... daughters, avenging wives and furious children. Every aspect of it-bloodshed, bodily urges and impulsivity-fits the mold of classic Poseidon qualities. Even much later in the text, as Odysseus journeys to the underworld, he learns from Agamemnon how "Aegisthus hatched [his] doom and [his] destruction, so [he] died-a wretched, ignominious death" (11: 462,466). Agamemnon's fate serves as ... ...

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Throughout The Divine Comedy, Dante journeys through the Inferno with his guide Virgil. The great poet uses various characters, which he draws from ancient mythology and Greek stories, throughout his encounters to represent abstract ideas or ... ...

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... , traced the images of heroes throughout the world of vast mythologies, legends religious texts and literature examining their various "faces". Throughout his quest he discovered not only characteristics of their journeys but also their heroic conduct. He concluded that "whether presented in the vast, almost oceanic images of the Orient, in the vigorous narratives of the Greeks, or in the majestic ... ...

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