Nymph

The road to success is rarely straightforward. Often, a goal is realized only after conquering countless distractions and barriers. By comparing Destino by Salvador Dali to The Odyssey by Homer, audiences understand the importance of overcoming obstacles to achieve success. In the film Destino, a woman is depicted dancing happily up a tower. Upon reaching the summit, she is pursued by a group of cyclopes who grab her clothing. She escapes by allowing the cyclopes to remove her dress while…

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli) was an Italian painter in the beginning of the Renaissance. His work predates some other famous artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. Born March 4, 1445, Botticelli was the son of a tanner and was originally trained as a goldsmith. It was not until he met Fra Filippo Lippi that Botticelli learned to paint. In 1470, Botticelli was an independent master for his creation of the Fortitude that completed the series of Seven Virtues.…

the ability to control and maneuver all types of water. She is referred to as the queen of the sea. She couldn't marry neptune because she was to preserve her virginity. Neptune was very pleased with Salacia and he shortly fell in love with a water nymph. Even after a hunt to find her and persuade her to marry him. “Salacia was dancing with her sisters, and the moment Neptune saw her, he decided he wanted her as his wife. Unfortunately for the love-struck god, the goddess wasn’t interested in…

The next theme is perseverance. Penelope and Odysseus especially showed the most perseverance. One of the reasons that they showed the most perseverance is that they both are survivors. Odysseus was gone for twenty years, ten in the Trojan War and ten more in his voyage home. Penelope has persevered against the intruders for about four years, playing one against another with plenty schemes, in example, when she knitted a shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes. Odysseus' perseverance is…

Within Telemachus’s great journey in The Odyssey, Telemachus gains incredible knowledge and obtains a crew, which allows for Telemachus to attempt to find Odysseus. When leaving Ithaca, Telemachus obtains a crew, “When they came down to the sea and reached the boat they found their long-haired crew waiting on the beach… He led off and the crew followed. They brought down all the stores and stowed them in their well-built ship” (2.404-414). This caused Telemachus to then travel the ocean to Pylos…

“Waldsonne” is taken from Johannes Schlaf’s volume of poetry helldunkel from 1899. It is the first poem of the two-poem cycle “Eine Liebe” (One Love). The other one, “Abendgang” (Walk in the Evening), describes how the speaker and a young girl stroll into the evening where golden violins play softly in the sky. It is followed by another cycle with the title “Eine andere Liebe” (Another Love), in which a different relationship is explored in three poems that describe how love has turned into…

Unaware readers become pawns in Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel, and literary game, Lolita. This journal of Humbert Humbert’s life illustrates the crazed pull of artistic perfection through the lense of a pedophile chasing a child. The “artist”, Humbert, narrates his corrupt life from an unfulfilled boyhood until poisoned adulthood in order to justify himself to a moral jury. His muse, Dolores (Lolita) Haze, is a tantalizing nymphet who is both the poison and the antidote for Humbert’s,…

This was A Nymph Drawing Her Bow on a Youth c. 1780 by Angelica Kauffman 1740-1807 in the early centuries section done with pencil and pastel on gray paper. This picture is full of life. It makes you question what is actually going on. The value of this drawing is…

gifted instrumentalist and vocalist, taught by Apollo himself, who is subsequently able to charm anyone and anything to do what he wants them to. Somewhere along the way, he falls in love with a Nymph named Eurydice. He and Eurydice live a happy, loving life until a son of Apollo tries to pursue the young nymph. In her attempt to escape, she steps on a poisonous snake, gets bitten and dies. Orpheus, still infatuated with his lover, follows Eurydice to the Underworld where he bargains with his…

Poseidon Sales Pitch (Report) Poseidon is the second greatest of the 12 Greek gods of Olympus, he is the ruler of the sea, earthquakes and is known as the fertility god. Even though Poseidon is one of the supreme rulers in Olympus the sea is his domain. He was worshipped as an Olympian god during the Bronze Age in Greece (the second millennium). Poseidon is the brother of Hades and Zeus, “divided the power of the world” (Sellers). They all took their places, Zeus ruled the sky while hades…