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Plato's 'Symposium' and Dante's 'Inferno'

In five pages the theme of love is considered within the context of these authors and their tales. Three sources are cited in the...

Questions Regarding Plato's Dialogues Symposium and Phaedo

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...

Notion of Love or Precis in Plato's Arguments Presented in Phaedrus and Symposium

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

False Thinking According to Plato's Theatetus

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Application of Plato's Metaphysical Tradition

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Forms, Justice, and Plato's Philosophy

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

Plato's Writings and Security Disturbance

In five pages this paper examines how individual strength increases as a result of security disturbance according to the writings ...

Investigating and Defending Plato's Theory of Forms

In five pages this research paper analyzes the theory of forms developed by Plato and then provides a defense of the philosopher's...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

3 Thought Levels in Plato's Republic and Dante's Inferno

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

Social Values Mirrored in Classic Literature

In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...

Casting in 7 Plays

In seven pages this paper analyzes casting within the context of the plays A Doll's House, Antigone, The Cherry Orchard, Three Tal...

A Comparison of A Man For All Seasons and Antigone

enemies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he locat...

Greek Tragedies and the Role of Sacrifice

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

Antigone by Jean Anouilh

In five pages this essay focuses upon Anouih's retelling of the classical Greek drama particularly in terms of the conflict betwee...

Greek Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Tragedy in Death Of A Salesman and Antigone

This 5 page paper focuses on the lead characters Antigone and Willy Loman then branches out to ancillary characters to establish h...

Literature, Society, and the Individual

taken into account. In reading works written a long time ago, such as Antigone as noted above, or Platos Republic as another examp...

Creon and Joe Turner Compared

In five pages this essay argues that Joe Turner in Joe Turner Come and Gone and Creon in Antigone were incapable of correctly exer...

The Modern World and the Legacy of Antigone

In six pages the ways in which Antigone handles with what is an impossible choice and how it serves in developing true moral chara...

Sophocles, Shakespeare and Actions That Speak Louder than Words

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

Women in Ancient Literature and Now

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

Oedipus and Antigone

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

Greek Women and Women Today: A Discussion

Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...

Medea and Antigone as Representatives of Fifth Century BCE Women

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...