Summary:
Explores the ancient Greek belief in curse and retribution. Describes how Greek mythology provides us with some viewpoints which are still valued today.
Greek mythology was told thousands of years ago, yet the concepts and meanings of each story are still useful. Society and humanity still has not changed over time. Every man's characters is still the same; good and bad, heroic and coward, honest and wicked... After reading the stories The House of Atreus and The Royal House of Thebes, the Greek's concept of curse and its explanation are still familiar to our belief today.
In The House of Atreus, the cause of the family's misfortunes is King Tantalus. "a King of Lydia named Tantalus, who brought upon himself a most terrible punishment by a most wicked deed" (Hamilton 248). Their thinking is one who does bad deeds will be punished, including their descendants. Tantalus, who starts the curse, boils his own son and offers him to the gods......
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