1. mythology
... big speech when Agamemnon arrives telling everybody howgreat the love she bore her husband, and the agonizing grief she had suffered in his absence?(Hamilton 253). She laid red tapestries for him to walk on, and made him feel as though he was worthy enough to walk on ... could have killed her son for whom she saw as a threat, but chose not to because she loved her children so much (Hamilton 257). Could Clytaemnestra have caused the pain on Jason with out killing her children? Clytaemnestra and Medea have two different approaches to justifying their ... hatred for her husband, but rathe...
... and order. Next, though, came Hera, his sister; the marriage clearly did not mean much to him, because it appears she is the only one he cheated on (Untangle). In Edith Hamilton's book, Mythology, Zeus" private life is explored in detail. Callisto is one of the sad stories in Zeus" love life. She was a nymph of Diana, and caught the eye of Zeus ... , his most famous escapades were with other gods and demi-gods. With a Pleiades, Maia, he had Hermes, or Mercury (Hamilton 467). The granddaughter of a Titan, Dione was seduced by Zeus and gave birth to the prettiest of all his progeny, Aphrod...
... your typical, happy go lucky gods that so many of us are used to seeing in the movies. He was an "[ ] unpitying, inexorable, but just; a terrible, but not evil god." (Mythology, Edith Hamilton) But he had his reasons for it. Hades was the son of Cronus and Rhea. These two gods were some of the first in the universe and were pretty confused ... ...