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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...

Eurasia Civilizations and Differences

1993). China or eastern Asia is so large and the population so great that China is considered to be a civilization all of its own....

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...

Brief Overview of 5 Monarchies of Western Civilization

territories" a process that wasnt stopped until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). As to the various empe...

Attack on Plotinus, Artistotle, Plato, and Presocratics by David Hume

of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...

Roman Republic

primary motivator behind this move, inasmuch as the farmer-soldiers and farmer-veterans did not believe they were receiving their ...

Classical Greek Polis and Women

In five pages this paper discusses the Greek polis, gender ideals, and changes that led to the Hellenistic era as described by a b...

Fall of the Roman Empire and Contributing Factors

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the Roman Empire's rise and fall are considered in a discussion of contributing factors, includin...

Justice and Society in Orestes' Story

In five pages this paper examines how within Eumenides by Aeschylus within Orestes' story rests Greek perspectives on society and ...

Roman Mythology and Its Influence on Culture

great success was their habit of taking the best from the civilizations they conquered and incorporating it into their own. They g...

Comparative Analysis of Prometheus Bound and Medea

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

"Titus Andronicus" as a Mechanism of Natural Selection

Revenge Plots The play abounds in revenge plots: Tamora wants revenge against Titus for having sacrificed her son Alarbus; Aaron ...

Dylan Lyrics & Greek Philosophy

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

Greek Funerary Vase/Krater ca. 750-735 BC

base and down the pedestal. There are two main strips of illustrations divided by a geometric band. To either side of the vase are...

The Greeks and the Olympics

History Channel, 2007). In terms of who actually participated it seems that the main players were the Athenians and Corint...

Hebrew and Greek Legacy

BC) of the Jews that they set about truly "purifying their religion" (Hooker, 1996). It was during this period that they worked to...

Historical Changes in the English Language

our purposes, its important to note that "... the Latin tongue did not replace Brittonic as the language of the general population...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

The Roman Empire: A Product of Absentmindedness?

under the rule of Trajan this expansion reached from Persia to England from the Sahara to the Rhine (The Roman World, 2007). "At t...

Sigurd and Achilles and Their Deaths

destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

The Franks

of the empire; Christianity. In light of this it appears as though the Franks worked towards a relationship with the papal power...

Pompey the Great

the Great in appearance. He was remembered as a popular young man and as someone who seized a cause and pursued it relentlessly. ...

Scipio Africanus on the Nature of War

to be disappointed. He also humanizes Scipio for his readers, since this is a man who accomplished great things and is still not w...

Life of a Roman Soldier: Persian Wars

a man with shield and spear and lance and ultimately all the metal protection they could possess. The cavalry was incredibly succe...

Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan Women As Seen Through the Eyes of Euripides

to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Painted Rooms: Rome

are so clearly defined that there is a lack of true illusionism that one would see in a painting that encompasses many overlapping...

Roman Catapults

that Archimedes and his engines were actually capable of throwing stones that were 3 times as heavy as that (Cuomo). And, their ap...

What My Religion Means to Me

the Catholic Church is the one true church if the person really believes that it is (Beliefs, doctrines and practices, 2007). If t...