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The Greeks and Romans and the Creation of Western Civilization

the head of the Persian Gulf" (Poiycratis, 1991). But even Alexander couldnt stop history and another power was rising in the regi...

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...

Oedipus Rex in Performance

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

Greeks and Washingtonians and the State Capitol

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

Four Examples of Greek Art

This gravestone was produced in marble and dates from the between 450 and 440 BC. While the little girls face is both composed and...

"The Iliad" of Homer and a Greek Warrior's Characteristics Considered in Hector and Achilles

only by the military might of his chief Trojan rival Hector. Achilles courage was unwavering perhaps due in part to his connectio...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

Theme of Conflict/Iliad and Medea

more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...

Uranya/A Film Analysis

funny. The boys arrive at Uranyas beach shack, which is "straight out of Fellini," on their bicycles (Young). One boy ventures for...

Ancient Art Analysis

of the people. Being that storytelling was the way to pass along religion, this influenced the sculptures of the people and in tur...

Greek Tragedy and Naturalist Theater

in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Medea by Euripides

shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...

The Aeneid by Virgil and Views of the Greeks by the Trojans

he is told that he must marry a girl named Lavinia so that Trojan and Latin blood will be mixed. A war soon breaks out after Jun...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek

report, the name "Basil" will be used to facilitate discussion of the narrators role. Basil is a scholarly, introspective man. Whe...

Antigone and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

Analysis of Art Appreciation

originally painted with other details. Comparative evidence is just that: comparative. It can allow one, one might state, to ...

Teiresias' Importance in Antigone and Oedipus

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

Overview of a Greek Parthenon

Doric colonnade" (The Parthenon, 2003). As such the statue all but required new design and structure elements: "This relatively ne...

GPAs, Greek Fraternities and Sororities

to have higher GPAs than their non-Greek counterparts. Most of the national Pan-Hellenic organizations, in fact, place a high stan...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Family Dysfunction

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

Post 1750 Classical Architecture

The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...

O'Neill and Aeschylus Comparative Analysis of Electra and Oresteia

seeks revenge against his brother, by killing two of his nephews (Thyrestis sons) and serving them up to their father in a royal b...

Greek Tragedy Characteristics of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

Health Care and the Culture of Greece

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

Ancient Cultural Development and Anthropomorphic Gods

addresses the divine" (Smith PG). Greek mythology is replete with examples of how anthropomorphic gods influenced cultural behavi...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Greek Themes

Civilizations/Myths. This work offers a greater understanding of Tartts work in that the implied use and meaning during the Greek ...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Western Asia and Eastern Mediterranean Changes

It was inhabited by the Canaanites, a Semitic people, whom the Greeks called Phoenicians because of the purple (phoinikies) dye th...