It appalled me to even fathom the idea of a father willing to sacrifice his innocent daughter so that he could to go to war. ... Both stories show the lack of respect for their daughter as well as their wives. ... Orestes demonstrates bitter rage when he recalls his father's death by his power hungry mother. ... To me this showed an irresponsible part Orestes, like father, like son. ... Orestes just needed justice for his father. ...

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A myth can be an established story from a culture whose author is usually unknown. ... In this particular Midas" story Sileneus, Dionysus" patron, was found in his garden where he was drunk. ... Marygold, daughter of Midas, once came to give her father flowers. ... The first anchor text also includes other Greek gods that are involved but the previous text merely focuses on father-daughter relationship and how that has transformed. ... A father who would do anything for his daughter especially to see her alive just like king Midas, in the variant text; Laomedon instead of rewarding the man who...

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Wanna hear the story or should I say stories how I was born? Well, let me tell you these stories. ... Others would say that I was also swallowed by my father and only Zeus was able to escape this fate. ... There was a time when I compete with Athene, the daughter of Zeus. ... When I came to take over the kingdom of the seas, kind old Nereus gave me his daughter Amphitrite [she's kinda pretty] for my queen and retired to an underwater grotto. ...

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The story that best proves this idea is the story of Agamemnon and his wife Clytemestra and their doomed marriage that ends in an affair and murder. ... Orestes, after being sent away for seven years, Came back to avenge his fathers death. ... As a result, her daughter Lavinia was constantly neglected by her mother, which cause hostility between the two. ... In turn she and the lover are killed themselves by the vengeful son and daughter. ... Mourning Becomes Electra and Electra the daughter. ...

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Antigone is a daughter of the former king Oedipus. Oedipus was not raised by his original parents, so when he is a man he unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. ... "Antigone" is the recollection of his two daughters, Antigone and Isemene, of how their two brothers died. ... He pleads with his father to spare the life of Antigone, but is not successful. ... Therefore, I think that her presence in this story is essential. ...

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It was written by Aeschylus who is often called "Father of Tragedy" in literature. ... He presented audiences with the "second actor" for more complex stories. ... Who would kill their daughter for own selfish victories? ... Zeus allows him to be taken because Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter for his own well-being as well as displaying excessive pride simultaneously. ... Most tragic characters in Greek stories do die or feel the emotional pain of death. ...

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Greek mythology has one god Zeus who is the highest of all the gods but he has many sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and wife's who make up the rest of the deities.   ... The God of the world is said to be Zeus, but how he got to be this power full was not that his father passed on and it fell onto him, but that Zeus overthrew his father! The story in which they tell this story is in Titnomacy. ... Years went on and no one had written any stories down, but later two men Homer and Hesiod transmitted all the stories they knew into one, they had transmitted stories, poems, songs, and beli...

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Oedipus asks tiresias, "Was it Creon, or you, who has invented this story?" ... He is constantly trying to find something, or anything to fuel his belief that he is not the son who kills his father, and falls in love with his mother. ... Why then, Jocasta, should we study Apollo's oracle, or gaze at the birds screaming over our heads-those prophets who announced that I would kill my father? ... Considering that this was Oedipus's last time being with his daughters, you would expect something more loving, and emotional. Anyhow, his last talk with his daughters deffinately summed up ho...

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He chooses to save his daughter and kill all his people. The consequences of his actions are that his daughter is taken away from him forever and all his people die from starvation. ... Medea kills her children because she does not want them to live in a society where they are not citizens and have no father to protect them. ... In the Osiris myth I can find similarities to the Christian story of Moses. Horus represents Moses because he is taken to a safe place away from the king and he will someday avenge his father's death just as Moses returned to save his people. ...

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Tell us a story, god, of how the anger of a man named Akhilleus brought about the destruction of so many. ... Agamemnon brought on this great anger of Akhilleus because he had wronged a priest by kidnapping his daughter and asking for ransom, even though he had no intention of taking the ransom or giving the daughter back. ... Agamemnon's soldiers knew the priest had connections with the god, and all feared what might happen if he did not give her back to the priest, and they all wanted Agamemnon to take the ransom and return the daughter safely to her father, but he would not do this...

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The story is actually told to Telemachus from Menelaus when he visits while searching for any news or whereabouts of his father Odysseus. ... The moral of the story is also a great contrast to that of Odysseus and his own situation with his own wife Penelope. Because the story that is told to Telemachus from Menelaus is very broad and short lasting only a couple lines, I will be adding some content to elaborate the overall story a little more to better fit the Aristotelian definition of tragedy. ... Her daughter Electra will also be in the episode as well as a chorus, messenger, Aegisthus and...

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Early in the play Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter because the winds would not allow his ships to sail any further so by sacrificing Iphigenia the winds would blow in his favor. This action inevitably set the stage for Clytemnestra's lust for revenge since it was her daughter as well. ... In those days there was a very close bond between father and son. ... "I am told that he is dead and go to take the story to that man who has defiled our house; he will be glad to hear such news." ... He wants to make sure that the person telling the news witnessed it with his own eyes because he knows ...

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It is hard to justify killing one's own daughter so that somebody else can get his wife back. ... The people, however did condemn his decision to kill his daughter. ... He exposes himself as his father's murderer and his mother's lover. ... She is foreshadowing the theme of the story and Euripides is voicing his message plainly through her. ... She immediately begins plotting against the lives of her husband, his bride, and his father-in-law the king. ...

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The story of Hecuba and Polymnestor (a tragedy) After Troy fell the Greeks burned the city, killed the men, and captured the women to take back to Greece as slaves. ... Hecuba's youngest son, Polydorus, however had been secretly sent by his father to be brought up as far away from the Trojan war in a land opposite of Troy named Thrace. ... When Polymestor, however, learned of Troy's fall, he cruelly murdered Polydorus for the large fortune of gold that he owned which his father left him. ... There the ghost of Achilles emerged out of the sea and demanded that Poyxena, Hecuba'...

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Athena tells Telemachus that she thinks his father is still alive... SECTION 4 - They arrive to Sparta, were the king and queen Menelaus and Helen were celebrating the marriages of their son and daughter... - The next day Menelaus tells the story on how he came back from the war... He was a child when Odysseus left for Troy; Telemachus is about twenty at the beginning of the story. ... Athena - Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, battle, and the womanly arts. ...

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On trial for murder today is the sorceress Medea for the death of her two children, King Creon, and his daughter Cruesa. ... I asked Medea, "Then why the reason to kill King Creon and his beautiful daughter Cruesa?" ... The fact that the kids were Medea's also makes the whole story bizarre. ... The burning Golden Fleece that she sent as a present to Cruesa later killed her and her father. ... In his attempt, he only manages to kill himself and his daughter. ...

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The story of Oedipus begins with Laius, King of Thebes, who learns from the oracle that his son will kill him and marry his wife Jocasta. ... As Oedipus grows up, he learns from an oracle that he will kill his father and marry his mother. ... Through Oedipus" determination to seek the murderer, the shepherd who "rescued" Oedipus the baby comes forth, revealing his story, which leads to the downfall of Oedipus. ... Oedipus then proceeds to ask Creon, who is happy to oblige, to look after his daughters, Antigone and Ismene. ... As a result, he gashes out his eyes, loses his kingdom as well a...

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Akhilleus possesses all the marks of a great hero, and throughout the story proves to us that he is, if not the mightiest, one of the mightiest military warriors amongst both the Achaean and Trojan armies. ... You gain a sense of respect for Akhilleus because of all the men in the Achaean army it was he who looked out for the good of the army and begged Agamemnon to give Khryses back his daughter Khryseis. , so that Apollo would lift the plague that Khryses had asked him to place on the Achaean army after Agamemnon's refusal in returning his daughter back to him. He even went as fa...

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Athena's mother's name is Hera, and her father's name is Zeus. ... Athena is also Zeus's favorite daughter. ... She uses this power in the story "The Odyssey" in the beginning of the story she shows up as a mentor. By doing this she helps guide Telemachas who is Odysseus's son to find his father. ... She told her father Zeus to tell Calypso to set him free from her island. ...

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Beliefs of this characteristic were represented by the sheer reverence towards the gods and the humanities the Greek society exhibited, and are both deeply rooted within the story. ... The story commences when Odysseus, a valiant hero of the Trojan war, journeys back home. ... There he saw Nausikaa, daughter of king Alkinoos. ... There he listened to Odysseus's stories, and presented him with lavish gifts and a furnished ship back to Ithaca. ... He reached the island just in the middle of a double marriage ceremony of Menaleus's daughter and son. ...

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In examining certain segments of this story, the reader finds that women often are significant to the development of the plot. ... A young maiden, Chryseis, the daughter of the Apollo's priest, was abducted by Greek soldiers and delivered to Agamemnon. His refusal to return her to her father angered Apollo greatly, causing him to unleash his fury, sending his fiery arrows upon the Greek soldiers. ... While the story of the Trojan War was written a thousand years before Christ, the behavior patterns of men concerning women are very much the same today. ...

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In the stories "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone", many actions turn out to have peripeteia outcomes. "Oedipus Rex", by John Bennett and Moira Kerr, is a story about a young man named "Oedipus", son of the Corinth, who attempts to escape his fate of killing his father. ... Watling, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, wants to give her traitorous brother, Polynices, a proper burial. ... Right now Oedipus is doing the only thing he can do to help save his father. ... His father had died. ...

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It is the story of young Antigone, daughter of the late King Oedipus, who is devoted to her brother Polynices. ... Antigone is fated to follow in the footsteps of her doomed father. Her father, Oedipus, the King of Thebes, could not escape the fate that the oracle predicted for him; he was destined to kill his father (Laius) and marry his mother (Jocasta). ...

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This story questions the everlasting mystery of "fate versus free will." ... One of the men he killed was his birth father Laius. ... The curse said he would kill his father. ... The only thing he did was make sure his daughters would be okay. ... Oedipus" temper and pride led his to kill his father. ...

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Perseus begins with a sorrow tone as Apollo tells the King of Argos that his daughter's son would later kill him. ... Her father was furious when he found out she was pregnant and out of anger puts Danae in a chest and sends her out to sea. ... The old man turns out to be Perseus' father. ... Psyche becomes a god by the end of the story. ... These stories show up in children's books today. ...

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