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Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek

report, the name "Basil" will be used to facilitate discussion of the narrators role. Basil is a scholarly, introspective man. Whe...

The Aeneid by Virgil and Views of the Greeks by the Trojans

he is told that he must marry a girl named Lavinia so that Trojan and Latin blood will be mixed. A war soon breaks out after Jun...

Western Civilization and the Roman Empire's Collapse

and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...

Roman Empire's Decline and Fall

the empire (The Reasons for the Fall of Rome, 2003). The cities became unsafe due to the vast crime and violence which overtook t...

Christian Worship and the Sacraments

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...

Reason and Passion in Euripides' Medea

typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...

Roman Catholic Teachings and Suicide

in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable" (The Vatican n.d.). Father Sau...

Roman Religion, Augury, and Divination

important ways (Geocities, 2003). Unlike divination, Augury meant to secure the approval of the gods, but this did not necessaril...

Overview of Protestantism

Bible (The Protestant Reformation, 2003). Essentially, the Luther debated Christianity and how it was practiced and unde...

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Buddhism, and Vedanta Hinduism

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

Analysis of Art Appreciation

originally painted with other details. Comparative evidence is just that: comparative. It can allow one, one might state, to ...

Antigone and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

Middle East Imperialism

non Egyptians, known as the Semitic Kings, named Hyksos, meaning princes of the foreign lands (Thornton, 2003). They had come down...

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Teiresias' Importance in Antigone and Oedipus

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

Overview of a Greek Parthenon

Doric colonnade" (The Parthenon, 2003). As such the statue all but required new design and structure elements: "This relatively ne...

Consciousness in Olympia by Manet

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

GPAs, Greek Fraternities and Sororities

to have higher GPAs than their non-Greek counterparts. Most of the national Pan-Hellenic organizations, in fact, place a high stan...

Ancient Rome and the Law on Contract of Sale

in fact, can indeed comprise a valid contract of sale. Contracts of sale can also be either absolute or conditional. Whatever th...

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Family Dysfunction

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

Civilizations of MesoAmerica, Egypt, and Greece

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

Objectives of the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Prosecution Myriad aspects comprise the component of prosecution, not the least of which included the interrogation process...

Examining Agamemnon by Aeschylus Within the Context of History

same standard as was Clytemestras during that era because Agamemnons unfaithfulness did not threaten the integrity of the family, ...

Chorus' Role in Medea by Euripides and Agamemnon by Aeschylus

Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...

The Greek Shipping Market

market. Countries where the shipping industry is well established and a culture of shipping exist may have an advantage, but this ...

Comparison Between Catholic and Mormon Interpretations of Christianity

will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...

Greek and Egyptian Art

Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Roman Catholic Church and Process of Canonization

in a huge portfolio (Lim and Lau, n.d). The inquiring process is next and there are three kinds of inquiry processes: 1. Informa...