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Essays 121 - 150
and Achilles argue over who has the "rights" to one of the "spoils of war," which in this case is a person, a girl who has already...
Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...
In five pages this paper examines how democracy is metaphorically depicted in the actions of Achilles and Agamemnon in 'The Iliad'...
sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...
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...
and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...
as Achilles, this is the good life. He is not a character who seems to desire times of peace or quiet but rather a man who is happ...
This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...
In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...
leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...
In five pages these poetic works are examined in terms of the portrayal of Homer in each. There are 3 sources cited in the biblio...
In a more recent translation we note a great deal of anger and a powerful sense of revenge, as we see in the following excerpt fro...
(2) which struck the coup de grace" (Floyd ucla13.html). As we can see, although Hektor obviously killed Patroklos, he was just on...
Aspects of Homer's epic poem are analyzed in this paper that contains five pages. There are no other sources listed in the biblio...
reader how "everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life" which indicates that wine r...
original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...
In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...
we see Hector awaiting his battle with Achilles and again there is a strong indication of the emotion which drives and influences ...
facts" (Manley 55) which leads to the realization that there are also "no true biographies...about this very ancient Greek poet" (...
A paper consisting of eight pages that is broken down into appropriate sections, Cantos XI through XXIV of 'Inferno' are reviewed ...
This article examines the influence of Florence, Italy's politics on Dante's writing, specifically in Canto XXIV of The Inferno. T...
In 2 pages this paper examines how in Books IX through XII of 'The Odyssey Odysseus becomes mature enough to embrace his destiny w...
In five pages this book's references to Hell are examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at a passage from The Iliad. The cultural values of war and honor inherent in the pass...
the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...