The Harlem-renaissance era is actually called the New Negro Movement. It shows the black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s.
Critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a "spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination." The intent of this movement, however, was not political but "aesthetic."
The Harlem Renaissance eara has influenced future generations of black writers, however it was largely ignored by the literary arrangement after it was decreased in the 1930s. With the arrival of the civil rights movement, but later on it "acquired" wider recognition.
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It involved racial pride, supported in part by the militancy of the "New Negro" demanding civil and political rights. The Renaissance involved jazz and the blues, which attracted whites to Harlem "speakeasies", where different races couples danced.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.htmlGreek Mythology
There is not any actual text, for example, the Christian Bible or the Hindu Vedas that shows all of the myths characters and stories. Instead, the earliest Greek myths were part of an oral tradition that started in the Bronze Age, and their plots and themes were discovered in written literature of the "archaic" and their classical periods.
The poet Homer’s 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. They did not, bother to introduce the gods and goddesses who are their main characters, since the readers and listeners would already have been familiar with them.
Around 700 BC, the poet Hesiod’s Theogony gave the first written origin story, of Greek mythology. The Theogony tells the story of the universe’s journey from nothingness (Chaos, a primeval void) to being, and details an elaborate family tree of elements, gods and goddesses who evolved from Chaos and descended from Gaia (Earth), Ouranos (Sky), Pontos (Sea) and Tartaros (the Underworld).
Later Greek writers and artists used and elaborated upon these sources in their own work. Mythological figures and events appear in the 5th-century plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and the lyric poems of Pindar. Writers such as the 2nd-century BC Greek mythographer Apollodorus of Athens and the 1st-century BC Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus compiled the ancient myths and legends for contemporary audiences.
Heroes and Monsters
Greek mythology does not tell the stories of gods and goddesses. But human heroes–such as Heracles, the adventurer who performed 12 impossible labors for King Eurystheus (and was later worshipped as a god for his accomplishment).
Pandora, the first woman, whose curiosity brought evil to mankind; Pygmalion, the king who fell in love with an ivory statue.
Arachne, the weaver who was turned into a spider for her arrogance. Handsome Trojan prince Ganymede became the cupbearer for the gods.
Midas, the king with the golden touch.
Narcissus, the young man who fell in love with his own reflection–are just as significant.
Monsters and “hybrids” (human-animal forms) also feature prominently in the tales: the winged horse Pegasus, the horse-man Centaur, the lion-woman Sphinx and the bird-woman Harpies, the one-eyed giant Cyclops, automatons (metal creatures given life by Hephaistos), manticores and unicorns, Gorgons, pygmies, minotaurs, satyrs and dragons of all sorts. Many of these creatures have become well known as the gods, goddesses and heroes who have shared their stories.
The characters, stories, themes and lessons of Greek mythology has now become art, and literature for thousands of years. They appear in Renaissance paintings such as Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea and writings like Dante’s Inferno; Romantic poetry and libretti; and more recent novels, plays and films have these myths.
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