The Spartan Military was one of the most feared militaries of its time. Located in the southern region of the Peloponnesus‚ Sparta was centralized around military dominance. Beginning at a young age‚ Spartan boys were pushed both physically and mentally. Every day was a test. Lycurgus‚ a Spartan Tyrant‚ was revered as God with his reforms to transform Sparta into the ultimate weapon‚ militarization. The Spartan military was the most feared military in the world for their way of life‚ ruthless training
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Celone Verna English 101.2652 Professor. Van Slyck October 4‚ 2011 To Break or Not to Break? All through the play of Antigone‚ written by Sophocles‚ Antigone believes in the supremacy of religious law and tradition. Although Creon has proclaimed to the city that the traitor‚ Polynices‚ should not be buried‚ Antigone insists on following the religious law requiring that females bury the deceased of their family. Antigone’s pride ensures that she will die rather than renounce her beliefs
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Western World I Test One Answer the following as TRUE or FALSE 1. Harshepsut was Egypt’s most famous indigenous woman Pharaoh. True 2. Maat stood for truth and righteousness and balance. True 3. Osiris and Thanatos were both gods of death in their cultures. False 4. Apsu was the god of salt water. False 5. Tiamat was destroyed by Anu. False 6. Humankind was created with clay and the blood of Kingu. True 7. Holofernes was an Aakaadian general. False 8. Hathor’s symbol was a cow
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Hamlets Indecisiveness compared to Oedipus’s Impulsiveness Tragic hero’s always have flaws which set them apart from the rest of the characters within their respective settings‚. In the plays Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ the opposing nature of the two characters result in the method of action taken by the two tragic hero’s. It is in Hamlets nature to deeply think‚ reflect and make certain his reasoning before taking action whereas Oedipus is a more impulsive character
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father was an amour manufacturer) and was highly educated. Sophocles’ first artistic triumph was in 468 BC‚ when he took first prize in the Dionysian theatre competition over the reigning master of Athenian drama‚ Aeschylus. Sophocles wrote the three Theban plays‚ a collection that has survived for centuries‚ and for good reason. One of these plays was Antigone. It follows the struggle of a young woman‚ Antigone who disobeyed the law of King Creon (who is also her uncle) that no one should bury Polyneices
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The Dramatic Irony in Oedipus the King Before taking a closer look on the identity of the protagonist and murderer‚ and having in mind that Oedipus the King is a very spacious and difficult to analyze play‚ including opportunities for discussion on quite a few topics‚ I have chosen to briefly focus on the dramatic irony used by Sophocles to disclose the characters’ identity throughout the play. In general‚ irony is a very common technique used in every drama work and it is usually used by the
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New Kingdom Hyksos: Origins: Historians disagree over origins Agree Hyksos from North of Egypt Reasons for coming to Egypt: Egypt in chaos – in Second Intermediate Period Hyksos attracted to natural resources‚ fertile land‚ and possible climatic change? Wavering Control of Hyksos: piece of fragmentary palette from Apophis says Hyksos control of area was lessening Adopted customs - name ‘re’‚ gods (seth)‚ + scarab beetle Contributions: Egyptians learnt a lot about warfare: 1. Learnt to build
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carry out the prophecy. At a crossroad he came felt threatened by another caravan‚ and his men killed them in self-defense. One of the men was Laius‚ and he was married to Jocasta who is now Oedipus’s wife and mother. A plague was ravishing the Theban population and to try to end the plague‚ he sent his brother in-law Creon to the oracle to figure out how to end the plague. Creon was told “Drive the corruption from the land‚ don’t harbor it any longer‚ past all cure‚ don’t nurse it in your soil-root
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The Metamorphoses by Ovid and Euripides’ play entitled‚ The Bacchae present the same two stories in very different directions. The general story revolves around the figure of Pentheus‚ a Theban prince who challenges the might of Bacchus‚ his cousin and a god. While both include the same key plot driven aspects‚ the interpretations given by the two different writers are vastly different in what morals and concepts they try to let out from the text. The Metamorphoses is essentially a testament
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pure crime‚ I am content‚ for I shall rest beside him; His love will answer mine”. Antigone buries Polyneices to show respect to him as her brother and as the monarch who shares power with his twin Eteocles immediately before Antigone’s uncle‚ Theban King Creon‚ ascends to the throne. Additionally‚ Antigone respects the dead‚ and the god-given procedures for the proper funerary procedures to send the dead into the realm of the underworld god. As a human being‚ Polyneices therefore is eligible
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