Greek mythology

The Bacchae represents an authentic interpretation that is full of temptation in the natural world. I am going to compare the temptations of society that we as individuals encounter everyday with the allure of nature in the Bacchae, specifically focusing on temptation offered by Dionysos. Humans in a civilized society have to make choices everyday…

Adam was the first man, whose creation, fall and history are told in the opening chapters of Genesis. Abel, in Hebrew Hebel (breath, vapor), the second son of Adam, murdered by his brother Cain. He was considered by God to be a man of faith Noah was spared for his piety when God, angered at…

Zeus, the king of the Gods, is often referred to as a tyrant. There are many reasons for this characterization of him. Many times, he would inflict hardships on humans that they would not enjoy. The biggest hardships that Zeus inflicted on humans were: the birth of Pandora, the great flood, and the splitting of…

I chose the archetype The prostitute with a heart of gold. An archetype is defined as a universal idea that can take many forms, appearing spontaneously, at any time, at any place, and without any outside influence (Pygmalions Word Play, Carl Jung, p. 82). When present in the unconscious, an archetype shapes thoughts, feelings, moods,…

This ability to change shape or form is a major development in the stories of Arachne, Zeus, and Daphne. Almost all of the gods had the power of metamorphosis. The first story was the one of Arachne. Arachne was a mortal, who was a great weaver. She was the best of all the mortals. She…

Mythology has been around for a very long time and in today’s society has worked well to make new stories and movies and other stuff. Roman’s have given us many things to use today; alphabet, language, laws, calendars, architecture, religion, and entertainment. We have to thank the Romans for many of the things we have…

Every Epic follows a certain guideline, it is written in an elevated style consisting of a hero and deeds he does during his travels or journey. In the Odyssey written by Homer, the hero named Odysseus portrays many Hero-like characteristics that can make the reader envious. Homer gives Odysseus 3 traits that fit the definition…

“Cyclone is such a wind. A very powerful wind, one can even say – a giant-sized whirlwind, which has one interesting feature: in its center, the air pressure is lower than at the borderline. Air masses cyclonesrotate counterclockwise in the hemisphere above the equator and clockwise- the opposite Cyclones, as a rule, bring with them…

My report is on Ares. He is the god of war and violence and in Norse mythology he was the god of war, violence, and justice. He was the son of Zeus and Hera. His weapon of choice was a spear because it was magical. The magical part of it was he could summon it…

The Scandinavian myth of creation begins by presenting Odin as the All-Father, a god that is older and mightier than all other beings. Being the ruler of all living things, Odin was responsible for the creation of the skies in the heavens and the ground on the earth. Soon after his formation the planet, the…