When Polyphemos returned that evening, Odysseus showered the monster with wine until he had fallen under a drunken spell. ... He needed to direct his ship through a straight, between two cliffs, on one side the whirlpool Charybdis, on the other, a monster Scylla. ...
Heroic tradition in literature Heroism cannot be discussed detached from a hero. "Heroes originate in the mists of time and myth" (Jokinen 1996). The quote could not be more true, heroes and their valorous deeds are wrapped in the mists of time and myth. The deeds are so valorous as to seem...
The religion of Greek mythology has no physical text like the Bible in Catholicism or the Quran in Muslim. Instead similar to the beginning of our Catholic religion the stories, myths and legends were passed on orally. Some stories were used to write poems which became great literature. The poet Ho...
