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

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

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

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....

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

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

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

This research paper presents a discussion that focuses on an ancient Greek amphora from the Attic period that depicts Herakles and...

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...

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

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

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

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

he had come down with a deadly disease. The author states that "Habrocomes pulled his hair and tore his clothes; he lamented over ...

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

the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...