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According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

an arrow and it landed directly in Hades heart (Forebel). Hades fell in love with Persephone and insisted that she marry him and ...

other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

the type of cup for funeral offerings and would be buried in a tomb. It possesses ornate and intricate images of the blue lotus, a...

role of the chorus: "[E]ach play had its chorus, or group of men, a dozen or so, who would observe the action from the orchestra, ...

which the argument that arises between the Greek heroes, Achilles and Agamemnon. The poem begins roughly ten years into the war an...

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

of herself and reassure her that all will be will. You know what her days are like: as the wife of a noble (how silly that sound...

wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...

The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...

out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...

liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...

by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...

Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

him names and just generally egging Pericles on. Pericles said nothing as this man followed him all around town until, upon reachi...

parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

Greece, 2004). Eleni supposed her husband would do the same, but given that she had never met him she couldnt be sure. She was d...

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

match for the ultimate prize, "possession of the earth" (Lovett, 1997, p. ix). The exact date of the competition also varies, and...

he had come down with a deadly disease. The author states that "Habrocomes pulled his hair and tore his clothes; he lamented over ...

When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...

store by astronomy, for example, and little by astrology, which is seen as having no scientific rationale and is therefore dismiss...

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...