Hera’s Bad Choices
Artemis SD Hera You are the goddess of marriage. I understand that Zeus has cheated on you but that does not give you the right to punish other people. You should talk to Zeus about it. Him cheating on you does not give you the right to punish a nymph. It was not Echo’s fault that Zeus has cheated on you. Echo did not deserve to be cursed by you. All that Echo can do now is echo what people say. You do not have the right to punish the women that your husband has cheated on you with. You’re a terrible, dreadful, awful person and you should be punished for all that you have done. You need to learn how to be a kind, loving person but right now you are far from it. You have a lot of enemies such as Alcmene, Dionysus, Leto, Hephaestus,
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When you try to punish someone there will always be consequences. You have been facing these consequences since you got married. You need to see the life without consequences. You probably never will though. Remember when you entered that beauty contest with Athena and Aphrodite. The judge was the Trojan Prince, Paris, chose Aphrodite instead of you. You punished him by siding with the Greeks against the Trojans in the Trojan War and you acted as protector of the Greek hero Achilles. You punish to many people and soon they will come back to get you. I am Zeus’s and Leto’s daughter. It was not my fault that Leto is my mother and not you. You need to stop blaming it on everyone else and talk to Zeus about it. Your parents are Titans. They are both bad people and they are on the bad side but that does not give you a reason to be bad and mean to other people. You are turning into your father. You are an unkind, hurtful person. No one will ever forgive you for what you have done. You put a curse on my mother that she could never give birth on mainland. Remember when Galanthis lied to you so you turned her into a weasel. You are a bad, damaging, and destructive person and you should die for what you did to my mother. But I have chosen to forgive you if you be a nice, pleasant woman and not a terrible woman. I am willing to forgive you. You should do the same. Remember when you tricked Semele into asking Zeus to show her his true form and when he did he ended up killing her with the mighty thunder of Zeus. You are a bad person Hera. Also, remember that time when you did something bad to Zeus so as punishment to you he
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Both have limitless power and have great influence on humanity. However, their relations to humankind contrast from one another. Zeus and the other Olympians are often portrayed in a human-like form. Although described to have created mankind in his image (“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image’...”), God is not told to have possessed a human body. This could be one of many reasons to why he remains transcendent to the human world. He communicates with humans and is occasionally the instigator of occurrences, but he chooses not to meddle with human life. This is unlike the Greek gods, Zeus especially who would often personally interact and seduce mortal women, producing an immense amount of offspring, causing his wife Hera to grow jealous. If seen from a metaphysical perspective, Zeus’ tendency for extramarital relationships is a representation for relationships in Ancient Grecian life. Greeks would take part of some legal union but still have other intimate affairs apart from their spouse, both men and women
As shown in the book hasty decisions lead to bad things. William Shakespeare has also mentioned this multiple times. There are numerous examples of this in his play Romeo and Juliet. Nevertheless impulsive choices make up most of this well known writing. These decisions are made by various characters and in different ways.
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As an Athenian, I attended last week’s debate to listen to my fellow Athenians who attempted to convince us to either kill the Mytilenians (Team Demeter) or spare them (Team Hera). This has been quite the topic of heated discussion in our polis lately. On one hand, they betrayed us and had the audacity to ally with our gravest of rivals in Sparta. So they should likely deserve harsh punishment and be made an example out of for our other allies. On the other hand, killing all of them is quit a hasty action that would result in innocent death, loss of revenue, and would damage our diplomacy and relations. In the end, I felt Team Hera made a more convincing argument as they discussed persuasive reasons to spare them (revenue, relations, and diplomacy), offered a fair punishment that’s beneficial to us, and spoke with tremendous rhetorical technique.
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Ownership is a symbol of control. As human beings, we tend to put labels on things, believing that everything must belong to someone or something. This issue of ownership does not exclude the world of fairy tales. Fairy tales, much like birds, follow no rules and are free, but can be over ruled by potential superiors. In Donald Haase’s essay entitled, “Yours, Mine, or Ours?” and Lawrence R. Sipe’s case study, “Talking back and taking over: Young children’s expressive engagement during storybook read-alouds”, both scholars claim that children holds the baton of ownership over fairy tales. Although Haase and Sipe lay out an appealing theory and practice for children’s literacy, a story like “The Juniper Tree” by the Grimms brothers suggest skepticism
In the How to Make Hard Choices Ted Talk, Ruth Chang discussions about the hard choices we have to make in life, whether it is choosing between to schools, jobs or even food. It doesn’t matter if the choice seems easy or hard, big or small we all always have to make choices. Sometimes with hard choices, it can be about something that will completely change our lives, something significant. Ruth addresses that we cannot run away when we have to make a hard choice, sooner or later we have to choose. Even if we do not notice it, we make small choices in our daily lives that do not seem that important because we can easily tell one alternative is better than the other. Ruth explains what makes choices harder than they are by explaining how when
She tempted many, even Zeus: “she beguiles even his wise heart . . . mates him with mortal women, unknown to Hera” (Hesiod). The goddess of love, “she was a particular favourite with the city’s many prostitutes but also supervised the sexual life of married women” (Blundell, 1998). To curb her promiscuity, Aphrodite was married to Hephaistos (god of the forge), who cared deeply for her, and made he...
The gods in power, like Zeus, exhibit bias, dishonor, betrayal, deception, and many other humanly characteristics. One memorable scene is when Zeus and Poseidon are in conflict with each other over the Achaens versus the Trojans. Zeus controls the battle by “lifting the famous runner Achilles’ glory higher,” (Homer 13: 404). Zeus plays both sides in this scene, acting like a double agent which is dishonorable. Zeus’s bias is prevalent throughout the poem; specifically, he is “bent on wiping out the Argives, down to the last man,” (Homer 12: 81-82). Just like mortals such as Agamemnon and Achilles view each other with suspicion and intolerance, the gods experience identical emotions of wariness, anger, and irritation. This human-like behavior is not restricted to Zeus. Later in the text, Hera lies to Aphrodite to use her powers to manipulate her own husband Zeus. If one looks at Hera as a heavenly entity, her reaction may not make sense, but when it is viewed as a manifestation of human emotion, it become almost reasonable. Her scheming response to Zeus’s meddling with the war is spurred by her support for the Trojans. Hera’s manipulation and Aphrodite’s ego don’t stand alone as examples of this divine humanity. These instances suggest that the deities are being presented in this unique way to help explain behavior of the humans in The
In a society in which social position was vital for having a successful family, the Greek and Roman families internally struggled with one another. This constant conflict stems from the father’s desire for control and the society’s high placement of power. In the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone, Zeus’s interest for his selfish gains prompts him to “ ( give ) Persephone to the Lord of Dead to become his queen “ ( Rosenberg Demeter 96). Zeus does not ask Persephone nor Demeter, his beloved wife, presenting that he does not show any opinions on their feelings. Although Zeus in reality just wanted to have a powerful family with the addition of Hades, his love for power overrode his love for his family and created a tension between the other members and him. In another Greek myth, Jason and the Golden Fleece, shows man’s love for supremacy through ...
To begin with, the ancient Greeks explained the creation of the universe, in particular the Earth and its elements, by a system of anthropomorphism in which their gods are human-like and are representatives of these elements. For example, Zeus is the god of heaven while Hades is the underworld lord (Hesiod, p.145). Unlike the Christians’ god who is “flawless”, the ancient Greeks’ divinities are portrayed as humans and are far from perfect. Their gods behave like ordinary people except they are immortal and have supernatural powers. Like any human being, the Greeks’ gods have love, jealousy, sadness, etc. For instance, in Euripides’ Bacchae, Zeus falls in love with Semele, which makes Hera becomes jealous and tries to kill Semele and Dionysus (Euripides, p.209). The Greeks even have a physically imperfect god, Hephaestus. This is to say that the gods’ attitude toward mortals is affected by how people treat them as the Greeks’ gods have emotions like humans.