Western Literature week 16

Abraham
Abraham , birthname Abram, is the first of the three biblical patriarchs. His story, told in chapters 11 through 25 of the Book of Genesis, plays a prominent role in Judaism,Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith.






Prometheus
Prometheus  is aTitan in Greek mythology, best known as the deity in Greek mythology who was the creator of mankind and its greatest benefactor, who gave mankind fire stolen from Mount Olympus. Prometheus sided with Zeus and the ascending Olympian gods in the vast cosmological struggle against Cronus (Kronos) and the other Titans. Prometheus was therefore on the conquering side of the cataclysmic war of the Greek gods, the Titanomachy, where Zeus and the Olympian gods ultimately defeated Cronus and the other Titans.

Pandora
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created by the gods, specifically by Hephaestusand Athena on the instructions of Zeus. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of humanity for Prometheus' theft of the secret offire, and all the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts". Her other name—inscribed against her figure on a white-groundkylix in the British Museum—is Anesidora, "she who sends up gifts".








Monotheism
Monotheism is defined by the Encyclopædia Britannica as belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness ofGod. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church gives a more restricted definition: "belief in one personal andtranscendent God", as opposed to polytheism and pantheism.A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, and both inclusive monotheism and pluriform monotheism which, while recognising many distinct gods, postulate some underlying unity.

Orpheus
Orpheus was a legendary Thracian musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, his attempt to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld, and his death at the hands of those who could not hear his divine music. As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular culture including poetry, film, opera, music, and painting.

Eurydice
In Greek mythology, Eurydice was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo(the god of music, who also drove the sun chariot, 'adopting' the power as god of the Sun from the primordial god Helios). She was the wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music.