Ovid

Orfeo and the Magic Flute Compare-Contrast study of musical compositions of Monteverdi and Mozart Introduction: Composed in 1671, Monteverdi drew on the ancient poets of Virgil and Ovid to create the mythological narrative that is the opera Orfeo.1 His last musical work, Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) tests the limits of the high voice register in a ancient Egyptian plot about winning love with the help of magic.2 Signaling a major shift in accepted musical form, Monteverdi’s Orfeo…

In spite of being one of the incidental causes of the Trojan War, Helen of Troy was the most alluring female in all of Greece. Zeus is the father of Helen, and her mother thought to be either Nemesis or Leda since there are many different versions of the story. In addition, Helen might be the sister of the Dioscuri (the mortals Polydeuces and Castor) because they share the same father, but it is unexplained if they share the same mother. However, the Dioscuri seems to possibly have a different…

Introduction: Every day, nearly two hundred thousand people are admitted to american hospitals (Fast Facts on US Hospitals, 2013). Those admitted give up not only their money, but personal boundaries, the control over their activities, and even the clothes on their back, to receive health care. With such a heavy price to pay, health professionals must do everything in their power to provide the best care for their patients. Rounding received its resurgence in 2006 and is believed to be the…

Falls are one of the most common injury in a health care facility. It is the leading cause of “morbidity and mortality for people older than 65 years” (Touhy & Jet, 2012, p. 207). This age group is common in Windsor Manor Rehabilitation Center in Concord, California. Most of the patients in Windsor are older adults with impaired cognition, gait, visual acuity, and muscle strength, and experiencing chronic pain – putting them in high risk for falling. In fact, their CASPER Report (2016) states…

ancient Rome. In ancient Greece, abortion had started in 322 B.C. by Aristotle but it was also used in Plate as well as the Hippocrates. Ancient Rome was using this procedure in 3 B.C. This procedure was used in Cicero, Dionysius Of Halicarnassus, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Musonius Rufus, Dioscorides, Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, Juvenal, Suetonius, Favorinus, Soranus, Galen Of Pergamum, Papinian, Oribasius, and Justinian. Sadly, abortion is one of the most common medical procedures that…

Zeus is primarily the one who determines the fate of each character. He exists not only to oversee the heavens and humankind, but also to enforce his will in how smoothly or not the story continues. Segal insists that "on the divine level, Zeus 's program for retributive justice at the beginning is not an accomplished fact of the world order but appears as work-in-progress" as he prepares to assist directly or indirectly in any way for Odysseus ' safe return (491). Zeus makes his first…

Listen, I know it’s a bit late, but I’m finally getting back to you on those book recommendations. I just finished reading a novel called The Devil in the White City, and I’m pretty sure that you would find it quite interesting. The book is set around the time of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and follows the parallel paths of Daniel Burnham, the fair’s architect, and H. H. Holmes, a prolific serial killer who used the fair’s magnetic allure to find his victims. Burnham’s storyline is about…

“What is meant to be will always be.” This is a widely spread quote that explains the power of fate. Many people choose to believe that that’s what guides them in life and along their journey in love. In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and the story “Pyramus and Thisbe” destiny is not what lead them down their downward spiral. Personal choice impacted the characters in a greater manner than fate and destiny. The characters in both selections decided to execute incautious and vacuous…

What is love? Love is an abstract concept with many different meanings and definitions which can range from dear friend to passionate lover. Many psychologists have 6 or more categories for love; however the Greeks define love into four different categories such as Eros, Storge, Agape, and Philia. Each with a different meaning, signifying different types of love that can be felt. We have experienced at least three of the four types in our life and may experience all four in our lifetime. Not…

of Lots, who assigned to each man his destiny; Atropos, she who could not be turned, who carried ‘the abhorréd shears’ and cut the thread at death,” (Hamilton 44). Lastly, another allusion was to the tragedy, Pyramus and Thisbe in Metamorphoses by Ovid. The mechanicals produce this play, with Nick Bottom as Pyramus and Francis Flute as Thisbe. Edith Hamilton describes the story in her book, Mythology, “Our two young people discovered it and through it they were able to whisper sweetly back and…