Theme 1: Love for your family (or home) 1. (Homer’s the Odyssey) In the Odyssey‚ Odysseus spends ten years trying to go home to Ithaca. Odysseus left the Trojan War with the mindset and hopes of returning home. Although he wanted to go home to Ithaca many obstacles faced him. He fought against the Cyclops‚ survived against Poseidon’s wrath‚ left the Island of Calypso‚ and many other dangers just to come home. Odysseus survived through all of the hardships just to return home to his family and city
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wise and brilliant king‚ his cleverness could lead him to solve the most challenging puzzles‚ the only puzzle that he could not solve and the clearest of them all was his own puzzle‚ the prophecy. Oedipus helped the city by solving the riddle of the Sphinx and thus taking control as king. The main characters in both epic poems were very similar. King Oedipus and Odysseus were both wise and clever and handled their destinies with great honor‚ bravery and courage. They were also both well-respected leaders
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Khufu measuring at 441 ft tall. Its built on 30 ft of bedrock giving the illusion that it’s taller than The Pyramid of Khufu.This Pyramid is tomb to Pharaoh Khafre son of Khufu and his successor. It took 26 years to built and it has a sphinx in front of it. The sphinx depicts pharaoh Khafre having a lion body with his human head being the only human part on it. Khare was the fourth king of
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Ancient Egyptian Influence of Funerary Art and Architecture Since the beginning of time civilizations have evolved in numerous ways. One of the earliest civilizations to evolve quickly in a great number of ways was the ancient Egyptians. The ancient Egyptians had some of the most advanced forms of writing‚ metalworking‚ sculptures‚ and architecture for its time. As time passed‚ the Egyptian culture grew and matured. They began to be increasingly wealthy and subsequently started to spend more time
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"The Second Coming " By William Yeats The poem "The Second Coming" by William Yeats was written in 1913‚ after the great horror World War I brought upon the world. Yeats uses very stunning and violent imagery throughout. The attitude and tone of the poem is set from the start. The poem mentions the way things in the "old world" are falling apart only to make room for change. The speaker has a very anxious attitude towards this "second coming" he believes is on the way. The second coming is described
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In Oedipus The King‚ all characters can share blame for the tragedy that ends up unfolding at the end. Initially‚ the oracle could arguably have initial blame for setting all events of "Oedipus the King" into action by prophesying what would happen in the first place‚ but it was not actually her that just made it up. The oracle simply and merely just did her job and tried to warn to what would happen in the future. It was up to the gods what would happen‚ not to her‚ she was simply a messenger. The
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The poem "The Second Coming" was written by William Butler Yeats in 1919. Yeats was an accomplished Irish poet and was known for the socio-religious ideas he emphasized in his poetry. In "The Second Coming‚" his ideas unfold in three significant metaphors. The first metaphor relates a falcon and its falconer to the destruction of society. The metaphor has two possible interpretations. One view may be that the falcon represents society and the falconer represents God and morality. By saying "The
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Homework Questions Please answer in your notebook. Due _________________ 1. What is the dramatic purpose of the prologue? 2. How does Oedipus characterize himself? 3. What is his attitude toward the suppliants? 4. What conditions in Thebes does the Priest describe? 5. What request does the Priest make of Oedipus? 6. According to Creon what did Apollo say must be done in order to cure Thebes of its pollution? 7. What is Oedipus resolved to do after hearing from Creon? 8. What is the reaction
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multiple animals: the body of a lion with a tail that ended in a snake’s head‚ two heads one of a goat and the other of a lion. Her father was the giant Typhon and her mother the half-serpent EcThidna. She had as brothers Cerberus (the hound of Hell)‚ Sphinx‚ Hydra (the nine-headed water snake)‚ and Orthrus (another multi-headed dog). The term chimera has also come to mean‚ more generally‚ an impossible or foolish fantasy‚ hard to believe. Greek Myth Homer’s brief description in the Iliad is the earliest
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them‚ but her car barely ran any more. When they got to the grandpa’s house he explained that there were on the hunt for a artifact that was very important. In the path of finding the artifact they met the sphinx‚ a powerful person that has been alive since the dinosaurs. After they met the sphinx they found out Vanessa was a traitor and they were locked out of their own house. Now it is a race to find the
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