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Essays 31 - 60
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...
his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...
In five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...
This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...
honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...
where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...
left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...
extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...
that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...
hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...