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Essays 661 - 690
According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...
events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...
and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...
She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...
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...
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, ...
an arrow and it landed directly in Hades heart (Forebel). Hades fell in love with Persephone and insisted that she marry him and ...
other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...
Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...
which the argument that arises between the Greek heroes, Achilles and Agamemnon. The poem begins roughly ten years into the war an...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...
of herself and reassure her that all will be will. You know what her days are like: as the wife of a noble (how silly that sound...
wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...
The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...
liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...
in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis ...
was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...
classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...
knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...
it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...