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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 ...

"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 ...

Spread of the Roman Empire

return for Roman protection was considered by the client states as a reasonable political and economic exchange, and allowed them ...

Tsakos Energy Navigation 2002 through 2005 Financial Performance

annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...

Revenge in Medea by Euripides

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

Gothic and Roman Design and Art

farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...

Virgil's 'Aeneid,' Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Divine Intervention

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

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...

Art from Greece and Egypt

the type of cup for funeral offerings and would be buried in a tomb. It possesses ornate and intricate images of the blue lotus, a...

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, ...

The Punic Wars

of the most important things to note about this conflict is that it each side was forced into a situation where it seemed they had...

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...

Oedipus the King and Fate

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

Past and Present Hercules

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

City of God by Saint Augustine

In three pages this paper answers student posed questions and examines City of God as it relates to Roman politics and society. T...

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 ...

Great Britain and Early Christianity

In eleven pages this paper examines the Christian origins of Great Britain in a consideration of the Romans, Pope Gregory, St. Aug...

Causes of Rome's 5th Century Collapse

This research paper examines the role played by military leadership ineffectiveness in the 5th century collapse of the Roman Empir...

Critically Reviewing the City State of Athens in Ancient Greece

In a paper consisting of seven pages the Athenian democracy represented by this Greek city state is considered along with an asses...

Causes and Interventions Regarding Coronary Artery Disease

In twelve pages coronary artery disease is examined in terms of causes, approaches, and methods of intervention, discussing causat...

Roman Attitudes Depicted in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Film Spartacus

facts are strictly accurate in the portrayal of his life and death. But we can argue that in the film, despite the inaccuracies th...

4th Century A.D. Religious and Political Influences Upon the Art and Architecture of Rome

of German and Roman culture just as there had been a blending of Roman cultures with the other cultures which she engaged in warfa...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Fate

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...