Phaedra

Never aging. Same black hair, same dark green button down and black slacks. Throughout the years, he 's never said a word to me or accidental awkward eye contact or even a nod. He is always there, but I am the only one that ever notices him. “Phaedra, what are you looking at,” my mother asked me as she turned…

Euripides uses the two choruses, male and female, to reflect the conflict between Phaedra and Hippolytus. The chorus, as a substitute community for the attending audience, offers support and advice and become complicit in the action. In Hippolytus they do not break their oath of silence to Phaedra when the letter is discovere even though they foresee ‘sorrows’ (Hippolytus, 882) and tell Theseus to reconsider his curse towards Hippolytus…

abandoned her father after riding home with him once he had killed the minotaur (“Artemis”Greek). Artemis had many other bad encounters with mortals as well including the time she was indirectly responsible for the death of Ariadne's sister Phaedra. As the story goes, Phaedra was infatuated with her husband's stepson, who, however, rejected her advances because he was dedicated to Artemis (“Artemis”…

The lovely skyscrapers, all the people, all the taxis, all the fashion, and all the landmarks; I am just reminiscing about the time I took a trip to the Big Apple. It was one of the best things I ever experienced. My dad took me and my sister to the wonderful city of New York for my 16th birthday. Since I wanted to fit in with New York’s fashion, I decided to wear a fluffy, white fur coat with heavy Timberlands. Before we arrived at the Big Apple, we had to go through the Atlanta airport. Our…

Based on the conflict between Artemis and Aphrodite in Hippolytus, the conclusion which can be drawn is that the Greeks perceived their gods to be selfish, amoral, vengeful and petty, pursuing their own goals in disregard of the moral and responsible path and killing humans to attack the deities which favored said humans; the conflict between Demeter and the rest of the Olympian gods in Hymn to Demeter reinforces the notion that the gods did not care for mortals when solving conflicts between…

Much like Katniss Everdeen of Suzanne Collins’s acclaimed novel, The Hunger Games, Theseus, a well known Greek hero, offered to be one of the tributes of a situation that could potentially end his life. In his case, Theseus voyaged on a quest to the Labyrinth to slay the Minotaur and free the other tributes. All four heroes in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology show traits and features that display their unworthiness to named a hero. Nevertheless, these heroes also exhibit extremely admirable qualities.…

shepherd boy is being hunted – sexually – by Pan. Parallels between sexuality and hunting are common, especially within the context of the cult of Dionysus and its related iconography but also more specifically within the introduction of Seneca’s Phaedra. The iconography surrounding Pan (horns, goats, forests, hunting, and wild sexuality) and its association with Dionysus and, wine by extension, is not accidental. Given the krater’s function as a mixing dish for water and wine in large…

Love is one of the main themes in literature; it is present in the works of all time, from mythology to nowadays. Numerous philosophers’ thought together about this theme without managing to determine it’s meaning. In spite of the difficulty to give a meaning to this term, we know that love is an attachment we carry for someone. However, love takes a meaning when it is shared or lived. Which excludes for example the love of the nature or the love for shopping because there isn’t any reciprocity.…

Whistleblowing When most people think of whistleblowing they might think about recent events surrounding the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden outlining international and domestic surveillance programs. Or of the physical act of blowing a whistle by a referee to indicate a foul. Either way, whistleblowing is the indication of wrongdoing by someone. This paper focuses on the traditional form of whistleblowing by calling attention to governmental or organizational wrongdoing and some of the arguments…

In Greek Mythology, the Amazons were a group of female warriors that settled in the secluded city of Themiskyra on the Black Sea (present day Ukraine). No males could live with the Amazons, they were a force by themselves, known for their courage and pride (Cartwright). However, like majority of species, males were necessary for procreation. For the Amazons to continue their race, they would visit a nearby tribe once a year known as the Gargareans. After choosing a partner from the tribe and…