I could scarcely keep myself from shouting, my hair dishevelled, ‘He’s mine!’ and taking possession of you.
I feel like she has an obsession to Jason of no fault to her. But why does no one think to reverse Aphrodite's effect on her? Make it so she no longer loves him. Wouldn't it have beniefited both Medea and Jason if she was allowed the opportunity to move on?
Indeed, what’s on hand – but why should I be concerned to warn you of your punishment? Great anger teems with threats.
Is this foreshadowing of the events of her childrens death from Medea? is the punishment she speaks of the murder of her own children?
That you live, that you have a wife and powerful father-in-law, that you can even be ungrateful, all that’s due to me.
It is quite sad that after everything Medea has done for and given up for Jason's sake, he easily abandons her for a wife that will give him more power. He is with who is useful to him and Medea no longer had use for him so he in a crude way of putting it upgraded to a better model.
I beg you, by the gods, by the light of the Sun, my grandfather’s fire,
Why does her grandfather a God allow for other goddesses to mess with her to gain Jason favour? Should he not protect Medea because we do know at the end he does not punish her for her actions.
If I’m worthless to you, consider the children we have: a dread stepmother, in my place, will be cruel to them.
Why is Medea trying to use the children to appeal to Jason. If he truly wanted the children would he not have taken them when he divorced her?
JUPITER (to Mercurius) Dead-meat-maker, don’t I know you? Won’t you get far from my sight? What concern of yours is this, you punching bag? Don’t breathe a word. Now this walking stick of mine will… ALCUMENA Ah! I don’t… JUPITER (to Mercurius) Don’t breathe a word. 520 MERCURIUS (to audience) My first try at sycophancy almost ended in disaster.
Why was Mercurius so desperate to help his father when it seemed his help wasn't solicitated? Is he doing this for his own entertainment or personal gain to get in the good graces of his father?
Here's the offer: choose whether you want me to tell you about your future sufferings or about the one who is going to free me.
It is not clear here that Prometheus is aware of his suffering and who will free him of his punishment.
Prometheus remained chained to the mountains until Heracles shot the eagle with his arrow and set the Titan free while on his labor to bring back the Apples of the Hesperides (see chapter 17).
Since Prometheus could see into the future did he know he would eventually be freed by Hercules? I still wonder why did he endure this long punishment just to give humans fire? What was his goal or motivation? It seems his decisions before the inventions of humans had his best interest in mind so what was in it for him or was he truly wanting the best for human kind?
Men now had meat, but they still had difficulty surviving because they could not keep warm or cook their food. Prometheus knew that fire would save them, but Zeus kept fire for the gods alone.
Zeus tasked Prometheus with creating humans but, why did he continue to care about their well-being after the fact? Prometheus previously went on Zeus's side in the battle with the Titans so he would not suffer punishment so why would he risk himself to help humans not once but twice. Also if he has the ablitiy to see the future would he not see his punishment if he helped the humans so why did he still help them?
During the battle, Zeus debates whether to rescue his beloved son from his certain death. Hera councils him to be careful how he chooses to defy fate. What he wants for his son, surely all the other Olympians will want for their children as well, many of whom are destined to die on the battlefield at Troy.
Here Zeus considerers saving his son, Sarpedon, from his death but knows he cannot because he would be defying fate. If he were to defy Fate would there be punishment for him and beacuse it is Sarpedon's fate to die would he just die from other means in the near future or would Zeus take the fate of son for interfering?
In his capacity as the ultimate patriarch, Zeus has sexual relations and reproduces abundantly with many gods and mortals. He has three, official, successive wives: Themis, Metis (the mother of Athena), and finally, Hera (the mother of Ares, Eileithyia (the midwife of the gods), and Hebe (goddess of youth)).
I find it interesting that Zeus was married to and had children with his sister, Hera. Especially through the horrific means that it occured. How could she marry Zeus after what he did to her and why was marraige between siblings considered normal to the greek gods. Despite the actions Zeus commited how was he considered worthy to be King as stated earlier in the primary texts.
The Dark-haired One [ Poseidon ] lay with her in a soft meadow amid spring flowers. [280] And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus who is so called because he was born near the springs of Ocean; and that other, because he held a golden blade in his hands.
Although amazing that Pegasus was created from the beheading of Medusa, why is not considered a demi-god as he is the son of Poseidon?
And they, uttering their immortal voice, celebrate in song first of all the revered race of the gods [45] from the beginning, those whom Gaia and wide Uranus produced, and the gods sprung of these, givers of good things.
Gaia and Uranus created the first Gods, but who created them, before the universe it was considered nothing and chaos. How did they come from nothingness?
One day they taught me their glorious song while I was shepherding my lambs under holy Helicon. The goddesses— [25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis– first said this to me, “Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched, shameful things, only looking to fill your bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but, when we want to, we know how to say true things too.”
As stated earlier in the text, the earliest cosmogony and theogany from ancient Greece that has survived until today is written by the poet Hesiod, but were their others before him who learned of the same mythology from the Gods? What is it about his work that has been able to withstand time and why did they choose for him to hear their story?