YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Overview of the Epic Poem Beowulf
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In five pages this paper explores the homosexual or bisexual tendencies as revealed in his relationship with Enkidu in the Epic of...
In five pages this paper examines how the concepts of life and death as regarded by the ancient Mesopotamian peoples are reflected...
In four pages this paper analyzes how life's renewal and rebirth are symbolically represented by the olive tree in Homer's epic 'T...
In five pages this 1985 text is examined in terms of its family epic characteristics. There are no other sources listed....
long before it was ever written down. To use Si!r Philip Sidney phrase pertaining to the oral traditions of epic poetry, it was ...
among four children in his family. The father was an intelligent, religious man, a hard-working storekeeper and an important leade...
In five pages this paper discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...
In five pages this paper examines the moral truth representation of the pentangle in an analysis of the 'Sir Gawain and the Green ...
In twn pages this paper discusses the symbolic significance of references to the color green in the Medieval epic 'Sir Gawain and ...
In five pages the influence Marlowe received from writers of ancient Greece and Rome are considered as reflected in this poetic ep...
In 5 pages this paper examines themes of quest and identity as they are represented in Homer's epic and how they enable Odysseus a...
This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...
author does not present stories of his political maneuverings or military battles. Instead, the story is told about a singular ma...
quoted as saying: "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me. You shall not overreach and you shall not persua...
individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...
In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...
In 5 pages this paper considers the significance of the Great Flood story retelling in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Book of Ge...
In 8 pages these different literary texts are compared in terms of how they satisfy the epic definition in nation and character po...
King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Regardless of the permutation in which the story appears, it always carries with ...
leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...
In eight pages this paper analyzes 'The Iliad' in a consideration of the relationships between males and females and humans and go...
In five pages the difficult decisions Aeneas had to make in Vergil's epic 'Aeneid' are explored. There are 3 sources cited in th...
Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...
the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...
In five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...
was also a master of trickery. Odysseus would often hesitate before taking action. This was not out of cowardice. It was his way...
This paper examines how society's goals are met by the journey undertaken by Gilgamesh in this essay on Epic of Gilgamesh consisti...
In five pages this paper discusses Gone with the Wind in an analysis of its epic film production. Four sources are cited in the b...
In five pages this argumentative paper analyzes the 1997 epic film by director James Cameron based upon its infamous 1912 sinking....
In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Pope mocks feuding families, the ancient Greek epic, and the aristocracy wit...