Lauren Tucker 1 Freshman English 1 March 2013 Pandora’s Box: All the Unanswered Questions Part 1: What I Already Know In 5th grade I read a Mythology book on goddess and gods and Pandora was one of them. I know that Pandora was created because of a disagreement between gods leaving a need for revenge. I also know that “Pandora’s Box” is just the name that was given by scientist and that it was actually said to be a jar containing all the evil spirits, bad fortune, and bad luck that
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death. Hector is becoming the worst enemy for Achilleus , although he never wanted to fight against Hector and the Trojan as well. “...I am unwilling to fight against brilliant Hector...”(9.356). Now Achilleus is ready to fight in spite of threats of Apollo, who always stands behind Hector. Nobody and nothing can change his decision to take revenge. The deep human sorrow displays in his behavior. Achilleus wants to deaden his pain by means of killing his offender. What can do the gods in such situation
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give up the girl.” One line that I thought was very powerful was when Agamemnon says to Chryses, “Now go, don’t tempt my wrath- and you may depart alive.” After hearing this, Chryses felt threatened and he obeyed what Agamemnon said. On page 79, Apollo sends a plague upon the Greek army and on this page it states, “he cut them down in droves- and the corpse-fires burned on, night and day, no end in sight.” I thought this was also a very powerful line and it was a line that stood out to me. One
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he was riding his son chariot, Apollo, the Sun God, spotted a beautiful maiden washing clothes in the front yard of a small hut. When night fell and he could do whatever he wanted, he went to visit the beautiful maiden. Apollo stayed with the maiden for a week and she fell madly in love with him. A few months later, the beautiful maiden whose name was Meladondria, gave birth to a beautiful baby girl with blond tufts of hair atop her head and electric blue eyes. Apollo, disappointed it wasn't a boy
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saw Artemis and the two fell madly in love. During the following weeks the two dined, hunted together but never slept together, as Artemis still held her oath regarding her virginity her scared duty. Apollo, her twin brother, grew fearful that their relationship would soon make her break her oath. Apollo was the god of the sun and would ride through the sky during the day to bring light to the world. From his chariot he was able to see everything happening below on Earth. One day as he was riding through
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MYTHOLOGY IN MODERN SOCIETY [pic] [pic] [pic] |Mythology is everywhere! Daily you run across instances of words, city names, companies, | |literary allusions - and even planets and constellations - that take their name or borrow | |their theme from myths. Because of your many requests, I've provided a couple of thousand | |excellent examples to help you get started in your research. Remember, you're surrounded | |by mythology in today's society, whether you realize it or not!
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000 years the proclaimed the 'bellybutton', the very centre of the ancient world. Famed for its oracle at the Temple of Apollo, he is also examining the evidence of Delphi's many other gods, athletic and musical games and the monuments to unity - as well as civil war - that crowded its religious sanctuaries. Dr. Scott uses the latest architectural plans of the temple of Apollo which reveal for the first time archaeological traces of what may have been the oracular priestess's consultation room inside
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Journal Essay #3 When the reader first opens Homer's epic poem The Iliad, the author's very first line states the poem's main premise: "Achilles' rage" (1); if that doesn't tell the reader anything, it's also the title of the first book. However, I've noticed that many people still find it difficult to determine who the heroic protagonist is in The Iliad. That's because the audience today doesn't believe that their view, of what constitutes a heroic protagonist, coincides with the typical heroic
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In the era of Homer, divine intervention was thought to be typical, and one of his foremost works, The Iliad, reflects this. Nearly all of the Greek gods are involved in the outcome of the Trojan War, which happens to be the background story of this epic poem. The gods are used by Homer to add twists on an otherwise standard plot of war. Evidently, the gods will be a powerful source of divine intervention and their actions certainly have significant outcomes on the Trojan War, and more importantly
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Leto. Finally Leto came to the island of Delos. Since the island was floating and wasn't connected to the ground, it really wasn't considered “land”. On the island was a single palm tree where Leto sat down to rest. Then Artemis and her twin brother, Apollo, were born. When Artemis was little, she went to her father Zeus and asked him six wishes: to never force her to marry so she would stay as an eternal maiden, to be more famous than her brother, to rule over the mountains, to have 60 nymph attend
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