Nymphs

Odysseus has yet to return to his home and kingdom of Ithaca. His home is overrun with a large amount of suitors courting his wife Penelope, who has remained loyal to her husband. Held captive at Ogygia, homesick Odysseus lives with the beautiful nymph Calypso who eventually grants him freedom to travel back to Ithaca. Due to Poseidon’s hate and Athena’s guidance, Odysseus lands in the home of the Phaecians who grant him safe passage in exchange for stories of his…

terrified and this made her cry out for help from her mother Ceres. Dis rushed off using his chariot and took the girl to a landlocked place in the middle of the Cyane and Pisaean pools (Ovid 1093). The area was the residence for the most famous nymph in the entire Sicily. Dis wanted to rape the girl but Cyane emerged and ordered Dis to stop his action because he could not become an in-law to the Great Ceres against their will. Cyane said that it was better if Dis asked the Ceres first before…

“incute,” (l. 69) meaning “strike,” “obrue,” (l. 69) meaning “overwhelm,” “age,” (l. 70) meaning “drive away,” and finally “disiice,” (l. 70) meaning “disperse.” Juno is asking Aeolus for total annihilation of the Trojans in exchange for a beautiful nymph, as she does have control over fourteen of them. By implying that Aeolus owes something to her, demanding what she what from him, and in turn promising him a wife, Juno secures what she believes will be her revenge all through skillful…

(Cox). This draws out the sense of mortality the human race was feeling during the Renaissance. Again, because of Monteverdi’s pieces “Lasciatemi Morire!” and “Lamento del la Ninfa” mirror this desperation, speaking of himself begging for death and a nymph who is mourning the loss of her love, respectively (Batista; Montanari). However, it is not simply human mortality that is shown through Monteverdi’s music. “Lasciatemi Morire!” cries out for “my Theseus”, a legendary Greek war hero, while…

recognize Odysseus, even though he was disguised. He even tried to wag his tail, and died soon after, as if seeing Odysseus was his last wish. Similarly, Odysseus is faithful to his family; he even rejects the offer of immortality from Kalypso, the nymph and longs to be back to his own…

the gods, while Virgil emphasizes the control the gods exercise over the fates of mortals. In Book V of The Odyssey, Zeus appears to at first show his dominion over the fate of Odysseus, commanding the messenger god Hermes, “Go tell that ringleted nymph…

Given the krater’s function as a mixing dish for water and wine in large symposiums, it is not unreasonable to assume Pan may have excessively drank and his pursuit of the shepherd is driven by this. Depictions of excessive drinking among satyrs, nymphs, and other forest creatures and sexual pursuit are especially common in Greek art. This highlights the importance the Greeks placed on temperance in drinking – with excessive drunkenness being a severe taboo in their society. The portrayal of…

grainfields” (Ovid, 27). These details of the earth after the flood show an alternate world, where water is above land instead of below it, a change that could only be made by a god. This transformation was made to protect all of the demigods such as Nymphs, Satyrs, and Fauns that still live on earth because Jove feared that they will be deceived by Lycaon like Jove himself was when he went down to earth. In book two after Phaethon’s unfortunate mishap with his father’s chariot, Phaethon’s…

The supernatural machinery developed in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock as Sylphs, nymphs, gnomes and salamanders , which are crucial in mock-epic poetry, strongly develop the literary mockery as well as brings the fundamental action of epic to the metaphysical world. Within the poem the readers are presented with the explanation as to where the spirits originated from, in essence they were once women recognized for certain traits such as Sylphs who were once beautiful women and…

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare questions the assumption of an objective reality through the subjectivity of the both the lovers and the audience. He disobeys the Great Chain of Being, a system which gives spiritual beings superiority, by subtly questioning God through the lovers. They are so interchangeable that their names are almost the same, demonstrating that any lover could fall for any other lover. Shakespeare is establishing that love is random because he is not including…