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reader how "everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life" which indicates that wine r...

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts these two literary works regarding the portrayal of morality in each. There are n...

facts" (Manley 55) which leads to the realization that there are also "no true biographies...about this very ancient Greek poet" (...

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

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they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...