She was not declared innocent until Benedick and the friar discover what happened and told everyone (4.1.186-255 and 4.2.50). This proves that men are believed over women. The women also could not defend themselves. They could not defend themselves with words but also with actions. After Hero was accused and fainted at the wedding, Beatrice wanted to avenge Hero’s integrity and honor.
Antigone’s tragic flaw is that she is too passionate and strong-willed for her own good. She insists on burying her brother, Polyneices, even when the king forbade it. When asked why she ignored his demand Antigone replied, “I dared. It was not God’s proclamation” (783, 64-65). Antigone is telling Creon that rather than listen to his man made laws that she would rather follow the higher authority of the God’s.
Ariel Taichman-Robins The Odyssey Vocab: Antikleia-Odysseus Mother Athena-The daughter of Zeus; a virgin goddess; associated with wisdom, cleverness and weaving. Autolycus- Son of Hermes, noted for his tricks and deceits. Odysseus’ grandfather The Bard-The singer of epic poetry; in a preliterate culture, a bard recreates his song in each performance, using traditional formulas and tye scenes as building blocks of his poetry. Calpyso- Nymph or minor goddess who keep Odysseus captive on his island Ogygya for seven years, until the gods demand that he be released. Charybdis-A very dangerous female monster who sucks up water and spits it out like a whirlpool Circe-witch-goddess, enchantress, daughter of Helios the sun god; turns half of Odysseus shipmates into pigs.
He tries to warn Odysseus, he says women are no longer faithful. Odysseus should keep certain things secret from his wife Penelope, even though he doesn’t believe Odysseus is in danger of being murdered by his own wife. In the Odyssey, Penelope, takes on the role of both a mother and sometimes a seductress. She led the suitors into making them believe that she would re-marry again, but Penelope is awaiting the return of her husband. An example of mothers in The Odyssey would be when Telemachus ordered Penelope from her room, to show the suitors of his intentions on claiming his father’s throne.
This action of Paris creates rivalry between the two cities and the Trojan War strikes in. Atreus’s sons have vowed that they will bring Helen back home and in order to win the war, Agamemnon sacrifices his own daughter to gods. Oresteia depicts number of sins
4. How does Alcibiades at once embody both the best and the worst of Athens at the height of the Peloponnesian War? (primary source suggestions: Funeral Oration, Pericles' final speech (class 3/30), Thucydides Book 6 (class
Meghan Bohles January 11, 2015 Formal Essay Greek mythology and Native American myths are more connected then people may think they are. For one they are polytheist, the belief in, or woship of more then one god. They both make sacrifices to these gods, and they both got run over by other groups of people. These three points are the connection between Atala and Odyssey. In Atala the Native Americans worshiped more than one god, and they are very closely related to the Greek gods.
Euripides questions the Greek ideal woman and her characteristics. Euripides wrote against the norm of Ancient Greek writing when writing this play. The theme of justice verses revenge was very prominent in Medea. Medea goes to great lengths to seek revenge on her ex-husband Jason after he left her and her kids to poverty in a foreign country so that he could then get married to the King’s daughter in Corinth. Not only did Jason do that, but his soon to be father-in-law King Creon demands that Medea and her children leave at once or after she persuades him after a day.
Gilgamesh was King of Uruk. Ishtar proposed marriage to King Gilgamesh and he rejected her with insults. He spoke of her past lovers and what they endured while with her. Ishtar then goes to her father, Anu, enraged from the insults. She commanded her father to let the bull of heaven free to wreak havoc amongst Gilgamesh.
Odysseus’ decision to leave the island when he has the choice may have been a far more trying decision six years ago. On the other hand, Penelope is criticized for leading her suitors on. As Antinous complains to Telemachus in book II, “It’s not the suitors here who deserves the blame, it’s your own dear mother, the matchless queen of cunning. For three years now, getting on to four, she’s played it fast and loose with all our hearts, building each man’s hopes—dangling promises, dropping hints to each – but all the while with something else in mind" (l. 96-100). Penelope and Calypso: Seduction in The Odyssey The portrayal of Penelope as a seductress (though at other times she also plays the role of a mother) is especially interesting since the other seductresses in the Odyssey are goddesses, not mortal women.