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Persephone hades11/3/2022 ![]() It is evident that these post-war, postmodern, and feminist contexts provide a lens in which the mythic characters are depicted differently, which the entertainment industry uses to entertain, engage, and relate to the target audience in both the 20th and 21st centuries. The three thematic contexts are World War I and II, the rise of postmodernism, and feminism. In order to examine how the myth has been used in the entertainment industry in light of these contexts, this essay will examine evolving role of the entertainment industry in particular, how Hades and Persephone have been presented differently in art, music, literature, and film within the last two centuries, and how their portrayal in entertainment and popular culture has been influenced by their respective social contexts. Reimaginings of the myth are shaped by social contexts such as war, postmodernism, and feminism. This essay argues that within the 20th and 21st century, the myth of Hades and Persephone is used in entertainment and popular culture. ![]() Hades and Persephone have often been the subject of fascination throughout history, their myth constantly reinterpreted to fit with current cultural norms, values, and contexts. ![]() This myth is shaped by social contexts such as war, postmodernism, and feminism. Hades and Persephone have often been the subject of fascination within society, their myth constantly reinterpreted to fit with current cultural norms, values, and contexts. I have a particular fascination for modern reinterpretations of mythology which I have continued to pursue through my electives. As well as my keen interest in science and medicine, I have always loved ancient history. The use of pomegranate rind and root bark as a treatment for tapeworm infestation (“Latas tineas ventris”) was recommended by several early Roman medical writers and is still listed as a treatment for tapeworms and diarrhoea in a current encyclopaedia of medicinal plants.About the Author: I am a 1st year undergraduate student studying a Bachelor of Health Science. ![]() but ye decoction of ye roots doth expell and kill the Latas tineas ventris.” 15 The decoction of ye flowers is a collution of moist flagging gummes and of loose teeth. The juice of the kernells prest out, being sod and mixed with Hony, are good for the ulcers that are in ye mouth and in ye Genitalls and in the seate, as also for the Pterygia in digitis and for the Nomae and ye excrescencies in ulcers, and for ye paines of ye eares, and for the griefs in ye nosthrills. Dioscorides describes some of them:Īll sorts of pommegranats are of a pleasant taste and good for ye stomach. Preparations of different parts of the plant-flower, fruit juice, rind, bark-have been used for a wide variety of conditions, although gastroenterological ailments predominate. ![]()
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