7 1.1 THE CRETE OF EURIPIDES: An Overview 10 1.2 The Research Questions 11 1.3 Methodology 11 1.4 Commentaries and Translations 13 1.5 Euripides and the dramatic treatment of Crete as an island 14 1.6 The cycle of Cretan myths 15 1.7 Treatment of mythological characters and themes 23 1.8 Crete’s ‘Darker Aspects’ 27 1.9 Formulations of identity 28 1.10 Insularity 31 1.11 Interconnectivity 35 1.1...

The Sagas of Icelanders are comprised of about two score longer narratives and a larger number of tales (þáttur). The stories are unique among medieval literature in that they focus not on kings or saints or mythological heroes, but rather on the farmers and chieftains who settled Iceland during the Viking age. They’re stories about plain folk in the pursuit of honor, while engaged, for the mos...

Julia sets are considered one of the most attractive fractals and have wide range of applications in science and engineering. In recent decades, Rani and Kumar [26], introduced the Julia sets in superior orbits with improved escape criterions for the cubic polynomials. Our goal in this paper is to study the Julia sets in Noor orbit for the cubic polynomials 3 z z mz n    . It is interesting ...