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In five pages this paper compares Euripides' character of Medea with the character of Penelope in Homer's 'The Odyssey.' There a...
In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...
In four pages this essay contrasts the styles of these Greek playwrights from the classical era within the context of Sophocles'...
In five pages this paper discusses the timeless appeal of these two works with similar themes. There is no bibliography included....
In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...
about Jasons desertion is the fact that Medea compromised her own existence as a means by which to save his life and is reciprocat...
In 8 pages this paper compares how fear and power are thematically portrayed in these 5th century Greek plays. There are 5 source...
The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
and changes his mind. He will not sacrifice his only daughter because of Menelaus unfaithful wife. (The impetus behind the Trojan ...
shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...
Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...
specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...