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    Descent Into the Underworld

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    ’une croyance. Paris‚ 2000. Harris‚ W. Hall‚ III. The Descent of Christ: Ephesians 4:7–11 and Traditional Hebrew Imagery. Leiden‚ Netherlands‚ 1996. Himmelfarb‚ Martha. Tours of Hell. Philadelphia‚ 1983. Hultkrantz‚ Åke. The North American Indian Orpheus Tradition: A Contribution to Comparative Religion. Stockholm‚ 1957. Kuusi‚ Matti‚ Keith Bosley‚ and Michael Branch‚ eds. and trans. Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic; An Anthology in Finnish and English. Helsinki‚ 1977. Loofs‚ Friedrich. "Descent to Hades

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    Ovid's Tragedies

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    stories are Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. These two love stories have many similarities and differences within them. Shakespeare used many of the thoughts from Pyramus and Thisbe and incorporated them in his tragedy. The two plays had many similarities throughout their storylines. They both shared the same sort of tragedy. “She plunged into her heart the sword that was still wet with his life’s blood” (Ovid 489). Shakespeare utilized this double

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    Baudelaire

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    CHARLES BAUDRELAIRE: THE SWAN Published: 1857 Main theme: Criticism of industrialisation and the destruction of Paris Mode of Characterisation: presented with melancholy Mood: sombre‚ disheartened‚ nostalgic Tone: saddened‚ negative‚ slow‚ nostalgic Form: French lyric poem Alienation: The narrator‚ whom we assume is Baudelaire himself highlights how he was become and alien in his own city. The urban renewal and industrialisation has replaced familiar sights and landmarks he had

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    The Competing Female Archetypes Archetypes are extremely common and important in myths‚ and female archetypes are definitely indispensable in myths. In Book Three of Metamorphoses‚ Ovid depicts various female characters‚ such as Minerva‚ Diana‚ Semele‚ Juno‚ Echo‚ etc. These different women‚ including the divine goddesses‚ normal humans‚ and water nymphs‚ all represent distinct archetypes. These archetypes also carry throughout modern times. Juno‚ Jove’s wife‚ stands for the good housewife. Although

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    motion‚ dissonant chords‚ and blasts from the brass that was unlike any other Opera of its time.1 Gluck‚ in the year of 1762 produced an opera with the poet Raniero de Calzabigi known as Orfeo ed Euridice‚ which held one of the scenes of the story of Orpheus when he was in a cavernous space in the underworld.2 Gluck had stated that he aimed “to confine music to its true function of serving the poetry by expressing feelings and the situations of the story.”3 Much like Gluck‚ Gustave Flaubert in his book

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    the creation of the universe came from a God who would create the world and everything in it. In the ancient cultures‚ the Greeks and Romans had many different versions of how the universe was created but most looked to the versions by Hesiod and Ovid. Hesiod was a famous oral poet in Ancient Greece. He is thought to have lived between 750 and 650 BC‚ but no one knows for sure. Along with Homer‚ Hesiod is believed to be the earliest of the Greek poets. But it is hard to prove which one had

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    In Greek mythology‚ Medea was an enchantress and witch who used her magic powers to help Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. So later after Jason betrayed her‚ she used her witchcraft to take revenge. So she was the daughter of Aeetes‚ king of Colchis‚ then when Medea first saw Jason when he arrived at the king’s palace to request the Golden Fleece. According to some accounts‚ Hera‚ queen of gods‚ persuaded Aphrodite‚ the goddess of love‚ to make Medea fall in love with

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    As a way of shaping behavior‚  conduct‚ and ritual‚ mythology‚ as Oxford Classics professor‚ Helen Morales suggests that it  “could and did function as an agent of ideology”(Morales 63). This technique‚ as mastered  and understood by ancient writers such as‚ Ovid‚ Plato‚ Aristotle himself‚ and others has  trickled down through Western culture; Medieval and Renaissance poets such as William  Shakespeare and John Milton infused many of the classical mythological forms and concepts  to reinforce their historical interpretations of mundane and the divine

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    This is a reference to Book 13 in Metamorphoses‚ ‘The Sufferings of Hecuba’‚ wife of King Priam of Troy. Hecuba is also mentioned in Homers Illiad‚ however‚ Ovid gives Hecuba a passion and depth that the Illiad version lacks. In Ovid‚ Hecuba is a grieving mother and widow‚ who witnessed the death of her family. This drives the poor woman insane‚ and who can blame her. She attacks the murderer and savagely tears the man to pieces using only her

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    thoroughly shows how the arrogance of a mortal to an immortal will lead to their downfall. The Gods show mortals that their divinity must be respected and acknowledge. The refusal to acclaim them can end up in being made an example. I thoroughly enjoyed how Ovid positioned the story to where a mortal queen‚ Níobe‚ thought of herself as being superior to Latón‚ a goddess and mother of Zeus’s children. With the story of Arachne being mentioned within the first couple of sentences‚ I knew the outcome would end

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