Essays 91 - 98
This essay focuses on the position of theologian Douglas Wilson in regards to "paideia," which means education in Greek. The conte...
This essay presents an overview of Medea in Greek mythology, referring to scholarly assessment of ancient sources and also the way...
tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...
achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...