Zeus Essays

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 carries the subtitle of The Modern Prometheus. In Greek mythology, Prometheus defied the gods and bestowed fire upon humanity. As punishment, Zeus sentenced him to eternal torment. Similarly, Victor sees his own glory as his ultimate aim and successfully brings a dead creature to life (Jean-Phillipe […]

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, […]

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 […]

The only faculty that is able to contemplate itself and also judge others, such as grammar and music, is the rational faculty. The gods have granted us the ability to use appearances wisely, which is the greatest gift. Zeus informs Epictetus that by using our rational faculty correctly, we can avoid blaming, lamenting, or flattering […]