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only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...

In five pages this paper considers the purpose of Socrates' arguments as featured in three of Plato's dialogues. There are no oth...

In three pages this paper discusses Plato's Phaedo in terms of the mechanistic mind model and Socrates' arguments designed against...

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' dialogue with Thrasymachus and considers his concept of justice as described in Plato'...

In a paper consisting of three pages Socrates' philosophy that men should always act justly is in stark contrast to Machiavelli's ...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of God as espoused by Socrates and Aristotle in a comparison and contrast of A...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...

In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...

In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...

In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...

The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...

In five pages the 2 contradictory views of Socrates that are featured in Plato's Apology are discussed in an analysis of what thes...