Hippolytus

When one becomes familiar with mythology through Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a collection of preexisting myths, strung together with the unifying theme of metamorphosis and divine intervention, a new language of allusions is discovered. This is used by Christopher Marlowe to better express the themes of beauty and sexuality through an Ovidian aesthetic in his epyllion, “Hero and Leander.” Marlowe writes of two naïve lovers, equal in beauty, separated by the Hellespont, Leander in Abydos and Hero in Sestos

As with much of classical literature, the Ancient Greek tragedy Electra by Euripides presents a dilemma to the audience. In this play, the dilemma is exclusive to the audience; although it is presented to the characters in the play, these characters do not hesitate with their plans. This age-old dilemma of kill or no kill is represented in Electra, giving the audience a choice to either sympathize with the victim, Clytemnestra, or the main character, Electra. In Electra, Orestes and Electra, the

From the exile of the poet Ovid arose the epic poem Metamorphoses, a story that follows the creation of the Roman Empire from the beginning of time. Leading up to book XV Ovid continues to paint the gods in an unfavorable manner for their outrageous behaviors. Ovid exhibits a greater respect for those who exert intelligence than those who exceed in battle. Augustus Caesar, the adoptive son of Julius Caesar, was responsible for the exile of Ovid, in an attempt to implement censorship. For these reasons

Cruel to be Kind Juvenal is one of the greatest satirist in the literary tradition. He has been venerated as one of the practitioners of satire and also the most penetrating commentators on the human condition. Juvenal’s facet is of that ‘angry’ denunciator who is driven to express by a sense of indignation at the corruption he sees around him. His biting “Satires” could be read as a brutal critique of pagan Rome, yet he exaggerates and puts a comedic mode of expression which makes it debatable

The exposition of this story is when Theseus and Hippolytus are preparing for their wedding, and we found out that another character loves Hermai. The rising action o this story is when the couple runs runs into a nearby forest, here there are many fairies. The climax of this story is when Puch accidentally places the love potion into the eyes of Demetrius. This causes him to fall in love with Helena. The falling action of this story is when Puck and Oberon find Titania in love with Bottom, so that

There are certain similarities between Baphomet and Abraxas and the later probably influenced the former. This is something that the Templars themselves may have recognized. Abraxas seems to have played a central role in the Gnostic cult of Basilides in the second century A.D. Basilides was an Alexandrian mystic and teacher who for all intents and purposes can only be extracted from heresiological sources from the Church Fathers. He is either depicted as a disciple of Menander or Saturninus (both

discovering that she had committed adultery, he penned Hippolytus, “in which he exposes women’s immorality.” (154) After remarrying, Euripides discovered that his second wife was also unfaithful. This was said to make him “even more eager to slander women.” (Satyrus 154) Speculation of how Euripides’ works were perceived when they were new is a difficult concept. Given how male-dominated society was at the time, a safe assumption is that Hippolytus was well-accepted, as were many of his other works.

Gnosticism was one of the movements that grew out of Christianity. It would challenge the beliefs of the church in a way that would put the two at odds. This case study will discuss the beliefs of Gnosticism and the Church’s response to it using research from scholarly printed text and on-line resources. The term Gnosticism originates from the word gnosis, which means knowledge. It is a religious movement that became popular during the first and second centuries. The school of thought behind the

With the amount of advancement technology has accomplished in the most latest decades, a growing number of individuals have begun to question how many rights Catholic Healthcare Institutions are capable of holding. The Roman Catholic Church has always been a prevalent source of healthcare and is the largest non-government provider of these services in the world. It is a well known fact, throughout the United States, that standard health maintenance is an obligation in justice and is considered a

This phrase and the belief that the world was formed in 6 days with a 7th for rest, gave the early Christians a view that the world would last for 6000 years. According to scriptures the world had a beginning, it had a “now” in which they were living and a promised end. This end was proclaimed in the Olivet discourse (Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13), but with warnings that none on Earth would know when. The Y2K hysteria caused many scholar to wonder how the millennial dates past where thought of