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In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

In five pages this paper examines the predestination concept and also discusses if tragic flaws can be overcome in a consideration...

In five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...