How do people become heroes? Are they born as a hero or do their experiences shape them into one? I believe people are shaped into heroes through their experiences. “The Odyssey” is an epic about the king of Ithaca, Odysseus. Odysseus is forced from his…
Essays on Mythology
A quest is a search or longing for something, it is a journey that has to be taken in order to find what you are yearning/looking for, it is a goal; it is something in which you pursue. In this story Gilgamesh goes on many…
The Odyssey charts a tale of heroism and splendour where the titular character—Odysseus—must overcome trials in order to return home to Ithaka. So why Odysseus is a hero? On this journey we see Odysseus’ transition from Iliadic hero to guile hero and how he eventually…
Odysseus is the brave and cheerful character of Homer’s poem ‘The Odyssey”, the oldest written monument of Greek literature. The ancient Greeks listened to the stories about the adventures of a cunning traveler performed by singers. This story is still popular nowadays, and it has…
The Epic of Gilgamesh starts off introducing Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, who was two-thirds god and one-third man. He and his new friend Enkidu go on to a journey together to find the Spring of Youth and has encounters with monsters and gods. The…
“A hero is someone who, despite weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway”. In the story “The Odyssey” Odysseus goes through his journey and faces many tough challenges although he handles it like a god even though he is…
Gender stereotype is considered as an important aspect in leading people to hold general assumptions about men and women either negatively or positively regardless of their individual differences. In her essay “The Myth of the Latin Woman:/Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, Judith Ortiz Cofer…
The Odyssey by Homer is one of the most well known epic poems ever. This story takes place in ancient Greece after Odysseus fought in the Trojan War in Troy. It was written around 700 BCE and tells the story of Odysseus’ journey home to…
The Troy is an ancient Greek epic poem. It is based on the struggles between the Greek and Troy. It is also about the events that occur at the last weeks of the ten year siege of Troy by the Greeks. The Story covers only…
In philosopher and historian Mircea Eliade’s article, he introduces the readers to two different concepts of time, sacred and profane and their significance and function to religion and myths. Sacred time is one that is eternal and where time is non-existent whereas profane time is…
As emphasized by J.C Cooper in her excerpt, The Universal Language, our lives are filled and controlled by symbols whether we understand and recognize them or not, regardless, they always surround us. Symbolism is seen as a treasure-house of the past and holds meaning for…
In the Epic of Gilgamesh by Benjamin R. Foster and “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, we identify a common power that enables us to understand human relationships; love. Love is a power and a necessity that every person needs to feel to fulfill a healthy…
Sophocles is illuminating the proud king Oedipus’s want for the truth to be revealed. He wanted this for the wellbeing of his state, and the safety of his people and himself as a ruler. Those intentions prove that Oedipus was a good king who cared…
The ideas of fate and destiny are often associated with the philosophical doctrine of fatalism, in which all events are believed to be fixed in advance and human action has no effect on what will occur. Classical Greek mythology, however, offers a different view on…
Despite the fact that written in limitlessly better places at various timeframes, Homer’s The Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Plato’s Dialogues, Dante’s Inferno, St. Augustine’s Confessions all fill in as a self-improvement guide for their particular social orders. Everyone offers a novel interpretation of what the correct…
