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Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

that they escaped due to their bravery. Then they both go on to say that there will come a time when they will look back on these ...

in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...

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 ...

Comedy", Europe was in the midst of a transitional period. The Christian church was already well established, but many of the most...

In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...

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 character Hektor was a great Trojan warrior. He was adored by the people of Troy. Achilleus was his archenemy. His parents ...

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...

In six pages this paper compares and contrasts how Virgil and John Milton offer glimpses of the future in their poems 'Aeneid' and...

In five pages this paper discusses 3 piety actions undertaken by Aeneas in 'The Aeneid' by Virgil. There is no bibliography inclu...

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...

The Odyssey. In his History, Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) came up with dates for the singer (400 years before my time-and no more than...

In five pages this essay discusses how Odysseus qualifies as an 'epic hero' because of the suffering and hardship he endured throu...

In five pages the importance and symbolism of the shield of Achilles is considered in this examination of Homer's epic....

mother, a goddess, to make pleas to Zeus to ensure that Agamemnon will fail in all battles as long as Achilles is not fighting wit...

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

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

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...

is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...