Tartarus

I first stumbled upon the Persona series when I was 16. Persona 4 was on sale at GameStop and I had to get my mom to buy it because I was not old enough. During this point in my life, I was struggling with a multitude of issues including existential crises, fitting in with the world, and most importantly, my sexual identity. After reading the back label for information on the game, I thought it was perfect. A bizarre murder mystery is just what I needed to escape reality. Or so I thought. The…

American history is found in all the infrastructure, art and literature seen everyday by the average American. They hold hidden meanings through the passage of time that need to be discovered and interpreted. In the early twentieth century, America was leaving the prosperous but corrupt Gilded Age to enter a time of progressive movement. George Bellows, an Ashcan painter, illustrates the time period and change of American lifestyle with his realistic paintings of city life. Bellows did not paint…

The Lightning Thief Many people have probably seen the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief, but what some people might not have known is that this movie was based on a book series by Rick Riordan. In the book, a twelve-year-old boy named Perseus “Percy” Jackson is a demigod, half-god and half-human, son of Poseidon, learns who is truly is and go through a few complications on the way. To summaries the story, Poseidon is accused of steal Zeus’s lightning bolt and Percy has 10…

During times of political turmoil, very few ever had the courage to face the injustice. Courage such as that is few and far between. Two of these outliers were Henry Thoreau and Martin Luther King. Henry Thoreau was an American writer and poet who lived from 1817 to 1862. He was the author of numerous articles, including On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. From a different era, Martin Luther King, the leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's, wrote his Letter from Birmingham…

be able to escape? But there is no choice. Should the demigods fail the Gaea’s armies will never die. And time is short, in about a month; the Romans will invade Camp Half Blood. With the stakes so high in this adventure that dives deep into the Tartarus, you will find yourself gripping your…

Mapping the elements of absurdism in Albert Camus’ The myth of Sisyphus Nirmit Bhatnagar B.A(hons) English Vth Sem…

The Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh are windows through which we are offered a glimpse of the ancient Greek and Sumerian views on life, its meaning, and how to live your own. Within each of these epic poems lie many lessons that transcend the ages, and most are still relevant to how we live out our lives today. One might expect the two to take completely different approaches to how they teach their lessons since they were written almost 2000 years apart. On the contrary, they display a…

Heaven & Hell, Valhalla & Helheim, and Elysium & Tartarus, are a few examples of where people, over time have, through the idea of religion, have imagined where the human soul goes after a person’s death. But what is religion? How does one define the idea of religion? In many cases people can mistake religion for a cult or perhaps just a well written story. It’s important for a person to be able to make the distinction between an idea of faith and the fantasies of a man or else that person may…

everything that they might do will be derived from being a pious person and might cause pain for the person, something that in Epicureanism is something to avoid. Yet in spite of the knowledge that a man can lead a life where they might not suffer in Tartarus, there is not a guarantee and this can lead to someone drowning in anxiety. Lucretius offers a cure to this would be pious man with an assurance rather than a plausible…

Grief, bereavement and mourning are worldwide phenomenon but they are conceived differently according to the culture and society. The process, that people need to elaborate the loss and to reconcile with it, is related with how they perceive death, their beliefs about immortality, their historical and religious background, and their cultural traditions. In each culture, rituals and customs surround death, helping people mourn and grieve. Rituals help people express their grief and allowed…