Characters Hektor Chorus of Trojan Elders/advisers to King Priam King Priam Aeneas Paris Andromache Helen Character Descriptions Hektor – a prince of the great city of Troy. He is the son of King Priam and Queen Hecabe, brother of Paris, husband of Adromache. He is the greatest war...

In the heroic culture of Ancient Greece, Zeus was the "king of the gods" and ruled over the "hospitality and the rights of guests and suppliants, the punishment of injustice...and the governance of the universe..." One of several values in the enforced by Zeus was hospitalit...

The video of Antigone is as sad as the story of her father, Oedipus the former king of Thebes. It started off with her brother, Polyneices trying to invade the city-state of Thebes with his Argive army. Long ago Polyneices left Thebes to be with his father, Oedipus who was thrown out of Thebes becau...

The Odyssey: Telemachus and His Development The Odyssey is a great epic novel in which many characters are developed. The most significant development that occurs is the development of Telemachus. Telemachus is a very complex character that Homer develops from the beginning and to end of t...

To Love Is To Dishonor In the drama Antigone the main conflict was that of Anitgone and Creon. Antigone's brothers were fighting in the war. Eteocles was fighting for the Thebes, while Polynices was for the other side. While in battle they fought and killed each other. Ismene, Antigone sist...

In Homer's "The Odyssey", Odysseus is portrayed as an epic hero like Everett McGill in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou; however, Odysseus' role as a hero is a more aggressive and authentic one, whereas Everett McGill's role is more of a common character who is portrayed a...

One of the most interesting passages of the Odyssey, as translated by Robert Fagles, is when one of the central characters remarks of a great (male) hero that "I tell you," he "would have repaid me well if he'd grown old right here. But now he's dead ... If only Helen and all her kind had ...

Orion There have been many different myths about Orion, one of them is this: He was the son of Hyrieus who was a handsome giant and hunter. He was the lover of Artemis. He was a great hunter and proclaimed to the gods that he could kill any animal alive. Upon hearing this Artemis' brother got jealo...

In the Iliad women are items of exchange and markers of status for the men who possess them (Chryseis and Briseis, whom Agamemnon and Achilles argue over in Book I) obstacles that the male hero has to overcome or resist to fulfill his heroic destiny (Andromache's entreaties to Hector in Book VI). ...