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plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the Greek god Apollo. This paper includes what areas of life Apollo ruled over and how he w...

all, but rather only the world (Burnet ch2bii). Modern terminology used by those sharing Xenophanes views would be that there lik...

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

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 5 pages this paper examines how perceptions of truth are shaped through illusion in these two plays. There are 3 sources cited...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these works by Shakespeare and Sophocles in terms of tragic themes and iro...

In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...

In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...

In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...

Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...

As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...

This 5 page paper discusses the philosophical thinking known as Stoicism, and why it appealed to the ancient Romans and Greeks. Th...