Comparing Power In Ancient Greek And Ancient Egyptian Culture

How would you use power if it was given to you? Would you use it for personal accommodations or would you use it to rule over others? In ancient mythology, the amount of values shown in different cultures are endless. Different cultures master different values. For example, ancient Greek culture and ancient Egyptian culture. Though they are naturally different cultures, they share some values. One large one they share between these cultures is the value of power. Though they share the value of power, how they express it is different. In Greek culture, power is something earned through conquests and is deserved and used for personal gain while in Egyptian culture, power is handed to you by your status and used to have power over a nation. For

Ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian culture also share this interconnection when it comes to values. Rather how they show their values of hospitality, power, and other values in different ways, they still show a way of similarity. For example, in Greek culture, power is something that is obtained by doing deeds and conquests for self accommodation, and in Egyptian culture, power is acquired by being born into royalty and power. Even though power is acquired and used in different ways, both cultures define power in the same kind of way, which shows an aspect of interconnection. Hospitality wise, in Greek culture, characters like Zeus and Hera were some of the masters of hospitality and well protected travelers and treated guests respectively,and Isis was also someone who represented hospitality as a value by acknowledging who shows it and who doesn’t. Though both cultures showed how they value hospitality differently, they both define hospitality in the same way. Even in modern day culture, hospitality and power as a value connect to Egyptian and Greek culture as they show how they value it similarly. Other than values, relationships between Gods, Goddesses, and heroes, and mortals are similar between different cultures. These relationships often reflect the interconnectedness of the

Even with Greek and Egyptian culture being two different cultures, they share the value of power and hospitality, though they do not show the value of power in the same way, as power in Greek mythology is obtained for self accommodation by conquest while power in Egyptian culture is obtained through royalty and status. This shows interconnectedness through mythology as even though these values and other values are expressed differently between different cultures, they still share these values which extend into modern day society creating today's ideas and values. There is still more to be explored in ancient mythology like morals and ethics or gender roles that could connect to and explain modern