Book Six.

1) Hector is not someone who wants to appear as a coward, so he won't stop fighting.
2) His wife will become a slave. (?)
3) Hector believes that everyone's fate is already pre-determined. There is nothing anyone can do to change their fate, so they need to learn to just accept it.
4) I learned that Hector is proud of who he is as a person. Also, all he wants for his son is for him to be greater than himself, have great pride in who he is, and be brave.
5) Hector is more of a god than Achilles in my opinion. This is because Hector fights like a real man. He does not have the god like qualitys that Achillies does. He can die at any time while he is out fighting. Where as, Achillies doesn't have to worry about it as much. He also has more pride than Achillies. Achillies seems to take everything for granted. He is also too "high and mighty" about himself. He also knows he wont die. On the other hand, Hector will die. But he will die knowing he has done good. These make Hector more of an epic hero than Achillies is.

Unconditional Love

From the Old Testament, the story Parable of teh Prodigal Son, they imply the concept of unconditional love.

Now, unconditional love is something we have all heard of. However, it is a matter of how far should it go? Should there be boundries? Limits? How much love are the parents or guardians going to tolerate before they say enough is enough? Love is one of the strongest four letter words in the universe. It is also something we all possess, receive, and give. In this story from the Old Testament, we learn that the father has unconditional love for his sons no matter what they do. It is supposed to teach a lesson of having unconditional love for your family members. Personally, I think that with unconditional love comes limits. Now, what I mean is, it doesn't mean you will not love them, it simply means that they ahould not be taking advantage of your love. If they begin to do so, there should be punishments. Punishments that are sure to teach them a lesson. However, if the do not learn a lesson and continue to take advatage of you time and time again, it may reach the point where you become so fed up with everything that they don't want the other person in their lives anymore. This story teachus that, no matter how much someone may screw up, we still have unconditional love for them. A valued lesson in today's society.

The Epic of Gigamesh

Throughout the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh goes on a quest. When you hear the term "epic" it means that it will involve a quest of some sort. The quest that he goes on is a quest for immortaltiy. After Eniku, his best friend dies, he is devistated and doen't know what else to do other than go searching for immortality. In the end he realizes that everybody dies, and he must too when it is his time to go.


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Seven Gods/Godesses

Hermes is the messener god.

 Athena is the goddess of wisdon and warefare. She protects the Greeks.

 Hera is the queen of the gods. She is also the sister and wife of Zeus. She favors the Greeks.

Hermes is the messenger god.

Thetis is the sea goddess. She is also the mother of Achilles.












 Zeus is the king of the gods, the father of Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, and Hermes; for the most part, he does not take sides in the war.

Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty; she favors the Trojans.

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Ten Interesting Things About the Greeks...

1) The early Greeks are known as Mycenacans, they were named after tehir leading city, Mycenae. They were all traders and warriors.

2)Throughout the decline of Greece, they kept their culture alive by remenicing about the glory days in the past and teh heroes at Troy.

3) Around 500 B.C. Athens extended their power to men 18 or older who weren't slaves or foriegners, and Athens became the world's first democracy.

4) Aesop was thought to be a slave durring the Athens glory period. Also, more than one-third of the population were slaves.

5) 800-500 B.C. Greek tribal settlements were growing into independent city-states. Sparta developed into a military state.

6) At the end of the Persian Wars that continued on and off for a few years, Athens proved to be the strongest out of all armys.

7) Alexander the Great had united Greece, Persia, Egypt, and parts of India into one huge empire.

8) As shown in Hercules on the pots with images, pottesr would decorate wares with scenes of gods and heroes as well as of everyday life.

9) The women of Greece would marry around the age of fifteen to a man about twice her age. She was to raise her children in the women's quarters of the home away from the husband.

10) The Greeks believed that the Gods and Godesses lived at the top of Mount Olympus, a mountian in a range that divided mainland Greece into various regions.

Popol Vuh

In this story, it's about the Mayan civilization and their creation of the world story. One of the main things that they experienced was a trial and error method. First they made an animal, expecting it could talk and praise them. That's all they wanted after all anyways. That didn't work, so they got rid of them. The next thing they tried were people made of mud. These people were completely useless, becuase they could not walk or talk.You know the saying "The third times a charm"...not in this case. They were closer, but still not there. They made people out of wood. And they worked for a little while, but in the end they were no good. To get rid of them, similar to the Noah and the Flood story, the Gods send a flood to get rid of them. The last thing they tried was making people out of corn. (Shown in picture above). The Gods were very pleased with them. However, not everything is perfect. The corn people had flaws too. These corn people could see all. They knew everything there was to do. So the Gods fixed this problem by taking away their sight. In the end, the Gods could be praised and their creations were complete, and they were satisfied.

Noah and the Flood

In this story, Noah is the only one left that God still has faith in. Dissapointed in his people he sends a flood to wipe out the "disaster" he has created. He tells Noah to build an arc, "Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth" Once the flood is over, God sends a dove with an olive branch as his way of saying its over, and making a peace treaty.

Creation and Fall: Adam and Eve

In this story, God creates Adam and makes him a partner Eve. He tells them to not eat the fruit off of the tree of knowledge because then they will be all knowing and he doesnt want then. However, when Eve is tricked by the serpent they are punished because they disobey God. So he banishes them from the garden of eden, and he also punishes them individually too. “Unto the woman he said, ‘I will greatly multiply they sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.’ And unto Adam he said, ‘Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree…Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou are, and unto dust shalt thou return.’” (Page 68)