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Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

The Architecture of the Arkansas State Capitol Building in Little Rock

down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...

Admirability in Cicero by Plutarch

Romans feel how great a charm eloquence lends to what is good, and how invincible justice is, if it be well spoken; and that it is...

Louis de Berniere's 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and Cultural Perspective Differences

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

Writing Instruction and TESOL

is paid to speaking and writing the language. English classes, on the other hand, are taught differently. English teachers will as...

U.S. Immigration by Greeks

privilege that had been established early on. "Throughout Americas history, White privilege allowed Blacks, Hispanics, American I...

Responsibility and Fate According to Greek Perceptions

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

Calculus' History

pass another mid point, and so on into infinity (OConnor and Robertson, 1996). The argument looks at this as proving that motion m...

Hero or Antihero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

Poetics vs. Apology, Comparing Plato and Aristotle

Plato's Apology and Aristotle's Poetics are both considered masterpieces of ancient Greek philosophy. This report compares the two...

Contrasting and Comparing German Dictator Adolf Hitler and Greek God Hades

made quite the same impact as Hitlers oratory, personality and leadership. There can be no doubt that at the height of his popula...

The Message of The Clouds by Aristophanes

indication of satire must be seen in the name and the role of the Clouds, these are women that take the place of the goods, who ar...

Two Greek TextsThucydides' “Athenian Thesis” and the “Unjust Speech” in Aristophanes' The Clouds

by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...

Aristotle's Definition of a 'Tragic Hero' and the Deviation of William Shakespeare in His Play Othello

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

Comparing Greek Classics 'The Aeneid' by Virgil, 'The Bacchae' by Euripides, and 'Oedipus the King' by Sophocles

his rule to all those who regarded him as an interloper. He sought the assistance of his most trusted advisor, his brother-in-law...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Classical Literature and Common Theme of Perseverance in Overcoming Obstacles

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

A Comparison of Greek Sculptures

in the afterlife. The two figures do not appear to be sculpted, but are rather painted on to the marble column. The figures look ...

Nineteenth Century and Greek Revival Architecture

"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....

Set Design for the Play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

seek guidance from an oracle. When he returns he tells the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to ...

Comparing Keynesian and New Classical Economics

stable inflation rate, and as such the position of some unemployment in an economy is accepted, and the natural level is when the ...

Ancient Greece and Death

death (Religion and Death). According to Greek philosophy, the god Hermes led the soul of the person to the river Styx which sep...

Cyprus Communist Party AKEL

In six pages this research paper discusses the politics of this ethnically divided island and the role of the AKEL in intensifying...

Constitutions According to Aristotle

science from ethics, but as the completion, and almost a verification of it. The moral ideal in political administration is only a...

A Review of Human Knowledge Classical And Contemporary Approaches

rA 5 page review of the book by Paul K Moser. Traditional philosophic constructs of knowledge is contrasted with contemporary con...

Literary Criticism, Romantic and Classical Traditions

In ten pages this report compares romantic and classic traditions as they are reflected in literary criticism. Five sources are c...

Classical Literature Compared

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

Interpretations of Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In seven pages this research paper discusses the various interpretations of this classic Greek tragedy including those of Sigmund ...

Ancient Greece to the New Testament and Dreams, Oracles, and Prophecy

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...