has gone into the excavations there by many archaeologists‚ and many interesting artefacts have been found. The story of the Ancient City of Troy is a great one‚ however many people believed it didn’t exist and that Homers Iliad‚ the story of the Trojan War was just some story. This has since been proved untrue as the city of Troy was discovered‚ and the pieces of this amazing puzzle have fallen together. Homer described Troy as an exceptionally large city with large high powerful walls‚ wide streets
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Romans utilized certain aspects of mythology and storytelling to set precedents for the values that comprised the Roman identity. These stories‚ some true‚ some embellished over time‚ and some created in times of conflict‚ were embraced by Romans alike. Being a Roman meant that you held the utmost amount of pride in your nation‚ even over yourself‚ that you actively pursued glory‚ and were honorable. Portrayed in myths was a Roman triumph in 396 BCE regarding the town of Veii. Before this‚ “Rome’s
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John the Baptist Last Supper Judas Crucifixion and Resurrection Doubting Thomas Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Greek and Roman Mythology Group 2 Medusa Oedipus (the Sphinx‚ Antigone) Antigone The Trojan War (the fall of Troy‚ Achilles‚ Hector‚ Paris‚ Helen‚ and the Trojan Horse) Midas Bacchus Agamemnon‚ Orestes‚ and Electra (also known in whole as The Oresteia) Leda and the Swan Pandora Odysseus/Ulysses King Arthur Legends Uther and Igraine and the story of Arthur’s birth
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In “The Odyssey”‚ Odysseus uses many traits on his twenty year journey back to Ithaca. Odysseus and his men fight the Cyclops‚ Sirens‚ and resist their temptation of the Lotus plants. In order to be a famous epic hero‚ like Odysseus‚ one needs to have numerous traits. Odysseus’s traits are strength‚ intelligence‚ and self confidence. These traits help define Odysseus as a hero and save his men from many close encounters with mythical beings. Odysseus shows his strength on their long voyage home
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The Trojan Sofa Bernard MacLaverty brings us “The Trojan Sofa”‚ a short story that incorporates a corrosive relationship between a boy and his father‚ Niall and Da. The title itself suggests that deceit and deception is a feature of the story‚ as it turns out‚ this is two-fold. MacLaverty has innovatively chosen to use the first-person narrative mode to enable the reader to become much more familiar with Niall and warm to him as a character. With Niall being the narrator‚ he speaks sincerely
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Heroism in the Odyssey Throughout The Odyssey‚ the audience views Odysseus in many ways‚ one way as a mighty hero. Greek culture strictly defines a hero while modern culture possesses a looser definition of a hero. Joseph Campbell defines a hero as‚ "someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself... The hero performs a courageous act in battle and saves lives." Through the lens of a Greek‚ Odysseus mirrors the picture of heroism. However‚ twenty first century humans consider
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’China should take more Philippine territory’ NEW YORK – Surround a disputed area with all types of ships‚ enclose it like a cabbage and hold on to it. That’s the so-called cabbage strategy that China is employing to stake its maritime territorial claims‚ and a ranking Chinese military officer says his country should take more disputed territory from the Philippines‚ The New York Times Magazine has reported. Quoting Maj. Gen. Zhang Zhaozhong of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army‚ the Sunday
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A Horse and Two Goats is one of the gems from R.K. Narayan`s kitty. The author has contributed immensely to the development of literature by the dint of his irony and humour. `A Horse and Two Goats` reflects the conversation between Muni and a red-faced American depicting the differences in their thoughts‚ owing to the problematized situation as both have their different languages hardly understood by the other. The title signifies the feeling of Muni when he was selling his two goats to the American
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The Horses The Horses by Edwin Muir describes a nuclear catastrophe and the reliance people have on technology. It describes how man would react when technology was no longer available to us. Initially people would listen for anything on the radio that would give them news‚ then they would observe the aftermath of the war‚ for example “a warship passed us‚ heading north‚ Dead bodies piled on the deck.” The narrator describes how even if the radio were to come on again‚ they would ignore it as
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Alan ’s religious obsession with horses which is based on his complicated feelings due to his religious background and his increasing sexual side as a teenager. This confusion of religion‚ in fact‚ is a consequence of some signals from his religious‚ middle-class mother and his atheist‚ working-class father. Alan ’s perception of religion and sexuality is conflicted and his way of praying becomes a fear of a horse spirit named Equus. He ends up with blinding six horses in the stable because of the fact
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