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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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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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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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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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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The play Antigone, by Sophocles, is based after the story of Oedipus. ... He tells them that their newborn son, Oedipus, will grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. ... Antigone, a daughter of Oedipus, cannot live to see her brother die without a proper burial. ... Haimon sits with Antigone, crying out that his father has taken her away from him. ... He ends up losing his wife, his son, and his future daughter-in-law. ...

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(Agamemnon suffered for the sins of his father, Aegistreus, the sins of the father had been passed down to his descendant, his son.) ... The interaction between the goddess Athena and the prince Telemachus created a domino effect in the story of The Odyssey, by sending Telemachus on his journey -not only to find his father -but toward manhood(as Athena explains to Telemachus if Odysseus was founded dead, he was to return to Ithaca a king.) (1.280-290). ... Similar to many other cultures, the ancient Greeks developed a religious understanding of the world, based on divine presences and traditi...

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Oedipus, when faced with the knowledge that he killed his birth father and married his birth mother, turns self destructive. ... Jason fell in love with the daughter of Kreon, the king of Corinth, and left Medea in order to wed the princess. ... Medea has decided that she will end the lives of her two children as well as Kreon and his daughter. ... The messenger then bears the news that the princess, as well as her father, is dead. ... As he relays the events to her, she begins to tell a story. ...

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He is the strongest and, as you will see, without him, the other Olympians would still be held captive inside their devious father, Kronos. ... The stories behind the myths are from a much earlier time but written versions don't exist before Classical times. ... However, Uranus was a bad father and husband. ... Cronus grabed his father and castrated him, with the stone sickle, throwing the severed genitales into the ocean. ... Aeschylus, father of tragic drama Aeschylus is the earliest of the three great Greek tragic dramatists (the others are Sophocles and Euripides). ...

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The story opens with the wailing sounds of a woman crying; a desperate woman at the end of her pitiful rope weeping over her broken heart; a heart that was destroyed by her adulteress husband, Jason. ... He wed the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth; which is also the Greek city where the play is set. ... However, as the story tells the gifts are actually poisoned and kill the princess and her father. ... Throughout my attempt to research the famous playwright Euripides I have found that many of his fellow playwrights had mixed feelings about his stories. ... Although, many of my sources agree...

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Oedipus has repressed the disturbing memories of killing his father into that part of his psyche, which is his unconscious mind. ... According to Freud, the Oedipus Complex is the desire of a boy to possess his mother and supplant his father. This complex is roundly exhibited in the play 'Oedipus Rex', where Oedipus does end up murdering his birth father and marrying his birth mother, Jocasta. ... She, as widowed wife to King Laius, recalls the story of the visit from an oracle to Laius that told him how his own son would be the one to cause his death, and how in the fear of this fa...

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While his actions usually result in heroic and lionizing outcomes, as the story progresses it becomes apparent that Achilles motives are not always that in the nature of a true warrior. ... This is apparent in the beginning of book 1 when Agamemnon refuses to return Chryseis to her father Chryses, priest of Apollo. After having refused Chryses his right to his beloved daughter, the priest then prays to Apollo, who then sends down a plague on the Achaians. ... As the story continues, it becomes more apparent to not only Achaians but also to Agamemnon that disrespecting Achilles was a mistake. ....

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Apollo's priest Chryses comes to the Achaian camp and asks to ransom back his daughter Chryseis, who has been captured. ... The story of Homer's Iliad actually centers on the rage of Achilles. ... However, the real story centers on one awesome fighter, man, and hero-that man is Achilles. ... Achilles's rage does not subside until king Priam of Troy, Hector's sorrowful father, eventually comes to Achilles' camp in peace. ...

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The epic revolves around the story of Achilleus's plight, and the manner in which Zeus executes his promises to Thetis, the goddess/mother of Achilleus. ... The father weighs his choices, and decides upon the best course of action. ... Zeus, though far superior to humans, is willing to grant Achilleus's wish despite the fact that this will surely put him at odds with other gods sympathetic to the Greeks - his wife and daughter among them. ...

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