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Augustine Wept for Dido

text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...

Oedipus Rex in Performance

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

Greeks and Washingtonians and the State Capitol

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

Time Travel and the Architecture of Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt

Greek life was impacted in many ways by its art and architecture (Dickinson, 2008). Two of the most visible of these ways were th...

Four Examples of Greek Art

This gravestone was produced in marble and dates from the between 450 and 440 BC. While the little girls face is both composed and...

How Free is Free

one else, ever); that he has the strength of character to keep the trust placed in him; and that he will deal kindly and justly wi...

Improving A Fast Food Retail Environment

table 1 Table 1retail environment comparison between Goodys and Everest Traffic Flow Crowdedness Accessibility Environment Overal...

Same-Sex Behavior And Attitudes In Ancient Greece And Rome: Providing Help Dealing With Gays In The Military In Modern America

by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...

The Role of Alcibiades in Determining the Peloponnesian War Outcome

money gaining the favor of the general public. He had only one true political rival, Nicias, who had secured a treaty of peace fo...

Mortal Women in the Iliad

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

Would Aristotle Label Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Tragedy?

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

EPICTETUS AND NIETZSCHE: VIEWS AND EXPERIENCE

to combine rational and irrational, and accept it in ones life (Epictetus, 2004). Throughout his first published book Discourses, ...

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

A Look at Early Civilizations

put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

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...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

The Role of Confucian Reflection in Early Poetry

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

Levinson's "The Seasons Of A Man's Life" - Summary, Personal Event And Adult Development

on, whether a lesson was learned, a new perspective was created or an emotional wound was made. Levinson (1986) illustrates how e...

Principles for Life/Apology and Crito

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

"The Life Of An Amorous Woman" - Dirty Profession, Pure Heart

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

Active Euthanasia: Preferable To Passive Euthanasia

Terri Schiavo situation, which has once again sparked heated debate over the legality and ethical nature of euthanasia, illustrate...

Oates/How I Contemplated the World... & Postmodernism

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

Life and Works of Agnes de Mille

ultimately offers the reader a look at a woman who would not give up and that makes it an inspirational book as well. In truth, th...

Life Lessons: Learning to Drive

our society is ever encouraged to finish high school and then take some time to decide what to do next. No "lets tour Europe for a...

Happiness as found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...