Medusa The Odyssey

In Greek Mythology, there are over hundreds of stories or myths told. One story is the story of Medusa which is well-known around the world. She was young and very alluring at first, but turned into as hideous creature. Medusa is considered one of the most tragic myths ever to be told. Medusas' life was beautiful at first, she lived in the utmost place by the Hesperides beyond Oceanus.

The Iliad uncovers the truth behind what Greeks believed to be the role of women in society. The Greek goddesses and the mortal women represent two sides that women had in society. The Greek goddesses held power over the war, whereas, the mortal women are there as prizes or timé. Aphrodite is the prime example of a goddess who held a lot of power, mainly by using manipulation, in the Trojan War. Helen represents the quintessential idea of a woman representing timé. These two portrayals of women in Greek society depict how people recognized women’s role in society, with Aphrodite representing a woman with power as a manipulative goddess and Helen representing a woman who was merely timé, a prize to be obtained.

Firstly, “The Princess Bride” is mainly about a girl who is in love with a farm boy. The boy Westley has to go to war so he could come back and have money to marry his true love. But, rumors spread that Westley was dead so Buttercup was forced to marry the king. Who knew Westley came out of nowhere and we were all surprised that he changed his name to Dread Pirate Roberts and that’s what kept him alive all these years. The king finds Buttercup and brings her back to the palace and forces her to marry him. He plans to kill her but instead she wants to commit suicide because what she thought was gonna happen didn’t. In the end they live happily ever after, far away from the kingdom.

The Greek and Roman societies were a very patriarchal society. This is reflected throughout the myths in classical mythology. By looking at the many pieces of literature involving Greeks and Romans we will see that the roles women portrayed are very different from women’s roles in today’s society. Although there are a few similarities to women’s roles in today’s society, their roles are more like those women in the past. We can see this by looking at the qualities of Greek and Roman female gods and looking at the roles women play in the myths.

A name does not define who you were, who you are, or who you will become. It is just a sounds others use to get your attention. Some of these “sounds” have a famous (or infamous) history that make the name difficult to live up to or break away from. In the case of Helen of Omeros, the narrator is constantly trying to fit her into the box created the legacy of Helen of Tory/Odyssey. However, Helen of Omeros’ strong will and personality and overall uniqueness is still able to shine through, despite the narrator’s biases, and we are able to see the individual differences between the two women and their connection to the evolution of Helen throughout history.

Circe had just warned Odysseus about Scylla and Charybdis. The witch knew much, but she did not know about the wicked devil below seawaters. A seer who was banished from the underworld rests in the water, waiting for the day another sailor dares to pass her. Theama was well known to be able to tell your future when you remove the stitches along her mouth. Although, she was well known to play tricks, and only one sailor has ever lived to tell the story. Once Hades banished her, he took away her vision in her main eyes, leaving her seeing through her palms. He also took away her ability to speak. Odysseus knew of the myth, but did not have the slightest idea she was awaiting him. The waters were starting to turn into large waves

The title of Sarah B. Pomeroy's book on women in antiquity is a summary of the main categories of females in the literary imagination and the societies of ancient Greece and Rome, over a period of fifteen hundred years. Beginning with goddesses, Pomery retells some Greek myths, outlining the social functions of female Olympians – the goddesses are archetypical images of human females, as envisioned by males. Desirable characteristics among a number of females rather than their concentration in one being are appropriate to a patriarchal society. Demosthenes states in the fourth century B.C. this ideal among mortal men, "We have mistresses for our enjoyment, concubines to serve our person and wives for the bearing of legitimate children (Pomery 1995)." Pomery’s goal in writing this book was to detail and outline the true significance of women in all other their roles in antiquity.

When Athena learned that the two made love inside of her temple she was furious. Athena was so furious she turned Medusa into a terrible horrible creature ,that had snakes for hair, because Medusa was more beautiful than her (Davis, 8). Medusa had two other Gorgon sisters who also

The Greeks’ most important legacy is not being pioneers in democracy as we would think: it is their mythology. In general, we only know what male writers tell us women thought, because there were little to no women writers. However, the Greeks attributed to women a capacity for understanding that we do not always find in the other great literary traditions such as the Bible . Ancient Greek mythology depicts women as a source of creation of the mythological universe, the creation of multi-gendered immortals, and the knowledgeable and powerful personalities attributed to women in ancient Greek mythology. Many popular Greek plays contain several well-written, complex, female characters. These women were depicted as the role of villain, victim, and even the role of heroine, showing the diversity in which women were seen in both mythology and ancient Greek society. We do not give much credit to the Greeks for their balanced view of women’s abilities. The first reason is that many of the original meanings get lost by translations and retelling1, similar to the game “Telephone.” Secondly, myths tend to be misunderstood due to the concerns and beliefs of our own society1. But were women fairly represented as powerful in ancient Greek mythology? We often think of women as troublesome, conniving, and all around negative; but I believe their representations in Greek society and myth prove to be misunderstood.

Women in Greco-Roman myths were incredibly powerful and influential to their society, arguably two of the most influential being Hera and Athena. Hera was the wife of Zeus, and mother of some of his children; she was also the goddess of marriage, and by extension the home and family. Athena is the child of Zeus, but not one of Hera and Zeus’s union, instead her mother is the Titan Metis. Zeus bore Athena from his head, possibly part of her origin of being a goddess of wisdom and strategy, as well as explaining some of her masculine traits. Athena seems to straddle the masculine and feminine worlds, while herself being a virgin woman, but taking on these masculine characteristics. Hera and Athena’s presence as influential Greco-Roman gods offers insight into women and their possible roles in society.

Fiction helps introduce the lies and truths of other people’s minds, to help others learn about their own country, foreign places, and others eras. In addition, it often uses symbolism and imagery to allow people to know they are not alone in all the problems that human beings deal with, such as, with life and death, war and peace, or with love and rage. Knowing this helps a reader understand how Homer’s Iliad complicates the reality that comes with war, yet he successfully proves men cannot escape war because it is intoxicating and glorious. Homer creates the sense that war is an inevitable truth of mankind through his use of recurring imagery, by making his characters share the same tragic flaws, and by using other mythological stories to create parallels that correspond to this truth.

“The Raft of the Medusa”, by Theodore Gericault, 1819, was inspired by the catastrophic wreck of the French frigate, The Medusa, on July 2, 1816, off the west coast of Africa, during a voyage to Senagal. The ship ran aground on

As they enter space they pass a rocket ship and the men on the ship spell out

Once upon a time there was a god named Zeus and he was the king of all gods. And when Zeus came down mount olympus to check on the people and how they were doing b but then he saw Hermes in stone running with a bag filled with coins on his bag. Zeus was very mad at Hermes for stealing the coins but he was even madder at the person who did this. He knew there was one person who of had to done this so he turned right on Medusa. Medusa was punished by cutting her snakes off her head. But when they did they grew right back and tried to turn Zeus into stone but Zeus had his lighting bolt to save him and turned it back on Midusa and Medusa’s snakes turned to stone. Medusa was so stunned that she froze and fell off the mountain. She created a big

From the role of the guileful seducer, to the dutiful housewife, to the furious feminist, women were a central point of Ancient Greek society. Although they were declined legal status and held no political voice, the roles they played in their society were undeniably important. The women of the society functioned as the conferrer of life, established a family which was held as the center of Greek life, and managed the home. Women of that time may have been seen and thought to be have little worth than a man of that time, nevertheless their unquestionable power and influence in society cannot be gone unnoticed. As we see the main character a.k.a the protagonist Medea, in the book Medea.