The Greek God In Greek Mythology

Helen expresses what everyone thinks of him, “‘You’ve come back from the fight. How I wish you’d died there, killed by that strong warrior who was my husband once’” (Homer, Iliad 3. 480-482), this stirred up conflicts on the ground between the mortals and made Helen and other Trojans dislike Paris even more. Goddesses like Athena were out for revenge in the Iliad because Paris did not see her fit for the golden apple that was to be given to the fairest Goddess, in the Judgement of Paris. So Athena and Hera, who mainly used her marriage to Zeus to do her dirty work, plotted against the Trojans.

Ceres is too sad to even grow plants on earth. People wonder if Zeus will step in and stop this. The Greeks say that Proserpina wanted to go to the underworld. The Romans say that Proserpina was kidnapped by Pluto and that Pluto is forcing Proserpina to be his wife. A few months ago Proserpina the daughter of Ceres, goddess of grain, was kidnapped by Pluto, god of the underworld.

In Mythology, Edith Hamilton portrays the Greek gods as somewhat greedy, and they are often appeased through ritual slaughter. Thus, modern culture learns that Greeks hold value in the authority of their gods through sacrifice. For example, at the beginning of the Trojan War, unbearable winds made it impossible for the Greek army to sail to Troy. If these harsh winds were to subside, the furious goddess Artemis had to be pleased through the death of Iphigenia, Agamemnon’s daughter. Eventually, Agamemnon succumbed to the need to appease the goddess and thus “dared the deed, slaying his child to help a war” (Hamilton 259).

The two types are creation and explanatory. Gods were worshipped at sacred sites and temples in all major greek communities by the priests. Athena was chosen for her courageousness and for being unique, not the typical cliche reasons like “She wore armor” , “She fought in wars and kicked butt”. In all honesty, she is very different from the other gods / goddesses. She may be a well known goddess but the reason why she is well known is because of what she has done for the Greek Civilization and why still till this day she is praised for what she has done and has that title.

This would mean that Zeus and Alcmena are his biological parents, and Amphitryon and Alcmena are his parents on earth. Hercules was half god and half human in the myth. Amphitryon is a distinguished general in the myth, and in the movie he is portrayed as a non wealthy common person. Hera hears about Zeus’ recent action and about Hercules. She is infuriated at Zeus and is so jealous that she wants to kill Hercules.

All the three goddesses offered him something if they choose him. Athena offered him fame and wisdom, Aphrodite offered him the love of the most beautiful mortal women in the world named Helen, and Hera offered him power. Paris choose well obviously Aphrodite. However, when Paris stole Helen from a Greek King and took her to Trojan. He had started the Trojan War.

He wanted to kill Hercules so he could get revenge on Zeus, for sending him into the underworld. He planned to do this by unleashing the TITANS, or these really big guys who hated Zeus because he locked them up into another world and kept them from destroying him. The only thing standing in his way was Hercules, so he sought to kill him. In the original version of the story, Hades was not Evil, and was only known as the Guardian of the underworld, and was not a main

After the killing when Jason confronts Medea he says, "No woman from Greece would dare to do this ... You're not a woman. You're a she-lion. Your nature is more bestial than Scylla, the Tuscan monster", (page 44). His statement about no Greek woman daring to do that implys that Medea did what she did because she is a barbarian and uncivilised unlike a Greek woman.Jason reveals his Greek prejudice to outsiders with this statement. Which is pretty understandable in this situation, since Medea has just slaughtered four people, including her own children.

In book one of the Iliad, the book describes Agamemnon’s irrational kidnapping of Chryses’ daughter, Chryseis, as a war prize. Unfortunately, Agamemnon’s egotistical actions causes a domino effect of chaos in the Greek camps. To provide context, the god Apollo despises the Greeks during this time. Chryses, a priest of Apollo, asks his god for help and revenge against the Greeks. Then Apollo gladly throws down heavenly arrows that kill the Achaeans instantly.

The strength of the relationship between god and mortal greatly affected a mortal’s life. In Homer’s The Odyssey, the different relationships between Poseidon and Odysseus, Odysseus and Athena and Telemachus and Athena affect whether or not Odysseus’ will complete his nostos. God and humans shared many similarities. Like humans, gods experienced feelings of happiness, love, loneliness, anger and jealousy. Homer makes it evident that no mortal should ever underestimate the power of a god.