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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Greek Mythology"”.
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Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology
… visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology. This thesis articulates the development of my visual art and critical practice, exploring Black, female subjectivities within speculative narratives of the future. It proposes a new term, Dark Fecundity, which seeks to describe and …
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"Early Retirement" and other stories (Original writing)
… II years of 1943 to 1958. Themes are drawn from Greek Mythology.
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Penthesilea
… In Kleist’s version of Penthesilea, unlike in Greek mythology, the queen of the Amazons Penthesilea survives after being struck by Achilles, who falls in love with her. The romantic relationship between the two warriors is tragic and results in the death of both. Penthesilea features …
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Just Passing Through
… of the 2008 Recession, racism and misogyny, Greek mythology, and the opioid crisis.
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
This study compares the use of allegory and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
This study compares the use of allegory and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis …
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De geschiedenis van een jonge god : mythe, primordialiteit en de representatie van de archetypische adolescent en jonge man in werken uit de moderne Afrikaanse literatuur en de wereldliteratuur
The characters and narratives depicted in the Greek mythology are all archetypal concepts. They are depictions of the primordial and the unconscious of the human being. Characters in a literary Work. can be interpreted within this primordial framework. Also, a text itself, or the form that a text …
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The Function of Mythology and Religion in Ancient Greek Society.
<p>The ancient Greeks are prime subjects of study for those wishing to understand the roles that religion and mythology play in a society and how the two interact with each other. This paper covers what I feel after my study of Greek mythology and religion are the eight functions of mythology: …
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Adventures in the Classroom Creating Role-Playing Games Based on Traditional Stories for the High School Curriculum
… By developing 3 sample games based on Greek mythology, Arthurian legends, and a widespread folktale type, I explored the process of creating games that fit the limits of secondary classrooms and can be used to address specific educational standards. The sample games were tested with …
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Des Amazones parmi les pères de l'église : témoignage de la condition féminine durant la période de l'église primitive
… this magnificent story of the Amazons, part of Greek mythology, carries within its lines the stigma imbeded by the pagans and propagated by Christians to uphold in their own beliefs.
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Aktualizace řeckých mýtů v současné anglosaské literatuře a jejich kritický ohlas
… fiction reinterprets and updates ancient Greek myths, and how these modern retellings reflect the cultural and social values of today's world. The analysis centers on three novels - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, and Circe and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - which offer …
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Mythology in the poetry of Maksimilian Volosin: The metaphor of consciousness
… Odysseus, Icarus, and Zeus. These references to Greek mythology allow us to trace the path of Volosin's poetic persona: acceptance of the limitations of the human predicament, quest for self-knowledge, departure from the native land, wanderings, and return to the source of origin. The scientific …
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Corpoduncan: o legado de Isadora Duncan e suas reverberações em processos artísticos na Bahia
… that is connected with the elements of nature, Greek mythology and the Renaissance. The creation of this new way of thinking about dance made it detached from the formal aesthetics of classical ballet and advocated the idea of the solar plexus as the place from which all dance movements come …
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Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Warp Weighted Loom
… and Athena: all are prominent female figures in Greek mythology who are known for their magnificent weaving skills. Indeed, the Greeks took pride from the skills that their daughters and wives exhibited on the loom because of the economic and social importance of weaving. Modern scholars can …
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Gilded City
… referenced historical precedents ranging from Greek Mythology to 18th Century architects. Brodsky and Utkin utilized paper architecture to subvert the requirements of soviet ideology by inventing a form antithetical to existing power structures. In a similar act of subversion, Gilded City …
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The Nature of Influence: Fu'ad Rifqa's Wilderness Poetry at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity
… from the natural world and Mesopotamian and Greek mythology while also reflecting the evolution of form and content from both Arab Romanticism and Modernism as well as his extensive engagement with German Romantic and post-Romantic poets Friedrich Hölderlin and Rainer Maria Rilke. </p> …
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Anthropogony, Myth and Gender: Athenian Autochthony as a Case Study
… suggests a new approach for understanding Greek mythology. Taking Athenian autochthony as a case study, it argues that, instead of regarding Greek myth as either a narrative system with one universal logic (structuralist reading) or as an ever-changing corpus without a unified concern …
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Pagan History and Religion in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714)
… authority. These are, firstly, the corpus of Greek mythology, which held the key to understanding the origins of pagan idolatry and was often thought to have contained corrupted biblical history; secondly, the evidence of ancient Egyptian history, above all Manetho’s dynasties of Egyptian …
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Vanished in Silver
… from moments in history, legend, folklore, and mythology. The story is told through the 1st person narration of Lyra Kazan, a Thessalian witch more than 2,500 years old who runs an apothecary in Long Beach, California. The seemingly mundane setting falls away to reveal physics-bending, …
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