Essays on Zeus

Humans are interesting in the way that they come up with names for everything. Every object in this world must have a label so we may understand what another person is speaking about when we communicate. Names and labels are an integral part of language and communication; without them, we would never know to what anybody is referring. The story is no different when it comes to human beings themselves. We all have names in order to identify ourselves, whether to friends, co-workers, or verifiable government documents. Our names are essentially who we are. Some people come upon their Continue reading...

This paper is aimed to give a brief outline of Edgar Poe’s life and a short analysis of one of his famous poems ‘Annabel Lee’ to trace the main peculiarities of the author’s style.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most prominent figures in the American romantic literature of the second half of the 19th century. Apart from being a critic, an editor and a poet, he is considered to be a founder of the short story in its modern form. Edgar Poe came from the family of professional actors, who died three years after the Continue reading...

Prometheus lent humans the gift of fire, and while the move he made had Zeus fuming, Prometheus never regretted his decision. Prometheus was unlike any of his counterparts on who lived on Mount Olympus; a God that cared about the events of the future, about the world the humans lived in, and about the people who lived on that world. He was disinterested in Godly matters, disinterested in the wonderful things that all the other gods seemed to enjoy. For Prometheus, the other gods were merely ignorant of what was happening to their people, and therefore, he wanted to Continue reading...

The Theogony encompasses a wide array of classical mythology concerning the beliefs of ancient Greek people. Theogony illustrates narratives of how the gods created and shaped the universe. Thogony retells the Greek mythology the same way the bible in the book of Genesis depicts the story of creation. The Hesiod asserts the narrative is the work of a poet or a king that acts in the capacity of a prophet. Hesiod in the epic poem of Theogony offers the Greek version of Genesis in the bible. Hesiod says that, in the beginning of creation, there was a lot of Continue reading...

Introduction

Zeus is one of the greatest Olympian gods. He is believed to have been a father of other Greek gods and men, and was parented by Rhea and Cronos. He was a brother to Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hades and Hestia. However, he ended up marrying his own sister Hera. Upon dividing the world amongst his siblings and himself, he ended up getting the heavens and all of the world’s upper regions. Zeus just like all other Olympian gods lived in Thessaly’s Mount Olympus. This mountain was understood to infiltrate with its patronizing summit into heaven. This paper Continue reading...

Adultery remains the charged topic today that it was back in ancient times. Even though the twentieth century brought it more liberal means for gaining a divorce, and even though cohabitation is catching up with marriage as the relationship structure of choice for many couples, particularly in Europe, the idea that a spouse is cheating on his or her betrothed is still the sort of alluring gossip that draws interest. If this were not true, such spurious stories as Michelle Obama’s plans to divorce the president and Angelina Jolie’s latest decision to leave Brad Pitt would not Continue reading...

Greek mythology and culture are important element of the development of every culture. Ancient Greeks always thought that Gods are the reflection of our inner conflicts and turmoil. That is why the myths about the Gods contain thoughts much deeper than it seems from the very beginning and can be interpreted in multiple ways. I’ll be discussing the meaning the story about Zeus and Typhon, following them by the interpretation of Aegyptus and Danaus, comparing the myths to my own personal conflict.
First, I would like to analyze the story about Zeus and Typhon. According to the plot, Continue reading...

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The roots of the history of sculpture in Europe can be traced back to the ancient Greece, where the great traditional forms of architectural sculpture, large-scale sculpture and statues flourished. The Greek sculptors primarily worked in stone and bronze. Classical and Hellenistic style of sculpture in Greek art carry distinct characteristics. Where the Classical sculpture is restrained and balanced, Hellenistic sculpture is extravagant plus dynamic. The composed and solemn expression of a classical figure gives in to the passionate expression found in the Hellenistic sculptures. The human body is seen to be the primary focus of ancient Greek sculptures, Continue reading...

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For the purpose of this paper, I will be discussing the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, as well as a terracotta bell-krater attributed to the Methyse Painter, and comparing both works in terms of their composition, formal elements, and cultural context. The selection of these works allows for two central activities of the Greeks to be compared, especially ones represented by their own divine figures. The east pediment and the Dionysian vase feature two distinct sides of Greek culture – the former showcasing Greek’s love of justice, and the latter the Greek’s love of Continue reading...

In stories about the interactions between gods and man, faith is often a major component of the story – this is most especially true in the Greek myth of Theseus, the Athenian hero and adventurer who achieved great deeds and slayed many monsters in his time. Theseus’ story is expanded upon and altered for the 2011 film Immortals, directed by filmmaker Tarsem Singh, turning his original tale of overall adventuring and derring-do into a dark tale of revenge against the mortal king Hyperion. The use of faith as a theme in Immortals is effective, despite its changes to the overall Continue reading...

Lander Project: Life on Jupiter’s Europa Moon

Water is life, and scientific research has long proven this fact. Water is the most important substance that living things need in order to survive. So far, scientists have been excited to find the possibility of life on some of the planetary moons. They have used the fact that evidence of the existence of life-supporting elements such as water and oxygen to other parts of the solar system has been presented through previous research to end up with this possibility.
There could be alien life on Jupiter as shown by promising discoveries so far. The problem is that few Continue reading...

Symphony Nr 39 in E flat major, KV 543

This symphony begins the trilogy of final symphonies for which Mozart has remained justly famous. Although not as frequently played as its successors it is a work in the grand manner and has some especially original touches in the second movement marked Andante con moto as well as in the Finale.
The Symphony Nr 39 was written in the summer of 1788 when Mozart was forced to move to slightly less expensive lodgings and also to borrow money, an issue which was to continually annoy him in the last three years of his life. What was different in this Continue reading...

Volcanism refers to the eruption of magma or molten rock, or hot water and steam, including volcanoes, pyroclastic fragments, geysers, as well as fumaroles on top of the surface of a planet (Encyclopedia Britannica 1). A volcano refers to the vent through which gases and magma are discharged. When a planet loses its internal heat it results to volcanism. When a rock that is close to the surface becomes hot sufficiently enough to melt, it results to a volcano being formed.
On the Earth, volcanism often occurs in association with plate boundaries. Where two plates move apart, for instance Continue reading...

Introduction

This led to humananity all over the world making up tales about those phenomenon, which resulted in the invention of gods and supernatural beings to provide the needed explanation. All the creation myths all over the world are similar in certain ways to one another, and that is exploration of human efforts of explaining the origins of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and the stars, the animal life on their home planet.
The best known sources for Greek-Roman mythology include Homer, Hesiod, later Roman poets such as Ovid, and Greek tragic poets, which give us an approximate time Continue reading...

There were various Greek gods and goddesses whose roles and powers were different and specified. Most of them are described in detail, in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, books written by Homer as well as the play “Oedipus Rex”. The main gods were the Olympian gods. Among them, Zeus was the overall king of the gods. The wife of Zeus, and queen of the gods, was known as Hera. Apollo, the god of the sun, poetry, music, healing and dance protected bards and poets. Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. She could heal or bring sudden plagues Continue reading...

Reflections on the impact of mythology in the fields of art and architecture as motivated by the study of a specific work of art– Setting and purpose of this work of art, the connection between this work of art and mythology, the myth generating its creation, personal impact of this work of art and following thoughts on mythology’s impact on artistic creation
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This paper will present you with the personal reflections caused by the discussions in class as far as the impact of mythologies and specific myths on art and architecture are concerned. In Continue reading...

Tales from Ovid comprises of twenty four passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses that came out of Hughes’s translations. In his understanding, Hughes’ reasoned that myths are our ancestors attempt to civilize the human emotions. His view of myths was like a collective dream. Similar to a dream, the characters in a myth are not presented in some form of facts or coherent arguments, but are portrayed in subjective terms in some form of theater that is entirely imaginative and visceral in being. Hughes’s continues to say that for the most part, myths were records of visionary experiences. Continue reading...

In classical mythology, the Greek goddess Artemis (Roman Diana) is the virgin protector of fields, hunters, forests, mountains, wild places and animals, and her temples and shrines existed in throughout the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East up until the Christian era. Her temple at Ephesus was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and had been constructed on a spot considered scared for thousands of years. In addition to the Greeks and Romans, Artemis was known under various names to the Minoans, Persians, Etruscans and many other ancient peoples, dating back long before recorded history. In the Continue reading...

Since the starting of time, people have been trying to come up with a suitable explanation for the creation of life and other unexplainable and complicated things in the world. The most common way adopted by man to explain these phenomena is to hold a god responsible for it. This is where the birth of religion and myth starts. The Norse and The Greeks were the two major groups many centuries ago, which used myths and religion as an explanation for anything and everything they could not fathom. It has been noted that the myth of these groups is Continue reading...

In the mid-1910s, World War I was beginning, the 20th century was becoming industrialized, and a whole new world was upon us. As these changes altered the world, so did they change the nature of art. Both art and music responded to these unique developments in interesting ways. Some, like Gustav Holst, the composer of The Planets, looked outward to the stars, while others, like Edward Munch in his painting The Scream, looked inward at the existential horrors of what lay ahead. Both of these works are created in distinct ways, using similar artistic language to convey wildly different Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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Launch window is the precise time at which a space vehicle must be launched so that a given space mission can be achieved. The launch window is especially important in missions to other planets and when the vehicle has to rendezvous with a satellite already in space. If the launch window is not calculated right, it could lead to spending a lot of time and energy. Space missions are elaborate tasks which use a large number of people working in crews to complete specific tasks, calculating the launch window is an important task completed by a selected crew. There Continue reading...

1. Aeneas is admired for his heroic qualities and nobility of his race because of his deeds, words, lineage and appearance (Ross, 2007). He came from a powerful lineage because he was the son of Anchises, a mortal father and Aphrodite, a divine mother (Powell, 2008). His deeds, manners and conduct are superior over the others because he is considered a demi-god, who is born partly human and partly god. He had the same qualities as Achilles. He can be considered as a very brave and ambitious warrior of his time because he had hopes of succeeding Priam as Continue reading...

Introduction

Did you know that the popular shoe brand Nike was actually derived from the Greek winged goddess of victory, and Olympus, a popular camera brand, from Mount Olympus? Mythology has greatly influenced our culture and it would surprise you to how much it actually still is part of our everyday life (Pontikis, 1995).

Myths and mythological characters are also popular themes for films. Hercules, Troy, and Thor are just some of the well-known characters that have been adapted to the big screen. Their appeal and entertainment value are just two of the main reasons why mythological characters are common Continue reading...

In Kenneth Branagh’s superhero film Thor, Chris Hemsworth plays the titular immortal god of thunder, who is exiled to Earth and must find a way back to his home of Asgard. This is not unlike the quest of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey. In this paper, we will compare and contrast the two works (particularly Thor and Odysseus as characters), and examine the similarities in their journeys. In both works, the main characters are headstrong soldiers who learn patience and temperance during their time away from home, fighting giants in order to get back to their loved ones, Continue reading...

The Aeneid

The inadequacies of Aeneus

In the Aeneid, Aeneus falls short of achieving the Homeric hero status due to certain inadequacies. He has certain attributes of the Homeric hero such as being a person who is on a quest. He faces complex decisions in obeying the command to found the city of Rome. However, even though he is the son of a god, his humane characteristics are more displayed in his life. This display of human characteristics makes him slightly different from other Homeric heroes. He does not display model behavior like other heroes.
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This paper is a comparison review the three tragedies we have read; “Oedipus the king by Sophocles”, “the Bacchae by Euripides” and “Thyestes by Seneca”. This paper seeks to compare the three tragedies with the main intention of assessing the major developments or changes across the three tragedies and explaining what these changes or developments imply, tying the changes to situations that could justify their occurrence, for example the change in the perception of the authors on what tragedy should be based and the extent to which the characters should be exposed to tragedy. For, we Continue reading...

A moon can be defined as a natural satellite that rotates all round the planets. Moons usually vary in their sizes with every planet being bigger than its moon. However, there are several moons which are bigger than Pluto planet and only two moons that are larger than Mercury. Mercury and Venus don’t have any moons while the earth has just one moon (Space Today Online). The earth’s moon is one of the largest natural satellites with 2,160 miles diameter. This moon is much closer to the earth than the rest and can be seen through Continue reading...

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The Odysseys is a historic writing attributed to Homer in other words it is a Greek mythology. Through it were experience the life of one (Zeus) who is associated to the Greek culture recognize themselves with him and some of his deeds as Heroic to them. The Odysseys is like a mythological collection of the Greeks belief or the reason why they posses some practices in their daily lifestyle so is the Zeus and his portraits or statues in the current Greek state. To understand him all discuss him relying on the questions as my guidelines. Continue reading...

Greek mythology as it exists today was a culmination of oral tradition that was part of the early Greek civilization. Different regions of the Greek empire had different heroes with their own traditions and thus Greek mythology was firmly tied to it geographical location. Geography and physical places/ space helped shape Greek mythology to a large extent. Homer’s Odyssey, Iliad and Hesiod’s Theogony are examples of Greek mythology where the myth is tied with the geographical space. With the mention of places these poets also driven by a certain ‘Panhellenic’ impulse-a desire to appeal to as many Continue reading...

Introduction

At the centre of the solar system is the Sun. The nearest four planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars these are terrestrial and rocky worlds. The next four are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune these are gas giants. Between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars lies an asteroid belt that includes the dwarf planet of Ceres. After the orbit of Neptune, a disk shaped Kupiter belt exists where the dwarf planet Pluto exists and further beyond that there is a giant spherical Oort Cloud and the heliopause that is teardrop shaped (Choi).

History and Discovery

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The focal purpose of the Voyager Interstellar Mission has been to broaden the NASA exploration of the solar system further than the quarter of the outer planets and extend to the limits of the sphere of influence on the sun and even beyond. This expansive mission has been continued to characterize the environment of the outer solar system and has also assisted in search for heliopause boundary i.e. the outward flow of solar wind and the outer limits of solar magnetic field. Heliopause boundary penetration between the interstellar medium and the solar wind allows in measuring interstellar fields, Continue reading...

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Classic English Literature

Hospitality has played a great role in the ancient Greek society, and this is highly evident in most of the classics written during those times. Homer’s Odyssey is a classic example of this fact. The Odyssey is one of the greatest masterpieces of Greek Literature. It is dated written between 750 and 650 B.C.E. (Notes, 1968) According to Fagles and Knox hospitality is understood to be a major part of the moral code. One of the most important factors that can be heavily noticed in this work of Homer is Continue reading...

Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon

The squabble between Achilles and king Agamemnon is of great significance as it marked the beginning of a new chapter in the Trojan War. Prior to the argument, the Greeks and the Trojans had been in war for around ten years (Pope, 7). After the argument, the war lasted less than a year. This argument precipitated events that played a major role in the changing the focus and reason for the war. Its significance is attested by the fact that even though the true cause of the greater war is not clearly highlighted by Homer, but the poet attributes Continue reading...

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A composite leader refers to a person with a lead character who possesses all the elements that are desired in a good leader. In the ancient Greek, a composite leader was the one who treated his men right and handled problems with great integrity and knowledge, in that he was a good problem solver. For the leader to be termed good, he was supposed to possess ethical and moral values considered great in the society as well as the capability to maintain them. He was also to be tested and defined through his characters and actions. The ancient Greek Continue reading...

A photo1 of the Roman reproduction of the bronze sculpture, Diskobolos, housed in the Glyptothek in Munich helps us imagine how realistic the sculpture might feel upon viewing. The disc thrower’s right foot is flat on the ground indicating a stable connection with the earth so the thrower can push down on his leg for more power and support. His left leg is lifted at a right angle from the knee with the foot maybe two inches above the ground. His left lower leg and foot are turned in a way which is parallel to the right angle Continue reading...

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“Olympus has fallen” is a film set during the 20th century, which is characterized by increased rate of insecurity and terrorism. The film is set in the state house, where it is considered the most secure place in America if not the whole world. However, some North Korean citizens beat the odds by managing to bring the White House down, but above all; they manage to take the American President away with them. Mike Banning, who is the thrilling actor in the movie, manages to fight his position as presidential Secret Service Agent. And subsequently win the Presidential trust Continue reading...

The Trojan War is easily one of the most critical events in Greek Mythology as perhaps best emphasized in Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad. While there are variations in the accounts as to the causes of the War, the War that was waged by Achaeans against Troy, follows the loss of the King of Sparta’s wife to Paris. This does however remain largely debatable as regards its historical veracity, with beliefs that Homeric literature did exaggerate different things in line with varied poetic needs. This paper assesses the varied accounts of the primary and secondary factors that caused Continue reading...

The Muses of Greek Mythology

Creative people such as artists, writers and musicians often use phrases such as “I need a visit from my muse” or “my muse was the inspiration for this poem (or other work of art).” The idea and concept of the modern day muse comes from ancient mythology. Greece’s most powerful God, Zeus had many children but nine of his daughters, were unique from the others because they were the muses. Each of the nine daughters possessed unique and divine powers and a love of knowledge. Each sister was beautiful in her own way and all of them were Continue reading...

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The Book I of Homer’s Iliad focuses on Achilles’ wrath or the anger and its consequence. Looking at Book I alone, Achilles’ decision seems more in harmony with his personality and occupation. Achilles was neither a God nor a king, rather a mighty soldier. He was the best warrior of the Achaean army and everybody’s preference in wars and battles of importance. In his own words, “The major share of war’s fury rests on me” (Page 5, Paragraph 180). Having emerged victorious in overtaking many cities via raid by the Achaean army, he had emerged as Continue reading...