Essays on Minotaur

Alienation involves isolating a certain group of people by being indifferent and discriminative. This paper focuses on an article that provides a detailed account of suffering that North Koreans underwent through the rule of Kim- Jong- il and his current predecessor Kim- Jong- un through the eyes of the Myth of Sisyphus, a compilation of essays by Albert Camus. I chose the article by Tom Phillips about a refugee who escaped the inhumanity in North Korea because refugees are some of the people who face great alienation. Also, through Yeonmi Park’s experiences, a refugee, described in this article, ...

Museum of Fine Arts Houston; compare and contrast an Italian Renaissance painting with Greek vase painting.

In this work, I will analyze two works from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, from different epochs and of different styles. Even the means involved are different. It may seem that these artworks can only be contrasted; however, it is an interesting challenge to compare them. “Black-Figure Amphora Depicting two scenes: - Theseus slaying the Minotaur - Gods in array departing for Olympus”. Date 530-510 BC. Attributed to the Antimenes Painter, Greek  Greek ceramics is the most common finding in the archaeological studies of ancient Greece; you can find it all over the areal settlement of the ancient ...

In the formation of art of the peoples who lived in the Mediterranean basin, a huge role was played by the so-called Aegean, or Mycenaean art. The Aegean culture was formed and developed in III—II millennia BC and was created by tribes that lived on the island of Crete, the Peloponnese, the West coast of Asia Minor (Boardman 21). In 1871, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated Hissarluka on the hill "pre-Homer" cities that can be dated to the III Millennium BC and which belong to the prehistory of the Aegean culture. Soon Schliemann began excavations in the ...