Greek Language & Literature Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (453) essays
Greek Language & Literature essays:
Sophocles- "The Women of Trachis" -How feminism was a concept that did not exist. However a strong female character took center stage in "The Women of Trachis"
... of a mythological Greek figure. Instead of featuring Heracles as the main character, Sophocles allows Deianira and her female chorus to take center stage in a play that reveals much about the female experience, and shows a side of Greek tragedy that is not often seen. Sophocles ...
A Question of Honor
... on the street for the animals to get to is very degrading or dishonoring of that individual and his family. Through the various plots, characters, plays and playwrights, we discover that in many examples honor can be found in the action dishonoring another. This easily takes the form of ...
"The Allegory of the Cave", a description of the story and a different point of view on it
... Allegory of the Cave is a direct comparison to that of the process of dying and accention into heaven. The Allegory of the Cave is and illustration of the way humans look at the Earth and what we feel is reality. Most do not escape this warped thinking until death. Few break free and see what true ...
Progression of Light in Aeschylus' Oresteia
... the evil that has infected the house of Atreus. It is true that Orestes, in revenge for Agamemnon, kills his mother Clytaemestra . Yet the darkness that is expected from such a murder, a matricide, is negated by one of the main reasons that Orestes commits the murder: his fear of the wrath of ...
Based on the poem "He Is More Than A Hero" written by Sappho. Talks about the author's sexuality
... the transition of the poem from one person to another. The first few lines serve as a disguise and a way for the author to express her jealousy of him being next to his female companion. She views him as being a god because him being in the object of ...
Antigone: Summary and Themes of Tragedy.
... the course of the siege, Eteocles and Polynices killed each other. The new king, Creon, gave Eteocles an honorable burial but ordered that the body of Polynices , whom he regarded as a traitor, remain where it had fallen. Antigone, believing divine law must take ...
Relationships between Gods and Mortals as Demonstrated in The Odyssey.
... take steps to make these men disperse" (1. 318-319). Yet another example of such positive divine intervention is through the relationship between Athena and Penelope. The grey-eyed goddess respects Odysseus' cunning wife and sometimes soothes her loneliness by helping her sleep. At the end of the ...
Works representing Anglo-Saxon people and their society; works included as i.e.'s: Beowulf, A History of the English Church and People and Seafarer
... A History of the English Church and People, Caedmon is respected for composing religious and devotional songs. In one line the author talks about how people loved his singing by saying "These verses of his have stirred the heart of many folks to despise the world and aspire to heavenly ...
My essay is about masculinity in the Iliad and how gender roles in turn cause a "war versus oneself" (the title)
... the war that is going on. Despite the war against the Greeks and the Trojans being the main factor of the Iliad there is also a war going which as not as easily noticed. This war occurs within each individual character. Each character throughout the ...
Aristophanes' Lysistrata - Example of Comedy Play
... the war and stop the fighting. The play opens with Lysistrata sick of the fighting, sending out messengers to the women of the warring country's. They are to meet and discuss a way to resolve the conflict of the men. Once the women have all come, the great Lysistrata spells out the ...