Once upon a time, long ago, lived Lyssa. Lyssa was the goddess of madness, insanity, and the dead. One day, Lyssa was called upon by Hera, to inflict Hercules with insanity. She failed at this task, and when she did, she decided she wanted to give her powers to someone else ,because she failed and couldn't get over it. Because of this she went looking to find someone fit to inherit her powers, and she found Kelsie. When Lyssa met Kelsie, she knew she had found the one she needed. Soon, Lyssa started to train Kelsie on how to inflict insanity on things, but kelsie could never figure out how to do it successfully.
“I really can’t do it”, said Kelise.
“Yes you can, just keep on going” said Lyssa’s assistant, Monkia.
“She's going to be so mad if I don't figure it out by the time she's back” Kelise said.
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Kelsie and monkia looked at each other in awe, they examined him and it seemed like he had inflammation in his joints. When Lyssa came back she was not happy to see that Kelsie could only use the powers she inherited to cause pain and not insanity. Then, Lyssa pit Kelise into her dungeon because she was so disappointed. After a while being in the dungeon got old and Kelsie wanted to get out. Next, Kelsie screamed as loud as she could causing an earthquake, which broke the dungeon, and set her
When evidence is apparent Finny leaves feeling ashamed. While he’s leaving Finny falls down the flight of marble stairs and breaks the same leg he had shattered. Finny does not want Gene to apologize but realizes the accident was not based on anger and the two forgive each other.
and starts to loose her words a bit. She says this quote in a way that
I have decided to do my speech on the powerful political leader, Warrior Queen Artemisia II of Halicarnassus. Queen Artemisia ruled over Halicarnassus, now Bodrum from 377 to 353 B.C with her husband and brother, King Mausolus. It was common custom in Caria for nobility to intermarry in their family. Both were the children of Hecatomnus of Mylasa, a local satrap to the Persians, who had been ambitious and had taken control of several of the neighbouring cities and districts.
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For as long as I can remember, there has been a woman, who goes by Medusa. She is from Athens, Greece. Medusa obeyed all the Greek gods & goddess, all except the goddess of wisdom, which is my official title. I am Athena, goddess of wisdom. Medusa is established as woman who is all about herself. Throughout my tale you will understand why they conceive this opinion.
As the ancient civilizations of the west grew their empires, they encountered something so powerful, beastly, and strong that no man could hold down with his own two bare hands, nor could they be tamed. As centuries go on, men learned the ways of the horse and learned to ride upon their backs. They found them to be a key component in transportation, carrying goods, and warfare. As time went on, for every footprint of a human left behind in the wet mud, there was a hoof print not far from the footprint. Ancient Greeks believe that the horse was a gift from the gods, and they were greatly valued in their society. During that whole time men were only written about riding and taming these creatures, not women. Ancient Greece was a civilization where men did all the rough tasks while women stayed home caring for kids and cleaning. In that world characterized by male dominance, one woman stood out. Kyniska of Sparta was the most important visionary for woman’s’ rights because of her understanding of class structure through participating in the Olympic Games. She became the first woman ever to win the four-horse chariot race with her own bred and tamed horses.
“Sanity is a madness put to good uses,” George Santayana stated in his The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings. Sometimes one must go mad in order to be sane, or the sane world they live in is surrounded by madness. Once one reaches rock bottom, reality becomes so much clearer. For example, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, one of the main characters, Ophelia, is under the influence of many powerful men in the Danish Court. She has loved, obeyed and trusted these men who have always influenced her life. Unfortunately, for Ophelia, once she realizes the sincerity about these men, it leads to madness and ultimately destroys her. Yet, it finally opens up her eyes to see the ugly truth and her madness to make her actually very sane.
Involuntarily, humans want, or in some cases need, to live in an utopian world. Calypso, a nymph and a goddess in Greek mythological times, was lucky enough to live in one of these perfect societies, even though it was short-lived. An author states in her online article, “She is a Goddess with several functions, a complex character, and as an individual she represents the dual nature of the feminine as both light and dark in a subtle, integrated/harmonious/in accordance way” (LeVan, par. 2). Her life was made complete by means of Odysseus, a mortal who washed onto the island and later became her prisoner. Calypso’s utopian world of godliness, control, order, and power was shattered due to Athena and Zeus commanding Odysseus be freed. When Athena and Zeus ordered Calypso to free Odysseus from imprisonment, they ruined her utopian life-style.
In Greek mythology, Nemesis is one of many goddess. She is the goddess of Justice. Nemesis is the symbol of right and wrong. (Greek mythology is from a time period around 500 B.C.E.) Greek mythology comes from a period where it came before classical times, so for that, officially the stories of Greek is a myth. That’s where the mythology comes in Greek. Greece was one of the first civilizations that used democracy and for that same government, United States of America uses today.img_nemesis.jpg
The play was considered comic by the ancient Athenians because of its rhyming lyricism, its song and dance, its bawdy puns, but most of all because the notion and methods of female empowerment conceived in the play were perfectly ridiculous. Yet, as is the case in a number of Aristophanes’ plays, he has presented an intricate vision of genuine human crisis. In true, comic form Aristophanes superficially resolves the play’s conflicts celebrating the absurdity of dramatic communication. It is these loose threads that are most rife with tragedy for modern reader. By exploring an ancient perspective on female domesticity, male political and military power, rape, and efforts to maintain the integrity of the female body, we can liberate our modern dialogue.
The Muses are the Greek goddesses who preside over the arts and sciences and inspire those who excel at these pursuits. Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. They were the personification of poetic inspiration which hypothetically drifted itself into the poet's mind. The Muses of Greek mythology had one of the most important functions of all, which was to inspire poets and promote the arts and sciences. The fortunate person inspired by them was praised amongst everyone and were viewed superior than your common individual.
Throughout the Greek mythology, Zeus has been involved with many women and has faced many resistances from them. Zeus has faced many hurdles not only on his way to become the "king of olympians" but also after that with his relationships with women. Hera, Zeus's last wife , has been directly or indirectly involved in placing most of these hurdles. Of Zeus's seven wives, Hera, also known as Judo, has been the most quarrelsome and mistrustful of her hurband. She was frequently angry and jealous of Zeus's other relationships. In many instances , she has been the source of hurdles in Zeus's relationships with other women.Although described as a sacred marriage, one which was intended to symbolize and promote fertility of crops on earth, since the sky, represented as male, must fertilize the earth through rain in order for life to begin there, thier marriage has never been a smooth one and they have had some bitter fights. In one instance, Zeus hung her out of Olympus with two great weights attached to her feet,and her arms bound by golden chains,as punishment for her having plotted against Hercules.Homer, the author has potrayed the relationship of Zeus and Hera very much like that between a man and a woman. Homer shows how like men and women, even God's lie and decieve and are gullable. In one instance, he shows how , in order to borrow sexual allure from Aphrodite, Hera lies to Aphrodite about going to visit Oceanus and mother Tethys, not telling her original plan of seducing Zeus and making him fall asleep during the war. Then Hera goes to Sleep and asks her for his help and in return of her daughter Pasithea. Since Sleep has always been in love with Pesithea, the greed makes him give in to Hera's request. In this episode, Homer has shown that like humans, greed makes the immortals do things they would not have otherwise done. When Hera finally reaches Olympos, she lies to Zeus too and Zeus gets duped and falls into the trap of her seduction, this episode shows how the king of olympians gets decieved and is not able to foresee Hera's plan.
Medea and Lysistrata Medea and Lysistrata are two Greek literatures that depict the power which women are driven to achieve in an aim to defy gender inequality. In The Medea, Medea is battling against her husband Jason, whom she hates. On the other hand, in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the protagonist Lysistrata plotted to convince and organize the female gender to protest against the stubbornness of men. In terms of defining the purpose of these two literatures, it is apparent that Euripedes and Aristophanes created characters that demonstrate resistance against the domination of men in the society. Despite the contrast in the characters of Euripedes' Medea and Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the two playwrights depicted how gender inequality can start a fire.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C. believed that tragedy, as an imitation or mimesis of life as it could be, held more importance than history, which simply records the past. He considered that performance of a tragedy provided the perfect cathartic experience for an audience, leaving them spiritually purified and inspired. He felt spectators seeing and experiencing great hardship befall the play’s hero or heroine would achieve this emotional state and benefit from it.
Within Greek mythology, madness was often perceived as being a curse from the Gods. Scull highlights that, within Greek drama and Homeric myth, madness is a symptom of machinations of the Gods, but also a symptom of the agonies of guilt and responsibility, the conflicts thrown up by duty and desire, the unshakeable effects of shame and grief, the demands of honor and the disastrous impact of hubris. The Greek tragedies dramatize these elemental conflicts of mind – either a hero or a heroine, tormented as a plaything of the gods or the demands of a love rival. Porter argues that in Greek drama and mythology “the inescapable result is madness: they go out of their minds, raging and rampaging utterly out of control”, such as in the tragedy of Medea, when she murders her children in a