Nymph

Throughout each story, every hero’s journey follows a pattern towards succession. This twelve step journey has been conducted by Joseph Campbell, after studying the methods used in endless stories towards a hero’s success. One epic showing this is The Odyssey, written by Homer, with the ancient greek hero, Odysseus, following his bumpy path towards home after leaving to fight the Trojan war. While, in the film, Moana, the hero Moana overcomes her obstacles to acquire the heart of Te Fiti to help…

earlier work of Claude Debussy's by the same name. However, it must also be understood that there is some mixing of mythologies here: in the tale of Psyché she is a beautiful prince just wandering through on her troubled journey, whereas Syrinx is a nymph that runs from Pan and is turned into reeds by the river which he then cuts to make his flute. This distinction is important for the character of the piece, either an attractive melody wafting up from the ground in the former or a lamentation…

An occurrence of this is when he is stranded on Calypso’s island, and Zeus mandates that he be set free. Calypso is angry that Odysseus chooses his wife over her, a nymph, when he has the option to be immortal and remain with her forever. To her distress, Odysseus cleverly responds, “My lady goddess, here is no cause for anger./My quiet Penelope--how well I know--/would seem a shade before your majesty,/death and old…

Authors have utilized literary devices in their works from the beginning of time. However, with the advent of the Neoclassical age in 1600’s Britain, the societal virtues of balance, harmony, order, and reason began to receive much more emphasis. The sentiment permeated every area of life, especially concerning literature. Mary Leapor, an English poet and maid working in the 1700’s, exemplifies this new focus and threads many of these elements in her poetry to elevate it to the levels of the…

Who are some of the ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses? Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus are just a few of the many that are known. Who were their parents and what is the story of how each of these Gods came to be? The parents of the gods were Cronus and Rhea. Together Cronus and Rhea had six children. Cronus was afraid that his children would kill him the same way he killed his father. So to stop this from happening he ate each of his children after they were born. When the sixth…

loved Persephone. Another story of Narcisuss is that he was a beautiful hero who everyone loved, but never payed attention. One day, he was drinking water and saw the reflection of himself. He believed only death could set him free so he died. The Nymphs wanted to give him a proper burial, but instead of his body, there were flowers. Those flowers were named after him. Hyacinthus was in a…

Hera Hera was a wife, mother, sister and lastly a queen.She loved animals and was kind to married women.Hera may have been jealous more than one but she made it through. Hera was the wife and sister of Zeus, she loved the animals peacock and the cow.The god Hera especially protected married women. Her least favorite god was Hercules she tried to destroy him at every move. For example she meet with the amazons and convinced them to dislike Hercules. Zeus, being king of the gods, eventually…

blessed by her counterpart, Tyche, the goddess of luck and fortune. In most myths she is the one who takes revenge on those who have spurned many lovers, for example In the myth of Narcissus, Nemesis is the one who punishes him for turning away all the nymphs who have attempted to be his lover by luring him to a pool and making him fall in love with his reflection. She is sometimes called Adrastea which means the inescapable, or the goddess of Rhamnous, which…

As kids or even now as adults we worry so little of contracting infectious disease, we do not realize that our environment is home to numerous of organisms that are harmful. For example, a single bite of a bug such as a tick can completely change your life. A tick bite can potentially lead to Lyme disease, which can become a severe illness. According to Sanjuna (et al 2018) “about 300,000 new cases per year are recorded world wide” (p.1) turning into the leading cause of tick borne diseases.…

roman king of gods shared the same power and duties. There were complications between his father, Cronus, and his children that happened before the birth of Zeus, so his mother Rhea hid the newborn in a cave on Mount Dicte in Crete. He was raised by nymphs (a mythical spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations) and spent his childhood undercover hiding so was never able to experience the joy of being a child. Although his birth was a rough start,…