Aeschylus

Actors would commonly use mask to show their emotions. The mask helped amplify the voice and tone of the actor. Three well known Greek tragedy playwrights are Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. Comedy was an important part of ancient Greek theatre. Comedy was derived from imitation. There is to original origin of comedy, perhaps it is a thing Ancient Greek culture it was an everyday thing. The Roman and Greek culture can be compared easily…

From primary sources and your notes on Hellenistic art, explain the relationship between mathematics and beauty. Include in your response the following ratios, proportion, perfect vs. imperfect, mathematical harmony and optical importance. After the death of Alexander the Great, the art period changed immensely from classical to the Hellenistic period. The Hellenistic period consists of complexity, movement, emotion and focuses on conveying drama. Hellenistic art were athletes, heroic figures,…

isolation in the new, strange environment of Vietnam lead to a detachment from reality, and incorporates this by admitting that some of his stories are fiction, but leaving the reader questioning which elements are true. The ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus once said, “In war, truth is the first casualty”. This idea still remains true in the common era and is ever present throughout the novel. This quote serves as a relevant epigraph for The Things They Carried, as it incorporates the blurring…

Without a doubt Ancient Greece influenced nearly every aspect of western civilization, from our architecture and literature to even our system of governing. Western cultural continually glorifies Ancient Athens, even when it probably shouldn’t. Some scholars, like Victor David Hansen, claim that the Greek victory against the Persians saved western civilizations. But the question remains, did it really save western civilization? It’s important to keep in mind that all of this is pure speculation.…

Women are the people who make up half the population, the people needed to produce other human beings, and yet looked at as inferior beings. Mythological women are shown in the way that society views women in general. They are usually split into two distinct groups, one is viewed as the bad woman and one is the ideal woman. Some women are viewed as old shrews who are cunning, ruthless, and bitter because of the tragedies they have lived. These characteristics are usually reserved for women who…

revealed her international popularity and genuine brilliance. In 1838, Barrett Browning received her first literary success through her publication of The Seraphim and Other Poems (Taplin 57). Five years prior, she had published a translation of Aeschylus’…

Gothic, Romantic, and Tragic, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein affords the reader a more modern twist on the age old lessons which Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Pythagoras, and even Aeschylus endeavored to impart on the masses of their respected eras. In short time, Shelly’s audience likely grasps that foremost symbols exist to be Fire and Light, in the midst of a primary theme lingering as Dangerous Knowledge - with interludes, at times…

We all have similar and contrasting views on justice, what it is, when it is needed on our side, and how it can be achieved. These views, however, may conflict with each other. Some of us may accept certain circumstances as a part of our daily life, such as the female, while others may argue against them and raise their pitchforks and torches blazing brightly comparable to their righteousness. In the latter scenario, to what extent should we let that righteousness control our actions before we…

Agamemnon the first of three stories to one of the most brilliant Greek tragedies the story takes place right at the ending of the ten-year Trojan war and begins at the homecoming of the soldiers of Argos. Agamemnon is a war hero, he is a man who brought one thousand ships to Troy, the man who led the army to the defeat of the Trojans, and the King of Argos. But, throughout all that he took drastic measures to get his army to Troy this action was the sacrifice of his own daughter Iphigenia to…

Untethered τέχνη “…The only thing that restrains science is the sense of the sacred.” Dr. Warren Gage The polls tell us that we as a collective whole are becoming less religious and less concerned about sacred and holy things, at least in the Western world. At the same time we are becoming more and more entranced with science and technology, what the ancient Greeks called τέχνη (Techne). Most people walk around with a fairly advanced computer that we call a smart phone. We now drive “Smart Cars”…