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Essays 211 - 240
the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...
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...
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...
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...
in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...
("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...
is paid to speaking and writing the language. English classes, on the other hand, are taught differently. English teachers will as...
seek guidance from an oracle. When he returns he tells the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to ...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
his rule to all those who regarded him as an interloper. He sought the assistance of his most trusted advisor, his brother-in-law...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
privilege that had been established early on. "Throughout Americas history, White privilege allowed Blacks, Hispanics, American I...
may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
pass another mid point, and so on into infinity (OConnor and Robertson, 1996). The argument looks at this as proving that motion m...
death (Religion and Death). According to Greek philosophy, the god Hermes led the soul of the person to the river Styx which sep...
For entertainment, men tended to engage in a variety of activities, mostly involving drinking, wrestling, horseback riding, and ga...
in the afterlife. The two figures do not appear to be sculpted, but are rather painted on to the marble column. The figures look ...
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...
others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...
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 ...
It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...
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...