Jason Reeves

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…

Aeschylus’s trilogy, The Oresteia, presents one reason for Clytemnestra murdering Agamemnon: as revenge for the sacrificial murder of her daughter, Iphigenia. While this is not the only reason for Clytemnestra’s action, it is the most ambiguous; for example, Clytemnestra presents herself as a devoted mother, but she constantly contradicts her actions with her words. For instance, Clytemnestra, acting as a loving mother, vowed to avenge her daughter’s death, but later on goes to curse her own son…

of every god. In Jason and the Argonauts, Jason is presented with opportunities to present sacrifices to the gods and present the importance to those who were willing to learn from the myth. Before the Argo set sail for Colchis, the Argonauts offered a traditional sacrifice to the god Apollo. Jason prays to Apollo “for a safe return to Greece under his personal guidance, which the god had promised at Delphi, and then vows further sacrifices upon their return”(Clauss, 1993). Jason is recognizing…

Jim Sanderson’s Faded Love and Euripides’ Medea come from completely different points in time, yet they show numerous similarities. In this paper I will examine literary elements in both works that help develop the story, the role of tragedy as a theme, and numerous similarities that are listed throughout both stories. In Faded Love we start our short story in Odessa, Texas at a car dealership where two former University of Texas football players by the names Bailey Waller and Pooter Elam work.…

Wu Zetian, who ruled China around 690-705 AD, and Cleopatra, who ruled Egypt around 51-31 BC, have several similarities and differences in their situations and ascent to power, their methods of rule, and their achievements and resourcefulness even though their cultures were not the same they were both renowned female rulers in history in their own way. Wu Zetian and Cleopatra achieved their statuses of ruler threw different means. Both women were very educated in politics and used their…

Down in Flames started out with an attracted stranger stalking the heroine, Bryn. This incident then took on a chain of effects, Bryn found out she is a dragon-shifter, but here is the catch, she is one of a kind, a hybrid of Blue and Red dragon. As you can guess from the description, Blue-ice, Red-fire (pretty simple and straight forward). Both of her parents are exiled from the Dragons society, because you aren't allow to crossbreed with another kind of dragon-shifter (I know, how backward…

• A city in Greece called Corinth, specifically in front of Jason and Medea’s house, around the time of an ancient mythological past. • The mood of the play “Medea” is overall dismal with Medea’s children being killed from the hands of their mother, Jason’s betrayal of his marriage bed, and the murder of the Princess. • Combination of first and third person depending on the scene presented in the play (a monologue or soliloquy). It also has a limited view, however, this changes to omniscient…

Apollo was the god of light, prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery (but not for war or hunting), poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry and the carer of herds and flocks. He was also a god of light, know as “Phoebus” (radiant or beaming, and he was sometimes identified with Helios the sun god). He was also the god of plague and was worshiped as Smintheus (from sminthos, rat) and as Parnopius. Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo`s first achievement was…

There are many ways to define a hero whether it be through actions, achievements, or failures. Heroes can be destined for greatness or for failure and while each epic has their own defined heroic figure The Aeneas and The Poem of the Cid both have unique heroes that play active roles in developing and preserving their respective societies in a variety of ways. To begin with, similar to past epics such as The Odyssey, The Aeneid contains more magical elements than certain other works of…

Hello Corinth citizens! Today we have a special topic given the news of our royals. Today in the Corinth Daily we want to talk about the justice or the injustice of Medea's actions. Medea, ex-wife of Jason, had made the ultimate decision to end her children's life. This choice has currently had no repercussions, should her actions be punished? Medea was replaced by a new love of Jason's which she did not agree with. She was sparked with anger and thus began planning her payback. Lovers quarrels…