Underworld

Throughout time each civilization has spread its folklore about their gods. Many of the stories still hold an impact on the world today. Maybe not in the sense of worship but people are intrigued to figure out the state of mind of the ancient people that once worshipped these gods. Civilzations worshipped these gods in hope that they would help them in their daily lives. Most civilzations had gods for everything. They had gods that controled the weather, the harvest, or if a woman would have…

of his arrows has hit Pluto, god of the Underworld, causing him to fall in love with Proserpine, the daughter of the goddess of nature, Ceres (Dryden). Pluto, then, proceeds to kidnap Proserpine from the field. Though the story does not say why Cupid has shot an arrow at Pluto, one can only assume that it was done for the sake of getting even, and once again, a mortal suffers at the hands of childishness (Dryden). Meanwhile Proserpine is in the Underworld, Ceres has killed all of Sicily’s crops…

Odysseus journeys up to the place where Circe directed him to summon the ghosts of the underworld. There, he learns from Tiresias, the blind prophet, to “‘keep the beasts unharmed... and [he] may still reach Ithaca’” (Fagles 11.125-126). While Odysseus gains insight on his plans, Tiresias delivers fate to him within a brilliant piece of advice…

ritualized with steps to get to Heaven such as Catholicism. In any case, Heaven or Hell is the final destination that Christians believe in. When someone dies in the Ancient Greek Polytheistic religion. They believed in three different realms of the underworld. One of the realms is Elysium which is basically the Greeks version of heaven a peaceful place for souls to stay when they are remembered in the land of the living. The second realm is the realm of Hades which is a large realm where Zeus…

At the beginning of the semester, we discussed what constituted good writing, as well as what constituted bad writing. Over the course of the last three weeks, we have been assigned to read portions of Laska's Hidden America. After reading Underworld, Hecho en América, G-L-O-R-Y, and Traffic, I have concluded that Hidden America is stuck somewhere between being good and bad writing. Hidden America includes aspects of good writing as well as aspects of bad writing, constituting Laska's Hidden…

Anthropologists and archeologists for the last hundred years have forgotten and ignored evidence showing that humans like us have inhabited the earth for over millions of years. Forbidden Archeology shows that anatomically modern humans have lived on the earth for million of years.This gives solid facts about the theory of human evolution. Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson worked and have created a book called “Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race.” This book leads…

Story Writing 2 Concept: Love affair Springboard: A story about Zeus and his inability to remain monogamous. Context: Ancient Greece Setting: Greece Backstory: After several failed marriages, Zeus settles on marrying his sister, and goddess of marriage, Hera. They lived a happy life in the year 1200 B.C.E. and had four children together: Eilithya, Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. However, Zeus was still fixated on affairs even though he was married to Hera. He continued to cheat on her throughout…

by the demon in the bottle or perhaps influenced by the animal that story is titled after, the black cat that haunts him. Poes chooses a distinct name for the first black cat in the story, Pluto, the cat shares the name with the Roman god of the underworld. This is no coincidence since this is the beast that the…

Greek mythology Every major religion or belief plays an important role in the operations of that society’s culture. This remains true in the ancient greek empire when the worship of multiple gods were popular. The way the ancient greeks interpreted the world around them and inspired their value in education, arts, and politics. . Even when the empire fell in 146 BC they left a permanent mark on the world with their advanced art techniques and famous philosophers. There were countless variations…

In the Greek myth "Athene", Athene challenges a young girl, Arachne, to a weaving contest. Athene knows she will lose and perish, "Poor child. You are being destroyed by your own worth. Your talent has poisoned you with pride like the sting of a scorpion. So that which makes beauty brings death" (Evslin 11). This simile represents how full of her own pride Arachne is in Athene's perspective, how she is wasting her talent on a contest which she will lose to a goddess and be forced to death.…