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    Ancient Greek Marital and Gender Roles *Note: All claims are assumptions based off of textual clues and are not to be understood as fact but to be recognized as potential truths. The roles of men and women in Ancient Greek civilization can never be fully understood since no one alive today existed during their era. That being said‚ analysis of texts written by Ancient Greek authors provides us with insight into how their culture viewed both genders. It is through these texts that scholars

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    time‚ he lauds Orestes‚ who successfully avenged Agamemnon (1.32-43). Therefore‚ vengeance has a far greater significance than almost all other sets of actions and moves the epic forward. The tale of vengeance itself does not begin until half of the poem is over‚ and yet the whole poem aspires to the accomplishment of this vengeance. There exists three vital components of this motif: its agent‚ the absent Odysseus; its object‚ the suitors’ hubris; and its instrument‚ Telemachos and the tactics

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    Comedy and Tragedy | |       Comedy     According to Aristotle (who speculates on the matter in his Poetics)‚ ancient comedy originated with the komos‚ a curious and improbable spectacle in which a company of festive males apparently sang‚ danced‚ and cavorted rollickingly around the image of a large phallus.  (If this theory is true‚ by the way‚ it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "stand-up routine.")     Accurate or not‚ the linking of the origins of comedy to some sort of phallic

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    Minoan Period Bull-leaping fresco from the Palace of Minos‚ Knossos‚ Crete‚ ca. 1500 B.C.E. Priestess with Snakes‚ Minoan‚ ca. 1600 B.C.E. Mycenaean Period Lion Gate‚ Citadel at Mycenae‚ c.a. 1500-1300 B.C.E. Funerary Mask (gold)‚ possibly of Agamemnon‚ c.a. 1500 Greek: Archaic Period Funerary Krater with “Geometric” Decoration‚ c.a. 750 B.C.E. Calf-Bearer‚ ca. 575-550 B.C.E. Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice‚ black-figured amphora‚ c.a. 530 B.C.E. Death of Sarpedon‚ red-figure krater‚ ca

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    should bring gifts. 2.What is the purpose of the many allusion to the legend about the homecoming of Agamememnon? =Agamemnon had an unhappy homecoming. He was either blown off course and landed in the country of Aegisthos‚ or he came home to his own land to find Aegisthuswaiting for him. In either case‚ Aegisthus had become the lover of Clytemnestra‚ and the two together murdered Agamemnon and Cassandra shortly after their arrival. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra then ruled Agamemnon’s kingdom‚ but were eventually

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    Much of the information in Dr Faustus is derived from a collection of semi-fictitious German stories (the ‘Faustbuch’) in which the life of German scholar and purported necromancer‚ Georgius Faust are narrated. Where the Faustbuch narrates a simple tale of sin and retribution‚ Marlowe creates a tragedy in which a human being makes a clear choice for good or bad‚ with some knowledge of the possible outcome. In order to do this‚ Marlowe has drawn on the conventions of classical Greek tragedy

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    character is a peasant‚ not a person of high estate and she does not bring about her own downfall. Maurya is thus distinctly different from the classical protagonists such as Oedipus‚ Agamemnon or Antigone‚ all of whom are highborn. While classical and Renaissance tragic protagonists undergo suffering owing to their ’hubris’ or ’hamartia’‚ Maurya appears to be a passive and helpless victim in the hands of the destructive sea. In Maurya’s case‚ no profound question seems to be raised about the complicated

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    The True Heroes are Firefighters - The True Heroes are Firefighters In today ’s superficial society‚ there are many stereotypes and groups into which people are categorized. There are also many people that are celebrities‚ who many ordinary citizens see as leaders in life. Many high-end sports figures such as Michael Jordan or Ray Lewis are seen as heroes and idols to many youths in America and around the globe. However‚ what they do is not really heroic; rather it is merely grown men playing a game

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    the story of Aigisthos. Aigisthos married Agamemnon’s wife‚ Klytaimestra‚ and killed him on his return. Aigisthos was warned by Hermes to‚ “not to kill the man‚ nor court his lady for marriage” (Lattimore‚ Book 1‚ 39). This led to Orestes‚ son of Agamemnon‚ to kill Aigisthos in honor of his father. Not only does Orestes kill Aigisthos‚ he even kill his mother for committing adultery and aiding in the death of his father. The gods believes Aigisthos death was justifiable because he was warned; yet he

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    both her intellect and her emotional tendency. Intellect was seen as a typical masculine characteristic‚ and Greek men were even believed to have “think [women] clever and hate [them]” for it‚ as Medea herself contends in the play. Moreover‚ her hubris that eventually leads to her downfall is her pride‚ which of course is another masculine characteristic. Emotions played a large role in Medea’s doomed fate as well. After falling passionately in love with Jason‚ Medea uses her cunning and powers

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