Omphale

Greek The queen of Lydia who took the hero Heracles as her slave after he had desecrated the temple of Apollo. Heracles performed many services for the queen, including ridding her kingdom of the two mischievous cercopes....

Polyphemus

Greek The savage, one-eyed giant of Homer's Odyssey. Polyphemus entraps the hero, Odysseus, and his companions, and devours six of them. Odysseus blinds Polyphemus's one eye and with great cunning escapes. Homer's Polyphemus is identified with the Cyclopes, who were supposed to have one eye in the middle of their foreheads and live on the island of Sicily. Polyphemus appears also in Virgil's Aeneid as...

Priam

Greek King of Troy during the Trojan War, though too old to take an active part in the war. He was the son of Laomedon and, some say, the father of 50 children, some of them with his second wife, Hecuba. Among them were the Trojan heroes Hector and Paris and the prophetess Cassandra. The death of Hector and the lack of respect...

Rutuli

(Rutulians) A people of ancient Italy inhabiting Ardea and the land surrounding Latium. Their king was Turnus, who was killed in battle with the Aeneas, a hero of the Trojan War, who settled in Italy....

Telegonus

Greek In some accounts, the son of hero Odysseus and the witch Circe. Circe sent her son to find Odysseus in his kingdom of Ithaca. Telegonus killed his father (the two were unknown to each other) with a poisoned spear given to him by Circe. Later Telegonus married Penelope, the widow of Odysseus....

Telegonus

Greek In some accounts, the son of hero Odysseus and the witch Circe. Circe sent her son to find Odysseus in his kingdom of Ithaca. Telegonus killed his father (the two were unknown to each other) with a poisoned spear given to him by Circe. Later Telegonus married Penelope, the widow of Odysseus....

Ulysses

Roman The Latin spelling of Odysseus, the Greek hero whose stories are told by Homer in the Odyssey. The Roman spelling was Ulixes. The Romans and other peoples of central Italy apparently had no unique stories to add to the legends of this hero. They learned of him from the Greek colonists who settled on the southeastern shores of the Italian peninsula....

Commentaire Bérénice, Acte 1, Scène 5.

Bérénice est l’une des plus grandes tragédies françaises, dont Racine eut l’honneur de nous faire partager.  Il tire son inspiration tout droit de l’Antiquité Grec, qui généralement met en scène des personnages illustre (dieu, roi, héro) dont le but est d’exciter un mélange de terreur et de pitié par le spectacle des passions humaines...

POMPIGNAN, Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de

Ecrivain, poète de l’Académie française, il est l’auteur de pièces à sujet mythologique : Didon (1734), Léandre et Héro (1750) et de poèmes : Poésies sacrées (1751-1763), à l’imitation des Psaumes. Il est un adversaire des philosophes. ...

HÉRO et LÉANDRE

Héro était une prêtresse d'Aphrodite, à Sestos ; Léandre était un jeune homme originaire d'Abydos, sur l'autre rive du détroit de l'Hellespont (Dardanelles). Ils se rencontrèrent et tombèrent amoureux l'un de l'autre, mais pour Héro, qui était consacrée à la déesse, le mariage était impossible. Afin de garder leur amour secret, ils décidèrent que Léandre traverserait le détroit...

Alcinous

Greek King of the Phaecians on the island of Scheria. In Homer's Odyssey, Alcinous and his daughter, Nausicaa, entertain the Greek hero Odysseus, who has been shipwrecked on his way home from the Trojan War....

Andromache

Greek A touching, tragic figure in the Trojan War. She was the daughter of King Thebe of Cilicia; wife of the Trojan hero Hector; mother of Astyanax. Andromache lost her father and brothers at the fall of Troy and was given as booty to Neoptolemus. Her son Astyanax was murdered by the victorious Greek hero Odysseus. Andromache was cruelly treated by Hermione, the wife...

Imaginez une rencontre entre Flaubert et Camus discutant autour de leur héro favori Emma et Meursault. Ils dialoguent et évoquent les points communs entre les deux personnages.

Tout homme qui passe en premier est un hero suffisant

<p>Introduction :<br />&nbsp;<br />La conception du roman selon Zola entre dans la perspective du roman moderne. Sa th&eacute;orie s&rsquo;apparente &agrave; celle du mouvement naturaliste dont il est le chef de file. Il est aussi le th&eacute;orisateur du roman exp&eacute;rimental et d&eacute;finit ainsi son art : &laquo; la formule de la science moderne appliqu&eacute;e &agrave; la litt&eacute;rature &raquo;. Le...

Super hero

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: always;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Constantia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>MY SUPER HERO</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Constantia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hello I would like to present to you my super hero .</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Constantia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His description:</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Constantia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">His name is Swagger, he...