Ceres

During the period that Maria Edgeworth wrote her short stories including the “The Purple Jar,” there was a lot of violence and political unrest in Ireland. Ireland had just lived through an uprising and were forced to live under the rule of the British Parliament, through the Act of the Union. One of the themes that are presented in “The Purple Jar” is the nature of growing up. The narrator highlights the importance between a mother and daughter relationship, as the daughter is growing up to be…

many stories, he dies and is later reborn, much like Attis and Tammuz. Attis: his stories often deal with the theme of rebirth and regeneration. Ceres : she was a mother-type goddess who was responsible for agricultural fertility. Dagon : Dagon is credited with giving the Amorites the knowledge to build the plough. Demeter : The Greek equivalent of Ceres, Demeter is often linked to the changing of the seasons. She is often connected to the image of the Dark Mother in late…

into head, neck, trunk and tail. *The body is covered by backwardly directed feathers which are derivatives of feathers. *All pigeons have soft swellings (ceres) at the base of the nostrils to feed their young with "pigeon's milk" regurgitated from the crops of the parents. They also have specialized bills through…

Museum project While visiting The National Gallery of Art on Friday, March 30th. I viewed so many stunning works of art, but out of the pieces I had the chance to see that day. The three that caught my eye were Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) oil on canvas, c. 1717/ 1718, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Diana and Endymion oil on canvas, c. 1753/1756, and finally François Boucher’s The Bath of Venus, 1751. These painting are not only connected by the same medium, They also contain similar themes of…

create elaborate and sweeping comparisons that contribute to a character’s development. In Book IX, Milton compares Eve to a list of goddesses by writing “To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorned / Likest she seemed Pomona when she fled / Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime / Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove” (393-6). This comparison constitutes as a epic simile because it spans multiple lines and goes into great detail. One thing that immediately sticks out about this simile is that it focuses on…

Connections between Greek Historical Figures and Myth There was a strong connection between reality and Greek myths. Various stories were adapted with mythological themes in mind, while others were depictions of myth influenced by the heroism of real Greek heroes. In some instances, mythological embellishment of a historical event could have been used to emphasize a theme regarding the event, as with the metopes of the Parthenon. Additionally, in Rome, it was not uncommon for statues of leaders…

The humanitarian Queen Ceres whom is considered to be a hero because she rescued barbarian nomads from the wilderness and ignorance. Queen Ceres brought the nomads from the forest to the orderly society of cities and towns (Pisan). Consequently, the nomads lives were enriched with education and occupations which severed the needs of…

Learning Log #5 American Renaissance Murals The image of a 1903 mural created for a US courthouse, is typical of an American Renaissance mural because it has a sense of a unified national identity. Also, the mural has various examples of Renaissance ideals of art. Some specifics being the columns on either side of the woman on a throne. The mural also shows the architecture (throne, columns, steps) as white. This is similar to many American Renaissance murals, to imitate the White City in…

Boland has also used myth to explore personal family relationships—an important part of the female experience. In particular, she has used the Ceres myth often in her poetry. She uses it again in her 1990 poem "The Making of an Irish Goddess" to illustrate the complexities of motherhood. She begins her revision of the myth almost as a passive observer: Ceres went to hell with no sense of time. When she looked back all that she could see was the arteries of silver in the rock, . . . . . . . . . .…

between Mars and Jupiter, causing the small objects that were there to collide with each other and fragment into the asteroids seen today (Space.com). In the 1800's, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered what he thought to be a new planet. He named the asteroid Ceres and by the 19th century, there were several smaller bodies found and that were named; including Pallas, Vesta, and Juno.…