Zeus Essays

Introduction Sculpting, as an art, involves working with bronze, stone, and woods by chipping them to form a beautiful piece of artwork. The sculpting art started thousands of years ago during the Stone Age period. During the Stone Age times, people made the sculptures with different intentions. They would be used to praise their gods, […]

The rational faculty is the only one capable of contemplating itself while also approving or disapproving others such as grammar and music. This power handed to us by the gods in making the right use of appearances is the best gift. Zeus tells Epictetus that correctly using the rational faculty, he will not blame, lament […]

The Myth Hades and Persephone is a Greek love myth involving underworld god and nature princess. Hades was the underworld’s god with Persephone being the daughter of nature goddess (Kerényi 21-24). The myth all starts with Hades, the underworld god falling in love with the earth’s princess Persephone. Hades was a brother to Zeus and […]

Frankenstein is a gothic fictional horror story. The novel is given the subtitle of The Modern Prometheus. Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity; he was cursed by Zeus and made to endure eternal torture as far as Victor is concerned, his own glory was a goal for him, and he […]

The term mythology means the attempts in the form of the more or, the less symbolic to explain the mystery of the origins of the earth, cosmos, and the humanity: the themes of the death and life, and the meanings and the causes of the natural phenomenon. There has been the bewildering of all the […]

Introduction Iliad refers to the great epic poems written by ancient Greek writer known as Homer. The setting of this poem is during the Trojan War, when the city of troy was sieged by the combination of Greek states. Homer was competent to come up with two vigilant poems; the odyssey and the Iliad. The […]

Alexander the great was the son of Philip II of Macedon and he succeeded his father in 336 BCE after his death. He is referred to as the great because of his diplomatic skills and his genius acts in the military. He spread the Greek culture and language throughout Asia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and India hence […]

Origin Myths are stories that explain the existence or the concept of how things came to be. These mythical stories are found in every culture and are passed from one generation to another. The stories are believable because there is some reality associated with them. Those myths, which explain origin, are broadly divided into three […]

Foundation myths were considered to be an important mean of passing and conserving cultural and historical information about a city and its residents. These myths not only incorporated what a city and its residents might view to be culturally important but also were used to answer questions about its identity, cultural practices and beliefs. The […]

The seven wonders of the ancient world is an amazing art and architecture work which works like a testament to imagination and ingenuity work that the humans are capable. They are reminders of the human’s capacity of destruction, disagreement and also embellishment. Ancient Greeks liked so much to compile different lists of marvelous structures mostly […]

Tennis is a sport that involves the use of a racket. A game can occur between two two-player teams (doubles) or one individual against another (singles). A player employs a tennis racket strung with cords to hit a hollow ball that is made of rubber and encased in felt over a net into the court […]

The origin of the universe can be explained by modern astronomers andastrophysicists, while archaeologists and historians try to clarify the origin of humansocieties. In the distant past, however, before any sciences existed, the beginnings of theworld and of society were explained by MYTHOLOGY. The dictionary defines mythology as the myths dealing with the gods, demigods,and […]

The Muses are the Greek goddesses who preside over the artsand sciences and inspire those who excel at these pursuits. Daughtersof Zeus and Mnemosyne (“memory”), they were born in Pieria on thefoot of Mount Olympus. Their nurse, Eupheme, raised them alongwith her son, Crotus the hunter , who was transported into the sky asSagittarius upon […]

Hundreds of years ago people did not have the technology to explain different forces of nature. They created gods, each with separate powers, to rule their domains. Some of the gods were merciful, some were wicked, and others were merely servants of more powerful gods. Looking at the gods, it is easy to tell what […]

Olympia The most sacred buildings are closer to the hill commemorating the goddess. The Great Altar of Zeus: here, the sacrifice is given to the god by burning the inedible parts (the past identity of the gods) and sending the smell and incense, leaving the ashes behind. The whole Olympian family contributed to this pile […]

Daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Sister of Hades, Hestia, Hera, Poseidon and Zeus. The goddess of agriculture. Do you know my name? Do you know of this grief and anger burning inside me? I have a daughter, Persephone — maiden of the spring. But her uncle took her to the underworld. That wretched, HATEFUL, damn […]

The mythology is what man kind tries of findings and explanation of nature and all sort of universal actions such as thunders, earth quakes, winds, stars, darkness, seasons etc. The differences of Greek mythology the Greek mythology is more like human based. They were using human forms for their gods appearance instead of unusual creators […]

This constellation is well-known within the Greek mythology, having quite a few different Tories. The most common being that the Quail Is Identified as the eagle that carried Zeus’ thunderbolts to him In a battle against the Olympian Gods and the Titans. The eagle played a key role In the victory of the gods and […]

ATHENA RESEARCH PAPER Athena is the goddess of wisdom and warfare. She is the favorite daughter of Zeus. There are many different versions of how Athena came to be. The most accepted version is that Athena was born a child of Zeus by his first wife, Metis, a goddess of wisdom. Zeus feared that Metis […]

The Muses in Greek Mythology and Art The Muses were deities worshipped by the ancient Greeks. They were 9 women, sisters, whose sole purpose for being was that of the inspiration to mortal man, typically in an artistic capacity. The embodiment of the classical idea of the poetical faculty as a divine gift, these famous […]

Have you ever wandered how our seasons came about? It all has to do with the two major goddesses, Demeter, who is the goddess of the grain and harvest, and Persephone, the goddess of spring also queen of the underworld. Demeter is the daughter of Cronus and the titaness Rhea. Persephone who happens to be […]

The dramatic similarities between Greek and Indian mythology Although the general subject of my reading presentation and my 5 essays is Grecian mythology and sing how huge Grecian mythology is I could speak purely about Greek mythology in all 5 of them ; I decided to establish my first essay on the similarities between Indian […]