His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophy, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges' works have contributed to ...
Currently owned by the National Gallery in London, this painting is considered to be a 16th century copy of a lost painting of this subject by Michelangelo which he painted in 1530, in tempera.The subject of the painting is taken from Greek mythology. The god of Jupiter transformed himself...
It was such a perennial best-seller that it was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1957. She also wrote “The Roman Way” (1932), “The Prophets of Israel” (1936), “Three Greek Plays” (1937), “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes” (1942), “The Golden Age of ...
Apollo. He was the son of Zeus and Letto. According to Greek mythology, Letto was driven by Hera, Zeus' wife, from land to land and at last Poseidon took pity on her and brought the island of Delos out of water for her to live on. There she gave birth to the twins, Apollo and ...
among the ancient Egyptians the goddesses Tefnut and Shu were twins, the first of which embodied the lunar essence, and the second — the solar one. In Indo-European mythology, the motive of the matchmaking of the Moon and the Sun is widespread. And the ancient Romans believed the Moon to...
... Her boots were so large and sloppy that her feet seemed to shake about in them, and she shuffled along the ground when she walked. These boots could never have been cleaned since Jane had had them, and the twins firmly believed that they always had been that queer dust-colour, ...
Roman mythology also includes human heroes. Sometimes these mortals became deities. Romulus, the legendary founder of the city of Rome, was thought to have become the god Quirinus. Many emperors were declared gods by the Roman senate after their deaths, and people worshiped them in temples. ...
Four years later, in 1978, Messner and Habeler—dubbed the “Terrible Twins” by the European press, a nickname that cemented itself while the pair preened on Everest’s Basecamp boulders in matching FILA outfits—were the first to climb Everest without oxygen, a feat that shattered the perc...
languages, what they might be named after, and some stories surrounding them in Mythology that might have to do with the future of the Harry Potter books (we know JK Rowling used these as inspiration for names and other things in the books; maybe she'll do it again in the future books...
To the delight of "Sandman" fans, he also returned to that long-running series with a prequel, "Sandman: Overture" (2013-15) before diving deep into his interest in European mythology with the non-fiction Norse Mythology (2017). By this time, many of Gaiman's books and comics had ...