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(Logia.com). "Unmoved by the dissuading counsel of an affectionate but timid sister, and unable to procure assistance, she determi...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
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...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
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 ...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
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...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
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...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
In seven pages this essay contrasts morality as depicted in Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Antigone. Two sources are cited in t...
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...
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 six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...
a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...