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This research paper discusses the figurines produced in ancient Mycenaean civilization and their possible uses, including the inte...
the soul: the Egyptians thought that the there were several "psychical elements" comprising existence, including the ka (Dyson). T...
also his lover, that the antidote is to eat some roses. However, when he goes out into the garden to do so, he is beaten by the ga...
Allen 6). This poem clearly indicates the focus of cultural focus on women that stresses their role in terms of sexual desire an...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...
(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the i...
on having sex with every bride on her wedding night. It was an imperative belief in the ancient world that for society to exist, t...
Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...
personification of Death and Nightmare Life-in-Death; the sailors all dying and then their corpses reanimating, all of these image...
this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...
This essay focuses on Daniel 7 and 1 Enoch 46 and 48. The Book of Enoch is not part of the canon and, in fact, was lost for centur...
One of the leaders who is always mentioned when discussing leaders in general and military leaders, in particular, is George S. Pa...
This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...
Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...
This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...
This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...
In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...
dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...