Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode 10 (Final Episode) "Thor"

Thor In the 11th century, chronicler Adam of Bremen records in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum that a statue of Thor, who Adam describes as "mightiest", sits in the Temple at Uppsala in the center of a triple throne (flanked by Woden and "Fricco") located in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden. Adam details that "Thor, they reckon, rules the sky; he governs thunder and lightning, winds and storms, fine weather and fertility" and that "Thor, with his mace, looks like Jupiter". Adam...

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Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode 9 "Tolkien's Monsters"

Tolkin's Monsters This Episode is not about  mythology of one past civilizations. It's about a combination of many civilizations  mythology. Tolkin worlds became very popular and it named according to John Ronald Reuel (J. R. R. Tolkien). John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Now let's watch the...

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Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode 8 "Beowulf"

Beowulf Fighting a Dragon Beowulf The main protagonist, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a sword of a giant that he found in her lair. Later in his life, Beowulf is himself king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound. He attacks...

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Clash of the Gods Season I Espoid:7 Odysseus: Warrior's Revenge

Odysseus: Warrior's Revenge Homer's Iliad and Odyssey portrayed Odysseus as a culture hero, but the Romans, who believed themselves the heirs of Prince Aeneas of Troy, considered him a villainous falsifier. In Virgil's Aeneid, he is constantly referred to as "cruel Odysseus" (Latin "dirus Ulixes") or "deceitful Odysseus" ("pellacis", "fandi fictor"). Turnus, in Aeneid ix, reproaches the Trojan Ascanius with images of rugged, forthright Latin virtues, declaring (in John Dryden's...

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Clash of Gods Season 1 Episode "Odysseus: Curse of the Sea"

The Great Series Clash of Gods Season 1 Odysseus Episode  "Odysseus: Curse of the Sea" Clash of Gods "Cruel Odysseus" Homer's Iliad and Odyssey portrayed Odysseus as a culture hero, but the Romans, who believed themselves the heirs of Prince Aeneas of Troy, considered him a villainous falsifier. In Virgil's Aeneid, he is constantly referred to as "cruel Odysseus" (Latin "dirus Ulixes") or "deceitful Odysseus" ("pellacis", "fandi fictor"). Turnus, in Aeneid ix, reproaches...

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