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The Heroic Aeneas

In a paper that consists of eight pages the definition of hero throughout the course of cultural history is considered in support ...

Heroic Dante and Sir Gawain

In five pages this paper examines how the concept of hero is defined and how both Dante in The Inferno and Sir Gawain in Sir Gawai...

'Don Juan' by Lord Byron

In eight pages the romantic 'Don Juan' is contrasted and compared with the hero's poetic satirist, Lord Byron. Five sources are c...

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

The Oregon Trail by Parkman

Parkman is not when he begins his adventure. Parkman and his friend and relative Shaw are Eastern bourgeois; they are Harva...

Beatrice and Hero in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...

Elie Wiesel's Character as a Hero Analyzed

personal codes (much like Hemingways did) which serve them in good stead when faced with insurmountable dangers. Along their journ...

Hero's Cycle and Lord of the Flies

This essay presents the argument that in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the character of Simon is congruent with Joseph Camp...

“A Hero’s Journey”

interest in mythology to his exposure to remnants of that earlier history, his exposure to Buffalo Bills Wild West Show and to the...

Comparing the Empire of Ancient Rome with Ancient Greece

to Egypt would also pay homage to some Egyptian Gods such as Isis and Horus. In Britain and Gaul there is evidence of the Romans m...

Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, and Women's Roles

time expresses: "Rank creates its rules: A woman is asked about her husband, A man is asked about his rank" (Callender 12). By fa...

Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Pagan and Jewish Women

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Pagan women with Jewish women in ancient Greek and Roman societies in terms of the...

An Overview of Ancient Egypt

In ten pages this ancient civilization is examined in terms of the significance of agriculture, the Nile River, and farmers' taxes...

Western Civilization and Its Ancient Influences

be the hub of all cultures and each harbored great concentrations of people. As people and cultures evolved they radiated from th...

The Evolution of Stoicism

This 5 page paper discusses the philosophical thinking known as Stoicism, and why it appealed to the ancient Romans and Greeks. Th...

The Cultural Heritage of the West and Its Ancient Roots

in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...

Museums and How Ancient Artifacts Are Uncovered

been able to gather enough information so as to understand the complexities surrounding a collection of semi-preserved writing imp...

Art of Ancient Greek Civilization

It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...

Creative Dialogue on Cultural Discourse

In five pages a dialogue between an ancient Roman character and one from ancient Greece is developed with and exchange of cultural...

Gift Giving in Homer's Odyssey

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Egyptian Object/Catalogue Entry

Nespeqashuty died prior to its completion. At this time, some of the reliefs were finished, but many consisted of just an outline ...

Analysis of the Ancient Near East Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art

holdings of a museum; the works that the museum owns and takes care of (The permanent collection, 2008). The Metropolitan owns mor...

Figurines of Ancient Mycenae

This research paper discusses the figurines produced in ancient Mycenaean civilization and their possible uses, including the inte...

Hesiod's Fable and Other Similar Works

Four political works in ancient history are examined. Athenian democracy is part of the inquiry but many issues pertinent to polit...

Medea, An Overview

This essay presents an overview of Medea in Greek mythology, referring to scholarly assessment of ancient sources and also the way...

Judaism and Ancient Egyptian Religion

the soul: the Egyptians thought that the there were several "psychical elements" comprising existence, including the ka (Dyson). T...

Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus

in Charicleia, who is a long-lost princess of an Ethiopian queen, even though she appears to be white. Heliodorus relates that her...

Strong Women in Ancient Greek Theatre

the "sheet-anchors," i.e., the weapons that will be their salvation (Aristophanes). Lysistrata gathers together women from all o...

Argos and Odysseus

lay there / lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears..." (17.317-318). We read that the dog is lying on a dung heap; hes full of tic...