This article examines how 21st-century cinema has embraced one of the most important figures in classical mythology, Greek hero Herakles. How cinematic art captured and adapted events that sources tell myth son Zeus. And beyond his story, it assumed, varied or decontextualized personality, values attitude a being was undeniably time. In this way, by comparing written story with filmed we examin...

ure from Greek mythology for nearly 3 millennia. Central to his myth is the story cycle about the 12 presumably impossible labors he carried out for the loathed King Eurystheus. Sometimes overlooked is that Hercules performed those tasks as penance for having murdered his own wife and children during a fit of madness. For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to capture the vicious Erym...

What does science say about the nature of mind? Are there many minds or just one that manifests itself through the individual’s experience? Do masks used in ritual or secular performance tell us something about the nature of mind? Is the archaic mind close, in some manner, to the sensibility of the postmodern age and where does the Indian evidence stand on it? How might ideas of mind’s powers a...

The question of whether man was specially created directly from the hand of God or whether he evolved from an ape-like creature has long been a controversial issue. In today’s secular culture it is common to view the biblical history of Adam as a story, myth, or a parable but this is now also becoming the standard interpretation for many within the evangelical community. In order to understand ...

This paper deals with the myth of Minyas’ daughters in novel Frenzy by Percival Everett, a Distinguished Professor English at University Southern California. He has brought forward new interpretation that his book. The main theme is story god Dionysus based on Euripides’ Bacchae to which author adds other mythes. References Ovid, Aelian and Antoninus Liberalis can also be found.

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