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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So the father divided the property between them." narrating the main conflict of the story which is when the younger son of the man asked for his inheritance and left their place. ... "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. ... His humility overcome his pride, solving the conflict in the story. ... In the "Book of Ruth", one of the conflicts is when Naomi, asked her daughter-in-law, Ruth, to settle down with Boaz. "Daughter, is it not my duty to see you happily settled? ...

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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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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 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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"Daughter of great Alcinous, Nausicaa, may Zeus the lord of thunder, Hera's consort; grant me daybreak again in my own country! ... Some examples of this include an arranged marriage, when Menelaus is having a wedding feast for his daughter, whom he had pledged to the heir of great Achilles, and the ultimatum issued by the suitors to Telemachus. "Dismiss your mother from the house, or make her marry the man her father names and she prefers"(Homer p.223). Menelaus's daughter has no choice as to who she will marry, and Penelope's son has the ability to make his mother leave the ...

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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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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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Aphrodite At first Aphrodite was an Asian Fertility Goddess. She was the goddess of all nature (plants, animals, humans). Aphrodite later became the goddess of all kinds of love. Aphrodite Urania was the goddess of ideal love, Aphrodite Benetrix protected marriage, and Aphrodite Porne was the go...

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In order to take revenge against her husband Gaea persuaded her son, Cronus, the youngest Titan, to castrate his father. ... When Uranus came to lie with Gaea that night, Cronus cut off his father's testicles and threw them into the sea. ... There Aphrodite was welcomed by the Themis' daughter, Horae, who dressed her up, adorned her with precious jewels, and then took her to the Immortals, to Olympus. ... They soon went to Jupiter, The Sky God, who is Aphrodites first husband, Vulcan's, father. ... The stories of Greek mythology wouldn't have been complete without Aphrodit...

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Achilles is inspired throughout the story by rage, he is always angry. ... He doesn't have a mother or father who is a God or Goddess. ... He learned a lot of what he knows from his father who is the King at the time. ... Homer states " When Hector reached the oak tree Trojan wives and daughters ran up to him "(Lombardo: pg73:246-247). ...

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Nobody knows exactly what happened, and many stories have been told to fill in the gap. The most commonly known story, the only one proven to be true, is this. Helen, daughter of Zeus, was one of the most beautiful woman in Greece, her father had told her to never marry. ...

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/ Deep in your chest I have put your father's strength/..I've lifted the mist form off your eyes/ that's blurred them up to now/ so you can tell a god from a man on sight/..you must not fight the mortal powers head on/ All but one of the deathless gods, that is/ If Aphrodite daughter of Zeus slips into battle, / She's one to stab with your sharp bronze spear! ... The mother figures in the story also show their force by voicing their opinions of what they feel the men should do. ...

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