Which excerpt from Theseus best shows that Theseus has the characteristics of a Greek hero?
• He was raised in his mother's land, but once she told him who his father was, he decided to go to Athens to claim his birthright.
• Theseus believed he could achieve greatness by defeating these brigands, who tormented travelers, and indeed carried this out.
• Theseus arrived in Crete, whereupon King Minos's daughter, Ariadne, fell in love with him at first sight.
• Unfortunately, on the voyage home, events took place that caused Theseus to forget to put up white sails.
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• Theseus believed he could achieve greatness by defeating these brigands, who tormented travelers, and indeed carried this out.
Heracles and Gilgamesh
Ancient peoples believed in a pantheon of gods. To the ancient Greeks, the gods possessed human characteristics, including their weaknesses, Juch as vanity, greed, jealousy, vengefulness, and cruelty. In their stories, there was regular interaction between gods and humans, as well as demigods, who were the offspring of a union between a god and a mortal. Thus, many myths have to do with the struggle between them.
One such Greek myth is the story of Heracles, or Hercules in the Roman tradition. Heracles was the son of Zeus, a god, and Alcmene, a mortal. Zeus's wife, Hera, hated the child, who was originally named Alcides, but was renamed Heracles in a failed attempt to appease Hera. Out of jealousy, Hera tried to kill Heracles as an infant. But she failed and Heracles grew to manhood, gifted with supernatural strength.
Hera succeeded in driving Heracles insane, causing him to kill his wife and three children, after which Heracles exiled himself in shame.
Myths had different functions, such as explaining natural phenomena the actions of the gods. Another function was to establish models for behavior. Having disgraced himself, Heracles had no other recourse than to go into exile. To prove himself worthy of absolution, he had to face extraordinary challenges.
The ancient Greeks consulted oracles for advice and prophecies. It was believed that the gods spoke through these priests and priestesses. Heracles went to the Oracle of Delphi, who illuminated the path to his redemption. She instructed him to seek out Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, and to serve him for twelve years. Eurystheus, together with Hera, devised twelve tasks for Heracles to complete. These seemingly impossible tasks are known as the twelve labors of Heracles. Finally, after twelve years and twelve tasks, Heracles was free to return to society a free man.
In Mesopotamian literature, Gilgamesh is a hero whose feats are reminiscent of the labors of Heracles.
Like Heracles, Gilgamesh is a demigod who possesses supernatural strength and great courage. But he too misuses his extraordinary gifts. At the outset, Gilgamesh is a disgraceful king who oppresses his people and is only interested only in his own pleasures. The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest surviving works of literature, follows his exploits. In his first quest, Gilgamesh is unafraid of death and, seeking glory, gets into a deadly confrontation with Humbaba, a great forest demon. After the painful death of his best friend, Enkidu, Gilgamesh grows bitter that only the gods may live eternally. Thus, his second quest is propelled by a fear of death.
Gilgamesh embarks on a perilous journey to the underworld in search of the secret of eternal life. When this proves futile, he laments:
For whom have I labored? For whom have I journeyed?
For whom have I suffered?
In the end, he returns to his city, accepting the inevitably of death, and becoming a just king. Gilgamesh's fate, like that of Heracles, teaches that the search for immortality is useless and that even the greatest heroes meet the same end-but humanity lives on. Both Heracles and Gilgamesh beat the odds time and again in spite of their character flaws. What makes them heroic is not simply that they are of divine birth or have superhuman abilities, but that they fall to great depths and rise above adversity.
In both ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology, angering a god brought about dire consequences. In Heracles's case, he attracted Hera's wrath simply by being the illegitimate son of her husband, Zeus.
Gilgamesh's troubles magnify when the goddess Ishtar falls in love with and is spurned by him. She begs her father to unleash the Bull of Heaven. With each breath, the Bull causes the ground to open up and swallow hundreds of people. Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay the bull, resulting in the gods' decision that one of them-Enkidu-must die. These stories instilled the message that to keep away the forces of chaos, one needed to give the gods what they wanted. This meant worshipping the gods and tending to their temples on a daily basis.
Which value is reflected in Heracles?
* taking responsibility for one's actions
* taking care of one's children.
* disobeying the gods to follow one's path
* disobeying the rules to achieve one's goals
Ancient peoples believed in a pantheon of gods. To the ancient Greeks, the gods possessed human characteristics, including their weaknesses, Juch as vanity, greed, jealousy, vengefulness, and cruelty. In their stories, there was regular interaction between gods and humans, as well as demigods, who were the offspring of a union between a god and a mortal. Thus, many myths have to do with the struggle between them.
One such Greek myth is the story of Heracles, or Hercules in the Roman tradition. Heracles was the son of Zeus, a god, and Alcmene, a mortal. Zeus's wife, Hera, hated the child, who was originally named Alcides, but was renamed Heracles in a failed attempt to appease Hera. Out of jealousy, Hera tried to kill Heracles as an infant. But she failed and Heracles grew to manhood, gifted with supernatural strength.
Hera succeeded in driving Heracles insane, causing him to kill his wife and three children, after which Heracles exiled himself in shame.
Myths had different functions, such as explaining natural phenomena the actions of the gods. Another function was to establish models for behavior. Having disgraced himself, Heracles had no other recourse than to go into exile. To prove himself worthy of absolution, he had to face extraordinary challenges.
The ancient Greeks consulted oracles for advice and prophecies. It was believed that the gods spoke through these priests and priestesses. Heracles went to the Oracle of Delphi, who illuminated the path to his redemption. She instructed him to seek out Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, and to serve him for twelve years. Eurystheus, together with Hera, devised twelve tasks for Heracles to complete. These seemingly impossible tasks are known as the twelve labors of Heracles. Finally, after twelve years and twelve tasks, Heracles was free to return to society a free man.
In Mesopotamian literature, Gilgamesh is a hero whose feats are reminiscent of the labors of Heracles.
Like Heracles, Gilgamesh is a demigod who possesses supernatural strength and great courage. But he too misuses his extraordinary gifts. At the outset, Gilgamesh is a disgraceful king who oppresses his people and is only interested only in his own pleasures. The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest surviving works of literature, follows his exploits. In his first quest, Gilgamesh is unafraid of death and, seeking glory, gets into a deadly confrontation with Humbaba, a great forest demon. After the painful death of his best friend, Enkidu, Gilgamesh grows bitter that only the gods may live eternally. Thus, his second quest is propelled by a fear of death.
Gilgamesh embarks on a perilous journey to the underworld in search of the secret of eternal life. When this proves futile, he laments:
For whom have I labored? For whom have I journeyed?
For whom have I suffered?
In the end, he returns to his city, accepting the inevitably of death, and becoming a just king. Gilgamesh's fate, like that of Heracles, teaches that the search for immortality is useless and that even the greatest heroes meet the same end-but humanity lives on. Both Heracles and Gilgamesh beat the odds time and again in spite of their character flaws. What makes them heroic is not simply that they are of divine birth or have superhuman abilities, but that they fall to great depths and rise above adversity.
In both ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology, angering a god brought about dire consequences. In Heracles's case, he attracted Hera's wrath simply by being the illegitimate son of her husband, Zeus.
Gilgamesh's troubles magnify when the goddess Ishtar falls in love with and is spurned by him. She begs her father to unleash the Bull of Heaven. With each breath, the Bull causes the ground to open up and swallow hundreds of people. Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay the bull, resulting in the gods' decision that one of them-Enkidu-must die. These stories instilled the message that to keep away the forces of chaos, one needed to give the gods what they wanted. This meant worshipping the gods and tending to their temples on a daily basis.
Which value is reflected in Heracles?
* taking responsibility for one's actions
* taking care of one's children.
* disobeying the gods to follow one's path
* disobeying the rules to achieve one's goals
- taking responsibility for one's actions
Rain Myths
The Chinese Rain-Master: Shi Zong Di
Near the beginning of life on Earth, Shen Nong, who was the Lord of the Wind, made many journeys over our world. Shen Nong was the second of the Three Sovereigns. The other two Chinese sovereigns were called Fu Xi and Yen Ti. One after another, they helped create civilization and imparted to mankind many skills, lessons, and gifts.
Shen Nong, a known shape-shifter, was the son of a princess and a sky-dragon. His shapes were many.
Most often he chose to appear as a human with the head of an ox. At other times, his form became an encompassing and fiery wind.
Wherever Shen Nong roamed in the form of this scorching wind, he would destroy the plants and trees of the land and dry the ground of all its moisture. The fires made by the heat of the wind would consume entire forests. Shen Nong, content and quick in his travels, was oblivious to.the havoc he left behind in his wake.
Before all hope was lost and the world's vegetation was completely ruined by Shen Nong's careless destruction, Shi Zong Di, one of the Lord of the Wind's ministers, used his powers to intervene. After pouring water into a large bowl, he put a branch into it, and then shook the water off the branch and over the entire Earth. The fires were extinguished and the parched soil received much-needed water. This was the first rain ever to shower down from the sky.
For creating this remarkable occurrence, Shi Zong Di was given immortality and awarded the title "Rain-Master." He also held a post as a prominent member of the celestial court, the ruling authority in China.
After many years of service, he decided to join a revolt against the ruling emperor of the time. As punishment from the emperor after the revolution failed, Shi Zong Di was no longer allowed to use his branch to sprinkle rain down from his perch in the sky. Instead, for the rest of his existence, he was relegated to throwing dust in official processions of the emperor and could no longer intervene in Earth's happenings.
A Madagascan Myth: The First Rain
Before the world was as we know it, there was 'Ndriananahary, the creator, and his son, Ataokoloinona, whose name means "how strange." In the beginning, 'Ndriananahary worked diligently to create the earth out of mud. Then he left this newly made surface exposed to the sun's hot rays to dry out and turn to soil.
Much later, when he thought surely the soil must be ready and fully dry, he sent his son down to check if perhaps, at this point, the earth was habitable and the ground was no longer hot. His dutiful son, who spent most of his days relaxing in the heavens, readily agreed and made his way down to the surface in service to his father. As soon as Ataokoloinona made contact with the ground, however, he quickly disappeared, pulled beneath the surface through the still-searing sand by what appeared to his father to be unknown forces.
His father, watching from above in the sky, was alarmed and did not know how to bring his son back from beneath the surface of the earth. He waited to see if his son would return on his own. He started to wonder if his son had vanished on purpose. Desperate, he decided to send showers of rain down to chill the scorching ground and perhaps provide a way for his son to come back through to the surface. Still his son did not return. He then chose to send human beings in his place to search the desolate earth for his only child. Still no one could find his son. To this day, Ataokoloinona has never been seen again. Still,
*Ndriananahary continues to pour heavy rains down from above. He also continues to send humans to search in his place, in futile attempts to find his son who vanished without a trace into the world his father had created.
In Rain Myths, which conclusion about the Madagascan people is most justified by "A Madagascan Myth"?
* The Madagascans had religious beliefs based on the land.
* The Madagascans had cultural values based on family.
* The Madagascans had religious beliefs based on the sun.
* The Madagascans had cultural values based on safety.
The Chinese Rain-Master: Shi Zong Di
Near the beginning of life on Earth, Shen Nong, who was the Lord of the Wind, made many journeys over our world. Shen Nong was the second of the Three Sovereigns. The other two Chinese sovereigns were called Fu Xi and Yen Ti. One after another, they helped create civilization and imparted to mankind many skills, lessons, and gifts.
Shen Nong, a known shape-shifter, was the son of a princess and a sky-dragon. His shapes were many.
Most often he chose to appear as a human with the head of an ox. At other times, his form became an encompassing and fiery wind.
Wherever Shen Nong roamed in the form of this scorching wind, he would destroy the plants and trees of the land and dry the ground of all its moisture. The fires made by the heat of the wind would consume entire forests. Shen Nong, content and quick in his travels, was oblivious to.the havoc he left behind in his wake.
Before all hope was lost and the world's vegetation was completely ruined by Shen Nong's careless destruction, Shi Zong Di, one of the Lord of the Wind's ministers, used his powers to intervene. After pouring water into a large bowl, he put a branch into it, and then shook the water off the branch and over the entire Earth. The fires were extinguished and the parched soil received much-needed water. This was the first rain ever to shower down from the sky.
For creating this remarkable occurrence, Shi Zong Di was given immortality and awarded the title "Rain-Master." He also held a post as a prominent member of the celestial court, the ruling authority in China.
After many years of service, he decided to join a revolt against the ruling emperor of the time. As punishment from the emperor after the revolution failed, Shi Zong Di was no longer allowed to use his branch to sprinkle rain down from his perch in the sky. Instead, for the rest of his existence, he was relegated to throwing dust in official processions of the emperor and could no longer intervene in Earth's happenings.
A Madagascan Myth: The First Rain
Before the world was as we know it, there was 'Ndriananahary, the creator, and his son, Ataokoloinona, whose name means "how strange." In the beginning, 'Ndriananahary worked diligently to create the earth out of mud. Then he left this newly made surface exposed to the sun's hot rays to dry out and turn to soil.
Much later, when he thought surely the soil must be ready and fully dry, he sent his son down to check if perhaps, at this point, the earth was habitable and the ground was no longer hot. His dutiful son, who spent most of his days relaxing in the heavens, readily agreed and made his way down to the surface in service to his father. As soon as Ataokoloinona made contact with the ground, however, he quickly disappeared, pulled beneath the surface through the still-searing sand by what appeared to his father to be unknown forces.
His father, watching from above in the sky, was alarmed and did not know how to bring his son back from beneath the surface of the earth. He waited to see if his son would return on his own. He started to wonder if his son had vanished on purpose. Desperate, he decided to send showers of rain down to chill the scorching ground and perhaps provide a way for his son to come back through to the surface. Still his son did not return. He then chose to send human beings in his place to search the desolate earth for his only child. Still no one could find his son. To this day, Ataokoloinona has never been seen again. Still,
*Ndriananahary continues to pour heavy rains down from above. He also continues to send humans to search in his place, in futile attempts to find his son who vanished without a trace into the world his father had created.
In Rain Myths, which conclusion about the Madagascan people is most justified by "A Madagascan Myth"?
* The Madagascans had religious beliefs based on the land.
* The Madagascans had cultural values based on family.
* The Madagascans had religious beliefs based on the sun.
* The Madagascans had cultural values based on safety.
The Madagascans had religious beliefs based on the land.
Read the passage from Theseus.
Of all his adventures, the one for which Theseus is best known is his confrontation with the Minotaur on the island of Crete. The king of Crete, Minos, was the son of a god, Jupiter, and a human, Europa. The Minotaur, a fearsome beast that was part man, part bull, was bom to Minos's wife. The story went that King Minos was once given a white bull to sacrifice to Poseidon, but the bull was so beautiful he decided to sacrifice another bull instead. In revenge, Poseidon caused King Minos's wife, Pasiphae, to fall madly in love with the white bull. The Minotaur was their offspring. As it grew older, it grew wilder and fed on humans, so King Minos had him confined in a labyrinth built by the great artisan, Daedalus.
How does the passage reflect Greek mythological beliefs?
• It portrays gods as uninvolved in the affairs of humans.
• It suggests that confinement in a labyrinth was common punishment.
• It minimizes the significance of mythical creatures in
Greek culture.
• It highlights the consequences of disobeying the gods.
Of all his adventures, the one for which Theseus is best known is his confrontation with the Minotaur on the island of Crete. The king of Crete, Minos, was the son of a god, Jupiter, and a human, Europa. The Minotaur, a fearsome beast that was part man, part bull, was bom to Minos's wife. The story went that King Minos was once given a white bull to sacrifice to Poseidon, but the bull was so beautiful he decided to sacrifice another bull instead. In revenge, Poseidon caused King Minos's wife, Pasiphae, to fall madly in love with the white bull. The Minotaur was their offspring. As it grew older, it grew wilder and fed on humans, so King Minos had him confined in a labyrinth built by the great artisan, Daedalus.
How does the passage reflect Greek mythological beliefs?
• It portrays gods as uninvolved in the affairs of humans.
• It suggests that confinement in a labyrinth was common punishment.
• It minimizes the significance of mythical creatures in
Greek culture.
• It highlights the consequences of disobeying the gods.
It highlights the consequences of disobeying the gods.
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