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it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...
by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...
in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...
was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...
("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...
wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...
he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...
and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...
Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...
called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...
In five pages the enduring popularity of this ancient Greek myth is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
so "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are rare glimpses into the feminine status in what was essentially a strict Greek patriarchy. Wh...
the purpose of allowing the repressed feminine or nurturing side of man to come forth and for the brutal or aggressive side of wom...
the fact that the Persian fighters outnumbered those from Greece (History of Ancient Greece, 2001). Interestingly enough, the vict...
"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....
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...
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...
pass another mid point, and so on into infinity (OConnor and Robertson, 1996). The argument looks at this as proving that motion m...
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...