War goddesses

ceremony, inscribed on the apple were the words “To the fairest of all.”” (History.com) Three goddesses by the names of Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite all fought for this golden apple. Zeus had seen enough and was not ready to break up a fight between three goddesses. Could you imagine that? The most powerful god in all of the lands, the father of the gods, could not break up a fight between three goddesses! Instead, he took the golden apple and gave it to Paris, at a crossroad he had three…

questions like: What happens when someone dies? Where do they go? What made the earth they way it is now? How were we created? The answers to all these questions would be the gods. Questions that no one could answer suddenly made sense when gods and goddesses were involved. These stories that we call myths were very popular and widely spread throughout Greece and other countries as they made sense to the Greeks that everything was controlled by the gods above them. Nowadays, the word "myth" is…

Athena Essay Pallas Athena is one of the most recognizable of the gods and goddesses of mount Olympus today. As the embodiment of wisdom and truth, she is someone I look up too and would very much like to emulate. While other gods and goddesses have been forgotten, or recognized only in name, Athena prevails as very well know. Athena is remembered so well because she was a direct descendent of one of the big three and very powerful, because the things she represented inspired humans to do great…

were races of very tough warrior tribes made completely of women. They often despised men, and would kill their child if it was not born a female. Some references to the Amazons were found in Homer’s the Iliad, which is an epic poem about the Trojan War. They are also referenced in the works of the Greek Historian Herodotus, where he tells the story of a tribe of warrior women that lost a battle, were enslaved, but killed their Greek captors on the ship. However, they did not know how to sail a…

this countless war between the Trojans and Achaeans. Different bias is seen through the gods, and how they try to aid their preferred side to help them win the war. In book 8, Zeus proclaims that any god who interferes with the war will face serious consequences. Both Athena and Hera loathe the Trojans, and they want to help the Achaeans trounce the war. Athena and Hera are unable to bear any more suffering on the Achaean part, and they prepare to interfere. Zeus sends these goddesses a…

Antigone sacrificed so much, that her struggle would end positively. Unfortunately we see the opposite occur, as Antigone results in a suicide after her courageous efforts to fight for her brother’s burial. In The Odyssey, Odysseus gets help from many Goddesses which leads him home to Ithaca successfully to be reunited with his wife, Penelope and son, Telemachus. This is frustrating to the readers because we see Antigone, who puts her efforts into fighting for her brother, and sacrificing her…

Aphrodite was the goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Unlike other gods and goddesses; Aphrodite has two completely different stories of origin that end with her in the same place, Mount Olympus. The first is that she was the daughter of one of Zeus's many affairs with women, but in this case it was with Dione who was the goddess of the oak tree. The second and most famous story is that when Cronus had slain his father Uranus and threw his male genitalia into the sea, it dissolved into…

about gods and goddesses that make up parts of the Greek religion. According to the current definition, a real myth has nothing to do with religion. The dictionary states that, “a…

scene, Homer described Achilles as “…looking like the god of war…his bronze armor glowed like a blazing fire or the rising sun” (Book 22, Lines 133-137). As Achilles ran towards Hector, Hector fled in fear of his own demise; Hector was Troy’s greatest fighter (Book 22,…

that make them unique and each one have a different role specifically in the epic. The Greek society in the Iliad placed a lot of emphasis on the gods to the extent that the success of the warriors and kings during the wars depended more on the role played by the gods and goddesses. It's because of these superhuman abilities they have so much power that people worship them or in most cases fear them. In the epic you can see the influnce the God's have on these people on the way they think, act…