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This essay focuses on the position of theologian Douglas Wilson in regards to "paideia," which means education in Greek. The conte...

In six pages this paper examines how Greece influenced and inspired Lord Byron in a consideration of his Greek poems and his parti...

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

far more meaning that representing daily life. According to one particular author, "The Cycladic civilization of the Aegean sea...

In six pages this paper discusses the similarities between the Greeks and the Romans in a consideration of how the Greek Empire wa...

In eight pages this paper discusses Chicago's Greek culture and community in an historical overview that includes such topics as t...

The contemporary church and Greek Temple are compared and contrasted. The Rock Church of Montgomery, Alabama is compared with the...

In four pages this paper examines how Greek thought propelled Roman action in a consideration of the influences of Greek art and p...

time when Cleopatra passed away (127). Cleopatra in fact was one of the last to live from that dynasty. What were the relationshi...

yet differentiated between having a form and embodying that form. Aristotle, on the other hand, proposed that a form, with the exc...

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Haemon as a reflection of wisdom and his wisdom while also serving at th...

In five pages this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....

In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...

This paper focuses on tragic form as is represented by these works. Neither nobility nor commoner enjoys immunity from tragedy. ...

In eight pages this paper discusses how in the plot and characterizations featured in Zorba the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis dep...

In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

In five pages fate as it affects Antigone, Hector, and Achilles is examined. There are no other sources listed....

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...

In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...

In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...

marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...