The constellation I chose was the Lyra. The Lyra represents the lyre, which is a musical instrument used in a later time. The lyre is a string instrument, known for its Greek classical age. It is similar to the harp but it is smaller. There is a myth on the Lyra. Orpheus, the son of Apollo, played the lyre. Apollo gave it to him as a gift. Orpheus played the lyre so well that wild beast, the rocks, and the trees were charmed with the way he played. Orpheus fell in love with the nymph Eurydice. They got married. They weren’t married for very long. When Eurydice was walking through the fields with other nymphs, shepherd Aristaeus saw her and was amazed by how beautiful she was. When she noticed him watching her, she ran and was bitten by a snake and died of the serpent’s poison. …show more content…
The king and queen were charmed by his music and gave him permission to take her back to live on land. He was only able to take her back to land if he didn’t turn to look at her the whole way back. They were almost back to earth when he turned around and looked at her for a split second. She was sucked back to where she was before. Orpheus was so devastated that he lost his wife twice. He didn’t want to be accompanied by any woman. The woman were so upset about him not wanting them to be with him, they dismembered him and threw his head and the lyre into the river Hebrus. The muses collected his limbs and buried them. Orpheus went to the underworld and spent eternity with Eurydice. Jupiter himself casted the lyre into the sky. The Lyra can be easily seen in the sky due to the fact that it contains the Vega. The star I chose was the Lyra is the Vega. The Vega was named some time in the 2nd century. People who live in the Northern hemisphere are able to see the star around mid-day in May. The Vega is a A0V type of star, which is a white dwarf star. The star is made of icy dust
Perhaps the simplest constellation of the four original Greek constellations is the Hyades. One of the first mentions of the Hyades is found in Works and Days by Homer, as a seasonal signal to farmers. Farmers were told “... when the... Hyades... begin to set... remember to plough...” (Hesiod 612-613). The myth is that the Hyades are believed to be the daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Aethra and the sisters of the Pleiades (Britannica School). After nursing the god Dionysus as a baby, they were rewarded though immortality in the stars (Britannica School). Meaning “the rainers”, the Hyades rose in October and set in April, which is also the rainy season in Greece (Britannica School). Another version of the myth says that they were so upset over losing their brother, Hyas, that Zeus placed them in the stars out of compassion (Britannica School). Either way, the Hyades are a simple, yet popular myth that has been in existence for centuries.
The constellation Cepheus is named after the Ethiopian King Cepheus. This is why the constellation is also referred to as the King. Cepheus was married to Cassiopeia. Together, they had a daughter named Andromeda. The myth states:
I've chosen the Aries constellation, because it's my Zodiac sign. It's between Taurus and Pisces in the northern celestial hemisphere with Pisces to the West and Taurus to the East. Aries, the name, is Latin and means ram. Corresponding to that, ♈ is the Aries symbol and it represents a ram's horns.
In the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, the two get married but Eurydice quickly perishes. Overcome with grief Orpheus convinces Hades to let him bring back Eurydice to the world of the living. He agrees but on one condition; Eurydice has to walk behind Orpheus and he cannot look back to see if she's following. Orpheus agrees, but when the couple are just about to leave Erebus, Orpheus looks back to see his lover. With a final "Farewell" Eurydice
The early life of Robert Boyle very much resembled that of other scholars of the time. He was born January 25, 1627 in a city called Lismore. Lismore was part of County Waterford in Ireland. His family was very wealthy. This wealth played a role in the later life of Boyle as “he often noted that his great wealth freed him from the need to pursue chemistry for economic gain.” (Sargent) His dad bought the Earl’s Castle in Cork which made him the Earl of Cork. However, this title was short-lived, as the property was soon recovered by Irish Noblemen. It was then that the Boyle family decided it was time to move to England. For this reason, Boyle’s nationality is considered both Irish and English.
My favorite constellation, if I have to choose one, is Cassiopeia. Why? Because I have birthmarks on my right upperarm that look exaclty like the constellation. Also, this constellation is visible troughout the year in the Netherlands, where I live. The stars you'll find within the Cassiopeia constellation are: Schedar, Caph, Cih, Ruchbah, Segin, Achird and Marfak.
William Yeats is deliberated to be among the best bards in the 20th era. He was an Anglo-Irish protestant, the group that had control over the every life aspect of Ireland for almost the whole of the seventeenth era. Associates of this group deliberated themselves to be the English menfolk but sired in Ireland. However, Yeats was a loyal affirmer of his Irish ethnicity, and in all his deeds, he had to respect it. Even after living in America for almost fourteen years, he still had a home back in Ireland, and most of his poems maintained an Irish culture, legends and heroes. Therefore, Yeats gained a significant praise for writing some of the most exemplary poetry in modern history
In Ernest Hemingway’s writings “Indian Camp” and “The Killers,” Hemingway uses symbolism to relate the story, so the reader gets a true sense about the story. How Hemingway does this is by relating a personal experience, then altering it with symbolism and detail to make his writings feel natural to the reader. Also, Hemingway’s writings “Indian Camp” and “The Killers” have emotional factors that connects with the use of detailed violent scenes. Ultimately, Hemingway’s short stories “Indian Camp” and “The Killers” convey feelings to the reader that Hemingway uses detailed symbolic references to his works plus, how the stories seem as concrete as stories with no symbolic references,
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“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men”- Roald Dahl.The most influential and most helpful people are the ones that help the world by giving people a reason to wake up everyday and to motivate us. These people are authors. They write passages that can tell us a story, or ones that can teach us a lesson. They speak words of wisdom that drive people to continue to do what they do. Roald Dahl was an extremely influential and moving author. He told many stories, short and long, that people took into consideration in different ways. From his long life story like in the novel, Boy, to how he grew up, and his long list of achievements, he has a wide variety of work to be proud of. Roald Dahl used his life experiences and his thoughts and applied it to his work, making him one of the greatest authors ever.
Although Ezra Pound may not be one of the most prominent authors of history, he is still remarked as being one of the finest to write. Pound moved from place to place constantly collecting new ideas to write about. Even though Pound is best known as a poet, he was also a critic and a broadcaster. He decided to become more involved in society after doing most of his popular works. His most popular endeavor many believe is to be The Cantos. In order for one to gain a full understanding of who Ezra Pound was, they will need to know about his basic life, his work, and his connection to fascism.
Robert Browning, born on May 7, 1812, grew up in an environment highly conducive to the furthering of his interests in writing: his mother was an accomplished pianist and his father, though he was a bank clerk formally, was also an artist and scholar, and boasted a collection of books exceeding 6,000 volumes. Browning grew up learning multiple languages, Latin, Greek, and French, before he was 15 and spent much of his early years studying on his own, showing great interest in the works of Percy Shelley. Though he was enrolled at the University of London for a time, he found no fulfillment in it. For some time, Browning wrote minor plays, which received little praise and success, but nonetheless helped to form
Orpheus and Eurydice is another myth where two characters show how love is boundaryless and uneasily retainable by going to extreme lengths. The myth starts off on Eurydice and Orpheus’ wedding day. As Eurydice is walking down the aisle to her lover, Orpheus, a snake bites her and she dies on the spot. Orpheus is heartbroken when the love of his life dies. He becomes so determined to get Eurydice back that he goes down to the underworld with his lyre and convinces Hades to let Eurydice have one more chance at life. Orpheus even offers to sacrifice himself to be with Eurydice in the underworld. Hades allows Orpheus to have his way under one condition; Orpheus cannot look at Eurydice on the whole journey to the upper world. Orpheus and Eurydice embark on this mission, but his lack of faith and his temptation to take one peek, pull him the wrong
"Happiness is an occasional episode in a general drama of pain"-this is the conclusion drawn by one of Hardy's chief women characters, Elizabeth-Jane in his tragic novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. This is also the concluding sentence of the novel. We can imagine how much emphasis is put upon this observation made by a character who has throughout her life remained a passive sufferer, and therefore an observer, of human life, of human misery. This sad realization is not something that we find in this novel only; all of Hardy's so-called novels of character and environment reflect human tragedy after the grave and sombre manner of ancient tragedies. All the novels depict the despair and agony of man in eternal conflict with external as well as internal forces. His protagonists fight not only with circumstances but also with their own impulses, their own strong passions.