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the thing / With timber braces, towering to the sky, / Too big for the gates, not to be hauled inside / And give the people back t...

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...

In fifteen pages this paper attributes the wound of Dido to being childless as much as it is for the loss of Aeneas in this analys...

the direction of the Fates. Didos love for Aeneas became all encompassing, and directly contrasted the pragmatic side of Aeneas...

When he eventually realizes he is neglecting his duty -- Jupiter tells him he has a destiny to found Rome -- Aeneas sails away, te...

In three pages a character analysis of the protagonist Aeneas in Virgil's 'The Aeneid' focuses upon his heroic characteristics. I...

In twelve pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot in order to de...

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Virgil's protagonist Aeneas from 'The Aeneid' with Homer's protagonist Odyssey in ...

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

In three pages this paper examines Turnus and Aeneas as they represent the Roman concept of heroic ideals depicted in The Aeneid b...

This research report examines customs, events, and for example meanings of the Phaeacians' games. Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aen...

In a paper that consists of eight pages the definition of hero throughout the course of cultural history is considered in support ...

see the shades of Penelope or Telemakhos here -- but implores Odysseus to give him a decent burial before his body is ravaged by s...

men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...

personal life concerns until the arrival of the Trojan hero. Aeneas was emotionally smitten with Dido and he gave into these impul...

reign of government. He is simply a warrior and that is what he does. With Aeneas he is fighting for his Rome, his people, his lan...

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

only needs to find his way to the underworld so that he might see and confer with his father. Sybil replies that the path to the ...

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...

and suicide because life did not work out well enough for a particular character, Anna Karenina. We are also given the strong expe...

in the story when Aeneas has arrived in the realm of Turnus. Turnus was engaged to marry a woman but the womans mother has chosen ...

does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...

citizen would find it only too easy to believe that their nation was the greatest on Earth. This propaganda toward the great...

observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...

of Dardania, best hope of Troy,/What kept you from us for so long, and where? From what far place, O Hector, have you come, Long, ...

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...