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includes a number of words not found in other Pauline letters; 2. Style. The first half of the Letter, especially, has a full and ...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

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 ...

have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

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...

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

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...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

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...

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

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

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

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...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

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

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...