Passion Gone too Far in Medea Passion is any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling and is not limited to just feelings of love‚ but also‚ feelings of hate (“Passion” def.1). In Euripides’s‚ Medea‚ there is a suggestion that revenge may‚ sometimes‚ be justified (Hopman 155). However‚ when revenge leads to loss of life‚ others would argue that passion has gone too far (Robertson XVI - XVII). In Euripides’s play‚ Medea‚ “a woman betrayed by Jason -- her husband of 10 years‚ a man she had murdered
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legend a very beautiful golden hair‚ snow-white and delicate cheek. Once his arrow inserts the heart of young men and women‚ it can make they love each other deeply. In Greek mythology‚ he is called Eros‚ the young son of the love and beauty goddess Aphrodite and Ares. In Roman myth‚ he calls Cupid‚ his mother is Venus and his father is Iris. Frankly speaking‚ Cupid and Psyche’s love story is one of my favorite stories among Greek mythology. That’s why I chose this story to perform in our presentation
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Ancient Romans claimed descent from Greeks‚ in fact the Great Roman poet Virgil wrote an epic poem entitled Aeneid where he tells that Romans come from Aeneas line who escaped from the Trojan fire to save his royal descent. He landed at Italy where married a princess named Lavinia. That means you have to consider Roman literature as an evolution of Greek literature: Romans learn from Greek but progress. Greek and Roman literature is wide and it includes: tragedies‚ comedies‚ poems‚ epics etc
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Introduction The gods‚ as presented in Homer’s Iliad‚ present a variety of difficulties for the critic. In their style and highly anthropomorphous form‚ they lack close parallels in earlier cultures‚ and compared to the gods of monotheistic religions seem petty‚ small-minded‚ and unworthy‚ perhaps‚ of veneration. Moreover‚ their role as a literary device is highly contested; some authors‚ assign to them the function of comedy and light relief‚ their actions affording a hiatus from the intense fighting
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Greek Mythology Mythology was an integral part of the lives of all ancient peoples. The myths of Ancient Greece are the most familiar to us‚ for they are deeply entrenched in the consciousness of Western civilization. The myths were accounts of the lives of the deities whom the Greeks worshipped. The Greeks had many deities‚ including 12 principal ones‚ who lived on Mt. Olympus. The myths are all things to all people a rollicking good yarn‚ expressions of deep psychological insights‚ words of
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Gods in Greek Mythology The book Mythology by Edith Hamilton is a novel devoted to the legends of Greek Mythology. Such legends tell stories of mighty heroes‚ ghastly creatures‚ and Gods and Goddesses with amazing powers. In order to fully understand these myths‚ a reader must examine each of these Gods or Goddesses individually and identify the unique Characteristics they have. The first humanoid Gods that appeared in Greek Mythology were the Titans‚ or the Elder Gods. They were the children
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As I was reading through the chapters of my art book‚ there were two pieces of art that caught my eye: the statue of "Nefertiti" and the statue "Aphrodite of Melos." After researching both artworks‚ I realized that these statues are similar and different in many aspects. Nefertiti is regarded as one of the most influential women of her time. Her and her husband Ahmenhotep IV‚ ruled between 1352-1348 BCE‚ during the New Kingdom. After there rule of Akhetaten (Ancient Egypt)
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Before looking into detail the idea behind the hybridization in Isis Aphrodite‚ it is important to understand the historical concept of the period of Roman-Egypt. Rome’s rule over Egypt officially began with the arrival of Octavian (later called Augustus) in 30 B.C. For the first part of the century following the Roman conquest‚ Egypt played the role of an active and prosperous Roman province in the Mediterranean world. According to author J. G Milne in his book titled‚ A History of Egypt Under
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In Greece and Asia Minor around 2000 B.C. there existed a common belief in a group of deities. Of this group of deities were twelve Olympians who were immortal. From that group of Olympians came the most dominant and commanding God known to immortals and mortals alike. That Olympian god was Zeus; the son of Titans Cronus and Rhea. When Zeus had grown to maturity‚ he waged war against his father with his disgorged brothers and sisters as allies. The battle was of epic proportions‚ Zeus fighting from
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How Volcanoes Came to be : Hephaestus god of blacksmiths and fire wanted revenge on all the villages that used his gift of metallurgy for war and killing so he went up to Zeus to ask him for a way to devastate their population. Zeus thought for a while and decided to give him the deserted mountains on the others side of the valley and let him chose what he wanted to do with them. “I’d like to make them burst into an explosion of liquid fire.” he said “Ha ha ha” laughed the father god‚ “ thinking
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