there are the seducers and panderers‚ who are being punished for their crimes against women. Dante speaks with Venedico Caccianemico‚ who prostituted his sister Ghisola to gain political favor. Virgil also points out Jason‚ who was Hypsiplye’s seducer and unfaithful husband to Medea. They are forced to walk quickly in a circle‚ driven by “horned demons with enormous lashes” (xviii.
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Love and The Consequences The compilation of stories in Ovid’s Metamorphosis are unlike any epic of it’s time. They all fit together to form one huge unifying story with a lot of different meanings and themes. Throughout the entire epic‚ one reoccurring theme that is prevalent to me is the agony of love. The tortures of love‚ if you will‚ and the resulting effects of that adoration towards another. Love is one thing that remains consistent throughout the entire epic. It doesn’t arise as just
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Raymond Schmit � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �6� Shakespeare The Tragedy of Shylock I had not read the _Merchant of Venice_ before this class. All of my familiarity with the play was based on hearsay‚ and for some reason I got the idea in my heads that it was a tragedy. I thought that Shylock_did_ receive a pound of flesh from Antonio‚ but that it was just skin removed from his back. This gruesome image was what I was waiting for during my entire reading of the play. But I was pleasantly surprised to
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conform to it. The Jews had kept integral parts of their own culture while gradually accepting the Greek culture. Hellenized Jews started saying that sons of Abraham had been friends of Hercules‚ and children of Isaac had boarded ships with the Argonauts. Not long after they began to identify Moses with Musaeus‚ the son of Orpheus. There were educated and free-thinking Jews who saw that they had to throw
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The Golden Rush was the digging struggled with success and failure. The gold of California was the attraction to the eyes of the world; the perfect land with all the possibilities to get richness in a short time. Argonauts undertook a dangerous journey to arrive after several days in California‚ some of them did not make it to their destiny for hunger or diseases. Others took advantage of the situation and made business such selling jerked beef‚ blankets‚ medicines‚ axes‚ and many items necessaries
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WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time‚ that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation‚ but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common language‚ and similar religious rituals and beliefs. Communication was difficult due to the numerous islands and mountainous terrain that bisected the communities of people. Democracy
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Theories from the late 19th to 20th century has shaped modern day anthropology. Two leading anthropologists that have changed the way one interprets culture and people is Bronislaw Malinowski and Clifford Geertz‚ respectively. Both established their own theories and interpretations in anthropology that has been used and criticized. According to “A History of Anthropology” by Thomas Eriksen and Finn Nielsen‚ Malinowski was one of the four founding fathers of twentieth century anthropology‚ influencing
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Chapter one Tragedy and Poetry Since its inception in ancient Greece two millennia and a half ago‚ tragedy has never faded out. It is true that there were periods when other forms of entertainment or other types of drama eclipsed tragedy‚ but it has never failed to maintain the interest of both dramatists and philosophers. It is noteworthy that tragedy has often been written in verse; the use of prose as the medium of tragedy is only a recent phenomenon. This
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who only care about revenge. The way Clytemnestra is depicted would be horrific to Irigary‚ as it makes it seem as if women are easily overwhelmed by their emotion and let the thought of vengeance get in their way of reason. Also‚ in the story of Medea‚ Irigary would be disappointed to find out that she is portrayed as someone who is almost fully dependent on her husband and seeks revenge upon finding that he has left her. As a strong feminist activist‚ Irigary would strike these descriptions as
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Abu-Lughod’s‚ experienced a direct contact with individuals that maintain alive their own culture adopted from past generations of ancestors‚ by carrying out and conducting the practical work of fieldwork. The works of Malinowski’s ‘“Introduction” from Argonauts of the Western Pacific’ and Lila Abu-Lughod’s “Fieldwork of a Dutiful Daughter‚” reflect their experiences and observations of living and interacting among the particular group they closely studied. Even do both of the researchers performed similar
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