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the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
role in eloquent speech. Another similarity is that Cicero, like Aristotle, believes that an effective orator is a person of high ...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
base and down the pedestal. There are two main strips of illustrations divided by a geometric band. To either side of the vase are...
It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...
destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...
to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...
when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...
("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...
was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...
classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...
in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis ...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
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...
face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...
the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...
it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...
put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...
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 ...
out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
on, whether a lesson was learned, a new perspective was created or an emotional wound was made. Levinson (1986) illustrates how e...
of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...
path in life. His father had died when he was only five, in fact, and the Chinese military seemed to offer him the most immediate...
been a change in the home commiserate with the workplace; men have not been taking on a greater care and house work to share the w...
self-esteem. This is true in the family as well. Parents may have some emotional difficulties as their children grow from being li...
"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...
Greek goddess Aphrodite, who is the "goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture" (Lindemans "Aphrodite"). As with Aphrodite, Venus...