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Metochos, Views of Catherine Brown

This essay pertain to the interpretation of theologian Catherne Brown of the Greek word "metochos." Three pages in length, one sou...

Modern Greek Culture: Music

This 3 page paper gives an overview of modern Greek music such as rebetiko. This paper includes discussions of culture through mus...

Overview, Ancient Greek Amphora

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

Modern Theater and Greek Drama

role of the chorus: "[E]ach play had its chorus, or group of men, a dozen or so, who would observe the action from the orchestra, ...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Review of Homer's 'The Iliad'

which the argument that arises between the Greek heroes, Achilles and Agamemnon. The poem begins roughly ten years into the war an...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Flies' and Aeschylus's 'Oresteia'

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

What Oedipus Rex Means to Greek Culture

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

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

Persephone and Demeter

an arrow and it landed directly in Hades heart (Forebel). Hades fell in love with Persephone and insisted that she marry him and ...

Greek Literature and Blindness Symbolism

other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...

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...

Feminism and Lysistrata

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

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...

Greek and Egyptian Art

In six pages this paper examines Egyptian and Greek pieces of art that are currently displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art i...

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, ...

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...

Greek Kouros Statuary and Egyptian Influence

the Archaic period, that is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an excellent example of this type of statu...

BEN & JERRY’S GREEK YOGURT

Monkey and Karamel Sutra (Colbert, 2012). Furthermore, in response to concerns from Washington DC-based public health non-profit C...

Aristotelian Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

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...

The 'Political Animal' Known as Man According to Aristotle

parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...

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...

Art of Ancient Greek Civilization

It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...

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...

Greek and Egyptian Art

Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...

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...

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...