In fact, Homer starts his first book to invoke a goddess of poetry and literature to inspire him to write The Iliad of Achilles' vengeance. ... Because Herodotus tries a new approach to writing stories and exploring facts to support these stories, he creates the genre of historical writing, and even helps create the genre of poetry by being one of the first to differentiate the two. ...

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John Milton was one of the greatest poets of his age and perhaps of all ages. He was undoubtedly an artist of acute sensibility, subtlety of mind and superb human insight which is quite evident in his poetic works. In fact, no other writer of his age can surpass or even equal him in the range of his...

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There are many gods, goddesses, heroes, and creatures in Greek mythology, but generally the attention is focused on a select few. Most myths contain at least one of the twelve (sometimes thirteen) gods or goddesses who dwell atop Mount Olympus, and various other lesser gods and goddesses, heroes, an...

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My thesis is simple; The third song of Demodokos was the point of re-humanization for Odysseus. I will use other heroic songs to support my thesis and the various explanations for this why this is a crucial time for Odysseus. I will cover all other possible explanations as to why Odysseus" reacti...

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Introduction Most people in the Western world know little about the mythical Medusa other than the fact that, for her, a bad hair day meant a crown of writhing snakes. She was a Gorgon, one of three sisters who were ghastly, creatures that resembled dragons more than human beings. They were encase...

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Her poetry highlights how one's actions can impact upon another, as well as showing the tragedy of a woman who has become so attached to having physical beauty that when it is lost she feels like she has lost everything. ...

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