Glory Seeking And Arrogance In The Iliad And The Odyssey

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Throughout greek mythology, we see the heroic traits of glory seeking and arrogance. These traits are depicted usually at the lowest point in the heroes journey whether it’s a war or a game. Glory seeking and Arrogance can be shown throughout the books The Iliad and The Odyssey which are both written by Homer. These themes are also shown in many of the classical vases such as the Eleusis Amphora painted and pottered by the Polyphemus painter, Francois Vase pottered by Ergotimos and painted by Kleitias and the final vase Kleophrades Hyrdia painted by Kleophrades.a lot of films based on greek mythology such as Troy, directed by WolfGang Petersen; Clash of the Titans, directed by Louis Leterrier,

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The first of the three vases that show these heroic traits is the Kleophrades Hyrdria. This vase is a red figure vase that depicts the rape of Cassandra which is the daughter of King Priam and murder of King Priam of Troy and Hector’s son on his lap. This scene takes place during the fall of Troy and is considered to be very arrogant. In this vase we are shown Lesser Ajax raping Cassandra and eventually murdering her in the temple of Athena, this can be considered very disrespectful to the gods, and is considered Hubris and Atasthalia since Lesser Ajax is being really disrespectful towards the gods and raping and murdering her in Athena’s temple only worsen Ajax’s fate but we never hear any more about lesser Ajax from here. We are also shown the murder of King Priam by Achilles’ son Neoptolemus in the temple of Apollo, this is also just as disrespectful as the rape of Cassandra since King Priam is being killed on the altar of Apollo, this links to the concept of Hubris and Atasthalia since Neoptolemus is disrespecting Apollo and worsening his fate and shortly dying later. These are the acts of arrogance as they are insulting the gods as they are murdering Trojans in temples of worship. The second vase of the three is the vase Eleusis Amphora which is red figure vase that depicts the myth of Odysseus blinding of Polyphemus, this vase doesn’t show …show more content…

In the beginning of the film one of the first scenes is some of the warriors from Argos are seen destroying a statue of Zeus which can be considered the concept of Hubris which can be considered very arrogant since they are showing excessive pride towards the Zeus by destroying a statue of Zeus as of a way of them saying that the human race doesn’t need the gods and that the human race is better than the gods. Another concept this scene shows is Atasthalia are making their fate worse by taunting the gods and enacting Hubris towards the gods. This made the gods want to bring destruction to the human race and Argos as they feel that the human race is too arrogant and rude but Perseus is trying to prevent this from happening. As Perseus journey continues he encounters many opportunities that he can ask the gods help for, one of these scenes is Perseus up encountering Calibos for the first time, in this scene we see Perseus being offered a sword to fight Calibos from the gods, Perseus decides that he doesn’t need any help from the gods and that he can defeat Calibos without the sword. This scene shows arrogance as Perseus thinks that he doesn’t need the help from the gods and instead “can do this as a man” This quote is said by Perseus 36 minutes into the movie as he believes he doesn’t need any help from the gods. Since

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