Essays 91 - 120
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 7 pages this paper discusses the similarities between 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer and Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' in a...
This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...
In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...
In five pages Circe, the Sirens, Nausikaa, Helen, Calypson, Athena, and Penelope are examined in this discussion of how women's ro...
In three pages three student posed questions pertaining to mythical Greek and Roman gods and goddesses are answered in a heroic co...
In six pages this paper examines 'The Aeneid' in terms of the dialogue with the dead featured by Virgil and its difference with 'T...
In five pages this paper examines the stories featured throughout 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of the repetition of Agamemnon'...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these goddesses in terms of what each represents about femininity and also discuss...
of Homers great work are a slew of characters. One of those is Odysseus, an unlikely hero. Odysseus is in some ways an antihero...
In six pages this paper assesses the spouses featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer in order to determine which displays the most cons...
In five pages Homer's protagonist Odysseus featured in 'The Odyssey' is examined in terms of his heroic personality attributes. F...
This paper examines the themes, development of character, and narrative of 'The Odyssey' in order to determine wither or not the f...
In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...
and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...
In six pages this paper discusses the author's creation of the 'Other' soul as a way of expressing Creole political issues and how...
and speaking Homer" discusses the different translations and interpretations of the Homer classic "The Odyssey". Using Robert Fagl...
Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...
home, his palace, his wife, his son, his people. Ogygia Ulysses is trapped on Calypsos island for many years. If it werent for...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
among all the Gods have renown for wit (metis) and tricks" (The Museum of the Goddess Athena). As one can see, Athena does not lov...
Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...
rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...
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...
spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...
If we look to biology the definition of masculine is related to that of male. The male animal has testicles as opposed to ovaries...
and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...
is presented as an outright competition in the story of their contest for recognition as the patron deity of Athens" (65). In Boo...
guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...