literature is wide and it includes: tragedies‚ comedies‚ poems‚ epics etc. You can’t compare these forms of literature all together but one by one. So I want to compare for you the Greek Tragedy and The Roman Tragedy The best tragedian in Greece were Aeschylus; Sophocles and Euripides. Their tragedies were mythological stories. The Roman tragedies instead showed Roman historical characters. Plays‚ in Rome‚ were free and people of all ranks and classes were admitted to the theater including women and slaves
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Flora‚ Neil Kenneth R. BSENG4A Romanticism A Movement Across The Arts Romanticism -(also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that
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follows. Both sides agree that Orestes did physically kill Clytemnestra. However‚ the question of who is the individual who is responsible for the murder has been changed. At first Orestes was declared to be guilty. The blame then shifted to Apollo (Aeschylus‚ The Eumenides‚ p. 140). It is also agreed that Apollo definitely had influence in her death and that Apollo’s desire for her death occurred when she killed Agamemnon. Apollo has defended Orestes‚ claiming that no one is at fault
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Definitions: - Guyard: “Comparative literature is the history of international relations. - Aldridge‚ A. Owen. Comparative Literature: Matter and Method.: “… comparative literature… provides a method of broadening one’s perspective in the approach to single works of literature – a way of looking beyond the narrow boundaries of national frontiers in order to discern trends and movements in various national cultures and to see the relations between literature and other spheres of human activity…
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to lay bare her heart to the Nurse. It is Artemis who informed Theseus of what actually happened. What mortals fail to do‚ Dues ex machine can. The choruses in Hippolytus therefore do not serve any important purpose as they do in the tragedies of Aeschylus and
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Prometheus Unbound: The Quintessential Philosophy of Percy Bysshe Shelley Three years before his death‚ Shelley wrote what many consider his masterpiece‚ Prometheus Unbound. Considering Shelley’s rebellious nature‚ the choice of the authority defying Prometheus as hero is not surprising. For Shelley‚ Prometheus came to symbolize the mind or soul of man in its highest potential. Two of Shelley’s favorite themes lie at the heart of Prometheus Unbound: the external tyranny of rulers‚ customs
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Joe LIcari Chapter 4 Ancient Greece Study Guide Epic Poem- long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero Arete- The level of excellence heroes strived for Minoans- Had ships that took Knossos to Egypt; first Greek city state Mycenaeans- People believed destruction was a cause of this mainland group of Greeks; first Greek civilization Homer- Composed epic poems. Wrote the Lliad and the Odyssey Aegean Sea- Sea that the Greeks sailed on in early ages Black Sea- Sea that Greeks sailed across
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Brenda Armstrong PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor: Daniel Haynes April 22‚ 2013 Euthyphro – Plato Explain how the concept of holiness emerges
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In the study of Greek plays‚ one tries to recreate for an experience‚ to recapture something of what is meant to those for whom it was written. We know more about the life of Sophocles than we know do about the lives of any other Greek playwright‚ but this still is not a lot. Sophocles’ work has been said to be the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Oedipus the King is something like the literary Mona Lisa of ancient Greece. It presents a nightmare vision of a world turned upside down; a decent man‚
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The role of women in ancient Greek life was insignificant compared to that of Greek men. A woman’s job was to take care of the children and to cook and clean unless she had servants or slaves that would do it for her. Yet‚ in Greek mythology‚ women were often written as major characters. Well-known Greek plays contain many well-written‚ complex‚ female characters. Female individuals in Greek mythology were often seen as very powerful and fierce and were depicted by “her wits‚ her beauty‚ or her
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