Thetis

In Homer’s, The Iliad and The Odyssey, death is used to emphasize the importance of people’s actions on earth and the pressure that they face to achieve honor and glory through triumphs while still alive. The underworld and everything that death brings serves to end the heroes quest towards eminence and relegate them to a life of anonymity and solitude, thus forcing them to understand what was genuinely important during life. Death is the antithesis of victory in Homer’s poems, yet so often,…

Greek Mythology has a plethora of stories and poems about heroes, in all types of situations, to teach all sorts of lessons that are still well known today. Most people can recognize the name Hercules or Oedipus if asked and can remember at least the basics of their stories. However if asked, the average person would not be able to tell you what the most basic difference between such characters is, intrinsically. The difference between a tragic hero versus an epic hero is distinct but not a…

king sending ambassadors who are close to the heart of Achilleus. The Greeks experience serious blows upon several defeats and unsuccessful attempts to subdue the Trojans. It happens as what has been prayed for by Achilleus and his divine mother – Thetis. Zeus has taken side with Achilleus by strengthening the army of the Trojans in order for them to defeat the Greeks. This is in recompense to the decisive action of Agamemnon to take Briseis away from Achilleus. Briseis is the mistress of…

Hesiod’s Works and Days and Homer’s Iliad, and the Differences They Portray There are many differences between the relationships of Greeks and their gods portrayed in Hesiod’s Works and Days and Homer’s Iliad. This gives us an unsure representation of how Greeks actually depicted them. To see why there is any division at all, we start at the beginning. Ever since Prometheus stole fire from Olympus, it seems as if mortals and Gods have had a love, hate relationship. The respect that the Greeks…

Greece is one of the oldest and most interesting countries still in the world today. However, most people in the world don’t know anything about it other than they believed in the Greek gods and their E’s look like: Ʃ. I pity these people for not knowing about their history and culture, because it’s actually a pretty interesting story. Greece is a very amazing country with an interesting culture and history. The Greeks were very religious people. “With formal rituals which included animal…

One of the most important characters in the poem is Helen, the wife of Zeus. As I stated in the begging, Athena wanted help from Zeus for Achilles and he refused. We encounter how Zeus didn’t help the Trojans at first because of the opinion of his wife who is Hera. She favored the Greeks so she didn’t want Zeus to get involved. We see how Zeus who is the king of gods, helps out the Trojans and that’s when the power of Hera slightly decreases due to the fact that he did completely different from…

In Homer’s epic poem, “The Iliad”, we read of the tales of Achilleus during the Trojan War. Achilleus shows several of the Sigmund Freud’s theories. One example is in Book I when Achilleus shows the use of the aggressive phase theory by rebelling against his leader, Agamemnon. Later on, the denial theory is occurring with Achilleus when he refuses to believe that Patroklos is dead and also when he refuses to admit that he isn’t the leader of the army. Achilleus’s id comes out when he refuses to…

Superman is a modern day hero, who has super human abilities. He also fits into the heroic cycle in several different story lines. The hero usually has strange circumstances around their birth. When Achilles was a child his mother, a nymph named Thetis, was concerned about her son’s mortality. For this reason, she dipped him in the Styx River to make him immortal. However, she was holding onto the heel of his foot making it the only mortal or vulnerable spot. It was his weakness…

Edith Hamilton’s Mythology gives the story of the Trojan War told as it is in the Iliad, Achilles’ quest to acquire fame and immortality from his heroics in the great Trojan War, but in the end he succumbs to his arrogance and its consequences. The film Troy shows a glamorized version of the story we know about the war. It tells the story of Achilles’ journey and transformation from a hero who wants fame and glory for his actions to a man who only wants to find love. Achilles is a hero…

One of the greatest battles in history, the Trojan War, started in the 12th century. There was a wedding for Pelus and Thetis, the Trojan prince Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, obtains a golden apple from the goddess Eris. It is up to Paris to decide which of the three goddesses is the most beautiful, which will be given the golden apple. Hera, wife and sister of Zeus, offers power. Athena, goddess of wisdom and warfare, offers success in battle. Aphrodite, goddess of love, offers the most…