Essays Tagged: "Sphinx"

Sophocles portrayal of unversal justice through Oedipus the king

athy, but his arrogance as well. Perhaps this attitude is duly deserved, for Oedipus had solved the Sphinx's riddle, an apparently heroic feat, and was seen to be "greater than any man", but the leade ... prophecy, which involved only Oedipus' family members.For the years between the destruction of the Sphinx, and the present time we are left to assume that Oedipus served his kingdom well, however we ...

(3 pages) 192 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Fate Versus Free Will

lls the man. Resuming his journey he arrives at a city called Thebes. Oedipus saves the city from a sphinx and marries the queen. The play starts here in Thebes with Oedipus as the king and the city h ...

(2 pages) 116 0 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The Lost City at Giza and the Homes of the Pyramid Workers

tial answer to their question. Excavators found what they were looking for off the south end of the sphinx when they found part of what seemed to be a bakery positioned off the first paved street on t ... ng that imprisoned them. Upon further excavating of the area less than one thousand feet behind the sphinx, archaeologists found that it was not only a town that held the tens of thousands of workers ...

(9 pages) 97 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Suicide In Vegas

xor hotel's glass pyramid seemsdangerously close to the runway's edge, as do its chocolate-and-gold sphinx and rows of shaved palms. I wonder if theserooms tremble when jets land. Behind the Luxor are ...

(16 pages) 110 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

King Oedipus, not the hero everyone thinks he is.

rus neglects to mention any of Oedipus' great contributions to Thebes, except that of defeating the Sphinx. If he were an excellent leader, it seems curious that the only notable thing about his kings ...

(5 pages) 83 0 3.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The Amazing Pyramids in Egypt

Eleven years ago my family and I went on vacation to Egypt. The Sphinx, the three Pyramids of Giza, and the Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser towered more than two hund ... ned to impress Egyptians with their ruler's godlike strength and to give the ruler eternal life.The Sphinx is a figure having the body of a lion and the head of a man. The three pyramids of Giza are t ...

(5 pages) 205 1 3.9 Feb/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

About the Ancient Egyptian Religion and personal thoughts on how it compares to our lives today.

Egypt. The sphinx, pyramids, temples, and golden statues. People who built entire empires on dunes of sand and ...

(4 pages) 57 0 4.8 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Oedipus - defying the divine order

e and sympathy, but also his arrogance. Maybe this attitude is deserved, for Oedipus had solved the Sphinx's riddle, an apparently heroic feat, and was seen to be "greater than any man", but the leade ... prophecy, which involved only Oedipus' family members.For the years between the destruction of the Sphinx, and the present time we are left to assume that Oedipus served his kingdom well, however we ...

(3 pages) 54 0 3.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A response to a paragraph in Oedipus

a flaw (Hamatia) in Oedipus' character meets his demise. When Thebes is terrorized by the monster - Sphinx (a hybrid creature, with the lion's body, woman's head, eagle's wings and serpent's tail), wh ...

(2 pages) 42 0 3.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Summary of King oedepus and Antigone.

eaving Cornith and comes across the city of Thebes. There he meets the monstrous being known as the Sphinx. The Sphinx has a great power over the town of Thebes. This power can only be broken if a tri ...

(4 pages) 38 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Understanding Oedipus Rex.

-13). This role is an extension of the heroic part that Oedipus plays in rescuing the city from the Sphinx in a riddling contest. His first introduction to Thebes is his use of reason to defeat evil, ...

(6 pages) 109 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Importance of Oedipus and Teiresias' Conversation in Scene One of Oedipus Rex

really is.Before the beginning of the play Oedipus saves the people of Thebes from the curse of the Sphinx and becomes king virtually overnight. He proclaims his name proudly as though it were itself ... e 9-10) what Oedipus does not realize is that he had killed Laius son of Labdakos on the way to the Sphinx. The play is based on finding the killer of Laius. Oedipus wants justice done and for the mur ...

(4 pages) 80 0 3.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Pride and Determination in Oedipus Rex

nt the prophecy. Therefore he left his homeland of Corinth never to return. Then when he solved the Sphinx?s riddle, Oedipus? pride rose to a new level. He was praised by the people of Thebes, resulti ... theless, his fate was sealed by his actions of pride and determination. His pride of conquering the Sphinx led him to the marriage of Jocasta, his mother. When avenging Jocasta?s previous husband, and ...

(2 pages) 61 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

The Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

ut him." Oedipus, the hero in Oedipus Rex, was the king of Thebes and saved the city-state from the sphinx by answering its complicating riddle. The nobility of Oedipus never seems to be a question to ...

(2 pages) 43 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Oedipus Rex as a Tragedy: How this play fit into the "tragic" criteria.

power, but his wisdom and intelligence. It washe who, when everyone else stood helpless before the Sphinx that ravaged Thebes, answered theriddle and destroyed her, thus freeing the land of which he ...

(6 pages) 74 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Techniques in Ivory Trail, by Victor Keleher

numerous visual techniques.The setting of the visual can be seen through the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx and the word 'ivory', which all links with the country of Africa, giving the place a sense of ... ems to intermingle with the boy's face, creating a pattern of a trail that leads upward towards the Sphinx and the tableaux. This provides the responder with the insight into the boy's imaginative jou ...

(3 pages) 67 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Power Corrupts

s father, and marry his mother, so he left Corinth, never to return. When he arrived at Thebes, the Sphinx monster was strangling everyone who could not answer it's riddle. Oedipus answered the riddle ...

(4 pages) 45 1 4.6 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

origins, its religion and its monumental architecture: colossal temples, pyramids and the enormous Sphinx. The Egyptian pyramids are the most famous of all the ancient monuments, the only remaining w ...

(3 pages) 43 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Essay about "journeys" stimulus booklet 2004 Text Six, 'Journeys Over Land and Sea and Text Two, Victor Kelleher's 'The Ivory Trail'

he language and visual features. The compositional features of the text employ representations of a sphinx, a pyramid, a building with Islamic architecture, desert sands and an adolescent boy's face. ...

(5 pages) 67 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Life Mystery

ing his father and sleeping with his mother flees to Thebes where he solves a riddle imposed by the Sphinx which was destroying Thebes with famine and chaos. After resolving the riddle with a simple w ...

(2 pages) 23 1 2.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies