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out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...
cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
This essay presents an overview of Medea in Greek mythology, referring to scholarly assessment of ancient sources and also the way...
Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...
the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...
("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...
In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...
In six pages this paper compares these two works of ancient Greek literature in a consideration of relations between state and soc...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
seeks revenge against his brother, by killing two of his nephews (Thyrestis sons) and serving them up to their father in a royal b...
them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
This 5 page paper discusses the philosophical thinking known as Stoicism, and why it appealed to the ancient Romans and Greeks. Th...
It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...
This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
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animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...
A 6 page research paper that discusses the political positions of various authors from the ancient world. The writer asserts that ...
or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
in Charicleia, who is a long-lost princess of an Ethiopian queen, even though she appears to be white. Heliodorus relates that her...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
of common suffering or accomplishment. Once the student working on this project sees these factors, it becomes obvious throughout ...