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'Libation Bearers' and 'Manchurian Candidate'

This is a paper that is 5 pages in length and draws parallel's between Aeschylus's work in the fifth century and the twentieth cen...

Oresteia by Aeschylus and Gender Dynamics

and Aeschylus, we have a much stronger sense of this woman. She was the daughter of a king that Agamemnon had visited in earlier ...

The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus and Virgil's Aeneid

values that had defined Homers story of the war to capture Troy. Aeneas reluctance to leave his native city is therefore both "a ...

Euripides' Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris” and Alcestis and Aeschylus The Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Eumenides and Tragic Drama

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

Justice and Revenge Themes of the Orestia Plays

her hatred of her husband, and her desire for vengeance. "Meanwhile, she has taken to herself a boyfriend, Aegisthus, brother of c...

Ancient Greece's Tragic Heroes Agamemnon, Achilles, and Hector

their lives? These are some of the questions we will consider as we look at these men in action in Homers Illiad. Tragedy Accord...

Greek Tragedies and the Role of Sacrifice

In nine pages this paper examines how sacrifice is used in the Greek tragic works Agamemnon, Medea, Antigone, and 'The Odyssey' an...

Democracy's Metaphoric Representation in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper examines how democracy is metaphorically depicted in the actions of Achilles and Agamemnon in 'The Iliad'...

Book IX in 'The Iliad' by Homer and Arguments of Ajax, Phoenix, and Odysseus

this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...

Responsibility for Carnage in The Iliad

great deal of loss and death in his wake. But, he is not the power, the real power, behind the war and he really only seems to ser...

Flawed Leaders and Passionate Women

a married man, and although his relationship with his wife Clytemnestra is deadly, he has no business bringing home the girl as hi...

Homer's Iliad, A Political Perspective

This paper discusses the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon from a political perspective. Three pages in length, two sources ...

What Agamemnon Tells Readers about Odysseus

hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...

How in Greek Tragedies Adultery Leads to Murder

running into pre-menopause here, why dont you visit your mother for a while." One of Medeas concerns is her own private humiliati...

Greek Mythology and Literature and the Gods' Incestuous Relationships

contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...

Organic Unity Concept of Aristotle's Poetics as Portrayed in Agamemnon and Oedipus the King

In a paper consisting of five pages ways in which organic unity serves as an important function in ths plots of these ancient Gree...

An Examination of the Literary Criticism Launched Against Athenian Politics

This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...

Classical Tragedies of Greece

In five pages this paper examines the uses of the chorus and repeating themes in the classical tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, ...

Tragic Greek Heroes Oedipus and Prometheus

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

Analyzing Elektra and Oresteia

An overview of the works by Hofmannsthal and Aeschylus is first presented in this paper consisting of seven pages and then the the...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

The Peloponnesion War and 'The Eumenides' by Aeschylus

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Athens failed in fulfilling the hopes expressed by Aeschylus in his play ...

Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

Justice and Society in Orestes' Story

In five pages this paper examines how within Eumenides by Aeschylus within Orestes' story rests Greek perspectives on society and ...

Prometheus Bound

from the face of the earth; yet Prometheus loved them, and gave secretly to them the gift of fire, and arts whereby they could pro...

Comparative Analysis of Prometheus Bound and Medea

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

Aeschylus and Plato on Justice

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

Describing Life in Persia

entitled Gates of Fire, as well as others, one can get a sense of how the Persians lived at the time. In the novel, Pressfield foc...

Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...