Cadmus

Solving the mystery of a secret can always come with mixed emotions such as fear or sadness. Oedipus the King and The Last Witch Hunter, directed by Breck Eisner, are trying to discover the truth for their love ones and for their own benefit. The powerful love they have helps them overcome hard obstacles to find the truth. For example, they wanted to stop their journey because the secrets they discover made them fear the worse. However, they overcame the fear and continued the journey to help…

Animals are thought to be separate from humans. However, they both are in the animal kingdom, and even as mammals they share certain characteristics: they are vertebrates, endothermic, have body hair, and mammary glands. These characteristics are what relates animals to humans. Although, there are various aspects which distinguishes an animal from a human. Humans are self-conscious beings, who have emotions, language, a complex thought process, and philosophical thinking. These are the key…

Jennifer Liu Ms. Toerien IB English HL August 16, 2015 1) Write a summary of the main events of the play. Oepidus was aware that a curse was placed on Thebes. The city was blighted by disease and countless of citizens were dying. The curse would only be lifted when the murderer of the former king, Laius, was punished. Oepidus sent Creon, his brother-in-law, to ask for advice from the god Apollo through an oracle. Oepidus started to look for answers to Laius’ murder. Numerous ways were used,…

The time and location of the origin of the cult of Dionysus is unclear. It is clear that he came as a foreigner but there are different theories as to from where. Thrace and Phrygia are traditionally viewed as his birthplace before he migrated to Greece. Nilsson, however, proposes that Dionysus originated in three different regions: Thrace, Phrgia, and Greece itself, each time in different forms.1 Because the cult of Dionysus was so well received in the mainland of Greece, Nilson makes the…

The Woman in Stone and the Woman in a Tower: The Stories of Niobe and Danaë to Foreshadow Antigone’s Fate Sophocles’s Antigone follows Antigone, a girl born to the royal but doomed house of Cadmus. She is brought before her uncle Creon for breaking his law and burying her traitorous brother Polynices. As she waits for her sentence, stories of mortals and gods alike are told, including those of Niobe and Danaë. These stories of Niobe and Danaë are incorporated to foreshadow Antigone’s fate of…

The Odyssey: The Three Forces of Fortune Odysseus’ travel from the war torn ruins of Troy to his suitor-filled home in Ithaca contains much excitement, danger, and majesty. Homer’s hero, Odysseus, has many adventures in his journey home ranging from battling the Cicones, to tricking a Cyclops, to being imprisoned by a sea-nymph for seven years. He is constantly moving from the known world to the mythical world which makes his journey even more dangerous. He goes through extreme hardship in…

they return from the mountains with Pentheus’s head on a stick. Agave has her first line, as she calls on “Bacchae of Asia” (1218), but even then her words her still not hers because she is yet speaking under Dionysus’s influence. It is not until Cadmus helps her clear her head that she finally has her own point of view, which at this point does not even matter. Dionysus sends her into exile along with her father. So while Stella does at least have a voice it appears right off the bat that…

Frank Miller’s 300 is both a graphic novel and a film adaptation by Zach Snyder. Both serve as a story telling of the famed battle of the pass at Thermopylae previously told by Herodotus. It tells of the Spartan King Leonidas bravely leading 300 Spartan warriors against the very large Persian army. Frank Miller details the story of the strong but grossly outnumbered Spartans, the story’s obvious underdog. The Persian army according to history was in the recent business of acquiring land by force…

Jean Toomer 's composite novel Cane, mirrors the Greek play The Bacchae by Euripides. This is accomplished through the use of specific symbolism and references to the vagrant preacher and Greek God, Dionysos. Toomer retells this play through his short story Esther. He does so by telling the story of a character who, after leaving the south and then returning, comes back entirely transformed. In addition, the perspective of a woman is given. She remains in the south her entire life in order to…

Major Works Data Sheet Title: Metamorphoses Author: Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid Date of Publication: 8 C.E. Genre: Epic Poem, Tragedy Biographical Information About The Author Ovid was born in the Province of Sulmo. He was raised in a noble family. His father made him train to be an attorney of law. Growing up, he was fascinated with writing poetry and was very good at it. At the age of twenty, he made the decision to no longer practice law, and became a full-time poet, with help of…