My favorite constellation is the constellation Andromeda, which portrays the Princess Andromeda chained to a rock as she awaits her fate. It attracted my attention from the moment I first learned about it, due to the thrilling myth which accompanies it and the stunning galaxy it contains- The Andromeda Galaxy. The constellation Andromeda is capable of being viewed from both hemispheres and The Andromeda Galaxy- a spiral galaxy that is approximately 2.4 million light-years away- is the most distant
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Attributed to the Athena Painter For my term paper I went to the Art Institute of Chicago to search a sculpture from Ancient Greece. I came across a vase from Athena, Greece. I found this vase in the Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art section (150-154). This lekythos vase is a terracotta black-figure painting. The date for this vase is circa 490/480 BCE. Lekythos vases were used to store fine oils and perfumes, often dedicated in burials and decorated in reference to this function. On this vase
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Kaitlyn Simpson W0436017 Dr. Gibson English 231-04 Archaic Lore in “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “The Dead” Intro: Id texts and subject. Thesis: D.H. Lawerence and James Joyce use archaic lore in their stories “The Horse Dealers Daughter”, and “The Dead”. Storytakes place in English midlands, four sibling late 20’s sittng around family home. -- D. H. Lawrence’s stories have the sense that they’re ritualistic; his rough home life. He had a God awful dysfunctional family. His mom and dad were
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One thing that stood out to me as I was reading The Iliad is how Chryses offered so many gifts as ransom in order to get his daughter back, but no matter what he offered or how much he begged, Agamemnon refused. He kept telling Chryses that he would not give her back. On page 78, Agamemnon states, “The girl- I won’t give up the girl.” One line that I thought was very powerful was when Agamemnon says to Chryses, “Now go, don’t tempt my wrath- and you may depart alive.” After hearing this, Chryses
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There are many Greek gods, far off tails of beings so great that they could only be described as ‘Gods’ or “goddesses” completely out of reach of mere humans. Each of these gods portrays something different, a mystical power or great beauty and brains. Three Gods that I find particularly interesting are Aphrodite, Heracles and Eros. They have the gifts of beauty, strength and love and we have heard many tales of them before. Aphrodite, or Venus in Roman, is the goddess of love and beauty, some
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In order to fully understand our current environmental worldview, we must look back to the roots of our perspective. Specifically, the influence of ancient Greeks and Romans. Traditionally, the Greeks and Romans regarded the world as a sacred place where the gods of nature, who shared some human qualities, were present. Most Gods were understood and depicted as having specific connections to natural elements. One goddess, Artemis, is now understood as the “goddess of conservation” as she was often
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Myth Each culture has its own myths and legends. Because of great diversity and conceptual differences, it is very hard to come up with a single definition, even after hundreds of years of effort of the scholars. Almost all of the myths have a bit of supernaturalism in the concept but are connected with the real life. The society creates its own myths to explain different aspects of the world, but some people also use myths to control the social misunderstanding and diversely thinking level
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BEGINNING AND STUFF T HE I N THE BEGINNING, I wasn’t there. I don’t think the Ancient Greeks were, either. Nobody had a pen and paper to take notes, so I can’t vouch for what follows, but I can tell you it’s what the Greeks thought happened. At first, there was pretty much nothing. A lot of nothing. The first god, if you can call it that, was Chaos – a gloomy, soupy mist with all the matter in the cosmos just drifting around. Here’s a fact for you: Chaos literally means the Gap, and we’re not talking
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My constellation is Pegasus. Pegasus is a very well- known constellation. People often call Pegasus “The Winged Horse”. A pegasus is a mythical creature. It looks like a horse but has wings. This constellation was first introduced in Greek mythology. Perseus went on a journey to rescue Princess Andromeda from a nasty sea creature, Cetus. So, he went to kill Medusa, a snake- haired monster, who was once a beautiful women, but after a terrible spell she turned into a beast. One look in her eyes and
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Dionysus and Pan This sculpture of Dionysus, god of wine, is standing or more leaning on his compassionate follower, Pan. It is etched from marble and the surface is somewhat harsh. This sculpture was sculpted in the Roman Period A.D 50-150. This is a three-dimensional proportional human body also that also plays a big role in determining the culture of the sculpture because it is said that the Greek started statuary and art, the late Classical period made changes in label and functions of the
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