Love Morals in Greek Mythology In mythology there are so many similarities to the Bible I can scarce count them all. Both have a story about the world flooding and repopulating, wraths brought onto mortals by the gods or God, blessings to the faithful, creation, and many other similarities. There is one major difference though, in the Bible the deity is widely known for the disapproval of adultery and in mythology the Gods practice it themselves and praise the mortal warriors who follow in their footsteps. Zeus sleeps with mortals, nymphs, other gods, titans, and anything else he can. The warriors, who are praised and blessed by the gods, are allowed to rape and pillage in the towns that they conquer.
In the end, this is exactly what Perseus did, to complete his quest. However, in the process many lives were lost and many people harmfully affected as a result. The actions of the gods are to blame for the unfortunate outcomes of Perseus’s expedition. As seen in this example, the gods are prone to abuse their colossal power. They misuse their gifts for their own selfish purposes, in this case, to regain the praise and worship from mankind, after it was stripped from them for the ironic reason of the humans being mistreated by the gods.
udged by modern Western standards, the treatment of women by men in Homer's Odyssey can be characterized as sexist. Women in Homer's Odyssey are judged mainly by their looks. If important men and gods consider a woman beautiful, or if her son or husband is a hero or has an important position such as king, the woman is successful. The way women in The Odyssey are treated is based on appearance, the things men want from them, and whether the woman has any power over men. During Odysseus' journey to the underworld he sees many different types of women.
Hephaestus made Aphrodite a golden girdle, which was a magical belt that would make anyone who wore it irresistible. Hephaestus was always working in his workshop, and so he couldn’t watch over Aphrodite all the time. She was unfaithful to him, and cheated on him with a lot of the Gods. Hephaestus was ignorant of the infidelity because Aphrodite would bathe in the sea and become a virgin again. Aphrodite fell in love with Ares, Hephaestus’s brother.
The Epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story of Noah, both have their similarities and their differences. In both stories a great flood takes place, you could call it God’s or the gods’ great purge. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the gods wanted to wipe out mankind because they were too noisy and the gods were not able to sleep. I then thought to myself that this wasn’t a good enough reason to kill off mankind. If they were all powerful gods couldn’t they have somehow blocked out all the sounds of mankind or even send some kind of warning to the people?
The Hymn to Apollo and its Effects on the Cosmos In the Homeric hymn to Apollo the fundamental change having taken place within the universe is found within the relationships between gods and men and within the gods themselves. Before the birth of Apollo, man on earth feared the gods and had very little knowledge of when or what would happen to them at any given moment. They were completely subordinate to the gods in every way. They relied on rumour or speculation in dealing with their future place among the gods. The addition of Apollo to the Olympian order bridged this gap between gods and men since Apollo was now the mediator between Zeus and mankind.
Context In the play, Oedipus the King, by Sophocles the role of fate ► is of prime importance. To Sophocles and his audience, two and a half thousand years ago, your fate was inescapable because it was the gods who ordained everything about your existence. To escape your fate, to try to change it ►, to rail against the gods, was inexcusable, pointless and worse, indicated► a fatal flaw of pride. The Gods to Sophocles and Greeks at the time were not simply a divinity to worship; they were the organising and controlling forces of life. Everything about your existence was determined by them and conveyed to you by their spokespeople; the oracles and priests.
The gods exercise absolute power over mortal actions in The Odyssey. In The Odyssey mortals are constantly making sacrifices to them. Offending the gods creates problems, as seen by the oxen of Helios and Poseidon's grudge against Odysseus for blinding his son Polyphemos. Athena is the most visible god in the poem. Only with her can Odysseus survive his dangerous adventures.
Mankind became fearful of God and challenged His almighty authority by creating a tower believed by many to reach Heaven. In doing so, God (a jealous God) became infuriated at His creation and smote the Mesopotamians by altering the transparency of one language into multiple tongues. This generated much fear, confusion, and chaos amongst the people and definitively thwarted the construction of the tower. The Confusion of Tongues Excessive arrogance and pride is undoubtedly a weakness because it severs logic and reason from the human intellect, thus facilitating ignorance. Reasonably, the tower could not reach the ‘heavens’ because we are told heaven is a theological/spiritual realm that exists in a metaphysical parallel dimension, and not part of the physical world.
They often committed a myriad of staggering sins and believed they were masters of perpetuity. They deviated from faith, and moved heaven and earth for their self-contentment, fulfillment of their lustful desires and attaining happiness and peace of mind and unwarily persisted not keeping in mind any future consequences which they would have to bear the brunt of and could even lead to their own bitter end. We can take examples of powerful rulers such as Sultan Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire and Asoka who carried on committing ruinous deeds and inhumanities not caring for their consequences and were absolutely corrupt people from within. Sultan Suleiman I executed his own son, heir to the throne, himself and Asoka brutally and mercilessly slaughtered innocent men, women and children in his world