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. In Greek Mythology, Cassiopeia was the queen of the Ethiopians. She was married with Cepheus and was the mother of Andromeda. She would claim she was more beautiful than Nereus's daughters, the Nereïden. Als punishment for this hubris, Poseidon sent a flood and the seamonster Ceto to the city of Joppa (where she ruled). Perseus later defeated this monster. Because of her vanity,
In the Odyssey Eurycleia is a slave who was bought by Odysseus’ father but was treated the same as his wife. She was so important is the lives of Odysseus that she is the one that nurses Odysseus and his son Telemachus as children. Despite the fact that she is a slave in Odysseus’ household but is treated as a member of the family so she holds no ill will. When Telemachus goes on his Journey to search for answers about his father it is Eurychleia who gives him his rations and helps him sneak away. When Odysseus returns to Ithica the first person to recognize him is Eurycleia. As she is bathing him she recognizes his scar from a childhood accident and “joy and torment gripped her heart at once, tears rushed to her eyes” (533-534). Eurycleia’s
Polyphemus is a semi-human, man-eating monster with a single eye in the center of his forehead. He was referred to as a cyclops. He is the son of Poseidon and Thoosa, and lives on an island devoted to cyclops. Polyphemus means abounding in songs and legends.
If there is one great constellation, it is the constellation of Gemini. As a Zodiac Constellation, it is only visible during parts of the year. It's two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux, give it the name of the Twins. Anyone born in the end of May until late June is said to have two faces: one of Pollux's and one of Castor's.
Yet, despite the fact that no two women in this epic are alike, each—through her vices or virtues—helps to delineate the role of the ideal woman. Below, we will show the importance of Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa, Clytaemestra, and Penelope in terms of the movement of the narrative and in defining social roles for the Ancient Greeks. Before we delve into the traits of individual characters, it is important to understand certain assumptions about women that prevailed in the Homeric Age. By modern standards, the Ancient Greeks would be considered a rabidly misogynistic culture. Indeed, the notoriously sour Boetian playwright Hesiod-- who wrote about fifty years before Homer-- proclaimed "Zeus who thunders on high made women to be evil to mortal men, with a nature to do evil (Theogony 600).
She is always spoken of respectfully and is remembered for her heroic deeds. She is not degraded like many of the other women Odysseus sees in the underworld. Everyone worships her and speaks about her achievements with great admiration; she is truly admired, but because she is a goddess. Athena has control over men that most women in The Odyssey do not. Women 's lives depend on what men think of them, on the other hand, men 's lives depend on Athena 's opinion of them. Athena is "Zeus ' virgin daughter" and no one has used her in that way. She is too important to be used as being an enjoyment for men; they depend on her for their own welfare. Another woman that plays a big role in this epic is Calypso. Calypso a nymph, a child of Zeus, and lives on an island in the middle of the ocean. One day Odysseus is sent to her by the god of the sea, Poseidon, because Poseidon was mad at Odysseus for blinding his son, the Cyclops. It is on this island that another woman is used as a sexual toy and is not thought of for her own achievements, but rather for her beauty, and the fact that she is the daughter of Zeus. Men in The Odyssey only value women who they can use for physical needs and wealth, such as the women in the underworld that Odysseus encounters, and Penelope. Homer shows us how men in The Odyssey consider women less important than men. The readers rarely hear of women throughout the book. When they do, they are shown
When reading the story of Oedipus the king people see it from Oedipus’s side “that he a child would kill his father and marry his mother;” however nobody sees it from the view of the mother, imagine how terrible it would be to find out that you have been bedding your own child and are grandmother and mother to the children you share. Jocasta is the Queen of Thebes, Never the less when a person is to think about what a queen 's life would be like, it would not be wrong to picture glamorous parties, fancy clothes and even an easy stress free life. However Jocastas first marriage did seem to emulate that life, and it seems like her first marriage to King Laius was happy. After the arrival or her son the happy king and queen receive the prophecy
Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, later rose from the sea where Uranus's body had been thrown. Now Cronus became king of the universe. Cronos married his sister, Rhea, and they had six children. At the time of Cronos's marriage to Rhea, Gaea prophesied that one of his children would overthrow Cronos, as he had overthrown Uranus. To protect himself, Cronos swallowed each of his first five children -- Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon -- immediatly after birth.
The constellation I have chosen for this essay is Scorpius because I am a Scorpius so I have a connection with this particular constellation. The constellation Scorpius itself lies between the constellations Libra and Sagittarius in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way. This constellation symbolizes a scorpion and has 18 main stars,the brightest of which is the star Antares. I have chosen this constellation because Scorpius is my zodiac and I have looked upon the Scorpius constellation and I have found it to be quite stunning.
Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian woman who believed that human sacrifice would save her son from dying while abroad at World War 2. She murdered 3 women promising them employment and prospects to lure them into her web. The most interesting part the Ciaciulli case was the methodology which was used to prep the women and dispose of their bodies. Ciaciulli meticulously cut the bodies, used the decomposed flesh to make soap, drained them of their blood, and dried the blood into a powder to make tea-cakes for her family and neighbors. This harrowing process would be continued -for all 3 of her victims until 1946 when she was finally arrested, tried, and sentenced to 33 years in prison (three of those in a Criminal Asylum).
Sadr- is approximately 1800 light years away. Is one of the brightest stars that can be seen in the night sky.is believed to be about 12 million years old.
Constellations were easily visible to ancient civilizations and thus they were able to make out very clearly constellations. They started naming these constellations as common practice because they believed in more than one deity that was usually connected to nature in some way/shape/form because they used this to explain natural events, including the constellations. In particular, many cultures named constellations based on different myths by mapping the shape of said constellation. To these less advanced civilizations, the stories told about constellations made sense and that’s why they were given names and distinctly mapped, when a certain constellation was at a certain point in the sky it meant something very important to different cultures.
She had a true love for Cassio, but he gave her nothing in return. He was ashamed of being around her in public. You’re able to see each women’s own personality and compare it with the other ones. Some women stayed the same, while others evolved into new people.
Oedipus’ mother and wife, Jocasta, went through her share of trials. When she was wife to Oedipus’ father, King Laius, Jocasta conceived a baby boy whom she was forced to give up to death. After receiving a prophecy that his son would kill him and take his throne, King Laius convinces Jocasta that their son is a great threat. He then orders that the baby boy be...
Jocasta is the queen of Thebes. She is married to Oedipus, the king of Thebes. Little did Jocasta and Oedipus know when they got married is that, Jocasta is Oedipus’s mother. The reason they did not know this very important piece of information is because Laius, Jocasta’s other husband, and Oedipus’s father had gotten a prophecy. The prophecy was that someday, Laius would be killed by his own son. So they took Oedipus and bound his ankles together and gave him to a Shepherd. They both thought that their son had died that day. He lived and was adopted, and Laius’s prophecy will someday become true.
Constellation is a specific group of formed stars that are creating a pattern that is recognized as a shape that a is named from the form figure in the sky. Constellations are all over the universe, new ones are created every day as the universe is expanding more and more every day. The constellations that we see every day is only a few of the stars that scientist have discovered, so far there are more constellation farther out in the universe but with our technology today we are not able to see them yet. But with time we will be able to create better technology to help us be able to reach all of the other stars.