As the crew sailed away into the vast dimensions of the sea, Odysseus had unwisely revealed his name in taunting the poor beast, boasting his excessive pride. ... Knowing this, but at the same time extraordinarily hungry, Odysseus waited for his sea-mates to fall asleep and slaughtered several of the cattle. ... Zeus, angered by his gesture, struck his ship with thunder, destroying the entire thing and killing the rest of the crew except for Odysseus, which floated off to the Island of Ogygia, where he would there spend the next seven years, made a lover, by the sea nymph Calypso. ...

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Theology The creation of the world is similar to the creation story in the bible, in which a shapeless nothingness was made into earth however in Mythology they believe that in arises from chaos. ... 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 same would happen for those whose body is never recovered (people who died at sea.) ...

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Apollo also represents choral dance, singing, music, art, poetry, youth, sanity, moderation and entertaining in the Greek world. ... The animals sacred to Roman Apollo were the wolf, because of his acute sight, as well as the crow and raven because they were supposed to have instinctual prediction in the animal world. ... Hera's response to the twins' birth was monstrous, as she sent down the giant Tityus to the mortal world to rape Leto. ... His final decision was made at Delphi, at Mount Parnassus near the Corinthian Gulf: "This is the place where I plan to build my glorious temple...

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The main motif of conducting the research is to draw a comparative picture between "The Iliad" and "The Aeneid," so at the beginning we have provided some of the major key factors and basing on those factors we have categorized our comparisons between the two books. "The Iliad" (sometimes referr...

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