Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Written by Jauregui two to three years before its release, the song was inspired by Greek goddess Aphrodite and depicts a flirtation that is challenged. Creatively directed by Jauregui, the music video references Greek and Roman mythology, along with Sandro Botticelli's paintings Primavera and The Birth of Venus. "More Than That" was positively ...
In the video game BioShock 2, Persephone is the name given to the prison facility that spans over two levels, Inner Persephone and Outer Persephone. Persephone is the final boss and the main antagonist of the 2008 video game God of War: Chains of Olympus. In the game, she seeks vengeance against the Olympians for forcefully marrying her off to ...
Myths and Hymns (originally known as Saturn Returns) is a song cycle by composer Adam Guettel, based on Greek myth and lyrics found in an antique hymnal. [1]Myths and Hymns was first performed Off-Broadway, under the title Saturn Returns, at the Public Theater on March 31, 1998 and closed on April 26, 1998 after 16 performances.
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell.It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.
The single comes in three versions, a regular CD version, a CD+DVD version which includes a video of the song, and a digital download released on iTunes. The song is named after Icarus , the son of the master craftsman Daedalus in Greek Mythology.
The name of musician Aidoneus, is a reference to the origin of Hades' name, the earliest attested form being Aḯdēs (Ἀΐδης), which later branched into popular poetic variations, such as Aïdōneús (Ἀϊδωνεύς). One of his songs, "Persephone in the Garden", is sung from the perspective of Hades.
In the video game Smite Hephaestus appears in-game under his Roman name Vulcan, he is a playable god whose role is a mage. He also has a prosthetic left leg and right hand, in reference to both his lameness from mythology and his own ingenuity and peerless craftsmanship.
Directed by Finn Keenan, the accompanying music video for "Greek Tragedy" premiered on YouTube on 15 January 2015. The video follows a young woman, portrayed by April Pearson, who becomes obsessed with the Wombats, culminating in her stalking and eventually murdering all of them. She then takes them to a warehouse and sets their corpses up like ...