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Helen
The face that launched a thousand ships ---Christopher Marlowe
Meaning:
A reference to the mythological figure Helen of Troy (or some would say, to Aphrodite).
Her abduction by Paris was said to be the reason for a fleet of a thousand ships to be launched into battle, initiating the Trojan Wars.
Meaning:
A reference to the mythological figure Helen of Troy (or some would say, to Aphrodite).
Her abduction by Paris was said to be the reason for a fleet of a thousand ships to be launched into battle, initiating the Trojan Wars.
Eris- Goddess of chaos, strife and discord
Story:
The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of Paris. The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations. She therefore tossed into the party the Apple of Discord, a golden apple inscribed τῇ καλλίστῃ– "For the most beautiful one", or "To the Fairest One" – provoking the goddesses to begin quarreling about the appropriate recipient. The hapless Paris, Prince of Troy, was appointed to select the fairest by Zeus. The goddesses stripped naked to try to win Paris' decision, and also attempted to bribe him. Hera offered political power; Athena promised infinite wisdom; and Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued. |
Leda an the Swan
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda.
- Leda: was daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, wife of king Tyndareus of Sparta, and the mother of Helen of Troy.
Syllable
- clash (n.)
Meaning1: a conflict; opposition, especially of views or interests
ex. A clash between nations are bad for their people.
Meaning2: a battle, fight, or skirmish
ex. The clash between the border patrols left three men dead. - bard (n.)
Meaning: a poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition.
ex. On a dozen axes of values, then, there is a deep congruity, much of it reflecting the influence of the archaic epic bard on the nineteenth-century novelist. - mort-→death
ex. immortals
He may be gone in this lifetime, but his spirit and his character are as immortal as his prose.
ex. morgue
Relief workers carried corpses to an ice rink that had been converted into a morgue.
ex. mortgage
But in order for that to happen, a mortgage broker may have first originated that loan, and charged the borrower a fee. - meta-→change
ex. metamorphose
These tadpoles must grow quickly so they can metamorphose before ponds dry up in late summer. - -morph-→form,shape
ex. polymorphous (a.)
Meaning: having, assuming, or passing through many or various forms, stages, or the like.