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Essays 331 - 360
In a paper consisting of seven pages these ancient Greek plays and heroines are contrasted and compared. Four other sources are ...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...
In five pages Jason's characterization as represented by Euripides in his play is examined. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...
In five pages this paper discusses the timeless appeal of these two works with similar themes. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...
dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...
meanings of friendship and death. Gilgamesh was a solitary soul until he encountered the primitive nature man Enkidu, with whom h...
that was meant to be good in his life. In order to live ones life in purity, Siddhartha believed that these truths were to be clo...
boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...
Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...
wild state Enkidu represents the noble savage, the noble animal that is pure of spirit and strong. He was to balance out the negat...
regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...
...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...
source of motivation for all life. Her dedication to him surpasses no other, whether it plays a part in family rituals or just th...
have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...
with not only Odysseus but with the other characters as well" (Athena, the Goddess). For example, "At the opening of the book, Ath...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...
the Inferno. "In Dantes Inferno, there is an Upper Hell and a Lower Hell. Upper Hell is the place for those guilty of excessive se...
it. The man proceeded immediately to build an ark" (Noss, 38). Marietta Moskin agrees that many of the earliest Hebrew stories d...