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In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...
Medea and Oedipus Rex are like many ancient Greek plays in dealing with a sub-theme of cruelty. This research paper examines the a...
This paper examines how women in Ancient Greek society were portrayed in a comparative analysis of the plays Lysistrata by Aristop...
Thyestes and his brother were rivals for the throne of Mycenae. Atreus was married to Aerope. Thyestes seduced Aerope. He was a...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Euripides' portrayal of family relationships in his play and the commentary that continues to res...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...
In five pages Euripides' play is analyzed in terms of its meaning. There are no other sources cited....
In five pages drama is considered in the works Wit by Margaret Edson, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Medea by Euripides. Ther...
In four pages this paper discusses how events are influenced by character personalities in these works by Edison, Euripides, and W...
In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...
wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...
skills. The walls of Athens are impregnable, but many people live outside these walls, so he gathers them in. They were not keen t...
in the following: "Oh be it ours to come to Theseus famous realm, a land of joy! Never, never let me see Eurotas swirling tide, ha...
In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...
he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
of heroism in combat as they fought for noble causes and died for noble causes, with visions of lavish funeral rites dancing in th...
touch his heart. Various plot complications ensue and the political and social forces that are forcing her father to this awful d...
and sweet, she becomes increasingly corrupted by her exposure to "the Plastics," which refers to the clique of the three most pop...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...
they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...
Medea would also benefit: "What luckier chance could I have come across than this, An exile to marry the daughter of the king? It ...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...
what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...
lament: "Of everything that is alive and has a mind, we women are the most wretched creatures. First of all, we have to buy a hus...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...