The poem contains many direct allusions to the Greek myth of Medusa. For instance, line 3 ("which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes") and lines 18-29 ("I glanced at [...] heap of shit") refer to the most well-known aspects of Medusa: her snaky hair and her stony ga...
Learn about the story of the Greek hero Perseus, including his birth, the prophecy about his life, and his slaying of Medusa. See also the full...
Duffy's poem reimagines the story of the ancient Greek myth of Thetis: a sea nymph/water goddess with the power of metamorphosis (that is, she can change form at will). After learning of a prophecy that Thetis's son will be more powerful than his father, Zeus (the king of the gods...
Open Document “The Hero’s Journey Defined” is an article written by Joseph Campbell. In the article, Campbell writes about the characteristics a hero possesses and the stages of his journey. The author also writes about the different challenges the hero must overcome, as well as the the ...
(compare the help Odysseus gets in Homer’s poem, or theassistance Perseus getsto enable him to kill the Gorgon Medusa, orAriadne’s helping Theseusin the Labyrinth), and the consulting of a seer to prophesy what will happen on the journey (compare Odysseus’ journey into the Underworld to...
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In France the chief early Romantic painters were Baron Antoine Gros, who painted dramatic tableaus of contemporary incidents of the Napoleonic Wars, and Théodore Géricault, whose depictions of individual heroism and suffering in The Raft of the Medusa and in his portraits of the insane truly ina...
Kent try to unravel the mystery of Charley's stone body. Thom catches Damian with another man and finally tells him that their affair is over. The sheriff learns from the coroner that the "statue" has human internal structures. An online search leads him to the myth of Medusa and the ...
Ladies, I had died and gone to the underworld (the land of the dead in Greek myth). I was a ghost of my old self, inhabiting no time at all. The underworld was a place where language ended, like a black period, a void where words were forced to stop. And they did stop there;...
Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, explainedSaturn Devouring His Son was once a mural Francisco Goya painted inside of his home in Spain.(more)See all videos for this article 2 of 2 Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the MedusaThe Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by Théodore Gér...