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.
Demeter herself starts in Olympus but figuratively her home is with her daughter or, more specifically, when her daughter is dependent on her. The Call occurs when Hades kidnaps Persephone. With this Demeter is stripped of being with her daughter and she is called to transform from being a mother dependent on her child. With Demeter in distress, crops begin to wither. As the goddess of the harvest Demeter needs to remain on Olympus and tend to her job but her worry over her daughter keeps her from it.
Gods feared that because of her beauty, jealousy would disrupt the peace among them leading to war. Therefore Zeus married her to Hephaestus. Being the God of technology, blacksmith craftsmen, artisans, sculptures, metals, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes did not pose a threat. Aphrodite never appeared to have a childhood, in every image and each reference she is born as an adult, nubile, and infinitely desirable. Aphrodite, in many myths involving her, is deemed as vain,
It is also said that Demeter, the Goddess of harvest and fertility, turned the Sirens into half-woman, half-bird creatures. This was done because the three sisters failed to save Demeter’s daughter, Persephone. Persephone was kidnapped by the God of the Underworld, Hades. The Sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass them without stopping. Sirens dwell on their rocky island in a flowery meadow.
“My friends at home now hate me…” Medea even earned more enemies when helping Jason. For examples, she killed Pelias and his daughters. “There I put king Pelias…” Through the play, Euripides shows that Medea is an obedient wife when she had borne for Jason two sons. She always tries
Character Analysis Till We Have Faces, written by C.S. Lewis, is a novel based on the Greek legend of Psyche and Cupid. The main character and narrator, Orual, retells her life from when she was young to her present age. In the story she tells of how being the ugly sister compared her two beautiful sisters, Redival and Psyche, has impacted her life substantially. Psyche was the major reason behind Orual’s actions because Orual was jealous that everyone noticed Psyche and never acknowledged her, and this would ultimately lead to the sacrificing of Psyche to the mountain god, Ungit.
16 begins by recalling Jerusalem’s dishonorable origin and birthplace. It states that she was born to non-Israelites (her father was an Amorite and her mother a Hittite) in the land of the Canaanites. For an unbeknownst reason, her parents abandoned her and left her to die on the day that she was born. Yahweh, however, passed by the baby flailing in her own birth blood, and with the power of his spoken word commands her to live. Yahweh’s words can be identified as a declaration of legal adoption, and according to §185 of Hammurabi’s Old Babylonian law code, a baby that is adopted while still in its amniotic fluid may never be reclaimed.
God cursed the man, the woman and the serpent and sent the man and the woman out of the Garden of Eden. In the creation myth “Out of the Blue”, a maiden named Sky Woman received a message from her deceased father instructing her to go and marry a stranger. She did as she was told and traveled to the place her father had told her to go. Even though she was a strong woman, she was also very strange and was conned into jumping down a hole of her world and consequently creates the human
In the Greek myth of Dionysus, the first description of an incubator is noted. In the story, the mortal woman Semeli, Dionysus' mother, requested that Zeus be present at the birth of him. Outraged, Zeus burns her as she is giving birth and takes the baby Dionysus from her body. Dionysus being a prematurely born infant was said to be struggling to live so Zeus sent him to Hyades. Hyades placed the baby Dionysus into a cave-incubator, a moist, warm environment.
It is based on the Greek legend of Oedipus; a story where an Oracle prophesises that Oedipus (the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta) would kill his father and marry his Mother. With this legend, Graham had the basis to compose one of her most emotionally charged works. As with many of her works, Graham manipulated the piece to make Jocasta the protagonist. She did this to allow the audience to focus entirely on the emotions being conveyed. Graham’s Night Journey tells of Jocasta’s destiny, the triumphal entry of Oedipus, their meeting, new love and intimacy and then their devastating discovery that their relationship is not of husband and wife, but actually of mother and son.