“ Icarus and Daedalus: “Daedalus made a pair of wings out of wax and trained Icarus to fly with them in order to escape the Labyrinth. Icarus was told to stay away from the sun in order to keep the wings from melting. With the rings at the ready now Daedalus and Icarus were able to fly away and escape the Labyrinth. Icarus was extremely excited and got wrapped up in being able to fly causing him to fly close to the sun thus melting the wings. Without wings Icarus had no way of flying and landed in the ocean where he drowned. With Icarus death they later named the Icarian Sea after him. “
Theseus and the Minotaur: “Theseus told King Minos that he would go kill the Minotaur in Labyrinth. The problem was that after he would kill the Minotaur he
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But Narcissus didn 't love anyone but himself. Echo committed treachery against Juno and as a result of this Juno took away Echo’s voice. The only exception was that if she was spoken to she could talk back. Echo went to see Narcissus but when he came into the woods he told her to get away because he doesn’t want to be with her. The Gods were angry and told Narcissus love is something he could never have Echo and Narcissus cried and Narcissus’ body disappeared and Echo went and cried with the rest of the nymphs.” Oedipus, the Sphinx, Electra: “A boy named Oedipus who is the son of the King and Queen of Thebes was born a prophecy which stated that he would be the cause of his father’s death. When his parents found out they had the baby taken out of the city to be killed. But the herdsman saw the baby and gave the baby boy to another herdsman and basically kept passing him along. When Oedipus grew up he learned about his prophecy and left the place where he grew up. This got him into a predicament with his real father Laius, killing him. Oedipus continued his journey and went to the Thebes to meet the Sphinx. He then solved the Sphinx’s riddle and became King of Thebes. Oedipus then marries Jocasta who is actually his birth mother. He is completely unaware of who she is and together they have four kids. A messenger later comes to Thebes and told Oedipus that the prophecy had not come true. Jocasta learns …show more content…
He has had many lovers in mythology. This describes three of his mortal liaisons. Danae was seduced by the god with a golden shower. Antiope was seduced by the god who was disguised as a Satyr. Kallisto was seduced by Zeus who was disguised as the goddess Artemis.” Pygmalion and Galatea: “Pygmalion was a sculptor. He sculpted a women named Galatea and he fell in love with her. Problem was Galatea wasn 't real she was a statue. He was in love with the statue and Aphrodite pitied him. To help him out she made Galatea a real woman. Pygmalion was so in love with Galatea they soon married and had a son named Paphos. They named him this to show their thanks and gratitude to Aphrodite for making their love come true.”
The Labors of Hercules: “Hercules had a family but Hera was determined to make his life a living hell. This caused him to lose his mind. In this state of mind Hercules killed his wife and children. Hercules woke up from his insanity and prayed to the Gods. He would serve twelve years as punishments for his sins. During his sentence he had to perform Twelve Labors. He had to overcome the lion, the hydra, the hind, the boar, the stables, the birds, the cattle, the apples, and Cerberus. And once these twelve labors were completed Hercules was
The 12th labor that Eurystheus would give Hercules would be to do 100 push-ups, 200 pull-ups, 300 sit-ups, and 400 body-squats. Hercules did the work out in sets of 10. He would do 10 push-ups, 20 pull-ups, 30 sit-ups, and 40 body-squats 10 times. It took Hercules one hour to finish the work out. Hercules threw up after finishing the workout. Eurystheus congratulated Hercules for finishing the 12 labors and told him that he was forgiven for the murder of his wife and children. Eurystheus asked Hercules what he was going to do since he was finished with all the labors and Hercules replied back saying that he was going to Disney World.
The myth Theseus and the Minotaur’s thematic statement is, taking risks can be unknown and the outcome can be mysterious,
In all three texts, it is the act of analysis which seems to occupy the center of the discursive stage, and the act of analysis of the act of analysis which in some way disrupts that centrality. In the resulting asymmetrical, abyssal structure, no analysis -- including this one -- can intervene without transforming and repeating other elements in the sequence, which is not a stable sequence.
Bold actions are actions where you are taking a risk. Risk that can hurt or embarrass yourself, but when you do take bold actions, they are confident and courageous. Arachne from “Arachne” retold by Olivia E. Coolidge and Icarus from “The Flight of Icarus” retold by Sally Benson both showed bold actions with different outcomes. Therefore, with the danger that is involved in bold actions, I believe that bold actions are not worth the rewards.
As a youth, the Minotaur seemed calm enough, but soon demanded humans as sustenance and became ferocious. Because King Minos feared the Minotaur, he got the advice of the oracle at Delphi, and with that advice, he asked Daedalus to construct a large labyrinth and placed the Minotaur inside of the middle. Now, King Minos had made a contract with Athens. This contract stated that Athens would not have war waged upon it, but they would have to send seven young men and seven young women to be sent into the Minotaur’s labyrinth. The Minotaur’s labyrinth was near Minos’ palace in Knossos. Every seventh or ninth year (some sources even say every year), seven Athenian youths and seven maidens, drawn by lots, be sent to the Minotaur's labyrinth to be devoured by the Minotaur itself. At the time that the third sacrifice advanced, Theseus volunteered that he would slay the mighty
Hercules was about to kill himself. But he was told by the oracle at Delphi
No man ever survived to tell the tale of his adventure through the monster plagued Mediterranean Sea, the exception to this was Odysseus. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus a Trojan War hero is sent on a perilous journey throughout ancient Greece. Odysseus is the king of the kingdom of Ithaca who had to embark on a 20 year ocean voyage back to his home. “He seems very powerfully built; his thighs, calves, hands, and neck are of prodigious strength....” (Homer 98). Odysseus’ journey starts on an island that he has been trapped by Calypso for 10 years after the war. He is finally released when the goddess that adores him, Athena, sparks interest in his son Telemachus. “Calypso is unhappy, but obeys the order” (Weigel 1-4). Upon order of the Gods Calypso helps Odysseus build a boat to leave
Oedipus, by Sophocles, was written around 441 B.C. Sophocles’ story is considered a Greek tragedy. Aeschylus is the person who coined the term, but “it was Sophocles who brought it to perfection” (Struck). Oedipus is one of the most famous classical dramas, and it is because of Aristotle the story reached that status. Aristotle stated his opinions in his book Poetics, which made it popular (Thorburne 384). In the story, Oedipus displays hubris when he defies the gods and runs away from his true fate which leads to his downfall.
Not Knowing that Theseus was his son he had planned on poising him. Theseus then pulled his sword on the king, king Aegeus instantly recognized the sword and proclaimed to the city of Athens that Theseus is his son and heir. Years before Theseus had arrived to Athens the king of Crete Minos’ son, Androgeus was visiting the Athenian King Aegeus. Aegeus, “he had sent his guest on an expedition full of peril to kill a dangerous bull” (Hamilton 2. 211). Unfortunately Mino’s son had died on the expedition and Minos acted violently and invaded the country capturing Athens. He declared that he would destroy the city unless every nine years the people sent him a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to the Labyrinth for the Minotaur to devour them. The year had came for the sacrifices for the Minotaur, Theseus at once came forward and offered himself to be one of the victims, in hope of killing the Minotaur in order to stop the sacrifices and save his
facing many problems with the kind of Crete, Minos. The Athenians were required to send seven maidens to Crete every year. Those who were sent were eaten by a monster that was made of a bull's body and a human head. They called the monster, Minotaur (Theseus in Myth 1 &2). Theseus was determined to stop this from happening, so he elected himself to go an when he was there he would try to defeat the Minotaur. Aegus was scared that Theseus would not return so he begged him not to go. Theseus refused to stay, but made his father a promise. He told Aegus that if he defeated the Minotaur he would replace the black flag on his boat with a white one.
The tale of Odysseus fraught with different kinds of examples of justice. At one point Odysseus is traveling on his way back to Ithaca with many of his men with very little food and drink. He has the idea to entrap the cattle of the sun god Helios.
Tragic moments often lead individuals to continue with their life since death is an acquaintance and we will all obtain it one day. Mankind had proceeded to failure due to not containing an ounce of caring in their bones. This is interrupted throughout Ovid, Brueghel, Auden, and Williams’ showing the failure that was designated to the people who didn’t care enough for Icarus.
“Oedipus is, as it were, only a tragic analysis. Everything is already in existence, and has only to be unraveled.” Throughout the history of literature, there has been perhaps no other character quite as complex and convoluted as Oedipus. Whether it be the reality of his parents abandoning him to die or the mere fact that he married his own mother Jocasta, Oedipus has been continually analyzed and processed by scholars in an attempt to discover the means by which Oedipus arrived at his eventual outcome. To summarize, Oedipus, being originally from Corinth, travels to Thebes in search of his true heritage. After a series of events, Oedipus becomes the king of Thebes and soon discovers the truth. Once thorough deliberation has been given to
Oedipus Rex, or Oedipus the King is Sophocles’s first play of “The Theban Cycle.” It tells the story of a king that tries to escape his fate, but by doing so he only brings about his downfall. Oedipus is a classic example of the Aristotelian definition of a tragic hero. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as a basically good and noble person who causes his own downfall due to a flaw in his character.