Half human, half beast characters have been present in popular mythology for thousands of years, and likely will be for thousands more.
But now, half human and half bird in form, they spent their time watching for ships from a height that overlooked their excellent harbour; and many a traveller, reduced by them to skin and bones, had forfeited the happiness of reaching home. The Seirenes, hoping to add the Argonauts to ...
The Sweet Singing Sirens The Sirens in Greek mythology, were the daughters of Phorcys the sea-god. Writers generally claimed to say they were a group of...
He manfully endured the atrocities of the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, and Terezín; after he had been liberated from the latter in 1945, Robert Desnos died from typhoid some weeks later.There is one striking trait that unites the oeuvres of these three writers: ...
When divorced therapist Tallie Clark sees a man standing on the edge of a bridge, she talks him down—and brings him to her home where they slowly reveal their selves (and secrets) to each other. The Millions’ Lydia Kiesling writes, “This is a heartfelt and moving novel about grief,...
The analysis begins,“In Greek mythology the gods condemned King Sisyphus to push a boulder up a hill repeatedly, only to have it roll down to the bottom as he approached the top.” It goes on: Sources Capital New York Seven out of the top ten stations deemed to be in the worst ...