Mythology

Hailey Sonnett 11/8/171st hour Zeus Red Mountain Paragraph Zeus was the most powerful god in Greek Mythology, being the head god at Mount Olympus. In Greek Mythology, the god Zeus is mostly bad because Zeus had many affairs while he was married, and how severe is punishments were for people who do something bad. Firstly, Cartwright states that “…then married to Hera, Zeus was infamous…

In Greek Mythology, the entire formation behind the idea of women was to be punished and take the blame for the wrongdoing of men. Because Prometheus released evil into the world, Zeus made a woman by the name of Pandora who was beautiful on the outside, however on the inside she was full of chaos. In her own story, Pandora was punished with curiosity filling…

Kemal KeskinHUM 111Exercise 2Antigone and The RepublicIn Greek mythology, Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes, and Queen Iocaste. His uncle Creon is also the father of his fiancé Haimon. It is best known by two tragedies of the Athenian author Sophocles, preserved to this day: Antigone, where Antigone opposes until death to Creon who had forbidden to bury his brother for political…

“Why is Diotima a Woman?” Diotima, one of Socrates instructors from Symposium, a clever work by the wonderful work from Plato. Diotima is one of the most important thinker to women. To have a clear understanding of why Diotima is a woman, let’s look at her life. Diotima was born possibly around 470BCE and died 410BCE. In this essay, I would explain how Diotima is…

One of Shakespeare’s central points in Twelfth Night is to show that appearances aren’t really what they seem. Essentially, he shows that appearances can be deceptive. He shows us the deception of appearances through both Olivia and Duke Orsino being deceived by Viola masquerading as a boy. He also portrays the Several other literary devices are employed by Feste in his little joust with Viola.…