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role of the chorus: "[E]ach play had its chorus, or group of men, a dozen or so, who would observe the action from the orchestra, ...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...
annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...
report, the name "Basil" will be used to facilitate discussion of the narrators role. Basil is a scholarly, introspective man. Whe...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
Doric colonnade" (The Parthenon, 2003). As such the statue all but required new design and structure elements: "This relatively ne...
(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...
originally painted with other details. Comparative evidence is just that: comparative. It can allow one, one might state, to ...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
Prosecution Myriad aspects comprise the component of prosecution, not the least of which included the interrogation process...
her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...
drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...
market. Countries where the shipping industry is well established and a culture of shipping exist may have an advantage, but this ...
match for the ultimate prize, "possession of the earth" (Lovett, 1997, p. ix). The exact date of the competition also varies, and...
he had come down with a deadly disease. The author states that "Habrocomes pulled his hair and tore his clothes; he lamented over ...
When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...
It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...
In six pages this paper examines Egyptian and Greek pieces of art that are currently displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art i...
withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...
representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...
bulk of the building, it also works with the inner dome to "add a sense of space and regeneration" (Brown, 2000). The whole vision...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
him names and just generally egging Pericles on. Pericles said nothing as this man followed him all around town until, upon reachi...
parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...