Classical Studies Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (1,138) essays
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Classical Studies essays:
The Origin of Sexual Attraction and Love: Plato's Symposium - Aristophanes' speech as a reflection of ancient sexuality
... sexual orientations that existed in the ancient Greek world. Modern ideologies of romance and alternative lifestyles do not connect with the ancient notions and perceptions of eros. Eros in the ancient world was expressed through friendships and physical, emotional, and intellectual connections ...
Antigone-Greek play (moral responsibility)
... honorable burial and the other was not buried and King Kreon threatened to execute anyone who tried to bury him. Antigone meets with her sister Ismene to break the news to her about their brothers' deaths. She then mentions to Ismene that Polyneices is unburied and needs a proper burial and ...
The Effect of Ancient Medieval Achievements on Modern Society
... Ancient Greece and Rome had an affect on our modern day society? The arts, music and dance, and words etc. from the ancient worlds have had a great impact on our modern day society. Without the culture of the Ancient Worlds ...
Aristotle and Sophocles.
... marriage damned, damned in the blood he shed with his own hand!"(229) The play Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, is an ideal example of the perfect tragedy. When this play is placed next to the definition from Aristotle's Poetics, the evidence ...
Thucydides on Pericles and Athens
... and patriotic citizens. It was a city founded by forefathers whose great courage and virtues paved the way to the free and just empire into which it evolved. This brilliant city was considered to be the jewel of the Greek world ...
WitchCraft and Wicca
... being witches, example of things they were accused of being witches for were: - Cannibalism - Un- explainable doings - Disappearances - Appearance (face and body) - If a member of your family was killed for being a witch, say your mother, then all the girls ...
Olympic Games
... Greece. As a testimony to the religious nature of the Games, which were held in honor of Zeus, the most important god in the ancient Greek ...
The Myth of Sisyphus
... and eternally is connected with the goals of all humans in their lives. By contacting this mythical tale and the real world, Camus expresses his idea of existentialism. The meaning of what Sisyphus constantly does is the same as the meaning of what mean and ...
The Classic World
... Classical World since its development by many authors and playwrights of this time period. Homer, author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, affected prose and poetry through his writing of Homeric poems. Sophocles, a playwright, 'presented many changes in Greek ...
What were the main achievements, both short-term and long-term, of Offa (b.757-796) and Alfred the Great (b.849-899)?
... and Boethius. Scholars from other countries were invited to help him in this task. "The translations of ancient books...form the beginning of English prose literature" . Alfred the Great was the first king to issue ...