PART I: Mythology: Man's Shelter From the Unknown Since the start of time nature's song has resounded throughout creation. It is an eerie song, one of life and death, inextricable disorder and soothing serenity. Alone in the wilderness, accompanied only by life's primordial symphony and the beat...

The Myth of Apollo Hymn to Pythian Apollo Introduction The purpose of this essay is to discuss the five monolithic theories of myth as described in GS Kirk The nature of Greek Myths (1974), in relation to the myth of Hy...

The Homeric material from Book 11 of the Odyssey is an amazing look at mythology of the time. When Odysseus (Ulysses) encounters the many members of the underworld, he views a cross section of early Greek mythology, from Hercules to Agamemnon, Sisyphus, and Achilles. By surviving Hell, he also bec...

When we look at Greek Mythology we often run into the gods of that era. Sometimes they are merely backdrops to the human element of the story but in stories such as The Odyssey the gods play a prominent if not vital role to the central themes of the story. Fate has a place in the Greek world but i...

The notion of heroism is an important theme in Greek mythology. Achilles, the main character in Homer's The Iliad, accurately portrays the concept of a tragic hero. Throughout his many experiences during the Trojan War, he reflects heroic qualities, and earns his name as the purest, the highest and...

The goddess of war, handicrafts, wisdom and self-realization. The portrait of Athena found in poetry and art is exceptionally accurate for the Greek people as a whole, perhaps because Greek poets and artists tended, like Athena, to belong to society and civilization and not like Artemis, like the w...

William THE MIRROR IMAGE OF GREECE 2017 wordsIn an ever-changing world such as America, it is hard to trace the roots of a nation so grand without getting lost in the everyday confusion of technological advancements. Still, much of what America is today is owed largely to s...

The epic tradition in "Gösta Berling's Saga". Having been born and bred in Värmland, Selma Lagerlöf is conversant with the peasant culture and its folklore. In "Gösta Berling's Saga", she is primary occupied ...

Homeric Hymns to Hermes and Demeter The Homeric Hymns to Hermes and Demeter each tells the story of the conflicts Hermes and Demeter face upon birth. The ancient Greek Myths served to explain the unexplainable. Before modern advancement in technology and scientific research, natural phenomena ...

Odysseus and the Repetition of Power Societies cannot exist without power. Its effects and presence are natural to human nature, its existence, inseparable from our condition. To deplore or downplay its significance is to smash a window on every culture that has ever existed, every government th...