The Iliad is not a work that gives a mere account of historic facts and events but one where persons are the protagonists by virtue of their behaviors, values, motives and decisions which affect the flow of the story. Achilles is one of these persons that play a primary role in the plot of Iliad; as Homer puts it in the first lines of this work, the anger (mênin) of Achilles, his withdrawal fro...

A. Probability spaces, random variables. (Shreve, Chapter 1) In this course, risk-neutral pricing theory is formulated in the language ofmeasuretheoretic probability. To the aspiring quant, measure-theoretic probability might at first appear mysterious, overly abstract, and irrelevant to quantitative analysis. However, it provides a general and powerful way to express both the conceptual ideas ...

A real myth of a hero, moves toward a lion and a subversive dragon, is a story of soul evolution. The hero myth shows a stage in which a child is separated from dependency in order to reach to personal integrity. According to Rumi, permanent presence of journey precursors shows that there is no way to escape and not only heroes but also all humans experience passing from thresholds in order to ...