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his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...
"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...
they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...
a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...
Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...
as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...
In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...
In six pages this paper presents a structural analysis of this ancient Greek tragedy and examines how the rising action and confli...
tortured marriage. The world of George and Martha is a closed, stagnant environment. It is filled with highly destructive element...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Pagan women with Jewish women in ancient Greek and Roman societies in terms of the...
In a paper consisting of seven pages these ancient Greek plays and heroines are contrasted and compared. Four other sources are ...
In a paper consisting of five pages ways in which organic unity serves as an important function in ths plots of these ancient Gree...
by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...
has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...
seeks revenge against his brother, by killing two of his nephews (Thyrestis sons) and serving them up to their father in a royal b...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...
concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...
plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...
Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...
have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...
them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...