Midas Touch From Greek Mythology

A young boy called Andy who left a nightclub to go and get cigarettes. He started walking through the alley when suddenly he got stabbed. As he got stabbed he heard a voice saying “That’s for you Royal!” Andy had always been proud to be a Royal because the Royals and the guardians were two of the biggest and he was a Royal. Now as he lay dying on the sidewalk with the rain surrounding him, he thought of being a Royal but now all he wanted to be was Andy.

A story’s conflict can influence so many parts of a story, as well as the storyline. The protagonist should be able to grow as a character and learn a lesson by the end of a story thanks to the plot.

ANSWER: I do not believe that myths need to be literally true to be valuable. To me myths are a valuable part of history that gives us insight or some type of explanation of times, people, and places. They are a mirror that takes past situations and reflects morals that may even still be used in present day

The Greek fables that were written in the past still inspire us today. Well lets just say that their are a lot of lessons inside of these fables and myths that can inspire people today and people can learn a lot of lessons from it. For example, in some fables the greeks teach a lesson about appreciating and cherishing what one has before it is won’t have them and when they are gone you will want to have them back again. Some fables that support this claim is “The Hen and The Golden Eggs”, “Heroes Every Child Should Know Perseus”and “The Miser”. These are some fables that can teach people to appreciate and cherish things before they are gone and some myths that show that how to use things appropriatly and to use things usefully.

Myth, a myth is a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining something natural that a culture believes. Myths are very important to religion and they help to define different cultures through storytelling and legends. Personally I had many different myths to choose from, having a very mixed background. I chose a tale that meant something to me and my family, the myth of how the rainbow was made. This legend is a Native American tale, told by the Tohono O’odham people. Its very light and happy that’s one of the reasons why it was told to me was a kid. This myth may seem like just a children's story but it has a deeper meaning that anyone can interpret for themselves. First of all

The King: “When we got back to the raft and he come to count up he found he had collected eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents”

Then the king made a fire so he could eat beef jerky and bacon. The king goes with his bow and kills half the pigs and cows that were out there in the field. He then found out that he was at a high cholesterol and died due to the fact that the doctors were having lunch. Then

The following morning there was a knock on the door. It was the king of the village and land! The king commanded that Benjamin’s daughter to come to the palace. He took her to a room full of straw and said to her, “You must spin all this straw into gold tonight, or you shall die!” She did not know what to do and began to cry. Suddenly, a dwarf came out of nowhere and asked her, “Why are you crying?” When she told him the story, he said, “Don’t worry, I will spin the straw into gold, but what will you give me in return?” “I will give you my necklace!” she promised. The dwarf spun all the straw into

“Hatshepsut his majesty herself” is about a woman who is forced to take pharaoh for her brother is too young to do the job The lightning thief is about a boy who is the son of poseidon and he is excused of taking Zeus master bolt and has to return it.Ancient cultures continue to shape our world, these stories from Ancient greek and Egypt prove that whatever you are with great thinking comes great power.

The Greek myth I shall elaborate on is that of Atreus and his twin brother Thyestes. It is a very perverse myth; it contains adultery and very distasteful cannibalism, however unintended it may have been. After Atreus took over the Kingdom of their father Pelops, Atreus also

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the Father of English literature and is considered the greatest middle age poet, if wasn't for him we all might not be speaking English. The Pardoner's Tale is one of the best moral stories in the Canterbury Tales. It is also one of Geoffrey Chaucer's most popular stories. It reinforces that the love of money is the root of all evil. The character, setting, and plot goes together in the Pardoner's Tale to show that money is the root of all evil.

The story of Deucalion and Pyrrha is one of these. When humanity became conceited and impious the supreme god Zeus sent on people the flood, and only two had survived – Deucalion - Prometheus’ son, and his wife Pyrrha - Epimetheus’ daughter. After his father’s advice Deucalion took a huge box, put in victuals and entered it with his wife Pyrrha. Long nine days and nights floated their box in the waters that covered all the dry land. Finally the waves brought them to the mountain Parnassus, where they made sacrifices in the Zeus’ honor. The god’s

One that really stood out was confidence, Arachne and Ares showed significant stories that pinpointed this value. Arachne challenged Athena in a spinning contest and Ares fought in the Trojan War. Cleverness was another myth that was bold through all of the Greek myths. One of the gods, Hephaestus captured his wife and partner to show off what sin had been going on and the other god, Prometheus found a way to give fire to the humans. There are many more values that can be used for all the Greek mythology stories but confidence and cleverness are the ones that were the most

Throughout history, there have been many myths that have influenced the world’s art, literature, music, and society. It has influenced by telling stories of heroes and their deeds. They gave the world lesson’s and the importance of many things. For example, the myth “King Midas and the Golden Touch” teaches the world how greed can lead to people losing everything. Because of its theme of friendship and treachery, the myth, Artemis and Orion, has affected society.

Apart from Zeus’s story another myth that absolutely intrigued me would have to be Heras myth mostly because of how the conflict links to Zeus’s conflict. Going into Heras small little chapter, I honestly thought I wouldn’t find much, I thought she would be written as the perfect wife, only for me to read something completely different.