Tiresias

to choose to go through with his word or risk loosing his power and manhood. Of course as we all know Creon chooses his own laws over the divine. This upsets the gods as told by the blind prophet, Tiresias. The elders of the city start to chant that nobody can go against the will of the gods. Tiresias warned Creon that the gods wouldn 't like him leaving Polynices out to rot and as his punishment, his son would die which came to pass. "But let justice roll on like a…

There were three great writers of tragedy with respect to Greek literature. They are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Sophocles had a firm belief in fate but he also considers free will. He did not stick only to fate like Aeschylus. “Fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos.” “Free Will is the freedom of humans to make…

Antigone is charged, Haemon threatens, on line 843, “Then she’ll die… but her death will kill another.” Again, Haemon is infuriated and expresses this to his father. At last, after Antigone is sent to the tomb, where she will spend her final days, Tiresias arrives at the…

Metamorphoses Book 1: Ovid begins in prayer, seeking inspiration from the gods to give him the ability to accurately describe his works in Metamorphoses. He then goes into a detail description of how the earth is created, which contains many similarities to the book of Genesis. The god who created earth is unknown, but after its completion man is born of the clay to rule to world. Ovid next describes four ages of man. First being the golden age, which is a time of trust, goodness. Sadness…

Free will is also important when talking about Creon, a character who considers himself superior, all-powerful, and the master of any who oppose him. Creon ignores the consequences of his action and attempts to correct his mistakes when the prophet Tiresias predicts his own fate, but since free will ultimately dominates fate in the play, it was too late to save Antigone and Haemon, who have already killed themselves. Similarly, Antigone's fate was to live, but her free will allows her to choose…

Sophocles Oedipus the King “The destiny of man is in his own soul”-(Herodotus). In the play, “Oedipus the King” Sophocles depicts the Greek gods as evil and destructive with his use of Apollo. The play demonstrates the tragic fate of Oedipus by making the gods appear evil and powerful. This is crafted in such a way that it shows the forces that sentence the character to a miserable and terrible life based on his regrettable actions. King Oedipus’s life is hence instantly changed when he kills…

During the approximate time of 400BC, Socrates stated that "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." Although many may observe and say that this cannot be true, that the wisest man alive must know something -- we get some insight into how the human psychie stores and utilizes memories. When a memory is created we take it in through our personal perception of the world, and take note of what happened. As soon as we apply our personal perception, it is no…

Antigone Paper Antigone was justified in her acts because there are a lot of people in today's society that did nothing worse by just breaking a law that was thought to be unjust by that certain person anyway, and we call them heroes, so in that case Antigone was a Greek hero. Antigone Accepted her punishment because she knew it was a law. Antigone was justified in her criminal acts because she did something that she knew would end up getting her in a lot of trouble, but because in her eyes…

Justice for All but One Oedipus and Hamlet, are two of literatures more significant heroes, who were both children of murdered kings, both wishing to bring justice to the land. Their stories are parallel from the murder of the king to the role of the characters, but there is critical difference between Hamlet and Oedipus. The comparison begins as characters both has a sense of justice, though one of the two become corrupted and replaced this sense of justice with vengeance. The duo was seeking…

aided Odysseus on his journey back home. “Athena appears and informs him of the situation at home” (997). This quote explains how Athena helped Odysseus get back home by warning him about the suitors. “Circe informs him ... consult the blind prophet Tiresias” (525). In this quote, Circe warned Odysseus about the Sirens and gave him some other advice that would help him make it to Ithaca. Both of these women were helpful to Odysseus in many ways, which represented the way women were supposed to…