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suits Hecuba and company, but to also determine certain qualities of Hecuba and her daughters that one of the two birds would best represent. Two simple lines in an epic that is just shy of 10,000 total lines (all impressively formatted into dactylic hexameter for the entirety of the text, I might add) induce the reader into a circuitous train of thought that is only halted when the reader decides what they want the text to mean, not whatever Vergil would have wanted. For instance, pigeons nowadays

God and Man in Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Dante’s Inferno The truest of man’s goals is to create art. Art is a by-product of the gift of man over the animals, creativity. Truly, creativity is a replication of God in man and a very possible interpretation of the Genesis 1:27 phrase “in his own image,” along with others—the possession of an immortal soul or the ability to speak. And creativity’s ultimate end product is art. And art more often than not in the history of man has led man

York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Department of Humanities 2012-2013 AP/HUMA 1105 9.0 Myth and Imagination in Ancient Greece and Rome Course Web Site: https://moodle.yorku.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=493 Course Director: Dr. Donald Burke 250 Vanier College dab135@yorku.ca Tel. (416) 736-2100 ext. 70476 Course Secretary: Rowena Linton 209 Vanier College Tel. (416) 736-2100 ext. 33214 Expanded course description and learning objectives

On the Historical Integrity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” In history, many feats are told time and time again and become more grandeur with each utterance, to the point where nearly all original meaning is long lost. As Doctor Manhattan said it in Watchmen, “The illusion vanishes, almost before it has registered” (Gibbons and Moore 26). For example, with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” this certainly is the case. To suggest that the aforementioned

Sahira Younas In the two sonnets, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti and “The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the authors address death and remembrance indicating similarities when exploring grieving process but also demonstrate its differences through literary techniques. They both utilized symbolism, imagery, and metaphorical language but showed differences in tone. Christina Rossetti and Henry Longfellow utilized symbolism to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic

Homer — attributed author of the Odyssey — is an enigma of mystery and wonder with unique tendencies. Since Homer was born in an era of pre-literacy, much speculation surrounds his birth (“Homer” 6). He was supposedly the son of Epikaste and Telemachus born around 8th to 7th century B.C. However, this is all conjecture since his ancestry is being traced from the Odyssey. Several cities claim Homer as their native son, yet the most compelling deduction is he was born in Ionia; the reasoning behind

Leader’s characteristics and values during the ruling in Virgil, Plato, and Pericles all have their differences in affliction to humanity. Imagining how one leader is able mind is able to manage and instill such rules into their cultures is very important. In this essay I will depicting the great influences of the characteristics and values on Virgil, Plato, and Pericles cultures and the importance these factors had on powerful leaders during their reign. Also what these rulers endeared to have such

he also created tragedies based on Roman Myths and history. Quentis Ennius was an epic poet that followed Naevius. He wrote “Annals” around 200 B.C. which described Roman history from the founding of Rome to present time. He adopted Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics. He also became famous for his dramas. He and some other successful writers Pacuvius and Accius used Latin versions of tragic themes instead of episodes of roman history.

“Did you know that there are 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter found in The Odyssey (My Interesting Facts)?!” The Odyssey is a fictional book about Odysseus trying to get back home to Ithaca. This epic story was told by Homer, experts do not think he wrote it because writing only started around 5,000 years ago. Odysseus, a mortal, is the main character of this story. Odysseus is trying to come home from The Battle of Troy, but he comes in contact with many gods, mortals, and monsters who hinder

“The Odyssey”. Hesiod, came around 700 B.C., is often referred to as the “father of didactic poetry”. Hesiod wrote “Theogony” and “Works and Days”. Like Homer, not much is know about him a rhapsodist, a reciter of poems. Both composed in the dactylic hexameter, the traditional meter of Greek epic, and in an oral conventional tradition. Though the poets have many similarities they also have many difference as shown in their writing. From the role of women, the definition of valor and views towards