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In six pages Socrates' life is considered in this overview. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...

In seven pages this paper considers the great philosopher Socrates' dialogues with Crito and Euthyphro and the accusations that ha...

In eight pages this report examines Socrates' dialogues with Crito and Euthyphro and also examines the accusations against him in ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...

In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...

This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...

things in the sky and below the earth, who makes the worse argument the stronger " (cited in Ross, 2000, p. PG). This is a formula...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

The only manner by which to acquire good statesmen and lawgivers, according to Socrates testimony, is to assure their individual a...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

for centuries. This paper uses Platos description of Socrates and his methods to try and answer the questions. Discussion Is wis...

your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I ...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...