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Uncommon within the preponderance of Olympian gods, with the exclusion of the rather tenacious Zeus. His romantic escapades were frequent and never too long since his last. However, no action goes without consequence. This can be perceived in its prime within the myth of Echo and Narcissus. In this instance, Zeus uses the help of a nymph named Echo, “To keep Hera occupied with gossip while Zeus crept away on one his romantic escapades” (Head 27). It is shown that Zeus fully aware of the rash and unforeseeable acts of Hera, left Echo vulnerable and susceptible. Suspectedly, when Hera unearths the truth she is prevaded with outrage; unable to vent her ferocity with Zeus she condemns Echo to a life without a voice. Able only to repeat the sounds she had previously heard. Consequently, it is evident that there are numerous cases of infidelity each holding its own

Zeus was created to be the ideal husband, lover, and father; yet, he constantly cheats on his wife, Hera. Furthermore, in placing Zeus on this pedestal it is curious why Zeus is depicted as amoral or cruel at times (i.e. in Zeus and Prometheus myths). Zeus supposedly holds up virtues and morality for humanity and divinity, however, if this was true why in the Iliad does it allude to there being an uprising against him by Poseidon, Hera and Athena?

Zeus was not faithful; Hera had a belligerence toward Zeus. She started a revolt against him and planned to kill him. She thought that she could strap him under a tree with some ropes and whip him. It seemed like the plan would work but it only became total chaos. Zeus came back, and punished Hera in a portentous way by hanging her and whipping her. He made her promise not to harm him again.

The gods are constantly involved with mortal women and are not shamed for it, Zeus’ being especially guilty of this. However, Calypso argues that when an immortal women such as herself sleeps with a mortal man she is berated and the man is whisked away. She refers to the gods as “scandalized” in result of her involvement with Odysseus, yet they are unimpeded to sleep with any women they desire. Calypso wishes the power to be held to the same standard as the gods, but the etiquette of a goddess is to not freely become involved with mortals, as it is of a god. Calypso angrily must give up Odysseus, and in book six he finally makes his way onto another island after a near death experience awash in the sea. On this island lives Princess Nausicaa who also must undergo gender roles. The goddess Athena, disguised as a friend of the princess, convinces Nausicaa that she should take a trip to the river to wash and bathe her clothes as a plan to get her and Odysseus to meet up. Odysseus finds Nausicaa at the stream, and first she is scared because he is dirty and very fatigued. He then talks to her, and she offers him help. She asks that he accompany her back to the palace where he can get help of her parents, the king and queen. He is about to ride in the Nausicaa's wagon, but then she asks that Odysseus must follow behind, telling him about what would possibly happen if the were to ride

3. The Greek gods where cruel to the Greeks in some of their myths. For example, Hera, Zeus’ wife, would greatly punish any women who Zeus fell in love with, when mainly it was Zeus who

The infidelity amongst the Greek Gods is a common occurrence as well as there being a lack of morality- Zeus is married to his elder sister Hera, and Aphrodite and Ares, her brother, are sleeping together. The Gods do not put as much emphasis on the idea of fidelity as the humans represented in the poem do, this is clearly depicted by the fact that there are two different goddesses for love and marriage. This brings forward they idea that love did not need to be present when a marriage was chosen. Aphrodite was forced into a marriage with Hephaestus, being as unhappy within the marriage that she was, later became the mistress of Ares, her brother, and being caught red handed by her enraged husband. In addition, the troublesome union between

This Greek myth attempts to discourage two types of undesirable behavior . This myth teaches one not to put themselves in others’ problem . Secondly one should not be vain and so unrequited . In the myth it states “ Echo kept Hera listening for hours on end to hear stories and her gossip … to keep her from seeing Zeus” . This shows how echo put herself in Hera and Zeus’ problem . Zeus was down on Earth cheating on his wife with the nymphs . this shows he was being vain and unrequited . Also if one is not going to be faithful to another then don’t commit and make a promise to it .

Although Zeus had a dozen of love affairs he created a “union” wit Hera that resulted in four children. Arguments soon began to arise between Zeus and Hera and became a part of their daily lives. Zeus continued to have one affair after another with different goddesses. Hera could not punish Zeus for

However Hera was perhaps most famous for her jealousy and vengefulness especially toward her husband Zeus and his minions.

This was not the first time that Narcissus played with affections. As a matter of fact he “had previously treated other spirits of the waters and the woods, and his male admirers too” (Ovid 84). According to Ovid, one of the admirers prayed to the gods saying, “May he himself fall in love with another, as we have down with him! May he too be unable to gain his loved one!’

Finally I get to describe to y'all the myth Echo. “Zeus was quite attracted to nymphs and often visited them.Hera, his wife, jealous of his various affairs, followed him trying to catch him. However, Echo would engage Hera in long-winded conversations, giving the time to Zeus to evade her.

The story began with a beloved Echo, who was a beautiful river nymph who loved to tell stories to the goddess Aphrodite. While they were chatting in the forest, Aphrodite promised to find any man that Echo loved and make him love her back, but she insisted that she had not found the right person yet. Echo walked away and then saw Zeus being extra nice to another river nymph. Hera, Zeus’ wife, came down and Echo tricked her into going the other direction so she would not see Zeus. After Hera realized that Echo had tricked her, she cursed Echo so that she “echoes” every last word that is said to her (and she was not allowed to say anything else, so she would never lie again). In the forest, Echo saw the man of her dreams, Narcissus, who was

During this episode we learn about the life of Echo and Narcissus. The story starts with Echo, Echo once lived with Zeus and Hera as she was a nymph and distracted Hera while Zeus would sneak off and cheat on Hera. After she found out, Hera punished Echo by cursing her to live forever although she continues to age, to only speak when spoken to, to only repeat what others say and sending her to the mortal world. When in the mortal world Echo was walking through the woods when she came across the most beautiful man she had ever seen, she fell in love, she instantly tried to hug him, but was distraught with the man’s reaction when he was disgusted and said that he was much too beautiful to be with her. The man was Narcissus, although he lived

Additionally, it is even more fascinating that not only do Greek Gods act like human; they also behave like humans: they could love, marry, produce children, and so on. However, there were problems, because although they were gods, they also were given weaknesses of humans, such as jealously, enviousness, spite, et cetera, which created immense problems by the fact that they were Gods with extreme power. Therefore, whenever they act upon hatred, much of their acts were very cruel and inhumane. Moreover, because there was such a large society of Gods, much of the Gods lives were shrouded in chaos and revenge. For instance, as described in the book Myth and Meaning, Hera was attributed towards the peacock for her ego-centric nature towards herself. She, like a peacock, tried to prove to Zeus, her husband, that she was the fairest woman in the land. Zeus, however, preferred to steal away and fantasize with other women. Then Hera, out of jealousy, who could not punish the most powerful God, instead inflicted it against Zeus’ lovers. All in all, Greek Gods and Goddesses look and act like humans would.

Let me start off by saying, as Hera, queen of the Gods, I do not always approve of my husband Zeus’s actions. Zeus constantly disrespects me by having affairs with other women. To add insult, they are mortal women, while I am queen of the Gods! Of course I do get vengeful, and slightly jealous, but who wouldn’t? This time I discovered Zeus’s latest concubine. Semele, daughter of Cadmus, princess of Thebes and a mere mortal. More importantly she is a mortal, and pregnant with my husbands child! I observe Zeus, disguised as a merchant, talking to her. It seems as though Semele wonders about his secretive behavior and actions and questions his love for her. Zeus, an immortal, and more importantly my husband, should know that sneaking around and having secret relationships with women will never end well.