Essays on Myths

The Ramayana was an epic Hindu saga that portrayed a love story between Rama and Sita. The Ramayana was dated to one of the old ancient saga of the Hindu culture, its known to occur almost around the BCE time. The story follows Rama the…

The Ramayana myth of Rama and Sita are used as examples and teachings in the Hindu religion. Sometimes they are portrayed as gods and sometimes as humans. This myth has several manuscripts and is very old dating back to the 6th century BC. There are…

The similarities between different culture’s origin stories and mythologies is quite remarkable. It is debatable whether or not the commonality to these stories can be explained by the proximity of early civilizations and the divergence of the stories over time for different groups, or whether…

As argued by Panofsky, no other classical author’s work was so assiduously illustrated as that of Ovid. While Ovid’s Metamorphoses has lived on through art throughout the centuries, the Renaissance was a time of evoking the world as it was really seen by the eye…

In “Musee de Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden, “Flight 063” by Brian Aldiss, and “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph” by Anne Sexton, Icarus is a hero not because he is always successful but because he is determined, hardworking, and an inspiration…

In his poem, “Icarus”, Edward Field creatively expresses the myth of “Icarus and Daedalus” in a modern context, detailing Icarus’ life after he was believed to have drowned. Feeling that he has fallen from greatness to being average, Icarus continuously tries to fix his wings…

Myths are known to be part of every society, they include stories of gods, origins, and like most myths, they teach a moral lesson. In Chapter 8 of How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Foster briefly mentions the Greek myth of “Daedalus and Icarus”,…

In Greek mythology, Icarus tried to escape from Crete by flying with wings made of feathers and wax. Overcome by the exuberance of flight, Icarus soared into the sky and came too close to the sun. When the wax melted, he lost his feathers and…

Greek mythology is one of the most popular fields of study. Many works of artists and poets have been inspired by Greek myth. The myth of Daedalus and Icarus is one of the most studied Greek myths in English literature and many poets have reflected…

There exists in many cultures a legend of a tall humanoid figure, that is a relative cousin to humans, that walks the Earth in solitude leaving behind little evidence of its existence. In the Himalayas the indigenous sherpas believe in the Yeti, in India, there…