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"The Iliad" by Homer: Achilles' Wrath
... Achilles. When Agamemnon is forced to return Chryseis to her father Chryses, Agamemnon feels stripped not just of his war prize ... to make the Greeks lose. So honor plays a tremendous role in the epic, and Achilles' pride comprises a significant portion of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Creon and Achilles
... when Achilles feels pity for Priam, and thinks of his own father. After weeping with Priam, Achilles say to him ?Poor man, how ... heart?s desire... but I will do it--/ no more fighting a losing battle with necessity (1228). The way in which Achilles instantly ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
The Piety of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid
... beginning of the poem when he carries his father on his shoulders and leads his son ... stay neutral in the battle. Aeneas never loses sight of his goal, all the while ... , designated by the gods and fate, involved a journey filled with hardships that Aeneas and ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Fate and the Hero in Oedipus Rex
... to reveal his destiny and his father's name. When Teiresias tries to warn ... Laius doomed to die, Then doomed to lose that fortunate little death, Would God ... been included, this book basically reflects a balance of classic works along with contemporary ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
The Myth of Aeneas: Description of his life.
... a stalemate of ten years, secretively placing troops inside what the Trojans thought was an offering to the gods, Aeneas was able to rescue his father ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
Passion: Who Really Needs It?
... that a foreigner was. King Latinus, who was the father of Lavinia, called off the wedding between Turnus and Lavinia. Turnus was promised a ... her committing suicide. In the case of Turnus it was losing his life to Aeneas. Though Aeneas had to weather the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Understanding Oedipus Rex.
... father. Creon 's character, as it is portrayed in each play, presents a useful vehicle for the analysis of Oedipus himself. Creon is very much a ... , who attempts to engage fate in a fight for truth, wins the battle only to lose the war. What he thinks is ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Select two characters from the works Medea and Pygmalion and compare the means by which these characters are constructed and developed.
... a "foreign woman coming among new laws". Being an outsider, Medea is without status in her husband's homeland and having betrayed her father ... " or a "draggletailed guttersnipe" Although, surprisingly, when Eliza learns to speak eloquently she loses the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Contemporary Myths
... young one and make sure she has a good education, but it was a wise choice. The father of her daughter has proven to be ... Single parenting happens for more reasons than just divorce. Many times a family may lose one parent due to death, war, sickness, or to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
The odyssey 4
... our house and rule the slaves my father won for me. (I, 433-8) ... offspring whose / lines of succession are cut off lose their wealth to strangers when / the last ... will be his successor. In response to a comment from Eurymakhos about taking the throne, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature