The Immortals

precisely clear: Gods are more powerful and, more importantly, are immortal while men are not. In the second chapter of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh and Enkidu are discussing…

compromise integrity or character, it is something that in Xenophanes opinion is more deserving of respect that the Homeric gods. This deity is still immortal like the plethora of gods from the stories told by Homer and Hesiod. Both concepts of god imply that the beings are…

Aristophanes' Birds is a comical play that was preformed in the Dionysian festival in 414 BCE. This comedy does not follow the same usual trend of using comedy to address serious political issues that can be seen in the majority of the works that we have of Aristophanes. The play starts with two older Athenians, Euelpides and Pisthetaerus, who are discouraged with the state of Athens and its people. Instead of these two looking to change the old and corrupt Athens they want to start a new life…

Woah an epidemic broke out. There are people screaming everywhere, the smell of bodily fluids and the soulless bodies lay there having a temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit. There was a mass hysteria throughout the whole world. People in shock all around the world, scientists frozen in fear hiding in their labs and testing on other soulless bodies walking around and trying to eat the regular people. People sick everywhere not being able to fix themselves. Most doctors are dead due to all…

Short explanation/summary of the book: Titan’s Curse, by Rick Riordan is the book that describes the friendship between Percy Jackson and Annabeth. Grover had been sent to the school to recruit more demigods for Camp Half-Blood, as Luke had been trying to steal them away to join his and Kronos’s Titan army. Thalia uses her abilities to charm the school staff, letting the group blend in and sneak into a school dance. There, they reunite with Grover who identifies two of the students, Bianca and…

Honor and power is what drives the conspirators to assassinate Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Caesar is now the single leader of Rome and members of the Senate are concerned that he will abuse his sole power. Therefore, they plot and accomplish the assassination of Caesar in an attempt to restore the balance of Rome. Rome enters chaos as the future is now unknown since there is no central leader for the people to follow. Cassius, a member of the Senate, is explaining to his…

contrasted with Iago’s trivial response to reputation as a groundless ideal. The lieutenant, Cassio equates reputation to his own humanity and when it is lost due to his drunk behaviour, he cries “past all surgery” (2.3.243), agonizing “ [he] has lost the immortal part of himself and what remains is bestial” (2.3.246). Moreover, Cassio blames himself for losing his reputation and he tries to get it back in a virtuous way by “beseech the [the Moor’s wife] to undertake for [him] (2.3.309). In…

He one day encountered Dionysus’s good friend and harbored him in his house and took care of him. When he took him back to Dionysus’s, Dionysus’s gave Midas the opportunity for any wish. As his wish he wished for the ability to turn anything into gold. When he found out the burden of everything being gold and not being able to eat food he wished for it to be taken away. When he was relinquished of it he spent more time in nature and nymphs. Lived in Macedonia Ignorant, greedy, and nature…

be transformed into a piece of art that will have no age and will last forever. The poet uses ‘artifice’ as it is something made up by the human kind. It does not belong to the natural world,it is man-made. Art is the only way the poet can become immortal and stay for forever on this world. The usage of terms like ‘gyre’ and ‘fire’ are repeated consecutively. Assonant terms such as ‘perne’ dim in the ears like the vowels are echoing one…

upert Chwaner Brooke biography Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) He was an English poet who apparently was described as “the handsomest young man in England” and known for his idealistic war sonnets written during WWI. Brooke belonged to the literary group “Georgian Poets” and he was one of the most important .He had some problems in his emotional life in 1912 caused by sexual confusion and jealousy who resulted the end of his long relationship with Ka Cox(Katherine Laird…