The Artist-Scientist: Orpheus and Daedalus. Compare and contrast two Greek myths. Make sure to link to Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces.
Date Submitted: 09/14/2001 12:57:40
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 6 pages (1689 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 6 pages (1689 words)
According to Joseph Campbell, the artist-scientist is "curiously disinterested, almost diabolic human phenomenon, beyond the normal bounds of social judgment, dedicated to the morals not of his time but of his art. He is the hero of the way of thought-singlehearted, courageous, and full of faith that the truth, as he finds it, shall make us free"(24). Orpheus is the artist and Dædalus is the scientist. These two heroes use their …
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…New York: Random House, 1998. 146-148.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero With A Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1949
Hamilton, Edith. "Daedalus" Mythology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. 192-194
---. "Orpheus and Eurydice" Mythology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. 138-142.
Ovid. "Book VIII: Daedalus and Icarus" Metamorphoses. Trans. A.D. Melville. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. (Lines 289-399)
---. "Book X: Orpheus and Eurydice" Metamorphoses. Trans. A.D. Melville. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. (Lines1-106).
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