A Study of a Dionysiac Sarcophagus
In the Los Angeles County Art MuseumA man dies. He winds his way down into the underworld to reach the banks of the river Acheron where he meets the ferryman Charon. He takes a coin from his mouth to pay the toll across. On the opposite bank he is greeted by a Maenad or perhaps Bacchus himself wh....

Amazon
The Amazon River is the second longest river in world. The headwaters begin high in the soaring Andes Mountains and stretches 6,400 km across the South American continent to the Atlantic Ocean. It discharges between 34 to 121 million liters of water per second, and depositing an average of 3 million....

Apocalypses in Greek Myths
To the closed minded reader, the different counts of apocalypses in epic myths seem to all be identical to each other. In the examples of Homer's Odyssey, Genesis, and Gilgamesh, you would have a routine disobedience from a mortal human level against a higher God power. It seems to be that when the ....

Artemis
Artemis, the Greek goddess of wildlife and fertility, had a very important role in Greek mythology. She did many things to people to protect what she believed in and cared about. Although she was worshipped a very long time ago, she is still very well known today. The daughter of Leto and Zeus....

Basic Greek History
The Ancient Greek civilization was located on the same land Greece is now, Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, South Italy, and Sicily. It is surrounded mountains and in the north by water. The Ionian and the Aegean seas, together with natural islands and bays, gave the Greeks the opportunity to develop the....

Comparison creation myths
Stories, myths, urban legends and tales all come from somewhere. The truth about these stories only exists in the belief and mind of person who hears them. There are no concrete facts in these stories yet some people would give up their lives to protect them. These stories or beliefs make a pers....

Eros
Many people dont know what or how people fall in love. The answer lies in Eros or Cupid, the god of love in Greek Mythology. Mythology is a group of stories that explain a natural phenomenon or something in life. The purpose of mythology is to state issues in life and to have a way ....

Flies
Word count: 1309 The Flies Jean Paul Sartres play, The Flies, is a translation of his philosophical ideas on religion and power which are expressed through the character Orestes, and are put into contrast through the weaknesses of Electra. Similarly to No Exit, another of Sartres plays....

Gaia Mother of All
Oh Goddess, Source of Gods and Mortals, All-Fertile, All-Destroying Gaia, Mother of All, Who brings forth the bounteous fruits and flowers, All variety, Maiden who anchors the eternal world in our own, Immortal, Blessed, crowned with every grace, Deep bosomed Earth, sweet plains and fields frag....

greek mythology
Native American Mythology and Greek Mythology The book Anpao written by Jamake Highwater and The Odyssey by homer has numerous similarities as well as a tremendous amount of contradictions. They both come from two completely different types of mythology yet they have many connections between them. ....

Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology is the study and understanding of the body of myths of a particular culture. The word myth comes from the Greek word mythos, which means, "word," "tale," or "story" (Morford 1). Greek myths are a set of traditional tales or stories told by the ancient Greeks relating to the....

Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology For this paper I decided to write and research the topic of Greek gods and goddesses. I have read many books already and played many games involving these myths so I already knew a good amount about them before researching my information. In completing my I-search on ....

greek mythology summary
Zeus overthew his Father Cronus. He then drew lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Zeus won the draw and became the supreme ruler of the gods. He is lord of the sky, the rain god. His weapon is a thunderbolt which he hurls at those who displease him. He is married to Hera but, is famous f....

Human Chimeras
How would you like it if you had your brains plucked out and stuffed inside the body of a pig? Wouldn¡¯t it be great? Rhetorical Question- I mean, come on, you¡¯re a PIG!! Errr¡¦..no. Right now, yes, RIGHT NOW, the potential exists to create a human-pig. In fact, scientists could mak....

idea of power is a provocative force. How does H.G.Wells present this in The invisible Man?
Throughout the life of H.G.Wells (1866 - 1946); technology, the world as he knew it, as well as social uprising and downfall was occurring all around him. His book The Invisible Man gives us an insight into not only his vision of his new world, but also a clear view of what he thinks would happe....

lysystrata
Lysistrata Aristophanes Lysistrata is the classic tale of the war of the sexes. The women in the play are portrayed as independent and wanting the war between Sparta and Athens to end. The men are portrayed as belligerent, war-crazy men who seldom used logic. Aristophanes uses his dialog....

Memory in Romanticism: mnemosyne, plasticity,
Memories do not comply with the dictums of time's arrow. Those among us who have experienced apparently unrelated flashes of recollections passing through our minds will surely vouch for that, and it is often said that people on the verge of death witness packets of memory from their early childhood....

Oedipus The King Symbolisms
Websters Dictionary defines a symbol as something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance. Similarly in Literature, symbols are used as a technique to represent something invisible or as something that stands for or s....

Social Pressures and Behaviors - Critique on Eric Fromm's essay
History of humanity was created by the disobedience of Adam and Eve and humanity also will be destroyed by obedience of human kind. Human development, Eric Fromm argues, was based on Greek and Hebrew Mythology. Adam and Eve started out as "non humans", meaning that they had not yet thought of or d....

The Temptresses of Unconcious Enticements
Upon the heath. [Act I, Scene I] is the first sight we see the three weird sisters. They are beldams . . .saucy and overbold [Act III, Scene V], the temptresses of evil who seemingly lurk behind all the dark thoughts and unconscious enticements. They seem to live for riddles and affairs for death....

viewpoints of life from different perspectives
Authority, meaning the power to influence thought or behavior, is a word that is repeatedly used in the play Antigone. Women in Ancient Greek Mythology were rarely seen as public figures and they had virtually no legal rights women wre denied the basic rights and freedoms that were allowed to men. T....

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