Nymph

Lastly, Demetrius’ eventual love for Helena. After Puck puts the juice on Demetrius’ eyes, he wakes and sees Helena. The flower’s effects take its toll and Demetrius says, “O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, / divine” (MND. 3.2.139-140). Demetrius was always meant to love Helena. Considering Oberon and his servants represent fate, they made Demetrius fall in love with Helena. It is also important to realize that Demetrius did not coincidentally…

“Metamorphoses,” he uses love many times as a recurring theme, and each time he uses it in a unique way. One of those being the story of Apollo and Daphne; where Cupid shot Apollo with his magic love arrow which caused Apollo to become entranced by the river nymph named Daphne. While, on the other hand, she was shot by an arrow of lead, causing her to hate him. In this story, Ovid portrayed love as a game of cat and mouse: where one wants the other and the other flees. The love Apollo felt could…

After escaping the sirens’ temptations, Odysseus is held hostage for seven years by the beautiful nymph, Calypso. Throughout the first book of the Odyssey, Calypso is portrayed as a lovesick captor. The quote “His daughter will not let Odysseus go,/ pour mournful man; she keeps on coaxing him/ with her beguiling talk, to turn his mind/ from Ithaka” proves…

The Ancient Olympics Ever thought about when was the Olympics created, where it originated or why was it created? How many sports were included and what were the roles of women during this vital period in history? The Ancient Olympic were based on religious beliefs, filled with many competitive sports and had stringent rules for women during the games (Goldman). The first ancient Olympics started in 776 B.C. ancient Greece. The event was very important to the Greeks and it was so special that…

When the Gods agreed to send Odysseus home, they tell Hermes that “You are our messenger, Hermes, sent on all our missions. Announce to the nymph with lovely braids our fixed decree: Odysseus journeys home—the exile must return. But not in the convoy of the Gods or mortal men. No, on a lashed, makeshift raft and wrung with pains, on the twentieth day he will make his landfall, fertile Scheria…

Modern culture portrays heroes as selfless. Almost all, willingly and wholeheartedly, would sacrifice themselves for a cause. The heroes of ancient Greek culture do not display the same qualities, as shown by Edith Hamilton in Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. The Heroes of the Myths frequently use other people at the risk of that person’s life to obtain goals that they wish for themselves. The princess Ino’s plan to kill Phrixus endangered the whole population of the kingdom. The…

One painting that really caught my eye is the painting Jupiter and Thetis by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Getlein, 2016). This painting was inspired from Homer’s Iliad, “The Greek epic of the Trojan War (Getlein, 2016).” Without knowing what it really means you can tell more or less what is happening based off of the artists creativity. From first sight, you can see A man sitting in a throne which depicts royalty. There are two women looking at the man in an almost lustful perspective. There…

they committed against him. These would be enforced by Zeus who deposed the five brothers and cast them into the pit of Tartarus. The blood that fell to the Earth from the cut ironically produced more creatures. It produced the Giants, the Ash Tree Nymphs, and the Erinnyes (Heisod 1). The blood that fell to the ocean, caused an uprising of foam from the sea. Out of this foam arose a very well-known Greek goddess, Aphrodite. This another one of the many reasons why Uranus and Gaea were very…

story. In the third place, there is a character backstory similarity. In the movie Ulysses is a prisoner who escaped from jail with two prison colleagues (O, Brother Where Art Thou, 0:58-1:02) and Odysseus was also a prisoner that escaped from the nymph Calypso (Homer, The Odyssey, p. 61-63, Book V) and various other monsters. Actually, the connection it is not only that both of them were convicted, but both were also trying to find their way back home with their wife. Therefore, in the movie…

Juturna struggled in helping her brother, she was shamed and her actions reprimanded because of her attempt to salvage Turnus’ life at the cost of her own. She could see the severity of the Dread One’s signal to Turnus and despite her immortality as a nymph, she cried out to her brother, “nothing I can do will prolong the light for you” (XII.1056-1057). Not only is this statement a plea to the gods for her brother’s life, but it is also an underlying statement on the absence of power that…