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

Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...

titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

of injury or illness in the ancient world. Therefore, in ancient Greece and Rome, the practice of euthanasia, that is, intentional...

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

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

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

by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...

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

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

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

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

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...

This paper examines how Zeus's image is represented in ancient Greek society with art and culture the primary focus in eight pages...

In five pages fate's role in this ancient Greek tragedy is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...

Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

In ten pages this paper examines the ancient Greeks and Romans in terms of their enduring contributions to Western civilization ar...

In five pages this essay considers Hercules in an overview of his mythological life and compares the Greek version to the popular ...

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

city(Wycherley 1976). As reflected by the Senate, his study of it theorizes that those who were most affluent and powerful lived ...

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...

extant of the distinctive grey geometric ware produced in Crete during this period. Towards...

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

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

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

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

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...