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In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

This 5 page paper discusses the philosophical thinking known as Stoicism, and why it appealed to the ancient Romans and Greeks. Th...

It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...

the thematic meaning by indulging in revenge and violence, the characters are behaving more in terms of instinctual, animal behavi...

or reader cannot help but smile when Lysistrata demands the women repeat the oath: "To husband or lover Ill not open my thighs th...

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...

A 6 page research paper that discusses the political positions of various authors from the ancient world. The writer asserts that ...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

In eight pages this paper discusses Greek theater's traditions, rituals, and ceremonies with Oedipus the King among the topics cov...

In five pages this paper examines a passage from the Greek tragedy in order to determine to what extent Oedipus portrays himself a...

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

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

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

it any longer and sign a peace treaty. "The Merchant of Venice" is much more complex and somber: there are many subplots, but th...

their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude that co...

in Charicleia, who is a long-lost princess of an Ethiopian queen, even though she appears to be white. Heliodorus relates that her...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...