did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark satanic mills? Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire! Bring me my spear! O clouds‚ unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight‚ Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand‚ Till we have built Jerusalem In England’s green and pleasant land. The poem by William Blake that is generally known as “Jerusalem” is probably the best known
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acquiescent abuse. Additionally‚ with the gods‚ justice does not exist. After murdering her sons‚ Medea appears “in a magic chariot‚ give [her] by the Sun‚” after perpetrating a crime “most loathsome … to the gods … and all mankind” (69). For her murders‚ Medea is doomed to eternal misery in the Fields of Punishment‚ a doom that mortal justice would hasten. However‚ in granting Medea his chariot‚ Helios‚ the Sun‚ speeds her flight from this justice‚ prolonging her mortal existence‚ and thereby granting her
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of brothers Cleobis and Bito. According to the story‚ there was “a great festival in honor of the goddess Hera at Argos” in which the brothers‚ along with their mother‚ had to travel a good distance by chariot. When the oxen have yet came in from the fields‚ the brothers decided to pull the chariot themselves in fear of being late to the festival. By doing this act‚ the brothers showed utmost respect to Hera which shows that to live a good life you must respect the divine no matter the circumstances
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walls when they see Achilles approaching on his chariot towards them. Instead of running‚ Hektor stays to fight him but ends up running away from him and runs around the city walls. This is shown in the Iliad - book 22‚ line 126-127 - with the quote of‚ ‘Hector’s flight… along the wall he flew‚’ which shows him running away from the vengeful Achilles. In the movie Troy‚ Hektor is inside the city walls‚ next to his father‚ when they see Achilles’ chariot approach and announce for Hektor to avenge Patroklus
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She drove her chariot with her daughters amongst the ranks of her army exclaiming‚ “win this battle‚ or perish. That is what I‚ a woman‚ plan to do- let the men live in slavery if they will!” Her chariots opened the day’s battle by rushing back and forth‚ the warriors onboard shouting insults at the Roman soldiers and launching missiles towards them. Next were
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In 1 Samuel 8:5 the Israelites ask Samuel to appoint a king‚ saying‚ “You are old‚ and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us‚ like all the other nations have.” Was it wrong for them to ask this? The following verses make clear that it was wrong. Samuel was displeased and prayed to the Lord concerning the matter. The Lord answered‚ “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected‚ but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done
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The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece and What They Represented The ancient Olympic games were primarily part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus‚ the father of the Greek gods and goddesses. The festival and the Games were held in Olympia‚ a rural sanctuary site in western Peloponnesia. The Greeks invented athletic contests and held them in honor of their many gods and Zeus. The Isthmos games were staged every two years at the Isthmos of Corinth. The Pythian games took place every four years
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The depiction of Medea with dragon-drawn chariot is indeed a tricky affair. It argues that the god of justice is approving horrifying deeds Medea has done. Such a conclusion seems uneasy to understand to the audience. It can only be resolved if we accept the god’s intervention as a direct rebuke
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Compare the ways in which attitudes to love are explored by Shakespeare in Sonnet 116‚ and Marvell in To His Coy Mistress The ways in which attitudes to love re explored by each poet‚ Shakespeare and Marvell are that they both talk about love with a sense of time. Shakespeare writes about how time is insignificant and love is everything‚ whilst Marvell writes that time shouldn’t be wasted when love is and they should make the most of the time they have now. But the thing that they both have in
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Dante - The author and protagonist of Inferno; the focus of all action and interaction with other characters. Because Dante chose to present his fictional poem as a record of events that actually happened to him‚ a wide gulf between Dante the poet and Dante the character pervades the poem. For instance‚ Dante the poet often portrays Dante the character as compassionate and sympathetic at the sight of suffering sinners‚ but Dante the poet chose to place them in Hell and devised their suffering. As
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