Apollo sponsors similar artistic fields such as epic poetry and statuaries. ... As a result he is also connected with vitality and cycles and sponsors music and lyric poetry. In Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy the terms Apollinian and Dionysian are used to designate the two central principles in Greek culture whose figurative marriage resulted in the metaphorical birth of tragedy. ... The presence of Apollo and Dionysus can be seen in both music and poetry in a number of ways. Not to confuse their figurative marriage with another familial metaphor, but they are brothers as well...

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The Iliad, followed by Odyssey are the examples of epic poetry in the early Greek literature, they "emphasized the ideals of honor and bravery and had an enormous influence on Greek culture- (Myrsiades 1997). Greek epic poetry "had an enormous influence not only on "the Greek culture" but Western culture as well. ... Christian elements are present in "Christian poetry that drew inspiration from the Bible or lives of saint and dwelt on heroic deeds performed by great individuals heroic lays [which] praise the old heroic ideals of unflinching courage, magnanimity and obligations of service to ...

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It is worth noting the conclusion made by modern scholars Travis and Barlowe who point out that by using the Perseus-Medusa myth as the "context of analysis" (pp. 50) in terms of the "academic and cultural demonstrations of the simultaneous claim/failure of dialogue and as a cautionary tale for feminists, our particular interrogation can remind us all of the oppressive discursive practices involved in gender politics" (pp. 50). This type of consideration of the myth in terms of its modern application ultimately results in an understanding that it is not a story of clear-cut or unambiguous ster...

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