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plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

in the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

His leadership alliances undoubtedly contributed to Romes preeminent world status, but at a price. His autocratic rule encouraged...

woman who had just inserted a foul-smelling crocodile dung suppository. Other adventurous women seeking to avoid pregnancy in anc...

In five pages this paper discusses how the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia achieved cultural expansion thr...

This 12 page paper gives an overview of the history of the theatre in ancient Greece and the connection with mythology. This paper...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at homosexuality in the culture of ancient Greece. Nuanced insights into the topic are ...

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

the thematic meaning by indulging in revenge and violence, the characters are behaving more in terms of instinctual, animal behavi...

157). Nizynska (2001) writes about Greek mythology as follows: "...both Ovid and Herbert wrote under repressive regimes, and both ...

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

Greek goddess Aphrodite, who is the "goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture" (Lindemans "Aphrodite"). As with Aphrodite, Venus...

the Greeks, which makes it all the stranger that it is the Roman Empire that grew and prospered, and not the earlier one. Part of ...

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...

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...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

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...

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

in fifth century Athens, actually led the nation (190). Some might argue that the leadership was based on age and gender and so al...

own artistic style (The Art of Rome, 2003). Greek art went through several different periods as well, the first being the ...

became the law of the land (Rempel). While such a system may seem chaotic, and perhaps even very close to...

bathhouse (Ebert, 2002). By indulging themselves with the food, Chihiros parents are transformed into pigs. Osmond (2003) points o...