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82Greek Heroes
The Greek mythology is full of heroic tales and legends. The Ancient Greek heroes have inspired generations and their stories are still narrated and followed. Although the Greek mythology has an ample amount of heroic characters, ten of the...
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78A Midsummer Night's Dream: How Tragedy and Comedy Relate to the Characters
It may seem that tragedy and comedy are on opposite sides of the spectrum; tragedies describe highly respected characters plunging into despair, in some cases even death, when comedies, usually humorous in a...
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78Pankration
Pankration is a little known combat sport today but historically was a well known and effective form of combat and sport that was used in Ancient Greece.It is believed that Pankration is the first combat...
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80Minotauros the Minotaur: Overview and Background
An overview of the origins of Minotauros and his myth.
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79A - Z of Mythological Creatures (Just 'C')
Zeus Hey guys, I’m back with another collection of awesome mythological creatures, exclusive only to the letter C. I hope you’ve enjoyed ‘A’ and ‘B’ so far. If you haven’t seen those, check the link below. Okay, so I’m really...
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79Theseus speaks for Shakespeare in A Midsummer Nights Dream
The original speech given by Theseus, opening the first scene of act five in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, lacks key lines that link the speech to themes existing in Shakespeare's 26th sonnet. Experts of Shakespeare's works have...
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74Minotauros the Minotaur: Modernization and Immortality
The last part of a three-part series of essays that overview several aspects of Minotauros. This part covers the ways Minotauros has been modernized and made immortal.
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77Greek Heroes: Achilles, Heracles, Theseus and Odysseus
The heroes of Greek myth are more than human, yet less than gods. However, using their supernatural powers for protection and war, they are and were praised as religious symbols, giving them a demigod-like status. Many of the prominent Greek heroes such as Achilles and Odysseus were involved in the famous Trojan War, in which the Achaeans (Greeks) waged war on the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta...
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77Every Organ Tells a Story #3: A History of Anatomical Terms
The current anatomical terminology has undergone a long and tortuous journey. In his paper, ‘The strange histories of anatomical terms’ Charles Singer describes how the commonplace English terms such as neck, leg, breast, liver, bladder all come from Indo-European origins with a Teutonic backdrop.
9 comments80Imagery in Chaucer's The Knights Tale and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
In both The Knights Tale and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, animal imagery supports and furthers the themes and plots of the novels. Chaucer's main characters Palamon and Arcite in his novel The Knight's Tale are both described with...
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