Such imaginative descriptions will have been influenced by mythical beliefs in sirens and mermaids. The Greek sirens were singing bird-women who lured sailors to their death, as described by Homer (I945 :c. Iooo B.C.) in the Odyssey and interpreted in terms of classical religious mythology by Robert Graves (I955). TIhe mermaid or water-nymph type of siren of nautical tradition originates in the...

In Greek mythology, the river Styx is a river that formed the boundary between earth and the underworld or Hades, the abode of the dead. The ferryman of the river Styx was called Charon, a personification of the decision-making process between life and death. According to some versions of the myth, the river Styx had miraculous powers and could make someone immortal. Achilles was said to have b...

Owing its name to an image borrowed from Greek mythology, a chimera is seen to represent a new entity created as a composite from existing creatures or, in this case, molecules. Making use of various combinations of three basic domains of the receptors (i.e., exofacial, transmembrane, and cytoplasmic segments) that couple agonist binding into activation of effectors through heterotrimeric G-pro...

This paper argues that clinicians face the unique artistic challenge of taking concrete pieces of data -scientific findings -and abstracting them into effective therapeutic interventions. Moreover, this abstraction has to be modified for different personality types. The process of therapeutic change and how it can be impeded by the traditional medical model are briefly explored. The doctor-pati...

This essay will discuss the combined seminars presented in book “The Greek Imaginary: from Homer to Heraclitus” by Cornelius Castoriadis. In these he dissects Ancient culture, politics, and religion an investigative analytic way. Through ancient mythology Homeric texts a lot of information can be derived regarding everyday lives, ideology, philosophy time; all aforementioned explicated as well ...

Lore Olympus is a webtoon that uses color as sign for each of its characters. In interpreting symbols, this study applies Peirce’s semiotic theory related to representamen or signs, objects, and interpretants. This aims describe the meaning colors in six characters gods goddesses Olympus. research used qualitative methods. It was found had general specific were convey their personalities. The b...

The gold plates adorning women’s headdresses were found in the Scythian elite mounds of 4th century BC Tovsta Mohyla and Chortomlyk. recreate same plots: scene two griffins attacking a deer confrontation between fantastic winged boar predator resembling lion. image is rare times. In addition to above, small series images protome wild with wings known. These are originating from 2nd Seven-B...

Background The History of Neurosurgery begins with the presence of human in the earth. Begins from the depths of History (reports in Bible, Greek Mythology), as a part with Surgery until the last half of the 20th Century. Archaeological discoveries of human skull’s proved the affair that the first neurosurgical action is the trepanation of skull or trephination (Burr hole in the cranial capsule...

In Greek mythology, Sisyphos, king of Corinth, was punished in Hades for his trickery against Thanatos, the God of death. When his time had come and Thanatos came to fetch him, Sisyphos had him chained up so that no one on earth died until Ares, the God of War, came to free Thanatos. Before Sisyphos was taken to the underworld with the help of Ares, he asked his wife to leave his body unburied....

While the term is new, many of the identities lumped under the genderqueer umbrella are not. “Androgyne” was originally synonymous with hermaphrodite (now considered a derogatory term for intersex individuals). As defined by Oxford Online, androgyne arose “mid 16th century (as a noun): via Latin from Greek androgunos, from anēr, andr‘man’ + gunē ‘woman’”. “The Greeks possessed a really astonish...