result from a translation with different page numbers or different wording. The Poems of Hesiod. R.M. Frazer (trans.) University of Oklahoma Press. The Odyssey of Homer. Lattimore‚ Richmond (trans.) Harper Perennial Press. Euripides I : Alcestis‚ Medea‚ Heracleidae‚ Hippolytus. Greene‚ David and Lattimore (trans.) University of Chicago. Sophocles I: Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus at Colonus‚ Antigone. Greene‚ David and Lattimore (trans.) University of Chicago. Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Humphries‚ Rolfe
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metaphor for Plath’s life‚ expressed through the portrayal of the life of Mother Medea‚ a woman whose house burnt down and no one would help her rebuild the ruin. The poem‚ Aftermath‚ is structured in the form of a Sonnet‚ a form that neither Owen nor Lowell use in their poems‚ and contains the use of elongated consonants and vowel sounds‚ "Of charred shoes‚ and sodden upholstery". Through the broad use of metaphors‚ "Mother Medea Hunters"‚ Plath portrays her times of needs when they were not met when
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WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY Early Humans Australopithecines1st to grow the opposable thumb Homo Habilis“Man of Skill”‚ Traits‚ 2.5-1.5 million BC‚ Brain size = 700 cubic cm Achievements Made tools from lava rock‚Use tools to cut meat and crack bones‚ Homo Erectus‚ “Upright Man” Traits‚1.6 - 30‚000 million BC‚ More intelligent and adaptable‚ Brain size 1‚000 Cubic cm Achievements Used intelligence to develop technology Neanderthal Traits‚ 200‚000 – 30‚000 BC‚ Brain size 1‚450 cubic cm Powerfully built
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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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Since 1959‚ the Dallas Theater Center (DTC) has been the creative standard for the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Their mission is to entertain‚ engage‚ and inspire its diverse surrounding community. DTC produces world premiere musicals and unique stagings of classic work‚ develops community partnerships‚ and offers award winning educational programs. Including a national reputation for excellence‚ DTC also serves as a town hall for Dallas citizens and destination for audiences and artists from all over
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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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