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Augustine Wept for Dido

text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...

Water and Its Importance Throughout Civilization

Goudsblom, 2002). While many see that water is something very necessary and desirable, water poses problems as well. For example, ...

The Role of Alcibiades in Determining the Peloponnesian War Outcome

money gaining the favor of the general public. He had only one true political rival, Nicias, who had secured a treaty of peace fo...

Wuthering Heights: Civilization and Anarchy

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

Epidemics and Civilization

course, pregnancy is not contagious and while there may be something occurring in large numbers it is not the same thing as focusi...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Huntington, Clash of Civilizations

of centuries," and therefore, "far more fundamental than differences among political ideologies and political regimes" (Huntington...

The Role of Confucian Reflection in Early Poetry

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

EPICTETUS AND NIETZSCHE: VIEWS AND EXPERIENCE

to combine rational and irrational, and accept it in ones life (Epictetus, 2004). Throughout his first published book Discourses, ...

Christian Theology and Greek Culture

In ten pages this research paper investigates how Christian theology and thought were influenced by the culture of ancient Greece....

Overview of the Greek Mythological God Dionysus

In five pages Dionysus is the focus of this overview. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Classical Greek Drama and the Works of Sophocles and Aeschylus

This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and the Greek Goddess Athena

In five pages this paper discusses the wise goddess who was Odysseus's mentor in 'The Odyssey.' Five sources are cited in the bib...

Greek Athletics and the Diadumenos of Polykleitos

In 6 pages this paper examines how important athletics were in ancient Greece in a sculptural consideration of the Polykleitos can...

Women and Sexuality in Greek Life

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the time of Pericles and the status of gays and women in a contrast and comparison t...

Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

In five pages this paper examines the one gender theory argument of author Thomas Laqueur in Making Sex and also critiques the tex...

Greek Culture and the Original Olympic Games

of the Games. Whether they existed before that year is unknown, and there was debate many years ago as to whether 776 BC could be...

Chaldean and Greek Mythology and the Roles Played by Oracles and Fate

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the roles played by oracles and fate in the mythological tales of Achilles, Oedipus, ...

Greek Style of Justice in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

say that a given society defines its own justice. Correspondingly another society, might have a slightly different version. Anaxi...

Overview of the Greek Acropolis

a reconstruction of the Acropolis as it appeared in the 5th century BCE During the Classical period of the 5th...

Kenneth Dover's The Greeks

In five pages this paper discusses this text in terms of the labeling of 3 of its chapters. There is 1 source listed in the bibli...

Comparative Analysis of Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans

In six pages these societies are contrasted and compares as they relate to philosophies expressed in the Bible and the writings of...

Greek Archaic Society and Power

to his position, he represents all the virtues and flaws of a man, in spite of the fact that he is only part human. But it is the...

Greek War God Ares

In seven pages Ares and his passion for war and brutality are examined as is the God of War's love affair with the married Aphrodi...

Greeks and the Impact of the Persian Wars

In three pages this paper discusses how the Persian Wars affected 5th century B.C. ancient Greece with the reigns of Philip II and...

Greek Literature and Admirable Character Leadership

In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...

Evolution of the City According to Italian, Roman, Greek Cultures

In five pages the way cities evolved in terms of various cultural influences are considered with organic and planned cities exampl...