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1 Mónica Rodríguez Pérez 801-09-6274 To what extent does the Classical Tradition agree with the Scriptural Tradition on the powers witches can wield? The two biggest differences we have from the Classical witch and the Christian Ideal featured in their sacred texts‚ is definitely the connotation that either receives and‚ the powers they may or may not have. In the first‚ witches aren’t seen in a negative
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THEATRE Theatre a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture‚ speech‚ song‚ music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality‚ presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from
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Cliffs‚ and Eleusis before finally reaching Athens. Along the way he encountered and dispatched six legendary brigands notorious for attacking travelers. Upon arriving in Athens‚ Theseus was recognized by his stepmother‚Medea‚ who considered him a threat to her power. Medea attempted to dispatch Theseus by poisoning him‚ conspiring to ambush him with the Pallantidae Giants‚ and by sending him to face the Marathonian Bull. Likely the most famous of Theseus’s deeds was the slaying of the Minotaur
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Yet he is often far from complimentary to the other sex‚ the result‚ probably‚ of his two unhappy marriages (Fort; Kates). An example of a powerful woman lies in Euripides’s play "Medea." Euripides tells a tale of a strong‚ determined woman who murders her own children in the attempt to gain freedom. Euripides portrays Medea as a powerful and clever women instead of helpless. Her words give readers a sense of her personality. For instance‚ she says "I would rather take my stand three times behind the
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is subordinated to plot. Tragedy depicts actions‚ and not character; it is the plot which reveals the character. In the classical tragedies of Greece emphasis is certainly laid on plot. Sophocles’ King Oedipus‚ Aeschylus’s Agamemnon or Euripides’s Medea is really plot-oriented. But in modern or social tragedies‚ character is closely assimilated with the circumstances of life—with
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of unrequited love. One of the most famous episodes involving this trick was when Apollo ridiculed the skills of Eros as an archer and fired one of the arrows at the great god. This made them fall in love with nymph Daphne. Another is when he made Medea fall in love with the great hero Jason. The god was not himself immune to the powers of love and famously fell for and married Psyche against the wishes of his mother Aphrodite. Eros was also considered as the protector of homosexual love. In the ancient
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aware of his son’s identity. Aegeus was told by his wife‚ Medea‚ that Theseus was a rival to the throne and should be disposed of immediately. As a result Aegeus summoned Theseus to his throne room‚ but he was not aware that he was about to poison his own offspring. Theseus‚ upon entering‚ drew his sword and revealed himself to his father. Shocked‚ Aegeus dashed the poisoned wine glass from his hand. Aegeus then grew intense rage towards Medea‚ and exiled her from Athenian territory. Now while Theseus
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victim to maltreatment” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ 1999‚ p. 1). Child abuse that happens to children took place during the biblical and mythological times. “It would suffice to recall the stories of Abraham and Isaac‚ Moses and Medea‚ and King Nimrod of Babylon who began the “slaughter of the innocence” that killed 70‚000 newborns (Solomon‚ 1973‚ p. 773). Killing defective children was something that would happen through a ceremony called Wasser weihe. The father of the child would
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back. She will do anything to reach her goals. She is courageous and caring and a good friend. “She knew she might be signing her dad’s death warrant‚ but she cared too much about her friends to let them hurt each other.” At this point in the book‚ Medea‚ an ancient Greek who has been brought to life‚ charms Pipers friends into thinking they want to fight each other and tells Piper that if she doesn’t intervene‚ she can get her dad back. Piper chooses to intervene because she knows her friends will
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