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how all true tragic heroes apply the same principle: by purging his sins in exchange for forgiveness from nature and the gods. He...

and speaking Homer" discusses the different translations and interpretations of the Homer classic "The Odyssey". Using Robert Fagl...

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

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

ultimate control, where there could be no arguments. Although all power was concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, Roman c...

can defeat death too. His first leg of the journey involves descending into a tunnel-like cave composed of nine terrifying leagu...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...

bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his ...

In three pages Homer's Penelope is compared with William Shakespeare's Desdemona in terms of Desdemona's simplicity and naivete in...

In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...

In five pages this paper compares the heroes Hector and Achilles as presented in Homer's epic in an evaluation of whose heroism wa...

In six pages this paper examines how Telemachus grows and develops throughout the course of Homer's epic. There are no other sour...

In five pages this essay considers Odysseus' refusal to transform from mortal to immortal in terms of reasons why this stance was ...

This paper consists of five pages and examines how Homer's perspectives on the afterlife as revealed in 'The Odyssey' compare with...

In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...

In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...

In five pages this paper compares Euripides' character of Medea with the character of Penelope in Homer's 'The Odyssey.' There a...

In three pages this paper examines the events presented in Homer's epic in comparison with the burial rituals of Egypt in a consid...

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

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Virgil's protagonist Aeneas from 'The Aeneid' with Homer's protagonist Odyssey in ...

Homer's and Virgil's works are compared and contrasted. This research report suggests that various trends for each of these works....

look at the example of Odysseuss wife Penelope. This queen is pictured as not only being desirable, but she is also pictured as be...

A 5 page essay comparing Odysseus from Homer's The Odyssey with Kevin Spacey's character Verbal Kint. There are many parallels in ...

In seven pages this paper considers the injustices of war in a consideration of women's unequal roles represented in the works of ...

In five pages this paper discusses how the classical hero definition applies to Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey. There are no ot...

allowing them to be less complex than they often are in real life. In the Old Testament in the bible, they tend to be rather simpl...

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

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...

individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...