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Greek Values in Homer's 'The Iliad'

withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...

Heroes Odysseus and Gilgamesh

a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the...

Comparative Analysis of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

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

Courtly Love in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Troilus and Criseyde, The Romance of Tristan, and Beowulf

In six pages this report compares how courtly love is thematically developed in these classical literary works. Five sources are ...

Reitz’s Heimat, The Final Episodes

surprised by change. To him it is has if the village and his family stayed frozen as they were in 1928. In his absence, his father...

Cinematography in “Hero”

a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Nazim Hikmet/Human Landscapes from My Country

portrait of Turkish society at that time. Drawing on Hikmets ability as a screenwriter, as well as a poet, his free verse form e...

Dante's 9th Circle/A Contemporary Vision

household. As a teen, he became enthralled with Islam and converted. Lindh came to reject everything America stands for. By active...