Herod The Great Research Articles

Classical Gods and Heroes. Myths as Told by the Ancient Authors

Classical Gods and Heroes. Myths as Told by the Ancient Authors

Herod the Great

Herod the Great

Structure and Theme in Dias Gomes' "O Berco Do Heroi"

Structure and Theme in Dias Gomes' "O Berco Do Heroi"

Mythic Dialectic in the Nativity Ode

ABSTRACT This poem traces a dialectic between Christian and pagan symbolism through their echoing and reechoing ideas and images. Milton scants the conventional Christmas narrative of Virgin and manger to treat the Incarnation's historical and conceptual circumstances. The birth of Christ opposes a new mythology to religions flourishing at the time, yet borrows substantially from them. Christianity thus reflects these religions in principle, but brings peace where there was disorder, music where there was discord, lightness in place of darkness, virtue instead of sin, glory instead of shame. Since the identity of Christ is formed from heathen prototypes, Milton works out a discordia concors in which Phaeton, Phoebus, Lucifer, Pan, and Hercules, together with the whole pantheon of dispossessed deities, collapse into the Christhead. This method of counterposing the pagan world, point for point, with spreading manifestations of Christ allows Milton to retain his predilection for classical heroes while still proclaiming their rejection.

Ambivalence of Will in "La Celestina"

Fundamental interpretation of La Celestina seems to be based on one of two assumptions: that an irrepressible fate absolves the characters of final responsibility for their actions, that the work is extremely pessimistic and rather amoral; or that Rojase sees a moral purpose and is looking for some meaning to life which will be of value to his reader.* There are certain procedures which Rojas uses that are difficult to explain on the basis of fate or upon the assumption of the existence of the classical tragic hero, noble but with a flaw. Our purpose is to show that these procedures can best be understood by postulating for Rojas an understanding of man's ambivalent nature.

Book Review: The Life and Times of Herod the Great, by Stewart Perowne. Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1959. 186 pp. $5.50; The Later Herods, by Stewart Perowne. Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1959. $6.50

Book Review: <i>The Life and Times of Herod the Great</i>, by <scp>Stewart Perowne</scp>. Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1959. 186 pp. $5.50; <i>The Later Herods</i>, by <scp>Stewart Perowne</scp>. Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1959. $6.50

Book Review: The Life and Times of Herod the Great

Book Review: The Life and Times of Herod the Great

The Symbols on the Coinage of Herod the Great and Their Meanings

The Symbols on the Coinage of Herod the Great and Their Meanings

Skeffington's “heroe of lorenzoe.”

Skeffington's “heroe of lorenzoe.”

Herod the great

Herod the great

Herod the great

Herod the great

New work by Izaak Walton-“the heroe of Lorenzo.”

New work by Izaak Walton-“the heroe of Lorenzo.”