of all the gods and goddesses. Not an easy job, by any means, he had eleven other gods he…

A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but the strength of his heart. Hercules, a son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Hades and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Now he is a teenager and needs to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus. With his sidekick, Philoctetes along for the ride, Hercules must learn how to use his strength to defeat a series of evil creatures. There are 3 phases in this…

Cruelty: In literary works such as; novels, plays, and epic poems; it is a crucial motivation or a major social or political factor. Today you will learn how cruelty functions in The Odyssey as a whole and what cruelty reveals about the perpetrator(s) and the victim. There are many times when in Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ when Odysseus is shown no mercy, only cruelty, but the tables turn when Telemachus and Odysseus return to Ithaca and give the suitors a taste of what their family had felt for…

In the epic, The Odyssey, by Homer, Odysseus develops from being fearful of the Cyclopes to hardly being afraid of them at all as he spends time trying to survive when they are trapped by Polyphemus the Cyclops who is eating his men. First, at the beginning when the Cyclops had devoured two men from Odysseus’ crew, the crew then “Cried aloud, lifting… [their] hands to Zeus, powerless, looking on at this, appalled” (9). It is clear that Odysseus is terrified of the Cyclops. He is unable to do…