Underworld

what do I do? Exactly what she told me not to, which is why I am here and she must be worried sick about me. I hate to put her through that stress. If only I could just tell her I was alright and alive, excluding the fact I am sitting here in the underworld. Eventually it got quiet. He must have left.…

My thesis is that Socrates does not present good arguments. In Socrates’ argument that piety is dependent on the gods, Socrates uses a series of analogies that are relatable to piety. Socrates describes the physical state of carrying or leading objects and that to be carried or led, they must have been put into that state by something carrying them. Thus, the things being carried are in a state of being carried and since piety is a mental state, it is parallel to the state of being carried.…

In Ancient Greek myths people are often punished by the gods for corrupt or evil behavior. I choose this theme as I believe that it shows us why the people of the ancient world worshipped and trusted in the gods as much as they did. I also think it teaches a lot of morals that people of many centuries have followed. The texts that I will be analyzing are, Tantalus by Homer, Prometheus by Hesiod, Sisyphus also by Homer, and Arachne by Ovid. All of these myths are from the Ancient Greek times. In…

The cosmological genre of the New Kingdom includes a wide variety of compositions detailing different aspects of the sun god’s cyclical journey, from sunset in the west each evening through sunrise and rebirth each the morning. These works describe the geography and events of the afterlife, in which the sun god encounters dangers, revives the deceased, and is ultimately renewed before rejoining the world of the living. Within the broader cosmological genre, scholars have distinguished various…

come to fruition. One could also assume that Athena admires Odysseus because he possesses so many of the traits that the goddess is the pillar of. He is continuously praised for his wisdom throughout the epic by many different individuals, in the underworld Agamemnon ventured as far as addressing him as “mastermind of war” (394). He is even viewed above all other men in such arenas in the eyes of the divine, which is evident when Zeus calls him “Great Odysseus who excels all men in wisdom”…

night with plans to sneak him out of prison and into hiding before morning. However, Socrates has come to terms with his death and refuses Crito’s offers, knowing that when he dies he will be judged for his choices on earth and must descend to the underworld having lived a life of justice. Although Crito presents a tempting offer when trying to save Socrates from execution, Socrates is right to accept his sentence and deny offers of liberation. He knows it does not matter what the majority will…

Travis makes it through the labyrinth, unharmed, and Harley was just as fine as a polar bear in the winter. But then they reach the castle. The castle could almost be a 5-star hotel, with hot tubs in every room. But on the outside of the castle were zombie knights. The zombies were just people, but were mutated and died, but came back to life from the radiation. So these were radiated zombies. But then the door opened, and there was a big long hallway. At the end of the hall was a throne. And…

According to Joseph Campbell’s A Hero With A Thousand Faces, a hero’s journey is described as a “monomyth” that follows a narrative formula similar to the cosmogonic cycle, which is cycle of creation. The movie Up is one of the innumerable stories that fit the various stages of hero’s journey specified in Stuart Voytilla’s Myth and Movies. In addition, many archetypes and roles are clearly demonstrated in the story, such as Carl sacrifices and serves as the hero, the little boy Russell issues…

Mesoamerican cultures. At base, it shared many of the cosmological beliefs of earlier peoples, notably the Maya, such as that the present earth was the last in a series of creations and that it occupied a position between systems of 13 heavens and 9 underworlds.” (The Editors.) The Aztec participated in human sacrifice in which the heart of a person was offered to the Sun God, Tonatiuh. Usually the victim was a prisoner of war but on occasion the victims would be someone of their tribe who…

Whether we declare it or not, all of us panic because of death. Death remains a huge dilemma, one of the major subjects with which religion and culture and knowledge have struggled since the beginning of the time. Despite the fact that death is a natural consequence of existence, our culture is matchless in the extent to which death is considered a taboo subject. We don’t prefer to have open discussions. We choose to consider death as a dangerous enemy that can and should be defeated by modern…