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on certain players, who were central to the role of the Greeks above all others. "There was a literary consequence to this omissi...
At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...
ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...
In eighteen pages this paper examines the belief systems and culture of ancient Egypt in this consideration of the process of mumm...
aid and had been made a part of the defensive alliance formed by the Athenians. Since Corinth was allied with Sparta, the foundati...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
of the "old Roman people," as well as the reign of Augustus, "till growing sycophancy scared them away."4 Already hes suggesting t...
In six pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in an assessment of the system with evidence offered by writers Thucydides an...
The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...
events surrounding the Peloponessian War, but also the views of other cultures which sometimes conflicted with his own sensibiliti...
that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...
This is a longer paper with more details regarding The Aeneid by Virgil and consists of four pages....
In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...
In six pages this paper examines Herodotus' History text in a consideration of its vengeance themes. There is only the primary so...
as he refers to the way in which climate and geographical features serve to shape human behavior. For example, the Lotus Eaters ar...
316). The idea that historical research and results should be confined only to a few learned scholars, as far as Fischer is concer...
BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
This 5 page paper argues that Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War states that the reason for the conflict was the politic...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...
In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...
This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
In five pages this paper discusses the effects and involvement of Athens in the ancient Mitylenian debate with Thucydides' texts c...
In four pages this paper discusses how the Bible and authors such as Seneca, Virgil, Chaucer, and Marlowe influenced William Shake...
chosen, and the people give over their will, that is good too (Herodotus 185). It suggests that others can have democracy, but the...
then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...
in the ideal image of a male hero or warrior. In both cultures the people were founded in a patriarchal way of life, seeing man as...
as a work of art, is that it presents morally ambiguous situations that reveal much about all sides of the human character, especi...