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    In Rome around 215 A.D.‚ Hippolytus‚ a priest of Rome—and the first antipope‚ composed a treatise in order to preserve practices that he thought were in “danger of falling into disuse and innovation.” (intro) The original document only survives in parts of a Latin text and several oriental versions of it. This church order can be divided into three parts. The first section of this treatise talks about the hierarchy of the Church (i.e. bishops—who are chosen by the people‚ priests‚ and deacons) and

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    Mistiming and Miscommunication in “Phaedra” Throughout life everyone is tempted and feels the urge to make decisions off of emotions or feelings of love. In Phaedra‚ written by Racine‚ we see a perfect example of how situations can quickly spiral out of control due to miscommunication about these emotions. We also see a great display of mistiming‚ things occurring at such an inconvenient time for the people involved. For instance‚ in the play Hippolytus‚ son of Theseus who is King of

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    In Euripides Medea is in a state of struggle with her husband Jason. At one point she and Jason settled down and have established a family‚ they have also attained a degree of fame and respectability. But then Jason ends up abandoning Medea along with their two children because he fell in love with Glauce‚ this turn of events has crushed Medea emotionally. She is at a point where she curses her own existence. Meanwhile Jason ended up remarrying Glauce who is the daughter of Creon the king of Corinth

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    Was She Really Crazy? Think of one person who has done something that has upset in your lifetime; now think would it be just for you to kill that person for it? Well‚ a sad tragedy written by the great Euripides titled Medea. In this sad tragedy‚ Medea the wife of Jason‚ find out that Jason has been having an affair with king Creons daughter and plans on marrying her and leaving Medea and her two children. Once Medea learn of this affair and betrayal and she wants to bring Jason her husband misery

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    To what extent do Euripides and Sophocles portray women as the cause of tragedy in Medea‚ Hippolytus‚ Oedipus The King and Antigone? Women in the plays of both Euripides and Sophocles is a subject of much debate‚ indeed it seems as though people’s view on these female characters may well have changed over time for nearly two and a half thousand years have passed since the plays themselves were written. And no doubt people’s views‚ particularly with regards to women‚ have changed. One could say

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    does Euripides’ Bacchae confirm and/or challenge the identity of the Athenian male citizen? Euripides was not averse to challenging the Athenian population to re-evaluate themselves on any number of levels. The Bacchae of course is no exception as Euripides toys with gender and citizen identity. This identity of the citizen is built around the foundations laid out by democracy as well as tragedy theatre itself‚ with clear constraints on who or what encompasses a citizen. From this Euripides challenges

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    thousands of plays written for the Greek theatre‚ only forty-six survived completely. Most of those plays come from the Athens during the fifth century BCE and from authors: Aeschylus (seven)‚ Sophocles (seven)‚ Euripides (eighteen)‚ and Aristophanes (eleven) (Pearson pg.19). One of Euripides famous writings was a play called Bacchae. Bacchae is about Dionysus wanting to get revenge on his dead mother’s family‚ the family of Cadmus. Dionysus was born of Zeus and a mortal woman by the name of Semele

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    Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment was an astonishing movement of philosophers in the 18th century who shared and opposed each other’s ideas‚ reasons‚ questions‚ and concerns about several different beliefs such as religious tolerance‚ deism (God)‚ government‚ society‚ and knowledge. The goal of all Enlightenment thinkers was social reform. Some of the philosophers mentioned in the following paragraphs had similar ideas to one another‚ yet others had completely different thoughts on those same

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    The Enlightenment is a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. The Enlightenment was the period of scientific Awakening. It is an movement that had a huge impact of freedom and equality. While the Enlightenment was going through dramatic changes‚ it also inspired people to change their governments into a better system to benefit the society. The main cause of these changes all began from the French Revolution‚

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    UNIT 5 FROM THE COLONIAL TO THE FEDERAL: THE CONTEXTS OF THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT Objectives Introduction: The material basis of the American Enlightenment The Enlightenment in America. Slavery and the Enlightenment. The American Woman of the Eighteenth Century Let Us Sum Up Questions Suggested Readings 5.0 OBJECTIVES The aim of this Unit is to take stock of the contexts of American literature produced between the period of the early European colonial settlements in America and the

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