Speech : ' Olives '

One of his most popular tales includes competing against Athena for the patronage of the city of Athens. According to this myth, the first king of Athens had been looking for a guardian of the city when both Poseidon, god of seas, and Athena, god of wisdom, interestedly volunteered. The king then asked both gods to present a true gift of value to the city of

The Greeks set up athletic events in honor of Zeus for which the Olympics was made.

The participants was the city states. It was held every four years, in honor of Zeus. The prizes for winning were fame and glory. Now that was pretty cool, if you ask me. Today we have Olympic Games but it is a little different then there was. Today we get awards if we win the games. We have the games all around the world.

There are many opportunities to celebrate the god, yet some that are more culturally tied to Greece are the Olympics. These are held every four years in honour of the god (301). There were other athletic contest that were held solely in honour of Zeus, they were held every two years at Nemea (301).

In the image of a black figure vase, we can see a clear distinction between the different characters involved during the games. We can see the umpire on the right of the vase, naked and with a whip in his hand, ready to punish any athletes who cheated. The lower bodied athlete signals submission to the umpire, who then forwards the submission to the hellanodikai. The hellanodikai, on the left of the vase, wears a robe, which would have been purple, and a crown to signify his more honourable roll. The five days of the Olympics each had their own special event; the first included the athletes and hellanodikai swearing an oath of honesty and sportsmanship before the statue of Zeus, an unbreakable promise. The second day hosted the horse races and the pentathlon, consisting of discus, the long jump, javelin, running and wrestling, all went on in one afternoon. The third day saw a more religious side to the Olympics; rites for the hero Pelops were given, a procession of all participants, hellanodikai and ambassadors of the different cities took place, and a sacrifice of a hundred cows was given to Zeus. The fourth day was for the running and combat sports, including wrestling, boxing and pankration, which was a sport that combined both the rules of wrestling and boxing. In contrast to the Pythian Games at Delphi, musical events were never added to the Olympic Games. Victors in any of the contests received a crown of leaves as a symbolic prize for their achievements, and

When the cyclopes were locked in Tartarus, Zeus was fighting the Titans. Gaea told Zeus to go to Tartarus and unlock the cyclopes and also their brothers, the Hekatoncheires. Zeus freed them. The cyclopes were so grateful that they made a lightning bolt for Zeus, a cap of invisibility for Hades and a trident for Poseidon. With the Cyclopes help the Olympians won the Titanomachy.

“True love is hard to find.” “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. These words have been told to and heard from family, friends, co-workers and even words in a poem. (A.C. Bradley). These words are said to someone to comfort and express sympathy and understanding to one that is having a relationship issues. Only a lucky few have found true love the very first time love has entered the into their space, some have managed to remain married over forty years or more. Life’s dilemmas interfere with true love from entering the lives of the people that love has touched. Parents protecting their children, worrying about what other think, love not being reciprocated, fell in love too young, self-esteem too low, looking for

You’ll be mine and I’ll be yours. Everything will be perfect until one screws up, but what if no one screws up? Yes, if no one screws up you made it to the finish line of a “happily ever after”. Love is such a crazy thing, one day is alive and growing and the next is fading until it completely dies. Everyone will have their own view on love, but love is vague, for one knows about today but not about tomorrow. In her critique of love, “Against Love,” Laura Kipnis offers a judgmental version of what constitutes “real love”. She questions whether we truly desire love, or rather, are conditioned to. She asserts that social forms accustomed us to pursue a love life so that we are entertained and wanted. But everyone has a different opinion on the matter. In his short story, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Raymond Carver tells the story of four different individuals in which he explores the perceptions of love by referring to their beliefs and experiences. One of the four characters, Mel, seems to have an unclear perspective on love himself as he questions his love life and asserts that everyone is entitled to look for love when is missing. If Mel was to have a conversation with Kipnis they would agree and disagree on certain ideas, for they both are able to understand the complexity of the matter. Mel would agree with Kipnis that society forces one to feel like a failure when love dies and that people move on because society expects us to, as he questions his

Yet to her came Zeus in the golden rain. As she sat there through the long days and hours with nothing to do, nothing to see except the clouds moving by overhead, a mysterious thing happened, a shower of gold fell from the sky and filled her chamber. How it was revealed to her that it was Zeus who had visited her in this shape we are not told, but she knew that the child she bore was his son” (Hamilton, Pg. 198).

When you have found the person, you need to sit together and discuss your situations and perhaps offer each other advice.

Zeus gave Ganymede's father a flock of the finest horses as compensation for taking his son.

Still, people believe in finding the love of their life — it’s just a matter of time. But, as I’ve written before, finding The One is no easy task. The One can come in all shapes, sizes and through many circumstances. Sometimes it may require

Have you ever noticed how, when you meet someone, you just click, or dont click? Then there is that one person, the one person, no matter what happens, you guys come back together? You guys could have a fight, but you guys are okay again soon, and it just eneded up making the relationship so much stronger. Im not saying this has to be a significant other, this could be a best friend, person you just adore, or of course your future wife or husband. Its your other half, soulmate, like thats your person.

Furthermore, it was possibly a sign that he was angered with the people for something wrong they did. In that admiration, the Greeks accepted that Zeus and his Olympian divine beings were of the best criticalness. Every God had their own sanctuary, and inside these sanctuaries the ministers or priestesses verified that the tenets of offering were being watched. They

This person might not be completely in sync with you, and they will definitely not be ‘perfectly compatible’-if such a thing even exists-with you; but they do hold the power to make you extremely very happy.