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    THE CONCORD REVIEW 57 THE DEATH OF PHILIP OF MACEDON Amalia Skilton ho caused the assassination of Philip II‚ King of Macedon from c. 355 to 336 BC? Was it his wife Olympias‚ his son Alexander‚ or some other person or group? The answer is critical‚ for it shapes the modern world’s understanding of Alexander the Great more than does any other issue. Did Alexander exploit conflicts between Macedonians‚ arranging his father’s death in order to become King‚ or was he innocent of the crime‚ creating

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    Mourning Becomes Electra

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    From Aeschylus’ Oresteia to Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra: Text‚ Adaptation and Performance[1] ©Alison Burke‚ The Open University‚ UK Introduction The Royal National Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra at the Royal National Theatre (London 2003–4) downplayed the relationship between O’Neill’s trilogy and Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Rather than following the stage directions of O’Neill‚ which are evocative of classical staging conventions‚ the RNT production

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    Greek Civilization

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    * 2. The Land Located in Europe in the A egean Sea * The first great civilization in Greece and Crete3. Brief History of Greece Around 1400It lasted roughly from 2000 BCE until 1400 BCE. was the Minoan. BCE‚ the Mycenaean civilization supplanted the Minoan‚ and dominated Greece until about 1100 BCE‚ when barbarians known as Durians invaded. * 4. EXTEND EARLY BEGINING OF POLIS * 490 750-550 Age of Colonization c. 700 Homer 5. Greek Polis Time Line 479 Spartans 480 Xerxes invades

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    A Proloue to Canterbury Tales

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    Context The Canterbury Tales is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer‚ a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life‚ and even less about his education‚ but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s‚ the only son in his family. Chaucer’s father‚ originally a property-owning wine merchant‚ became tremendously wealthy when he inherited the property of relatives who had

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    The Odyssey : an Epic Poem

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    Homer‚ The Odyssey BOOK I Tell me‚ O muse‚ of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit‚ and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men‚ for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented

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    Gods of the Sea

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    The Odyssey Homer (Translated by Samuel Butler) This eBook was designed and published by Planet PDF. For more free eBooks visit our Web site at http://www.planetpdf.com/. To hear about our latest releases subscribe to the Planet PDF Newsletter. The Odyssey Preface to First Edition This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled ‘The Authoress of the Odyssey’‚ which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole ‘Odyssey’ in that book without making it unwieldy‚ I therefore

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    What Is Field Theory?1 John Levi Martin University of Wisconsin‚ Madison Field theory is a more or less coherent approach in the social sciences whose essence is the explanation of regularities in individual action by recourse to position vis-a-vis others. Position in the field indicates ` the potential for a force exerted on the person‚ but a force that impinges “from the inside” as opposed to external compulsion. Motivation is accordingly considered to be the paramount example of social structure

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    Economic Aspects of the Chinese–Central Asia Rapprochement Sébastien Peyrouse SILK ROAD PAPER September 2007 The Economic Aspects of the Chinese-Central Asia Rapprochement Sébastien Peyrouse © Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program – A Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center Johns Hopkins University-SAIS‚ 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW‚ Washington‚ D.C. 20036‚ U.S. Institute for Security and Development Policy‚ V. Finnbodav. 2‚ 131 30 Stockholm-Nacka

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    Divine, Comedy

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    DIVINE COMEDY INFERNO Inferno section 1: Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno)‚ Purgatory (Purgatorio)‚ and Heaven (Paradiso) takes place in 1300‚ at the midpoint of his life.  Dante sets himself as the narrator and main character of this epic poem.  His flight through Hell begins in a dark and unknown forest.  As Dante wanders through the woods he comes to a hill above which shines the first sunlight that he has encountered in the forest.  But as Dante begins to climb the hill a leopard blocks

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    WOMEN’S ACCESS TO POLITICAL POWER IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IGBOLAND: A CRITICAL STUDY A Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY by Antwanisha V. Alameen January 2013 Examining Committee Members: Dr. Molefi Kete Asante‚ Advisory Chair‚ African American Studies Dr. Ama Mazama‚ African American Studies Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon‚ Theater Dr. Adisa Alkebulan‚ External Member

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