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men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
In ten pages this research paper examines how the Greek perspective of tragedy is featured in Euripides' plays The Women of Troy a...
running into pre-menopause here, why dont you visit your mother for a while." One of Medeas concerns is her own private humiliati...
In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...
In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...
touch his heart. Various plot complications ensue and the political and social forces that are forcing her father to this awful d...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
revenge, but she is primarily using the only tools she has, those of her position as a woman and a mother. With Lysistrata we a...
In her soliloquy, shortly before she kills the boys, she asks why should she do something that will hurt not only Jason, but herse...
bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
of heroism in combat as they fought for noble causes and died for noble causes, with visions of lavish funeral rites dancing in th...
to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
she has aided and abetted a foul creature, and that the creature must be destroyed. Just as he married her for his own...
as she was forced to come face to face with her own shortcomings, which ultimately cast upon her the tragic flaw that eventually l...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...
was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...
what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...
must leave and also leave the children with him. In all honesty there is no reason why he should have dismissed her in such a mann...
In five pages this paper examines the uses of the chorus and repeating themes in the classical tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, ...
In five pages Canova's 'Perseus and the Head of Medea' and Degas' 'The Little 14 Year Old Dancer' are compared in terms of the wor...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...
wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...
In four pages this essay contrasts the styles of these Greek playwrights from the classical era within the context of Sophocles'...
contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...
In six pages this comparative analysis examines the suffering and fate of female protagonists Dredriu and Medea in these works. T...
In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...
In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...