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Greek Mythology: Trojan War
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No hero of Greek mythology has proved more fascinating than Oedipus. He destroyed a monster, the Sphinx, by answering its riddle. Yet his ultimate downfall served as a terrifying warning of the instability of human fortune. As a baby, Oedipus had been abandoned on a mountainside by his parents, King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes, because of a prophecy that the child would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. Saved by the pity of a shepherd, the child—its identity unknown—was reared by the king and queen of the neighboring city of Corinth. In due course, Oedipus unwittingly fulfilled the prophecy, matching the horrific crimes he had committed with the equally ghastly self-punishment of piercing his own eyes with Jocasta’s brooch-pins.
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Heroes in Greek mythology are all depicted as brave warriors who are honoured by everyone. In Greek mythology the mightiest of all follow a certain life pattern. Theseus ... follows this ancient stereotype. Three of eight elements from the hero cycle include preparation, the ultimate test and divine intervention. These essential elements were illustrated in different sections of the story. In order for Theseus to lift the rock he had to go through a period of working out, wrestling and racing.
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In Greek mythology, Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and the most beautiful of women. She married Menelaus, King of Sparta, but during his absence, was abducted by Paris, Prince of Troy. This precipitated the Trojan War. Afterwards she returned to Sparta with her husband.
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In Greek mythology, Tlepolemus was a son of Hercules. He became king of Argos, but after killing his uncle Licymnius, he had to flee the country. In obedience to an oracle, he settled in Rhodes, and there founded the cities of Lindos, Isalysos and Cameirus. He joined the Greeks in the Trojan war, and was killed by Sarpedon, king of Lycia.
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God of War II brings players back to the violent world of Greek mythology where they last left the vicious ex-Spartan warrior Kratos atop his godly throne as the new God of War. In God of War II, Kratos must journey to the far reaches of the earth and defeat untold horrors and alter that which no mortal, or god has ever changed, his fate.
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Greek mythology culminates in the Trojan War, fought between the Greeks and Troy, and its aftermath. In Homer's works the chief stories have already taken shape and substance, and individual themes were elaborated later, especially in Greek drama. The Trojan War acquired ... a great interest for the Roman culture because of the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, whose journey from Troy led to the founding of the city that would one day become Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid (Book II of Virgil's Aeneid contains the best-known account of the sack of Troy).[59] Finally there are two pseudo-chronicles written in Latin that passed under the names of Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius.[60]
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