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'The Odyssey' by Homer and Characters Penelope and Athena

more fidelity than did her missing husband. However, while Penelope is keeping Odysseus home fires burning, it is Athena to whom ...

Oedipus by Sophocles and its Structure

In six pages this paper presents a structural analysis of this ancient Greek tragedy and examines how the rising action and confli...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Pericles' Funeral Oration

In an essay consisting of five pages the comment that city is the best teacher of man by ancient Greek poet Simonides is examined ...

Greek Tragedy and Euripides

In ten pages this research paper examines how the Greek perspective of tragedy is featured in Euripides' plays The Women of Troy a...

Lysistrata's Character

In five pages Lysistrata as featured in the famous ancient Greek play is the focus of this character analysis. Three sources are ...

Ancient World and Art

called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...

Nineteenth Century and Greek Revival Architecture

"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....

Greek Theater and Women's Role

has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...

Writing Instruction and TESOL

is paid to speaking and writing the language. English classes, on the other hand, are taught differently. English teachers will as...

Set Design for the Play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

seek guidance from an oracle. When he returns he tells the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to ...

Ancient Greece and Death

death (Religion and Death). According to Greek philosophy, the god Hermes led the soul of the person to the river Styx which sep...

Men and Women of Ancient Greece

For entertainment, men tended to engage in a variety of activities, mostly involving drinking, wrestling, horseback riding, and ga...

A Comparison of Greek Sculptures

in the afterlife. The two figures do not appear to be sculpted, but are rather painted on to the marble column. The figures look ...

Classic Woman of Athens

can choose not to marry, by and large, that is an unpopular choice. While the term spinster is no longer bandied about, certainly ...

Tragic Characteristics of Oedipus the King

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...

Euripides' Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris” and Alcestis and Aeschylus The Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Eumenides and Tragic Drama

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

Admirability in Cicero by Plutarch

Romans feel how great a charm eloquence lends to what is good, and how invincible justice is, if it be well spoken; and that it is...

Louis de Berniere's 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and Cultural Perspective Differences

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

Overview of Laocoon and His Sons Sculpture

look like, but instead, represents the ancient value placed on the human form. For example, Laocoon, though he is suffering the t...

Management of Greece and Women

This paper consists of five pages and considers the changing roles of women in Greek management with discrimination a primary focu...

Roman and Greek Art Eroticism

with a quote from Stewart who states the following: "They saw the custom as a concrete manifestation of such desirable manly attri...

Ancient Greek Mythological Heroes and Episode II of Star Wars

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

Popularity of Herakles or Hercules

In five pages the enduring popularity of this ancient Greek myth is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Ancient Greece's Pre-Socratic Philosophy

In five pages this report discusses the pre Socratic ancient Greek philosophy of seventh century BC Ionia. Three sources are cite...

Opposite Characters Zorba and the Narrator in Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis The Antithetical Characters, the Narrator and Zorba in ' “Zorba the Greek”

as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...

Greek Tragedies and the Role of Sacrifice

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

Status and Role of Women in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

so "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are rare glimpses into the feminine status in what was essentially a strict Greek patriarchy. Wh...

Classicism and Greek Culture

a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...