Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

A long time ago in Rome, they had tribunes. They were called Roman Tribunes, to be exact. Roman Tribunes were very common and important back in those times. Roman Tribunes also play a big part in the Shakespearean play, Julius Caesar. Roman Tribunes were basically like the military people of Rome back in the old Roman days. If fact it was around the year 490 BCE. So sit back and enjoy the ride as we find out what Roman Tribunes are and how they apply to the Shakespearean play, Julius Caesar.…

From Lucius Cornelius’ Sulla Felix lifestyle of poverty and unimportance he rose from just a quaestor to have an incredible public and military career. His achievements of great honors and memorable deeds led and culminated his incumbency of high-ranking power and influence. However, Sulla was a prideful, ambitious, vengeful man who when in power let his vindictiveness get to him, to where his actions elevated into a civil war and strife. Sulla participates in many Roman victories in which some…

Thesis: Saki, in The Interlopers says, We are trapped by our own ill will; to be free of it we need to put aside our violence by making peace and realizing the unimportance of it. We focus on ill will and let it consume us. As did Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym did, “as boys they had thirsted for one another’s blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other.” (Saki 7) They were raised into despising one another due to their family’s feud (that started generations ago…

Poetry and thought are often interpreted as too lofty for the realm of politics, a realm dominated power (Berlin: 2004). Yet memory, as elaborated by poets should always be an exercise in education. The value of narrative, writing, and poetry is high. For ‘the very fact that so great of an enterprise as the Trojan War could have been forgotten without a poet to immortalize it several hundred years later offered only too good an example of what could happen to human greatness if it had nothing…

The Marquise of O- by Heinrich von Kleist is a story chock-full of secrets and unsaid ideas, such as the ambiguity of details regarding Giulietta’s possible rape. Furthermore, if every word isn’t read with the utmost attention, something major will slip notice. Specifically, when Giulietta is talking to her midwife, whom she has called in to hopefully deny her illegitimate pregnancy, she briefly states that she “conceived knowingly” (Kleist 91). This can be surprising after a second reading, as…

The Occult Philosophy: The Influence of Cornelius Agrippa on Marlowe’s Writings The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is perhaps the most infamous work written by Christopher Marlowe. Inquiring in a variety of topics ranging from the supernatural, wisdom and a man’s ambition for wealth and power, Marlowe introduces the character of Doctor Faustus whose increasing weariness of basic knowledge leads him to make life-changing decisions. Faustus’s deviations commence…

King, Margaret. Women of the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. A large schism exists in Renaissance studies of women in which historians normally find themselves agreeing with Joan Kelly’s 1977 Did Women Have a Renaissance?, or rejecting it; Margaret King, another prolific author in the field, finds herself hand in hand with Kelly in her 1991 Le Donne nel Rinascimento, or Women of the Renaissance. King continues the discussion on women’s lack of experiencing a Renaissance…

Both Girolamo Cardano and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim had strong opinions on dreaming and the interpretation of dreams. Cardano personally believed there was truth in the interpretation of dreams, but felt that only certain people should be able to interpret certain dreams in…

Feminism within a Household: Feminism describes the scope of ideologies and movements that strive to achieve and define equality between men and women, in political, social, personal, economic and cultural aspects of everyone’s lives. These movements also seek to establish equal opportunities for men in all of these environments, including the right to education and equal employment. A feminist is a person who supports and advocates for the rights and equality of women, believing that both men…