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sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this wo...
pervaded Western architecture for more than two millennia. The Greek temple emerged as the archetypal shrine of all time. Unlike ...
In six pages this classical Greek play is examined in a consideration of power, control, and gender prejudice and how the contempo...
In seven pages Aristotle's theories regarding metaphysics as described in his text are examined in terms of the ways one is chall...
patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...
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...
lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...
others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...
one that was organic and holistic in which philosophy, politics, and literature were considered . . . Imperial Rome would prove th...
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, ...
content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...
In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...
parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...
events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...
The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...
classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...
is very advanced and demonstrates once again a close connection, in the ancient Greeks works, between mathematics and philosophy. ...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
proof that the observations made by Morris in 1969 are still very pertinent to todays urban environments. In the complexity of the...
As such one could clearly argue that the basic design of the Epidauros influenced the design and construction of the Colosseum. Th...
very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...
The Odyssey. In his History, Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) came up with dates for the singer (400 years before my time-and no more than...
cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...
thinkers, artists, and scientists all have contributed to advancing this spiritual evolution, and art evolved as the "artist gradu...
This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...