Leda

Hera, the Greek goddess of childbirth and marriage, was the wife and sister of Zeus. She was the Queen of Olympian Deities. People knew her as the most beautiful and powerful goddess, but she had a bad side to her.

In spite of this, most of the women he had slept with had been raped, including his own wife. Hera had been purposely avoiding her brother, wanting nothing to do with him. He was well aware of this, and while pursuing her had come up with a plan. Zeus transformed himself into a "sad and bedraggled looking cuckoo bird, soaked from a strong downpour"(Pontikis). Hera, pitying the bird, held him up to her heart for warmth and desired to heal him. In this moment, Zeus transformed back into his regular form and raped Hera, who could do nothing in the spontaneity. After this incident, they married out of guilt for the rape and conceived multiple children (Pontikis). Among other victims was the kidnapped Prince Ganymede, whom was taken by Zeus in the form of an eagle. Upon being ddelivered to Mount Olympus, he raped the young boy, and made him his cup-bearer (Leadbetter). As an apology, he did not return the prince to his family, but sent a couple of

first piece is a red figure amphora from approximately 330 B.C.E called the Apulian Red Figure Loutropharos. It depicts Leda lovingly embracing Zeus as a swan after Aphrodite has helped to make Leda fall in love with Zeus. Potters and painters at this time would have been male, therefore they would have made things that applied to their male audiences. For that reason making an amphora with this myth on it would be make sense because the people handling amphora's would have been male. Amphora's were used to carry goods in for trade; this is something men would have done. However it may be more likely that this is a funerary amphora that would have marked an influential mans grave. We see in Leda's somewhat erotic embrace of Zeus that she has

I have chosen as the subject of my essay to contrast and compare two female statuettes from ancient cultures. The first is an ancient Egyptian statuette named The Offering Bearer which was discovered about 1920 in the tomb of Meketre in Thebes and appears to have been made around 1985 B.C.E. by an unknown. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007). The second is an unnamed figurine commonly referred to as Statuette of A Standing Woman. This statuette, whose artist is unknown, is one of several figurines collectively called the Tanagra

Zeus was married to Metis the daughter of the ocean, Zeus found out Metis was pregnant and was sent a message from mother earth, saying, “A child soon to be born by your wife would be more powerful than you. “ Zeus felt threatened by the message and ate his wife to prevent the birth of the soon to be powerful child. Over a short period of time Zeus began to have a headache. He began to look for help and came across Hephares , Hephares helped Zeus by cutting open his forehead with an axe, there appeared beautiful Athena already fully armed . Athena was a very important goddess she was brave and had lots of wisdom. However Athena didn’t like to fight and would only take part in wars that defended her city and to keep the outside enemies away.

I have talked about the three painting that I have feel interested about it and describe their significance and how it connects to the Humanities.The first painting called the Cleombrote and Leonidas painting created by the Francois Xavier Fabre represented that by that Era if people an person break the rule of the tradition that people has been following out their life. Person will going to get punished by the king. Secondly, we have described the feeling from the women about his husband. In the painting by Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, which was Creusa Pleads with Aeneas as He leaves for War. It described that how Creusa plead with Aeneas not to go for war. Lastly, we describe that about people belief about continue following the tradition that has been following by the people. Interior view of the Church of Saint Peter’s in the Vatican by Francesco Panini have describe that how people renovated their holy place to continue following their tradition. These three painting had gave us a well explanation about the study of humanities which basically means belief in the human

Cygnus is a Greek myth about two friends named Cygnus and Phaeton. They both decide to go chariot racing together. Cygnus and Phaeton race too close to the heavens, and shattered down to Earth. Cygnus ended up not getting hurt, but his friend’s dead body was trapped in the bottom of the Eridanus River. Again and again, Cygnus dove in the water to retrieve his beloved friend for a proper burial, but fell short each time. Zeus, the god of the gods was moved because Cygnus was so noble, and gave the exceptional friend a choice: immortality or a swan. Zeus said that if Cygnus wanted to be a swan, he would live as a swan for the rest of his life. Boldly, Cygnus chose to be a swan to obtain his friend. Zeus was moved by the heroic act, and decided

Zeus' and Hera's marriage had gotten off onto a rocky start, here's how. After Zeus could not get Hera's attention at all he had another approach to appear as a wounded bird. When Hera saw this "wounded bird" she picked him up and hugged up to dry him and keep warm. Then after Zeus returned to his true form and shamed Hera into marriage. The wedding ceremony was huge, one that would've been to remember but the honeymoon lasted for 300 years! Zeus and Hera had three children together: Ares, Hebe, and Eliethya. So it says. Even after Zeus and Hera had children Zeus still had his little affairs. Tell me who

The painting depicts a single female figure as the centerpiece of the composition. The female figure is nude and holds a vase with water pouring out to the right side of it. The water around the figure is symbolic of the birth of the goddess Aphrodite

The statue represents a boy dressed in chlamys carrying a round object on his back hanging in a sling. The body shows wide shoulders and tender lines indicate boyish appearance. The left arm is bent from elbow, enveloped inside the mantle and held tightly to the chest. Fig.1 The left hand is holding the two hanging robes of the round object on the back side. Fig.2 The right arm is extending beside the body, curves slightly to fix its two folding edges together on the thigh. The details of fingers beneath the heavy mantle are charmingly executed: four fingers appear on the left strap and the index rests on the right one. Fig.1 The details of the right hand are well treated, where the fingers are accountable as well.

Today, Helen is considered the most inspired character of literature, whether it’s ancient or modern. She was born around 450-440 B.C. Her parents were the King and Queen of Sparta named Leda and Tyndareus. But the almighty Zeus guised himself as a swan and raped the Spartan queen causing her to produce two eggs. From one came Helen and her brother Pollux. From the other one came Clytemnestra and Castor.

The artwork ‘Olympia’ shows the different culture and social statues from the theme ‘OTHER’. Olympia was shown in the 1865 Salon in Paris, this work was identified as one of the most shocking and confronting artworks of that periods. The painting style was unusual, the highly contrast for the light and dark side, the painting is very flat. The artist Edouard Manet was a realist, but some time this style was shock the temporary audience. For the culture difference in this artwork, we can clearly see the different culture background for this two major figure. The nude white woman lay on the bed, her confrontational gaze and the details identifying her as a prostitute, and the fully clothed black maid standing be hide her, shows the different

Leda’s rape by Zeus is yet another display of female mortals falling into the ploy of the divine. She is being viewed as the reason for the chaos and slaughter that ensues her rape and giving birth to a daughter, Helen. Leda is ultimately liable for the undesirable acts of all mankind. Leda represents the death of an allegorical world and the start of modern history. Despite her being a victim of Zeus she is the one blamed, not her victor. Yeats’s view of Leda’s encounter with Zeus as the swan represents history’s typical gender bias with a patriarchal world that were the building blocks of our western civilization through imagery. Yeats depiction of Leda is unique in the sense that he illustrates her as being raped rather than seducing Zeus as other versions of the tale parade. Leda loses her purity in a very degrading way, she is forced to birth a child and to take on the blame and accountability for that child’s part in the downfall of Troy.

Interpretively, the form-content of this sculpture undoubtedly expresses the subject of feminine beauty. The shapes and structural relationships can be directly interpreted to reveal some quite enchanting archetypal mysticism on the subject. (Martin and Jacobus 53, 54, 105) The diamond shape formed in the upper body can be interpreted as a symbol of emotional strength. Diamonds are notoriously hardy stones and the area that the diamond is placed suggests matters of the heart. Women are often characterized as being emotionally strong. The archetype of the moon is quite apparent as an interpretive form in this sculpture as well. The moon is associated with water because of its pull on the tides, and water is associated with emotion because of

The fixation is set on her in the center of the painting due to the triangle of light used to create a focal point for the viewer. Surrounding her on both sides are the linear equivelants of past and future. From the left we see her creators helping her along with strength and the force of the wind. To the right we see her handmaiden ready to usher her into the world, where she will be clothed and no longer represent innocence. Both exhibit two very different forms of love and caring to Venus.