Styx

A 1,000,000 watt spotlight, a teakwood gripped handgun with high-powered ammunition, an elk’s heart, frozen, rounded off with a tape recording of a pig being eaten alive by bears playing on a massive outdoor amp. With these humble tools, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson wished his friend Jack Nicholson a happy birthday late in the evening. The recording blaring, spotlight shining, handgun discharged into the sky and elks heart, presumably, thawing on Nicholson’s doorstep. I would like to think…

Keats' Ode to Melancholy focuses on the lyric moment of beautiful sadness. Keats describes finding beauty in the sad and temporary. Keats understands that in order to enjoy positive feelings one must also experience the beauty in the negative as well. Through the poem, Keats balances surrendering to depression with embracing the human range of feeling as a combination of fleeting emotions. In the first stanza, Keats describes multiple poisons to stay away from. He is both reflecting on their…

Victor Hugo: Romanticism in France Born in France, in 1802 to Joseph Leopold Sigisbord Hugo and Sophie Trebuchet, Victor Hugo was the third and last son of his parents. Despite the fact that their family was of the working class, his mother was an unwavering monarchist and she raised her sons to be of the same mind. However, it was only a matter of time until Victor would change his perspective and become a representative for the common people. His political career blossomed in his later years,…

exiting without permission. The “strange driver” takes Harker to the Dracula’s estate. Harker fears for his life both in approaching and escaping the isolated property of Dracula due to the wolves, who yield before, Dracula, their master. The River Styx is associated with the realm of Hades, and those who enter lose recollection. Harker loses his memory when he leaves for the hospital. By sleeping in such a home Harker is already in a state between life and death, similar to Schrodinger’s cat,…

The mythology of Nike starts with her being the daughter of Pallas and the River Styx. Nike is sent to fight alongside Zeus against the Titans. An important detail about Nike presented in art is that when she is seen without wings she is in the presence of Athena, and when she is winged, she is a separate goddess. Over time, Nike became…

Roman/Greek Heroes and Gods There are many, many different Greek and Roman heroes and Gods/Goddesses, but this is about three in particular: Phaethon, Arachne, and Echo. Phaethon is the son of the Titan of the sun named Helios who wanted to fly his father's chariot across the sky. Arachne is a weaver who got turned into a spider for challenging Athena to a weaving contest. Echo is a nymph cursed by Hera/Juno to only speak the last few words she hears. Phaethon is the son…

The Roman name for Hades is Pluto. His epithet is “Lord of many guests.” Hades domain is the underworld, which is also known as Hades. Zeus and Poseidon are Hades younger brothers, and the three of them work together to kill their father Kronos. When the world was divided up, Hades was given control of the underworld. A major trait of Hades is his greed. Everything that lives will die and trickle down to him, and he hates when souls try to leave the underworld. He doesn’t like the other gods and…

is usurping features from Greek mythology. He takes these features and places them wherever he whims in his written account of Hell, in effect, undermining them. For example, Dante seizes four of the five rivers from the Greek underworld: Acheron, Styx, Phlegethon, and Cocytus. He places them under the domain of his Hell, and, as such, he turns them in property of the Christian faith showing the dominance of said religion over the faith of the ancient Greeks. Dante further demonstrates his God’s…

Mexico is infamous for its vast mining system. With almost 10 billion ounces of silver mined, Mexico is one of the largest exporters of silver. ( Brown 1). Some of the earliest activity dating back as far as the sixteenth century.To date there over 200 mining companies who have projects in mexico. Historically conditions in these mines were have been below the safety standards. In Most cases miners would enter a tunnel not knowing whether they would make it back out. Francisco Mora’s “Mine…

In the English language, there is such a thing as a homonym, that is the instance when words both look and sound alike but have different meanings. This is the case for the poems "Dream-Land" and "Dream Land," written by Edgar Allen Poe and Christina Rossetti respectively, in regards to the title; both of these poems use this term to refer to a certain life after death, although each interpretation is influenced by entirely different mythologies. The similarities of the poems extend to the use…