Leda

inseparable. I have always admired and envied your bond and yearned for the same between Clytemnestra and I and now I am even more alone than ever. Did the King of the Heavens know of the events he’d set off, I wonder? Zeus seduced our Queen Mother, Leda, in the guise of a swan before her union with our mortal father, Tyndareus and so the four of us were conceived, by two fathers, hatched from two eggs. Polydeuces, you and I shared divine blood and you, Castor, and…

In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf explains how “Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” Hamlet, Agamemnon and Othello present the male characters Hamlet, Agamemnon and Othello who ascribe characteristics to three women based on the relationships these women have with their husbands, not based on who the women really are. Hamlet, Agamemnon and Othello are unable to…

At first sight, the issue might appear trivial, however, several customers recently asked me the following question: “What is the difference between the wines from the Rioja and those from the Ribera del Duero?”. What's more, according to my experience, the next question tends to concern the price difference. This is why I thought an article would be the ideal opportunity to come back on the topic, especially considering that Christmas is at the door and we should be thinking about which wine to…

The Art of Love in Renaissance Italy: An Exploration of Sensual Pleasure in Architectural Space Xiaoyi Chen FAH335 #1 Exhibition Catalogue Printed Book: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Date: 1499 Author: Francesco Colonna Location: Venice With elegant woodcutting and hybrid language, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (translated in English as The Strife of Love in a Dream) depicts…

Often, what we see may not be consistent with what we believe, and as a result cause us confusion. Illusion is usually used in the form of disguise where a mask is put on by an individual to hide the person’s identity. This is the common method by which illusion is used; however, a more complex and multidimensional use of illusion is to cause mystification by creating a situation where a person’s blatant identity is put into question. In such instances, the questioned individual wears a…

in both “physical death and internal death” and is used in many contexts. This is evident I the Greek literature such as the poem Helen, by Hilda Doolittle, which is a short poem which describes Greece's reaction to Helen, the daughter of Zeus and Leda, who leaves her husband, Menelaus, for a Trojan prince names Paris, and the commotion that ensues in Greece. Doolittle take an interesting point of view of the Greek people and how they react to this. Another poem, “The…

Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle is a feminist metafiction novel; within its pages a collage of multiple narratives explore the gender politics of the world inhabited by its protagonist, Joan Delacourt / Foster. The novel starts at its end, Joan has faked her death in order to escape and create a new life. Beginning at the end implies this is Joan’s next novel, therefore the character representations are subject to her narrative position. Embedded within Atwood’s exterior narrative, Joan’s memory…

Religion is defined as the collection of beliefs revolving around a superhuman power, usually centered around a particular god or gods. Both the Greek and Hindu were polytheistic and had a plethora of gods. The Hindu have over 330 million gods while the Greek had 12 major gods and hundreds of lesser gods. Unlike the Greeks, the Hindu religion contains various religious texts dictating the rules and rituals that a person had to live by. Despite their many differences, early Greek religion is…

an hour after sunset, you’d see it almost directly above you. Cygnus is Latin for ‘swan’, and has various mythological tales connected to it: the most widely known, perhaps, is one of Greek mythology, where Zeus disguised himself as a swan to seduce Leda, the wife of Spartan king Tyndareus, who later gave birth to the Gemini (Castor and Pollux), Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. To celebrate the births, Zeus is said to have placed the swan among the stars. The Greeks also associated this…