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In seven pages this paper considers the injustices of war in a consideration of women's unequal roles represented in the works of ...
In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...
agamemnon.html). Throughout the first part of the play, Clytemnestra appears to be a long-suffering (due to her husbands absence...
An overview of the works by Hofmannsthal and Aeschylus is first presented in this paper consisting of seven pages and then the the...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines how women's social roles are depicted in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by ...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...
was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...
In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...
Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...
In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
from the face of the earth; yet Prometheus loved them, and gave secretly to them the gift of fire, and arts whereby they could pro...
dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...
changed, shaped by events which have unfolded. Greek society was also shaped by the events which unfolded. In Ipthigenia at Auli...
motion the rest of the grounds for the deceit in the play. As Clytemnestra watches her daughter butchered at the hands of her hus...
as a spoil of war. Her first husband had been killed by Agamemnon and her child killed in front of her. It can be said that she ha...
same standard as was Clytemestras during that era because Agamemnons unfaithfulness did not threaten the integrity of the family, ...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
Around, around, in airy rings, / They wheel with oarage of their wings" (Agamemnon, 2002). The image of the birds, circling over ...
In this paper consisting of five pages the argument presented is that metaphors especially bird metaphors are employed to represen...
This paper consists of five pages and considers how Cassandra's rendition of events represents a play within a play as her word im...
plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...