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one else, ever); that he has the strength of character to keep the trust placed in him; and that he will deal kindly and justly wi...

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

This gravestone was produced in marble and dates from the between 450 and 440 BC. While the little girls face is both composed and...

only by the military might of his chief Trojan rival Hector. Achilles courage was unwavering perhaps due in part to his connectio...

text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

the head of the Persian Gulf" (Poiycratis, 1991). But even Alexander couldnt stop history and another power was rising in the regi...

more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...

funny. The boys arrive at Uranyas beach shack, which is "straight out of Fellini," on their bicycles (Young). One boy ventures for...

of the people. Being that storytelling was the way to pass along religion, this influenced the sculptures of the people and in tur...

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

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...

to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

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...