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Hi, I need help with essay on Enduring legacies and The Aeneid. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

This stance is the only thing that creates a division when one attempts to examine the difference between the view of the Greek and that of the Romans with regards to their deity. Their concept of gods and other entities in their mythology was an attempt to explain the things they observed in their own world and the universe as a whole, and (3) there is no place that the marriage of Greek and Roman culture, in this aspect, finds a better expression, than in The Aeneid. The idea of the deity, according to both worlds, was that of one who represented the human in every aspect, except that of (1) mortality and (2) some human incapability. And within this concept of elevated-power lay a hierarchy or classification—variations in duty and importance (much like a human political hierarchy). There were those with lesser (potentials), and there were those with higher (potentials), but all were gods, and their king or father was Zeus, according to the Greeks, or Jupiter, according to the Romans. It is worthy of note that whereas in many cultures around the world, the head god was often perceived as having created or being the cause of the existence of other gods, in Greco-Roman mythology, the head god descended from a lineage of existing gods and was, to some degree, no different than others in the upper hierarchy. According to Hesiod, Zeus was the son of Cronus, a Titan, who in turn was the son of Gaia, the earth. Gaia came from emptiness (Chaos), along with his siblings Eros, Tartarus and Erebus. Cronus overthrew his father and became ruler over the other gods. ...

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three-way division of universal power: His brother Poseidon became god of the sea. his

other brother Hades became possessor of the underworld. while Zeus himself took over

the sky, and thus the earth and Olympus. Some of the chief gods include: Hermes,

Artemis, Apollo Hera and Aphrodite.

Jupiter, on the other hand, was one of the three sons of Saturn-the other two being

Neptune and Pluto. Neptune ruled over the sea, Pluto the earth and the underworld, and

Jupiter the air or sky. Among the primary gods were: Apollo, Mars, Venus and Mercury

In examining these stories very well, one sees the effect of human political situations in

their formation, as well as the observation of the cosmic. The origin of the gods and

their fight for supremacy represented how the Greeks themselves ran their socio-

political lives, as is witnessed in the mythic tales, such as those told in The Aeneid,

Iliad, and Metamorphoses, as well as true stories of war and conquest. Whatever their

religious view, it supported them, and gave them a reason to do the things they did: The

Greeks and the Romans so honored their gods, that these deities formed an important

part of their daily existence. Alexander the Great was much moved by the feats of

Achilles that he strove to be like him.

In terms of the merits of these gods (which is also a reflection of the people themselves

and their outlook on life), the Roman gods appear to me to be the ones who deserve

more praise. Many of the Greek deities were callous, vengeful and untrustworthy,

compared to their Roman counterparts. Take, for example, Hera who tried to kill

Heracles as a baby, because he was the son of her husband, Zeus, and a mortal woman.