Punishments to Humans by the Gods

The three myths I have now read are Prometheus and Pandora, Minerva, and Niobe. These three myths compare in the fact that in the story of Prometheus and Pandora, the gods actually help the human race while in the other two stories the humans are being punished for having challenged the power of the gods. Still Pandora is also “punished”, but not directly, by the gods in the way that when she opens Jupiter’s jar she lets out all the bad things in earth with hope being the only good thing that will be exposed to human race. Still in the other two myths, the main characters are being directly punished by gods because they challenged them. Minerva turns Arachne into a spider because she challenged Minerva on a weaving contest, believing she was better than the very god. They both weave a different scene, Minerva choosing the one of her victory over Athens in which she shows her greatness and she tries to warn Arachne of the mistake she had committed by challenging her. Still Arachne, being a very stubborn woman, continued her web in which she weaved times in which the gods had committed errors trying to prove the fact that they aren’t perfect and that she could beat Minerva. At last Arachne was turned into a spider in which she weaves all day long. And in Niobe, Latona punishes her for considering herself better than the gods and saying that she deserved to be a god due to her surroundings. Still these statements weren’t the reason why Latona punished Niobe, she punished her because she claimed her sons better than Latonas kids and she claimed to be a prouder mother and having more than what Latona would ever get. Angered, the punishment from the goddess was to kill all eight of Niobes kids and her husband also died from sadness and alteration. So in this case the punishment given to Niobe was to live on her own in loneliness. Every action done has its consequences and in these three myths the gods affect the humans and punish them in different ways. They either experience loneliness, they are turned into a spider or a box that contains all the bad and evil things on earth is open by you.