Centaur

He crossed the threshold when he left to go to Troy willingly, at the age of 15. Just under half of his life was spent fighting in the Trojan War in addition, Achilles had a supernatural mentor named Chiron, who was a centaur known for being kind and wise. Patroclus was his closest companion who would go anywhere for him, and would die for him if needed. His armour was designed for him by a god and was supposed to be the best of the best. Achilles wanted his name and legacy…

So he was a very helpful person, helping Dante in every single stage. More and more examples from the story, In the primary ring of the seventh circle they passed the Minotaur and met a gathering of centaurs, who shot the miscreants who attempted to escape with their bolts. In the second ring they found a dark woodland loaded with curved trees. These were suicides: Dante addressed one subsequent to seeing a broken twig drain. The suicide was Pier della…

The world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the world of C.S Lewis’ Narnia are both filled with an immense number of fantastic creatures. In case of Rowling, many of these creatures are mythical animals-- centaurs, hippogriffs, goblins and unicorns to name a few- while Lewis mainly chooses to add mythical abilities to every-day animals. His Narnia consists of talking beavers, lions, and of course a few mythical animals such as fauns. Both worlds involve interaction between the non-human animals…

Ancient Greek culture has been a prominent part of humanities history and is a surprising addition to modern entertainment. There are many different renditions of Greek myths that leave room for interpretation and manipulation for a smoother transition into modern civilization. Living in such a science-orientated, fast paced world as we do today, entertainment is constantly being revised and reimagined to satisfy all types of audiences. Ancient Greek mythology being changed and glamorized for…

What makes one happy may not always be the right thing to do. In both The Prince and in The Consolation of Philosophy; themes of happiness, virtue, religion and fortune are investigated further to explain the relation of each in a political arena. In The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius deals with the universal experience of suffering. He is imprisoned and facing execution. Boethius blames fortune for the reason of his suffering, “Surely the severity of Fortune’s attack on me needs no further…

In his epic, Statius included only two scenes from Achilles’ early life, which make no appearance in the Iliad itself. These two scenes detail briefly his time as a young warrior in training with the centaur Chiron on Mount Pelion, and explain, in somewhat greater detail, his period of hiding on the Island of Scyros, dressed as a woman. In her book The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Satius’ Achilleid, P.J. Heslin argues that Statius purposefully…

In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the action begins when Lewis’s quote “And then Lucy saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away from where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold was falling on her” (Lewis 7). The four young English siblings referred to as “The Pevensies” moved to a friend’s house in the country due to WWII. The sibling’s parents wanted them unharmed during the war. The four siblings traveled to…

the sculptures that were located directly underneath the pediment of the Parthenon. There were ninety-two, and they all represented incidents of the battle between Lapiths, a group of people that lived in northern Greece near the mountains, and the centaurs, mythological creatures that were half horse and half man. The battle is meant to represent the battle between civilization and barbarism and was a popular subject in Greek art. This supports how the Parthenon, not only was just a mere…

KiKi Petrosino’s Fort Red Border speaks volumes as both a creative outlook on the imagined relationship between the speaker, an Italian African-American and her beloved Robert Redford, an iconic American actor. With her unique perspective on the world in which she lives, Kiki takes her readers on a fantasy between the natural and unnatural, and the real and unreal; questioning the validity of everyday life. Fort Red Border also explores the ideologies behind class, ethnicity, and inheritance,…

Ophelia, AKA the Witch of Morpheus, sat at a makeshift table, playing at eating her dinner as she contemplated all that had happened since the night she found herself on Morpheus, naked in a bed with a man she didn't even know. A shiver ran done her spine when she remembered how the feeling of unrealness had come over her and nearly destroyed her. She had fought against it and won the battle for reality that first night. The constant fear that the unreality would come back to claim her haunted…