List of possible subjects on the final exam Achilles- Achilles was a powerful hero in Homer’s Iliad‚ and undoubtedly the greatest warrior on the battlefield at Troy. In his youth‚ he had been a pupil of Chiron. When Achilles was just an infant‚ his mother immersed him in the river Styx‚ which separates the land of the living from the land of the dead‚ to confer on him immortality‚ and to make him invincible in battle. But when doing this‚ she committed a grave error. Through her
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chaos and violence in the attempt to get worshipped by the people. the In the Greek tragedy of The Bacchae of Euripides‚ the religious bacchant women are forced to do terrible deeds‚ which in the end‚ destroy their lives (Bates). The women in the play are forced to think and act how the Greek god Dionysus chooses for them to think and act. Euripides displays religion in the Greek tragedy of The Bacchae through both the bacchant women and the violence that they create while hypnotized under the rule
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Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta‚ near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan‚ he continued at the University of Leeds‚ where‚ later‚ in 1973‚ he took his doctorate. During the six years spent in England‚ he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960‚ he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time‚ he taught drama and literature at
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What is the true tragedy of Dido? Scholars have debated various perspectives over the years. One could argue that Dido’s major tragedy was losing a love that the Gods had forced her to feel and had also stolen from her (Farron). Another essay argues that her death in the end of Book IV‚ or more specifically dying by her own hand was her downfall (Fenik). However‚ the most convincing argument is that Dido’s true tragedy was her lack of piety. Piety had very specific rules in Roman society. For example
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analytical skills in interpreting primary texts‚ participating in discussion and debate in tutorials‚ developing arguments‚ and writing essays. Required Texts: 1) Aeschylus‚ Oresteia‚ trans. C. Collard (Oxford World ’s Classics) 2) Euripides‚ Bacchae‚ trans. Paul Woodruff (Hackett) 3) Hesiod‚ Works and Days and Theogony‚ trans. Stanley Lombardo (Hackett) 4) Homer‚ The Iliad‚ trans. Robert Fitzgerald (New York: Farrar‚ Straus‚ and Giroux) 5) Homer‚ The Odyssey‚ trans. Robert Fitzgerald (New
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and comics as trickster and Coyote figures‚ as well as the similarities between the Exodus of the Jewish population from Egypt as inspiration. Avoid using these examples if you can and look for one of your own. Pick one of the warning tales (Pentheus‚ Phaeton‚ Godfather) and explain the tension that underlies the warning in the tale‚ then analyze how that tension is demonstrated throughout the story. You can explicate symbols and how they exhibit
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Brauron’s strange and intriguing practices have always held a place of interest; however‚ through a close reading of the Bacchae‚ one cannot help but link the two as the maenads mirror the hounds of Artemis from a generation earlier that turned against Actaeon. For my research paper‚ I will explore the relationship between women in Greek antiquity and the social function of the wild in religious rituals‚ proposing that the wild acts as a pharmakos to adapt young girls to the domesticated life of
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gods as the Greeks; however‚ the Romans renamed those gods so they would have Roman names instead of Greek names. Also‚ both the Greeks and the Romans believed in and practiced religious cults. One religious cult that the Greeks followed was The Bacchae. Followers of this cult mainly believed in partying and fornicating. A Roman religious cult was the Cult of Isis. This cult revolved around the deity Isis who was borrowed from the Egyptians. Although they were two different cultures‚ the Romans and
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suffering. In Oedipus Rex‚ for example‚ it is Oedipus’ recognition of his own identity‚ and the realization that he is his father’s murderer and his mother’s lover leads to self-mutilation when he puts out his eyes and exiles himself. In Euripides’ The Bacchae‚ under Dionysus’ spell‚ Agave displays the head of her son on a stick like a trophy‚ having killed him with her bare hands. However‚ when Dionysus’ possession wears off‚ Agave recognizes the horror of her
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caused by “her daughter [dying] each year” (61). Her sorrow is caused by the loss of her daughter every year‚ making Demeter alone in the frozen desert of winter. On the other hand‚ Dionysus was cruel to others because of those who denounce him. When Pentheus criticized Dionysus ordered his worshipers to tear him “limb to limb” (69). His anger and sorrow he feels is more directed towards himself than someone he loves. Equally as different‚ Dionysus and Demeter have contrastive influences towards
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