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Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

Ancient World Letters

wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

Tsakos Energy Navigation 2002 through 2005 Financial Performance

annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...

Different Types and Regional Museum Pieces

liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...

Revenge in Medea by Euripides

by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Letters Accounting Daily Life In Ancient Greece and Rome

of herself and reassure her that all will be will. You know what her days are like: as the wife of a noble (how silly that sound...

Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

Symbolism and Characteristics of the Pantheon and the Parthenon

bulk of the building, it also works with the inner dome to "add a sense of space and regeneration" (Brown, 2000). The whole vision...

Lines 954 to 997 in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

Differing Views of Tragedy by Assorted Philosophers

of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...

Greece's Tourism Policies

that is responsible for any bilateral agreements in this industry between Reece and other counties (Green, 2005, Europe Intelligen...

Architecture of Early Greece and the Rational Perspective

gods" (Lansberry, 2005). However, as rational thought and rational perspective began to enter into human intellect "we could no lo...

Evaluating Ancient Civilizations

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...

Feminism and Lysistrata

and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Family and Marriage

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

Ancient Greek Politician Pericles

him names and just generally egging Pericles on. Pericles said nothing as this man followed him all around town until, upon reachi...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Chorus' Role in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by Aeschylus

Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...

Odin and Zeus Compared

feature and illustrate a very connectedness to the people they govern in their respective societies (Zeus and Odin, 2004). Their ...

Artistic Periods Kouros and Diadoumenos Eras Contrasted and Compared

illustrate a greater command of the medium than in earlier times. This is, perhaps, in part due to the creation of more sophistica...

Cultural Comparison of Egypt and Greece

than history. A problem with perception is simply that there is no Greek culture to speak about that had occurred since the classi...

Greek Values in Homer's 'The Iliad'

withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...

Renaissance Painters, Raphael vs. Michelangelo

reverse order, "or as the Platonic ascent of man from his lowest estate back to his divine origin" (Fleming 192). Michelangelos ...

In a Different Place by Jill Dubisch and Greek Island Culture

In six pages Dr. Dubisch's text regarding a contemporary Greek Island pilgrimage to Tinos is discussed. Two sources are cited in ...

Representation of Men and Women During the Geometric Vase Era

In eight pages this research paper examines Greek artist representations of men and women during the era of Geometric vases in a d...

Greek Sculpture and How It Evolved

In fifteen pages this paper examines the evolution of drapery treatment in this analysis of Greek sculpture. There are 8 sources ...

Why Socrates 'Did' Philosophy According to J.S. Mill

In four pages John Stuart Mill's views on why philosophy was 'done' by Socrates are examined in a consideration of the ancient Gre...