Medea Essay

Queen of the British Celtic tribe the Iceni, Boudicca led a revolt against the Roman Empire. After the death of her husband and betrayal of his final will and testament which left his kingdom to both his daughters and the Roman Emperor Nero to hopefully stop attacks on their tribe and form an alliance. The kingdom was invaded and once Boudicca objected to this both Boudicca and her children were beaten and raped. As well as this the other chiefs of the tribe were robbed of their family estates.…

Hera is known for her many revengeful plots against Zeus’s many girlfriends. In the past, Hera is involved in the Trojan War, she sought to bring down the city of Troy because Prince Paris chose Aphrodite over her. A temple and many statues are dedicated to Hera for her importance in her cult following. Hera is the Greek goddess of childbirth, marriage and women. She is married to Zeus and has three kids: Ares, Hephaestus and Eileithyia. Her family includes her siblings Zeus, Poseidon, Hades,…

Cleopatra Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was born in 69 B.C, in Alexandria, Egypt, to the strong-ruling Pharaoh, Ptolemy XII and his wife Cleopatra V Tryphaena, who was possibly his half-sister. She later died in 30 B.C. At first, she ruled ancient Egypt alongside her brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV. Due to her greediness of power, she was forced to leave Egypt, but returned with an army she rose to defeat her brother Ptolemy XIV, to reclaim the throne and the title of Pharaoh.…

The women in the Odyssey play a pivotal role in Odysseus’s journey back home from Troy after the war. His journey was made complicated right from the start when Ajax, a Greek warrior raped King Priam’s daughter Cassandra which enraged the goddess Athena, and she was mainly responsible for Odysseus’s late homecoming. Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus comes across women during his journey who appear in the form of temptresses or seek to destroy him. Athena plays a lead controlling role in the…

A. Garcin: One thing that Gracin wanted was to convince Inez that he is not a coward. And that the choices that he made in his life were necessary. He wanted to feel like he wasn’t a cower and that others mainly Inez to see his masculinity and not his cowardly act. Garcin was also wanted to be leaved alone with his own thoughts. Throughout the play we see that Garcin was more concerned with keeping his own thoughts quiet and to his himself than sharing it with others. Inez: Inez is a…

Date: 1526 the Ming dynasty starts to crumble. Shao Jun, the last remaining Assassin of the Chinese Brotherhood, returning to her homeland with a vendetta of new assassins to join the new creed. This is how she took over the Ming dynasty and avenged her old creed... I run across the building and jump off the ledge into a haystack. A Shogun guard shouts "She's over there!" I whistle and my assassin's jump down from a building and kill the remaining guards with their hidden knifes in their sleeves…

In Medea, Euripides shows Medea’s empathy-evoking problems right away. Although before the play, the audience is warned of Medea’s plans, it is easy to empathize with her at first. At the start, Medea has just been abandoned by Jason, the only person she has left after their exile (Euripides 14). As the play continues, Medea becomes less and less sympathetic. Once Medea begins her plans to kill her children in order to carry out her revenge…

In the play, Antigone by Sophocles, a young woman named Antigone is torn between being a convenient, obedient citizen and a rebellious, law-defying woman in order to pursue her own moral self-interests. Antigone is portrayed as a strong-willed woman who strives to re-shape female stereotypes during ancient Greece and in doing so, clashes with King Creon, and her own sister, Ismene. Antigone has no regard for life as she perceives death as a glorious reward that will satisfy her motive to bury…

In Rejecting and Embracing the Monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome, D. Felton explores how Greek monsters embody a variety of fears: “the potential victory of nature against the encroaching civilizations of mankind; the little-understood nature of the female in contrast to the male” (Felton 103). This idea of civilizing or bringing order to nature is very prevalent in Greek works like Theogony and the Odyssey, creating the dynamic between the civilized versus the barbaric and the hero versus…

The focal point of Sophocles’ Antigone is the protagonist’s desire and search for justice. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, is the play’s tragic heroine who fights against the evil Creon, the current King of Thebes. Her rebellion against the king was ignited by her thirst for justice, stopping at nearly nothing to combat the immoralities standing in her way. In her heart, the sacredness of family and honor is the pinnacle aspect of her life. These beliefs of hers create the source of…