Essays on Hesiod

Homer and Hesiod are famous for their work concerning poetry. This paper compares them as poets. To begin with, Hesiod was a well-known Greek poet, who was identified as a hard worker throughout his work between the 750 and 650 BC. He wrote his story in the first European poetry using the similar words used by the ancient writers. During this period, Hesiod was trying to establish a relationship with the Greek religious clients. Viewing the scholars’ arguments, they pointed out Hesiod as the main source of the Greek mythology, knowledge on farming, and a great timekeeper. He analyzes ...

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Introduction Vampires are mythical creatures that appear in ancient folklores. Most cultures have their own version of the vampire although they share a common characteristic; that is, the lust for human blood. There is no particular gender to the vampire character. Male and female vampires do exists even in ancient literatures, making the vampire one of the most gender neutral characters. The depiction of the female vampire in human culture, however, is an interesting way of looking into the development of women, particularly on how society views women and their social status over the course of time. ...

During ancient times, the Greeks would turn to the gods for advice and intervention when presented with a problem whether it was to bring the rain to save their crops so that their families could eat or in the case of Oresteia, to decide whether or not a person accused of murder was truly guilty. The goddess they often turned to for guidance was the goddess Themis whose “ability to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the oracles at Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the goddess of divine justice” (Swatt, “Themis, Goddess ...

Human existence is marred by contradictions and Hesiod’s Pandora myth introduces man to the complexity of male-female relations as well as the futility of hope. This paper seeks to analyze Hesiod’s myth paying particular attention to the depiction of Pandora, the meaning of her name and the role that hope plays in man’s life. The paper further explores the parallels between Pandora and Eve of the Old Testament. The depiction of Pandora and Eve from the Old Testament is full of ambiguities that make it difficult to easily decipher whether they are intended to be good ...

Anytime a story is told by different people, there are understandable number of variations. This is especially true for Greek and Roman myths, which were written during vastly different centuries with opposite views of religion. The Greeks seemed to view their early gods as perfect yet still human with their interactions with mortals. The actions of the divine motivated and drove the course of the stories. The Romans, by contrast, put their gods on a pedestal and shifted the blame to the mortals. The writings of Hesiod and Ovid reflect these differences, depicting the actions in a perfect light ...

The present paper is devoted to two accounts of creation made by Ovid, Roman poet, in his poem Metamorphoses, and Hesiod, who described it in his poem Theogony. The purpose of this work is to reveal similarities and differences between the above-mentioned poems and analyze Ovid’s approach to myth. Despite of the same subject – creation of the Universe, Metamorphoses by Ovid and Theogony by Hesiod are very different. Theogony describes the birth of numerous Olympic gods who were born after creation. The process of creation is described in the very beginning of the poem: the Earth, called Gaia, ...

Each nation has own myth about world’s creation and team of gods, spirits or other powers that control it. Some of them can sound really weird. For example, Scandinavian myths say the world was created from the body of a dead giant. More common mythologies have show less bloody ideas with own features. They depend not only up the culture and country, but up the author. This essay will compare Greek and Roman poet’s Hesiod and Ovid points of view. These cultures had similar pantheons of Gods, which differed mostly by names, like Venus and Aphrodite. However, ...

Ancient Mythology

"Metamorphosis" is a poem by the Ancient Roman poet Ovid in fifteen books, which tell about various transformations that have occurred since the creation of the world, according to the Greek and Roman mythology. “Theogony”, written by Hesiod, is an earlier version of creation that describes the origin of the gods. Both stories depicts the creation of the world, however, there are significant differences, and also similarities in the approach of creation of Ovid and Hesiod. Monumental work of Ovid considered, which goes under the title "Metamorphoses", is written in characteristic for the epic poetry hexameters. In the 15 ...

Analysis of biographical similarities of Jesus and Zeus made scientists think about their identity. In accordance with some contemporary sources Zeus could be a prototype of Jesus. Other researchers argue that Zeus’ biography was copied from the Jesus’ one or even vice versa. This paper objective is to reveal if there is any resemblance between Jesus and Zeus if there is any. Zeus (Jupiter) was a supreme god who ruled in Olympus and ranked high in the pantheon. Zeus was the son of Chronos and Rhea. His siblings were swallowed by his father Chronos to remove the threat of his ...