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calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...

In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...

In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...

In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

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...

(Logia.com). "Unmoved by the dissuading counsel of an affectionate but timid sister, and unable to procure assistance, she determi...

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

feet, hands at the sides in most cases, and the spine aligned in a straight line with the stomach pulled in and shoulders set stra...

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

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...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...