Minos

Suzanne Collins was born in 1969 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of an air force pilot and therefore she spent her childhood moving around the United States. While she was young her father left for a year in order to fight in Vietnam, a fact that marked her life. When her father returned, he spent a lot of time talking about his military experience and he taught Collins and her siblings about war and its consequences. Collins herself visited battlefields and war monuments (Anon,…

The Palace of Knossos- The Palace of Knossos was a place built on the island of Crete by King Minos around 1900 BC It was an elaborate place with five stories containing hundreds of rooms, plumbing, brightly colored paintings called frescoes, and thousands of storage jars. This palace was where large gatherings were held, things were stored, and the king lived. The Palace of Knossos is important when studying Greece History because it gives us insight into the lives of the Minoans. The…

On "Landscape with the fall of Icarus" "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is inspired by the Bruegel painting which is based on the Greek myth of the tragedy of "Icarus." Icarus is the son of Daedalus; Icarus flew from prison with the fragile wings that his father had made for him. Icarus didn't care about his father warning to keep a middle course over the sea and avoid flying too close to the sun; the boy flew with joy too close to the burning sun, so his wings got melted and the poor…

  The mighty Congo Empire, at Cote d’lvoire, Aka, the Ivory Coast of West Africa had the Burkina Faso warriors originally from the Bantu migration 600AD. They were skilled in horse riding and the use of the bow. Their earliest history starts with the Dagomba tribe neighboring the Boussansi, the Ninisi, the Gourounsi and the Kabisi their union brought about a great warrior kingdom called the Mossi. The greatest warriors of this Empire were the Wagadogo and the Yatenga. They used weapons such…

Greek Attic Vase Painters of the fifth century were fascinated by the myths of Gods becoming infatuated with humans. Because of the painters interested in the Myths of God 's falling in love with humans they wished to depict scenes of the two interacting. But emotions are harder to illustrate than actions. For example, on page 19 figure 8, Hercules riding in a chariot driven by Nike and drawn by centaurs is easier to depict because it is an illustration of an action. The problems that faced…

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” by Dante Alighieri. This shows a little into Dante’s thinking as he ranked moral failures through his structure of hell. In Dante’s Inferno there are nine different circle or levels of hell. In these circle there are different punishments for the different sins people commit throughout their life. The worst the sin is that you commit, the lower in hell you go and the worst your punishment…

As ancient Greek culture was afraid of the unknown, of what could happen after death, they feared a monster that could lure you in with promises of hope and then drag you into the great unknown. The idea that something so beautiful could end so horribly could horrify people of any century. I hope that these facts of Sirens throughout history will be both horrifying, as they were interesting as they were for me. In many stories Sirens were once beautiful women, and while their parentage can be…

In classical Greek mythology, Phaedra is the daughter of King Minos of Crete and Pasiphaë, and is the wife of Theseus. Due to a divine plan set into motion by Aphrodite, Phaedra falls in love with Hippolytus, Theseus’ son from another marriage, bringing about the destruction of both individuals. These themes of incest, fate, and adultery are all present in Desire Under the Elms. This play can be shown to have been influenced greatly by classical representations of this myth. Desire Under the…

believe and yet is being taken to hell by two daemons. All the damned fall into a boat that is steered by the ferryman of Greek mythology, “Charon”, and he steers them all into hell. They are judged by another Greek mythological creature, Minos, on their way into hell, he is the creature that is tied to a poll with a…

sentenced to hell on the account of suicide being a sin against oneself. Upon reaching a judgment, of where to send Pietro in hell, he is eventually sent to the seventh circle, second ring where the people who were violent against self are then sent. Here Minos transformed all the souls into thorn trees and later the Harpies continue to hurt them by pecking at the trees. Branch breaking is symbolic for all the souls to continue to feel pain when pecked. In Robin Kirkpatrick’s rendition of the…