Monthly Archives: February 2014

Both Aesop’s fables and the Jataka tales have been adapted for children’s literature. The first clip is for a children’s animation of “The Golden Goose” and the second is Disney’s 1934 cartoon “The Tortoise and the Hare.” What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeZe2qPLPh0

After reading Aesop’s Fables I feel that the author was probably poor and came from humble beginnings. It’s hinted but never historically proven in the intro that Aesop was a slave. The lessons from these fables seem to be how … Continue reading →

Zeus and the Jar of good Things Zeus shut up all good things in a huge wine jar, which he left in the hands of a man. This man was curious and wanted to know what was inside. So he … Continue reading →

Books 21-24 were the climactic scenes in the book fields with many dramatic events. The whole scene surrounds this curved bow that was a gift Odysseus have received from an old friend Iphitus. The bow reinstates Odysseus superiority in the … Continue reading →

First of all I hope you all notice the degree at which Homer is pushing on the moments before the big battle. When I was starting Book 17 I hoped that by Book 20 , the battle to remove the … Continue reading →

Before my post begins, I would just like to note that my version of the books have a slightly different spelling of names and places. These four books had me holding my breath in anticipation. What really caught, and held, … Continue reading →

Mycenaean Age (1500-1200 BCE) Dark Age of Greece (1100-750 BCE) Archaic Age of Greece (700-500 BCE) Classical Age of Greece (490-323 BCE) Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes Hellenistic Age (323-31 BCE) from the death of Alexander the Great, who conquered all … Continue reading →

From On Unbelievable Tales by Heraclitus (circa 1st-2nd century CE) They say that Medusa turned anyone who looked at her to stone and that when Perseus cut off her head a winged horse emerged. But here is how it was. Medusa … Continue reading →

  From the previous account of tales, we know that Odysseus is very cunning, but it does not give much more description of his cunning. Book 9 Provides some of the richest examples of Odysseus’ cunning. When Odysseus encounters Polyphemus … Continue reading →

In fact Greek Mythology is a shared fund of motifs and ideas ordered into a shared repertoire of stories. These stories link with, compare and contrast with, and are understood in the light of, other stories in the system. Greek … Continue reading →