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

be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...

In this essay consisting of five pages the argument is presented that the friendship between these heroes in Homer's 'The Iliad' s...

Aspects of Homer's epic poem are analyzed in this paper that contains five pages. There are no other sources listed in the biblio...

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

Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...

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

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

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

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

In ten pages this paper examines modernism within the context on Ulysses and how James Joyce varies the portrayal of Homer's Odyss...

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

In five pages anger as a motif and character motivation in Homer's 'The Iliad' is explored. There are no other sources listed in ...

Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...

were arranged on three concentic terraces that focused on the royal residence ("New..." 33). Recent excavation has discovered that...

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

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

(Tracy). He traveled from place to place and although poor and impoverished at many points in his life, he was also warmly receive...

This 3 page paper discusses the role women play in "The Iliad" when it comes to marriage and sexual relationships; it also discuss...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...

/ so long as we men of Achaea soldiered on at Troy. / But once wed sacked King Priams craggy city, / boarded ship, and a god dispe...

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...

Masks and weaknesses are two themes permeating Othello by William Shakespeare and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. This paper co...