Bird as bard

Could birds in English literature be a reference to poets and playwrights? More ancient languages would suggest a different but not opposite meaning. Birds are often symbolic of the female psyche, and the virtual function of females in the storyworld as potential powerful diplomats. Birds can carry and deliver informed messages (sometimes literally on paper) without causing a direct threat. (Hitchcock's The Birds being one exception) or angelic spy -- a neither necessarily friendly nor nece...

Theseus, Great Hero of Greek Mythology

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The Fantastic in Literature - esp German literature

Guide to the Classics: Homer's Odyssey

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KRONOS ANANKE ZEUS

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Greek mythology | Encyclopedia Mythica

Mythology EuropeGreek mythology Folklore Miscellaneous Search Greek mythology The body of traditional tales concerning the gods, heroes, and rituals of the ancient Greeks. Critical Greeks, such as Plato in the 5th-4th century, recognized the considerable element of fiction in the myths, although in ...

SimpC From the Odyssey to Njals Saga: a voyage round the great myths | The Spectator

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Myth of Arachne

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liver – Mythology and Symbolism

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Icelandic Analogues to the Northern English Gawain Cycle

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The Figure of Prometheus and the Origins of Civilization | The Rutherford Journal

The Figure of Prometheus and the Origins of Civilization Robin Bond Introduction The focus of the studies of the vast majority of classical scholars is on what might broadly be described as the humanities—the various literary genres brought to a state of perfection by the ancient Greeks, the epic poetry of Homer, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, for example, or the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the historical works of Herodotus and Thucydide...

Prometheus as pained storyteller

Pan

Pan Arcadian shepherd god with upper body of a man and horns and lower part like a goat, late 14c., a god of the woods and fields, from Latin, from Greek Pan. Klein says perhaps cognate with Sanskrit pusan, a Vedic god, guardian and multiplier of cattle and other human possessions, literally "nourisher." Similarity to pan "all" (see pan-) led to his being regarded as a personification of nature. Pan-pipe, upon which he supposedly played, is attested from 1820. from https://www.etymonline.c...

Jesus - critical and metacritical analysis of onomastic rules and folklore about

Subscribe to the CompellingTruth.org Newsletter: Does 'Jesus' really mean 'Hail, Zeus'? Some false teachers claim that referring to Jesus by any other name than His Hebrew name is praising a false god. They stake these beliefs on Acts 4:12: "And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12 is not talking about the specific word by which we identify Jesus, but about the Person and work of Jesus Christ. Withi...

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Aloadae - Mythology

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Pericles

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Baldr - The Shining God Who Shines No More

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Ajax - Myth Encyclopedia - mythology, Greek, god, names, war, flower, life, hero

Myths Encyclopedia Myths and Legends of the World Myths Encyclopedia » A-Am » Ajax - Myth Encyclopedia Ajax Ajax (also known as Aias) was one of the greatest of the Greek heroes who fought in the Trojan War*. He was the son of Telamon, the king of Salamis and a friend of Hercules*. Before the birth of Ajax, Hercules prayed to Zeus* and asked him to give Telamon a brave son. Ajax was named after an ...