Essays on Greek

Many people have heard about the greek god/hero Hercules. Especially because of the disney movie created in 1997 about him. Today i’ll be telling you why Hercules is important to greek mythology, some characteristics and symbols about him, and many more interesting facts. Hercules is…

The ancient Greek spiritual beliefs, religion and tradition are all reflected through the myths and legends for the past two thousand years. The stories and myths consist of heroes and legends who are the protagonists. Each story has a different message, but overall, they all…

Every myth starts with a creator in the beginning of time. In the Greek culture there was a myth that talked about Prometheus, a titan who created the humans out of clay and stood up for his people. While in the Genesis there was God…

Historians and chroniclers have always been intrigued by the unusual coexistence between Sicilian Muslims, Latins and Greeks in the 12th-century Europe amidst religious persecution fervour of the Reconquista and the Crusades. Historian John Julius Norwich even claimed there was a “seemingly effortless fusion” of various…

Greeks defined happiness as “the joy that we feel when we’re striving after our potential,” so how does happiness contribute to a good life. As adolescents we tend to turn a blind eye to the more important things; to the more consequential things; like how…

“It’s Greek [Theater] to Me” Aristotle Aristotle was born in 384 BCE to Amyntas III’s physician, Nicomachus, in Macedonia . At the age of 17 Aristotle’s father passed and so having nothing left for him in Macedonia Aristotle moved the Athens and became one of…

“Considering the gods, fate, and free will is not an idea that is elite to Greek Literature; truth be told, the gods can be found putting their guiding hand into the activities of humans. For example, those that buy into a specific religion may ask…

Greek and Roman mythology is supposed to show the people of the present, how us human beings thought, acted, and felt a long time ago. The imagination of the stories that were told were so broad and vivid, There has never been such a thing…

The Greek Gods had gathered enough Hope and Praise from the mortals to last an eternity. Zeus faded from the skies, Poseidon swam from the seas, and Hades freed the souls of The Underworld before dissappearing as well. The Gods had decided to free the…

The battle was fought in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens, and marked the high-point of the second Persian invasion of Greece. To block the Persian advance, a small force of Greeks blocked the pass of…