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Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

In five pages this paper examines how within Eumenides by Aeschylus within Orestes' story rests Greek perspectives on society and ...

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

not romantically involved. Jack is imitating a robot: his arms are bent at the elbows, hes bent at the waist and moving very stiff...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

In five pages Cassandra's role or roles within the context of Aeschylus's play is examined. There are no other sources listed....

and Aeschylus, we have a much stronger sense of this woman. She was the daughter of a king that Agamemnon had visited in earlier ...

values that had defined Homers story of the war to capture Troy. Aeneas reluctance to leave his native city is therefore both "a ...

This paper examines Aeschylus's views on women in an analysis of The Eumenides and Agamemnon. There is one other source cited in ...

In five pages this paper analyzes whether Aeschylus's title character is in some way responsible for his dilemma and argues that h...

contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...

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

and should never be murdered. But, in the days that this work was written we are supposed to understand that a womans place was no...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

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...

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

body" (Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art). This particular statue is 9 and 5/8 inches high and is made from bronz...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...

inspiration and people tried their hands at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had ...

one that was organic and holistic in which philosophy, politics, and literature were considered . . . Imperial Rome would prove th...

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...