Ovid

model. Lehmann was a french painter. Atalanta and Meleager was a painting done by Peter Paul Rubens circa 1616. The medium of this painting is oil on wood. According to the MET, the story that is being told in this picture is from the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Meleager has killed the wild boar that was going around the countryside. He then presents the head to the virgin Atalanta, which was the love of his life. There is a fury, a spirit of punishment, in the background foreshadowing Meleager’s…

Over the centuries Demeter, also known as Ceres, has many myths and stories about her and her family. She also has some beautiful poetry and paintings that modern poets and artists have tried to portray her emotions from her myth across to the reader and viewer. While the myths of Demeter and the poems are about a mother losing her daughter, the Hymn to Demeter and Ceres are focused a little bit on Zeus, Jove, making a deal with his brother to kidnap his daughter and allow him to marry her…

containing accurate information regarding the connection between posttraumatic stress disorder with strokes and transient ischemic attacks from the onset of symptoms until January 31, 2013. The articles examined were published by databases such as: Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PILOTS Database, The Cochrane Library and Scopus. Factors such as onset of posttraumatic symptoms and evaluation, range and country of…

feel that they have fully recovered and they can face the world with courage once more. Apart from the victims, their families and those close to them are also educated on issues regarding sexual assault and rape (Olshaker, J. S., Jackson, Smock and Ovid Technologies, 2014). They are given relevant information on what one should do in case they find themselves in such a situation and also how they should protect…

Catullus is a famous Roman neoteric poet during the Hellenistic Period. Neoteric poetry is about one’s life other than the popular poetry on history. Catullus influenced many other famous poets such as Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. What is most interesting about Catullus is his love life and his ways of expressing his love for his love interest. Catullus started writing poetry as young as 16. Love is his main topic and also poems of hatred for Caesar and other high authorities. His lover was Clodia…

As is known for lots of people, myths are always of different versions. Each of the version describes the characters in the myth differently. As for the figure of Cyclops Polyphemus, it is described in different ways between the Archaic Greek poet Homer’s Odyssey and the Hellenistic poet Theocritus poem. However, besides these, there is also a Roman version of Cyclops Polyphemus, which is actually the combination of the earlier versions. This paper is going to describe what happened in each…

In this essay, I will be arguing that the katabasis in Greek Mythology is more concerned with the journey than the destination. I argue that katabasis myths allowed the ancient Greeks to conceptualise death and the underworld, as well as understand themes relating to death more generally. Specifically, I will argue that the journey of the hero in the katabasis myth serves as a metaphorical journey in the audience’s exploration of such themes. Before defending my position, I will briefly refer to…

Metamorphoses. You recall that m the nymph Cloris was literally metamorphosing into Flora in Botticelli’s the personification of spring. In this picture by Poussin, Flora dances in the center and all the characters who complete the cast are drawn from Ovid and all will metamorphosis into flowers. Indeed, they all are, before our eyes” (L35, 10:45). Emotionally, both works illustrate figures expressing joyous sentiment upon the arrival of spring, despite the transformation of some into…

With increasing populations the number and proportion of older Australians are also expected to increase. Stroke is identified as a frequent cause of disability amongst adults as in 2009, 375800 Australians experienced a stroke with 70% aged over 65 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW], 2013, p 15; Wist, Clivaz, & Sattelmayer, 2016). It is likely as the ageing population increases, so will the number of stroke cases (Wist, et al., 2016). There are two types of cerebrovascular…

Midsummer Night’s Dream Response/Lit-Crit Paper In the early Eighteenth-Century, drama transitioned into "Sentimental Comedy" which embraces high moral ground, sex, and satire. The audience is moved not only to laughter, but also to sympathetic tears. While the Restoration Period in England literature was undergoing a shift towards highlighting the middle class and poor, not every critic was enthusiastic for the new writing style, one William Shakespeare excelled at. Samuel Pepys, an English…