Homeric Hymns

Both Homeric hymns to Apollo and Aphrodite feature classic mythology that explains various situations between the god and goddess and the mortals. In particular how each god and goddess elude mortals into behavior that both favors each party and has negative consequences. Apollo and Aphrodite have similarities and differences in which they manipulate the humans in the stories that lead to very different outcomes. A similarity between the manipulation on Apollo’s and Aphrodite’s part is that they

and these composed my collection of Homeric-Hymns. Although these were found popular by the local town’s people I knew I need to increase my abilities and writings. With a bigger picture in mind I needed inspiration, I had fallen suspect to writer’s block. With no literary idea

however, women also had a versatile role and image in society in contrast to the simple role men played. The importance placed upon reproduction and the dominant role that women play in continuing the human race is a cause of fear for males. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, women are treated more like objects to

Ancient Greece was an interesting time full of myth, cultic practices and fascinating rules for social life. Demeter and the cultic practice the Thesmophoria had an interesting impact on the daily lives of the ancient Greeks. Demeter played an important role when dictating how women should act in their social life. Contrary to what one might expect, older women were a commodity in ancient Greece. The myth of Demeter describes how older women can teach, are important for childcare and are a big help

Whether Homer was real or not, a group of people, a boy or a girl; one thing we are sure of is that “Homer” wrote two of the best epic poems. The Iliad, which was based on the tenth year of the Trojan War and the Odyssey, which was about a guy named Odysseus who goes on many adventures as he tried to get home to his son and his wife. From what we know Homer was the most famous of all Greek poets because of his written works, his legendary history, and his influential work. “Hateful to me as

Sir Arthur Evans in the twentieth century, helped to explain many existing questions about Homer 's epics and provided archaeological evidence for many of the mythological details about gods and heroes. Unfortunately, the evidence about myths and rituals at Mycenaean and Minoan sites is entirely monumental, as the Linear B script was used mainly to record inventories, although certain names of gods and heroes have been tentatively identified. Secondly, visual sources sometimes represent myths or

wrote sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC. Homer composed the Iliad, a poem about the ten-year siege of the city of Troy, the Odyssey, a poem about the Greek hero Odysseus and his journey home after the fall of Troy, and the Homeric Hymns, thirty-three hymns honoring particular gods. Many scholars believe that Homer was

she emerges from the sea foam is told in 1.5 Hesiod’s Theogony. It is in this story that Aphrodite is introduced as a mysterious and beautiful seductress. In 5.4 Aphrodite and Anchises: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Zeus casts a spell over Aphrodite making her fall in love with a mortal man. Finally, in 5.8 “Hymn to Venus” From Lucretius De Rerum Natura, the poet Sappho calls to Venus (the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite) to help her during a terrible heartache. There are some myths that

success over the Titans. The notion of the "Twelve Gods" is older than any existent Greek or Roman sources, and is expected to be of Anatolian origin. The gods congregated in the council in the Homeric epics, but the initial ancient reference to religious ceremonies for the Olympians can be found in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. The Greek cult of the Twelve Olympians

sexual wants, but rather remain chaste and a virgin until you were married and bore children. The problem with this is that women were also expected to stay beautiful and sexually attractive, almost to the point of seduction. We see this in the Homeric Hymn, the Hymn to Aphrodite. One of the three beings that Aphrodite cannot seduce is the venerable virgin Hestia, who is wanted by and refuses both Poseidon and Apollo, who “in all the temples of the gods she is honored, and among all mortals she is a venerated