Thunderbolts

Sparta, while Idas and Lynceus were in hot pursuit. Then a fight ensues. Pollux kills Lynceus amd was granted immortality, while Castor was killed. Of the fight, there is variations of the occurrences. One account is that Zeus kills Idas with a thunderbolt to protect his son Pollux; another is that Pollux enraged kills Ides as well. Another major account is that the twins take and marry the women, which causes a tensions between the families. Idas and Lynceus steal the twin’s cattle herd. Later…

possible slaves. Aeneas also seemed to have further duties to his wife and father. His first duty to his father, Anchises, was to forgive him for having an affair with Venus. This affair caused the gods to despise him and making Jupiter cast a thunderbolt causing Anchises to be disabled. Aeneas enquires “Did you, my own father, dream that I could run away and desert you here?” (Line 815-16) This quote serves as evidence that Aeneas still cares about his father even though he did his family…

Thunder, lighting it’s all because of me, I am Zeus. I am possibly the most well known god of all time, I had to fight to become the ruler of all gods and king of mount olympus, it was not easy for me to come to power. My brothers Hades, Poseidon and I were engaged in a long war with our father who had turned evil. I had a rough life growing up, my father had swallowed all my brothers and sisters that were born before me, and my mother had decided to do something after she had enough. When I…

them not to eat Apollo’s cattle. “They quickly swore the oath that I required.” (12.328). After swearing that oath, the crew kills the cattle for food. When the crew eats the cattle, this makes Apollo angry who then goes to Zeus. Zeus strikes a thunderbolt at the ship. Odysseus barely survives. He floats to Charybdis’s whirlpool and manages and to pass by Skylla unnoticed. He then, “drifted along nine days. On the tenth, at night, the gods cast me up on Ogygia, Calypso’s Island…” (12.484-485).…

The Eyes of Hope Among the Eyes of Fear: Zusak’s The Book Thief In Zusak’s The Book Thief, sublimity is shown by the actions and emotions of characters through various events. The beauty in the destructions of war, and the power of language during hard times all contain aspects of the sublime in their own way. Sublimity is achieved through perception, and Zusak portrays this by his writing style: making Death the narrator. Throughout the novel, several moments of sublimity are shown, even if…

"The doom of all who harmed them was certain" (310). Before I started high school and learned how to drive, every day after finishing homework I would go to my neighborhood store to shop for confectionary and school supplies. Preparing to travel to the store, I checked the outside weather and it appeared like a bright and sunny day, until I got onto my bike. When I rode my bike for thirty minutes, the weather immediately turned from bright to gloomy; the gloom encompassed itself with heavy rain…

G. K. Chesterton used one of his characters to call another out and exclaimed, ‘“Then something snapped in your soul, and you let God’s thunderbolt fall’” (Chesterton 14). The author believed using another character to call the main character, Wilfred, out would change the way he acted. Wilfred tried to act different around others to make him a more liked person overall, but he was not that. In Chesterton’s Hammer of God, symbolism, foreshadowing, and setting work together to prove that outward…

Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus, Ares, Athena, Hermes, Hephaestus. Zeus, the king of the greek gods, had the power to control the sky. Often referred to as the god with the most power. Zeus had two brothers Hades, and Poseidon. Zeus had the thunderbolt as his symbol to represent his powers. Zeus in one myth was said to have overthrown his father and him and his brother drew lots to determine position of power and zeus won the power over all gods.…

In the Odyssey, Odysseus travels a long journey back to his home, Ithaca, after fighting in the Trojan War for 10 long years. However, I strongly believe Odysseus himself was the reason that he witnessed a long journey returning to his homeland. If he hadn’t made specific decisions, I’d expect that Odysseus would be able to return earlier. In the epic, I believe that three major decisions could’ve helped Odysseus sail back towards home sooner if he had chosen the right choice. One of the…

Dionysus, known by his Roman name Bacchus, which he seems to have two distinct starting points. Dionysus was the divine force of wine, agribusiness and richness of nature, however then again he likewise speaks to the riddle in religions. Researchers accept that this god happened later in pre-history, dissimilar to different divine beings. All savage countries had their own adaptations of Dionysus under numerous names, for example, Bacchus, Zagreus, Sabazius, Adonis, Antheus, Zalmoxis, Pentheus,…