Political influence‚ love it or hate it‚ determines the way that society functions. The morals‚ values‚ folkways‚ and core principles of a culture greatly effect politics‚ especially through media. Today we see mass media affecting politics on a grand scale‚ however in the middle ages and antiquity‚ where no televisions could be found‚ literature filled this political gap. In the middle ages‚ songs and epics brought fame and fortune to crusader heroes‚ but Dante’s The Divine Comedy on the other hand
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Types of fiction 1. Flash fiction: Flash fiction has roots going back to Aesop’s Fables‚ and practitioners have included Bolesław Prus‚ Anton Chekhov‚ O. Henry‚ Franz Kafka‚ H.P.Lovecraft‚ Ray Bradbury and Lydia Davis. New life has been brought to flash fiction by the Internet‚ with its demand for short‚ concise works. A ready market for flash-fiction works is ezines; however‚ flash fiction is also published by many print magazines. Markets specializing in flash fiction include SmokeLong Quarterly
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For ages now‚ humans have used mythology to help them understand life and why things are the way they are. Cultures from across the globe have created their own belief systems. The ancients had a way of telling great tales of immortals‚ beasts‚ and demigods. However‚ there was more to it than that. People devoted their lives to their religion and saw that it gave them purpose and meaning. Some of the most famous mythologies come from ancient democracies and empires such as Greece and Rome. Greek
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Virgil Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome’s greatest poets. His Aeneid can be considered a national epic of Rome and has been extremely popular from its publication to the present day. Virgil- Beatrice sends Virgil to Earth to retrieve Dante and act as his guide through Hell and Purgatory. Since the poet Virgil lived before Christianity‚ he dwells in Limbo (Ante-Inferno) with other righteous non-Christians. As author‚ Dante chooses the character Virgil to act as his guide because he admired
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Life After Death in the Antiquities Through centuries of disagreeing philosophies and schools of thought there is one idea that is constant. Even today‚ through the world is beginning to seem like it is more divided than ever‚ there is one idea upon which people generally believe. Even looking back on the works of the most influential writers of the antiquities‚ this idea was present and seemed to drive their philosophies and their characters. This is the certainty‚ even the indisputable fact‚ that
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destroyed in the tenth year. Nonchalantly‚ the Greeks celebrated and won prizes‚ while Troy was burned to the ground‚ leaving the remaining stragglers to run away under the leadership of Aeneas. Focused on the Trojans’ journey to the founding of Rome‚ The Aeneid portrays the good aspects of the Trojan life compared to the battling Greeks as shown in The Iliad. Although‚ in The Iliad‚ the Greeks uphold their morals with pride‚ the Trojans write their abysmal opinion about the Greeks in
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originally published in 1667 (though written nearly ten years earlier) in ten books‚ with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674‚ redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil’s Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; most of the poem was written while Milton was blind‚ and was transcribed for him. The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the
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The mythological accounts of the founding of Rome are: Aeneas as Founder of Rome: The Trojan prince Aeneas is sometimes credited with the founding of Rome as the culmination of his post-Trojan War adventures‚ but the version of the Roman foundation myth that is most familiar is that of Romulus‚ the first king of Rome. Birth of Romulus and Remus Romulus and Remus were twin brothers‚ the sons of a virgin named Rhea Silvia ( also called Ilia) and the god Mars‚ according to legend. The grandfather
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The Aeneid has several points where the Gods will directly play parts in the roles of the humans. The mother of Aeneas is Venus early on in the story appears to Aeneas in disguise‚ and she offers him consolation by assuring him of the wellbeing of his men‚ and she also advises him to not be upset.The God known as Cupid‚ involves himself in the story by Causing Dido who is a princess to fall in love with Aeneas‚(The Aeneid‚ Virgil). The Odyssey similarly has the
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The male protagonists in both the Aeneid and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart share a classic predicament--that of the Animus-governed male psyche struggling with fate and the will of the gods while asserting the paternal virtues of dominance and self-reliance‚ while refraining from the feminine. What do the responses of these characters to the end of their native cultures‚ and their view of their duty‚ to the present and the future‚ tell us about the male principle as a ruling principle in the psyche
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